RealTimeData/bbc_alltime
This dataset contains BBC News articles from 2017 to 2022. The articles are arraged by month. Access the specific month by using the format "YYYY-MM" as config. Such as load_dataset("RealTimeData/bbc_alltime", "2021-1").
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1{"title": ["Manchester United 3-1 Newcastle United: Marcus Rashford plays key role in home win - BBC Sport", "Coronavirus: Medical regulator investigates £30m Covid contract firm - BBC News", "US plane scatters engine debris over Denver homes - BBC News", "Newry: PSNI say device 'could have easily detonated' - BBC News", "Four teenagers hurt after police chase ends in crash at St Madoes - BBC News", "RAF sonic boom: Ministry of Defence receives TV and window damage claims - BBC News", "Covid: Christian group fined £10k for Bulwell car park meet - BBC News", "Novak Djokovic wins ninth Australian Open by beating Daniil Medvedev - BBC Sport", "Three killed in New Orleans gun shop shooting - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Latest data shows vaccine reduces transmission - Hancock - BBC News", "Lockdown review: What are the risks of schools, pubs and shops reopening? - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson to unveil 'cautious' plan to lift England's lockdown - BBC News", "Pablo Hasel: Luxury stores looted and vehicles ablaze in Barcelona protests - BBC News", "Bird flu: Russia detects first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans - BBC News", "Thirsk teacher, 21, becomes youngest solo female to row Atlantic - BBC News", "Smacking: 'Misunderstanding' over next year's ban - BBC News", "Covid-19: All UK adults to be offered vaccine by 31 July - PM - BBC News", "Australian PM is vaccinated as rollout begins - BBC News", "Exeter house fire: Girl, 4, and couple die - BBC News", "Pangong Lake: India and China complete pull-back of forces - BBC News", "Boys, 15, charged after car stolen with two young children inside - BBC News", "Cambridge moonflower: Team 'overwhelmed' by global response - BBC News", "Cambridge moonflower: Wait over for 'UK's first' bloom - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: Huge crowds mourn woman killed in protests - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Safety assurance ahead of pupils' return to schools - BBC News", "Friedrich Karl Berger: US deports ex-concentration camp guard to Germany - BBC News", "Covid-19: Fewest firms planning job cuts since pandemic began - BBC News", "Jo Whiley: It's been the worst week of our lives as Frances struggles with Covid - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: At least two killed as police disperse protesters - BBC News", "Covid: Minister confident about pupils' school return - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'Right' to delay contract transparency in pandemic, says Hancock - BBC News", "Lloyd's seeks archivist to investigate slave trade links - BBC News", "Seven die in Nigerian Air Force Abuja plane crash - BBC News", "Israel eases restrictions following vaccine success - BBC News", "Cambridge moonflower: Time-lapse video captures 'UK first' - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: All UK adults to be offered jab by 31 July - PM - BBC News", "King's Mill: Row over future of 18th Century Wrexham mill - BBC News", "Duke of Edinburgh: Prince Charles visits his father in hospital - BBC News", "Traffic noise impairs songbirds' abilities - BBC News", "Proud Boys: Canada labels far-right group a terrorist entity - BBC News", "Covid: Woman fined £10k over Ormskirk 'student birthday party' - BBC News", "Mario Draghi 'to form new Italian government' - BBC News", "Ricky Tomlinson and trade unionists try to overturn convictions - BBC News", "Endometriosis: Call to teach menstrual wellbeing in Wales - BBC News", "Covid: Antibodies last at least six months in most - BBC News", "Captain Sir Tom Moore's life in pictures - BBC News", "Esther Dingley: Missing hiker 'taken against will' - BBC News", "Belfast murder: Daniel McClean, dissident republican, shot dead - BBC News", "Obituary: Captain Sir Tom Moore, a hero who gave a nation hope - BBC News", "Ian Wright 'disappointed' after teenager Patrick O'Brien given probation over racist abuse - BBC Sport", "Harry Dunn: Suspect Anne Sacoolas 'worked for US intelligence' - BBC News", "Captain Sir Tom Moore: 'National inspiration' dies with Covid-19 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Study showing Oxford vaccine slows virus spread 'superb' - Hancock - BBC News", "Manchester United 9-0 Southampton: Man Utd thrash nine-man Saints - BBC Sport", "Cardiff terrorist Omar Latif sues MoJ over licence changes - BBC News", "Capt Sir Tom Moore: How the retired Army officer became a nation's hero - BBC News", "Covid: Scottish schools to start phased return this month - BBC News", "Bebo chief reveals plan to take on Facebook and Twitter - BBC News", "Over a million pupils in England's schools as demand rises - BBC News", "Covid: New Oxford vaccine 'ready by the autumn' to tackle mutations - BBC News", "Kameel Ahmady: British academic facing jail escapes Iran over mountains - BBC News", "Covid: UK 'past this peak' but infections still 'alarmingly high' - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion: Steven Alzate scores in shock win - BBC Sport", "Independent student watchdog could keep Tory whip - BBC News", "Myanmar: Fitness video accidentally features coup - BBC News", "UK finds more coronavirus cases with 'concerning' mutations - BBC News", "PMQs: As it happened - 3 February - BBC News", "Oxford vaccine could substantially cut spread - BBC News", "Broadband switching should be less 'hassle', says Ofcom - BBC News", "Ryanair rapped over 'misleading' Covid adverts - BBC News", "Covid: Conspiracy theorist barred from hospitals after filming - BBC News", "South Africa Covid variant: Birmingham cases 'not linked to travel' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update 3 February 2021 - BBC News", "Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon chief executive - BBC News", "Thousands living in poor quality military housing, report says - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not practical' to close UK borders, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Captain Sir Tom Moore: Nation claps for NHS fundraiser - BBC News", "'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape - BBC News", "Dr Alex George named government mental health ambassador - BBC News", "Influencers told not to use 'misleading' beauty filters - BBC News", "MP Margaret Ferrier appears in court accused of Covid rule breach - BBC News", "Australian Open: Players to go into isolation after hotel coronavirus case - BBC Sport", "Government defeated over Trade Bill amid human rights concerns - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: PM 'not aware' of cases ahead of vaccine factory tour - BBC News", "Perth bushfire: Evacuations as dozens of homes destroyed - BBC News", "Texas officials apologise after 'Chucky' missing child alert - BBC News", "Covid: Contagion film shows lessons around vaccine supply - Hancock - BBC News", "Russell Crowe backs round-the-world sailor Pip Hare - BBC News", "Covid-19: Stay at home in variant test areas, Matt Hancock urges - BBC News", "Covid: 3,500 'missing' from cancer services in Wales - BBC News", "Captain Sir Tom Moore: National clap announced by PM for fundraiser - BBC News", "Black bosses 'shut out' by 'vanilla boys' club' - BBC News", "Captain Sir Tom Moore: UK must 'mark the memory' of NHS charity fundraiser - BBC News", "Sir Elton John lobbies Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden over EU touring - BBC News", "Covid-19: PM joins 'national clap' for Capt Sir Tom Moore - BBC News", "Stonehenge tunnel: Campaigners granted High Court hearing - BBC News", "As it happened: England Covid restrictions to be lifted in stages - Johnson - BBC News", "James McClean: Footballer welcomes support over anti-Irish abuse - BBC News", "Marcus Rashford: Man Utd and England forward named in Time magazine's Next 100 list - BBC Sport", "Grenfell: Arconic boss says fire safety tests were not his 'priority' - BBC News", "Mary Robinson 'horribly tricked' over Dubai princess - BBC News", "National Theatre shelves European touring after Brexit - BBC News", "Covid: Seven symptoms should trigger virus test, study says - BBC News", "Grenfell cladding firm told 'misleading half-truth' to standards board - BBC News", "Texas snow: Mayor quits after 'only strong will survive' post - BBC News", "Princess Latifa: The Dubai ruler's daughter who vanished - BBC News", "Covid: NHS Wales app users can apply for £500 self-isolation payment - BBC News", "Rush Limbaugh: Trump leads tributes to divisive US radio host - BBC News", "Australian Open: Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Rafael Nadal to set up Daniil Medvedev semi-final - BBC Sport", "Banksy: Hula-hooping girl removed and sold for 'six figures' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: FM urges people not to book Easter holidays - BBC News", "Lord Frost: Brexit negotiator joins cabinet to deal with EU - BBC News", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's wife makes first appearance in a year - BBC News", "Dubai Princess Latifa: 'I'm a hostage' - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson to focus on 'data, not dates' for lockdown easing - BBC News", "Dubai’s Princess Latifa reveals alleged kidnapping - BBC News", "Winter storm leaves millions without electricity in Texas - BBC News", "Central Park: Amy Cooper has criminal case against her dismissed - BBC News", "Welsh independence: How worried should UK ministers be? - BBC News", "Climate change: Don't raid home insulation scheme, MPs urge ministers - BBC News", "Covid: Four fined in Birmingham over red-list travel - BBC News", "Hospital waiting list 'may double to 10m by April' - BBC News", "'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' - BBC News", "UK government must 'urgently' address Daniel Kinahan's involvement in boxing, says MP - BBC Sport", "Seyi Omooba: Actress sacked over anti-gay post loses legal fight - BBC News", "Injured Patterdale mountain rescuer appeal raises £500,000 - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Google to pay Murdoch's News Corporation for stories - BBC News", "Covid-19: World's first human challenge trials to start in UK - BBC News", "Senedd: Some Tory candidates 'would scrap' Welsh parliament - BBC News", "Ford to go all-electric in Europe by 2030 - BBC News", "Accountancy firm KPMG creates 200 jobs in Belfast - BBC News", "Covid: Make children priority after pandemic, Anne Longfield says - BBC News", "Covid South African variant: Surge testing areas to expand - BBC News", "'Abandon smart motorways', says South Yorkshire PCC - BBC News", "Iceland director sacked after Welsh language jibes - BBC News", "Anne Longfield: Vulnerable children 'seen as data points' - BBC News", "Amsterdam: Bystanders rescue skaters after ice breaks - BBC News", "Plaid Cymru Senedd member Helen Mary Jones due in court over murder trial tweet - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says devolution not an overall disaster - BBC News", "House prices up 8.5% in 2020 amid tax holiday - BBC News", "Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting dogged by rows again - BBC News", "Over-75s 'given time' to pay BBC licence fee - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do hospital numbers compare with April's peak? - BBC News", "Mount Etna: Ash clouds as Sicilian volcano erupts - BBC News", "Children in care 'failed' while some providers 'make millions' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Youngest pupils to return to classrooms - BBC News", "Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum: Who is Dubai's ruler? - BBC News", "Prince Philip, 99, in hospital 'as a precaution' - BBC News", "Princess Latifa: The Dubai ruler's daughter who vanished - BBC News", "Is four years too long to wait for justice? - BBC News", "Princess Latifa: 'Hostage' ordeal of Dubai ruler's daughter revealed - BBC News", "Covid: Self-isolation payments extended to parents in Wales - BBC News", "Captain Sir Tom Moore: 'Horrific' trolling hidden from Army veteran - BBC News", "Covid-19: NI vaccination programme extended to carers - BBC News", "Coal tips: Almost 300 in Wales classed as 'high-risk' - BBC News", "Princess Latifa timeline: The failed escapes of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters - BBC News", "Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page cast in Dungeons & Dragons movie - BBC News", "US charges three North Koreans over $1.3bn theft - BBC News", "Singer Glenn Medeiros: 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry' - BBC News", "Covid: Pubs must reopen when safe, says brewery boss - BBC News", "Heathrow: Man arrested on plane over abduction of girl, 4 - BBC News", "Trump impeachment trial: What verdict means for Trump, Biden and America - BBC News", "Donald Trump impeachment trial: Ex-president acquitted of inciting insurrection - BBC News", "Covid: Will lockdown cause long-term behavioural change? - BBC News", "Covid-19: Travel rules add £1,800 to brain cancer treatment trips - BBC News", "TJ Ducklo: White House suspends aide for 'threatening reporter' - BBC News", "Dog theft: Police issue e-fit over attempted 'dognapping' in Llanelli - BBC News", "Malcolm & Marie: Will Gompertz reviews film starring Zendaya & John David Washington ★★☆☆☆ - BBC News", "As it happened: Trump impeachment incitement charge a 'monstrous lie' - BBC News", "US to allow in thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico - BBC News", "Coronavirus doctor's diary: Will Covid be with us forever, like flu? - BBC News", "Scotland 24-25 Wales: Visitors roar to narrow victory at Murrayfield - BBC Sport", "Australian Open: Daniil Medvedev wins despite coach walking out - BBC Sport", "Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti's Crosby home burgled - BBC News", "Karim Khan: UK lawyer elected chief prosecutor at ICC - BBC News", "Johnson: Humanity 'will adapt to Coronavirus' - BBC News", "River Trent search: Police recover two bodies from car - BBC News", "Barrow couple due to adopt baby arrested in murder probe - BBC News", "Disruption as snow moves across Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Water supplies restored to Glasgow homes after pipe burst - BBC News", "India v England: Virat Kohli refuses to walk after being bowled by Moeen Ali - BBC Sport", "Justin Timberlake apologises to Britney Spears after documentary backlash - BBC News", "Kids Company founder and former trustees win disqualification fight - BBC News", "Brexit lorry chaos avoided as freight flows 'back to normal' - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Over-70s urged to get vaccine as UK nears target - BBC News", "Covid-19: Heathrow says hotel quarantine plan has 'gaps' - BBC News", "Swansea: Nine sex attacks in Singleton Park reported - BBC News", "Three key arguments by Trump’s impeachment lawyers - BBC News", "Greene King Black Boy pubs renamed in 'anti-racist' move - BBC News", "Devon twins celebrate 90th birthdays by moving in together - BBC News", "Covid: 'Optimistic' PM plots 'cautious' lockdown easing - BBC News", "Covid: South Africa variant found in Hampshire village - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: Fear and defiance at night-time arrests - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man held and 26 fined over canal boat party - BBC News", "Treasury scraps £95,000 cap on public sector pay-offs - BBC News", "Covid: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be tested on children - BBC News", "Covid: Secondary school pupils could face two-metre social distance rule - BBC News", "Manchester City 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur: 11 league wins in a row for leaders - BBC Sport", "Covid: We could live with virus 'like we do flu' by end of year, says Hancock - BBC News", "Olympic swimmer Klete Keller faces new charges over Capitol riots - BBC News", "England 'on track' for vaccinating Covid priority groups - BBC News", "Fukushima: Powerful earthquake rocks Japan weeks from disaster anniversary - BBC News", "Josh Warrington stunned by Mauricio Lara in knockout defeat at Wembley Arena - BBC Sport", "Covid: Pubs and restaurants in Jersey to reopen on 22 February - BBC News", "M4 crash: Road reopens after pedestrian dies near Bridgend - BBC News", "Covid: Virus cases are going down across the UK - BBC News", "Is another Beast from the East on the way? - BBC Weather", "Uttarakhand glacier burst: Dozens missing after India dam collapses - BBC News", "Cuba opens up its economy to private businesses - BBC News", "Lord Falconer apologises for calling Covid a 'gift' for lawyers - BBC News", "FCA warning over 'risky' TikTok trading tips - BBC News", "Iraq's Yazidi community buries 104 victims of IS massacre - BBC News", "PSNI 'crisis in confidence' among nationalists, says Michelle O'Neill - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: Internet shutdown as crowds protest against military - BBC News", "Trapped drivers rescued amid heavy snowfalls - BBC News", "Snatched from a beach to train North Korea's spies - BBC News", "Ten people dead after Covid outbreak at Fife care home - BBC News", "Lastminute.com failed to meet Covid refund deadline - BBC News", "UK weather: Storm Darcy leads to heavy snow and ice - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: Tens of thousands join largest protests since 2007 - BBC News", "Pope Francis appoints first woman to the Synod of Bishops - BBC News", "Indonesia tigers: Zookeeper killed after endangered animals escape - BBC News", "Six Nations: Wales beat 14-man Ireland 21-16 in tense opener - BBC Sport", "Covid: Welsh Tory leader calls for UK-wide approach to rules - BBC News", "Covid testing expanded to more workplaces in England - BBC News", "Covid: Minister rules out vaccine passports in UK - BBC News", "UK weather: 'Beast from the East Two' to bring snow, ice and floods - BBC News", "Estrella Catalan: Hospital nurse dies with Covid-19 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police fine baby's birthday party-goers £11k - BBC News", "Mastermind: John Humphrys to step down as host - BBC News", "England 6-11 Scotland: Finn Russell orchestrates first Scottish win at Twickenham since 1983 - BBC Sport", "Queen shown legislation by convention, Buckingham Palace says - BBC News", "India floods: Man trapped inside tunnel rescued in Uttarakhand - BBC News", "England in India: Dom Bess advances England's hopes on day three in Chennai - BBC Sport", "India couple takes the plunge to marry underwater - BBC News", "Gregory Campbell: DUP MP's BLM remarks over Songs of Praise 'irresponsible' - BBC News", "NHS: Government plans to reverse Cameron-era reforms - BBC News", "Covid: More than 12 million in UK have had first jab - BBC News", "Patterdale mountain rescuer seriously injured in 500ft fall - BBC News", "As it happened: Autumn 'booster' jab likely to be needed, Zahawi says - BBC News", "Croydon stabbings: 'Abhorrent' night of violence leaves man dead - BBC News", "Pontypool man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman dies - BBC News", "Liverpool 1-4 Man City: Alisson errors help send leaders five points clear - BBC Sport", "Leon Spinks: Ex-heavyweight champion who shocked Muhammad Ali dies aged 67 - BBC Sport", "Covid: Oxford jab offers less S Africa variant protection - BBC News", "Wylfa: Welsh ministers 'discuss ways forward' for nuclear plant - BBC News", "Amazon criticised in paying lower rates than shops - BBC News", "Covid: Fines issued for rugby and birthday party breaches - BBC News", "Kilburn stabbing: Police name victim of 'barbaric' attack as Sven Badzak - BBC News", "Chile: Violence flares after police officer shoots street performer dead - BBC News", "UK Covid alert level drops as NHS threat 'recedes' - BBC News", "Target pressures see children taken out of school, union says - BBC News", "Get used to fewer trains, says rail body - BBC News", "Vauxhall: Talks over fate of Ellesmere Port plant 'productive' - BBC News", "Brit Awards change rules thanks to pop star Rina Sawayama - BBC News", "President Joe Biden asks Anna Hursey, 14, for climate advice - BBC News", "Home education: Children 'failed' decade after boy's death - BBC News", "Covid: Learning disability vaccine change 'best news ever' - BBC News", "Alex Salmond saga 'a crisis of credibility' for Holyrood - BBC News", "Airbnb predicts 'significant' travel rebound - BBC News", "Spy agency turns to AI to tackle child abuse - BBC News", "Kids Company founder calls for apology from Gove - BBC News", "Primark gears up for April reopening as sales slump - BBC News", "Covid-19: Adverts urge people to 'keep going' and remain at home - BBC News", "Covid: Hospital outbreak affects 49 patients at Ysbyty Gwynedd - BBC News", "Historic Edinburgh street to get European boulevard feel - BBC News", "Marcus Rashford interview nets BBC scoop of the year at RTS awards - BBC News", "Six Nations 2021: France suspend training after further positive case before Scotland game - BBC Sport", "Covid: Jo Whiley 'so happy' over learning disability vaccine change - BBC News", "Skewen residents flooded by mine blow-out 'in limbo' - BBC News", "Government agrees to call pregnant women mothers - BBC News", "Borussia Monchengladbach 0-2 Man City: 19 wins in a row for Pep Guardiola's side - BBC Sport", "UK 4G smartphone owners may be due £480m payout - BBC News", "Exam cancellations: 'Has all my work gone down the drain?' - BBC News", "Insulate homes better or miss carbon targets, ministers told - BBC News", "Cardiff and Newport fly-tipping: Appeal to track down suspect - BBC News", "France v Scotland: Six Nations match unlikely to be next weekend after postponement - BBC Sport", "Dylan Seabridge, aged eight, died of scurvy, says coroner - BBC News", "India v England: Hosts win astonishing third Test in two days - BBC Sport", "GP alerts Sebastian Coe to vocal problem after interview airs - BBC News", "Ikea aims to launch delayed 'Buy Back' scheme in UK - BBC News", "Sturgeon rejects 'confidentiality breach' claim over Salmond complainer - BBC News", "Birmingham canalside assault leaves athlete 'in shock' - BBC News", "Covid-19: 'No child's prospects should be blighted by pandemic' - BBC News", "Labour renews vow to keep nuclear weapons - BBC News", "Covid: Half with cancer signs didn't contact GP in first wave - BBC News", "Lady Gaga's dog walker shot and bulldogs stolen - BBC News", "Covid: Green Man festival organisers 'hopeful' for 2021 - BBC News", "Ronald Pickup: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel actor dies - BBC News", "Tiger Woods car crash: Golfing champion will not face criminal charges - BBC News", "Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: EU urged to adopt 'vaccine passports' - BBC News", "Is Covid at risk of becoming a disease of the poor? - BBC News", "'Lemonade stand' boys get Gold Blue Peter badges for Yemen fundraising - BBC News", "'Concerns' raised before Dylan Seabridge died from scurvy - BBC News", "Coal tips: Almost 300 in Wales classed as 'high-risk' - BBC News", "How 30,000 elephant 'selfies' will help in conservation - BBC News", "HS2 protest: Swampy and two other activists leave Euston tunnel - BBC News", "Mary Anning: Fossil hunter celebrated with Jurassic 50p coins - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers to decide some vocational grades in Wales - BBC News", "Asda says 5,000 jobs at risk in new business plan - BBC News", "Police stop-and-search powers 'should be suspended' - BBC News", "Vauxhall: Crunch talks to save Ellesmere Port plant continue - BBC News", "Van Gogh Paris painting goes on public display for first time - BBC News", "Queen urges people to 'think about others' by taking Covid jab - BBC News", "Rough sleeper numbers 'down a third in a year' - BBC News", "As it happened: 'Remain vigilant' as threat level drops, say UK medics - BBC News", "Lockdown: Parent has seizure during child's Zoom lesson - BBC News", "Nasa reveals new video from Mars Perseverance Rover - BBC News", "WhatsApp to switch off messages for all who reject new terms - BBC News", "Lockdown review: What are the risks of schools, pubs and shops reopening? - BBC News", "Holiday bookings surge after lockdown exit plans - BBC News", "Covid-19 lockdown: Up to 10,000 fans could return to stadiums by mid-May - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update 22 February 2021 - BBC News", "Hayley Arceneaux: Cancer survivor joins first all-civilian space mission - BBC News", "MI6 'body-in-bag': Spy Gareth Williams' London flat death reviewed - BBC News", "Jo Whiley: It's been the worst week of our lives as Frances struggles with Covid - BBC News", "Covid: Wrexham schools delay return to classes - BBC News", "Canada's parliament declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'Right' to delay contract transparency in pandemic, says Hancock - BBC News", "Covid-19: Belfast's SSE Arena to be mass vaccination centre - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Medical regulator investigates £30m Covid contract firm - BBC News", "Grenfell cladding use 'accident waiting to happen' - BBC News", "Boeing 777: Dozens grounded after Denver engine failure - BBC News", "John Lewis considers closing more stores - BBC News", "Prince Philip 'OK' after sixth night in hospital, Duke of Cambridge says - BBC News", "Covid-19: Arlene Foster calls for 'revisiting' schools' reopening date - BBC News", "Lockdown: Boris Johnson unveils plan to end England restrictions by 21 June - BBC News", "Roadmap: 'We're delighted to have dates to work towards' - BBC News", "Six Nations: France v Scotland in doubt because of positive coronavirus tests - BBC Sport", "Flood prevention in Wales 'should be national priority' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Youngest pupils return as schools reopen - BBC News", "Covid: 'We're travelling on a one-way road to freedom' - Johnson - BBC News", "Cambridge moonflower: Team 'overwhelmed' by global response - BBC News", "Schools back 8 March in England with Covid tests taken at home - BBC News", "Climate change is a threat to our security - Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Fly-tipping: Licensing system failing to stop dumping, Panorama finds - BBC News", "Covid vaccines - 'spectacular' impact on serious illness - BBC News", "Afghanistan's Ghani sees 'window of opportunity' for peace process - BBC News", "Covid: Christian group fined £10k for Bulwell car park meet - BBC News", "Euston tunnel protest: Dr Larch Maxey removed by bailiffs - BBC News", "Daft Punk announce split after 28 years - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: HIV clinics to make confidential referrals - BBC News", "Live music 'at the back of queue to reopen' - BBC News", "Edvard Munch wrote 'madman' graffiti on Scream painting, scans show - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: Huge crowds mourn woman killed in protests - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon challenges Alex Salmond over 'conspiracy' claims - BBC News", "Covid: Catch-up narrative putting 'huge pressure' on children, psychologists say - BBC News", "Christchurch earthquake: Memorial held for victims 10 years on - BBC News", "Covid vaccines - 'spectacular' impact on serious illness - BBC News", "Terror suspect jailed after going on the run - BBC News", "More than half of UK firms plan to hire new staff - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson to unveil 'cautious' plan to lift England's lockdown - BBC News", "Covid: Australian Open fans criticised for booing vaccine - BBC News", "Channel crossings: Migrant boats with 49 people on board intercepted - BBC News", "Covid-19: Vallance says expect 'baseline' measures next winter - BBC News", "'They wanted to jail a banker - I was that banker' - BBC News", "Covid lockdown: 'We are burning through about £500,000 a day' - BBC News", "Exeter house fire: Girl, 4, and couple die - BBC News", "Pangong Lake: India and China complete pull-back of forces - BBC News", "Covid: Why has Boris Johnson opted for caution on lockdown rules? - BBC News", "Trump impeachment trial: What verdict means for Trump, Biden and America - BBC News", "Australian Open: Dominic Thiem stunned by Grigor Dimitrov, Novak Djokovic wins - BBC Sport", "Welsh independence: More people in favour, Plaid say - BBC News", "Covid-19: Heathrow warns quarantine rules may cause flight delays - BBC News", "Johnson: US democracy strong after Trump impeachment 'kerfuffle' - BBC News", "Trump impeachment trial: Biden warns democracy is fragile - BBC News", "As it happened: Vaccine joy as UK hits 15 million first jabs - BBC News", "Amanda Holden 'devastated' at lockdown rule break - BBC News", "Neonatal pay: 'I was cheated out of time with my premature baby’ - BBC News", "Josh Warrington stunned by Mauricio Lara in knockout defeat at Wembley Arena - BBC Sport", "Covid infecting humans through animal host 'probable' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Over-65s to receive jab in next phase of rollout in England - BBC News", "Covid: New Zealand Auckland lockdown ordered - BBC News", "Alex Salmond accuser: Inquiry 'trauma' worse than trial - BBC News", "Stoke-on-Trent man restores old trainers for city's homeless - BBC News", "Meghan and Prince Harry expecting second child - BBC News", "Covid: Vaccine given to 15 million in UK as PM hails 'extraordinary feat' - BBC News", "Renters: Eviction ban in England extended until March - BBC News", "Covid: Lovers spend pandemic at opposite ends of the earth - BBC News", "Covid: Dominic Raab rejects CRG calls for lockdown easing date - BBC News", "Covid-19: Clinically extremely vulnerable in NI can now book vaccinations - BBC News", "River Trent search: Police recover two bodies from car - BBC News", "Deliveroo: Run Eat Out to Help Out again, says takeaway giant - BBC News", "Swansea: Nine sex attacks in Singleton Park reported - BBC News", "Girls rescued from frozen River Trent were 'extremely lucky' - BBC News", "Spain migrant worker camp fire: 'Our house is burning' - BBC News", "Swansea: Man arrested over nine Singleton Park sex attacks - BBC News", "Covid vaccines: Top nine priority groups 'to get first dose by May' - BBC News", "Devon twins celebrate 90th birthdays by moving in together - BBC News", "Covid-19: How did a volunteer panel react when we showed them an anti-vax video? - BBC News", "Baby Archie: Duchess of Sussex reads to son to mark his first birthday - BBC News", "India v England: Ravichandran Ashwin runs through tourists in Chennai - BBC Sport", "US cold snap: Why is Texas seeing Arctic temperatures? - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: Fear and defiance at night-time arrests - BBC News", "Covid: 'Optimistic' PM plots 'cautious' lockdown easing - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man held and 26 fined over canal boat party - BBC News", "Chris Harrison: Bachelor host to step aside over racism row - BBC News", "Covid: South Africa variant found in Hampshire village - BBC News", "Cars buried overnight in huge snow drifts near Buckie - BBC News", "UAE Hope mission returns first image of Mars - BBC News", "England 'on track' for vaccinating Covid priority groups - BBC News", "Fukushima: Powerful earthquake rocks Japan weeks from disaster anniversary - BBC News", "Manchester City 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur: 11 league wins in a row for leaders - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Kent virus variant 'on course to sweep world' - BBC News", "Brithdir care home inquest: Resident had '50cm pressure sore' - BBC News", "Everton 5-4 Tottenham Hotspur: Bernard's extra-time goal helps hosts win nine-goal FA Cup classic - BBC Sport", "Sainsbury’s takes on Aldi in supermarket price war - BBC News", "'I Love You Will U Marry Me': Sheffield graffiti removal sparks anger - BBC News", "Romance fraud on rise in coronavirus lockdown - BBC News", "Sonic boom heard over north Cornwall and Devon - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon denies breaching ministerial code over Alex Salmond - BBC News", "KPMG boss steps aside after 'stop moaning' comment - BBC News", "Impeachment trial shows new graphic footage of Capitol violence - 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will assess whether the vaccine produces a strong immune response in six to 17-year-olds.", "A Scottish government advisory group says the measure should apply when schools begin a phased return this month.", "Manchester City strengthen their grip at the top of the Premier League table after beating Tottenham to open up a seven-point lead.", "But scientists warn against treating coronavirus like the flu, with mutations getting \"more dangerous\".", "The gold medallist was allegedly spotted among the crowd in the Rotunda wearing his Team USA jacket.", "The aim is to offer a vaccine against Covid to the most vulnerable people by Monday.", "The 7.3-magnitude quake struck just three weeks before the 10-year anniversary of the 2011 tsunami.", "Josh Warrington falls to a stunning defeat as Mexico's Mauricio Lara causes a huge shock at Wembley Arena.", "Ten people will be allowed per group and groups can consist of people from different households.", "The road was shut near Bridgend for about 10 hours after he was struck by several vehicles.", "Data suggests lockdown is working, but the health secretary says there is \"still a long way to go\".", "Easterly winds are set to bring a spell of substantial and potentially disruptive snow to parts of the UK in the coming days.", "More than 125 are missing after a piece of a glacier fell into a river, causing floods in Uttarakhand.", "The labour minister announces a major reform to the communist country's state-controlled economy.", "Labour's Lord Falconer says he was talking about legal challenges, but regrets his choice of words.", "Some TikTok creators have been giving investment advice in the wake of the GameStop frenzy.", "The victims' remains had been exhumed from mass graves following Islamic State genocide in 2014.", "Michelle O'Neill says she is not calling on the its chief to quit over the memorial event's handling.", "The national blackout comes amid the biggest protest so far against this week's military takeover.", "More than 20 vehicles became stuck in snow on the A835 in the Highlands during heavy snow.", "How North Korea kidnapped unsuspecting Japanese citizens and refused to give them back.", "NHS Fife said 25 residents and 43 staff at Mossview Care Home in Lochgelly had tested positive for the virus.", "Online travel agent Lastminute.com failed to refund Covid-hit holidays by January deadline.", "Police warn people not to travel as the cold weather causes vaccination centres and schools to shut.", "Tens of thousands of people join anti-coup rallies nationwide, demanding a return to democracy.", "Nathalie Becquart will have voting rights in the body that advises the Pope on controversial topics.", "One of the rare Sumatran tigers is recaptured after being tranquilised, but the other is shot dead.", "Wales overcome 14-man Ireland to win a tense 2021 Six Nations opener in Cardiff.", "Welsh ministers should work with the UK government, the Welsh Tory leader says.", "Businesses with more than 50 staff are now able to access lateral flow tests, which give rapid results.", "The vaccine minister says people should ask their GP if they need proof of vaccination to go abroad.", "The cold snap will not be as extreme as in 2018, forecasters say, but will cause disruption.", "Estrella Catalan, who was described as \"wonderful, caring\", died on Friday evening.", "Police were told about the party after reports of banners outside the gathering.", "Humphrys will leave the popular quiz show in March, after 18 years interrogating contestants.", "Scotland claim a first win at Twickenham since 1983 as fly-half Finn Russell orchestrates a shock Six Nations victory against England.", "Archive papers suggest the monarch's lawyers successfully argued to change legislation in the 1970s.", "A piece of a glacier dropped into a river prompting a flood through a valley in Uttarakhand.", "Dom Bess advances England's chances of victory over India on day three of the first Test in Chennai, despite a sparkling knock from Rishabh Pant.", "The couple exchanged wedding garlands 20 metres underwater off the coast of Chennai city.", "Gregory Campbell criticised after saying an episode of Songs of Praise was \"the BBC at its BLM worst\".", "The plans, revealed in a leaked document, would reverse changes made under David Cameron.", "The government is aiming to offer first doses to the top four priority groups by 15 February.", "A rescuer fell while responding to reports of a camper in the fells suffering chest pains.", "The vaccines minister also expects annual vaccinations similar to those for flu will be introduced.", "Police condemn five separate knife attacks within a two-and-a-half hour period of violence in south London.", "The arrest was made after police found a 74-year-old woman dead on Saturday.", "Two errors from Liverpool keeper Alisson gift leaders Manchester City a 10th straight Premier League win and a 10-point lead over the champions.", "Leon Spinks, who beat Muhammad Ali to claim the world heavyweight title in 1978, dies at the age of 67.", "Developers say they are likely to have a modified version of the jab by autumn to combat the variant.", "A site on Anglesey remains one of the best for a new nuclear development in Europe, ministers say.", "Amazon has been accused of paying less business rates tax than British bricks and mortar retailers.", "Nine people are caught watching the England rugby match and six others fined at a birthday party.", "Sven Badzak and his 16-year-old friend were chased by a group of males and stabbed, the Met said.", "Social media footage shows a police officer in Chile shooting a man dead, sparking violent protests.", "The move to the second-highest level means the NHS is no longer at imminent risk of being overwhelmed.", "A union believes some students are taken out of school so their grades do not count towards targets.", "Around one in 10 rail services should be cut while passenger numbers remain low, says Network Rail.", "The owner of the Ellesmere Port factory, which employs about 1,000 workers, is in talks with the government.", "Pop star Rina Sawayama protested after being told she was \"not British enough\" for UK music awards.", "US president Joe Biden emailed Cardiff player Anna Hursey, 14, who is a UN climate change champion.", "Little progress made to safeguard children taught at home in Wales despite a child dying, review says.", "The mother of a man with severe learning difficulties says she is relieved he will soon get his jab.", "Opposition leaders question why the Crown Office asked for written evidence from Alex Salmond to be redacted.", "But the booking platform warns it is still too early to predict how many travellers will return in 2021.", "The technology can also be used to spot disinformation and human trafficking networks, GCHQ says.", "The charity, which supported vulnerable young people in London and Bristol, closed its doors in 2015.", "The High Street-only retailer says it has lost £1.1bn in sales due to the recent lockdown.", "It comes amid falling cases, the vaccine rollout and the launch of the roadmap out of lockdown.", "More cases are expected as testing of asymptomatic staff and patients begins.", "Cars are set to be banned from George Street as part of transformation plans to open up the space.", "The England striker spoke about growing up in poverty as he campaigned for free school meals.", "France suspend training and send their squad into isolation after another positive case before their Six Nations game against Scotland on Sunday.", "It comes after DJ Jo Whiley's call for people like her sister to be vaccinated as soon as possible.", "Residents were evacuated when water flooded up to people's waists after a mine blow-out.", "A bill to give ministers maternity pay will change, after peers reject the use of the term \"person\".", "Manchester City make it 19 wins in a row with another utterly dominant display against Borussia Monchengladbach", "Some 29 million people in the UK could be entitled to up to £30 back on Apple or Samsung smartphones.", "\"Relieved, anxious, stressed\" - students speak out on learning that A-levels and GCSE are cancelled.", "The UK will never hit its carbon reduction targets unless a grant scheme is rescued, a watchdog says.", "Authorities issue appeal to track down suspect who is thought to be using false registration plates.", "Scotland's Six Nations match with France is unlikely to take place next weekend after a further Covid case in the home squad forced its postponement.", "An eight-year-old boy from Pembrokeshire died of scurvy, a coroner says.", "England succumb to a 10-wicket defeat against India inside two days of a remarkable third Test in Ahmedabad.", "A sharp-eared doctor noticed Lord Coe's voice was \"gravelly\" during a Today programme interview.", "UK consumers will soon be able to sell back used items with the aim of reducing waste.", "Nicola Sturgeon denies that the name of a woman who complained about Alex Salmond was passed to him during a government investigation.", "The international runner has her backside grabbed while training for the Olympics.", "The education secretary sets out £700m to help pupils in England catch up on missed time in school.", "The party says the Trident missile system is \"non-negotiable\" and pledges to support Nato.", "Symptoms left unchecked included lumps, changes to moles and coughing up blood, a survey finds.", "The star is offering a reward for the safe return of her French bulldogs Koji and Gustav.", "The organisers of the Brecon Beacon festival say they are \"planning away\" for an event this year.", "The 80-year-old actor passed away peacefully after a long illness, his agent says.", "Police say the crash was \"purely an accident\" after the golfing champion flipped his car on Tuesday.", "Remote working is \"an aberration\" that will be corrected as soon as possible says Goldman Sachs chief.", "Greece and Austria want coronavirus-free tourists this summer, but other EU states have concerns.", "Lower vaccine uptake coupled with higher infection rates could scar communities for years to come.", "Best friends Ayaan and Mikaeel raised £100,000 for those affected by the Yemen crisis.", "Concerns were raised about a boy's welfare more than a year before he died of scurvy, BBC Wales learns.", "The tips were inspected following a 60,000 tonne landslip caused by Storm Dennis.", "Researchers are developing new technology to help reduce human-elephant conflicts.", "The protester, who left with two others, spent 30 days in the tunnel under Euston Square Gardens.", "The 19th Century fossil hunter's achievements were often overlooked during her own lifetime.", "An announcement in England means thousands more students will have grades decided by their teachers.", "The supermarket says it has begun consulting with workers over a major restructuring of its business.", "The change would improve the relationship between black children and the police, campaigners say.", "Vauxhall's parent company has previously said its fate depends on the government's commitment to the car industry.", "The street scene of Montmartre has been owned by the same French family for more than 100 years.", "The monarch, who had her first dose of the vaccine in January, said it \"didn't hurt at all\".", "Just under 2,700 people were sleeping rough on one autumn night in 2020, official estimates suggest.", "Transmission rates, hospital pressures and deaths are still very high, the UK's four chief medical officers say.", "Teacher Anthony Cannon-Jones describes feeling \"utterly helpless\" as the ordeal unfolded.", "The American space agency has released stunning video of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars.", "The company lays out what will happen to users who do not accept its updated conditions.", "Lockdown in England and Scotland will be lifted in stages - what are the risks associated with relaxing certain restrictions?", "Travel firms serving the UK and overseas report a huge jump in bookings and website traffic since Monday.", "Up to 10,000 fans could be back in stadiums by mid-May as part of the government's plans to move England out of lockdown.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Education Minister Kirsty Williams and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Chris Jones.", "The SpaceX mission will make Hayley Arceneaux the first person with a prosthesis to visit space.", "Gareth Williams, of Anglesey, was found dead in a holdall at his flat in Pimlico, London, in 2010.", "The DJ says her sister Frances, who has a learning disability and diabetes, is \"fighting for her life\" with Covid.", "Three to seven years olds in some areas with high case rates will not return on 22 February.", "Canada is just the second country after the US to recognise China's actions in Xinjiang as genocide.", "The health secretary defends his team after a court rules he acted unlawfully during the pandemic.", "The venue is expected to open in April for those 60 and under who are not already vaccinated.", "Hinpack, which makes test tubes, is run by the former landlord of a pub near Matt Hancock's old home.", "An executive at a cladding manufacturer agrees with a lawyer's description of the risk.", "United Airlines and Japan's two main airlines suspend 56 planes after the incident over Denver.", "The department store giant may close another eight stores in a further blow for the High Street.", "The exact reason for the Duke of Edinburgh's admission to hospital last Tuesday has not been disclosed.", "First minister's comment comes after PM said pupils in England would return to class on 8 March.", "Shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April, Boris Johnson says.", "Boris Johnson’s route out of lockdown is a relief for businesses, including pubs, restaurants, gyms and retail.", "Scotland's Six Nations match in Paris on Sunday is thrown into further doubt after five more France players tested positive for coronavirus.", "Opposition politicians call for action after Wales was hit by flooding at the weekend.", "Schools across the country have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since December.", "Boris Johnson hails the vaccine effort he says means people \"can begin safely to restart our lives\".", "Having thousands watch a rare cactus bloom online leaves the team that planted it \"overwhelmed\".", "Parents of secondary school pupils will carry out Covid tests and face masks will be worn in class.", "David Attenborough and activist Nisreen Elsaim address a UN session chaired by Boris Johnson.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A BBC Panorama investigation finds licensed firms involved in the dumping of rubbish.", "First evidence jabs are having major impact on serious illness as well as cutting transmission.", "In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Ashraf Ghani discusses the \"hard decision\" on war and peace.", "Police say the site is \"evidently not a place of worship\" but the church plans to contest the fine.", "Dr Larch Maxey has spent almost a month inside a network of tunnels in protest at the HS2 project.", "The French duo were responsible for some of the most influential dance tracks of all time.", "A 'significant' number of people with HIV feel unable to talk to their GP, a leading charity said.", "Music and live events bosses have had their say on the PM's new roadmap out of Covid restrictions.", "The words \"Can only have been painted by a madman\" are written in the corner of the famous painting.", "Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot just before her 20th birthday, during rallies against a military coup.", "Nicola Sturgeon claims that Alex Salmond has made allegations \"without a shred of evidence\".", "The British Psychological Society warns against reinforcing the notion that school pupils are \"behind\".", "New Zealand's prime minister attends a service held in tribute to the 185 people who lost their lives.", "First evidence from the UK's vaccine programme shows a reduction in hospital admissions in Scotland.", "The man, a senior member of banned group al-Muhajiroun, cut off an electronic tag and fled his home.", "The number of firms planning to make staff redundant in the first quarter of 2021 is also falling.", "All schools are expected to reopen on 8 March, with some outdoor socialising allowed from 29 March.", "A crowd's booing of a reference to Covid-19 vaccines is \"disgusting\", Australia's deputy PM says.", "More than 70% of attempted crossings are stopped by the French authorities, the government says.", "Working from home could also be expected to continue until next winter, says Sir Patrick Vallance.", "Tom Hayes, jailed for rigging interest rates, tells the BBC fresh evidence will show his conviction was unsafe.", "The owner of PureGym says lockdown has been costing his business hundreds of thousands of pounds a day.", "Police call it a \"tragic incident\" and say no-one is being sought in connection with the fire.", "The Pangong Lake is one area of an ill-defined border which has seen tensions flare.", "The PM's stance would have been almost impossible to imagine this time last year.", "Reputations were burnished and tarnished - and a tumultuous stage was set for political battles to come.", "Grigor Dimitrov delivers a shock victory over Dominic Thiem, while Novak Djokovic also reaches the Australian Open quarter-finals.", "But Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas says a referendum now would not be \"wise\".", "The airport is concerned about pressure at the border when travel rules change in England on Monday.", "The UK prime minister also says he has an \"excellent\" relationship with new President Joe Biden.", "Former President Trump is acquitted of a charge of inciting deadly violence in the US Capitol.", "Politicians and health experts welcome news that at least 15 million people in the UK have had their first coronavirus jab.", "The Britain's Got Talent judge admits she travelled over 200 miles after a \"distressing\" call from her parents.", "Campaigners and MPs are calling on the government to bring in pay and leave for parents of neonatal babies.", "Josh Warrington falls to a stunning defeat as Mexico's Mauricio Lara causes a huge shock at Wembley Arena.", "Professor John Watson is a member of the World Health Organization's team investigating the origins of Covid-19.", "The clinically vulnerable are also being invited, as the rollout in England enters a new phase.", "The move comes after three new local cases of Covid-19 were reported in Auckland.", "The woman was one of nine who gave evidence against the former first minister at the High Court last year.", "Lance Birchall, from Stoke-on-Trent, cleans up unwanted trainers and donates them to those in need.", "The Queen and Royal Family are \"delighted\", as the Sussexes say \"Archie is going to be a big brother\".", "The PM calls it an \"extraordinary feat\", reached just over two months after the first vaccine was delivered.", "Eviction notices, which were set to resume on 22 February, cannot now be served for another six weeks.", "Paula Reynolds has been in Wales since March having left Roberto in Australia just before lockdown.", "It comes after Tory backbenchers called for England's Covid restrictions to be lifted by the end of April.", "It comes as the number of Covid-19-related deaths registered in NI fell for a second week.", "Emergency services have been searching for almost two weeks after a car was seen floating along the river.", "The takeaway firm and 300 restaurant groups say it would boost the sector when restrictions ease.", "Police say there are extra patrols in Swansea's Singleton Park after nine attacks in five hours.", "Nottinghamshire Police said the 11-year-olds had been walking over a frozen section of the Trent.", "A fire destroyed dozens of shacks, home to hundreds of undocumented workers, in southern Spain last night.", "The attacks took place in and around a city park in the space of five hours, police say.", "Wales' first minister \"confident\" the next five groups will receive a first dose by the end of April.", "Pauline Vincent and Jacqueline Hetherington are living together for the first time since their 20s.", "We showed eight people a viral video filled with falsehoods. Did it change their minds?", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex release a video of their son to celebrate his first birthday.", "England are bowled out for 134 as India open up a lead of 249 to seize control of the second Test in Chennai.", "Freezing temperatures have been recorded across the usually hot southern US state.", "Videos show people banging pots and pans, and surrounding security vehicles in protest.", "Boris Johnson says \"huge progress\" has been made, but scientists warn against lifting restrictions too soon.", "Police say the arrested man had previously been reported for a £10,000 fine over another boat party.", "Chris Harrison was accused of minimising controversial photos of a cast member on the hit US show.", "Surge testing will be held in the area along with similar schemes in Middlesbrough and Walsall.", "Vehicles were trapped as gale-force winds carried mud-coloured waves of snow onto the A98 near Buckie.", "The United Arab Emirates' spacecraft at Mars sends back a stunning first view of the Red Planet.", "The aim is to offer a vaccine against Covid to the most vulnerable people by Monday.", "The 7.3-magnitude quake struck just three weeks before the 10-year anniversary of the 2011 tsunami.", "Manchester City strengthen their grip at the top of the Premier League table after beating Tottenham to open up a seven-point lead.", "The expert heading the UK's genetic surveillance says research into strains will go into the 2030s.", "An inquest is hearing evidence into seven residents' deaths at a south Wales care home.", "Bernard's extra-time strike settles a classic FA Cup tie as Everton edge past Tottenham into the quarter-finals.", "The UK's second-largest supermarket joins Tesco in promising to price-match German discounter Aldi.", "Richard Hawley leads calls to reinstate the \"symbol of Sheffield\" after developers removed it.", "Authorities warn about the scams criminals employ ahead of Valentine's Day.", "The RAF says its planes caused the noise heard in north Cornwall and Devon", "Scotland's first minister says she will challenge \"ridiculous conspiracy theories\" when she faces an inquiry.", "Bill Michael will step back as the audit giant investigates comments that allegedly offended staff.", "Security cameras show just how close the mob got to senators and reveal Mitt Romney's narrow escape.", "A new online safety strategy for young people has been published by the Northern Ireland Executive.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says \"we've made great strides\" with more than 13 million vaccinated.", "The US rock icon was arrested in November for allegedly driving while intoxicated, officials say.", "Priti Patel failed to follow an order to house an Iranian sex offender, the High Court says.", "A Texas lawyer reflects on becoming an internet sensation after a mishap with a cat filter.", "David Wilson blackmailed boys into sending him indecent images of themselves, siblings and friends.", "Princess Leonor de Borbon is to study at Atlantic College from this summer, it is announced.", "The men did not manage to take any beauty spot photos as their phone batteries had died, police say.", "Sima Kotecha follows the origins of a \"dangerous\" viral video about a false Covid-19 treatment.", "The force is accused of having a \"cover-up\" culture following its inquiry into false allegations.", "MPs say care homes received a fraction of the PPE needed compared with the health service.", "The industry shows the government a \"roadmap to recovery\" as it waits for a reopening date.", "A study finds coronavirus particles decay rapidly on sports equipment, including cricket and tennis balls.", "But Boris Johnson says the UK is nearing its target for vaccinating 15m in the effort to save lives.", "Boris Johnson urges people to \"be patient\", after the transport secretary says summer breaks are in doubt.", "The advertising watchdog upheld a complaint about a video shared last year by the reality star.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "Facebook announces new measures to combat online abuse and says it is \"horrified\" such content exists on the platform.", "Scotland's transport secretary says he is pressing the UK government to close a potential loophole.", "Barry Burkhill \"did not intervene in bullying\" in the meeting hosted by Jackie Weaver, it is claimed.", "It feels like Groundhog Day but second time round will be quite different, argues Jon Sopel.", "A fire-retardant product could have been sold instead, the inquiry into the 2017 tower fire hears.", "A budget amendment would have seen free school meals extended to families receiving Universal Credit.", "Loujain al-Hathloul was instrumental in the movement to allow women to drive in the kingdom.", "Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday - but what's it all about?", "Emergency services' communication \"didn't unfold as expected\" in a training drill, an inquiry hears.", "UK government confirms Boris Johnson misspoke when he said town will be centre of battery making.", "The website says it opposes any attempts to ‘silence consumers' freedom of speech’.", "Scotland has faced a second day of travel disruption after further heavy snowfall and freezing conditions.", "The British public expects \"strong action\", Grant Shapps says, amid criticism of the new penalty.", "Years after flammable cladding issues emerged, more flat owners are facing costly 24-hour patrols.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' call for people to pause summer holiday plans gets a rough reception.", "The Queen's ninth great-grandchild, born at a London hospital, is now the 11th in line to the throne.", "A day after the UAE arrived at Mars, China says its Tianwen-1 mission is also now in orbit.", "Boris Johnson faced his weekly grilling from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and backbench MPs.", "Its use in people over 65 as well as in countries where variants are circulating is recommended.", "One worker died and more than 500 people have been ill after getting Covid at the Swansea site.", "The messaging platform saw healthy growth for earnings and user numbers as online activity boomed.", "Having battled coronavirus, French nun Sister Andre will celebrate her 117th birthday this week.", "The investors want the UK's largest supermarket chain to do more amid a growing obesity problem.", "Downing Street says its taxpayer-funded photographers are \"documenting\" the work of government.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have had their first jab, Clarence House confirms.", "South Asian people in England remained more likely than white people to die in Covid second wave.", "Six Republicans join Democrats and rule it is constitutional to put Trump on trial after leaving office.", "Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s takeover of National League club Wrexham is finalised.", "The spider crab and megrim sole are to be rebranded to get rid of \"negative connotations\".", "Labour calls for extra help for homeowners hit by large bills, as ministers promise more action.", "The head of R&S Records discriminated against black and female artists, says a former employee.", "Jason Lowe's famous proposal disappears from Sheffield's Park Hill flats after almost 20 years.", "People arriving in England from Covid hotspots also face £10,000 fines or jail if they break the rules.", "Homeless Alexandru Stan has been described by a legal expert as a victim of the \"innocence tax\".", "But ministers are accused of playing \"appalling\" games to avoid Commons defeat on the issue.", "As the deadline looms for care staff to be offered the vaccine, a survey suggests a big shortfall.", "The European Commission's vice-president says \"swift solutions\" must be found to \"teething problems\" in trade.", "Around 34% of children under five are living below the poverty line, according to a baby bank charity.", "A study of 20,000 young people finds a third have used cannabis and half admit to binge-drinking.", "The inquiry is shown an email from a sales manager at Arconic warning of the risk of high-rise fires.", "It follows what ministers called \"deeply disturbing\" revelations at the Grenfell Inquiry.", "The United Arab Emirates celebrates as its Hope mission makes it safely into orbit around Mars.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by NHS Wales Chief Executive Dr Andrew Goodall.", "Covid restrictions mean patients such as Sophie must attend appointments without family or friends.", "Almost a year after Italy sought help because of its virus emergency, Portugal welcomes German aid.", "English-language satellite news channel CGTN's licence was \"wrongfully held\", says watchdog Ofcom.", "The government notes the far-right group's role in the US Capitol riot in Washington last month.", "Oliver Dowden says the obstacles facing UK musicians in Europe are \"absurd and self-defeating\".", "Environmental groups say they are mystified No 10 has not intervened to stop the mine going ahead.", "While overall crime fell in Wales in 2019-20 as we stayed at home, stalking and cyber crime increased.", "How pupils with additional educational needs are dealing with the challenges of lockdown.", "The UK is now the top destination for Australian wine as it looks to overcome crippling Chinese taxes.", "Crystal Palace's ground and a fire station are among the newest mass vaccination centres to open.", "The US court hears Anne Sacoolas feared she would not get a fair trial if she returned to the UK.", "The two girls were aged 13 and 14 when they subjected Angela Wrightson to a seven-hour fatal attack.", "The government says it is working \"at pace\" to tighten up the UK's Covid border security.", "Omar Latif says a decision to change his licence conditions after the London Bridge attack is \"unlawful\".", "Boris Johnson praises health workers' efforts in helping the UK pass 10 million first vaccinations.", "The 30-year-old was arrested after the SNP MP reported the incident to Police Scotland on Monday.", "Brighton move 10 points clear of the relegation zone with a surprise victory, as Liverpool's recent struggles at Anfield continue.", "MPs call for a strategy for new technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.", "Fans of Michaela Coel's TV drama express \"rage\" at the show's snub in the Golden Globe nominations.", "The comedian withdraws from the ITV show after testing positive, with another comic replacing him.", "Police say three 'serious' incidents in Kilmarnock - including one at Crosshouse hospital - may be linked.", "The oil giant reported a net loss of £16bn for 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused demand to slump.", "Health inequalities laid bare by Covid will worsen without £20 benefit boost, medics warn prime minister.", "The woman posted videos on social media of empty corridors, claiming there was no pandemic.", "The Labour leader urges the PM not to repeat \"the mistakes of last time,\" amid Tory calls for easing.", "More controls on the sale of corrosive substances are also needed, a Home Office report says.", "The CBI employers' group tells the government a post-Covid economic strategy will unlock investment.", "People in parts of the city are being urged to get tested even if they have no symptoms.", "Trials are being planned in the UK to see if combining Covid vaccines might give the best protection.", "Under current rules, Attorney General Suella Braverman would have to resign to get paid leave.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer wants tougher restrictions to prevent new coronavirus variants coming in.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads tributes to the 100-year-old, who raised £33m for NHS charities.", "Labour and industry figures call for detailed plans as hotel chains reveal they have not been spoken to.", "Margaret Ferrier is charged with culpable and reckless conduct after travelling while positive with the virus.", "The owner of the firm that sparked January’s school meals outcry has apologised again", "Chief Constable Simon Byrne says there is a lot of emotion, but no evidence of plans for violence.", "Despite being highlighted in a BBC Watchdog investigation, a range of products remain online.", "Jim and May Tierney, who married in 1961, were kept apart in hospital after both contracting Covid.", "Newcastle United striker Joelinton shared a picture of himself with stylist Tom Baxter.", "It found no serious side effects in tens of thousands vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech jab by the NHS.", "A number of members of staff at the vaccine factory tested positive ahead of Boris Johnson's trip.", "Morgan Wallen's music has also been removed by hundreds of US radio stations over the scandal.", "The currency has risen more than 800% in the year so far.", "Researchers from the University of Aberdeen examined factors across the 37 worst hit countries.", "A leading scientist warns Boris Johnson digging for coal undermines the UK's climate change efforts.", "UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to pay to stay in a hotel for 10 nights.", "Texas officials sent a test message naming the horror character as a suspect in a child abduction.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster accuses the British government of \"sleepwalking\" into NI's Brexit arrangements.", "Nadhim Zahawi pays tribute to those working \"night and day\" on this \"huge logistical endeavour\".", "A court heard Anne Sacoolas, who left the UK after the crash, worked for a US intelligence agency.", "A message intended for healthcare workers in London has been forwarded to local teaching staff.", "The Evermore theme park's owners say Swift's album release of the same name has led to confusion.", "The star has \"very positive\" talks with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden about helping UK musicians.", "Cellular Goods sold a stake to DB Ventures, the footballer's investment firm, Sky News reported.", "Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports say they have not been involved in discussions on new restrictions on travellers.", "Despite the most magnificent conditions in 11 years, the slopes remain closed because of lockdown.", "The move to the second-highest level means the NHS is no longer at imminent risk of being overwhelmed.", "Around one in 10 rail services should be cut while passenger numbers remain low, says Network Rail.", "Benjamin Fort told police he thought the aircraft was a UFO, a court hears", "Infection rates are declining overall, but some regions are seeing a rise in cases.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Teachers and police officers lobbied to be prioritised but will get it in line with their age-group.", "CBI Wales says authorities in the Irish Republic are \"zealous\" when checking goods coming in.", "The Duke of Sussex spoke to TV host James Corden about life in the US after stepping back from royal duties.", "About 40 people living in the flats above the shop had to take refuge at a nearby branch of Greggs.", "But the booking platform warns it is still too early to predict how many travellers will return in 2021.", "In a BBC interview, Shamima Begum says the choice to go to Syria was her own and asks for forgiveness.", "A boat full of dozens of Rohingya refugees attempting to reach South East Asia is adrift in the Indian Ocean.", "Protected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network.", "Over-40s will be first in line from mid-April after the top nine priority groups receive one dose.", "The charity, which supported vulnerable young people in London and Bristol, closed its doors in 2015.", "Jack Barnes suffered a cardiac arrest after being restrained by public transport workers.", "Nearly 200,000 extremely clinically vulnerable young people have been offered their vaccine.", "The network will enable users to charge for extra content such as bonus tweets and newsletters.", "A medical body says NHS Scotland will not recover from the pandemic if senior staff cannot be retained.", "The US singer's two French bulldogs were stolen after gunmen attacked and wounded her dog walker.", "Steph Norman and Aaron Willoughby are told their ceremony must be in English and Cornish.", "The former first minister is appearing before the inquiry into the government's mishandling of harassment complaints.", "The ruling means she will not be able to come back to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship.", "A bill to give ministers maternity pay will change, after peers reject the use of the term \"person\".", "Jamie Spears is a \"dedicated and loyal father\" who stopped her being exploited, his lawyer claims.", "The deputy chief medical officer for England urges people to maintain discipline and stick to the rules.", "A businesswoman who sued Barclays for hundreds of millions loses court case, but judge accuses bank of \"deceit\".", "Several newspapers had reported the Wales manager was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend.", "The tomb of sainthood candidate Mother Cornelia Connelly will stay at the girls' school she founded.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 and 26 February.", "The chancellor also launches a \"flexi-job\" scheme so people can work for several firms at once.", "The racing driver, who had both legs amputated in 2017, has walked, cycled and kayaked 140 miles.", "A consultation begins into new anti-terror legislation in memory of Manchester bomb victim Martyn Hett.", "The parade, which was not staged at all in 2020, will be held this year on 11 September.", "Five justices will decide later whether the runaway schoolgirl should be allowed back into the UK.", "A German court imprisons a Berlin-based Italian for extortion threats made against UK targets.", "A sharp-eared doctor noticed Lord Coe's voice was \"gravelly\" during a Today programme interview.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Stephen Jeffries was found in a car park with a life-threatening head injury.", "The international runner has her backside grabbed while training for the Olympics.", "The party says the Trident missile system is \"non-negotiable\" and pledges to support Nato.", "The former first minister makes the claim during his long-awaited appearance at a Holyrood inquiry.", "The star is offering a reward for the safe return of her French bulldogs Koji and Gustav.", "The 80-year-old actor passed away peacefully after a long illness, his agent says.", "Scotland's former leader explains why there was an attempt to remove him from public life, and why he is in \"no doubt\" Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code.", "People living in Llandwrog made the pledges in under a week to reopen the pub's doors.", "Greece and Austria want coronavirus-free tourists this summer, but other EU states have concerns.", "Derek Paton, 19 and Leon Fitzpatrick, 18 died in the incident on Ryde Road, Wishaw on Thursday.", "There was a 75% reduction in staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital testing positive after a vaccination.", "The National Trust is planning to plant dozens of blossoming trees to create new green spaces.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says \"wind, water and wave\" can be used to create jobs of the future.", "A coroner says the roads - where hard shoulders become lanes at busy times - create a death \"risk\".", "The four children were all caught by volunteers holding a blanket on the street in Istanbul.", "The monarch, who had her first dose of the vaccine in January, said it \"didn't hurt at all\".", "The initiative is designed to help young people find out how the Cairngorms national park is managed.", "This year's final is brought forward by a week after illness and injury forced five celebrities out.", "More than 125 are missing after a piece of a glacier fell into a river, causing floods in Uttarakhand.", "Problems with an emergency response plan were found before the Manchester attack, an inquiry hears.", "Sven Badzak's political ambitions were brutally cut short in a stabbing attack in north London.", "Michael Gove says post-Brexit trade rules between Britain and Northern Ireland are not working.", "Naomi Long says it is not good to \"personalise this around one individual\" after memorial arrest.", "A legal opinion concludes the Chinese government has shown an intent to destroy the Uighur minority.", "Details and reaction as Health Minister Vaughan Gething gives a briefing on the pandemic.", "The online fashion retailer also buys the Wallis and Burton brands from failed retail group Arcadia.", "An early study suggests the AstraZeneca vaccine may be less effective against the South African variant.", "Social media footage shows a police officer in Chile shooting a man dead, sparking violent protests.", "A small study suggests the AstraZeneca vaccine may be less effective against the South African variant.", "The new education catch-up tsar for England says summer schools have \"promise\" for pupils' learning.", "Premier League referee Mike Dean notifies police after his family received death threats and abusive messages.", "The party says the pandemic shows more transparency is needed for work given to private companies.", "A woman who lost her husband and brother-in-law to Covid warns against conspiracy theories.", "Police warn people not to travel as the cold weather causes vaccination centres and schools to shut.", "A man is due to appear in a Lanark court after being charged in connection with communication offences.", "Parts of Scotland are affected by heavy snowfall as temperature hits 11-year low.", "Safety concerns have been raised about 10 million gowns, bought by the UK government for NHS staff.", "The US singer's comments follow the release of a \"rigorous' documentary, which was welcomed by fans.", "Boss Ken Murphy has asked Chancellor Rishi Sunak for a \"level playing field\" when it comes to tax.", "A piece of a Himalayan glacier is thought to have fallen into a river, bursting open a dam in northern India.", "The decision to get vaccinated against Covd \"could save your life\", says NHS England medical director.", "Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton signs a new one-year contract with Mercedes.", "Daniel Kinahan says his success planning world title fights led to false claims he runs a drug cartel.", "More than 1,000 dissidents and others have been targeted by two active campaigns, researchers say.", "Archive papers suggest the monarch's lawyers successfully argued to change legislation in the 1970s.", "It comes after a \"significant reduction\" in the momentum of attacks in Europe, the home secretary says.", "Weather warnings are in place across the UK as Storm Darcy disrupts services, including vaccination centres.", "The cost to the public purse of settling a damages claim over a failed fraud probe is revealed by the Crown Office.", "The demand has caused concern among some suppliers about how they will pay to hire new workers.", "Four cases of a new mutation of the Kent coronavirus variant are confirmed in Manchester.", "The government is aiming to offer first doses to the top four priority groups by 15 February.", "A rescuer fell while responding to reports of a camper in the fells suffering chest pains.", "Dramatic video shows an avalanche burying a group of snowmobilers on the same day another slide kills four.", "Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday - but what's it all about?", "Developers say they are likely to have a modified version of the jab by autumn to combat the variant.", "British singer Ellie Rowsell is the latest to makes claims about the rock star's behaviour.", "Internal reports seen by the BBC show police officers have been called to illegal parties in properties booked online.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The cryptocurrency surges 17% as Tesla also said it could start accepting Bitcoin as payment.", "Details of the new system, aimed at tracking cases and detecting new variants, will be set out later today.", "A TV licence will cost £159, with the fee rising in line with inflation.", "The boy downloaded his first bomb-making manual aged 13, and became the leader of a neo-Nazi group.", "Amazon has been accused of paying less business rates tax than British bricks and mortar retailers.", "People crossing the Irish border without \"a reasonable excuse\" can be fined €100 (£88) from Monday.", "The Foo Fighters frontman spoke to the BBC about home schooling.", "The former first minister was due to answer MSP questions on Tuesday, but the session will not go ahead.", "Sven Badzak and his 16-year-old friend were chased by a group of males and stabbed, the Met said.", "The government is urging people living in the UK unlawfully to register with a GP to get vaccinated.", "Tom Brady steers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs to extend his record for Super Bowl wins to seven.", "Health inequalities laid bare by Covid will worsen without £20 benefit boost, medics warn prime minister.", "Barney and Sarah McGlinchey were holding hands in Altnagelvin Hospital when they passed away.", "That's enough liquid to fill 20 Olympic swimming pools - or many, many thousands of baths.", "A civil disobedience movement is gaining momentum with teachers and students demonstrating.", "Nearly 11 million people have already received a first jab against coronavirus.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "The departures came after suspicions their work in the media was cover for intelligence gathering.", "The ambitious and costly artificial island will provide energy for three million households.", "Measures include asking voters to bring pens - but some councils fear it will be too difficult to organise.", "The distinguished Canadian actor played Captain Von Trapp in the much-loved 1965 musical.", "The ex-England captain has been convicted of intimidating his former father-in-law in Australia.", "Police in Northern Ireland issue a warning about an unspecified threat relating to Monday's Panorama.", "The UK and French leaders speak for the first time since a recent bitter row over vaccine supplies.", "The virus's reproduction, or R, number is estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.", "Moscow say the diplomats attended weekend protests in support of Putin critic Alexei Navalny.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak offers \"pay-as-you-grow\" option to 1.4 million firms repaying Covid loans.", "The BBC's been given exclusive access to the unit tracking down Covid loan fraudsters.", "More than 20 vehicles became stuck in snow on the A835 in the Highlands during heavy snow.", "Samuel Kasumu resigned citing \"unbearable tension\" in Downing Street, but later changed his mind.", "How new rules on exporting to the European Union have affected a British fishing firm.", "Under current rules, Attorney General Suella Braverman would have to resign to get paid leave.", "Oliver Dowden says the obstacles facing UK musicians in Europe are \"absurd and self-defeating\".", "Environmental groups say they are mystified No 10 has not intervened to stop the mine going ahead.", "The Halifax says prices fell last month and are likely to come under pressure in the months ahead.", "Police hand out £34,000 in penalties as they break up the \"absolutely appalling\" event in Sheffield.", "UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to pay to stay in a hotel for 10 nights.", "The cold snap will not be as extreme as in 2018, forecasters say, but will cause disruption.", "The death of a six-week-old baby after a ceremony prompts a key archbishop to back reforms.", "Corey Sharpling, 21, was \"engulfed in earth and trees\" in Carmarthenshire in 2018, an inquest hears.", "Emma Robertson Coupland and Nicole Anderson were fatally injured and a man later died in a road crash.", "Roc Sandford's children have spent nine days in a tunnel in Euston in protest at the HS2 project.", "Leaders should not be \"driven by a calendar\", says a scientist advising the government.", "Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney calls for more investment to tackle the climate crisis.", "New training planes need modifications so more flights can be made over the sea.", "A message intended for healthcare workers in London has been forwarded to local teaching staff.", "Liverpool will not be able to travel to Germany for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against RB Leipzig because of Covid-19 restrictions.", "A situation about a coronavirus rule breach during a commemoration to victims of a 1992 attack \"escalated\", police say.", "Covid cases are falling in most of the UK, ONS figures suggest.", "Chief Constable Simon Byrne says there is a lot of emotion, but no evidence of plans for violence.", "How pupils with additional educational needs are dealing with the challenges of lockdown.", "It means a £15m investment in Cadbury's Birmingham plant by owners Mondelez International.", "Police say three 'serious' incidents in Kilmarnock - including one at Crosshouse hospital - may be linked.", "The average customer on a default tariff is likely to see their annual bill increase by £96 in April.", "Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the vaccine programme was on track after daily figures reached a new record.", "A man was able to access the US president's air base and board an aircraft.", "The former president resigns from the Hollywood union after it took disciplinary action against him.", "Almost all the side-effects of the two vaccines being used in the UK are mild and expected, says MHRA.", "Hundreds wear red to pay their respects to 13-year-old Olly Stephens.", "Singer Jim Weatherly won a Grammy for the much-loved 1970s hit and released almost a dozen albums.", "Brexit gives one of the UK's most important sectors the chance to define its own agenda, he said.", "Police say Encrochat, a secret communications network, was used by criminals to trade guns and drugs.", "Moves to isolate all those arriving from Covid variant hotspots must be \"got right\", No 10 says.", "The World War Two veteran raised millions for NHS charities and is called a \"true hero\" by the PM.", "Grief is compounded by lockdown and isolation, says Claire Apsey, after losing her parents to Covid.", "Covid case numbers and daily test positivity rates drop again, according to latest figures.", "The US singer's two French bulldogs were stolen after gunmen attacked and wounded her dog walker.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge urge people to get the jab and warn against fake news on social media.", "Described as \"a beacon of hope\", the 100-year-old raised millions for NHS staff fighting Covid-19.", "Princess Latifa Al Maktoum was previously described as \"troubled\" by the former Irish president.", "A German court imprisons a Berlin-based Italian for extortion threats made against UK targets.", "Teachers and police officers lobbied to be prioritised but will get it in line with their age-group.", "Infection rates are declining overall, but some regions are seeing a rise in cases.", "Steph Norman and Aaron Willoughby are told their ceremony must be in English and Cornish.", "The north Wales commissioner says it could cut addiction and violence, but critics reject the call.", "Families with children under one can form a bubble with another household in lockdown rule easing.", "Bomb disposal specialists deal with the 2.5m (8ft) device, which caused 2,600 homes to be evacuated.", "The ruling means she will not be able to come back to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship.", "The Glasgow MSP defeated rival candidate Monica Lennon in the contest to replace Richard Leonard.", "Anas Sarwar takes charge of Scottish Labour just 10 weeks before the next Scottish Parliament election.", "\"You may be gone but your message and spirit lives on,\" Capt Sir Tom's daughter says at his funeral.", "Ministers in Wales endorse plan for all adults to be offered Covid-19 vaccination by the summer.", "SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford throws his support behind the first minister over Alex Salmond's claims.", "Officers were seen seemingly asking people to disperse from Cardiff Bay as Wales remains in lockdown.", "Alun Wyn Jones will make his 23rd successive start for Wales against England when Eddie Jones brings his side to Cardiff.", "Royal Navy bomb disposal specialists are dealing with a 2.5m (8ft) device.", "Wales take the Triple Crown with a bonus-point win against England after early controversy in their Six Nations match in Cardiff.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "A total of 916,316 people have received at least one dose, and 89,053 of those have had a second dose.", "Team news, match preview and statistics for Saturday's Six Nations match between Wales and England at the Principality Stadium.", "Jack Barnes suffered a cardiac arrest after being restrained by public transport workers.", "James Le Mesurier fell to his death in Istanbul in 2019 with a sense that Syrian and Russian disinformation had destroyed his reputation.", "Tackling eating disorders to podcasting mindful messages - some of the ways you have faced Covid.", "The chancellor says public finances are facing a \"challenge\" from the impact of the pandemic.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughters call for people to donate to environmental charities.", "The Army veteran who raised millions for NHS charities during the coronavirus pandemic dies at 100.", "The four children were all caught by volunteers holding a blanket on the street in Istanbul.", "The golfer received successful \"follow-up procedures\" following Tuesday's serious car crash in LA.", "Kelly Macdonald joins regulars Martin Compston and Vicky McClure when the BBC One drama returns.", "The former first minister makes the claim during his long-awaited appearance at a Holyrood inquiry.", "More than half a million people were vaccinated on Friday, as phase two of the vaccine programme continues.", "The chancellor also launches a \"flexi-job\" scheme so people can work for several firms at once.", "He is remembered by family at his funeral as \"a beacon of light and hope to the world\".", "The man had tried to stop the bird escaping when he was struck in the groin by a knife on the animal's leg.", "The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore escorts the prolific pandemic fundraiser one last time.", "The racing driver, who had both legs amputated in 2017, has walked, cycled and kayaked 140 miles.", "Police say 23 people have been arrested after disorder at an anti-lockdown protest.", "The expert heading the UK's genetic surveillance says research into strains will go into the 2030s.", "Bernard's extra-time strike settles a classic FA Cup tie as Everton edge past Tottenham into the quarter-finals.", "Prisoners have been locked in their cells for 90% of the day during pandemic, the prisons watchdog says.", "Richard Hawley leads calls to reinstate the \"symbol of Sheffield\" after developers removed it.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Scotland's first minister says she will challenge \"ridiculous conspiracy theories\" when she faces an inquiry.", "Bill Michael will step back as the audit giant investigates comments that allegedly offended staff.", "China has criticised the BBC for its reports on coronavirus and persecution of the Uighurs.", "In January, hospitals in England treated nearly a third of all Covid patients since the pandemic began.", "NI lockdown restrictions will be reviewed next week but ministers warn any easing will be gradual.", "Security cameras show just how close the mob got to senators and reveal Mitt Romney's narrow escape.", "A new online safety strategy for young people has been published by the Northern Ireland Executive.", "The fire is thought to be about 5km wide and is spreading across moorland in Dartmoor, Devon.", "Three to seven years olds in some areas with high case rates will not return on 22 February.", "They are warning of price rises and potential shortages when new Brexit rules on imports start in April.", "The US rock icon was arrested in November for allegedly driving while intoxicated, officials say.", "The listing of Bumble, which also owns Badoo, makes a billionaire of 31-year-old founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.", "A steady decline in the levels of ozone-harming CFCs in the atmosphere has resumed, scientists say.", "Princess Leonor de Borbon is to study at Atlantic College from this summer, it is announced.", "But Boris Johnson says the UK is nearing its target for vaccinating 15m in the effort to save lives.", "Giving it along with a steroid drug can help the sickest patients with Covid-19, research reveals.", "The country has received lower Pfizer vaccine stocks than expected due to a reduction in manufacturing capacity.", "A coroner asks the CPS to consider whether Highways England should face manslaughter charges.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says vaccine supplies will fall over the next few weeks.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "Scotland's transport secretary says he is pressing the UK government to close a potential loophole.", "Six million people aged over 65 in England are at high risk of lung damage, a new report says.", "Scotland has faced a second day of travel disruption after further heavy snowfall and freezing conditions.", "UK government confirms Boris Johnson misspoke when he said town will be centre of battery making.", "Legislation needed to clear the next stage of the controversial project has passed through Parliament.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' call for people to pause summer holiday plans gets a rough reception.", "More than 200,000 people had been waiting 12 months in December - compared with just under 1,500 in 2019.", "Its use in people over 65 as well as in countries where variants are circulating is recommended.", "Amsterdam ousts London in the wake of Brexit changes, as the Bank of England warns over EU financial rules.", "Flynt was also known for his legal battles that reinforced free speech rights in the United States.", "Shauna Donnelly feared she would be jailed for her son's death as \"no-one seemed to believe\" her.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "The driver was caught with both windscreens almost completely covered with snow as he drove in Dundee.", "Lucasfilm says the actor's comments are 'abhorrent' and has no plans to work with her again.", "New data suggests disabled people account for nearly 60% of coronavirus deaths in England last year.", "They are calling for clarity over who will be prioritised for a jab before May.", "Young people and those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds have been harder hit, a regulator says.", "United Airlines plans to buy 200 of the aircraft to fly passengers to airports within the next five years.", "The postal service plans to retain many staff taken on over Christmas after deliveries hit record highs.", "The two sides vow to implement the Northern Ireland Protocol and \"address all outstanding issues\".", "The European Commission's vice-president says \"swift solutions\" must be found to \"teething problems\" in trade.", "Prosecutors rest their impeachment case against Donald Trump - his defence will begin on Friday.", "Some of the people on the 15-month trial lost more than a fifth of their body weight.", "It comes as legislation to give senior ministers maternity leave is approved by MPs.", "The Met Office says Braemar in Aberdeenshire recorded the coldest night since December 1995.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex say popular newspapers are publishing \"salacious gossip\" for clicks.", "Sir Simon Stevens tells the BBC the Covid-19 crisis has shone a \"very harsh spotlight\" on the sector.", "To book or not to book - that is the question for government.", "The US keyboardist and composer died on Tuesday, aged 79, from a rare form of cancer.", "The new booking portal website was removed temporarily for maintenance over a technical error.", "Serial sex offender Pawel Relowicz is convicted of killing the University of Hull student.", "Charlie Smith has been nicknamed 'Car Park Charlie' by parents Harriet Hanson and Adam Smith.", "The PM's ex-adviser says he did not recommend Public First because he is friends with its founders.", "Solving global warming would be “the most amazing thing humanity has done”, says the billionaire.", "Food sales through social media puts further pressure on a hygiene inspection system already under strain.", "Boris Johnson calls the vaccination programme an unprecedented achievement and thanks those involved.", "US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi says it will be modelled on the 9/11 attacks inquiry.", "The Pfizer vaccine prevented 94% of infections in a group of 600,000 Israeli patients.", "Two people die and another two are injured in a string of attacks said to have targeted homeless people.", "Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old co-founder of India's Fridays For Future chapter, is in prison for sedition.", "Wales' first minister \"confident\" the next five groups will receive a first dose by the end of April.", "Five people have been fined for travelling to see a rare bird which was spotted in Exmouth.", "Carmaker recalls more than a million vehicles after finding a bug in its emergency call software.", "Sunday World journalist Patricia Devlin says death threats issued against her are \"never-ending\".", "Officers were called to an address on Saturday night with the death being treated as \"unexplained\".", "People have been enjoying skating on frozen waterways, but the authorities warn of the dangers.", "The airport is concerned about pressure at the border when travel rules change in England on Monday.", "The TV personality said she is \"beyond thrilled\" and will replace Nick Hewer later this year.", "The arrest of Disha Ravi, 22, over a document intended to help farmers has sparked widespread outrage.", "A round-up and reaction from Monday's Welsh Government coronavirus press conference.", "A much narrower group will now be eligible than previously indicated.", "It comes after Tory backbenchers called for England's Covid restrictions to be lifted by the end of April.", "Blackburn Mayor Iftakhar Hussain admits visiting the house was a \"momentary lapse of judgment\".", "Nicola Sturgeon says the latest milestone has been reached - but that progress will slow in the coming days.", "The takeaway firm and 300 restaurant groups say it would boost the sector when restrictions ease.", "JLR will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030.", "Boris Johnson's plan for England is a \"cautious but irreversible\" removal of restrictions.", "The right-leaning social network was banned by Amazon, Apple and Google in January.", "Kiernan Wong is desperate to see her mother, but that cannot happen until she and dad have completed their 10-day hotel stay.", "The UK prime minister also says he has an \"excellent\" relationship with new President Joe Biden.", "The health secretary confirms a jab has been offered to everyone in the UK's top four priority groups.", "Arrivals from \"red list\" countries must pay £1,750 to spend 10 days in government-sanctioned hotels.", "Unions and charities urge the equalities watchdog to investigate ministers' actions in the pandemic.", "Researchers looked at teacher and pupil Covid \"sick days\" in England in the autumn term up to Christmas.", "Scotland's first minister urges football to \"make sure your house is in order\" as Rangers launch an internal investigation after a weekend party was broken up by police.", "With restrictions still in place, parents will need to be creative to keep the children entertained.", "The disappointing figure comes despite surging growth in the second half of the year.", "A new study finds fewer South Asian and black health workers have come forward for a Covid-19 jab.", "Peter Lawrence campaigned for families of missing people but never discovered his daughter's fate.", "We showed eight people a viral video filled with falsehoods. Did it change their minds?", "Vehicles were trapped as gale-force winds carried mud-coloured waves of snow onto the A98 near Buckie.", "Everyone in top four priority groups will have been offered a Covid jab by Friday, ministers claim.", "Himalayan songbirds in colder, more elevated environments have feathers with more fluffy down.", "The call by senior rabbi in London's Stamford Hill follows a police raid on a 150-guest wedding.", "The PM calls it an \"extraordinary feat\", reached just over two months after the first vaccine was delivered.", "The Queen and Royal Family are \"delighted\", as the Sussexes say \"Archie is going to be a big brother\".", "The milestone is reached after the Department of Health reported four more deaths on Monday.", "The largest TV audience of the year saw secret sausage Joss Stone revealed as this year's winner.", "Nottinghamshire Police said the 11-year-olds had been walking over a frozen section of the Trent.", "The chairman of the chain is calling for pubs to reopen at the same time as non-essential shops.", "Boris Johnson hails the success of the vaccine rollout but says we must keep our \"foot to the floor\".", "Boris Johnson says \"huge progress\" has been made, but scientists warn against lifting restrictions too soon.", "Freezing temperatures have been recorded across the usually hot southern US state.", "The village of Bonmahon has been showered in sea foam following high winds.", "She says lyrics for a leaked song are \"extremely insensitive and disrespectful\" to her family.", "Teacher Anthony Cannon-Jones describes feeling \"utterly helpless\" as the ordeal unfolded.", "The American space agency has released stunning video of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars.", "The Duke of Edinburgh is responding to treatment and is \"comfortable\", Buckingham Palace says.", "Sami Caraballo, who lives in Finland with his mother, has to isolate before he is allowed to visit his father.", "Sir Keir Starmer is the first Labour leader to address the farmers' union since 2008.", "The company lays out what will happen to users who do not accept its updated conditions.", "Lockdown in England and Scotland will be lifted in stages - what are the risks associated with relaxing certain restrictions?", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Former Scotland, Manchester United and Leeds United defender Gordon McQueen has been diagnosed with vascular dementia, his family have confirmed.", "Travel firms serving the UK and overseas report a huge jump in bookings and website traffic since Monday.", "Emma Coronel Aispuro's arrest comes two years after her husband was convicted in the US over his cartel.", "The SpaceX mission will make Hayley Arceneaux the first person with a prosthesis to visit space.", "The submission was removed from the Scottish Parliament website before a revised version was published.", "Gareth Williams, of Anglesey, was found dead in a holdall at his flat in Pimlico, London, in 2010.", "Veteran French actor Gérard Depardieu denies raping an actress at his home in 2018.", "The former secretary of state's debut novel has been written with author Louise Penny.", "Canada is just the second country after the US to recognise China's actions in Xinjiang as genocide.", "The venue is expected to open in April for those 60 and under who are not already vaccinated.", "An executive at a cladding manufacturer agrees with a lawyer's description of the risk.", "Scotland's more cautious approach to easing lockdown gets many businesses only so far.", "The Welsh Government unveils its plan for a \"green, prosperous and fair\" economic recovery.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is aware that hers is a \"cautious\" approach but she wants to allow the vaccination programme to \"motor\" along.", "The aircraft had to make an emergency landing after its engine failed, scattering debris over homes below.", "Shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April, Boris Johnson says.", "First minister's comment comes after PM said pupils in England would return to class on 8 March.", "Schools across the country have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since December.", "David Attenborough and activist Nisreen Elsaim address a UN session chaired by Boris Johnson.", "Christopher Pekny was making a device to be used at his child's gender-reveal party, police say.", "In a written submission to Holyrood the former first minister names people he claims attempted to damage his reputation.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Numbers are plunging due to pollution, unsustainable fishing and the draining of rivers.", "The DJ posts a video of her sister Frances giving a thumbs-up and a round of applause.", "A yellow warning for heavy rain covers much of north Wales until 18:00 GMT on Wednesday.", "The show has said white cast members will stop portraying characters from other ethnic backgrounds.", "The Swedish plant-based milk company said it is planning to sell its first public shares in the US.", "Official figures show Scotland's rate is 4.5% compared with a UK-wide rate of 5.1%", "One of three men accused of assassinating Daphne Caruana Galizia gets a 15-year jail term.", "The French duo were responsible for some of the most influential dance tracks of all time.", "Music and live events bosses have had their say on the PM's new roadmap out of Covid restrictions.", "UK unemployment has risen to 5.1% - its highest level in almost five years, official figures show.", "Scientists determined the painting's age by examining ancient wasp nests around the artwork.", "Having to show a certificate to go to a pub raises \"deep and complex issues\", Boris Johnson says.", "Nicola Sturgeon claims that Alex Salmond has made allegations \"without a shred of evidence\".", "The former first minister was to appear at an inquiry into how the Scottish government handled complaints against him.", "A batch of high-grade masks may not meet the right safety standards, the government says.", "The resolution calls for human rights abusers in the bloody civil war to be held to account.", "First evidence from the UK's vaccine programme shows a reduction in hospital admissions in Scotland.", "Lisa Dawn Fisher, 31, admits charges of assaulting emergency workers at a flat in Scarborough.", "Working from home could also be expected to continue until next winter, says Sir Patrick Vallance.", "But it is too soon to say when social distancing rules will be relaxed, the health secretary says.", "Boris Johnson says the government will assess the impact each stage of easing lockdown has.", "Police said a lorry driver found the people when he stopped at a motorway service area.", "The boss of the UK's competition watchdog says tech giants have too much share of the online ad market.", "The PM's stance would have been almost impossible to imagine this time last year.", "Tiger Woods is \"awake and responsive\" following surgery on serious leg injuries suffered in a car crash in Los Angeles on Tuesday.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford defends Wales' gradual return of face-to-face teaching.", "Testing will start in Surrey - but London, Kent, Hertfordshire and Walsall are also being targeted.", "Deliveries will come towards next winter when people may need to be revaccinated.", "The Duke of Cambridge calls for racist abuse aimed at footballers to stop, calling it \"despicable\".", "Asos buys Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands, but not their shops, in £295m deal.", "Twenty-three people are fined for attending a large gathering in Swindon on Saturday night.", "The former chancellor is leaving his job as the Standard's editor-in-chief for a boutique bank with 13 staff.", "After the military seizes control, people find friends have been detained and lines of communication cut.", "The politician's husband said about 15 soldiers came to their home during a string of early morning raids.", "The CBI employers' group tells the government a post-Covid economic strategy will unlock investment.", "Police say they found the foreigners breaking Covid-19 rules by staying in the St Anton ski resort.", "The Japanese firm's latest console has sold about four million more units than its predecessor.", "Many staff could resign if they are rushed into tackling the NHS backlog, hospitals in England warn.", "Hospitals remain \"full\" of coronavirus patients, despite numbers of cases dropping across Wales.", "See how much Iceland's Skaftafellsjokull glacier has retreated over the past 30 years.", "They are stepping in in rural areas where care companies are not always able to provide a service.", "Institute for Fiscal Studies warns the \"long-run costs\" of the pandemic will hit children disproportionately.", "Comic's virtual marathon epic has raised more than £200k for charity so far.", "We've looked at four false Covid vaccine claims that won’t go away.", "All older residents at eligible care homes in England have been offered a Covid vaccine, the NHS says.", "A school in the Wirral is helping families struggling to get by during the national lockdown.", "The island scraps all social distancing measures after 20 days without an unexplained case.", "Al-Shabab said it was behind the attack at the Afrik Hotel, which began with a car bomb.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Two articles claiming he snubbed the Royal Marines were \"false and defamatory\", the duke's lawyer says.", "Users will need to contact their council to access the £500 self-isolation support scheme.", "\"Life is a gift, even with Alzheimer’s,\" says the jazz singer as he reveals his condition.", "A \"cautious\" approach to reopening is needed, Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins says.", "The EU's law enforcement agency is warning about people potentially cheating travel restrictions.", "The PM says it relies on factors such as the vaccine rollout going well and Covid cases coming down.", "The health secretary urges people in the affected neighbourhoods to \"stay at home\" and \"get a test\".", "Once a beacon for human rights, Myanmar's former leader is accused of turning a blind eye to abuses.", "Staff at the Flintshire wing-maker will have their working week reduced by up to 10%.", "Less than 0.1% of vaccinated people caught coronavirus, and far fewer became ill.", "Universities Wales said the decision had been made to provide \"certainty\" to students.", "Newcastle United striker Joelinton shared a picture of himself with stylist Tom Baxter on Friday.", "Barcelona say they will take \"appropriate legal action\" against Spanish newspaper El Mundo after it published details of forward Lionel Messi's £492m contract.", "Almost 600,000 people received their first Covid jab on Saturday, government figures show.", "Authorities will work hard to combat the new variant with a surge in testing, the health secretary says on 1 February.", "The hospital says it continues to care for him following his admission with Covid-19.", "Labour calls for extra help for homeowners hit by large bills, as ministers promise more action.", "Zara Mohammed, 29, said it was an \"honour\" to be appointed as the organisation's secretary general.", "Watchdog says significant numbers still without jab after minister says target had been reached.", "The Saved by the Bell actor, a child star in the 1990s, was diagnosed with lung cancer last month.", "\"People are desperate to train for their mental health,\" says gym owner fined for Covid breaches.", "\"The vote of the people must be respected and civilian leaders released,\" the prime minister says.", "His daughter says he was taken to hospital after requiring help with his breathing.", "Prioritising staff would be 'sensible' and should be considered by the expert body, the party says.", "Nicola Sturgeon says the NHS is \"ahead of schedule\" in rolling out vaccines to the over-80s by Friday's deadline.", "Pubs, cafes and high streets are all re-open on the island as lockdown restrictions were scrapped.", "Daniel Kinahan is advising boxers despite being named as head of a drugs gang, BBC Panorama finds.", "Staff are \"no longer having to plan to build extra capacity\", an intensive care consultant says.", "The boy, who was 13 at the time of his first offence, was in a group that wanted a \"white jihad\".", "A grieving son calls for more suicide prevention help as lockdown measures increase known risks.", "New rules on testing and quarantine for international arrivals will come into force in England on Monday.", "A man is due to appear in a Lanark court after being charged in connection with communication offences.", "Daniel Kinahan says his success planning world title fights led to false claims he runs a drug cartel.", "Four cases of a new mutation of the Kent coronavirus variant are confirmed in Manchester.", "Dramatic video shows an avalanche burying a group of snowmobilers on the same day another slide kills four.", "The hackers claim to have obtained game source code.", "People crossing the Irish border without \"a reasonable excuse\" can be fined €100 (£88) from Monday.", "Councillors will reconsider the planning application in the light of climate change advice.", "Michael Gove says post-Brexit trade rules between Britain and Northern Ireland are not working.", "Hotel chain probes \"circumstances surrounding\" photo alleging party at one of its closed hotels.", "Investigators say he may have felt \"pressure\" to complete the NBA star's ill-fated flight in 2020.", "The parents of Alex Kearns, 20, say he thought he had lost $730,000 when he took his own life.", "A fire-retardant product could have been sold instead, the inquiry into the 2017 tower fire hears.", "It feels like Groundhog Day but second time round will be quite different, argues Jon Sopel.", "The travel firm expects holiday bookings to be 80% of usual levels thanks to the vaccine programme.", "James Anderson inspires England to a famous 227-run victory against India on the final day of the first Test in Chennai.", "Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday - but what's it all about?", "Chairman Peter Cowgill says the new EU trade deal has meant \"double-digit millions\" in extra costs.", "The United Arab Emirates aims to put a probe in orbit at Mars to study its atmosphere.", "A TV licence will cost £159, with the fee rising in line with inflation.", "Emergency services' communication \"didn't unfold as expected\" in a training drill, an inquiry hears.", "Elon Musk's electric vehicle firm has been summoned over quality and safety issues with its cars.", "Changes could mean replacing gas boilers in homes and finding new ways to make steel without coal.", "It comes as the UK and Welsh governments disagree on whether early voting should take place.", "The man left a negative review of a law firm, which then took legal action over his comment.", "The Queen's ninth great-grandchild, born at a London hospital, is now the 11th in line to the throne.", "Police officers more likely to have been physically or verbally assaulted in Wales, a survey finds.", "A 16-year-old boy who was also injured in the attack remains in hospital, detectives have said.", "The rate of infection has more than tripled across England's smallest county.", "MPs make recommendations to help women in work, including law changes to ease flexible working requests.", "Ministers are urged not to replace weekly Universal Credit increase with a one-off payment next month.", "Having battled coronavirus, French nun Sister Andre will celebrate her 117th birthday this week.", "A small study suggests the AstraZeneca vaccine may be less effective against the South African variant.", "The new education catch-up tsar for England says summer schools have \"promise\" for pupils' learning.", "Parts of Scotland are affected by heavy snowfall as temperature hits 11-year low.", "School leaders say catch up plans should not be \"gimmicks\" or create long hours for tired children.", "South Asian people in England remained more likely than white people to die in Covid second wave.", "An attempt to raise the level of a corrosive chemical in the water of Oldsmar, Florida, is thwarted.", "Six Republicans join Democrats and rule it is constitutional to put Trump on trial after leaving office.", "Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s takeover of National League club Wrexham is finalised.", "The spider crab and megrim sole are to be rebranded to get rid of \"negative connotations\".", "The tunnel was blocked after a huge flood in Uttarakhand state in which 28 people have been killed.", "The online supermarket says the Covid pandemic has permanently changed the grocery landscape worldwide.", "The cryptocurrency surges 17% as Tesla also said it could start accepting Bitcoin as payment.", "Jason Lowe's famous proposal disappears from Sheffield's Park Hill flats after almost 20 years.", "People arriving in England from Covid hotspots also face £10,000 fines or jail if they break the rules.", "The UK's chief Brexit negotiator says Brussels must adopt a \"different spirit\" towards its neighbour.", "But ministers are accused of playing \"appalling\" games to avoid Commons defeat on the issue.", "The Motown trio were known for hits such as Baby Love and You Can't Hurry Love.", "Around 34% of children under five are living below the poverty line, according to a baby bank charity.", "Safety concerns have been raised about 10 million gowns, bought by the UK government for NHS staff.", "The United Arab Emirates celebrates as its Hope mission makes it safely into orbit around Mars.", "The racing driver, who had both legs amputated, will walk, cycle and kayak the distance for charity.", "Ministers believe the contact-tracing app has prevented 600,000 cases of the disease in England and Wales.", "Details of the new system, aimed at tracking cases and detecting new variants, will be set out later today.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Police warn people not to travel as temperatures drop to the lowest since December 2010.", "They are 'feasible' but need to meet 12 tests before being brought in, the Royal Society says.", "Government borrowing hit £8.8bn last month, the highest January figure since records began in 1993.", "The new agency will help \"cement the UK's position as a science superpower\", the government says.", "Practices relying on NHS work are struggling to stay afloat, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh says.", "How are families spending their time with the February half-term break under way?", "Study finds infections fell by two-thirds - and more in London - but warns virus levels remain high.", "Lord Wharton is also a paid adviser to an energy firm trying to build through a university's land.", "Universities Scotland says it is a \"sad, knock-on effect\" of dental students having to repeat a year.", "The ring fell off James Ross' finger when he took rubbish to the local tip on Valentine's Day.", "Teachers' unions call for a phased return to school in England to avoid a spike in infections.", "The BBC understands that the former first minister has accepted an invitation to appear before a committee of MSPs.", "There are celebrations as Perseverance completes its seven-month journey to the Red Planet.", "Commons select committee chiefs want laws held up during the pandemic to be put back on the agenda.", "The \"shared economy\" has grown rapidly thanks to technology platforms like Uber and Airbnb.", "The BBC promises to \"reflect on\" concerns raised after Emma Barnett's interview on Woman's Hour.", "Students will be phased back into school from Monday, but pupils have mixed feelings about returning.", "The Labour leader says there can be \"no return to business as usual\" as he sets out post-Covid policies.", "In London only half of care workers have had a jab, despite being in the top four priority groups.", "MPs have called for the Court of Appeal to review Cwmbran killer Anthony Williams' case.", "The 99-year-old duke remains under observation as the Queen continues her royal duties.", "Holidaymakers prevented from flying by travel restrictions or lockdowns may not be entitled to a refund.", "The health secretary breached his \"legal obligation\" to publish details of deals, the High Court rules.", "Richard Moore said the security bar, in place until 1991, was \"wrong, unjust and discriminatory\".", "The one-tonne, six-wheeled rover will search for signs of past Martian life.", "In a letter, 20 organisations say measures to tackle airborne spread of coronavirus are \"inadequate\".", "Ministers will \"crunch the numbers\" over the weekend, amid pressure to reduce Covid restrictions.", "Restrictions will remain, but some primary school children will return to school from Monday 8 March.", "It comes days after the UN chief condemned vaccine distribution as \"wildly uneven and unfair\".", "The celebrity couple, who have four children, have been married since 2014.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "The rover touched down successfully on Thursday in Mars' Jezero Crater.", "An audacious mission to bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth is about to begin - find out more with our illustrated guide", "This does not mean none is circulating or commuters can let down their guard, the researchers say.", "The messaging app is making a second attempt to convince users to accept its new privacy policy.", "Ten people have been arrested over what is one of the UK's biggest ever drug seizures.", "Oliver Lewis says his position in Downing Street has been made \"untenable\".", "Prince Philip, 99, will continue to undergo observation and rest, a palace source tells the BBC.", "The social media giant's move was irresponsible, says the chairman of the Commons media committee.", "Nasa releases an astonishing image of its new Mars robot taken just moments before touchdown.", "Boris Johnson's defence of the home secretary over bullying claims caused \"dismay and anger\", a union says.", "A man who pioneered the use of bionic prosthetic limbs now needs one himself after a cycling accident.", "Thousands of the capital's taxi drivers have already signed up to the planned group legal action.", "Boris Johnson is encouraging other rich countries to donate vaccine doses at a virtual G7 meeting.", "Placing children under 16 into unregulated homes will be made illegal in England, the government says.", "But Wales' chief vet says contingency plans cut the chances of a repeat of the 2001 outbreak.", "There is now an amber warning of rain for some areas, with a wider alert across much of Wales.", "More on Friday's Welsh Government lockdown review - including changes to wedding rules.", "The 13-year-old therapy dog brings peace and joy to many, according to owner Kerry Irving.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 February.", "The Queen and Royal Family are \"delighted\", as the Sussexes say \"Archie is going to be a big brother\".", "The condition may be due to soldiers being exposed to the nerve agent sarin, researchers suggest.", "New infections in the community are down and R remains below 1, latest data shows.", "Arlene Foster and Conor Murphy explain Stormont's latest decision on Covid-19 lockdown extension.", "The leaders of the world's richest nations are discussing the global vaccine deficit via video.", "Students have not been able to get enough clinical experience because of Covid restrictions.", "Rocks, which cast unknown schoolgirls, wins five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.", "The developers said it worked equally well against the new dominant variant and the original virus.", "A Moroccan man says he faced homophobia while housed with other asylum seekers in Wales.", "The broadcaster is being sued, along with Fox, for spreading baseless claims of election fraud.", "Caravan park and B&B owners seek more details about when the tourism sector could reopen.", "But collecting thousands of tonnes of extra cardboard is \"challenging\", councils say.", "Nearly 11 million people have already received a first jab against coronavirus.", "The departures came after suspicions their work in the media was cover for intelligence gathering.", "The Oscar winner, who has died aged 91, is praised as \"an extraordinary man\" and \"consummate actor\".", "The distinguished Canadian actor played Captain Von Trapp in the much-loved 1965 musical.", "Police in Northern Ireland issue a warning about an unspecified threat relating to Monday's Panorama.", "The UK and French leaders speak for the first time since a recent bitter row over vaccine supplies.", "The national blackout comes amid the biggest protest so far against this week's military takeover.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak offers \"pay-as-you-grow\" option to 1.4 million firms repaying Covid loans.", "Moscow say the diplomats attended weekend protests in support of Putin critic Alexei Navalny.", "The dog, believed to be a Staffordshire cross, has been handed over to police", "It is a magnificently shot picture, but the story is a bit thin to carry a full-throated Western movie.", "NHS Fife said 25 residents and 43 staff at Mossview Care Home in Lochgelly had tested positive for the virus.", "One of the rare Sumatran tigers is recaptured after being tranquilised, but the other is shot dead.", "Councillors say 6,000 people need to be tested after positive cases were found.", "Nathalie Becquart will have voting rights in the body that advises the Pope on controversial topics.", "Three trade unions ask a council to withdraw remarks attributed to them about \"suspicious activity\".", "President Joe Biden said Mr Trump \"might slip and say something\" if given access to state secrets.", "The cold snap will not be as extreme as in 2018, forecasters say, but will cause disruption.", "Martin Griffiths is working hard to get more people from ethnic minority communities vaccinated.", "Emma Robertson Coupland and Nicole Anderson were fatally injured and a man later died in a road crash.", "Police were told about the party after reports of banners outside the gathering.", "Scotland claim a first win at Twickenham since 1983 as fly-half Finn Russell orchestrates a shock Six Nations victory against England.", "Humphrys will leave the popular quiz show in March, after 18 years interrogating contestants.", "Police are called to five reports of stabbings in Croydon, Chislehurst and Wandsworth within 24 hours.", "Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney calls for more investment to tackle the climate crisis.", "The plans, revealed in a leaked document, would reverse changes made under David Cameron.", "Police condemn five separate knife attacks within a two-and-a-half hour period of violence in south London.", "Just under 500,000 first coronavirus vaccine jabs were administered on Friday alone.", "Police say Encrochat, a secret communications network, was used by criminals to trade guns and drugs.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The NI Protocol problems, which have been in sharp focus this week, were predicted by civil servants.", "Bethany Ovenden Gumm was a passenger in a car which left the road in Westbury and hit a garden wall and a tree.", "Jackie became an internet sensation after a video recording of her parish council meeting went viral.", "A man was able to access the US president's air base and board an aircraft.", "Joe Root scores an imperious double century as England continue their strong start to the first Test against India on day two in Chennai.", "Estrella Catalan, who was described as \"wonderful, caring\", died on Friday evening.", "Pop star Rina Sawayama protested after being told she was \"not British enough\" for UK music awards.", "However anglers and farmers raise concerns over plans to release six beavers in Powys.", "The Duke of Edinburgh is responding to treatment and is \"comfortable\", Buckingham Palace says.", "A boundary review suggests merging the rowdy local authority with neighbouring Wilmslow.", "Lockdown in England and Scotland will be lifted in stages - what are the risks associated with relaxing certain restrictions?", "Opposition leaders question why the Crown Office asked for written evidence from Alex Salmond to be redacted.", "The British socialite is in jail in New York awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.", "After Bobby Gamlin, 55, suffered a cardiac arrest and stopped breathing, a stranger saved his life.", "The victims' commissioner for England and Wales says victims have been treated like bystanders.", "Celtic manager Neil Lennon resigns with his side 18 points adrift of Rangers in the Scottish Premiership.", "It comes amid falling cases, the vaccine rollout and the launch of the roadmap out of lockdown.", "Veteran French actor Gérard Depardieu denies raping an actress at his home in 2018.", "A total of £700m will help ensure \"no child is left behind\" due to the pandemic, Boris Johnson says.", "Tears, cheers and the importance of never giving up - here's how sporting greats and politicians reacted to Tiger Woods' thrilling Masters victory.", "The England striker spoke about growing up in poverty as he campaigned for free school meals.", "The rock star admits consuming tequila in a national park, but two driving charges are dropped.", "It comes after DJ Jo Whiley's call for people like her sister to be vaccinated as soon as possible.", "Boards of big companies have 50% more women present than in 2015, a government review has found.", "Lynn Parker's husband Alastair died 10 months after she last held his hand.", "Scotland's more cautious approach to easing lockdown gets many businesses only so far.", "The woman has been in an induced coma since giving birth to her son last month, a court hears.", "Ministers in Wales endorse plan for all adults to be offered Covid-19 vaccination by the summer.", "Manchester City make it 19 wins in a row with another utterly dominant display against Borussia Monchengladbach", "The UK's first openly gay cabinet minister, Lord Smith, urges the PM to diversify his top team.", "About 31,000 women will be offered the swab checks, which can help spot early signs of cervical cancer.", "Rebel Tories urged the government to ensure leaseholders are protected from extra costs.", "The DJ posts a video of her sister Frances giving a thumbs-up and a round of applause.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson on financial support for people who need to self-isolate.", "Giant garden murals made from rubbish and discarded PPE gain thousands of social media views.", "The Swedish plant-based milk company said it is planning to sell its first public shares in the US.", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "The Museums Association voices concerns after the culture secretary met heritage organisations.", "Businesses say they need definitive dates and details of what will be allowed to reopen and when.", "North West Ambulance Service warned lives would be lost if medical help was delayed during a terror attack.", "The cheers, the emotion, the standing on a chair to catch a glimpse - what was it like to witness Tiger Woods' Masters victory?", "The education secretary sets out £700m to help pupils in England catch up on missed time in school.", "The head of an infected blood charity had called a victim \"thick\" and a \"moaner\", inquiry hears.", "Data justifies \"full return\" of schools and colleges in England on 8 March, the education secretary says.", "Covid \"devastated\" air travel in 2020, the UK's largest airport says, as it sinks to a £2bn loss.", "The hair and beauty industry is calling for a cut in VAT to help mend the sector's finances.", "Having to show a certificate to go to a pub raises \"deep and complex issues\", Boris Johnson says.", "The former first minister was to appear at an inquiry into how the Scottish government handled complaints against him.", "Stuart Quinn stabbed father-of-one Alan Geddes to death in Aberdeen the day after being freed from prison.", "An NHS boss says Gwyneth Paltrow's recovery methods are \"really not the solutions we'd recommend\".", "Details and reaction to a briefing on the pandemic by Health Minister Vaughan Gething.", "Everyone in top four priority groups will have been offered a Covid jab by Friday, ministers claim.", "Lisa Dawn Fisher, 31, admits charges of assaulting emergency workers at a flat in Scarborough.", "More allegations against the US designer emerge as a student speaks to BBC News.", "The technology giant has bought around 100 companies in six years, chief executive Tim Cook has revealed.", "Stephen Dyer says he will \"do anything\" to become a parent - including a bill of up to £40,000.", "Rescuers have successfully refloated 28 pilot whales on a notorious New Zealand beach, Farewell Spit.", "Police said a lorry driver found the people when he stopped at a motorway service area.", "Vauxhall's parent company has previously said its fate depends on the government's commitment to the car industry.", "The street scene of Montmartre has been owned by the same French family for more than 100 years.", "The boss of the UK's competition watchdog says tech giants have too much share of the online ad market.", "Tiger Woods is \"awake and responsive\" following surgery on serious leg injuries suffered in a car crash in Los Angeles on Tuesday.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The size of the economy shrank by 9.9% in 2020 as coronavirus restrictions hit output, figures show.", "The online travel agent could be taken to court unless it pays £1m of refunds, the regulator says.", "A report finds 30% of 17 and 18-year-olds who responded said they were worried \"most of the time\".", "The US president's warning came after he had his first phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping.", "These extraordinary fish, which are a type of ray, are vanishing in many countries due to overfishing.", "China has criticised the BBC for its reports on coronavirus and persecution of the Uighurs.", "NI lockdown restrictions will be reviewed next week but ministers warn any easing will be gradual.", "Archaeologists now believe the stone circle stood 150 miles from its current location in Wiltshire.", "The health secretary welcomes news infection levels are falling but says there's still more to be done.", "How pupils with additional educational needs are dealing with the challenges of lockdown.", "Colin Norris was convicted in 2008 of murdering four women and attempting to murder another.", "The fire is thought to be about 5km wide and is spreading across moorland in Dartmoor, Devon.", "Three to seven years olds in some areas with high case rates will not return on 22 February.", "Bill Michael resigns from the audit giant saying he is \"truly sorry\" his words \"caused hurt\".", "The listing of Bumble, which also owns Badoo, makes a billionaire of 31-year-old founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.", "The aim is to offer a vaccine against Covid to the most vulnerable people by Monday.", "An estimated 250% recent rise in \"dognapping\" is \"absolutely shocking\", the home secretary says.", "Giving it along with a steroid drug can help the sickest patients with Covid-19, research reveals.", "A deadline to buy a home under the current Help to Buy scheme in England has been extended to the end of May.", "The former president's lawyers said he could not be guilty of incitement because the riots were planned.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says vaccine supplies will fall over the next few weeks.", "The regulator has hit O2 with the fine for years of overcharging on customers' final bills.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by the first minister with Covid vaccination lead Dr Sally Lewis.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "The Chinese giant is trying to stop the extradition of its chief financial officer from Canada to the US.", "The cause of the fire on remote moorland near Tavistock, Devon is under investigation.", "The teenager is in a serious condition in after being found injured in King's Park on Friday.", "Data suggests lockdown is working, but the health secretary says there is \"still a long way to go\".", "A judge denies a request from the singer's father to exert greater control over her finances.", "TJ Ducklo allegedly told Politico reporter Tara Palmeri: \"I will destroy you.\"", "Killer Pawel Relowicz inflicted \"unimaginable loss\" on the family of Libby Squire, a judge says.", "A support helpline set up in response to abuse allegations within gymnastics is set to close after receiving 221 calls.", "Andy Haldane says the UK economy will surge back this spring thanks to the vaccine programme.", "Officials still do not know how the system will work, days before it is due to launch, a union says.", "Rules for those arriving into England from \"red list\" countries differ from those enforced Down Under.", "David Chambers pleaded not guilty to two counts of fraud and one count of battery.", "Shauna Donnelly feared she would be jailed for her son's death as \"no-one seemed to believe\" her.", "The driver was caught with both windscreens almost completely covered with snow as he drove in Dundee.", "New data suggests disabled people account for nearly 60% of coronavirus deaths in England last year.", "A new documentary shone a light on how Timberlake treated Spears during their relationship.", "Ten people will be allowed per group and groups can consist of people from different households.", "Officers managed to get to the plane \"seconds before it was due to take off\", police say.", "Everyone in top four priority groups will have been offered a Covid jab by Friday, ministers claim.", "The two sides vow to implement the Northern Ireland Protocol and \"address all outstanding issues\".", "Prosecutors rest their impeachment case against Donald Trump - his defence will begin on Friday.", "There are key differences in rules between England’s system and elsewhere, a BBC analysis shows.", "Australia's state of Victoria shuts down over a dozen Covid cases but the Grand Slam will continue.", "It comes as the number of Covid-19-related deaths registered in NI fell for a second week.", "The one-year-old boy who died was living with the couple as they awaited a final adoption order.", "Democrat Joe Neguse presents the prosecution's closing argument at Donald Trump's impeachment trial.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex say popular newspapers are publishing \"salacious gossip\" for clicks.", "Judge rejects bid to ban Camila Batmanghelidjh and seven ex-trustees from being company directors.", "The US keyboardist and composer died on Tuesday, aged 79, from a rare form of cancer.", "The new booking portal website was removed temporarily for maintenance over a technical error.", "Serial sex offender Pawel Relowicz is convicted of killing the University of Hull student.", "One in 20 private renters say they have been refused rent reductions, a report says.", "Charlie Smith has been nicknamed 'Car Park Charlie' by parents Harriet Hanson and Adam Smith.", "Former UN official Mary Robinson says she was \"horribly tricked\" in the Dubai princess scandal.", "The president of Arconic says he only learned about a key fire safety standard after the disaster.", "The PM's ex-adviser says he did not recommend Public First because he is friends with its founders.", "Police found a bar, a VIP area and party-goers in one building plus more people at the \"Covid Arms\".", "US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi says it will be modelled on the 9/11 attacks inquiry.", "The European Space Agency is looking into the feasibility of flying a \"para-astronaut\" to orbit.", "The Pfizer vaccine prevented 94% of infections in a group of 600,000 Israeli patients.", "The DJ says she has been offered a Covid jab before her sister, who has a learning disability.", "The UK Biobank took blood samples from 20,000 people every month - and just under 1,700 had antibodies.", "Five people have been fined for travelling to see a rare bird which was spotted in Exmouth.", "The lockdown exit plan is \"likely\" to advise against booking Easter holidays, \"either overseas or within Scotland\".", "The aim is to make upland areas act to slow floodwater down \"rather than like a slate roof\".", "Five of the critically endangered species are born at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire.", "People have been enjoying skating on frozen waterways, but the authorities warn of the dangers.", "Boris Johnson suggests testing clubbers and theatregoers to reopen venues that have been closed since March.", "Concerns are raised as ministers announce new free speech role to stop \"silencing\" in universities.", "BBC Panorama has obtained secret video messages showing the daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum imprisoned against her will.", "Dubai’s Princess Latifa reveals details of alleged kidnapping.", "Texas is experiencing record low temperatures, with some places dipping to 0F (-18C).", "Amy Cooper prompted outrage over a viral video showing her calling the police on black birdwatcher.", "Residents were evacuated when water flooded up to people's waists after a mine blow-out.", "The TV personality said she is \"beyond thrilled\" and will replace Nick Hewer later this year.", "The first minister says she is \"very keen\" to see a return to more normal schooling for some pupils.", "The air passengers did not declare they had been in a country deemed a high Covid risk, police say.", "There are calls for urgent action following a 60,000 tonne landslip earlier this year.", "Nicola Sturgeon says the latest milestone has been reached - but that progress will slow in the coming days.", "Stephen Farry MP says the government must \"urgently\" address the involvement of suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan in professional boxing.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "JLR will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030.", "Abdalraouf Abdallah risks harm if he gives evidence to the Manchester Arena Inquiry, a lawyer says.", "Skin experts raise health-and-safety concerns about the videos, which do not carry a warning.", "Additional community testing is to take place in Norfolk, Southampton, Surrey and Manchester.", "Chris Lewis 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to be creative to keep the children entertained.", "The rate of hospital admissions for nine to 12-year-olds who self-injure has doubled in six years.", "Pupils in P1 to P3 and pre-school children will go back from 22 February, it has been confirmed.", "The billionaire has overseen the emirate's transformation into a top business and tourism centre.", "Those measures will \"get our economy back on its feet\", vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi says.", "Dramatic new details have come to light about the extraordinary kidnapping and secretive detention of Princess Latifa in the UAE.", "\"I just want to be free,\" Princess Latifa, daughter of Dubai's ruler, says in video messages secretly recorded from a villa where she was being held following her failed escape in 2018.", "Former military personnel dismissed because of their sexuality may apply to restore honours.", "A Which? investigation found 10 sites offering fake Amazon Marketplace reviews from as little as £5 each.", "The tips were 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"Scotland business", "Health", "Entertainment & Arts", "Lancashire", "Technology"], "content": ["Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMarcus Rashford played a key role in a win over struggling Newcastle as Manchester United returned to second place in the Premier League.\n\nThe England striker helped the hosts overcome a stuttering start when he lashed in an 18th goal of the season by beating Karl Darlow at the near post after 30 minutes.\n\nAllan Saint-Maximin then scored a deserved equaliser with his first goal since coming back from a two-month absence caused by coronavirus symptoms, slamming in after Harry Maguire failed to clear.\n\nThe Newcastle winger threatened again early in the second half, but the game turned after 57 minutes when Daniel James re-established the lead.\n\nThat led to the visitors' confidence draining away, with Rashford then earning a penalty as he drew a foul from Joe Willock before Bruno Fernandes knocked in his 22nd goal of the season.\n\nDefeat for Steve Bruce's side was an eighth in 10 Premier League games, leaving them three points above the drop zone - and a relegation scrap with Fulham is now set to ensue.\n\nFor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, it was only a second win in six league matches, and a welcome victory after a draw at West Brom last weekend.\n\nBut they remain 10 points behind leaders Manchester City, who beat Arsenal earlier on Sunday.\n\nOn the face of it, this looked as if it would be a routine win for the hosts over a team fighting for Premier League survival.\n\nBut although Solskjaer insisted that his team had \"found themselves a little bit\" after the 4-0 win over Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday, there were still signs here of the concerns that have plagued his team for much of the season.\n\nManchester United were slow to start and jittery in defence. David de Gea was called into action early on and almost gifted Newcastle a goal with a poor backpass. Fernandes, normally their talisman, was quiet for much of the game before a trademark penalty.\n\nBut in contrast to Newcastle, Solskjaer's side have matchwinners all over the pitch. When they went ahead, it was from their first proper chance.\n\nRashford skipped past Emil Krafth on the touchline, before cutting inside and unleashing a fierce shot, although Darlow should have stopped his near-post effort.\n\nThe lead only lasted six minutes, however, as a short corner was played to Willock and his cross was half-headed away by Maguire, allowing Saint-Maximin to fire in.\n\nThe home side - missing the injured Scott McTominay and several coaching staff who were self-isolating - also started the second period quietly. Solskjaer's concern was evident on the touchline, before James gave them breathing space.\n\nThe Welsh winger, who scored in midweek, was rewarded with his first Premier League start since 26 December and lashed past Darlow at his near post again. As Newcastle retreated, the hosts moved up the gears before Fernandes sealed victory.\n\nIt was not a vintage display, but it did not need to be as Solskjaer's side finally found their rhythm, allowing them to hand a debut to 17-year-old Shola Shoretire as they extended their run to one defeat in 19 Premier League games.\n\nIf Bruce did not regard his team as being a relegation battle before this week, then they certainly are now.\n\nFulham's seven-point yield in the past week means the 10-point gap between Newcastle and the relegation zone - as it was two weeks ago - now stands at three.\n\nBruce's side have shown an upturn in form in recent weeks, with wins over Everton and Southampton, but this game underlined the value of absent top scorer Callum Wilson, who is set to be out for another month with a hamstring injury.\n\nIt was tempting to wonder whether Wilson would have profited from Newcastle's early chances. Joelinton looked hesitant when there were several early opportunities to go ahead. Jonjoe Shelvey also skied over.\n\nHaving gone behind, though, at least Newcastle showed a response. Saint-Maximin, who was struck down by coronavirus symptoms for most of December and January, looked sharp and tested De Gea before he scored.\n\nHis emotional celebration hinted at the difficulties he has been through this season, and he could have put the visitors ahead when he fired at De Gea following a well-worked free-kick routine.\n\nBut James' goal and the manner of it undermined all their hard work. When the ball was played across their box by Nemanja Matic, Jamal Lewis failed to clear as Fernandes got a vital touch and Darlow was beaten at the near post again.\n\nOnce Willock failed to keep his composure as Rashford danced into the penalty area, conceding a penalty, there was no way back from Bruce's side.\n\nPerhaps a win at Old Trafford was not to be expected, but with games against Wolves, West Brom, Aston Villa and Brighton to come, Newcastle will need to pick up points quickly.\n• None Manchester United have scored 53 goals in 25 games in the Premier League this term - their most at this stage of a top-flight campaign since the 2012-13 season (60), which was the last time they won the title.\n• None Newcastle have lost each of their past 21 away games against opponents starting the day in the Premier League's top three, in a run dating back to February 2012.\n• None Marcus Rashford's opener for Manchester United was his 40th goal in all competitions since the beginning of last season, with only Raheem Sterling (44), Harry Kane (45) and Mohamed Salah (47) managing more among all Premier League players.\n• None Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes (15 goals, 10 assists) is the third player within Europe's top five leagues this season to reach double figures for both goals and assists in league matches, alongside Harry Kane (13 goals, 11 assists) and Thomas Muller (10 goals, 10 assists).\n• None Daniel James has scored five goals in 13 games for Manchester United this season, one more than he managed in 46 games across all competitions last season.\n• None Only Callum Wilson (15) has been directly involved in more Premier League goals than Allan Saint-Maximin for Newcastle this season (five - two goals, three assists), despite this only being the Frenchman's 11th start in the competition this term.\n\nManchester United face Real Sociedad in the second leg of their last 32 Europa League last-32 tie with a 4-0 lead on Thursday (20:00 GMT) before travelling to Chelsea next Sunday in the Premier League (16:30).\n\nNewcastle host Wolves in the Premier League next Saturday (20:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Jacob Murphy (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Emil Krafth.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Newcastle United 1. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Eating With My Ex: Celebrity Specials: Famous exes come face to face to answer some awkward questions\n• None You won't be able to stop watching this nail-biting show", "Hinpack was awarded a £30m contract to make test tubes during the pandemic\n\nA firm is being investigated by the UK medical regulator after it was awarded a £30m contract during the pandemic.\n\nAlex Bourne - who used to run a pub near Matt Hancock's old constituency home in West Suffolk - made vials for Covid testing through his firm Hinpack, which had no history of medical goods.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has confirmed it is now investigating the company.\n\nMr Hancock has previously said he had nothing to do with the contract.\n\nThe MHRA said it took \"all reports of non-compliance very seriously\".\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said early in the UK's epidemic it asked \"suppliers in multiple industries\" to help to support the national effort to secure products needed for Covid tests.\n\nAll suppliers must pass through \"a rigorous regulatory and validations process\" to ensure they meet quality standards, he said.\n\n\"We continue to ensure all contracts are awarded in line with procurement regulations and transparency guidelines,\" he added.\n\nThe Guardian reported Mr Bourne had offered his services to the government via a personal WhatsApp message to the health secretary, saying they had known each other for years.\n\nThe businessman told the newspaper that messages had been exchanged between the pair over several months, but he said there was \"no evidence\" he was given preferential treatment by the Department of Health and Social Care because of the connection.\n\nLawyers for Mr Bourne told the Guardian the test tubes that Hinpack manufactures are \"by no means complicated and are well within our client's existing skillset\".\n\nThey also said the MHRA had previously approved and inspected Hinpack's products and working practices, and allegations being reported against them were \"untrue\".\n\nAsked about it at a Downing Street press conference in December, Mr Hancock said: \"I had absolutely nothing to do with that contract.\"\n\nThe confirmation comes in the same week Mr Hancock was ruled to have acted unlawfully in failing to publish details of government contracts within 30 days.\n\nEarlier, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme it had been \"the right thing to do\" so his staff could focus on sourcing PPE at the height of the pandemic.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said the inquiry into Mr Bourne's company was \"extremely worrying\", adding: \"The reasons for handing this contract out in the first place must be investigated and shared in the public interest\".\n\nDirector of devices at the MHRA, Graeme Tunbridge, said he could not disclose why the company was being investigated as the inquiry was ongoing.\n\nBut in a statement, he said: \"We are currently investigating the allegations about Hinpack and will take appropriate action as necessary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US plane engine fire: \"I just knew something was wrong\"\n\nA Boeing jet has scattered debris over a residential area near Denver after one of its engines failed on take-off.\n\nThe Boeing 777, with 231 passengers and 10 crew on board, was able to return safely and land at Denver airport. No injuries were reported.\n\nPolice in the town of Broomfield posted pictures of what appears to be the front of an engine casing in the front garden of a home.\n\nPassengers on board described a \"large explosion\" shortly after take-off.\n\nFlight 328, a United Airlines plane bound for Honolulu, suffered a failure in its right-hand engine, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.\n\nOne passenger who was on the flight told AP news agency that the pilot was giving an announcement when there was a loud explosion.\n\n\"The plane started shaking violently, and we lost altitude and we started going down,\" David Delucia said.\n\nHe added that he and his wife placed their wallets in their pockets so that \"in case we did go down, we could be ID'd\".\n\nImages posted online showed smoke trailing from the engine. One video apparently shot from inside the plane shows an engine on fire and stripped of its casing.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 13:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nBroomfield police urged residents not to touch or move the debris. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be carrying out an investigation.\n\nOne Broomfield resident told CNN he had seen the debris fall from the plane and took shelter with his children as it started coming down.\n\n\"We saw it go over, we heard the big explosion, we looked up, there was black smoke in the sky,\" Kieran Cain said. \"Debris started raining down, which you know, sort of looked like it was floating down and not very heavy, but actually now looking at it, it's giant metal pieces all over the place.\"\n\nIt is unclear what caused the engine to catch fire. Jet engine failures do not happen often, but they can be caused by a rotating part, such as a turbine blade, breaking off and piercing the outer cowling. The plane, a Boeing 777-200, was manufactured 26 years ago.\n\nOn the same day as the Denver incident, an engine failure on a 30-year-old Boeing 747 freighter saw debris fall on a town in the Netherlands. Parts of what appeared to be turbine blades landed on the town of Meerssen. Two people on the ground, one a child, were slightly injured.\n\nThe aircraft, which had left Maastricht bound for New York, landed safely in Liege in neighbouring Belgium.", "A number of families had to leave their homes during the operation on Ashgrove Road\n\nPolice have said that a device discovered in Newry, County Down, could easily have detonated.\n\nOfficers were called to Ashgrove Road after the suspicious object was found near a house at 15:30 (GMT) on Saturday.\n\nFifteen families were forced from their homes during the security operation, which lasted a number of hours.\n\nPolice said on Sunday that a controlled explosion was carried out and they believe the device was viable.\n\nMost residents have returned to their homes, after some sheltered at the Newry Leisure Centre.\n\nSupt Norman Haslett of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it was a \"reckless act\".\n\n\"This device could easily have detonated, or have been picked up by anyone, including children. Someone could have suffered serious injury,\" he said.\n\n\"As we continue with our investigation, I want to thank everyone inconvenienced by the alert.\n\n\"In particular, I want to thank the 15 families who had to leave their homes as we worked to make the scene safe.\"\n\nPolice said that they are working to establish who was responsible for leaving the device.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Liz Kimmins described it as a \"futile action\" and an \"attack on the entire community\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this suspicious object which led to a security alert in Ashgrove Road in Newry have nothing to offer the community.\n\n\"Families had to be evacuated from their homes in what must have been a frightening and traumatic experience.\"\n\nOn Saturday, SDLP MLA Justin McNulty said that elderly people and young families had been \"forced from their homes into the wind and the rain\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this device don't care about people in our community,\" he said.\n\n\"People living here don't want this, they don't want to return to the murder, mayhem and tragedy of the past.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) councillor David Taylor said it was \"totally reckless\".\n\n\"Their actions have caused significant disturbance and concern to local residents and there is no doubt this device has placed them and the wider community at risk of serious harm,\" the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council representative said.", "Two 14-year-old girls have been seriously injured in a car crash following a police pursuit in Perthshire.\n\nTwo others who were in the vehicles - boys aged 14 and 16 - have been treated for minor injuries.\n\nThey were travelling in an orange Vauxhall Corsa which crashed on the A90 near St Madoes on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIt was being pursued by police officers after failing to stop for them on Edinburgh Road in Perth at about 13:55.\n\nPolice Scotland said on Saturday that none of the force's vehicles were involved in the crash.\n\nAll four occupants of the Corsa were taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for treatment.\n\nOfficers have appealed for dashcam footage to help with their inquiries into the incident.\n\nSgt Michelle Burns said: \"Our inquiries into this incident are ongoing and we would urge anyone who may have seen the Vauxhall Corsa or the police vehicles in Perth, on the A912 through Bridge of Earn or on the A90 to come forward.\n\n\"We would be particularly keen to speak to anyone with dashcam footage.\"\n\nThe northbound A90 was closed for several hours before reopening at 23:00 following an investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nClaims for damage to a household TV and roof tiles have been made after a sonic boom was caused by RAF Typhoons that were intercepting a private plane.\n\nThe Typhoons \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex on 12 January.\n\nSix damage claims have been made to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after the boom was heard across eastern England.\n\nAn RAF spokesman said compensation could be paid \"subject to the provision of supporting evidence\".\n\n\"The RAF is responsible for policing UK airspace and would prefer not to cause any disturbance to those on the ground, however, the safety and security of the nation remains paramount,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\nThe RAF Typhoons were authorised to fly at supersonic speed when they were deployed from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to intercept the private jet.\n\nThat aircraft was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham and had lost communications - sparking an alert.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported across social media by people in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London.\n\nIt led the RAF to offer a \"helping hand\" to those home-schooling by sharing a lesson on sonic booms.\n\nResponding to a Freedom of Information request, the MoD said it \"received notification of six claims\", three of which were from people in Essex, although the locations of the other three were not specified.\n\n\"The alleged damage is to windows (two claims), dislodged roof tiles (two claims), a television and a wall picture,\" the MoD said.\n\nIt added: \"The MoD has not settled any claims arising from the sonic incident on 12 January 2021.\"\n\nThe RAF video explains how supersonic aeroplanes cause sonic booms\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said the car park was \"evidently not a place of worship\"\n\nPolice have handed a £10,000 fine to the organiser of a church meet-up in a pub car park.\n\nOfficers from Nottinghamshire Police said the Church on the Streets service, involving about 30 people in Bardney Drive, Bulwell, Nottingham, broke lockdown rules.\n\nThey said when officers arrived, at about 12:15 GMT on Saturday, there were tents, food and a sound system.\n\nBut the church's pastor, Chez Weir, has said she will contest the fine.\n\nInsp James Walker, from the force, said they had been advising the group for a number of weeks about how and where they could worship during lockdown.\n\n\"Over the last week in particular, we have absolutely clarified these events are not allowed,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the rules state you can attend places of worship, this car park is evidently not a place of worship.\n\n\"Despite the warnings given over the last week in particular, this event continued to go ahead and that is why we have implemented our last resort of enforcement.\"\n\nThe pastor said those attending the gathering stayed in their cars\n\nThe pastor said those attending Church on the Streets gatherings stayed in their cars and the food, tents and sound system were all part of the service.\n\nShe said she had worked with the police throughout and had recently been advised against using a different car park for worship but did not realise the restriction also applied to the pub car park.\n\n\"We've looked at the guidelines and they are very vague,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm really disappointed. I'm going to challenge it because I don't believe I've done anything wrong.\"\n\nPeople are allowed to gather at places of worship under current lockdown rules.\n\nGovernment guidance states a place of worship can be somewhere used for religious gatherings, even sites usually used for other things.\n\nBut it adds they must be permitted to be open during lockdown and \"additional guidance may be applicable\".\n\nIt also recommends that, where possible, places of worship continue to stream worship or other events to avoid large gatherings.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic continued his dominance of the Australian Open by overwhelming an irritated Daniil Medvedev to win a record-extending ninth men's title.\n\nTop seed Djokovic won 7-5 6-2 6-2 to claim his 18th Grand Slam, leaving him two behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the men's record books.\n\nThe 33-year-old Serb has never lost a final at Melbourne Park and beating Medvedev is a third triumph in a row.\n\nRussian fourth seed Medvedev, 25, has lost both of his Grand Slam finals.\n\nAfter collecting the trophy, Djokovic told the Rod Laver Arena: \"I love you each year more and more. The love affair keeps going.\"\n• None Winning this title was an 'emotional rollercoaster' - Djokovic\n• None Which way will the GOAT race turn after Djokovic closes gap?\n\nMedvedev, who lost to Nadal in the 2019 US Open final, was tipped to push Djokovic close and win his maiden major.\n\nThe Russian had reached the Melbourne final on the back of a 20-match winning streak, but floundered under the intense pressure applied by Djokovic.\n\nThrowing racquets, poor body language and shouting angrily at his team were an illustration of how the Russian imploded in the third set, contrasting starkly with Djokovic's confident and steely exterior.\n\nDjokovic clinched the title after one hour and 53 minutes with a backhand overhead volley, falling to the blue court on his back before lapping up the acclaim of the reduced 7,500 crowd.\n\nDjokovic roared loudly and tapped his heart, before exchanging hugs with coach Goran Ivanisevic and the rest of his support team.\n\nAfter thinking an abdominal injury earlier in the tournament might scupper his chances, the pride and relief of Team Djokovic was clear in their celebrations.\n\nBrilliant Djokovic refuses to 'hand over' to younger generation\n\nIn-form Medvedev had, perhaps playfully, insisted \"all the pressure\" was on Djokovic because of his desire to chase Nadal and Federer in the battle to finish with the most men's Grand Slams titles.\n\nMaybe it was a ploy to deflect the attention off himself. Either way it did not work as Djokovic emphatically proved he is still the man to beat.\n\nWorld number one Djokovic responded to Medvedev's comments with a withering tone in his assessment that the younger generation \"still have a lot of work to do.\"\n\n\"I'm not going to stand here and hand it over to them,\" he told Eurosport after his semi-final win against Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev.\n\nHe was true to his word. Djokovic produced a masterclass of intensity, focus and execution, looking comfortable on a court he has described as a \"home from home\".\n\nDjokovic, like he had in his previous three Melbourne finals, started quickly with an immediate break of serve as he looked to stamp his authority.\n\nMedvedev remain unflustered - until later in the match, at least - and continued in his attempt to drag Djokovic into some gruelling baseline exchanges.\n\nDjokovic tried to avoid long points by employing the odd drop-shot but that helped the Russian to level at 3-3.\n\nA fascinating opening set could have swung either way, but it was the reigning champion who edged it when he unpicked Medvedev's serve again in the 12th game.\n\nHistory was ominous for the Russian: Djokovic had only lost five of 264 Grand Slam matches when he had won the first set.\n\nMedvedev went into the final on the back of a 20-match winning streak and had won his past 12 matches against top-10 opponents.\n\nHowever, extending those runs looked unlikely once he began to implode in the second set.\n\nAfter the pair exchanged breaks in the opening two games, Djokovic pounced again when a raft of unforced errors crept into Medvedev's game.\n\nMedvedev started to look a little irritated, perhaps partly because of some disruptive fans in the previous game but mainly because he could not negate Djokovic, bouncing his racquet down on the court before the Serb moved 4-1 ahead.\n\nThe racquet survived that, but not the second thud Medvedev gave it when he whacked a forehand long for 5-2.\n\nDjokovic sealed the two-set advantage with a crunching forehand which Medvedev could not handle.\n\nMedvedev had never won after losing the opening two sets, but did fight back against Nadal at the 2019 US Open to force a decider.\n\nNegativity looked to be deep-rooted, however, and the prospect of a similar fightback looked far-fetched.\n\nThere was a brief glimmer of hope at 30-30 in the seventh game of the third set, but Djokovic held for 5-2 - prodding his temple with his finger to emphasise his mental toughness - and served out to seal a one-sided win which few expected.\n\n\"We know how tough Novak is and he played a sensational final,\" said former British number one Annabel Croft on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"You have to be so dialled in, in all departments. Medvedev went away from the tactics he showed in the first set and went into a slump and a strop.\"\n\nThis was another astonishing Australian Open final performance by Novak Djokovic, at the end of one of the most stressful Grand Slam fortnights of his career.\n\nThe abdominal injury he suffered during his third-round victory over Taylor Fritz improved faster than he thought it might. But it still compromised him for the next couple of rounds, and prevented practice on his days off.\n\nHe outlasted Milos Raonic and Alex Zverev in tense four setters, and was able to save his best until the last.\n\nDaniil Medvedev spent much of the second half of the match in a one way conversation with his coach and wife. He was driven to distraction by Djokovic's brilliance, but he showed surprising fragility for someone with previous experience of a Grand Slam final, and so many recent wins over top 10 players.\n\nThe world number one is firmly back on track. Two Slams behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, with a six-year age advantage on the Swiss and 12 months on the Spaniard.", "Officials say they are still investigating the shooting at the Jefferson Gun Outlet\n\nThree people have been killed and two injured in a shooting at a gun outlet in the US state of Louisiana.\n\nThe local sheriff said an \"initial shooter\" opened fire, striking two people, which prompted several others at the shop to fire their own weapons.\n\nThe two people and the initial gunman were killed. They have not been publicly identified.\n\nOfficials said investigations into the shooting at the Jefferson Gun Outlet, in a New Orleans suburb, were ongoing.\n\n\"It appears that several individuals ended up engaging that original suspect,\" Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto told reporters.\n\n\"From what I understand I have multiple shooters here at this location that were either customers, employees or individuals here at the location itself,\" he said.\n\n\"We're trying to put it all together, piece it together.\"\n\nTyrone Russell was at the store when the shooting happened on Saturday afternoon.\n\n\"We heard the gunshots and the screaming,\" he told the Associated Press news agency. \"When the police came, they escorted us out. I could see glass everywhere… It was just like a really scary scene.\"\n\nThe two people injured in the shooting are in a stable condition in hospital, the sheriff's office said.\n• None Four dates that explain the US gun debate", "There is \"early data\" showing a reduction in transmission in people who have had a coronavirus vaccine, the health secretary has said.\n\nMatt Hancock said hospital admissions were falling \"much more sharply\" than they were in the pandemic's first wave.\n\nThe government aims to offer a first jab to all adults in the UK by the end of July, with one in three adults already vaccinated.\n\nBoris Johnson will unveil his plan for ending England's lockdown on Monday.\n\nThe PM is due to present his plans to MPs in the Commons in the afternoon, before leading a Downing Street briefing at 19:00 GMT.\n\nA further 9,834 coronavirus cases were recorded in the UK on Sunday and 215 more people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to the government's daily figures.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions, and have been moving at different speeds:\n\nAs part of the road map, Public Health England will publish new data on the impact of vaccines on transmission rates.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that he was \"absolutely delighted\" with the progress of the vaccine rollout.\n\nBut he added that while hospital admissions were falling, the number of people in hospital - currently around 18,000 - was still \"far too high\".\n\nThe health secretary reiterated the government's new plan to offer a jab to adults aged 50 and over and those in the top nine priority groups by 15 April, followed by all adults by the end of July.\n\nThe government's previous target was to offer all adults the first dose by September, but the PM has said he wants the rollout to \"go further and faster\".\n\nMr Johnson has said that this would give vulnerable people protection \"sooner\" and help to further ease lockdown restrictions across the country.\n\nHowever, the order of priority for the under-50s has yet to be outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, told BBC Breakfast earlier that he expected a public announcement would be made on vaccine priorities at some point in the next week.\n\nLockdown has reduced cases more than some believed was possible - and now there are the early indications the vaccination programme is having an impact too.\n\nDespite this, it looks likely the government will announce a very gradual lifting of restrictions in England on Monday.\n\nWhy the caution? Even if rates rebound only a little, there are still large numbers of vulnerable people.\n\nNearly half of hospitalisations have been in the under-70s, for example.\n\nWhat is more, high levels of infection at a time when vaccines are being rolled out and immunity being built provides the perfect breeding ground for new variants.\n\nMutation may be unavoidable in the long-term, but encouraging them at this point would, many experts believe, be foolish.\n\nThe problem is that there are so many unknowns.\n\nWill the arrival of spring help keep the virus at bay? Will the UK variant mean the re-opening of schools has a significant impact on infection levels?\n\nBut, on the flip side, being too cautious will prolong the costs of lockdown.\n\nIt is, to say the least, a tricky balancing act.\n\nSo far, more than 17 million people have received a vaccine since the rollout began in December last year.\n\nMr Hancock said ministers were \"confident\" the vaccine worked effectively against the old strain of the virus and the so-called Kent variant.\n\nHowever, he warned the government did \"not yet have the confidence\" the jab was \"as effective\" against the South Africa variant and the variant first seen in Brazil, but that enhanced contact tracing and stricter border controls were reducing the cases of those variants in the UK.\n\nThe latest data showed \"around a dozen\" new cases of the South African variant in the UK, with an overall total of around 300 cases, Mr Hancock added.\n\nAsked if the spread of the South Africa variant was \"shrinking\", he said: \"I think that's a good summary yes\".\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Peter Openshaw, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme that vaccine transmission data was \"looking really good\", but scientists still needed to estimate by how much the vaccine interrupted transmission.\n\nProf John Edmunds, a member of the government's Sage and Nervtag committees, told Andrew Marr that the vaccine rollout should turn to children \"as fast as we can\".\n\nThe infectious diseases expert said: \"We're all at risk and we can all spread the virus, and so until we've all been vaccinated - I include children here - then there is going to be significant risk of a resurgence.\"\n\nProf Edmunds, who said he had two children of secondary school age, warned there would continue to be \"major disruption in schools until we have vaccinated our children\".\n\nSchools remain the top priority for the easing of restrictions in England, with Downing Street still hoping they can reopen on 8 March. This would be followed by reuniting families and allowing people to have more social contact.\n\nIn the first confirmed easing of restrictions, care home residents in England will each be allowed one regular visitor from 8 March.\n\nThose nominated visitors will be able to meet indoors and hold hands with their loved one, but must wear personal protective equipment and be tested beforehand.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday that Covid restrictions would be eased in stages, with \"weeks\" in between each one.\n\nHe told Times Radio that it takes a few weeks for the impact of easing measures to be seen, so there would be \"weeks between the steps\".\n\nMr Hancock added that social distancing measures and the wearing of face coverings would be likely to remain in place for a while.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed the government's accelerated vaccine target but called on No 10 to \"urgently\" explain how it will prioritise the under-50s.\n\nHe told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that he wanted all children in England back in school on 8 March, despite education unions calling for a more \"cautious\" and \"phased\" return.\n\nThe party's former shadow chancellor John McDonnell urged Sir Keir and the PM to \"listen\" to unions' concerns.\n\nHe told the same programme: \"I can't think of anyone better to listen to than those on the frontline and that is the teachers' unions. If we have to have a staggered reopening of schools, let's listen to those on the frontline.\"", "The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a \"roadmap\" to lift England's lockdown restrictions in stages - starting with the reopening of schools. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said there will be a \"progressive easing\" of its rules.\n\nOver the course of the past year, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has advised the authorities on the pandemic, assessing the risks of transmission of coronavirus in many areas of daily life.\n\nThis advice looks at how closing or opening certain sectors could affect its spread - although with varying degrees of confidence, as the precise impact of each measure is difficult to assess.\n\nScientists are still trying to understand the full impact of the vaccines and the new variants of coronavirus. These have not been factored in yet in the assessments from Sage, which have been publicly released.\n\nWe have looked at what they say about the risks in a number of areas.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that schools have a \"moderate\" impact on transmission.\n\nThe phased opening of schools has already started in Wales and Scotland. In England, the prime minister says all schools will reopen on March 8.\n\nBut the role schools have played in the spread of the virus is not clear-cut.\n\nOne report from Sage notes, perhaps unsurprisingly, that cases were highest among children when schools fully reopened in September 2020.\n\nThere is no clear evidence that schools are the driving force behind broader community spikes.\n\n\"It is difficult to quantify the size of this effect and it remains difficult to quantify the level of transmission taking place specifically within schools compared to other settings,\" Sage reported in November.\n\nIts evidence suggests that primary school children are \"less susceptible to infection than adults,\" but the risk increases among older children.\n\nSage concluded that closing secondary schools was \"more effective\" than closing primary schools due to this.\n\nIn fact, some recent research from the University of Warwick concludes that there is no hard evidence that primary schools spread the virus.\n\nWhen announcing the reopening of schools in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The key risk in reopening schools is not transmission of the virus within schools; instead, the risk comes from the increased contact that the reopening might spark among the wider adult population.\"\n\nThis could include parents gathering at the school gates, or people returning to work.\n\nAll recent Sage documents agree that the risk of serious illness to children is very small compared to adults over 60.\n\nSage has said (with \"high confidence\") that outdoor gatherings have a low impact on transmission.\n\nWales is relaxing its outdoor rules and small outdoor gatherings will be allowed in England from March 29 and in Scotland from March 15.\n\nCurrently, you are only able to exercise outdoors with one other person.\n\nSage has long been confident that small outdoor gatherings have a lower impact on transmission because coronavirus \"does not persist in well-ventilated outdoor areas for long\" and the virus's \"survival on surfaces is reduced under UV light [the sun]\".\n\nBut despite being considered low-risk, the virus is still able to spread outdoors. This is why when a lot of people had the virus in January, the government stopped gatherings outside.\n\nAnd, as ever, the closer you are to someone - for example, standing close to them and chatting - the higher the chance of droplets passing between you. So social distancing measures will still be encouraged.\n\nSage has said (with \"low-moderate\" confidence) that retail has a low impact on transmission.\n\nMost non-essential retail, such as clothes stores, is due to reopen in England from April 12 - at the earliest.\n\nPeople in Scotland will need to wait until at least the end of April for this.\n\nBefore the first lockdown was lifted, Sage recommended that \"opening non-essential retail safely would require a significant effort to ensure that environments are appropriate to minimise transmission (for example social distancing and hygiene measures, ventilation)\".\n\nThis follows the idea that contacts between people are more dangerous indoors as particles in the air are replaced less slowly with clean air.\n\nSage estimated that opening non-essential retail such as clothes shops would see a 10% increase in indoor contacts between people.\n\nThis is why when shops reopened we saw crowd control, one-way systems and designated spaces for people to queue.\n\nSage thinks that in general non-essential retail is \"low risk\" when these measures are in place and masks are worn.\n\nBut once again, if coronavirus is already highly prevalent in a community as it was in December, these \"low risk\" actions can become riskier as more people have the virus to begin with.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that hospitality has a moderate impact on transmission.\n\nWithout restrictions, the hospitality sector can see people from different households mixing indoors for long periods of time.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, Sage has said:\n\nSage has also noted that alcohol can have an impact on people following social distancing measures.\n\nBecause of these risks, hospitality is being opened up in stages.\n\nOn April 12 - at the earliest - customers in England will be able to drink or eat outside.\n\n\"Allowing customers to sit outside only [is] likely to be much lower risk,\" Sage reports.\n\nThis will be followed by groups being allowed to meet indoors as early as May 17.\n\nAnother restriction previously implemented in England was a 10pm closure for hospitality, but as Reality Check has previously reported, the evidence-base for this was minimal. This curfew has now been scrapped.\n\nPeople will need to wait until at least the end of April for hospitality to open in Scotland.\n\nSage has not issued specific advice on the risk of transmission in this sector.\n\nSelf-catering accommodation or holiday lets will be allowed from April 12, a full month before other types of holiday accommodation. This hasn't been announced in Scotland.\n\nIn the past, Sage has briefly mentioned the need for greater understanding of \"travel patterns and existing levels of seeding (or spreading from one region to another)\" before making conclusions on restricting travel between UK nations and between regions within them.\n\nLast year, Reality Check looked at whether large gatherings of tourists on Bournemouth beach had an impact on case numbers, but found no evidence of it leading to a spike.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll schools in England are to reopen on 8 March as part of the prime minister's \"cautious\" four-part plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBoris Johnson will share his finalised roadmap with ministers later, before unveiling it to MPs and then leading a news conference at 19:00 GMT.\n\nUp to six people or two households will be allowed to meet outdoors from 29 March, the vaccines minister said.\n\nRules will be lifted in stages and four conditions must be met at each stage.\n\nVaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast the prime minister would set out more details on the plan in a Commons statement, which is expected at around 15:30.\n\nThe first stage of easing will be split into two parts:\n\nAlthough schools are set to reopen to all pupils on 8 March, it is thought a few days' flexibility may be built in to allow measures like testing to be put in place.\n\nAlso on 8 March, new rules will allow each care home resident in England to have one regular visitor, with whom they can hold hands.\n\nAnd from 29 March it is also understood that people will once again be able to travel out of their areas - although guidance will likely still recommend staying local, and overnight stays will not be permitted.\n\nThe gap between each stage of restrictions being eased is expected to be five weeks, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt comes as children aged three to seven in Wales return to the classroom, along with some students on practical college courses.\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are also returning to face-to-face teaching in the first step of the phased reopening of schools there.\n\nMeanwhile, vaccination has had a significant impact on the risk of serious illness from Covid-19, analysis by Public Health Scotland shows.\n\nFigures for England are expected later.\n\nData will be used to inform \"every step\" of lifting restrictions, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We will be cautious about this approach so that we do not undo the progress we have achieved so far and the sacrifices each and every one of you has made to keep yourself and others safe,\" he added.\n\nThe roadmap will outline four steps for easing restrictions. But before proceeding to each next step, the government will examine the data to assess the impact of previous changes.\n\nThe four conditions that must be met at each phase of lockdown easing are:\n\nDowning Street said the four tests are currently being met so the first step of lockdown easing in England will proceed as planned on 8 March.\n\nThe first stage of easing restrictions will be across the whole of England, Downing Street added, due to the current uniform spread of the virus.\n\nMPs will be given the chance to vote on the regulations enabling England's roadmap in the coming weeks.\n\nSir Charles Walker, the vice-chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, said the government needed \"flexibility\" if infections levels dropped more quickly than expected.\n\n\"You can't have a timeline and say you you're going to be data driven. You can either have one or the other,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nThe rules of combat are beginning to change.\n\nNo longer is controlling infection and keeping R below 1 seen as the be-all and end-all.\n\nThat much is clear from the government's four tests for its roadmap to lift lockdown in England.\n\nInfection rates are only being seen as a problem if they risk a surge in hospital admissions.\n\nThe reasons for that change can be found from the early results published on the UK vaccination programme.\n\nScottish researchers have found a \"spectacular\" reduction in the risk of serious illness four weeks after the first dose of the vaccine is given.\n\nThe link between infections and serious illness is being broken.\n\nThat is not to say a surge in infections can or will be tolerated - the number of Covid patients in hospital is still only just below where it was in the first peak and not all vulnerable people have been vaccinated yet.\n\nBut it does give ministers some room for manoeuvre. That is important. Schools are not seen as a significant driver of infection, but reopening them for all could push infection levels up.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted the prime minister \"to learn the lessons of the last two lockdowns\" when \"he came out too quickly\".\n\nHe told LBC that with restrictions in place for longer, businesses \"desperately\" needed more support, including the extension of business rates relief and VAT cuts for the hospitality sector.\n\nAll four UK nations have been in lockdown for weeks, after hospitals were put under unprecedented pressure due to the rapid spread of a variant of the virus, first detected in Kent.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland would return to a tiered system of restrictions when lockdown measures are eased, meaning different parts of the country could be under different rules. She added that she would set out the likely phases for a gradual lifting of restrictions on Tuesday.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford said he hopes the \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister has played down the prospect of restrictions being eased in time for Easter. A review of current measures will take place on 18 March.\n\nPre-school, nursery and pupils in primaries one to three will return to classrooms in Northern Ireland on 8 March. After two weeks, they will resume remote learning so older pupils in years 12 to 14 can go back to school.\n\nChildren of key workers and vulnerable pupils have been able to attend school in all parts of the UK throughout the lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there was \"early data\" suggesting a reduction in transmission of the virus in people who have had a vaccine, adding that hospital admissions were falling \"much more sharply\" than they were in the pandemic's first wave.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the number of people in hospital - currently around 18,000 - was still \"far too high\".\n\nSir David Spiegelhalter, professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge, said the data on factors like hospital admissions and deaths were \"extremely positive\" and \"better than people would have predicted\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government would need to \"keep in reserve\" the option of using local measures to tackle outbreaks because of the big difference in infection rates in different parts of the country.\n\nThe government has set a new target of offering a coronavirus jab to adults aged 50 and over and those in the top nine priority groups by 15 April, followed by all adults by the end of July.\n\nSo far, more than 17.5 million people in the UK have received a vaccine dose.\n\nThe order of priority for the under-50s to receive jabs has yet to be outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, told the BBC on Sunday that he expected an announcement to be made on vaccine priorities at some point this week.", "Protesters took to the streets of Barcelona for the fifth consecutive night on Saturday following the arrest of Catalan rapper Pablo Hasel.\n\nHasel was arrested on Tuesday for insulting police and Spanish royalty in his song lyrics and tweets, igniting a debate over freedom of expression laws in Spain. He is facing a nine-month jail term for glorifying terrorism.\n\nBefore being detained, he had barricaded himself inside the University of Lleida to try and avoid jail.", "Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from poultry to humans.\n\nOfficials said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected following an outbreak there in December.\n\n\"All seven people... are now feeling well,\" said the head of Russia's consumer health watchdog, Anna Popova.\n\nShe said that adequate measures had been quickly taken to stop the spread of infection.\n\nThere was no sign of transmission between humans, Ms Popova said, adding that the case had been reported to the World Health Organization.\n\nShe praised \"the important scientific discovery\" by Russia's Vektor laboratory, which had isolated the strain's genetic material from the infected workers.\n\n\"The discovery of these mutations when the virus has not still acquired an ability to transmit from human to human gives us all, the entire world, time to prepare for possible mutations and react in an adequate and timely fashion,\" Ms Popova said.\n\nShe said Russian scientists could now start working on developing test systems.\n\nOther strains of bird flu occasionally infect humans and have led to deaths - but this is the first report of the H5N8 strain being passed on.", "Ms Harrison said the experience had been \"amazing\" and \"everything I wanted it to be\"\n\nA 21-year-old swimming teacher has become the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nJasmine Harrison, from Thirsk in North Yorkshire, set off on her 3,000-mile (4,828km) journey from La Gomera in the Canary Islands in December.\n\nShe docked in Antigua earlier, completing the journey in 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes.\n\nAfter arriving in the Caribbean she said the experience had been \"amazing\" and \"everything I wanted it to be\".\n\nJasmine Harrison arrived in Antigua 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes after leaving the Canary Islands\n\nThe 21-year-old capsized two days before finishing the race, injuring her elbow in the process\n\nMs Harrison, a part-time swimming teacher and bartender, decided to sign up for the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge three years ago after watching the finale of the 2017 event.\n\nAsked about her epic challenge, she said it had been a mix of \"good and bad memories\", but said she had relished the chance to escape from day-to-day life.\n\n\"There's nothing like it, actually getting away from everything - social media, bad news, from literally everything,\" she said.\n\nMs Harrison's crossing was not without difficulty and she capsized just two days before crossing the finishing line, injuring her elbow in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jasmine Harrison becomes the youngest solo female to cross the Atlantic.\n\nDuring the crossing, Ms Harrison would row for two hours and sleep for two hours on rotation.\n\nDespite being cut off from the world, she was still able to speak to her mother every day via satellite phone.\n\nAsked what she was most looking forward to after stepping on to dry land, she replied: \"Food, definitely food.\"\n\nMs Harrison would row for two hours and sleep for two hours on rotation\n\nAs well as rowing into the record books, Ms Harrison has also raised more than £10,000 for charity.\n\nThe previous youngest female solo ocean rower was 22-year-old Katie Spotz from the USA who rowed the Atlantic east-to-west between 3 January and 14 March 2010.\n\nThe youngest person to have made the crossing solo is student Lukas Haitzmann, who completed it in 2019 at the age of 18.\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.", "Prosecutions will be based on evidence gathered by the police\n\nThere is a degree of misunderstanding over new smacking legislation, research for the Welsh Government has found.\n\nA change in the law, banning people from smacking their children, begins in 2022. Wales is the second part of the UK to do so, after Scotland.\n\nIn a survey of 1,002 people, 23% were aware of the changes and 26% said they were aware but unsure of the details.\n\nThe Welsh Government said TV, radio and online adverts would launch later this year.\n\nIn the latest Beaufort Wales Omnibus survey, carried out in November 2019, a higher percentage of people reported being in favour of removing the defence of reasonable punishment than those asked in a November 2018 survey.\n\nIn 2019, all respondents were asked the degree to which they agreed or disagreed that it is sometimes necessary to smack a child.\n\nMore disagreed with this statement (55%) than agreed with it (31%). The difference between the proportions disagreeing and agreeing with the statement was greater than in the 2018 survey when 49% disagreed and 35% agreed.\n\nThose who have caring responsibilities for children aged seven or under - 179 of the 1,002 asked - were more likely to disagree that it was sometimes necessary to smack a child - 70% - compared with 53% among those who did not have caring responsibilities for those aged seven and under.\n\nIn 2018, when asked if they were aware of proposed changes in legislation, 17% said yes. In the 2019 survey that rose to 23%.\n\nIn the previous survey 64% said they were not aware and that went down to 50% in the most recent survey.\n\nIn 2018, 17% said they were aware but not sure of the details, this rose to 26% in 2019.\n\nDr Ashley Frawley, senior lecturer in social policy at Swansea University is a vocal campaigner for the Be Reasonable campaign, which seeks to stop any ban and continue to give parents a choice.\n\nShe said her stance meant she was repeatedly trolled on Twitter and said the issue had become distorted.\n\nDr Frawley said: \"Campaigners have had a lot of success turning this into a debate about how people should parent... that's not what this debate is about, it's about whether one form of parenting should be illegal.\n\n\"It's not whether people should smack, it's whether you should be charged and recorded as a child abuser if you do.\n\n\"The whole policy itself is built on distrust - you can't trust people to control themselves, you can't convince people democratically to adopt this style of parenting - that's why they look to the law in the first place.\"\n\nResponding to the results of the latest survey, she said: \"The changes between the two surveys are really, really small...\n\n\"You'd think you could produce more impressive changes with such a small sample size....\n\n\"Proponents will probably want to foreground that carers of children under seven appear to be in favour of the ban. I wonder how many will mention that they only surveyed 179 of them to produce this result?\"\n\nVivienne Laing said the new legislation would give children in Wales the same legal protection from assault as adults\n\nVivienne Laing, policy and public affairs manager at NSPCC Cymru, welcomed the findings.\n\nShe said: \"It's positive that there has been a further shift in public attitudes ahead of this important change in the law, which puts the protection of children first.\n\n\"The new legislation will give children in Wales the same legal protection from assault as adults and we are continuing to work closely with the Welsh Government to support with its successful implementation.\"\n\nShe said a change in public attitudes often followed legislative change: \"We've seen with the introduction of the smoking ban and compulsory seatbelts in cars. It is encouraging to see that this shift is already happening.\"\n\nShe said she was confident a public awareness campaign would lead to a further reduction in the use of the physical punishment on children.\n\nThe charity encourages parents to praise the good things children do and set clear and consistent boundaries and remain calm in difficult situations.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"An awareness-raising campaign to inform the public of the change in law will go live later in the year - including TV, radio and digital advertising.\n\n\"We are also ensuring that professionals who work with parents and children know about the change in the law and have established an expert stakeholder group to oversee this vital work.\"", "The mayor of Nice would like to reduce the flow of tourists to his city for now Image caption: The mayor of Nice would like to reduce the flow of tourists to his city for now\n\nThe mayor of Nice says the southern city and its surrounding area need either a weekend lockdown or a local tightening of the nationwide curfew to combat coronavirus figures that are the worst in France.\n\nChristian Estrosi says visitors, including many from abroad, are still flocking to Nice and this needs to be suspended without restricting economic activity.\n\n\"The weather is nice, everybody rushes to come here. A weekend lockdown would put a stop to that, without halting economic activity in the city,\" he told French radio.\n\n\"We will be happy to receive lots of tourists this summer, once we win this battle, but it is better to have a period while we say 'do not come here, this is not the moment'.\"\n\nThe whole of France is already under a daily 12-hour curfew which starts at 18:00 (17:00 GMT).\n\n\"We need strong measures that go beyond the nationwide 6pm curfew, either a tighter curfew, or a partial and time-specific lockdown. A weekend lockdown would make sense,\" he says.\n\nFrance's Health Minister, Olivier Véran, said on Saturday he was requesting stricter measures in the Alpes-Maritime region in which Nice is situated.\n\nNew weekly cases in the area are triple the national average, according to Covidtracker.fr.\n\nFrance has so far avoided imposing a third nationwide lockdown to fight the virus.", "Mr Morrison was given the vaccine to help promote confidence in the vaccine\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has received the coronavirus vaccine as the country prepares to start inoculations this week.\n\nHis jab was televised on Sunday in order to help boost confidence in the vaccine rollout across Australia.\n\nVaccinations officially begin on Monday and at least 60,000 doses are expected to be administered next week.\n\nOn Saturday, small crowds of anti-vaccination demonstrators gathered to protest against the launch.\n\nMr Morrison was part of a small group of people vaccinated on Sunday along with some frontline health workers and care home residents. Australia's chief nurse Professor Alison McMillan and Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly were also immunised.\n\nSpeaking at ahead of his vaccination, Mr Morrison said: \"Tomorrow our vaccination programme starts, so as a curtain raiser today we're here making some very important points; that it's safe, that it's important, and we need to start with those who are most vulnerable and are on the front line.\"\n\nThe first person to be vaccinated in the country was 85-year-old Jane Malysiak.\n\nThe first vaccinations in Australia will be the Pfizer vaccine which has been granted approval for use.\n\nAustralia's medical regulator earlier this week also granted provisional approval for the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, which is expected to be rolled out next month. Health Minister Greg Hunt says he will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in the coming weeks.\n\nBoth vaccines have undergone extensive safety checks and are already being used in several countries.\n\nAustralia aims to inoculate four million people by early March.\n\nThe priority groups in the first round include the 700,000 frontline workers in the health sector, border enforcement and care homes, along with the residents of care homes.\n\nFollowing that, Australians aged over 70, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over 55, healthcare workers, adults with underlying health conditions and emergency services workers will be next.\n\nOn Saturday protests were held in cities including Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane against the vaccination rollout.\n\nThe rallies on Saturday were joined by a few thousand people in total, according to broadcaster ABC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Melbourne, some protesters clashed with police, who used pepper spray and made several arrests.\n\nAustralia has recorded 28,920 cases and 909 deaths since the pandemic began.", "Police called it a \"deeply upsetting\" and \"tragic incident\" and said no-one else was being sought in connection with the fire\n\nA four-year-old girl and a couple have died in a house fire, police have said.\n\nThe girl, a man, 29, and a woman, 28, died following the fire in Clayton Road, Exeter.\n\nThree other children who were in the house, two boys aged four and nine and a seven-year-old girl, are in a stable condition in hospital said officers.\n\nPolice called it a \"deeply upsetting\" and \"tragic incident\" and said no-one was being sought in connection with the blaze.\n\nPolice said the blaze was extinguished by fire fighters at around 05:30 GMT.\n\nCh Supt Dan Evans said the incident would cause \"great distress to the community, particularly to those who knew the family\".\n\n\"It is a huge tragedy for all involved,\" he said.\n\nHe added police were working to understand the cause of the blaze.\n\nThe children who survived would be moved to Bristol Children's Hospital for treatment, he said.\n\nThe couple and the children were \"all related\" but the force said no further details were available.\n\nThe force is supporting the victims' next of kin.\n\nRoad closures in the area would remain in place for the next couple of days.\n\nDevon and Somerset Fire Service said in a statement its \"heartfelt thoughts are with the family and everyone involved in responding to this tragic incident\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Troops from both sides have faced off across the lake\n\nIndia and China have completed the pull-back of troops from part of their disputed Himalayan border, a joint statement issued by the Indian defence ministry says.\n\nSoldiers completed their withdrawal from the Pangong Tso Lake area on Saturday, according to the communiqué.\n\nClashes on the poorly marked border led to the deaths of 24 troops last June.\n\nBoth sides say they will work to cut tensions on other parts of the border, or Line of Actual Control.\n\nChina and India announced their intention to withdraw forces from the lake area on 11 February, and commanders met on Saturday to assess how the operation was going.\n\n\"The two sides positively appraised the smooth completion of disengagement of frontline troops in the Pangong Lake area noting that it was a significant step forward that provided a good basis for resolution of other remaining issues along the LAC in Western Sector,\" Sunday's statement said.\n\nCommanders held nine rounds of talks to get to this stage.\n\nThe statement acknowledged that other parts of the border remained tense and looked forward to continuing talks.\n\n\"The two sides agreed to follow the important consensus of their state leaders, continue their communication and dialogue, stabilise and control the situation on the ground, push for a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues in a steady and orderly manner, so as to jointly maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas.\"\n\nBefore the completed withdrawal round Pangong Tso Lake, troops from each side were positioned on the north and south shores in territory claimed by both sides.\n\nMonths of tension has increased fears that the continued deployment of thousands of troops in the Ladakh region and the Chinese-administered Aksai Chin could lead to an escalating conflict.\n\nIndia and China have been locked in a border dispute for decades and went to war in 1962. The border is 3,440km (2,100 miles) long and ill-defined.\n\nRivers, lakes and snowcaps along the frontier mean the line can shift, bringing soldiers face to face at many points, sparking confrontation. The two countries however have a long-standing agreement not to use guns or explosives along the border.\n\nIn January, troops on both sides were injured in a clash in the north-east in India's Sikkim state.\n\nTwenty Indian troops were killed in June's clash which was in the Galwan Valley. China admitted two days ago that four of its soldiers died in the encounter. Weapons used reportedly included stones and nail-studded clubs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at what happened on the India-China border in June 2020", "The force said \"thankfully\" the children were reunited with their parents a short time later\n\nTwo teenage boys have been charged with kidnap after a car was stolen in Birmingham with the owner's two children inside, police have said.\n\nWest Midlands Police was contacted on Saturday shortly before 17:00 GMT by the children's \"distraught\" father.\n\nHe reported his car had been stolen with his sons - aged two and four - still inside.\n\nTwo boys, from Birmingham, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been remanded in custody.\n\nThey are due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.\n\nAs well as the two kidnap charges, both boys face charges of aggravated theft of a motor vehicle.\n\nOne of the teens has also been charged with dangerous driving, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.\n\n\"Thankfully both children were found safe and well inside the car and reunited with their parents at the roadside a short time later,\" West Midlands Police said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe team who cared for a rare Amazonian cactus that flowered for just one night have been \"overwhelmed\" by the global response to the bloom.\n\nExperts at Cambridge University Botanic Garden believe it is the first time the moonflower Selenicereus wittii has bloomed in the UK.\n\nThousands tuned in as the flowering drew close and a YouTube stream has had almost 195,000 views.\n\nGlasshouse supervisor Alex Summers said the experience had been \"amazing\".\n\nMr Summers said the flower's scent changed from \"lovely\" to something \"in the realm of public toilets\"\n\nA webcam had been focused on the single bud for the previous 11 days.\n\nMr Summers said the flower, which was spotted developing in November, had been \"supposed to come out\" at 21:00, \"but plants never read the books\".\n\nHe said since the bloom, the team had \"been able to record it, pollinate it and share it with as many people as possible\".\n\nHowever, only the glasshouse's staff have been able to experience its unique scent, which Mr Summers said had \"started off... like honeysuckle or gardenias\", but by morning, had \"slightly altered and we're now in the realm of public toilets\".\n\nThe bud was spotted developing by the garden's staff in November\n\nThe plant normally grows high above the Amazonian floodplains by attaching itself to a host plant and flowers at night to attract its two pollinating species of hawkmoth.\n\nThe delicate petals of the white flower, measuring 11in (28cm) long by 6in (15cm) wide and sitting at a height of 12ft (3.5m) on the plant, started to fade overnight.\n\nThe garden's dedicated moonflower page has received nearly 205,000 views, from people as far afield as Australia, Finland and Thailand.\n\nThe moonflower started to bloom in the early afternoon and not at sunset as expected\n\nMr Summers said he thought the interest was due to the cactus usually being \"inaccessible\" where it grows in the \"deepest, darkest Amazon\".\n\nHe said the team had been \"overwhelmed\", adding: \"People have followed it from start to finish.\"\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 rare type of Amazonian moonflower is in full bloom after widespread anticipation\n\nA rare Amazonian cactus that has attracted interest from around the world has started to bloom.\n\nThe team at Cambridge University Botanic Garden believe their moonflower Selenicereus wittii is the first to flower in the UK.\n\nThousands of people have viewed a webcam which has been trained on the plant for about 11 days.\n\nIt was thought the plant would blossom at night, but a garden spokesperson said it appeared it was a \"sun lover\".\n\nA webcam has been focused on the plant for 11 days during the wait for it to flower\n\nThe plant normally only flowers between sunset and sunrise, but the garden's director Prof Beverley Glover said \"these things are always done at their own pace\".\n\n\"I'm not as surprised as some might be, as plants have a habit of doing their own thing,\" she said.\n\n\"It is a bit special... a real treat and a real testament to the hard work of our glasshouse supervisor Alex Summers.\"\n\nAnticipation for the cactus to flower was high because the blossom only lasts 12 hours - with this white flower measuring 11ins (28cm) long by 6ins (15cm) wide.\n\nIt has also meant a Facebook question-and-answer session due to be held later has had to be hastily rescheduled to 18:00 GMT.\n\nStaff at the garden now hope it will bloom every year.\n\nThe moonflower started to bloom in the early afternoon - and not at sunset as expected\n\nThe plant was acquired six years ago from Bonn Botanic Garden in Germany and was attached to a water chestnut tree, where it climbed 12ft (3.5m) above the ground in a glasshouse before putting out its first bud.\n\nMr Summers, who planted it, said it was \"very rare to have this plant in our collection and we believe this is the first time the moonflower has flowered in the UK\".\n\nThe spokeswoman for the garden said the webcam trained on the plant had been \"watched from all over the world\" and had received more the 120,000 views.\n\nShe said a YouTube livestream had also had more than 100,000 views, while a page dedicated to the flower on its website had also received more than 100,000 views in the last week.\n\nOn the site's Facebook page, news of the bud flowering was met with glee and puzzlement.\n\nOne person wrote: \"Can't believe almost missed it after watching for the last 10 nights,\" while another joked: \"You have to love nature and its fickleness\".\n\nPeople were also keen to know what the flower smelt like, as the website had stated it would emit a \"beautiful sweet-smelling fragrance\" as it blossoms, which would change to something \"rancid\" after two hours.\n\nProf Glover said she had been told by staff that its smell was \"not very strong\" at present.\n\nThe cactus is an epiphyte, climbing high up another plant which it uses as an anchor point\n\nStaff had earlier told the BBC how the global coverage had led to some people questioning the \"rarity\" of the Cambridge specimen and sending their own moonflower photos.\n\n\"People have been getting a bit confused about the name 'moonflower',\" the spokeswoman said, adding that \"lots of plants are given the common name moonflower\".\n\nThe confusion prompted Mr Summers to publish an article on the website entitled: \"Is my moonflower the same as your moonflower?\".\n\n\"It is likely that most people may have Epiphyllum oxypetalum - a common epiphytic cactus species in cultivation,\" he wrote.\n\n\"This is not in the same genus as the moonflower we have growing here.\"\n\nHe added that his moonflower was \"even rarer in cultivation than the Titan arum (otherwise known as the corpse flower) which bloomed at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 2017\".\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. Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot in the head just before her 20th birthday by security forces\n\nHuge crowds in Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw have attended the funeral of a young woman killed in protests against a military coup.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot in the head just before her 20th birthday, the first of at least three people to die in the protests.\n\nOn Sunday, thousands lined the streets to honour her, some making the three-fingered salutes used by demonstrators.\n\nThe military overthrew the elected government earlier this month.\n\nPromises to hold early elections have failed to satisfy demonstrators, who are also seeking the release of the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nThe military alleges the NLD's landslide election win last year was fraudulent but has not provided proof.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing, a supermarket worker, was injured when police tried to disperse protesters earlier this month. She was kept on life support for 10 days but died on Friday.\n\nShe has become a focal point for demonstrators, with her image often displayed by people resisting the coup.\n\nHer coffin was driven through the streets in a black and gold hearse, accompanied by hundreds of motorbikes.\n\nProtesters took to the streets across the country again on Sunday, despite the previous day seeing the worst violence yet in weeks of protests.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing's body was driven through the streets of the capital\n\nTwo protesters were shot dead when police used live ammunition to disperse crowds.\n\nThe deaths brought widespread condemnation, with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres saying: \"The use of lethal force, intimidation & harassment against peaceful demonstrators is unacceptable.\"\n\nAlso on Sunday, the wife of prominent actor Lu Min said he had been arrested after posting a video denouncing the military leadership.\n\nThe two-week-old civil disobedience movement in Myanmar now has its martyrs - represented in posters, paintings and cartoons at rallies which have continued to take place across the country.\n\nTheir deaths will inflame public anger against the military government, but remind people too of the cost of resisting it.\n\nThe plan now is to escalate the daily protests into a nationwide general strike, starting next week.\n\nThis must damage an economy which is already suffering from the Covid pandemic - but its effect on the generals who seized power is harder to predict.\n\nIn the early hours of Monday, Myanmar entered its second week of nightly internet shutdowns, monitoring group NetBlocks reported.\n\nThe junta has been regularly blocking the web to try to stifle mass protests.\n\n\"In line with our global policies, we've removed the Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page from Facebook for repeated violations of our Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm,\" the company said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From blindfolded protests to dressing like Aung San Suu Kyi, why creatives are concerning Myanmar's army\n\nThe site is the main one run by the military, used to issue warnings to protesters and push its allegations about the election results.\n\nFacebook is the primary source of information and news in Myanmar. An estimated 22 million of the 54 million people in Myanmar use Facebook.\n\nThe military's leader Min Aung Hlaing and other top army chiefs are already banned from Facebook over allegations of human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Safety assurance ahead of pupils' return to schools\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has insisted it is safe for Scotland's youngest pupils to return to the classroom.\n\nChildren in early years education and the first three years of primary will go back to school on Monday.\n\nIt is the first step in a phased reopening of schools which have been closed to all but a minority of pupils since the beginning of January.\n\nMr Swinney said \"detailed clinical analysis\" assured him it was safe.\n\nIt followed concerns raised by the EIS teaching union and one epidemiologist about the measures put in place to reduce risk of transmission in schools.\n\nThe deputy first minister pointed to documents prepared by a government expert advisory group which states that younger children are less likely to catch or pass on the virus than older children and adults.\n\n\"I do believe it is safe to do what we are doing tomorrow and I base that view on the very detailed clinical analysis prepared for us by our education clinical advisory group that was published earlier on in February,\" he told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show.\n\n\"The rates of infection amongst the youngest children, who will be the ones primarily going back to school tomorrow or back to early learning and childcare, are more than half those of the general presence within the population.\n\n\"We've got to look at all the evidence that supports such decisions but we've also got to take the measures to ensure absolute safety within the school and early learning childcare environment and that's exactly what our guidance is designed to do. \"\n\nPreparations are being made in Pitlochry ahead of children's return to nursery on Monday\n\nAs well as the youngest children returning to school, a small number of senior secondary pupils will be allowed into school buildings on a part-time basis to complete work for national qualifications.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home and it is unlikely they will return to the classroom before 15 March at the earliest.\n\nIn primary schools measures to minimise the spread of the virus include regular hand-washing, open windows, and 2m physical distancing between adults, and between adults and children.\n\nStaff will also be offered regular lateral flow tests.\n\nResources to support learners, teachers and parents during lockdown.\n\nIn a letter to parents from Professor Jason Leitch, the national clinical director, parents have also been asked to play their part in the safe return of the youngest children to school.\n\nUrging parents not to relax the rules elsewhere, he reminded them that indoor play dates are not allowed - though children can play together outside.\n\nAnd he said parents should continue to work from home if they are able to do so.\n\nMr Swinney said the behaviour of parents was important in keeping the R number - the rate of transmission - low.\n\n\"We've all got to play a part - not just the school environment - but the whole surrounding environment of society to make sure we do all that we can to suppress the virus because we don't actually have an awful lot of headroom between where the R level is just now - somewhere between 0.7 and 0.9 - and 1 where the virus begins to spread exponentially.\"\n\nHIs safety assurance came after an epidemiology expert raised concerns about the knock-on effects of sending children back to school.\n\nDr Deepti Gurdasani, of Queen Mary University of London, said data from England showed primary school children were two times more likely to be the first Covid case in a household, and once infected were two times more likely to infect their contacts.\n\nSpeaking to The Sunday Show, she said children aged six and above should wear masks in schools and more attention should be paid to ventilation.\n\nThe EIS teaching union has also raised concerns about school safety and have said a blended learning model - with about half of pupils in classes at any one time - would be more appropriate.\n\nPlans to reopen schools have been welcomed by opposition parties but the Scottish Conservatives have urged the government to publish plans for helping pupils catch-up with schooling they have missed.", "Mr Berger has lived in the US since the 1950s\n\nThe US has deported a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp to Germany.\n\nFriedrich Karl Berger, who has lived in the US since 1959, was flown out of the country on Saturday and has landed in Frankfurt.\n\nMr Berger has admitted working as a guard at the Neuengamme concentration camp but said he did not witness any killings or abuse of prisoners.\n\nGerman prosecutors have dropped their case against him for lack of evidence.\n\nPolice are due to question him and it is not clear if he faces further action - his case could be revived depending on what he says.\n\nA US judge last year ordered his deportation, saying prisoners at the camp were held in \"atrocious\" conditions, working \"to the point of exhaustion and death\".\n\nDuring the trial, Mr Berger admitted he had prevented prisoners from fleeing the camp near Hamburg, north Germany.\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\n\nActing US Attorney-General Monty Wilkinson said Mr Berger's removal showed the administration's commitment \"to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses\".\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post, Mr Berger said he had been forced to work in the camp, spent a short time there and carried no weapon.\n\nHe expressed astonishment at his looming deportation, saying \"after 75 years, this is ridiculous. I cannot believe it. You're forcing me out of my home.\"\n\nGerman prosecutors have continued to pursue former Nazi camp officials.\n\nThis month a 95-year-old woman was charged with aiding and abetting mass murder for her role as a secretary at the Stutthof camp, while a 100-year-old man was charged on the same grounds for working as a guard at Sachsenhausen.\n• None How Auschwitz became centre of Nazi Holocaust", "Some 292 British employers made plans to cut jobs in January, the lowest figure since the pandemic began.\n\nA total of 32,000 redundancies were proposed, up 9% on last January, despite new lockdown rules closing businesses across most of the UK.\n\nThe figures suggest that the decision to extend the furlough scheme has helped to prevent wider job losses.\n\nThe numbers were released by the Insolvency Service in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request.\n\nEmployers planning 20 or more redundancies are obliged to notify the Insolvency Service at the start of the process by filing a form called an HR1 Advance Notice of Redundancy.\n\nThis gives an early indication of the state of the labour market ahead of the redundancy statistics published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which can be several months behind.\n\nThe numbers for January showed that, in total, 32,000 jobs were described as at risk in those plans. It is the lowest figure since the start of the pandemic, excluding December, which usually sees less activity because of the Christmas holidays.\n\nThis was despite lockdowns across almost all of the UK, which closed schools and many businesses including restaurants, bars and retailers deemed \"non-essential\".\n\n\"This seems to suggest that the extension of the furlough scheme from 31 October to 30 April has been effective in preventing another surge in job losses,\" said Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nThe lockdown last spring led to the largest increase in redundancies on record, with about 150,000 jobs at risk of redundancy in June and July.\n\nThe latest data from the ONS showed a record 395,000 redundancies in the period from September to November.\n\nBut these figures appear with a time lag, as they are based on a survey asking people if they have been made redundant in the previous three months - so some of those jobs will have been lost as far back as July.\n\nONS weekly estimates suggest redundancies peaked in September, and have since started to come down.\n\nAs Insolvency Service figures only cover firms making 20 or more job cuts, the total number of redundancies made is usually larger.\n\nHowever, individual employers often make fewer jobs redundant than the number they initially notify.\n\nFirms in Northern Ireland notify the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, and are not included in the Insolvency Service figures.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Whiley on her disabled sister's Covid: \"It's been the worst week of our lives\"\n\nDJ Jo Whiley says it has been \"the worst week of our lives\" as her sister, who has a learning disability and diabetes, is in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe BBC Radio 2 presenter said Frances, 53, had been offered a vaccine on Saturday but it was \"too late\" and she was now \"fighting for her life\".\n\nAnd she urged ministers to \"forget the classifications\" and protect all those with learning disabilities.\n\nThe government said it was working hard to vaccinate those most at risk.\n\nWhiley said her sister had become very ill since testing positive for coronavirus following an outbreak at her care home in Northamptonshire.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours ago we were talking palliative care and yesterday she rallied round and we are seeing her oxygen levels rise, so at the moment we have got hope.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours ago we didn't have any hope at all, so she is an amazing fighter, she always has been a great fighter and I'm just hoping that her spirit gets her through.\"\n\nBut she said it was particularly difficult to treat people with learning disabilities because they had complex needs and often struggled to communicate.\n\nShe said Frances had been so frightened that she would not allow medical staff to give her oxygen, adding: \"That is why her oxygen levels plummeted, that is why she ended up fighting for her life.\"\n\nWhiley said her parents had not slept \"for days\" but fortunately had been allowed to be with Frances in hospital.\n\nShe said: \"The idea of Frances having to do this on her own is unthinkable, and also actually people couldn't cope with Frances.\"\n\nHer sister was so terrified when she was admitted that \"she actually rampaged through the hospital and people couldn't contain her and security guards had to be involved, they had to restrain her\", Whiley explained.\n\nShe added: \"The fact that my mum was there and was able to talk her down and to be there with her and to try and give her oxygen was crucial.\"\n\nWhiley has previously questioned why she was offered the vaccine before her sister, who has the rare genetic syndrome Cri du Chat, but said it was possibly because she was deemed a carer for her sister.\n\nPeople with diabetes and those with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability are in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and the elderly.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, Whiley said: \"It felt like the cruellest twist in the world because I've been asking for her, wanting for her to have her vaccine for a year... to be protected.\n\n\"Then, for me to suddenly get a call to say that I've got the vaccine, it just felt hideously unfair.\n\n\"And she was actually called in for her vaccine last night, my mum got a message to say that she could get vaccinated, but it's too late, she's fighting for her life in hospital. It couldn't be crueller.\"\n\nWhiley said she hoped speaking about her sister would underline the need to get people with learning disabilities vaccinated \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nShe said: \"Forget the classifications, forget the cohorts, just protect these people. They are so precious, they're so vulnerable and they have no way of fighting for themselves - we have to fight for them. Get them and their carers vaccinated, stop them dying.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, also speaking to Andrew Marr, said: \"My heart goes out to Jo and to her sister and her whole family.\"\n\nAsked if he found it odd that Whiley was offered the vaccine before her sister, he said it was \"very important that we follow clinical advice in terms of the order of prioritisation\".\n\n\"And in group six, as it's called, that's where we vaccinate both those with learning disabilities and also their carers. And that group is being vaccinated right now.\"\n\nEdel Harris, CEO of learning disability charity Mencap, said the story of Whiley's sister had highlighted that people with learning disabilities \"suffered huge health inequalities\" in England and should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nMs Harris told the BBC: \"The virus is not deciding if you are profound or severe, or mild or moderate - GPs don't even use those definitions. That's why we think they're arbitrary, they don't mean anything.\"\n\nNearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England last year were disabled, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe Department of Health said in a statement: \"We understand this is an enormously challenging period for many people and the NHS is working hard to vaccinate those most at risk, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIt said the government was following the recommendations of independent experts at the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on which groups to prioritise for Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nIt added: \"The committee advised the immediate priority should be to prevent deaths and protect health and care staff, with old age deemed the biggest factor determining mortality.\"", "Protesters have been taking to the streets even since the coup at the start of the month\n\nAt least two people have been killed in protests in Myanmar against a military coup, the worst violence yet in more than two weeks of demonstrations.\n\nPolice used live ammunition to disperse demonstrators in Mandalay, reports from the ground said. At least 20 people were injured.\n\nHundreds had gathered for the rally at a shipyard in Myanmar's second largest city.\n\nThe coup saw the overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government.\n\nProtesters are demanding that she be released, along with other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. She is under house arrest, accused of possessing illegal walkie-talkies and violating the country's Natural Disaster Law.\n\nThe military allege the NLD's landslide election win last year was fraudulent but have not provided proof.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From blindfolded protests to dressing like Aung San Suu Kyi, why creatives are concerning Myanmar's army\n\nClashes broke out in Mandalay when police confronted protesters and striking shipyard workers.\n\nReports say some protesters flung projectiles at police, who responded with live fire and tear gas.\n\nImages show protesters holding up what appear to be bullet cartridges.\n\nRelatives of one of those killed told Reuters news agency he was a carpenter, aged 36, who was shot in the chest. The other fatality - reports say a boy under 18 - was shot in the head.\n\nThe EU said it strongly condemned the violence and the US embassy in Myanmar said it was \"deeply troubled\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tweeted: \"The shooting of peaceful protesters in Myanmar is beyond the pale.\n\n\"We will consider further action, with our international partners, against those crushing democracy and choking dissent.\"\n\nSingapore, a big investor in Myanmar, warned of \"serious adverse consequences for Myanmar and the region\" if the situation continued to escalate.\n\nOn Friday a young woman became the first confirmed death from the protests.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot in the head on 9 February at a rally in the capital Nay Pyi Taw. Rights groups said her injuries were consistent with the use of live ammunition. Police denied using lethal force.\n\nThe military authorities say a policeman has been killed since the protests began after the 1 February coup.\n\nFurther demonstrations took place on Saturday in several cities, including Yangon, where residents banged pots and a candle-light vigil was held outside the US embassy. The security forces mostly left the protesters alone.", "Three to seven-year-olds will return to school on Monday\n\nWales' education minister says she is confident more primary school children will be able to return to face-to-face learning from 15 March, if Covid cases continue to fall.\n\nChildren aged three to seven start a phased return on Monday, along with some students on college courses.\n\nKirsty Williams said it could not be a \"return to sleepovers or birthday parties\" to help keep Covid cases down.\n\nShe also said high school pupils may eventually return on a phased basis.\n\nMeanwhile, Plaid Cymru has called for teachers to be given Covid vaccinations as a priority.\n\nPublic Health Wales said although Covid case numbers were falling, the rates in north Wales were nearly double the average and there have been small increases in other areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do pupils feel about going back to school?\n\nMost pupils have been learning from home since December and Ms Williams told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement: \"If the public health situation continues to develop as it has been doing since the lockdown in December, then I am as confident as I can be that we will be able to return more children to face-to-face learning on 15 March.\n\n\"Please don't misinterpret this as a sign that things can go back to normal.\n\n\"Schools are highly-regulated settings, school staff are working really hard to make them as Covid secure as they can be.\n\n\"But it is behaviour around school - on the journey to school, at the school gate, on your way home and at the weekend - that will help us keep the public health situation improving which will allow more children to go back.\"\n\nSchools closed to most pupils in December, with learning moved online\n\nMs Williams said trials regarding vaccinating young people against Covid were under way and Wales would be \"ready to move forward\" if approval was granted by regulators, along with the \"get-go\" from expert advisers.\n\nUK government scientific adviser Prof John Edmunds, an infectious diseases expert, told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme \"there is an argument for turning to children as fast as we can\" when it comes to vaccination.\n\nMore than 860,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid vaccine among the top priority groups, including the over-70s and health workers, according to the latest data.\n\nAll schools and colleges in Wales were told to move to online learning before the start of this term in an effort to \"suppress the virus\".\n\nSchools and colleges have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable pupils, as well as children who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nOn secondary schools returning to face-to-face learning, Ms Williams the situation was more \"complicated\" due to the risk of transmission because coronavirus \"behaves much more like it does within adults\".\n\n\"Our priority will be to use whatever headroom we have to maximise face-to-face learning for years 11 and 13, and many head teachers that we're consulting with would like some flexibility to get some year 10 and year 12 students in as well.\n\n\"But we might have to do that on a routine basis, allowing us to cut the number of children in the class down, helping to keep those schools as Covid-secure as possible.\"\n\nTimetable: the route out of lockdown\n\nMs Williams also said some university students were due to return to campus this week so they \"can undertake the practical assessments and the practical elements of their work\".\n\nShe said the Welsh Government was working with universities \"to bring back students when it's safe and appropriate to do\".\n\nShe told Radio Cymru's Dewi Llwyd programme that any \"spare\" vaccinations should be offered to school staff as a priority.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies welcomed the moves to reopen schools but was concerned that not enough was being done for businesses.\n\nSchools in England and Northern Ireland are set to return from 8 March but Scotland's youngest are to restart face-to-face learning from Monday, as well as some senior pupils.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatt Hancock says it was \"the right thing to do\" to delay publishing contracts during the pandemic, despite a court ruling he acted unlawfully.\n\nA judge ruled the health secretary had \"breached his legal obligation\" by not publishing details within 30 days of contracts being signed.\n\nBut Mr Hancock told the BBC his team had been focused on sourcing PPE.\n\nHe said they \"spent all of their time buying life-saving equipment, even if the paperwork was a little bit late\".\n\nBut one of the MPs who supported the legal action - the Green Party's Caroline Lucas - said Mr Hancock's response made her angry.\n\nShe tweeted: \"How dare Hancock suggest he broke [the] law to prevent shortages of PPE on the frontline?\n\n\"Health workers died for lack of [the] right PPE at [the] right time because of incompetence, cronyism and waste - does he think our memories are so short?\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would not call for Mr Hancock to resign over the court ruling, saying it was \"not what the public really want to see\".\n\nBut he told Sky News there had been \"a lot of problems... on transparency and on who the contracts went to\", as well as \"a lot of wasted money [which is] a real cause for concern\".\n\nOther Labour MPs have said the health secretary should quit, including Nadia Whittome, who tweeted: \"In what other job could you break the law and be let off?\"\n\nThe health secretary earlier told Sky News the issue had been \"put right over the summer\", and he committed to publishing \"what is legally required and what is normal to publish\" going forward.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) struck deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCampaign group the Good Law Project took legal action against the Department of Health - supported by three MPs Ms Lucas, Labour's Debbie Abrahams and Lib Dem Layla Moran - over its \"wholesale failure\" to disclose details of the contracts agreed.\n\nUnder the law, the government is required to publish a \"contract award notice\" within 30 days of the awarding any contracts for public goods or services worth more than £120,000.\n\nBut in his ruling, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish contract award notices within 30 days of the award of contracts.\n\n\"There is also no dispute that the secretary of state failed to publish redacted contracts in accordance with the transparency policy.\"\n\nThe judge called it an \"historic failure\" by the department, adding: \"The public were entitled see who this money was going to, what it was being spent on and how the relevant contracts were awarded.\"\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas - one of the MPs who supported the legal action - reacted angrily to Matt Hancock's comments\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr if he would apologise following the ruling, Mr Hancock said the contracts had been published \"just after a fortnight late\" on average, \"because my team were working seven days a week, often 18 hours a day, to get hold of the equipment that was saving lives\".\n\nThe health secretary said \"of course contracts like this need to be published\" and the judge's comments about ensuring transparency were \"100% right\".\n\nBut he said: \"People can make up their own view about whether I should have told my team to stop buying PPE and spend the time bringing forward those transparency returns by just over a fortnight or whether I was right to buy the PPE and get it to the frontline.\n\n\"You tell me that that's wrong. You can't and the reason you can't is because it was the right thing to do and legal cases about timings of transparency returns are completely second order compared to saving lives.\"\n\nMr Hancock added: \"There is no health secretary in history that would have taken the view that they need to take people off the project of buying PPE in order to ensure nine months later the health secretary didn't have a slightly bumpy interview on the Marr programme.\n\n\"It is not what it is about, it is about doing the right thing.\"\n\nBut shadow justice secretary David Lammy called on Mr Hancock to come to Parliament and explain how he would make the system more transparent.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the government should cancel the temporary rules put in place during the pandemic to speed up government procurement contracts.\n\nAnd he accused Mr Hancock of using the emergency measures \"without any accountability or any transparency\" - calling his actions \"outrageous\".", "Insurance market Lloyd's of London is seeking an archivist who would examine its artefacts for historical links to the slave trade.\n\nIt has posted an advert for an expert to investigate its collection of more than 3,000 items, including paintings, swords and furniture.\n\nIt is not yet clear what will happen to the objects following the research.\n\nLast June, Lloyd's apologised for its \"shameful\" role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nLloyd's, which was founded in 1688, insured slave ships. It is often lauded as the world's leading insurance market, focusing on specialist areas, such as marine, energy and political risk.\n\nJournals published by the insurance market in the 18th and 19th Centuries also often contained advertisements for slave ships.\n\nThe new recruit to the Lloyd's archives will carry out research \"to ascertain what artefacts and objects link to African and Caribbean history (specifically slavery and abolition)\", according to the job advert.\n\nFor example, they will look into the swords and pieces of silverware the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund gave out as prizes to those in the military who \"went above the call of duty\" and have since been returned to its collections.\n\nA spokeswoman for Lloyd's of London said: \"As society evolves, it is right and proper for us to take a look at those symbols and artefacts and make a decision as to whether or not what they stand for reflects where we are.\n\n\"Of course, it is important to fully understand history, but we must do so in a way that reflects changing sentiments and societal views as we more fully understand that history - the good, and the bad.\"\n\nDr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University said that the move by Lloyd's was \"very welcome\".\n\n\"The work of analysing the historical relationship between commercial organisations and the business of slavery must take place within the context of evidence-based research. That process begins with examining the archive as well as relevant material culture held by Lloyds,\" she said.\n\nShe added that transparency around the research is key, and hopes details on any linked records or artefacts will be made available to historians of slavery, community groups and the public \"so they can understand the ways in which slavery and its legacies shaped both Lloyd's and the wider City of London during this period.\"\n\nActivists in September protested outside London financial institutions with historical links to the slave trade\n\nAfter racial justice protests swept across the United States in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody, pressure on firms to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality has intensified.\n\nIn a statement in June 2020, Lloyd's said: \"There are some aspects of our history that we are not proud of.\n\n\"In particular, we are sorry for the role played by the Lloyd's market in the 18th and 19th Century slave trade.\"\n\n\"This was an appalling and shameful period of English history, as well as our own, and we condemn the indefensible wrongdoing that occurred during this period.\"\n\nAt the time, the centuries-old insurance market also committed to providing financial support to charities and organisations promoting opportunity and inclusion for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nIt was one of a number of firms identified in an investigation by the Telegraph newspaper to have historical links to the slave trade.\n\nPub chain Greene King, for example, apologised after it was found that one of its founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nThe company said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\", after consulting with its staff on how this money can best be used.", "People gathered at the site of the crash on Sunday morning\n\nSeven people have died after a Nigerian military plane crashed short of a runway in the capital Abuja on Sunday morning, according to officials.\n\nThe Nigerian Air Force plane had reported engine failure, the military spokesman tweeted.\n\nThe plane was on the way to Minna, in the northern state of Niger to try to rescue 42 people who had been kidnapped.\n\nThe chief of air staff has ordered an immediate investigation.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the air force asked the public to \"remain calm & await the outcome of investigation\".\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\nAir force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Ibikunle Daramola said that all those on board the small aircraft had died.\n\nWitnesses say they heard a loud sound, then the aircraft burst into flames, reports the BBC's Ishaq Khalid.\n\nA witness told Reuters the smell of burning and chemicals lingered in the air at the site of the crash, in scrubland just outside the airport perimeter.\n\nVice Marshal Daramola told the BBC that the aircraft was on a mission to try to rescue 42 people, including students and staff abducted from their boarding school in the town of Kagara on Wednesday, when it turned back following engine failure.", "The easing comes after more than 49% of people received at least one dose of the vaccine\n\nIsrael is easing lockdown restrictions as studies there reveal the Pfizer vaccine is 95.8% effective in preventing hospitalisations and death.\n\nFrom Sunday, shops, libraries and museums can open but social distancing and masks are still required.\n\nThe health ministry says it is the first stage of returning to normal life.\n\nIsrael has the highest vaccination rate in the world. More than 49% of people have received at least one dose.\n\nThe country entered its third lockdown on 27 December after a resurgence of the virus.\n\nUnder the easing measures, people are now able to enter shopping malls and tourist attractions such as zoos.\n\nShopping malls are now able to open to the public\n\nA number of other facilities are now able to reopen including gyms, hotels and synagogues. However they require a \"green passport\", a certificate that can only be obtained once you have been vaccinated. A small number of people who have recovered from the virus and are not currently eligible for the vaccine are also able to obtain the certificate.\n\nThe passport, which is contained in an app, is issued by the health ministry and will be valid for six months, one week after the second dose.\n\nCrowds are now allowed back at concerts and sporting events have reopened at 75% capacity but they have a cap of no more than 300 people inside and 500 outside.\n\nDespite the easing of restrictions, Israel's airport will remain closed for another two weeks.\n\nOn Saturday, the health ministry said studies revealed the risk of illness from the virus has dropped 95.8% among people who have had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nIt also found that the vaccine was 98% effective in preventing fever or breathing problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he expects 95% of Israelis over 50 to be vaccinated over the next two weeks.\n\nEarlier this week, the Gaza Strip received its first doses of the vaccine after Israel approved the transfer through its border. The shipment included 2,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine which will be used on patients who have had organ transplants and those with kidney failure, an official told Reuters news agency.\n\nIt comes as the Palestinian Health Ministry struck a deal with Israel's Health Ministry to vaccinate 100,000 Palestinians who work in the country.\n\nIt's thought about five million Palestinians so far are waiting for their vaccines.", "The bloom of an Amazonian moonflower, believed to be a \"UK first\", has been captured in a time-lapse film.\n\nThe Selenicereus wittii, a cactus within the collection at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, has drawn attention from around the world as it only blossoms for 12 hours.\n\nIt was thought the plant would blossom at night, but a garden spokesperson said it appeared it was a \"sun lover\" as it revealed its flower before sunset on Saturday.\n\nStaff at the garden hope it will bloom every year.", "All adults in the UK will be offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July, the prime minister has pledged.\n\nMore than 17 million people have been given a jab since the UK's Covid vaccine rollout began in December 2020.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he now wants the programme to \"go further and faster\".\n\nHe said the July target would allow vulnerable people to be protected \"sooner\" and would help to further ease lockdown rules across the country.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there were \"early signs\" the vaccine rollout was contributing to a fall in hospital admissions.\n\nThe PM is due to hold a final meeting with senior ministers about how to ease England's lockdown later, before he sets out the full \"road map\" on Monday.\n\nA speedy rollout of the vaccine to all vulnerable people is seen as critical to reducing the pandemic's death toll and relieving pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe government's previous target was to offer all adults the first dose by September.\n\nThe new plan means that by 15 April, all adults aged 50 and over, as well as younger people with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk, should have been offered a jab.\n\nHowever, the order of priority for under-50s has yet to be outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, said he expected that a public announcement would be made on vaccine priorities at some point in the next week.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"The strategy from JCVI that's being provided as advice to the government is just being finalised at the moment, and then government will make their decision as to how to do this during the coming days, so I think there'll be some kind of public announcement around that in the next week or so.\"\n\nThe speedier rollout of the vaccine is likely to raise expectations - and pressure - for a swifter unlocking in England, but the government is still talking the language of caution.\n\nSenior ministers will finalise the plan today before it's presented to the wider Cabinet for approval tomorrow.\n\nIt's unlikely that any restrictions will change before 8 March, when the government hopes to get all children back into schools.\n\nThe prime minister has long said that is his top priority.\n\nBut it is likely that a small tweak will be made from that date to allow people to meet one other person outdoors for social purposes rather than just for exercise.\n\nA Downing Street source said this would be the beginning of allowing people to meet each other for socialising once again as the government recognised the impact of not seeing loved ones.\n\nIt's understood various options - which could include reintroducing the rule of six - are being considered for the weeks beyond.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, welcomed the vaccine targets being moved forward, but called on the government to prioritise people based on their job.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"It's perfectly reasonable for teachers, police officers and other key workers who haven't been able to stay at home in the lockdown to ask when their turn will be.\n\n\"If government aren't going to prioritise by occupation in the next phase, they need to set out why.\"\n\nMr Ashworth also said the vaccination programme needed to be supported by stronger measures to break the chain of infection, such as \"decent financial support\" for people who have to self-isolate, updated guidance on face coverings and better ventilation standards in workplaces.\n\nSome 17.2 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine at one of the 1,500 vaccination sites across the country, and almost 600,000 have received their second dose.\n\nNHS England said that more than two-thirds of those aged between 65 and 69 have had their first dose of a vaccine - just one week after invitations went out.\n\nNext, about 460,000 people aged 64 will be invited to get their jab.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: \"Over 14.5 million of the most vulnerable people in England have already safely had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and with people aged between 65 and 69 now eligible too, we want everyone else in this age group to consider making this week your week to get a jab.\"\n\nThe government previously met its pledge of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top four priority groups - including those aged 70 and over, care home residents, healthcare workers and people required to shield - by 15 February.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Hitting 15 million vaccinations was a significant milestone - but there will be no let up, and I want to see the rollout go further and faster in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We will now aim to offer a jab to every adult by the end of July, helping us protect the most vulnerable sooner, and take further steps to ease some of the restrictions in place.\"\n\nHe added, however, that the \"route out of lockdown\" would be \"cautious and phased\".\n\nReuniting families and allowing people to have more social contact will be an \"absolute priority\" in easing measures once schools have reopened, No 10 said on Saturday.\n\nOne of the first steps towards this is that care home residents in England will each be allowed one regular visitor from 8 March.\n\nThose nominated visitors will be able to meet indoors and hold hands with their loved one, but must wear personal protective equipment and be tested beforehand.\n\nIn Scotland, care home residents will be allowed up to two designated visitors once a week, under guidelines due to be published on Wednesday. The Scottish government hopes to publish a route out of lockdown next week, but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged people not to book Easter holidays.\n\nWales has already announced some relaxation of its lockdown rules, but Northern Ireland has extended its stay-at-home order until April.", "King's Mill in Wrexham has stood empty since 2013\n\nAn 18th Century corn mill should be sold to a community group rather than auctioned, campaigners have said.\n\nKing's Mill in Wrexham stopped working in 1940, was officially opened as a visitors centre in 1991 by Princess Diana but has stood empty since 2013.\n\nMelin y Brenin Community Group claimed Wrexham council had \"ignored\" its attempts to acquire the building.\n\nBut the council said an auction was \"the best opportunity\" to bring the mill \"back into productive use\".\n\nThe community group's chairman Phil Phillips said the group was informed of the council's intention to sell the freehold on the mill last November and offered to pay £10,000 for the building and also cover the costs of upgrading it.\n\n\"We heard nothing until January, when we asked them what's going on here and suddenly it went to auction - it went to auction without telling us as an interested party,\" he said.\n\nThe building has a guide price of £165,000 and is due to go under the hammer on 24 March, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have now signed an online petition calling for the auction to be stopped and for the mill to be put in the hands of the community.\n\nMr Price said the mill was \"very important\" in an area that \"drove the industrial revolution\".\n\nHe said since about 2018 the group had been in discussions with the council about acquiring or leasing the site to transform it into a centre for locals and tourists.\n\n\"For three years we've virtually been ignored,\" said Mr Phillips.\n\n\"We've got a business plan in place, which the council asked us for, we've got the support of the community and we've also got together a team of specialists and volunteers, and [the] time and money of sponsors, to make sure this is a working project.\n\n\"But sadly we've not had any co-operation from a council that says it wants to get rid of it.\"\n\nThe mill was officially opened as a visitors centre in 1991 by Princess Diana\n\nA covenant saying the mill must be used as a public amenity - in place since the council acquired the property from the Erddig estate - still applies.\n\nIn a statement, Wrexham Council said the auction \"offers the best opportunity for a group or individual to acquire the building, invest in the building and to bring it back into productive use\".\n\n\"It must be stressed that the covenant on the building is not being ignored, and the building is being sold with the covenant in place,\" it 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. Prince Charles arrived at the hospital on Saturday afternoon\n\nThe Prince of Wales has visited the central London hospital where his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, remains after feeling unwell.\n\nPrince Philip was admitted to the King Edward VII's hospital as a precaution on Tuesday.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source told the BBC the duke is likely to remain in hospital into next week.\n\nThe exact reason for his admission has not been disclosed but his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nA palace source previously said the duke, who is due to turn 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nPrince Charles, 72, spent about 30 minutes at the hospital on Saturday afternoon. He returned to his Highgrove residence after the visit, a Clarence House spokesman said.\n\nUnder England's current coronavirus lockdown rules, visiting someone in a hospital is considered a \"reasonable excuse\" to leave home, although many hospitals have put significant limits on visitors.\n\nThe King Edward VII's hospital website says visitors \"will only be considered in exceptional circumstances\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe duke is in hospital for observation and rest out of \"an abundance of caution\", a source said\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have continued with their official duties while Philip has been in hospital.\n\nThe Queen, 94, performed her first face-to-face event of the year on Thursday, when she knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\n\nPrince Charles visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with the Duchess of Cornwall on Thursday, where he told NHS staff the country owes them \"an enormous debt of gratitude\" for their efforts in the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has also carried out several virtual conversations with frontline NHS staff this week, while the Princess Royal held a virtual meeting in her role as patron of the Scottish Rugby Union.\n\nLast month, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip and the Queen had received Covid vaccinations from a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple have been spending the recent lockdown in England at Windsor with a small household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThey celebrated Christmas quietly there, instead of the traditional family gathering at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nPolice officers are guarding the entrance to the King Edward VII hospital during Philip's stay\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall thanked key workers at a hospital in Birmingham earlier this week for their efforts during the pandemic\n\nIn December 2019, the duke was admitted to King Edward VII hospital as a \"precautionary measure\" for treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nHe was discharged on Christmas Eve that year, after four nights and driven to Sandringham, where he spent Christmas with the Queen.\n\nThe duke has received treatment for various other health conditions over the years including a blocked coronary artery in 2011, a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip released a photograph for their 73rd wedding anniversary last November\n\nPrince Philip's most-recent official engagement saw him hand over his role of colonel-in-chief of The Rifles in a ceremony at Windsor to the Duchess of Cornwall, who received the role in a separate ceremony at Highgrove.\n\nLast November, the Queen and Prince Philip marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph of themselves opening a card made for them by their great-grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.", "The researchers put captive zebra finches to the test\n\nA test of songbirds' problem-solving skills has revealed how traffic noise impairs the animals' abilities.\n\nScientists set zebra finches a \"battery of foraging tasks\" in the presence or absence of the noise.\n\nThey found that the sound of passing cars diminished the birds' ability to find food.\n\nThe results, published in the journal Proceedings B, suggest that noise pollution has \"previously unconsidered consequences for wildlife\".\n\nThe team says the findings are likely to be relevant for a variety of bird species\n\nProf Christopher Templeton from Pacific University in Oregon, US, led the study, which he carried out in a behavioural lab with zebra finches. The researchers set the birds the tasks both in a quiet setting and while a recording of road traffic was played.\n\n\"Just hearing a car drive by is enough to really affect their performance,\" explained Prof Templeton.\n\nThe tasks were designed to mimic problem-solving and foraging (finding and gathering food) in the wild. One involved retrieving food from beneath leaf-like \"lids\" that the birds had to flip over to reveal the reward.\n\nIn another test, the birds had to work out the way into a cylinder that had a piece of food inside.\n\n\"They're almost twice as likely to do [the foraging tasks] correctly if they don't hear traffic noise,\" explained Prof Templeton.\n\n\"I think these results are going to be pretty widely applicable to other species,\" he continued. \"While the zebra finches might live in a lab, it's anything but quiet. You can imagine a colony of a whole bunch of birds making sounds all the time - it's pretty noisy.\"\n\nA study of North American sparrows showed that the \"soundscape\" of lockdown affected their songs\n\nThere is mounting evidence that human-made noise has a variety of negative effects on wildlife.\n\nIn another study published this week, researchers demonstrated the impact of traffic noise on crickets; the sound of road vehicles impairs the insects' ability to differentiate between potential mates based on their courtship songs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown\n\nDr Adam Bent, a zoologist from the University of Cambridge, told BBC News: \"This is causing a massive disruption to mate choice systems that have been in place for hundreds of thousands of years.\n\n\"That affects how a species will evolve, develop and adapt over time.\n\nScientists are using tracking devices on a number of species to investigate the impact of lockdowns\n\nDr Sophie Mowles from Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridgeshire, added that humans were \"continually changing the characteristics of environments, including through the production of anthropogenic noise\". And protecting natural environments from that noise, say scientists, will be a challenge.\n\n\"It's quite sad,\" said Prof Templeton. \"It's getting really, really difficult to find totally quiet environments not touched by human noise.\n\n\"But we can change road surfaces, think about redesigning a vehicle's tyres. I think there's great scope for trying to reduce noise - we just have to be clever with our engineering.\"\n\nHear more about how noise pollution is impacting the natural world on the Inside Science podcast on BBC Sounds", "Canada says the Proud Boys are a \"neo-fascist organisation\"\n\nCanada has designated the far-right group Proud Boys as a terrorist entity.\n\nPublic Safety Minister Bill Blair said the decision was influenced by the group's \"pivotal role\" in the 6 January riots at the Capitol in Washington, DC.\n\nThe designation allows the Proud Boys' assets to be frozen, and members of the groups could be charged with terrorist offences if they commit violent acts.\n\nThe group is all-male and anti-immigrant, and has a history of violent political confrontations.\n\nIt was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, the Canadian co-founder of Vice Media. Vice has since worked to distance itself from Mr McInnes and the Proud Boys\n\nThe Proud Boys' platform includes ideas espoused by former US President Donald Trump, libertarianism and traditional gender roles.\n\nThe group was mentioned by Mr Trump during the first US presidential debate last October.\n\nResponding to a question about white supremacist and militia groups, he said, \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by\", which members of the group online took as a call to prepare for action. Mr Trump later distanced himself from them.\n\nThe announcement in Canada comes one week after the US Department of Homeland Security warned of a \"heightened threat\" of domestic terrorism from violent extremists unhappy with the outcome of the presidential election.\n\nAnd just hours after the announcement, the US Justice Department announced it had arrested and charged a top member of the group's Seattle chapter. Ethan Nordean, 30, who is also known as Rufio Panman, is at least the eighth group member to be charged in connection with the Capitol riots.\n\nIn Canada on Wednesday, Mr Blair described a \"growing threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism\". He did not specify how many Proud Boy chapters are currently in Canada.\n\nThe Canadian Proud Boy groups had previously been thought of as disparate and disorganised, but the new designation suggests their perceived threat has been elevated.\n\nThe decision was made based on \"a trove of new information\", Mr Blair said. \"Over the past several months, basically since 2018, we have seen an escalation towards violence for this group [the Proud Boys].\"\n\nThe escalation has continued since the US presidential election, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Then-President Donald Trump said last October: \"I don't know who the Proud Boys are\"\n\nIn his announcement, Mr Blair referenced \"several different occasions\" of attacks in Canada from those with far-right and extremist ideologies. Last week, the country marked the four-year anniversary of a mass shooting in a Quebec mosque that killed six people and injured 19.\n\nDespite strict travel restrictions between the US and Canada, at least two Canadians later identified in media reports made it to Washington for last month's storming of the Capitol. And images and video of the 6 January riots show at least one Canadian flag held by someone in the crowd.\n\nCanada is the first country to give the Proud Boys a terrorist designation.\n\nTwo other far-right US groups - Atomwaffen Division and the Base - have also been designated by Canada as terrorist entities, along with several affiliates of the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda.\n\nA total of six white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have been designated by terrorist entities in Canada. Prior to 2018, no such groups were listed as a terrorist threat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Then-President Donald Trump said last October: \"I don't know who the Proud Boys are\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The organiser tried to reason the party was supposed to have been only a \"little gathering\"\n\nA woman has been fined £10,000 for a \"blatant breach\" of Covid restrictions after a birthday party attended by more than 30 people was broken up by police.\n\nLancashire Police broke up the gathering at a house on Wigan Road, Ormskirk, in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nA force spokesman said the attendees were believed to be students from Edge Hill University.\n\nHe said many had fled when officers arrived but nine had been issued with £800 fixed penalty notices.\n\nBody-worn camera footage released by the force showed the woman who had organised the party telling officers it was supposed to have been a \"little gathering\".\n\n\"How do you expect a 20-year-old girl to pay £10,000 for this?\" she said, adding: \"It's not worth £10,000.\"\n\nAnother person can be heard telling officers that \"we've been bored and we want to have fun\".\n\nThe force said in addition to the fines, a 23-year-old man was arrested after an officer was pushed and is due to appear at Preston Magistrates' Court in April.\n\nSupt Karen Edwards said the party was \"a blatant breach of the current restrictions, which are in place to prevent the virus from spreading and to keep everybody safe\".\n\nShe said it was \"unbelievably selfish for anyone to believe they are exempt when so many law-abiding citizens have not seen friends and family properly in almost a year\".\n\nA spokesman for Edge Hill University said the institution was \"fully co-operating and working closely with the police\" over what happened.\n\n\"It was completely unacceptable behaviour and we will be taking appropriate action in line with our disciplinary procedures,\" he added.\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.", "Mario Draghi is set to meet with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday\n\nItaly's president is to meet former Central European Bank head Mario Draghi on Wednesday where he is expected to ask him to form a government.\n\nIt comes after party leaders failed to agree on a new coalition following the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte last week.\n\nItaly is still grappling with coronavirus and is also facing the worst economic crisis in decades.\n\nThe country has recorded 89,344 deaths, the sixth highest death toll in the world.\n\nThe president's spokesman confirmed that the meeting with Mr Draghi would take place on Wednesday.\n\nMr Mattarella said he hoped the new government would have parliamentary backing. He warned that the only alternative would be to hold early elections but that would leave the country in a state of uncertainty, eAnsa news agency reports.\n\nItaly's 5-star movement says it will not back a government led by Mr Draghi, a senior party source told Reuters news agency.\n\nDuring Mr Draghi's eight years at the European Central Bank (ECB), he steered the eurozone through the financial crisis.\n\nHe has not commented on Wednesday's meeting which was scheduled shortly after talks with the former coalition government fell apart.\n\nThe government was sent into chaos after former PM Matteo Renzi pulled his small, liberal Italia Viva party out of the coalition over Mr Conte's plans for spending EU recovery funds. He said he would only return if Mr Conte accepted a list of demands.\n\nMr Conte survived a vote of confidence in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, last week. He then won a Senate vote, but without an absolute majority.\n\nLast week, he resigned in the hope of forming a stronger coalition government.", "Dennis Warren, deceased, and Ricky Tomlinson: Among the 14 appellants in the case\n\nTrade unionists attempting to overturn convictions in a 47-year-long campaign have told the Court of Appeal they were victims of an establishment plot.\n\nThe 14-strong group, including actor Ricky Tomlinson, say police destroyed evidence, and shadowy security chiefs prejudiced their trial.\n\nThe men were convicted over allegedly illegal protests during a 1972 strike.\n\nSix of the 14 have since died, including Dennis Warren, who was jailed for three years.\n\nTheir families are continuing the cases in their names. Tomlinson, then known as Eric, was jailed for two years in the first of three trials that lasted until 1974.\n\nAppellants Terry Renshaw (second left) and John McKinsie Jones (centre) at the Court of Appeal\n\nIn June 1972, trade unionists called the UK's first-ever national builders' strike in protest against pay, unjust employment practices and dangerous conditions on sites.\n\nFlying pickets, in which trade unionists travel to demonstrate from one site to another, went from town to town urging builders to down tools - and in September six coach-loads of strikers demonstrated in Shrewsbury and Telford.\n\nPolice arrested none of the demonstrators that day - but five months later, amid pressure from building industry bosses, Tomlinson and others were charged and subsequently convicted of offences including unlawful assembly, intimidation and affray.\n\nThose convictions triggered a massive campaign among left-wing groups during the 1970s - but the men failed to have the verdicts reversed on appeal.\n\nLast year, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the official body that looks at potential miscarriages of justice, sent the case back to the Court of Appeal after Eileen Turnbull, the researcher for the justice campaign, uncovered a potentially crucial document in the National Archives.\n\nThat document, part of prosecution papers, revealed for the first time that police had destroyed some of the original witness statements.\n\nDanny Friedman QC, speaking for 12 of the men, told the Court of Appeal these missing original statements would have been crucial.\n\n\"If today a prosecution counsel is told by [police] officers ... original statements have been destroyed, two things absolutely have to happen.\n\n\"Number one, you need to immediately get a statement from the officer in the case, explaining in detail what on earth he is talking about. Secondly, you must also make sure that this issue is disclosed to defence and the judge.\"\n\nMr Friedman said the jury must have also known about a highly-prejudicial ITV documentary, Red under the Bed.\n\nOfficial government papers show its content was influenced by a then secret anti-communist propaganda unit inside the Foreign Office which, alongside MI5, was concerned about Moscow's potential infiltration of trade unionists.\n\nThe programme was broadcast halfway through the trial - at a time when there were only three TV channels in the UK - and it was also reported in many national newspapers.\n\nIt purportedly investigated communist agitators and included footage of the defendants, their supporters, police lines and pictures of strikers.\n\nDemonstration: Trade unionists came out in support of Tomlinson and Warren - and later the others\n\nA studio discussion following the film included a panellist referring to the builders' strike as an example of \"blatant communist influence\".\n\nThat statement alone was deeply prejudicial, say the 14's lawyers, because it would have provoked \"panic\" in the mind of the jury.\n\nMr Friedman told the court: \"It is obvious... a covert executive agency played a part in deliberately propagandising against the core subject matter of the [men's prosecution].\n\n\"It is clear now that the higher echelons of the state bore responsibility for deliberate covert involvement in the production of the programme.\"\n\nLawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service are expected to argue during the appeal's second day that the TV documentary is irrelevant, and that no actual evidence was destroyed by police as they prepared case papers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Endometriosis left me to suffer in silence'\n\nA woman who had to wait 11 years before an endometriosis diagnosis has joined calls for menstrual wellbeing to be taught in schools.\n\nCharl Davies, of Blaenavon, Torfaen, said she had to \"suffer in silence\".\n\nMember of the Senedd Suzy Davies, who has also suffered, has called for the topic to be compulsory in schools.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it expected one of the groups working on the new curriculum to consider topics like menstrual wellbeing in more detail.\n\nCharity Endometriosis UK said this provided hope, but not certainty, to those struggling with the condition.\n\nIt said women in Wales were waiting on average for nine years for a diagnosis, compared to a UK average of eight years.\n\nIt also said women were now having to wait longer because of delays related to coronavirus - but said a greater awareness of the condition from a younger age could help reduce diagnosis times.\n\nEndometriosis is a condition where tissue, like that in the lining of the womb, grows elsewhere in the body, often around reproductive organs, the bowel and bladder.\n\nLike the womb lining, it builds up and bleeds every month, but with no way of escape, blood becomes trapped and causes inflammation, pain and the formation of scar tissue.\n\nThe condition, which affects one in 10 women in the UK, can cause pain, heavy periods and infertility.\n\nThere is no cure, but treatments can reduce symptoms.\n\nCharl Davies, 28, started to experience symptoms of the condition at the age of 10 and said the pain was so bad it would cause her to become breathless and faint.\n\nShe said she spent \"most of her time as a child\" crying over the disease and would tell her mother she was in so much pain she could not go to school.\n\nLast year, 17 years after her symptoms started and 11 after she began looking for a diagnosis, she got one after two laparoscopies on the NHS and a private consultation.\n\nIt was a \"bittersweet moment\", she said.\n\n\"In that moment I felt like, wow, all these years. Nobody listened to me. And I felt really emotional.\"\n\nShe thinks she would have found a correlation between her symptoms and the condition if she had been taught about it in school, but instead was left to \"suffer in silence\".\n\n\"I feel like it would benefit so many people and stop endometriosis in its tracks rather than letting it progress over the years, attaching to other organs, it takes years for it to do that,\" she said.\n\nShe needed two laparoscopies, a keyhole surgery where a camera is used to look at internal organs, before she could get a diagnosis\n\nShe needed two laparoscopies, a keyhole surgery where a camera is used to look at internal organs, before she could get a diagnosis\n\nRowan Walsh, from Monmouthshire, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2017.\n\nShe said her symptoms started aged 11 when her periods started: \"I knew my periods weren't normal, they were just so heavy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is debilitating every single day, not just during your period like some people think - it is every day.\"\n\nShe told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales if she had been told about it in school it would have helped: \"Having that education in school would have made such a massive difference in terms of knowing what to fight for.\"\n\nFair Treatment for the Women of Wales, a patient-led women's health equality charity, has been campaigning for menstrual wellbeing education in Wales for the last two years and is urging the government to act.\n\nIn a statement, the group said: \"We believe that menstrual wellbeing needs to be on the curriculum in Wales to ensure that we overcome taboos and misconceptions which see periods and associated issues like heavy bleeding and pain either go unspoken or dismissed as being 'normal'.\n\n\"Far too many pupils are not getting the best out of their education as a result of their periods, and future health and prospects are also affected.\"\n\nSuzy Davies, the education spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives' Senedd group, said she was diagnosed with endometriosis in her late 40s.\n\nShe proposed an amendment to make menstrual wellbeing a mandatory part of the new curriculum, as it was in England in 2020, but this was rejected by a majority of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.\n\nMs Davies said she was told \"it's a mess in there\" when she was diagnosed, but said it helped to explain the \"nasty\" symptoms she had experienced for two years.\n\nShe said: \"There were times when I was on the verge of fainting in work, which I just put down to something else completely and it's not. It turns out to be endometriosis and the effect it has on you.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams told the committee she agreed it was an important topic and she would work with one of the groups developing the curriculum guidance to see what opportunities there were to include it.\n\nSuzy Davies was diagnosed with endometriosis in her late 40s\n\nMs Davies said she planned to bring back the amendment at a later stage of the curriculum bill.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Growing up has a critical impact on learners' health and wellbeing. The expectation within the new curriculum is that schools consider a range of issues that affect learners' physical health and help them understand and manage developmental changes, including puberty and conditions such as endometriosis.\n\n\"The Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) working group is currently developing draft guidance which will form part of the Curriculum for Wales framework. We expect the group to consider topics such as menstrual wellbeing in more detail.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on Wales Live at 22:35 GMT on Wednesday on BBC One Wales, and on the BBC iPlayer", "As many as 88% of people still have antibodies in their blood to fight Covid-19 six months after infection, a study of almost 1,700 people suggests.\n\nThe data - from one of the world's largest follow-up Covid studies - also provides more detail about the likely symptoms experienced by those infected.\n\nWhile 26% had a cough and 28% had a fever, a bigger proportion - 43% - said they lost the sense of taste or smell.\n\nBut 40% had had none of these - and about 20% had had no symptoms at all.\n\nThe data also backs up previous studies on who is most likely to have been infected with Covid at some point during the pandemic.\n\nAmong a full group of nearly 20,000 people who were regularly tested monthly during the pandemic, it was younger adults, black or South Asian people and those living in deprived areas who were most likely to test positive for the antibodies.\n\nThe UK Biobank is a database of blood, urine and saliva samples, heart and brain scans and the genetic data of half a million people who volunteered to have their information analysed to help with global medical research.\n\nJust under 20,000 of these participants each gave a blood sample every month between 27 May and 4 December 2020.\n\nAnd 1,699 tested positive for antibodies during this period, which indicates a past Covid-19 infection.\n\nMost of these were already testing positive in the first month of the study, suggesting they had acquired the infection during the first wave.\n\nBy the end of the study, six months later, 88% still had detectable antibodies.\n\nThis echoes findings from previous, smaller studies in healthcare workers.\n\nAnd it is possible that some or all of the 12% whose tests went from positive to negative retained some protection against subsequent infection although their antibodies had fallen below the threshold measured by the study.\n\nUK Biobank chief scientist Prof Naomi Allen said: \"Although we cannot be certain how [the presence of antibodies] relates to immunity, the results suggest that people may be protected against subsequent infection for at least six months following natural infection.\n\n\"More prolonged follow-up will allow us to determine how long such protection is likely to last.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nNot everyone was equally likely to show signs of previous infection.\n\nThe antibody study echoes other data showing which groups were hit hardest by the virus.\n\nAmong the full group of 20,000 participants, 16% of the black people tested positive for antibodies, compared with:\n\nThere were regional differences too, with Londoners most likely to have antibodies and people in Scotland least likely.\n\nAnd 13.5% of the adults under 30 tested positive, compared with 6.7% of the over-70s.\n\nA separate study by the ONS, based on blood test results from a random sample of people over 16, found around one in seven people in England had antibodies in their blood in mid-January.\n\nThe figure was one in nine in Wales, one in 11 in Northern Ireland and one in 10 in Scotland.\n\nThis suggests these people had been infected with the virus in the past, but this is unlikely to be the total infected since the start of the UK epidemic last spring because antibodies - although they are present for at least six months after infection - do decline over time.\n\nVaccinations also build up antibodies in those given jabs, to help fight off the virus, but the ONS does not differentiate between the two things.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore has died, aged 100, after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nBorn 30 April 1920, Captain Sir Tom was an Army veteran who came to prominence when he walked 100 laps for NHS Charities Together in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, aged 99.\n\nThe fundraising walk began on 6 April 2020, during the first UK lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis intention was to raise £1,000 for the NHS charity, but he soon became a social media phenomenon and had raised £12m by the time he reached the finish line.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore seen completing his charity walk in his garden on 16 April 2020\n\nAs donations continued to grow, Captain Sir Tom became a household name and made many media appearances, with the total fundraising sum reaching over £30m.\n\n\"When we started off with this exercise, we didn't anticipate we'd get anything near that sort of money,\" Captain Sir Tom said at the time.\n\n\"All of them, from top to bottom, in the National Health Service, they deserve everything that we can possibly put in their place.\n\nOriginally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, Captain Sir Tom was a former British Army officer, serving in India and the Burma campaign during World War Two and rising to the rank of captain.\n\nBritish Army Captain Tom Moore seen in his military uniform\n\nAfter the war, he worked his way up to managing director of a concrete company, and also was an avid motorcycle racer.\n\nFollowing his NHS fundraising triumph in 2020, the army veteran achieved a number one single with his rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone, alongside Michael Ball, making him the oldest person to ever achieve a UK number one.\n\n\"My grandchildren can't believe I'm a chart-topper,\" he said at the time.\n\nProceeds from the single went to NHS Charities Together.\n\nOn 30 April 2020, Captain Sir Tom celebrated his 100th birthday and received thousands of cards from well-wishers all over the world, including greetings from the Queen and prime minister.\n\nThousands of cards sent to Captain Sir Tom Moore for his 100th birthday were displayed in the Hall of Bedford School (above and below).\n\nHis birthday was marked with an RAF flypast, and he was made an honorary colonel.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore waves as Spitfire and Hurricane wartime planes fly over his home in celebration of his 100th birthday\n\nBrigadier Andrew Jackson, colonel of the Yorkshire Regiment, described Captain Sir Tom as \"an absolute legend [from] an exceptional generation that are still an inspiration for our Yorkshire soldiers today\".\n\nOn 17 July 2020, he was knighted by the Queen in her first official engagement in person since the start of the first lockdown.\n\nThe Queen used the sword that belonged to her father, George VI, to bestow the insignia of Knight Bachelor upon Captain Sir Tom\n\nThe investiture was staged in a \"unique ceremony\" at Windsor Castle.\n\n\"This is such a high award and to get it from Her Majesty as well - what more can anyone wish for?\" Captain Sir Tom said of the event.\n\n\"This has been an absolutely magnificent day for me.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore poses with his medal after being made a Knight Bachelor at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen personally praised the veteran, telling him: \"Thank you so much, an amazing amount of money you raised.\"\n\nThe Queen talks with Captain Sir Tom Moore (centre) alongside his family after presenting him with the insignia of Knight Bachelor at at Windsor Castle\n\nAn official portrait of Moore was unveiled at the National Army Museum in London in August 2020.\n\nThe oil painting was created by artist Alexander Chamberlin and was hung as part of commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day (below).\n\nMoore released his autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day (below) in September 2020.\n\nIn December 2020, a bronze bust of Captain Sir Tom Moore was unveiled at Leeds hospital.\n\nA bronze bust of Captain Sir Tom Moore seen with Garry McBride of Monumental Icons, the company that produced the artwork\n\nHis fundraising activities inspired many people around the country, with murals and artwork dedicated to the centenarian.\n\nArtist Sam Bailey produced artwork featuring Captain Sir Tom Moore at her home in Northampton (above and below)\n\nA mural by artist Sam Bailey featuring Captain Tom Moore (left) and Grenadier Guard Lance Sergeant Eric Presland (right), to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day\n\nA mural depicting the veteran's famous fundraising walk was painted on the wall of a pub in Pontefract by local artist Rachel List\n\nGraeme Bandeira, cartoonist for the Yorkshire Post, holds up his illustration of Captain Sir Tom Moore at his home studio\n\nA mural of Moore seen on the side of a building in Southport by artist and former boxer Rob Newbiggin\n\nA nurse at Aintree University Hospital sheds a tear and as she pays tribute to Capt Sir Tom Moore during the Clap for Our Carers on 16 April 2020", "Esther Dingley was a \"highly intelligent and experienced hiker\" according to her partner Dan Colegate\n\nA British hiker who went missing in the Pyrenees in November was taken \"against her will\", her partner has said.\n\nDan Colegate said he cannot believe anything but the \"terrifying prospect\" that \"somebody else was involved\" in the disappearance of Esther Dingley.\n\nMs Dingley, 37, was on a solo trek from Pic de Sauvegarde near the French-Spanish border on 22 November when she last communicated with her partner.\n\nExtensive searches of the area have found no trace of her.\n\nFrench and Spanish police investigating her disappearance have said they are open to all options, including \"non-accidental\".\n\nEsther Dingley sent this photo of herself at the top of a mountain on 22 November\n\nIn a post on the couple's Facebook page, Mr Colegate dismissed speculation that she voluntarily disappeared because she was unhappy in their relationship as \"salacious nonsense\".\n\nHe said the couple, who were living in Durham before heading off on a six year-long campervan adventure, had purposely built an \"unconventional lifestyle\" which, like any relationship, had its tensions, but they were both happy with.\n\nHe also said as a \"highly intelligent and experienced hiker\" who has seen search operations in action, the \"idea she would trigger that and put others at risk to get some time alone rather than simply say 'I need some time alone' is ridiculous to me\".\n\nMr Colegate said if she had been injured in the mountains he is sure she would have been found by the searchers.\n\n\"All of which leads me to believe that somebody else has been involved in Esther's disappearance and against her will,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a terrifying prospect and I wish I could believe otherwise, but I cannot.\n\n\"A happy, experienced, well-equipped and fit young woman went missing in an area with clear paths and mostly open terrain.\n\n\"An intensive search found no sign of her, or any of her equipment. It is as though she vanished into thin air.\"\n\nThe couple's 19th anniversary together is in two weeks\n\nMr Colegate, who is currently in France, said he plans to return to the area as soon as he is allowed to resume the search.\n\n\"All that matters to me and Esther's parents is finding her,\" he said.\n\n\"We all still hold on to the thin hope that she might still come back to us safely.\n\n\"Her face appears to me all the time, whether or not I am occupied with other things.\n\n\"For almost two decades now we have shared almost everything, building a life together that was occasionally challenging but mostly full of joy and love.\n\n\"Without Esther, I cannot imagine my life ever having meaning again.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Cliftonville Road has reopened following the shooting\n\nA murder investigation is under way after a man was shot dead in north Belfast on Tuesday night.\n\nThe victim, who was Daniel McClean, is believed to have been shot in his car on the Cliftonville Road.\n\nMr McClean, who was in his 50s, was identified in court in 2019 as a dissident republican.\n\nThe shooting was reported to police at about 20:15 GMT. Local people have told BBC News NI that up to five shots were heard.\n\nDaniel McClean was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery urged anyone who was in the area at the time, or who may have information, to get in contact with police.\n\nSinn Féin North Belfast assembly member Carál Ní Chuilín described the shooting as \"shocking\" and also called for witnesses to speak to police.\n\nSDLP councillor Paul McCusker said the \"senseless and horrific\" shooting had placed even greater pressure on emergency services during the pandemic.\n\nA police cordon was in place on Wednesday morning at a guesthouse on Cliftonville Road, while nearby Clifton Crescent was also cordoned off.\n\nA police cordon was placed at a guesthouse on Cliftonville Road\n\nAlliance councillor Nuala McAllister said police needed as much information as possible to \"get to the bottom of this quite gruesome crime\".\n\nPeople Before Profit councillor Fiona Ferguson said the news was \"devastating\".\n\nShe said there was \"no place for gun violence on our streets\".\n\nDUP councillor Dale Pankhurst condemned the shooting and said his thoughts were with the victim's family.", "At times of crisis, a nation needs hope and heroes.\n\nSometimes, they're found in unlikely places - and when Britain first locked down against the coronavirus pandemic, it discovered Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nIn April 2020 the then 99-year-old war veteran accepted a little family challenge: to raise £1,000 for health service charities by walking 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of that month.\n\n\"One small soul like me won't make much difference,\" he declared in his first TV interview.\n\nHe could not have been more wrong.\n\nBy the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Captain Sir Tom had raised more than £32m from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.\n\nBut that was just the beginning - a knighthood, RAF flypast to mark him turning 100 and personal greetings from the Queen and prime minister soon followed.\n\nAnd he even became the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK, when he and Michael Ball sang a cover of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was born in Keighley on 30 April 1920. His father, Wilson, came from a family of builders; his mother, Isabella, taught children at a local school.\n\nIt was a comfortable, middle-class background, but a decade later came the Wall Street Crash. It triggered a world-wide economic depression which hit Yorkshire mill towns hard.\n\nA quarter of the British population struggled to feed themselves. Young Tom was surrounded by long lines at soup kitchens, and classmates suffering from rickets and tuberculosis.\n\nSir Tom Moore joined the Duke of Wellington's regiment in 1940\n\nBright enough to win a place at grammar school, he found he enjoyed working with his hands more than reading books.\n\n\"I was always a very practical boy,\" he recalled. \"The sort of toys I liked would be a piece of wood, some nails and a hammer.\"\n\nBut his real passion was motorbikes. At the age of 12, Captain Sir Tom discovered one lying in a barn and bought it for half a crown. He proudly took it home, and lovingly did it up.\n\nHe left school to start an apprenticeship in civil engineering, but there was barely time to finish it before World War Two broke out.\n\nConscripted into the British army in June 1940, Captain Sir Tom joined the Duke of Wellington's regiment - an infantry battalion with historic links to the West Riding.\n\nBy his own admission, he was \"too young to feel frightened\". Indeed, for a practically-minded motorsport enthusiast barely out of his teens, the British army was a thrilling place.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom spent time in Cornwall, preparing to defend the coast from a German invasion, and learned how to drive tanks.\n\nSelected for officer training, he became a second lieutenant on his 21st birthday, and - now part of the 146th Royal Armoured Corps - found himself posted to India.\n\nA motorbike enthusiast since childhood, Sir Tom Moore became a dispatch rider in the Army\n\nWith the Suez Canal closed, the sea journey took six perilous weeks. The convoy inched around the southern tip of Africa, at constant risk from German submarines.\n\nThe train ride across India took nearly as long, the burning heat made only slightly less unbearable by huge blocks of ice scattered among the troops.\n\nTheir final destination was Burma, where the British army and its Indian allies had been forced into a fighting retreat by a seemingly unstoppable Japanese advance.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was joining the bruised and bloodied \"forgotten army\", which was suffering from disease and low morale. It was fighting in the world's least hospitable terrain, with impenetrable jungle, poisonous snakes, and hot lashing rain for six months of every year.\n\nMuch of the fighting was done hand-to-hand, with no quarter given on either side. Years later, Captain Sir Tom clearly recalled staring into the \"whites of the eyes\" of the opposing troops.\n\nWith his knowledge of motorbikes, Captain Sir Tom was asked to train dispatch riders. Radio transmissions could be intercepted, so this was the best means of getting information to and from the front line.\n\nCaptain Moore (centre) taught new recruits how to drive tanks\n\nIt was dangerous work. Dispatch riders worked alone and at night. The roads that did exist were deeply rutted and thick with mud, and the risk of ambush was ever-present.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom loved the motorbikes, but described the job as a \"poisoned chalice\". Once the engine started, there was no stopping or going back.\n\n\"If it didn't go well,\" he said bluntly, \"I was dead\".\n\nSlowly, the 14th army turned the tide in Britain's favour. Over the next two years, Captain Sir Tom's team helped cut Japanese supply lines along the Burmese coast.\n\nOne notable occasion was the battle for Ramree Island in 1945. More than 1,000 Japanese infantrymen were forced into a mangrove swamp infested by salt-water crocodiles. Only a handful emerged.\n\nA then 99-year-old Captain Sir Tom embarks on his epic walk\n\nBy this time, Captain Sir Tom had survived a nasty bout of dengue fever and been promoted to Captain. With the Japanese finally on the back foot, he returned to England to train recruits in the art of driving tanks.\n\nOn VE Day, there were \"certain activities in the bar\", but Captain Sir Tom's thoughts were with his mates still fighting in the Far East. \"They didn't get a day off,\" he said.\n\nHe became an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Dorset. He loved the work, but was desperately unhappy at home\n\nIn 1949, he married his first wife Billie and took a job as a sales manager for a roofing company in his native Yorkshire. The troubled marriage lasted 18 years and did not produce children.\n\nNow in his late 40s, Captain Sir Tom resigned himself to never finding love. Until, a few years later, he met Pamela.\n\nShe was 15 years younger and an office manager at the firm's headquarters in Gravesend. Romance blossomed, and Captain Sir Tom began to think of excuses to travel down to Kent.\n\n\"She looked terrific to me, like a model,\" he later told the Daily Mail. \"The attraction became stronger and I eventually married her.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom raced his beloved Scott motorbikes around Yorkshire, winning various cups and medals. He and Pamela had two children - Lucy and Hannah.\n\nIan Silk, Headmaster of Bedford school, holds up some of Tom Moore's 160,000 birthday cards\n\nIn 1992, Captain Sir Tom retired at the age of 72. He was looking forward to retirement but life proved less than kind.\n\nPamela fell ill with dementia. Captain Sir Tom cared for his wife for two years, and then visited her care home every day until her death in 2006.\n\nNot wanting to be alone, Captain Sir Tom moved into his daughter Hannah's home in the Bedfordshire village of Marston Moretaine.\n\nThere, his routine seldom wavered: waking early each morning to let the dogs out, followed by a daily jog on a running machine. He allowed himself a few luxuries, including a daily glass of wine in front of the television. Judge Judy was a favourite programme.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was treated for skin cancer and a broken hip, and received \"marvellous service\" from the NHS. When the world locked down for the coronavirus pandemic, he saw a chance to give something back.\n\nBy his 100th birthday, Captain Tom had raised more than £30 million for NHS charities and had a record at the top of the charts\n\nBut a piece in Bedford Today about his sponsored walk mushroomed into a global media event. For millions trapped at home, Captain Sir Tom was a much-needed symbol of defiance, national unity and hope.\n\n\"Please remember,\" he said repeatedly, \"tomorrow will be a good day.\" The money flooded in.\n\nAs Captain Sir Tom turned to complete his final lap, the total stood at more than £12m. It would eventually surpass £30m. An honour guard from his old regiment saluted an extraordinary achievement.\n\nHis cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, a duet with Michael Ball, raised even more - hitting the top of the charts in time for Captain Sir Tom's hundredth birthday and making him the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK.\n\nTom Moore was awarded a knighthood at a special ceremony at Windsor Castle\n\nOn the day itself, a Spitfire wheeled in tribute over Marston Moretaine; a local school volunteered to display 160,000 birthday cards sent to a national treasure.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom - promoted to Colonel - did not set out to inspire millions. Like the young lieutenant in 1941, he was just trying to do his bit. The Queen knighted him at a special ceremony at Windsor Castle on 17 July 2020.\n\nWith stubbornness, courage and optimism, he was the right man at the right time.\n\nHe was Britain as it needed to see itself: selfless, patriotic and undefeated - and never taking a backward step.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIan Wright says he is \"disappointed\" after a teenager who sent the former England striker racist abuse was not given a criminal conviction.\n\nIrishman Patrick O'Brien, 18, sent 20 messages on Instagram after losing a Fifa video game match in May 2019.\n\nO'Brien, who blamed the loss on picking Wright as one of his players, was given probation at a hearing on Wednesday.\n\n\"I can only wonder what deterrent there is for anyone else who spouts this kind of vile racist abuse,\" said Wright.\n\nWright said he had not expected his forgiveness for O'Brien in a victim impact statement to be \"an invitation to lighten a sentence\".\n\nHe added: \"I am disappointed. I'm tired. We are all tired.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Southampton's Alex Jankewitz became the latest footballer to receive racist abuse on social media, with his club contacting Hampshire Police over messages sent to the teenage midfielder.\n\nEarlier culture secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC sports editor Dan Roan the UK government has threatened social media companies with \"large fines\" if they fail to tackle abuse on their platforms, while \"criminal sanctions\" could be considered for senior management.\n\nJudge David Waters told Tralee District Court he \"didn't see anything to be gained\" by imposing a criminal conviction.\n\nHe noted O'Brien, of Sycamore Court, Ashleigh Downs in Tralee, had shown genuine remorse for his actions and had donated 500 euros (£440) to the Irish Network Against Racism.\n\nO'Brien admitted harassing Wright and sending a message by phone that was grossly offensive, obscene and menacing.\n\nThe court heard O'Brien had written an apology to Wright, which was accepted by the 57-year-old former Arsenal player.\n\nJudge Waters said the question was whether the slurs against Wright were motivated by genuinely held views or were the \"mindless comments of a naive young man\".\n\nHe criticised the \"reprehensible views and language\" O'Brien had put on social media, but said it appeared he had shown \"genuine remorse,\" made frank admissions of his guilt and received a \"very positive\" probation report.\n\nHis solicitor, Patrick Mann, said O'Brien was a \"very, very good boy\" who was getting \"great results\" at school, adding that he was \"still a young lad\" and asked that he be allowed to go forward \"without any stain\" on his record.\n\nJudge Waters said he was minded to send O'Brien on a course to help him understand the gravity of his actions, but added that the teenager had already done this \"off his own back\".\n\nThe judge said that Wright \"generously forgave\" O'Brien and the accused had reason to be thankful for that.\n\nBut reacting to the judgement, the BBC pundit said: \"An individual wished death on me because of my skin colour.\n\n\"No judge's claims of 'naivety' or 'immaturity' will be acceptable to us.\"\n\nIn May 2020, Wright posted a series of screengrabs on social media of the offensive messages he received from O'Brien.\n\n\"I know I'm not meant to look at them but these messages still hit me so hard,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"This kid has a direct line into me and is able to send this without any worry.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Wright reacted to the news that Manchester United's Marcus Rashford and other players had been racially abused on social media.\n\n\"It seems to be a fad now - a black player plays poorly, or they think they've played poorly, and they come with all the emojis, or whatever it is,\" he told Match of the Day.\n\n\"There are ways of being able to catch people. I don't think they [social media companies] are vigilant enough, nowhere near. How much do they really care deep down?\"", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe woman accused of killing Harry Dunn was \"employed by an intelligence agency in the US\" at the time of the crash, a court has heard.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was in a crash with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.\n\nSuspect Anne Sacoolas returned to the US, claiming diplomatic immunity, and an extradition request was blocked.\n\nA court in Virginia has heard her work was \"especially a factor\" in her leaving the UK.\n\nHer barrister told the court she fled the UK for \"security issues\" and feared she would \"not get a fair trial\" if she returned.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nThe comments about her role were made at a court in the state, where an application to dismiss a civil claim for damages submitted by Mr Dunn's family is being heard.\n\nWhen asked by the judge why Mrs Sacoolas had \"fled\" the UK, her barrister John McGavin said he could not respond \"completely candidly\".\n\n\"I know the answer but I cannot disclose it,\" he said.\n\nThe statement in a US court that Anne Sacoolas was a US intelligence official is a potentially enormous and important twist in the family's fight for justice - and it raises further questions about what the Foreign Office knew about her status in the UK.\n\nThe US long ago signed an agreement that its staff at RAF Croughton could not claim diplomatic immunity for actions beyond their duties. In other words, they could be potentially prosecuted for a crime.\n\nBut the High Court ruled last year that Ms Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity because that deal - known as a waiver - did not include the dependants of US staff.\n\nIt was an extraordinary and unintended loophole that has now been closed under a revised agreement between the countries.\n\nIf Ms Sacoolas did indeed work for US intelligence, that could mean the US had no right to claim in 2019 that she had immunity in the first place. Her actions may have been covered under the Croughton waiver, or another US-UK agreement that we don't know about.\n\nAnd that's why the family now want the Foreign Office to clarify what her status was.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, family spokesman Radd Seiger called on the UK government to \"urgently reinvestigate\" whether Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity, given \"the admission in open court by Mrs Sacoolas's counsel that she was employed by US intelligence services at the time of the crash\".\n\nUnder the agreements at RAF Croughton dating back to 1995, anyone working at the base from the US as part of the \"administrative and technical staff\" would have their immunity pre-waived, meaning they would not be immune from criminal jurisdiction.\n\nThe Dunn's barrister Agnieszka Fryszman had earlier told the court the British government had endorsed the civil claim and called on the judge not to dismiss it.\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles want Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK\n\nMrs Sacoolas, whose husband was based at RAF Croughton, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after the crash.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by Donald Trump's secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January 2020 and last week the new Biden administration said the decision was final.\n\nThe judge said he would decide on the application ahead of a further hearing at the same court on 17 February.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, was admitted to Bedford Hospital on Sunday.\n\nThe Queen led tributes to Capt Sir Tom, \"recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world\".\n\nHis daughters said they \"shared laughter and tears\" with their father in their final few hours together.\n\nAnnouncing his death, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said the last year of their father's life had been \"nothing short of remarkable\".\n\nHe tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's hearts by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire last year during the first lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nHe was credited with lifting the nation's spirits and his saying \"Tomorrow will be a good day\" trended on social media.\n\nHe was knighted by the Queen in July in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe flags above 10 Downing Street have been flying at half-mast in tribute to Capt Sir Tom Moore\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"Her Majesty very much enjoyed meeting Capt Sir Tom and his family at Windsor last year. Her thoughts, and those of the royal family, are with them, recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Captain Sir Tom Moore was a hero in the truest sense of the word. In the dark days of the Second World War he fought for freedom and in the face of this country's deepest post-war crisis he united us all, he cheered us all up, and he embodied the triumph of the human spirit.\n\n\"He became not just a national inspiration but a beacon of hope for the world. Our thoughts are with his daughter Hannah and all his family.\"\n\nThe flag above 10 Downing Street has been flying at half-mast in tribute and Mr Johnson has spoken to Mrs Ingram-Moore to offer his condolences.\n\nA tweet from the White House said: \"We join the United Kingdom and the world in [honouring] the memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore, who inspired millions through his life and his actions.\"\n\nMore than 150,000 birthday cards were sent to Capt Sir Tom in April\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is incredibly sad news. Captain Tom Moore put others first at a time of national crisis and was a beacon of hope for millions. Britain has lost a hero.\"\n\nThe daughters' statement said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear father.\n\n\"We are so grateful that we were with him during the last hours of his life; Hannah, Benjie and Georgia by his bedside and Lucy on FaceTime.\n\n\"We spent hours chatting to him, reminiscing about our childhood and our wonderful mother. We shared laughter and tears together.\n\n\"The last year of our father's life was nothing short of remarkable. He was rejuvenated and experienced things he'd only ever dreamed of.\n\n\"Whilst he'd been in so many hearts for just a short time, he was an incredible father and grandfather, and he will stay alive in our hearts forever.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for the NHS\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughters said the care he received from the NHS was \"extraordinary\".\n\nThey said staff had been \"unfalteringly professional, kind and compassionate and have given us many more years with him than we ever would have imagined\".\n\nArtworks, including this mural in Southport, were made in honour of Capt Sir Tom\n\nCapt Sir Tom joined the Army at the beginning of World War Two, serving in India and Myanmar, then known as Burma.\n\nHe was originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire and among the local tributes being paid was Robbie Moore MP who said the town had \"lost one of its finest today\".\n\nHe was made an honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College in Harrogate on his 100th birthday.\n\nIn December, he went on a family holiday to Barbados after British Airways paid for his flight.\n\nCapt Sir Tom had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by walking 82ft (25m)-loops of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5 million supporters.\n\nNHS Charities Together said that would rise to £39m when Gift Aid was taken into account.\n\nEllie Orton, chief executive, said the funds raised by Capt Sir Tom had \"reached the length and breadth of the UK through every one of our 241 member charities\".\n\nShe said he was \"a one-off and he leaves the world a better place\".\n\nRuth May, chief nursing officer for NHS England, said Capt Sir Tom Moore \"has been the model of all that has been good about our country's response to Covid-19\".\n\nShe said in a statement \"for me his biggest achievement and most important contribution to helping my fellow nurses, doctors and all those in the NHS responding to coronavirus, has been how he brought the country together and gave us all a boost when we most needed it\".\n\nPeople have left flowers and messages of condolence outside Capt Sir Tom Moore's home in Bedfordshire\n\nFellow charity fundraiser Dabirul Choudhury, who was 100 years old when he raised more than £150,000 for coronavirus relief by walking while fasting for Ramadan, paid tribute to Capt Sir Tom.\n\n\"If you want to help mankind you should keep yourself very fit, fit, fit,\" he said.\n\nMr Choudrey's son Atique said Capt Sir Tom had \"left a massive legacy that will follow on through for generations\", adding \"even now, my father hasn't actually eaten since he's heard about the news [of Capt Sir Tom's death]\".\n\nCapt Sir Tom became the oldest person to have a UK number one single when he recorded You'll Never Walk Alone with Michael Ball last year.\n\nThe singer said on Twitter: \"A wonderful life so well lived and a hero and fighter to the very end. So very sad\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is the first time a study has shown a vaccine can reduce the spread of Covid-19\n\nResults that show the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine might reduce the spread of coronavirus have been hailed as \"absolutely superb\" by the health secretary.\n\nMatt Hancock said the study shows \"vaccines are the way out of this pandemic\".\n\nIt is the first time a vaccine has been shown to reduce transmission of the virus.\n\nThe UK has given a first Covid jab to more than 10 million people so far.\n\nThe results of the study, which has not yet been formally published, suggest that the vaccine may have a \"substantial\" effect on transmission of the virus.\n\nIt means the jab could have a greater impact on the pandemic, as each person who is vaccinated will indirectly protect other people too.\n\nMr Hancock called the study \"really encouraging\" on Twitter, adding that the results were \"absolutely superb\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he said this latest analysis showing the vaccine reduces transmission would \"help us all get out of this pandemic\".\n\nMr Hancock said passing the 10 million mark for people who have received a first dose was a \"hugely significant milestone\", tweeting that \"every jab makes us all a bit safer\".\n\nThe study by the University of Oxford, where the vaccine was developed, measured the impact on transmission by testing for asymptomatic infections, swabbing participants every week in addition to recording when anyone fell ill with Covid-19.\n\nAs well as showing an effect on transmission, the study found the vaccine offered 76% effective protection from a single dose for three months.\n\nWith no fall in protection during the three-month period, the researchers said the results supported gaps between first and second doses of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nThe effectiveness of the vaccine increased with a longer gap of 12 weeks before the booster jab.\n\nWhen the second dose is given, the study found the level of protection from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rises to 82%.\n\nThe UK has set itself apart from many other countries by prioritising giving the first dose to as many people as possible, delaying the second jab for about 12 weeks.\n\nThe aim is to save more lives by giving some protection to a larger number of people, but the UK has faced criticism from the British Medical Association for following this path with no international support.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, chief investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, said the results supported the UK's approach to delaying the booster shot.\n\nIt \"reassures us that people are protected from 22 days after a single dose of the vaccine,\" he says.\n\nThe new analysis of the Oxford vaccine suggests that transmission of the virus from those who have been vaccinated could be substantially reduced.\n\nIf verified by the scientific review process, it means that as more people get the jab, infection levels could come down faster than they would otherwise and enable the government to lift restrictions sooner than they could otherwise.\n\nOne in six of the population has had at least one jab so far.\n\nThere's still a long way to go but the impact on case numbers could begin to be felt in the coming weeks.\n\nThe fly in the ointment though is the recent emergence in the UK of variants that may be more resistant to some vaccines.\n\nExperts believe that jabs will still offer good protection especially against severe illness, but even so this could slow progress.\n\nThe race is now on to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible, in order to keep a step ahead of the variants.\n\nThe government is also trying to slow the spread of variants through enhanced surveillance and testing.\n\nBut a critical part of the strategy is to drive down infection levels, so people don't catch the virus in the first place, whatever variant it might be.\n\nIn France, use of the Oxford vaccine has been restricted by health authorities who say it should only be given to people under 65.\n\nMr Hancock, the UK health secretary, said scientists had looked directly at the over-65s and there was \"a high degree of confidence\" that the Oxford vaccine worked on people of all ages.\n\nHe added that the latest research showed the world the vaccine works - \"it works well\" and \"categorically supports\" the government's strategy.\n\nAsked if it could now mean children in England returning to school before 8 March, he pointed out 30,000 people were still in hospital.\n\n\"We've got to get this right down,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"It's too soon to be able to take action in England and we've set out the timescale because we think that's when we should be able to take action, if all goes well.\"\n\nAlongside the Oxford vaccine, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is also being rolled out across the UK.\n\nClinical trials of the Pfizer vaccine and Moderna, which has been approved but is not yet in use, did not look for a potential impact on transmission.\n\nHowever, BBC health correspondent James Gallagher said the different vaccines all target the same part of the virus so if one can cut transmission, there is a good chance the others can too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe data from this latest trial was drawn before new variants, including the South Africa one, emerged.\n\nAsked how protective the Oxford vaccine could be against new mutations, Dr Pollard said he was anticipating \"good protection\" against the Kent variant and would publish details \"very soon\".\n\nOn other variants, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"When we look at the new mutations that have been arising in other countries and now also here in the UK - that is the virus trying to escape from human immunity, and that's whether it's from vaccines or from infection.\n\n\"I think that's telling us about what's to come, which is a virus that continues to transmit, but hopefully that will be like other coronaviruses that are around us all the time, which cause colds and mild infections.\n\n\"We will have built up enough immunity to prevent the other severe disease that we've been seeing over the last year.\"\n\nFigures from Tuesday show there were 16,840 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, with the number of new infections dropping 27% since last week.\n\nA further 1,449 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United equalled the Premier League record by putting nine goals past nine-man Southampton - the second time Saints have lost 9-0 in as many seasons.\n\nA red card for Saints' Alexandre Jankewitz after only two minutes triggered a complete collapse for the visitors, who were on the end of the same scoreline against Leicester City in October 2019.\n\nIt is only the third time a team has lost 9-0 in the Premier League, with United also beating Ipswich Town by that margin in 1995.\n\nAaron Wan-Bissaka opened the scoring with his first goal at Old Trafford. Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani also found the net either side of a Jan Bednarek own goal before the break.\n\nAfter a fairly drab start to the second half, United cut loose, scoring five times in the final 21 minutes.\n\nAnthony Martial ended an eight-match goal drought before Scott McTominay drove home from the edge of the area.\n\nThen, after Bednarek became the second Saints player to be sent off - bringing down Martial to allow Bruno Fernandes the chance to score from the penalty spot on 87 minutes - the French forward netted his second, before Dan James wrapped up the scoring in stoppage time.\n\nIt was a stunning ending as United almost matched their club record 10-0 victory over Anderlecht in 1956.\n• None How do you recover from a 9-0 loss... twice?\n• None Relieve a remarkable night at Old Trafford, plus the rest of Tuesday's Premier League matches\n\nBy the final whistle, it had been forgotten that United had come into Tuesday's game on the back of indifferent form - just one win in their last four matches.\n\nThe massive impact on their goal difference means it is now bettered only by league leaders Manchester City.\n\nMartial should be particularly pleased with his contribution, even though it did not match manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's four-goal salvo as a United substitute in an 8-1 win at Nottingham Forest in 1999.\n\nAt one point, it looked as though that seven-goal margin of victory was the one United would emulate. But Martial's 90th-minute second - the first time he has scored two in a game all season - took the home side beyond that, and James completed the rout in the third minute of injury time.\n\nRashford and McTominay both produced noteworthy strikes for a United side that also had a penalty award overturned just before half-time.\n\nMaking a full Premier League debut should be a cause for celebration in any young player's career. For Jankewitz, it was a catastrophic experience.\n\nHis second-minute foul on McTominay was committed right in front of Saints boss Ralph Hassenhuttl, who did not require the replays which made the challenge look worse with every viewing.\n\nHassenhuttl could only throw his arms up in the air in disbelief, knowing referee Mike Dean had no alternative other than to show the 19-year-old Swiss midfielder a straight red card.\n\nThe incident came less than a week after Jankewitz's agent had started murmurings about a transfer and this sorry episode is unlikely to convince anyone the player has a future at St Mary's.\n\nAfter that, it was just a question of how long the visitors could survive, which turned out to be not very long, as Wan-Bissaka turned in Luke Shaw's cross at the far post from a position Jankewitz should have been defending.\n\nWith Bednarek among the scorers after turning Rashford's cross into his own net for the third, and one of those marginal video assistant referee offside decisions that took away the goal Che Adams thought he had scored at the start of the second half, it really was one of those nights best erased from the memory completely.\n\nUnfortunately, that was not the end of the misery.\n\nWhile Hassenhuttl can rightly point to Jankewitz's dismissal as the key moment, there can be no excusing the way the team - though badly affected by injuries - had so totally collapsed by the end.\n\n'It was about the spark' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer speaking to BBC Sport: \"When they had a man sent off it was up to us to get the first goal.\n\n\"You have to take your chances in tight or open games - you never know what might be the deciding factor. We know, better than anyone, what goal difference can do to you because we have lost the league on goal difference.\n\n\"Confidence is one thing but it was about the mojo and spark - the X-factor.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Hasenhuttl speaking to BBC Sport: \"One man down after three minutes against this opponent - congratulations to Manchester United, they worked us off and did not stop scoring. The second red card is most disappointing - we don't have any more players.\n\n\"We tried in the second half to keep a clean sheet as much as we could, but at nine men it was too easy for them to score.\n\n\"What can I say? It is horrible. But we stood up after the first 9-0 [against Leicester] and we have to do that again.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None Manchester United have won home and away against Southampton in a league season for the first time since their last title-winning campaign in 2012-13.\n• None Last season's 9-0 loss to Leicester came at home - this was the biggest away defeat in Southampton's history.\n• None Saints have lost four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2018.\n• None Manchester United became only the second side to have seven different scorers in a Premier League match, after Chelsea against Aston Villa in December 2012.\n• None United scored four goals in the first half of a Premier League game for the second time this season, also doing so against Leeds. It is the first time since 1997-98 they have scored four or more in the opening period of two matches in a campaign.\n• None Only former United striker Eric Cantona and ex-West Ham forward Dimitri Payet (both 33 games) have assisted 15 Premier League goals in fewer appearances than Fernandes, with Tuesday's his 36th appearance in the competition.\n\nManchester United's next game is against Everton in the Premier League at 20:00 GMT on Saturday, 6 February - the 63rd anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. Southampton visit Newcastle on the same day (15:00).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 9, Southampton 0. Daniel James (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Scott McTominay tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 8, Southampton 0. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 7, Southampton 0. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by Jan Bednarek (Southampton) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Victor Lindelöf.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Fred with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Che Adams (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Nathan Redmond. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream all the goals and highlights from Sunday's Premier League matches with Match of the Day 2 on BBC iPlayer", "Omar Latif, from Cardiff, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange\n\nA convicted terrorist who was jailed for his role in an al Qaida-inspired terrorist group is suing the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).\n\nOmar Latif, from Cardiff, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange. He was released in 2016.\n\nThe MoJ imposed new conditions on Latif's licence after Usman Khan's murderous London Bridge attack while on licence following his early release.\n\nThe MoJ is defending itself against Latif's claim and argues the additional licence conditions imposed on him are lawful.\n\nThe nine men jailed in 2012, which included Khan, had also tried to raise funds to build a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and recruit British people to attend.\n\nLatif, now 36, was 28 when he was jailed for 10 years and four months for attending meetings with the intention of assisting others to prepare or commit acts of terrorism.\n\nUsman Khan, who was one of those jailed alongside Latif in 2012, went on to murder two people in the London Bridge terror attack\n\nLatif was automatically released from prison halfway through his sentence in February 2016, but was recalled to prison the following September over allegations he tampered with his electronic monitoring tag.\n\nLatif, who said the damage to his tag most likely occurred when he was playing football, was again released on licence in May 2018 on terms set by the Parole Board.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nOn 29 November 2019, Khan fatally stabbed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, during a prisoner rehabilitation event at Fishmongers' Hall, near London Bridge, in central London while out on licence.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, halfway through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nFive days later, Latif, who maintains he had \"no contact\" with Khan since they were in the same prison in 2016, was told that \"senior officials\" at the MoJ had imposed new conditions on his licence.\n\nHis lawyers say the additional conditions, which prevent him from attending \"any meetings or gatherings of more than 50 people\", or entering the City of London without prior permission, are unlawful.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Wednesday, Dan Squires QC said Justice Secretary Robert Buckland appeared to have \"personally\" requested additional licence conditions for all terrorist offenders following the London Bridge attack.\n\nFishmongers Hall, below London Bridge, which is where Khan murdered Mr Merritt and Ms Jones\n\nMr Squires argued the MoJ \"has no power unilaterally to add to or vary conditions on [Latif's] licence without the approval of the Parole Board,\" meaning the new conditions were unlawful.\n\nLatif \"had no involvement in, or prior knowledge of, the London Bridge attack\" and was \"horrified to hear of the attack and the role of Khan in it\", Mr Squires said.\n\nThe hearing before the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and Mr Justice Swift is expected to conclude on Thursday morning.", "The former Army captain became affectionately known as Captain Tom\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore won the nation's hearts with his extraordinary fundraising efforts for National Health Service charities.\n\nThe retired Army officer served in India and Myanmar, also known as Burma, during World War Two but it was by walking laps around his garden that he became known to millions.\n\nWhen he was 99, he was catapulted into the global spotlight with his attempt to raise an initial £1,000 for charity.\n\nEarly in April 2020, with the aid of his walking frame and a steely determination, he vowed to complete 100 laps of his patio before his 100th birthday at the end of that month.\n\nThe war veteran was inspired to help the health service after receiving treatment for skin cancer of the head, and a broken hip after a fall in 2018.\n\nHe described the NHS staff who helped him through this as \"marvellous\", and pledged to help those same \"super\" people who were working on the front line during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps of his walk in April 2020\n\nHis family thought reaching the £1,000 mark would be \"a real stretch\" but, as press coverage of his efforts increased, so did the donations.\n\nBy the time he completed his 100 laps - on 16 April 2020 - Captain Tom, as he had become affectionately known, had raised more than £12m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nIn 2007, he had moved from Kent to Bedfordshire to be with his youngest daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her family.\n\nIt was here, in Marston Moretaine, that the idea of raising relatively modest funds for a charity supporting the NHS was hatched.\n\nHe was surrounded by members of his family - and the world's media - as he fulfilled his mission\n\nCapt Sir Tom began walking - planning on 10 laps at a time of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his back garden - and the donations began mounting up.\n\nEvery million was another milestone, but the veteran, who became a well-known face on national television, took it all in his stride.\n\nCapt Sir Tom Moore (bottom row, far left) and colleagues pictured during his service in the Army\n\nCapt Sir Tom with daughters Lucy Teixeira (left) and Hannah Ingram-Moore (right)\n\nEver modest about the challenge he had set himself, Capt Sir Tom was nevertheless astounded by the generosity of donors, describing it as \"completely out of this world\".\n\n\"It's all for the sake of the nurses and the NHS we have, because they are doing such a magnificent job,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"Every penny that we get, they deserve every one of it.\"\n\nThe NHS said it was \"humbled\" by his fundraising effort for their charities\n\nHe was described as a \"one-man fundraising machine\" by the Duke of Cambridge, while both the prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Capt Sir Tom was \"an inspiration\" to everyone.\n\nNot only did his efforts encourage thousands to donate to the fundraising appeal, but he inspired many to join his campaign to raise both awareness and money for those working in, and supporting, the NHS.\n\nFrom a teenage girl learning to walk again on a treadmill as part of her recovery from a stroke, to a non-verbal boy with autism - who wrote \"He is a hero to us,\" as he embarked on his own challenge to walk for the NHS - people set themselves their own challenges, buoyed by the former soldier.\n\nAge, it seemed, was no barrier - as Capt Sir Tom was proving.\n\nDozens dusted off their own walking frames and took to the streets to prove they could play their own part in the drive to raise funds.\n\nOne woman completed a marathon by walking laps near her Berkshire home, at the age of 104.\n\n\"Tom, I've done it,\" she laughed, as she finished her challenge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA week before his 100th birthday, Capt Sir Tom became the oldest person ever to get to number one in the UK singles charts when his duet of You'll Never Walk Alone - with singer Michael Ball - took the top spot.\n\nHis 100th birthday on 30 April 2020 was marked with an RAF flypast, personal birthday greetings from the Queen and prime minister, and he was made an honorary colonel of the British Army.\n\n\"I'm still Captain Tom, that's who I really am but if people choose to call me colonel, well, thank you very much,\" he replied.\n\nThe following month it was announced he would be awarded a knighthood for his fundraising efforts and would be known as Captain Sir Thomas Moore \"under Ministry of Defence protocol\".\n\nOn 17 July 2020, he was knighted in the grounds of Windsor Castle, in the Queen's first official engagement in person since the lockdown period began in March.\n\nThis was the first knighthood the Queen had carried out in person since the beginning of the pandemic\n\nHis youngest daughter said at the time of his fundraising efforts that her father had become a \"beacon of hope\" during challenging times.\n\nAnd indeed, Capt Sir Tom always seemed to know just the right thing to say to buoy the nation's spirits as the public tried to abide by government regulations to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"To all those people who are finding it difficult at the moment, the sun will shine on you again, and the clouds will go away,\" he said.\n\n\"Tomorrow will be a good day\" - another example of his positivity - became a hashtag on social media posts.\n\nAn image of Capt Sir Tom lit up the night sky during the virtual 2021 New Year celebrations over the Millennium Dome (O2 Arena) in London\n\nThe proud Yorkshireman completed his 100 laps of his garden live on television in April 2020, with a Guard of Honour from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and a rousing round of applause from his family.\n\nBy the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Capt Sir Tom had raised £32,794,701 for charities supporting the NHS, from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Schools across Scotland have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since December\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are likely to return to the classroom full time from 22 February as schools start a phased reopening.\n\nThe move will include all pupils in P1-P3 as well as pre-school children.\n\nThere will also be a part-time return, but on a very limited basis, for senior secondary pupils to allow them to complete work for national qualifications.\n\nA final decision will be taken on the partial reopening in a fortnight.\n\nFurther details of the next phase of the gradual return to schools will also be set out at that point, alongside a timescale for the return of in-person learning for colleges and universities.\n\nScotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, questioned why the first minister had not mentioned any need for P1-P3 pupils to socially distance, and said it wanted to see the scientific evidence to justify the approach.\n\nThe union added: \"Clearly, any school return remains contingent upon continued progress on community suppression of the virus and that is not a given so we need to see infection levels coming down substantially before the return date can be confirmed.\"\n\nAll of the country's other lockdown restrictions will remain in place until at least the end of the month, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut she said she was \"cautiously optimistic\" that some gradual easing of the rules could be possible from early March.\n\nThe first minister also announced that travellers coming to Scotland from any country may be asked to quarantine in a hotel - which goes further than systems announced in the rest of the UK.\n\nBusiness groups have called on the Scottish government to provide firms with a route map out of lockdown.\n\nTwo new mass vaccinations centres opened this week in Edinburgh and Aberdeen to join the existing facility in Glasgow\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government intended to allow \"small increases\" in existing provision for children and young people with significant additional support needs from 22 February.\n\nAnd she said there would be a \"significant expansion\" of testing in schools and nurseries in the coming weeks, with tests available for both staff and senior secondary pupils.\n\nThe first minister said older pupils will only be able to return after 22 February to ensure practical work important to achieving qualifications is completed.\n\nOnly between 5% and 8% of a secondary school's pupil roll will be able to be present at any one time.\n\nMs Sturgeon also stressed that the schools announcement was dependent on the virus continuing to be suppressed.\n\nOnly a small number of secondary pupils will be able to go to school at one time\n\nSchools across Scotland have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since the Christmas holidays, with learning being done at home and online.\n\nHealth experts have warned that the country risks facing a \"lost generation\" unless a way can be found to get young people back to some sort of normality.\n\nInterim Scottish Labour leader Jackie Baillie said that most children will have missed more than half a year of normal, in-person schooling as she called for greater investment to be put in place \"for some time to come\" to help them catch up.\n\nAnd the Scottish Conservatives accused the government of failing to get the proper digital support in place for home learning, which it said would further widen the attainment gap between wealthier and less well off pupils.\n\nThe current stay-at-home lockdown, like the last one, is a long slog. It will last what's left of the winter. But as we move into spring, change is coming.\n\nPlans to re-open nurseries and schools from 22 February for the youngest children will not only restore their full time education but will allow some parents to resume work.\n\nHowever, the phased return of schools could add to the burden some families have to carry.\n\nIf, for instance, you have a young child to get to school and an older pupil to organise for online learning at home, that could be harder to manage than either having both at home or both in school.\n\nIt is not clear how quickly full time schooling will resume for all age groups.\n\nIt will be another fortnight before the first minister sets out how wider restrictions might be eased from the beginning of March.\n\nIt is already clear that process will be gradual and that some measures like social distancing, wearing face coverings and avoiding international travel will not be lifted anytime soon.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that she wanted to see children back in full-time, face to face education as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd she said she was acutely aware of the wider health, developmental and social harms being experienced by young people while they were not in school, and of the pressure school closures was putting on working parents and family life.\n\nBut she said the current state of the pandemic and the need to protect the country as much as possible from the virus meant that her options for reopening schools were limited.\n\nShe added: \"The judgment the Cabinet arrived at this morning, based on the advice of our expert advisers, is that if we all agree to abide with the lockdown restrictions for a bit longer - so that our progress in suppressing the virus continues - we can begin a phased, albeit gradual, return to school from 22 February.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands are currently under the country's toughest level four restrictions, with non-essential shops closed and strict travel rules in force.\n\nAnd there has been growing concern in recent days that Scotland's vaccination programme is lagging behind the rest of the UK.\n\nThe country had vaccinated the lowest percentage of its adult population - 13.4% - of all of the four UK nations by Tuesday.\n\nThe figure for England stood at 18.4% while it was 17% in Wales and 15.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government's Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, has written to Ms Sturgeon offering the help of the English health department and the Ministry of Defence to accelerate the rollout in Scotland.\n\nMr Jack said: \"I strongly believe that to put the nightmare of Covid-19 behind us as quickly as possible, we must collaborate as closely as possible.\"\n\nA further 34,881 people were given their first does of the vaccine in Scotland since Monday, the highest daily total so far.\n\nThe country will need to average about 40,000 a day if it is to hit its target of vaccinating everyone over the age of 70 and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the end of next week.\n\nIt brings the total number of people to have received the vaccine in Scotland, which has about a twelfth of the UK population, to 610,778.\n\nThe UK as a whole had vaccinated just over 9.6 million people by Tuesday.\n\nPrevalence of the virus in Scotland has fallen since the level four restrictions were imposed\n\nCovid-19 prevalence in Scotland has fallen under the lockdown regulations from 302 per 100,000 in the week ending 8 January to 136 per 100,000 last week.\n\nTest positivity has also reduced to an average of 6.6% in the seven days up to 29 January - still higher than the 5% that the World Health Organisation considers to be indicative of an outbreak being under control.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Pressure on our NHS continues to be severe. The number of Covid patients being treated in hospital remains around 30% above the high point of the first wave last April.\n\n\"However, hospital admissions in this wave appear to have peaked on January 12. They have now stabilised and are starting to reduce, albeit slowly.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\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 the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Michael Birch said the \"temptation was too great\" not to relaunch Bebo\n\nBebo's co-founder plans to relaunch the social network with a focus on profiles and \"real-time\" interactions between friends rather than the news feeds at the core of Twitter and Facebook.\n\nMichael Birch says his aim is to provide a \"refreshing break\" from the misinformation spread elsewhere.\n\nIn an exclusive interview, he told the BBC he was coding the effort himself.\n\nAnd while he has high hopes, he acknowledges the odds are stacked against him.\n\nBebo - an acronym for \"blog early, blog often\" - was once the most popular network in the UK, as well as being big in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. At its peak it had more than 40 million members.\n\nIn, 2008 Mr Birch and his wife Xochi sold the site to AOL for $850m (£623m).\n\nThey later bought it back for $1m and tried to revamp it in several ways, most recently as an e-sports streaming service, before finally selling the business on to Amazon's Twitch in 2019 for $25m.\n\nBebo and its competitor MySpace were once the dominant social networks\n\nHowever, the couple retained the rights to the brand.\n\nAnd with time on his hands during the coronavirus pandemic, Mr Birch began thinking about what kind of gap there might be in the market.\n\n\"We're calling it live social networking - when you're logged into Bebo, you are aware of which other friends are online,\" he says, explaining his plan from his home in the British Virgin Islands.\n\n\"You can interact with them in real-time. You can comment on their photo on their profile. They'll get notified, they'll come to the photo, and they may even have a conversation under the photo.\n\n\"It's an experiment, we'll see how it how it actually does. But we think it's a more exciting way of actually connecting.\"\n\nEven before he had announced plans for a relaunch, Mr Birch said Bebo's web address was attracting about one visit every three seconds despite the service being offline.\n\nHe hopes a mix of nostalgia and curiosity will attract enough early adopters to let people find friends on the regenerated site to interact with.\n\nHowever, some of those familiar with the original Bebo are sceptical about its prospects.\n\n\"It's probably brave to launch a new social network in this climate when there are concerns about potential harms from misinformation spread on social media, so I hope Bebo will take its responsibilities to look after its members and their data seriously,\" says Kate Bevan, computing editor at Which?.\n\n\"But there's also something delightfully optimistic about this plan.\"\n\nMr Birch is not yet willing to share screenshots of the new Bebo, and for now its only online presence is a \"coming soon\" page advising prospective users that they will not be able to access their old accounts, and a promise that Donald Trump will be banned.\n\nBebo's relaunch plan trended on Twitter after Mr Birch posted this noticed to its website\n\nBut the entrepreneur says he is spending about 100 hours a week coding the platform, and plans to let the first invite-only members start trying it out before the month's end.\n\nThe following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity:\n\nHow will Bebo distinguish itself?\n\nNow is a good time to launch another social network. Covid has had a lot of detrimental effects, but I think it sort of opened people's eyes to new things in new ways. And people are craving interaction.\n\nWe're going to do some nods to the past, but you're not going to log in and see the original Bebo as it was. But what we want to do is go back a little bit to this idea of a profile. That you have an identity you sort of take pride in. That you can visit a profile and see things that aren't just the latest news articles being shared.\n\nOn Facebook, if someone posts something to their news feed, they may have done it one minute ago - but you don't feel you're online, in this experience with that person. And that's what we're trying to achieve.\n\nIn its heyday, Bebo was the UK's biggest social network. Are you aiming for that kind of scale again?\n\nAt the moment, I'm the only one coding it. This started as a fun lockdown project to give me something to do. It certainly didn't start out as can it become as big as we used to be.\n\nBut you know, in the back of my mind is that a possibility? Of course it is. And it's a fun thing to contemplate. Do I realistically think that's going to happen? No, I don't. But it is more fun trying a thing sometimes than necessarily achieving it.\n\nMr Birch says he is coding 100 hours a week to get Bebo ready\n\nSocial media is in a very different place than when Bebo was first about. There's been privacy and hate speech scandals. There's lots of talk of regulation. If this takes off, do you really want to have to deal with those kinds of headaches?\n\nThat does not look like fun. Do I want to do that part of it? No. But do I have to do that part of it? Yes.\n\nWhen we first did Bebo, I spent 95% of my media time talking to journalists about privacy and bullying. And those issues are still obviously as relevant today. But I think one of the most damaging things has been the spread of misinformation and people sharing things similar to what their friends believe, which self-reinforces and doesn't allow for different perspectives to be put in front of people.\n\nWe're not focusing on new sharing. But were we to go down that road and explore that, I think we'd have to think long and hard about how to avoid some of the pitfalls. For now, people may think it's a refreshing break for Bebo not to be another news feed of misinformation.\n\nDo you think social media has done more harm than good?\n\nI think it's possibly true. Yeah, I do.\n\nI think social media companies are in a difficult position. Could they have handled things better? Probably. Are things easy for them to handle, and are they entirely responsible? Probably not. Some of the repercussions of social media were not obvious at the beginning.\n\nYou sold Bebo for $850 million. But Mark Zuckerberg had proposed you sell it to Facebook for stock options. Do you ever regret not having taken him up on that offer and maybe becoming one of Facebook's senior executives?\n\nI wouldn't want to be working at Facebook. Not that it's not a great place to work. But that would be quite a stressful job.\n\nI've been very happy with the path that we followed. Would it have been worth more money? Almost certainly. But I've enjoyed the freedom of being able to start new things on my own and having my own path.\n\nI'm excited to have the opportunity to do Bebo again. It's very rare that you get to start something with a blank sheet of paper and rethink it from the ground up. You normally have so much legacy. In many ways it's harder to reboot a company than it is to start over.\n\nBut because such a long period of time has elapsed, we're sort of getting closer to a start-over than a reboot.", "Schools were told to close for most pupils at the start of January\n\nAround 1.2 million children attended school in England last week, Department for Education (DfE) figures show.\n\nOn 28 January, 15% of state school pupils were in class, up from 14% the week before, the data indicates.\n\nThe rise was driven by an increase in the number of children attending class in primary and special schools, while numbers in secondary schools remained stable.\n\nHead teachers described the rise in demand for places as \"worrying\".\n\nPupils in schools and colleges in England - except children of key workers and vulnerable pupils - have been told to learn remotely during the latest Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe DfE data shows more than a fifth (22%) of primary school pupils were on site last week - a rise on the week before, when 21% were in class.\n\nAttendance in special schools was 33% - up from 30% on 21 January.\n\nAround 70% - 850,000 - of the children in all schools last week were the children of key workers, up from 813,000 on 21 January,\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"It is worrying that demand for school places is obviously rising during the course of the lockdown.\n\n\"Schools are being placed in the very difficult position of much higher demand than in the first lockdown and no guidance from the government about how many children should be in school at any one time.\n\n\"Many schools are having to juggle in-school teaching for quite large numbers of pupils with remote education for everyone else.\n\n\"It is very difficult to square this with the government's message to the public to stay home, protect the NHS, and save lives.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the figures were a \"timely reminder that schools did not really close in the first place\".\n\nMr Whiteman said the government should scrutinise the infection rates and transmission within the minority of schools and communities where significant numbers of pupils and parents continued to meet daily.\n\n\"Understanding the level of risk presented by higher numbers of pupils in school would appear key to planning for a safe and sustainable return to school for all pupils.\"\n\nThe attendance figures came as a professor told the All-Party Group on Coronavirus that the current situation was having a \"devastating impact\" on children.\n\nProfessor Anthony Costello, of University College London's Institute for Global Health said: \"I think in terms of opening schools, it should be based on solid criteria of the risk from local community prevalence.\n\n\"In addition to all of that - even if we have to keep some schools shut longer than others - putting in place a proper plan to support all of the kids and all of the children who need access to online learning because I am in no doubt this is having a devastating impact on our children and we have got to do something to ameliorate that - whether we can open schools or not.\"\n\nThe latest government figures also show that 51,676 laptops and tablets have been delivered or dispatched by the government to help with remote learning in the past week.\n\nThe DfE figures suggest that 365,268 devices have been sent to councils, academy trusts, schools and colleges across England since the lockdown began on 4 January.\n\nIt means a total of 927,689 laptops and tablets have been delivered or dispatched to support pupils to access remote education since the scheme to provide devices for children from disadvantaged backgrounds began.", "A vaccine to tackle the coronavirus variants could be ready to deploy by the autumn should it be needed, the Oxford-AstraZeneca team says.\n\nProf Andy Pollard, from Oxford University, said tweaking a vaccine was a relatively quick process and would only need small trials before roll-out.\n\nIt comes as the UK announced more than 10 million people had received a jab.\n\nThere is still strong evidence existing vaccines work well against the mutations that have emerged.\n\nAlthough their overall effectiveness may be weakened a little.\n\nThe comments came after results released by the team showed the first evidence the vaccine can reduce the chances of people catching and passing on the virus, which has always been uncertain.\n\nThe data, which has not yet been published or reviewed, showed vaccination with the Oxford-AZ jab could cut transmission by up to 67%.\n\nThis means the vaccine could significantly slow the spread of the virus, potentially allowing restrictions to be lifted more quickly, as well as protect people from becoming seriously ill and dying with Covid-19.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the results were \"absolutely superb\" and showed vaccines are \"the way out of this pandemic\" but that the \"on-going challenge\" would be for vaccine manufacturers to keep up with what the virus is doing.\n\nHe described the fact that 10 million people had received their first dose of a vaccine as a \"hugely significant milestone\" and said \"every jab makes us all a bit safer\".\n\nThere is most concern about the South African variant, which shows signs of being able to escape some of the protective effect of the vaccines. There are already signs this has begun circulating in some parts of the UK, prompting surge testing to be introduced into parts of London, Surrey, Kent, Hertfordshire and Southport.\n\nThe mutation behind this variant - called E484K - has also been detected in some of the infections caused by UK strains that are circulating in parts of Bristol and Liverpool.\n\nProf Pollard said his team were already looking at updating the vaccine to make it more effective against the mutations that are being seen.\n\n\"I think the actual work on designing a new vaccine is very, very quick because it's essentially just switching out the genetic sequence for the spike protein.\n\n\"And then there's manufacturing to do and then a small scale study. So all of that can be completed in a very short period of time, and the autumn is really the timing for having new vaccines available for use,\" he said.\n\nIt's not yet clear how the new vaccine would be given to people, but it is possible it could take the form of a one-dose booster which is updated and rolled out every year or so.\n\nSir Mene Pangalos, executive vice president of biopharmaceuticals research and development at AstraZeneca, added: \"Our ambition is to be ready for the next round of immunisations that may be necessary as we go into next winter. That's what we're aiming for.\"\n\nHe added the manufacturing process would also be easier as plants would be fully up to speed by then.\n\nThe trials that would need to be run are only likely to involve a few hundred people as the team would only need to check safety and that a good immune response is generated by carrying out blood tests.\n\nThere were a further 1,322 deaths in the UK reported on Wednesday within 28 days of a positive test for coronavirus, bringing the total number of people who have died by this measure to 109,335.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kameel Ahmady travelled high over the mountains on foot to escape Iran's Revolutionary Guards\n\nA British-Iranian academic facing nine years in jail in Iran has told the BBC how he escaped on foot over mountains to start a new life in the UK.\n\nKameel Ahmady was convicted two months ago of collaborating with a hostile government. He denies the charge.\n\nHe decided to try to flee while on bail and appealing against the sentence.\n\nMr Ahmady trekked over a mountainous border to escape the Revolutionary Guards - a journey he described as \"very long, very dark and very scary\".\n\nMr Ahmady was born of Kurdish stock in western Iran. But his parents sent him to Britain when he was 18 for his education.\n\nHe remained there many years, studying at the University of Kent and the London School of Economics. Such was his affection for Britain that he applied for British citizenship before returning to Iran as an anthropologist.\n\nHis research focuses on child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iran. This brought him to the attention of the authorities because he campaigned to raise the age at which girls can marry, which is currently set at 13 years old.\n\nKameel Ahmady travelled high over the mountains on foot to escape Iran's Revolutionary Guards\n\nOne morning in August 2019, a man came to his door in Tehran saying he was a postman. Mr Ahmady opened the door and 16 Revolutionary Guards stormed in. He was arrested and taken to the notorious Evin prison.\n\nMr Ahmady said he had been targeted not just because he was a dual national, but also because Iran wanted to retaliate after Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar that was suspected of breaking EU sanctions.\n\n\"Being a dual national, you are always a potential case,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"My chief interrogator said, 'You're very delicious,' a) because I was Kurdish; b) I was coming from a Sunni religious background as opposed with the majority of the Shia in Iran; and c) I was a researcher who was digging up sensitive issues. And I wasn't only a simple researcher, I was actually acting on my research and using it for awareness raising.\"\n\nKameel Ahmady decided to flee Tehran while out on bail and appealing against his sentence\n\nHe spent three months at Evin prison where, he said, his interrogators played mind games with him.\n\n\"They treated me, on a human level, well. But don't underestimate the concept and the seriousness of so-called 'white torture' - the psychological pressure they put on you. And all these games are played stage by stage, and they're very well trained as to how to put a little bit of extra pressure on you when it's needed.\"\n\n\"There are all sorts of mind games, it's almost like a trade. You give me this, I'll give you that - a minute of a phone call needs all sorts of negotiation with your interrogators. Five minutes more extra fresh air than the half an hour that you're entitled to. And it is becoming really sad and petty because you want to be interrogated even more, not going back to the cell, which is almost like a grave.\"\n\nAfter three months he was released ahead of the trial but monitored closely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (August 2020): The other detainees held 'hostage' in Iran\n\nLast December, Mr Ahmady was convicted of collaborating with a hostile government, something he denies, after prosecutors claimed that a charity he had once done some work for had once received some funding from the United States. He also faced various other charges, including promoting homosexuality in his research.\n\nHe was sentenced to more than nine years in jail and given a fine of more than £500,000 ($683,000). But while out on bail, he decided to flee Iran.\n\nHe said: \"The appeal was overturned. That was the moment that I decided to escape because I couldn't see myself staying in prison for 10 years and watching my son from a distance growing up. By the time I would have been released - if I was released - my son would have been 15.\"\n\nSo, without telling anyone but his immediate family, Mr Ahmady fled in secret, travelling over the mountains on foot to escape.\n\n\"I just simply left. I packed my bag with a shaving kit, a few books of mine, and a laptop.\"\n\n\"And warm clothes, because I knew I had to smuggle myself out of that train in the mountains. It was very cold, very long, very dark and very scary.\"\n\n\"I had to leave behind everything I loved, I worked for, all my human connections. It was so sad and scary. If I got arrested, I would have been back before the judge, and God knows what other scenarios that would be.\n\n\"It was a very hard and difficult decision. It was emotionally difficult. It was physically, mentally difficult. It was a move a made against my will. They pushed me out. And that was just so sad.\"\n\nLast September Mr Ahmady was accused of sexual misconduct towards female colleagues. The allegations were anonymous, and emerged shortly before his court hearing. But the Iranian Sociological Association revoked his membership. Mr Ahmady denied both the allegations and the suggestion they played a role in his decision to leave.\n\nMr Ahmady said: \"I find these allegations very upsetting. As I said at the time I take full responsibility for my actions and I find the sociological association's decision rushed and unfair. I do not accept any of these allegations. They are not related to the charges brought against me by the court which led me to escape, to restart my life in safety with my family.\"\n\nMr Ahmady now faces an uncertain future in Britain, without a job.\n\n\"I had to do what I needed to do. I couldn't stay and spend 10 years [in prison]. I can be much more useful outside and I have a responsibility towards my family.\"\n\nThe question now is how Tehran might respond and what impact may be felt by other British-Iranian dual nationals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty: \"Vaccines are going to protect in three different ways\"\n\nThe UK is \"past the peak\" of the current wave of the pandemic but infection rates are still high, England's chief medical officer says.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths were on a \"downward slope\" but that did not mean there would not be another peak.\n\nBoris Johnson praised the \"colossal\" effort to vaccinate 10 million people, including 90% of those aged over 75.\n\nBut the NHS was still under \"huge pressure\", the prime minister said.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing, Prof Whitty said while the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 had reduced \"quite noticeably\", it was still above that of the first peak in April 2020.\n\n\"So this is still a very major problem, but it is one that is heading the right way,\" he said.\n\nProf Whitty said infection rates were \"coming down but they are still incredibly high\".\n\nIf the rate was to increase again \"from the very high levels we are at the moment the NHS will get back into trouble extraordinarily fast\", he added.\n\nHis comments were echoed by the prime minister, who warned the level of infection was still \"forbiddingly high\" and that it was too soon to relax current restrictions.\n\nOn Wednesday the UK recorded a further 1,322 deaths reported within 28 days of a positive test for coronavirus, bringing the total number of people who have died by this measure to 109,335, while a further 19,202 new cases were recorded.\n\nMr Johnson told the briefing: \"Though today there are some signs of hope - the numbers of Covid patients in hospital are beginning to fall for the first time since the onset of this new wave - the level of infection is still alarmingly high.\"\n\nThere are also about 32,000 Covid patients in hospital, he added.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped schools in England would be able to begin reopening from 8 March, as evidence showed the coronavirus vaccines reduced \"death and serious illness\" from the main strains of the disease.\n\nBut he insisted the government would not be opening schools any earlier than this date, despite First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying that schools in Scotland would begin a phased reopening from 22 February.\n\nElsewhere, the Welsh government is due to make a decision by the end of the week on whether to reopen its schools after the February half-term.\n\nProf Whitty said schools in England had been managing to \"hold the line\" and remain open up until the new, more transmissible variant of the virus hit.\n\nHe said it was up to ministers to decide the opening dates for schools but that he was confident the risk to children of getting Covid-19 was \"incredibly low\".\n\nMeanwhile, he warned that predictions that every adult could offered a first dose of a vaccine by May and a second by August were \"at the very optimistic end\" due to supply constraints.\n\nMr Johnson said at the news conference the government would be sticking with its \"cautious\" approach.\n\nHe said ministers would outline a \"route map\" out of lockdown on 22 February and that the country would be in \"a very different situation\" to last summer, when disease levels had been reduced but there was no vaccine.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first. A list of nine high-priority groups which covers about 32 million people - including 90-99% of those most at risk of dying - is being followed, with an aim to vaccinate the first four by 15 February.\n\nThere is a lot to be hopeful for. The vaccine rollout is going well. Infection levels and the numbers in hospital are coming down - and there are early signs the same is happening with deaths.\n\nProgress should continue in the coming weeks as the impact of vaccination starts to kick in - deaths could then start falling rapidly.\n\nBut the great unlocking will have to be slow.\n\nWhy? While the numbers in hospital are coming down, it's from an incredibly high base. There are still 50% more patients in hospital now than there were during the first peak.\n\nThe pressures are going to be severe for some time.\n\nWhat is more, come mid-February when all the over 70s will have been offered the jab, there will still be significant numbers at risk of hospitalisation if they are infected.\n\nMost deaths are in the over-70s, but close to half of hospital cases are in the under-70s. A delicate balance will have to be struck until the over-50s are protected.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the results of a study which showed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine might reduce the spread of coronavirus as \"absolutely superb\".\n\nThe researchers behind the jab have also said that a vaccine to tackle variants of the virus could be ready to deploy by the autumn should they be needed.\n\nA \"small number\" of cases of the coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa have been found in Birmingham as well as three cases without any travel history in Wales.\n\nIt comes after door-to-door testing has been launched to detect the mutation, which is thought to be more infectious but not necessarily more deadly.\n\nThe prime minister also led a clap for fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died with coronavirus in Bedford Hospital on Tuesday.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter praised his side's \"courage, quality and togetherness\" as they stunned Liverpool at Anfield to move 10 points clear of the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nSteven Alzate got a fortuitous but deserved winner for Brighton, who are now unbeaten in four league matches, while the Reds' recent struggles at home continued.\n\nLiverpool, who are seven points behind leaders Manchester City having played a game more, have not won at home since 16 December and have failed to score in three consecutive games at Anfield for the first time since October 1984.\n\nAfter going 68 games without a league defeat at their home ground, Jurgen Klopp's side have now also lost back-to-back games there.\n\nDan Burn should have put the visitors ahead in the first half, only to slice over the crossbar, but it was the defender's header across goal that set up the winner.\n\nNathaniel Phillips could only get a toe to it and the ball deflected off Alzate and beyond stand-in Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher.\n\n\"We fought when we had to - we had to block and defend as a team - but I thought we showed quality when we attacked and courage and bravery with the ball,\" said Potter.\n\n\"To come here and get the result we have, I think you have got to be close to perfect. I thought we were.\n\n\"Fantastic performance. I thought the players were amazing. Such courage, quality, togetherness.\"\n\nIt lifts Brighton to 15th in the table, while Liverpool slip to fourth after Leicester City's win at Fulham.\n• None Listen to reaction in the Football Daily podcast\n\nBrighton boss Potter said going to Anfield was \"as tough a test as you will get in football\", but it was one the Seagulls rose to superbly.\n\nThis was not a smash-and-grab in the style of Burnley's victory last month, but a controlled and disciplined performance from a side who have now kept four successive clean sheets.\n\nThey have also recorded back-to-back wins against so-called 'big six' sides - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - after seeing off Spurs on Sunday.\n\nWing-back Burn caused problems from the left and turned Neal Maupay's deflected effort over the crossbar in the first half, but showed more composure to nod across goal for Alzate's first Premier League goal.\n\nLiverpool added more urgency to their game in a bid to find a leveller, but in a game of few chances it was still the visitors who created the better of them.\n\nKelleher, in for Alisson who was suffering from illness, had to make a smart saves from Leandro Trossard and Pascal Gross to stop Brighton doubling their lead.\n\nAt the other end, Potter's side reduced the champions to just one shot on target as the Seagulls recorded their first league win at Anfield since 1982.\n\n\"We needed a little bit of luck, but at the same time I thought we earned that luck and it's an amazing performance and a fantastic result,\" he added. \"We contributed to the game, tried to attack, tried to play.\n\n\"The three points are really important. We need to carry on. We don't get too down when things don't go our way and shouldn't get too excited when they do go our way. It's the nature of the league - things turn around quickly.\"\n\nFor almost four years, Liverpool were unbeatable in the league at Anfield, but the Reds have now lost at home to both Burnley and Brighton in two weeks.\n\nKlopp's side looked to have reignited their title challenge between those defeats with wins at Tottenham and West Ham but, after Mohamed Salah lifted an early chance over the crossbar on Thursday, the recent struggles at home returned.\n\nThe Reds have found it hard to break down compact defences and went almost half an hour without even having a shot in the first half, before another long-range Salah effort was blocked outside the penalty area.\n\nThose were the only two attempts Liverpool could muster before the break, their fewest in the first half of any league game this season as they struggled to stretch Brighton.\n\nThere was more intent from the hosts after the interval but the closest they came was when Salah fired narrowly wide from Trent Alexander-Arnold's low, driven cross.\n\nKlopp's team have not won at home since beating Tottenham on 16 December.\n\nPerhaps more worryingly for the German, they have not scored at Anfield for 348 minutes - since Sadio Mane's goal 12 minutes into the 1-1 draw with West Brom on 27 December.\n\nIt is the first time Liverpool have gone three home leagues game without a goal in more than 36 years, while they become only the second reigning Premier League champion to do so after Manchester United in their final three home games of the 2001-02 season.\n\nKlopp needs to find an answer to his side's attacking lethargy at home before they welcome a Manchester City side who have kept six successive clean sheets on Sunday.\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Disappointed, nothing to smile about really. Tough one to take. A really tough week - two away games, two very intense games - and tonight we looked really like we weren't fresh enough mentally and physically.\n\n\"A lot of moments where we gave the ball away too easily, in moments the boys looked tired mentally. I know they can pass the ball from A to B but it didn't happen. We made it easy for Brighton but they also did really well.\n\n\"Brighton deserved to win, no doubt about it. For me, it's more important to find an explanation for why we lost this game and understand what happened here. We didn't look convincing.\"\n\nBrighton manager Potter: \"We showed courage when we had the ball and when we didn't. We defended with our lives. We limited a good team to not too many chances. We had a few ourselves.\n\n\"You have to be disciplined here. Huge credit to the players who worked so hard. I can't speak highly enough of the character of performance - sensational.\n\n\"It's not an easy place to get points. They're a top team. We're just trying our best in this league. Every game we face a huge task. It's one for the supporters and everyone involved in the club. It's not often a club like us come here and win.\"\n• None Liverpool have lost consecutive home league games for the first time since September 2012, having been unbeaten in 68 at Anfield before this.\n• None Brighton beat Liverpool for the first time in 13 meetings - the last time was a 2-0 FA Cup win in 1984.\n• None Brighton have won three of their past four Premier League games (one draw), as many as they had in their previous 23.\n• None This was the first time the Seagulls have won back-to-back league games since November 2019.\n• None Brighton have conceded just 10 goals in 11 Premier League games with Robert Sanchez in goal this season (five clean sheets).\n• None Alzate became the fourth player this season to score his first Premier League goal in a match against Liverpool at Anfield, the most to have done so in a single season since 1998-99.\n\nLiverpool host Manchester City in the league on Sunday (16:30 GMT), while Brighton visit Burnley on Saturday (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\n• None Attempt saved. Dan Burn (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Alzate with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Neal Maupay.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Neal Maupay tries a through ball, but Dan Burn is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How has Pep turned things round and can Micah get Timo Werner firing?\n• None How Kanye West challenged ideas about rap and religion", "Lord Wharton, pictured when he was serving as an MP\n\nThe Conservative peer who is the government's preferred choice to chair the Office for Students (OfS) watchdog has suggested he could continue taking his party's whip at the same time as being an independent regulator.\n\nLord Wharton was asked by MPs about a conflict of interest.\n\nHe said that party whips, who organise how peers and MPs vote, would give him more \"latitude\".\n\n\"I can assure you I won't be hesitant to speak out,\" said Lord Wharton.\n\nMPs on the education select committee were questioning him in a pre-appointment hearing for the new chair of the OfS, an independent watchdog for higher education in England, representing the interests of students.\n\nThe job advert for the role offered £59,000 per year for two days per week.\n\nThe preferred candidate is Lord Wharton, a former Conservative MP and former manager of Boris Johnson's leadership campaign.\n\nDavid Simmonds, a Conservative MP on the committee, asked Lord Wharton about a potential conflict if he was voting in the House of Lords on legislation in areas on which he would also be regulating.\n\n\"You're a Conservative peer - and the question has to be asked: 'Are you going to retain the Conservative party whip or are you proposing to step away from it?'\" asked Mr Simmonds.\n\nLord Wharton said he had an \"open mind\".\n\nBut he told MPs his party whips in the House of Lords had said \"they would give me more latitude and understand that I may need to vote against or speak against some of the things the party in government could bring forward\".\n\n\"I can absolutely assure the committee that I recognise the crucial importance of the regulator being independent.\"\n\nThe OfS is responsible for independently regulating issues such as making sure students get value for money for their tuition fees.\n\nThese fees are decided by the government, dependent on votes by MPs and peers - and ministers are currently considering a review calling for fees to be reduced.\n\nThe regulator also considers the quality of what students are offered and fair access.\n\nLabour's Fleur Anderson asked whether Lord Wharton, while continuing to hold his party's whip on policy issues such as education, could also really be independent as a regulator.\n\n\"All I can assure you is that I will be independent and open and say what I think when issues arise. And if that brings me into conflict with government then so be it. And if it doesn't, it doesn't,\" said Lord Wharton.\n\nLord Wharton also suggested that if he became chair of the OfS it would consider whether the process for students seeking tuition fee refunds was \"fit for purpose\".\n\n\"I think the truth is that the process currently is bureaucratic and cumbersome and slow,\" he said.", "\"I wasn't dancing to mock or ridicule any organisation or to be silly... I was dancing for a fitness dance competition,\" said aerobics instructor Khing Hnin Wai after a video of her workout went viral.\n\nFilming in Myanmar's capital, she posted her fitness video to Facebook. Little did she know, she'd inadvertently caught a historical moment: Myanmar's military coup-in-progress.\n\nStanding by the Royal Lotus Roundabout near the country's parliament, armoured vehicles and black SUVs sped by behind her as she danced.\n\nOn Monday, the military seized control of Myanmar, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top officials in her party.", "Public Health England is investigating cases of coronavirus with 'worrying' new genetic changes that have been found in some regions of the UK.\n\nTests show they have a mutation, called E484K, that is already seen in the South Africa variant.\n\nAlthough this change may reduce vaccine effectiveness, the current ones in use should still work, say experts.\n\nThere have been 11 cases in Bristol and a cluster of 32 cases in Liverpool.\n\nUrgent testing for the South Africa variant is already starting in parts of England and could be rolled out to other areas seeing different variants with the same E484K mutation.\n\nScientists working with Public Health England found a small number of cases of the UK 'Kent' variant with the E484K mutation - it was seen in 11 out of 214,159 samples that they tested, and predominantly from the South West of England.\n\nIt is likely there may be more cases that haven't yet been found. The Liverpool area has seen 32 cases of original coronavirus that have the E484K mutation too.\n\nIt's not unexpected that variants are appearing or that they will continue to change - all viruses mutate as they make new copies of themselves to spread and thrive.\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, described the finding as \"a worrying development, though not entirely unexpected\".\n\nHe said it was important people follow the lockdown rules and get cases of coronavirus down to prevent opportunities for the virus to mutate further.\n\n\"Otherwise not only can the virus continue to spread, it can also evolve.\"\n\nHe said that allowing spread could allow a \"melting pot\" for different emerging variants.\n\nScientists have already been checking what these new mutations might mean for existing coronavirus vaccines that were designed around earlier versions of the virus that started the pandemic.\n\nSome research appears to show E484K may help the virus evade parts of the immune system called antibodies.\n\nBut early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against variants with this mutation - although the body's immune response may not be as strong or prolonged.\n\nTwo new coronavirus vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - also appear to offer good cover against variants, protecting against serious illness.\n\nEven in the worst case scenario, vaccines can be redesigned and tweaked to be a better match in a matter or weeks or months, if necessary, say experts.\n\nA silver lining may be that the variants are mutating in a similar way rather than diverging from each other.\n\nProf Ravi Gupta from the University of Cambridge said: \"This gives us a sign that it has certain favoured routes - and we can work to block those off with a vaccine.\"\n\nFormer UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the race was on to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible in order to keep a step ahead of the virus.\n\nMeasures such as washing your hands, keeping your distance from other people and wearing a face covering will still help prevent infections.", "We'll end our coverage here of this week's PMQs.\n\nThanks for following along with us.\n\nToday's session was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Jennifer Scott and Richard Morris, with Johanna Howitt editing.\n\nThe prime minister will be leading the No 10 press briefing at 17:00 GMT - full coverage will be over on the BBC Coronavirus live page.\n\nHope you can join us there.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could lead to a \"substantial\" fall in the spread of the virus, say scientists.\n\nThe impact of Covid vaccines on transmission has been a crucial unknown that will dramatically shape the future of the pandemic.\n\nThe study, which has not been formally published, also showed the vaccine remained effective while people waited for a second dose.\n\nIt was 76% effective during the three months after the first shot.\n\nThe impact on transmission is critical.\n\nIf a vaccine only stops you getting severely ill, but you can still catch and pass on the virus, then everyone will need to be immunised to be protected.\n\nBut if it also stops you spreading the virus then it would have a far greater impact on the pandemic as each person who is vaccinated indirectly protects other people too.\n\nThe study by the University of Oxford swabbed participants every week to test them for the presence of the virus.\n\nIf there is no virus then they cannot spread it. In the study, the numbers testing positive halved in people once they had been given two doses of the vaccine.\n\n\"The data indicate that [the vaccine] may have a substantial impact on transmission by reducing the number of infected individuals in the population,\" the report said.\n\nThe UK, amid global debate and in sharp contrast to other countries, is prioritising giving the first dose to as many people as possible.\n\nThe idea is to save more lives by giving more people some protection, but it means people will have to wait around three months for the booster instead of three weeks.\n\nThis study - on 17,000 people in the UK, South Africa and Brazil - showed protection remained at 76% during the three months after the first dose.\n\nThis rose to 82% after people were given the second dose.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, from the Oxford Vaccine Trial, said: \"These new data provide an important verification of the interim data that was used by more than 25 regulators including the MHRA and EMA to grant the vaccine emergency use authorisation.\n\n\"It also supports the policy recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation for a 12-week prime-boost interval, as they look for the optimal approach to rollout.\"\n\nThe report does not tackle the impact of the new variants on how well the vaccines work.\n\nProf Stephen Evans, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: \"The data definitely provide some evidence to suggest that the eventual protection from two doses of this vaccine are not worsened by having a longer than 28 or 42 day period between doses, and tend to confirm what had been shown before, that if anything the eventual efficacy was better.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the study was \"hugely encouraging\", adding that it \"further reinforces our confidence that vaccines are capable of reducing transmission and protecting people from this awful disease\".\n\nHe said: \"This report shows the Oxford vaccine works and works well.\n\n\"More than 9.6 million people have already received the first dose of their Covid-19 vaccine and the NHS is working tirelessly to vaccinate as many people as possible in every part of the UK.\"", "Swapping providers needs to be a \"one touch\" process, said Ofcom\n\nPeople who want to swap broadband providers should be able to do so more simply, regulator Ofcom has said.\n\nIt follows its own research suggesting 40% of people are put off switching because it is considered too complex.\n\nUnder its proposals, customers would just contact their chosen new provider and the switch would happen automatically.\n\nThere is currently a mismatch between the number of superfast connections available and those taking them up.\n\nWhile 96% of UK homes can now get superfast broadband, offering speeds of at least 30Mbps (megabits per second), Ofcom estimates that only 60% have such services.\n\nThis means around 11 million homes could upgrade to a faster service.\n\nPart of the reason they haven't done so could be down to what Ofcom describes as \"the hassle of having to deal with more than one provider\".\n\nCurrently, if someone wants to swap providers and both firms use the Openreach network - for instance Sky and TalkTalk - the new company manages the switch.\n\nBut if someone wishes to switch from a provider using Openreach to Virgin Media or another one like CityFibre or Hyperoptic, they would have to contact both their existing and new firms.\n\nThere are many providers available and it can sometimes seem confusing\n\nCharles Davies, managing director of provider Hyperoptic's ISP division, said: \"These proposals, if introduced, will shift the power to shop around decisively in the customer's favour.\n\n\"It will also ensure that all of the investment being made to upgrade the UK's networks to full fibre is supported by properly functioning competition in the market.\"\n\nIn 2019, Ofcom changed the rules around mobile switching, so that customers can now swap operators by simply sending a free text message.\n\nLindsey Fussell, Ofcom's networks and communications group director, admitted the broadband landscape can be confusing. \"There are lots of different offers out there from a wide range of broadband and landline providers.\n\n\"We want to make it even easier for people to get a better deal or upgrade to a faster, more reliable service. Our proposals today aim to make the process as seamless as possible, for everyone.\"\n\nOfcom will consult on the proposals until the end of March, with a decision due in the summer.\n\nRichard Neudegg, head of regulation at broadband comparison site Uswitch.com, said the proposals could help \"build consumer confidence\".\n\n\"Switching broadband can feel like a complicated process and can put some consumers off searching for a better deal, potentially costing them £90 a year as they sit out of contract with their existing provider,\" he said.\n\n\"Making things easier for consumers will become especially important in the future... so consumers can move to next generation services with minimal fuss.\"", "Ryanair has been told to remove \"irresponsible\" adverts depicting misleading claims about coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said it got 2,370 complaints - the third highest ever received for an advert.\n\nThey encouraged people to book holidays with Ryanair after having vaccinations, suggesting consumers could \"Jab & Go\".\n\nThe airline has stopped the adverts, but said it disagreed with the rulings.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) looked into three issues after getting the complaints about adverts in late December and early January. Two of the issues were upheld, but a third, that Ryanair trivialised lockdown restrictions, was not.\n\nA number of complainants felt that the Jab & Go adverts implied that most of the UK population would be successfully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the spring or summer this year and would be able to go on holiday.\n\nOn this point, the ASA concluded that the adverts were misleading.\n\nThe watchdog said that, given the complexity and fast-changing situation, it was \"important that advertisers were cautious when linking developments in the UK's response to the pandemic to specific timeframes around which life might return to some level of normality, particularly when linking it to how confident consumers could be when making purchasing decisions\".\n\nThe ASA also rapped Ryanair after people complained that the adverts were irresponsible.\n\nHowever, complaints that the adverts trivialised the impact of the pandemic on society and were offensive were not in breach of the advertising code, the ASA said.\n\n\"Whilst we acknowledged that many viewers had found the tone of the ads distasteful we considered they were unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence,\" it concluded.\n\nThe ASA said the Ryanair adverts had, in general, \"over-claimed on this occasion\".\n\nIt said: \"The ads misleadingly provided consumers with a reassurance that being vaccinated against Covid-19 was likely to allow them to go on holiday without restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\n\"It's important that all travel companies take particular care, at a time of significant uncertainty about when lockdown restrictions will end, not to mislead or over exaggerate when it will be possible for people to go on holiday,\" the regulator said.\n\nAlthough the ASA did not publish its findings until Wednesday, Ryanair pulled the adverts last week. In a sign the airline was expecting the ASA to rule against it, Ryanair said last week it \"disagrees\" with the complainants.\n\nOn Wednesday, an airline spokesperson said: \"The ASA's ruling flies in the face of the UK's successful vaccine rollout, however even though this ruling is baseless, Ryanair will comply with it and the Jab & Go adverts will not run again.\"", "A \"suspicious incident\" took place at Queen Alexandra Hospital where someone attempted to video staff and patients\n\nA woman has been barred from several hospitals after filming inside them and posting footage online.\n\nHampshire Constabulary and Sussex Police have issued the 30-year-old from Fareham with a Community Protection Notice (CPN).\n\nIt means she cannot turn up at the hospitals in those counties without an appointment or medical emergency.\n\nThe woman had posted videos on social media of empty corridors in hospitals, claiming there was no pandemic.\n\nDorset Police said it was also carrying out an investigation after an incident at Royal Bournemouth Hospital on Sunday evening.\n\nIt said a woman was \"acting suspiciously\" and filming inside.\n\nCPNs are used by police as punishment for antisocial behaviour. Breaching them is a criminal offence.\n\nThe woman was previously issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice by Hampshire Constabulary following posts referring to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.\n\nIt said the posts on Facebook had caused \"angst in the community\".\n\nA spokesman from Hampshire police said: \"The CPN is designed to prevent unreasonable behaviour that is having a negative impact on the local community's quality of life.\"\n\nHe said it related to a \"suspicious incident where an individual attempted to video staff and patients\" at the same hospital on Sunday.\n\nOther videos relate to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex.\n\nCh Insp Jon Carter of Sussex Police said: \"There are a variety of tactics of dealing with this kind of unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"We are working together with Hampshire Constabulary to ensure the best avenues to deter this behaviour from continuing are taken.\"\n\nUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Trust said false information was causing \"upset and distress\" to staff, after a similar post was uploaded about Southampton General Hospital.\n\nNHS managers have pointed out that because of the way healthcare trusts have reorganised hospitals to separate Covid patients from others and cancelling non-urgent care to free up capacity, some parts of hospital buildings would look empty.\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.", "There are concerns the new variant can spread more easily and vaccines may not be quite so effective against it\n\nTwo cases of the South Africa coronavirus variant have been detected in Birmingham.\n\nThose 18 and over in the Frankley Great Park ward and part of south Northfield area are being asked to take tests, even if they do not show symptoms.\n\nHealth officials said the cases were from a family living in neighbouring homes and were not linked to international travel.\n\nThe discovery comes after the variant was detected in nearby Walsall.\n\nBirmingham City Council said the two people tested positive in early January, but it was not until Friday when random tests picked up the variant.\n\nThe local authority said testing would be significantly increased in the areas affected.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said the new variant presented a \"new risk\" and urged all adults to get tested \"to minimise the risk of spreading the virus\".\n\nHe called on people to follow the current lockdown rules and only leave the home if it was essential.\n\nThe South African variant, one of thousands since Covid-19 emerged, is not thought to be any more dangerous than others circulating in the UK.\n\nBut there are concerns it can spread more readily and vaccines may not work quite as well against it.\n\nA new mobile test site will be opened on Friday and several places for residents to collect home testing kits\n\nThe Conservative MP for Birmingham Northfield, Gary Sambrook, said he had been working closely with public health officials and that the group intended \"to hold an online public meeting in the coming days\".\n\nDrive-through tests will be available with no appointment for people without symptoms at the St Modwen site on Longbridge Business Park on Thursday.\n\nA further mobile test site will be opened on Friday.\n\nThe council said it would also open several designated sites for residents to collect home testing kits.\n\nBusinesses have been approached to make testing available to their staff.\n\nA roll-out of enhanced testing has already started in eight areas in England, including Walsall, using mobile sites to trace any further transmission.\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 no indication that the South African variant of Covid-19 is spreading widely among communities in Wales, according to the health minister.\n\nWhile the source of 10 of Wales’ 13 confirmed cases have been identified, Vaughan Gething was asked where he believed the other three cases had originated.\n\n“The reason why we’re doing that backward contact tracing around those three people is to answer exactly that question”, he said.\n\n“The fact that we’ve only got a handful of cases at present suggests that there isn’t sustained community transmission in Wales of the South African variant.\n\n“But we need to understand what’s happened with those three cases to understand how those people have got the South African variant, if they have come into contact with other people through different points of contact earlier on.\n\n“So that’s why the investigation is taking place because we need to answer that question”.\n\nMr Gething also said it was important to learn more about the so-called Kent variant, to identify how that was likely to impact continued spread of the virus within Wales.\n\n“The Kent variant has got into sustained community transmission. It’s now the dominant form of coronavirus in Wales”, he said.\n\n“We know that in itself is much more contagious as well, so it’s about understanding the impact of this new variant, and where and how those three people may have come into contact to acquire this particular strain of coronavirus.\"", "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant that he started in his garage nearly 30 years ago.\n\nHe will become executive chairman, a move he said would give him \"time and energy\" to focus on his other ventures.\n\nMr Bezos, who has a fortune of almost $200bn, will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently leads Amazon's cloud computing business.\n\nThe change will take place in the second half of 2021, the company said.\n\n\"Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it's consuming. When you have a responsibility like that, it's hard to put attention on anything else,\" Mr Bezos said in a letter to Amazon staff on Tuesday.\n\n\"As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions.\"\n\n\"I've never had more energy, and this isn't about retiring. I'm super passionate about the impact I think these organisations can have,\" he added.\n\nMr Bezos, 57, has led Amazon since its start as an online bookshop in 1994. The firm now employs 1.3 million people globally and has its hand in everything from package delivery and streaming video to cloud services and advertising.\n\nHe's amassed a fortune of $196.2bn, according to Forbes' list of billionaires., making him the world's richest man. However, Bloomberg's billionaire index puts Tesla boss Elon Musk just ahead of him.\n\nAmazon saw its already explosive growth skyrocket last year, as the pandemic prompted a surge in online shopping.\n\nAndy Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997\n\nThe firm reported $386bn (£283bn) in sales in 2020, up 38% from 2019. Profits almost doubled, rising to $21.3bn.\n\nIn announcing the plans, Mr Bezos said he would continue to focus on new products and initiatives.\n\n\"When you look at our financial results, what you're actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention,\" he said. \"Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition.\"\n\nThe shake-up comes as Mr Bezos has developed an increasingly public profile.\n\nHe has endured a public divorce, become a target for labour and inequality activists, and poured his wealth into other businesses, such as space exploration firm Blue Origin and the Washington Post newspaper.\n\nAmazon also faces increasing scrutiny from regulators, who have questioned its monopoly power. And its dominance in cloud computing is being increasingly challenged by other tech firms, such as Microsoft and Alphabet, parent company of Google and YouTube.\n\nMr Bezos's decision to hand over the day-to-day operation of the company came as a surprise. But investors appeared unfazed, with little change in the firm's share price in after-hours trade.\n\nIn a call with analysts to discuss the firm's financial results, Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said: \"Jeff is not leaving, he is getting a new job... The board is super active and important in Amazon's success story.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things to know about Amazon boss Jeff Bezos\n\nMr Jassy, a Harvard graduate, has been with Amazon since 1997 and helped develop Amazon Web Services, which has long been seen as the profit engine of the company.\n\nThe division provides cloud computing and storage for governments and companies including McDonald's and Netflix.\n\n\"Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,\" Mr Bezos said.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said it was \"no accident\" that Amazon is tapping the head of the cloud business to lead the company.\n\nThis is a real surprise. But you have to remember that Jeff Bezos himself is worth nearly $200bn.\n\nAnd when you're that rich imagine what you can do. Jeff Bezos has some pretty lofty ambitions outside of Amazon.\n\nHis Blue Origin company wants to \"build a road to space\". He's also sunk $10bn into Earth Fund, designed to help combat the effects of climate change.\n\nOh, and he also owns the Washington Post.\n\nHow will Amazon cope? Well, importantly, he's not leaving. As executive chair and founder he'll still exercise huge power over the company.\n\nHowever, stepping back will inevitably mean less influence.\n\nHis replacement - Andy Jassy - has been running Amazon Web Services, Amazon's booming cloud business division.\n\nHis rise to the top underscores how important this business has become to Amazon.\n\nAnother top executive, Jeff Wilke, who led the firm's consumer business, announced his retirement last year.\n\nAmazon Web Services \"continued to shine in [its most recent] quarter, and now accounts for a more meaningful chunk of sales. The potential here is huge, and the scalable benefits that come with it should have ears pricking up,\" she said.\n\nOverall sales at the company rose 44% in the last three months of the year to $125.6bn, boosted in part by renewed lockdowns in some parts of the world as well as a later date for the firm's \"Prime Day\", when the firm drives sales with a slew of discounts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCarolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies, wrote on Twitter that the \"huge\" announcement showed how central cloud services are to Amazon's business.\n\nBut she added that she did not think Bezos was \"done making an impact on the future of the company\".\n\nCritics of the firm reacted to the announcement similarly.\n\n\"Do not be fooled by Amazon. Jeff Bezos is still in a position of immense power as executive chair,\" said Public Citizen, a US-based consumer rights activist group. \"This abusive, predatory monopoly still needs a complete overhaul.\"", "Thousands of armed forces personnel are living in sub-standard accommodation, according to a report by the government's spending watchdog.\n\nThe National Audit Office said barracks had suffered from \"decades of under-investment\" by the Ministry of Defence.\n\nIssues with basics such as heating and hot water were among the common complaints, the report said.\n\nThe MoD said it had invested £1.2bn over the last decade in improving military housing.\n\nBut the watchdog said there was still a £1.5bn backlog of repairs and the MoD was failing in its commitment to provide high-quality subsidised housing.\n\nAs of last year, more than half of the armed forces - nearly 80,000 people - were occupying single living accommodation blocks, either on a full or part-time basis.\n\nOf those, the NAO found more than a third - 36% - were living in \"poorer grade\" accommodation, while almost 2,400 were in housing considered such bad quality that they were not charged any rent.\n\nFewer than half - 49% - were satisfied with the overall standard of their accommodation, compared with 58% in 2015, according to the armed forces continuous attitude survey.\n\nOther common issues included a lack of cooking facilities, limited storage space and poor or expensive wifi, the NAO said.\n\nDespite the MoD planning to spend £1.5bn on renovation work over the next 10 years, the NAO said it could be \"some time\" before significant improvements were seen because of long-term under-investment.\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said: \"Problems with heating and hot water are not conditions that [members of the armed forces] should have to tolerate.\n\n\"MoD needs to get this right if it is to retain service personnel in the long term.\"\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said delaying repairs until the last-minute meant the MoD \"faces a bigger bill to get things up to scratch\".\n\n\"In the meantime, thousands of members of our armed forces are left living in sub-standard accommodation,\" she said.\n\n\"These are the people we ask to go out and fight for our country. The least they should be able to expect is a hot shower and a decent roof over their heads.\"\n\nAn MoD statement said: \"Our armed forces personnel are at the heart of everything we do and it is only right they are provided good quality and affordable living accommodation.\n\n\"We have invested £1.2bn over the last decade on construction and upgrades of our accommodation and continue to invest in a range of new-build and renovation projects.\"\n\nThe department would \"carefully consider\" the NAO's recommendations, the statement added.", "It is \"not practical\" to completely close the UK's borders given the amount of medicines and food imported into the country, the prime minister has said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions to prevent new coronavirus variants entering the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government had already tightened travel restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nHe said it would be going ahead with its plan for quarantine hotels for people arriving from Covid hotspots.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the scheme - announced a week ago - will start or when there will be further details.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said government scientists had recommended \"a complete pre-emptive closure of borders\".\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said: \"Actually, Sage (the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies) did not recommend a complete ban and they say travel bans should not be relied upon to stop the importation of new variants.\n\n\"But we do have one of the toughest regimes in the world.\"\n\nRules around international travel were tightened last month, meaning all travellers must self-isolate for 10 days when they return to the UK.\n\nThe government also announced plans to make people quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels when arriving in the UK from certain \"high risk\" countries, where new coronavirus variants have been identified.\n\nThe prime minister said at Wednesday evening's Downing Street briefing that Health Secretary Matt Hancock would make a statement on Thursday to give further details, although No 10 later clarified to say this was not happening.\n\nLabour chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Yvette Cooper tweeted in response: \"Oh for heaven's sake. Who is in charge of this borders policy? When will we get details? Does anyone have a grip?\"\n\nThe UK has placed 33 high-risk countries on a so-called \"red list\", including most of South America, southern Africa and Portugal.\n\nScotland has announced it will extend the measures to all travellers.\n\nSir Keir said the government's new border arrangements were \"still weeks away\" from being introduced and would only affect direct flights from some countries.\n\nHe asked whether the prime minister was saying that \"quarantining all arrivals would make no difference to fighting new variants of the virus\", or that it was \"too difficult to do it\".\n\nMr Johnson responded by saying that 75% of the UK's medicines come into the country from the European mainland, 45% of food, while 250,000 businesses rely on imports.\n\n\"It is not practical to completely close off this country as he seems to be suggesting,\" he said.\n\nThe government needs to make sure hotels are ready. That doesn't just mean securing enough rooms and making sure all the guests can have meals delivered, but also coming up with policies around things like security if a guest tries to leave early.\n\nThe government could use existing guidelines written up by countries such as New Zealand as a template.\n\nAirlines and airports also have questions about how this will work and some areas are complicated. For instance, the policy currently only applies to arrivals from 33 countries - all of whom will arrive on indirect flights.\n\nShould airlines separate passengers from low and high-risk countries onboard?\n\nBut the policy also requires compliance from passengers. If passengers split their tickets and don't declare they've been in one of the 33 high-risk countries, how will the government keep track?\n\nThere are plenty of questions from all quarters about how to make this policy effective.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps also defended the government's decision not to extend the hotel quarantine policy to arrivals from all countries.\n\nHe told the Commons Transport Committee: \"The idea that the UK could completely batten down its hatches and remain battened down for a year is mistaken. But also the evidence that that is the only thing you need to do, or primary thing you need to do, is pretty shaky.\"\n\nMr Shapps also said the hotel quarantine scheme would not affect many people.\n\n\"The 33 countries on the so-called red list do not have direct flights… so the numbers we would expect to see returning would be quite low,\" he said.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the event reflected Capt Sir Tom Moore's \"spirit of optimism\"\n\nPeople have been taking part in a national clap to honour Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson led the tributes to the 100-year-old fundraiser who died with coronavirus on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, where Capt Sir Tom lived, also joined in the applause.\n\nThe centenarian's family said they were \"incredibly touched\" by the event and \"taking part with huge love in their hearts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's family said they were \"incredibly touched\" by the event\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's affections by walking 100 laps of his garden last spring during the first coronavirus lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Army This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapt Sir Tom tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nHe had initially set out to raise £1,000, but he eventually raised £32,794,701 - which totalled £39m with Gift Aid - from more than 1.5 million supporters, and was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nJunior soldiers at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, took part in the nationwide clap\n\nNHS staff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital joined in the applause\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing shortly before the clap, Mr Johnson urged people to join in the event to reflect Capt Sir Tom's \"spirit of optimism\".\n\n\"Let's also clap for all those he campaigned for - our brilliant NHS staff and care workers - and let's do everything we can to carry on supporting them,\" he said.\n\n\"Because if we stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives then, in the words of Captain Tom, tomorrow will be a good day.\"\n\nPlayers from Burnley and Manchester City paid tribute to the army veteran before their Premier League match\n\nAt Bedford Hospital, nurses and doctors directly involved in the care of Capt Sir Tom joined the national clap to celebrate his life.\n\nHospital leaders said the centenarian was a \"source of huge inspiration and pride\" and announced plans to create a memorial for him at the site.\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\nWorkers at Bedford Hospital, where Capt Sir Tom died, also clapped for the fundraiser\n\nSimon Linnett, chairman of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"He raised millions of pounds which will give huge benefits to colleagues and patients.\n\n\"But more than that was the contribution he made to raising the morale of staff in the NHS and the public - he was a source of huge inspiration and pride.\"\n\nA BBC News special, Captain Tom: We Salute You, presented by Michael Ball, is being broadcast on Wednesday at 19:30 GMT on BBC One and will be available on the BBC iPlayer.", "Women in China's \"re-education\" camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC.\n\nYou may find some of the details in this story distressing.\n\nThe men always wore masks, Tursunay Ziawudun said, even though there was no pandemic then.\n\nThey wore suits, she said, not police uniforms.\n\nSometime after midnight, they came to the cells to select the women they wanted and took them down the corridor to a \"black room\", where there were no surveillance cameras.\n\nSeveral nights, Ziawudun said, they took her.\n\n\"Perhaps this is the most unforgettable scar on me forever,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't even want these words to spill from my mouth.\"\n\nTursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China's vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. According to independent estimates, more than a million men and women have been detained in the sprawling network of camps, which China says exist for the \"re-education\" of the Uighurs and other minorities.\n\nHuman rights groups say the Chinese government has gradually stripped away the religious and other freedoms of the Uighurs, culminating in an oppressive system of mass surveillance, detention, indoctrination, and even forced sterilisation.\n\nThe policy flows from China's President, Xi Jinping, who visited Xinjiang in 2014 in the wake of a terror attack by Uighur separatists. Shortly after, according to documents leaked to the New York Times, he directed local officials to respond with \"absolutely no mercy\". The US government said last month that China's actions since amounted to a genocide. China says reports of mass detention and forced sterilisation are \"lies and absurd allegations\".\n\nFirst-hand accounts from inside the internment camps are rare, but several former detainees and a guard have told the BBC they experienced or saw evidence of an organised system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture.\n\nTursunay Ziawudun, who fled Xinjiang after her release and is now in the US, said women were removed from the cells \"every night\" and raped by one or more masked Chinese men. She said she was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men.\n\nZiawudun has spoken to the media before, but only from Kazakhstan, where she \"lived in constant fear of being sent back to China\", she said. She said she believed that if she revealed the extent of the sexual abuse she had experienced and seen, and was returned to Xinjiang, she would be punished more harshly than before. And she was ashamed, she said.\n\nTursunay Ziawudun was able to flee to Kazakhstan, and then on to relative safety in the US\n\nIt is impossible to verify Ziawudun's account completely because of the severe restrictions China places on reporters in the country, but travel documents and immigration records she provided to the BBC corroborate the timeline of her story. Her descriptions of the camp in Xinyuan county - known in Uighur as Kunes county - match satellite imagery analysed by the BBC, and her descriptions of daily life inside the camp, as well as the nature and methods of the abuse, correspond with other accounts from former detainees.\n\nInternal documents from the Kunes county justice system from 2017 and 2018, provided to the BBC by Adrian Zenz, a leading expert on China's policies in Xinjiang, detail planning and spending for \"transformation through education\" of \"key groups\" - a common euphemism in China for the indoctrination of the Uighurs. In one Kunes document, the \"education\" process is described as \"washing brains, cleansing hearts, strengthening righteousness and eliminating evil\".\n\nThe BBC also interviewed a Kazakh woman from Xinjiang who was detained for 18 months in the camp system, who said she was forced to strip Uighur women naked and handcuff them, before leaving them alone with Chinese men. Afterwards, she cleaned the rooms, she said.\n\n\"My job was to remove their clothes above the waist and handcuff them so they cannot move,\" said Gulzira Auelkhan, crossing her wrists behind her head to demonstrate. \"Then I would leave the women in the room and a man would enter - some Chinese man from outside or policeman. I sat silently next to the door, and when the man left the room I took the woman for a shower.\"\n\nThe Chinese men \"would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates\", she said.\n\nSome former detainees of the camps have described being forced to assist guards or face punishment. Auelkhan said she was powerless to resist or intervene.\n\nAsked if there was a system of organised rape, she said: \"Yes, rape.\"\n\n\"They forced me to go into that room,\" she said. \"They forced me to take off those women's clothes and to restrain their hands and leave the room.\"\n\nSome of the women who were taken away from the cells at night were never returned, Ziawudun said. Those who were brought back were threatened against telling others in the cell what had happened to them.\n\n\"You can't tell anyone what happened, you can only lie down quietly,\" she said. \"It is designed to destroy everyone's spirit.\"\n\nMr Zenz told the BBC that the testimony gathered for this story was \"some of the most horrendous evidence I have seen since the atrocity began\".\n\n\"This confirms the very worst of what we have heard before,\" he said. \"It provides authoritative and detailed evidence of sexual abuse and torture at a level clearly greater than what we had assumed.\"\n\nGulzira Auelkhan makes tea at home in her village. She was detained for 18 months\n\nThe Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic minority group that number about 11 million in Xinjiang in north-western China. The region borders Kazakhstan and is also home to ethnic Kazakhs. Ziawudun, who is 42, is Uighur. Her husband is a Kazakh.\n\nThe couple returned to Xinjiang in late 2016 after a five-year stay in Kazakhstan, and were interrogated on arrival and had their passports confiscated, Ziawudun said. A few months later, she was told by police to attend a meeting alongside other Uighurs and Kazakhs and the group was rounded up and detained.\n\nHer first stint in detention was comparatively easy, she said, with decent food and access to her phone. After a month she developed stomach ulcers and was released. Her husband's passport was returned and he went back to Kazakhstan to work, but authorities kept Ziawudun's, trapping her in Xinjiang. Reports suggest China has purposefully kept behind and interned relatives to discourage those who leave from speaking out. On 9 March 2018, with her husband still in Kazakhstan, Ziawudun was instructed to report to a local police station, she said. She was told she needed \"more education\".\n\nAccording to her account, Ziawudun was transported back to the same facility as her previous detention, in Kunes county, but the site had been significantly developed, she said. Buses were lined up outside offloading new detainees \"non-stop\".\n\nThe women had their jewellery confiscated. Ziawudun's earrings were yanked out, she said, causing her ears to bleed, and she was herded into a room with a group of women. Among them was an elderly woman who Ziawudun would later befriend.\n\nThe camp guards pulled off the woman's headscarf, Ziawudun said, and shouted at her for wearing a long dress - one of a list of religious expressions that became arrestable offences for Uighurs that year.\n\n\"They stripped everything off the elderly lady, leaving her with just her underwear. She was so embarrassed that she tried to cover herself with her arms,\" Ziawudun said.\n\n\"I cried so much watching the way they treated her. Her tears fell like rain.\"\n\nZiawudun identified this site - listed as a school - as the location where she was held. Satellite images from 2017 (left) and 2019 (right) show significant development typical of camps, with what look like dormitory and factory buildings\n\nThe women were told to hand over their shoes and any clothes with elastic or buttons, Ziawudun said, then taken to cellblocks - \"similar to a small Chinese neighbourhood where there are rows of buildings\".\n\nNothing much happened for the first month or two. They were forced to watch propaganda programmes in their cells and had their hair forcibly cut short.\n\nThen police began interrogating Ziawudun about her absent husband, she said, knocking her on the floor when she resisted and kicking her in the abdomen.\n\n\"Police boots are very hard and heavy, so at first I thought he was beating me with something,\" she said. \"Then I realised that he was trampling on my belly. I almost passed out - I felt a hot flush go through me.\"\n\nA camp doctor told her she might have a blood clot. When her cellmates drew attention to the fact that she was bleeding, the guards \"replied saying it is normal for women to bleed\", she said.\n\nAccording to Ziawudun, each cell was home to 14 women, with bunk beds, bars on the windows, a basin and a hole-in-the-floor-style toilet. When she first saw women being taken out of the cell at night, she didn't understand why, she said. She thought they were being moved elsewhere.\n\nSecret filming obtained by the Bitter Winter activist group showed cells with bars and cameras\n\nThen sometime in May 2018 - \"I don't remember the exact date, because you don't remember the dates inside there\" - Ziawudun and a cellmate, a woman in her twenties, were taken out at night and presented to a Chinese man in a mask, she said. Her cellmate was taken into a separate room.\n\n\"As soon as she went inside she started screaming,\" Ziawudun said. \"I don't know how to explain to you, I thought they were torturing her. I never thought about them raping.\"\n\nThe woman who had brought them from the cells told the men about Ziawudun's recent bleeding.\n\n\"After the woman spoke about my condition, the Chinese man swore at her. The man with the mask said 'Take her to the dark room'.\n\n\"The woman took me to the room next to where the other girl had been taken in. They had an electric stick, I didn't know what it was, and it was pushed inside my genital tract, torturing me with an electric shock.\"\n\nZiawudun's torture that first night in the dark room eventually came to an end, she said, when the woman intervened again citing her medical condition, and she was returned to the cell.\n\nAbout an hour later, her cellmate was brought back.\n\n\"The girl became completely different after that, she wouldn't speak to anyone, she sat quietly staring as if in a trance,\" Ziawudun said. \"There were many people in those cells who lost their minds.\"\n\nGulzira Auelkhan, centre, at home in her village. She was forced to restrain women in the camps, she said\n\nAlongside cells, another central feature of the camps is classrooms. Teachers have been drafted in to \"re-educate\" the detainees - a process activists say is designed to strip the Uighurs and other minorities of their culture, language and religion, and indoctrinate them into mainstream Chinese culture.\n\nQelbinur Sedik, an Uzbek woman from Xinjiang, was among the Chinese language teachers brought into the camps and coerced into giving lessons to the detainees. Sedik has since fled China and spoken publicly about her experience.\n\nThe women's camp was \"tightly controlled\", Sedik told the BBC. But she heard stories, she said - signs and rumours of rape. One day, Sedik cautiously approached a Chinese camp policewoman she knew.\n\n\"I asked her, 'I have been hearing some terrible stories about rape, do you know about it?' She said we should talk in the courtyard during lunch.\n\n\"So I went to the courtyard, where there were not many cameras. She said, 'Yes, the rape has become a culture. It is gang rape and the Chinese police not only rape them but also electrocute them. They are subject to horrific torture.'\"\n\nThat night Sedik didn't sleep at all, she said. \"I was thinking about my daughter who was studying abroad and I cried all night.\"\n\nSayragul Sauytbay, a teacher, said she witnessed a harrowing rape. She was later accused of crossing illegally into Kazakhstan\n\nIn separate testimony to the Uyghur Human Rights Project, Sedik said she heard about an electrified stick being inserted into women to torture them - echoing the experience Ziawudun described.\n\nThere were \"four kinds of electric shock\", Sedik said - \"the chair, the glove, the helmet, and anal rape with a stick\".\n\n\"The screams echoed throughout the building,\" she said. \"I could hear them during lunch and sometimes when I was in class.\"\n\nAnother teacher forced to work in the camps, Sayragul Sauytbay, told the BBC that \"rape was common\" and the guards \"picked the girls and young women they wanted and took them away\".\n\nShe described witnessing a harrowing public gang rape of a woman of just 20 or 21, who was brought before about 100 other detainees to make a forced confession.\n\n\"After that, in front of everyone, the police took turns to rape her,\" Sauytbay said.\n\n\"While carrying out this test, they watched people closely and picked out anyone who resisted, clenched their fists, closed their eyes, or looked away, and took them for punishment.\"\n\nThe young woman cried out for help, Sauytbay said.\n\n\"It was absolutely horrendous,\" she said. \"I felt I had died. I was dead.\"\n\nZiawudun broke down in tears as she identified footage and images of the camps\n\nIn the camp in Kunes, Ziawudun's days drifted into weeks and then months. The detainees' hair was cut, they went to class, they underwent unexplained medical tests, took pills, and were forcibly injected every 15 days with a \"vaccine\" that brought on nausea and numbness.\n\nWomen were forcibly fitted with IUDs or sterilised, Ziawudun said, including a woman who was just about 20 years old. (\"We begged them on her behalf,\" she said.) Forced sterilisation of Uighurs has been widespread in Xinjiang, according to a recent investigation by the Associated Press. The Chinese government told the BBC the allegations were \"completely unfounded\".\n\nAs well as the medical interventions, detainees in Ziawudun's camp spent hours singing patriotic Chinese songs and watching patriotic TV programmes about Chinese President Xi Jinping, she said.\n\n\"You forget to think about life outside the camp. I don't know if they brainwashed us or if it was the side effect of the injections and pills, but you can't think of anything beyond wishing you had a full stomach. The food deprivation is so severe.\"\n\nDetainees had food withheld for infractions such as failing to accurately memorise passages from books about Xi Jinping, according to a former camp guard who spoke to the BBC via video link from a country outside China.\n\n\"Once we were taking the people arrested into the concentration camp, and I saw everyone being forced to memorise those books. They sit for hours trying to memorise the text, everyone had a book in their hands,\" he said.\n\nThose who failed tests were forced to wear three different colours of clothing based on whether they had failed one, two, or three times, he said, and subjected to different levels of punishment accordingly, including food deprivation and beatings.\n\n\"I entered those camps. I took detainees into those camps,\" he said. \"I saw those sick, miserable people. They definitely experienced various types of torture. I am sure about that.\"\n\nAnalysts say the policy against the Uighurs flows directly from President Xi Jinping\n\nIt was not possible to independently verify the guard's testimony but he provided documents that appeared to corroborate a period of employment at a known camp. He agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe guard said he did not know anything about rape in the cell areas. Asked if the camp guards used electrocution, he said: \"Yes. They do. They use those electrocuting instruments.\" After being tortured, detainees were forced to make confessions to a variety of perceived offences, according to the guard. \"I have those confessions in my heart,\" he said.\n\nPresident Xi looms large over the camps. His image and slogans adorn the walls; he is a focus of the programme of \"re-education\". Xi is the overall architect of the policy against the Uighurs, said Charles Parton, a former British diplomat in China and now senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.\n\n\"It is very centralised and it goes to the very top,\" Parton said. \"There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that this is Xi Jinping's policy.\"\n\nIt was unlikely that Xi or other top party officials would have directed or authorised rape or torture, Parton said, but they would \"certainly be aware of it\".\n\n\"I think they prefer at the top just to turn a blind eye. The line has gone out to implement this policy with great sternness, and that is what is happening.\" That left \"no real constraints\", he said. \"I just don't see what the perpetrators of these acts would have to hold them back.\"\n\nAccording to Ziawudun's account, the perpetrators did not hold back.\n\n\"They don't only rape but also bite all over your body, you don't know if they are human or animal,\" she said, pressing a tissue to her eyes to stop her tears and pausing for a long time to collect herself.\n\n\"They didn't spare any part of the body, they bit everywhere leaving horrible marks. It was disgusting to look at.\n\n\"I've experienced that three times. And it is not just one person who torments you, not just one predator. Each time they were two or three men.\"\n\nLater, a woman who slept near Ziawudun in the cell, who said she was detained for giving birth to too many children, disappeared for three days and when she returned her body was covered with the same marks, Ziawudun said.\n\n\"She couldn't say it. She wrapped her arms around my neck and sobbed continuously, but she said nothing.\"\n\nThe Chinese government did not respond directly to questions from the BBC about allegations of rape and torture. In a statement, a spokeswoman said the camps in Xinjiang were not detention camps but \"vocational education and training centres\".\n\n\"The Chinese government protects the rights and interests of all ethnic minorities equally,\" the spokeswoman said, adding that the government \"attaches great importance to protecting women's rights\".\n\nTursunay Ziawudun at home in the US with her landlady, who supports her\n\nZiawudun was released in December 2018 along with others who had spouses or relatives in Kazakhstan - an apparent policy shift she still doesn't fully understand.\n\nThe state returned her passport and she fled to Kazakhstan and then, with the support of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, to the US. She is applying to stay. She lives in a quiet suburb not far from Washington DC with a landlady from the local Uighur community. The two women cook together and take walks in the streets around the house. It's a slow, uneventful existence. Ziawudun keeps the lights low when she is in the house, because they shone brightly and constantly in the camp. A week after she arrived in the US, she had surgery to remove her womb - a consequence of being stamped on. \"I have lost the chance to become a mother,\" she said. She wants her husband to join her in the US. For now, he is in Kazakhstan.\n\nFor a while after her release, before she could flee, Ziawudun waited in Xinjiang. She saw others who had been churned through the system and released. She saw the effect the policy was having on her people. The birth rate in Xinjiang has plummeted in the past few years, according to independent research - an effect analysts have described as \"demographic genocide\".\n\nMany in the community had turned to alcohol, Ziawudun said. Several times, she saw her former cellmate collapsed on the street - the young woman who was removed from the cell with her that first night, who she heard screaming in an adjacent room. The woman had been consumed by addiction, Ziawudun said. She was \"like someone who simply existed, otherwise she was dead, completely finished by the rapes\".\n\n\"They say people are released, but in my opinion everyone who leaves the camps is finished.\"\n\nAnd that, she said, was the plan. The surveillance, the internment, the indoctrination, the dehumanisation, the sterilisation, the torture, the rape.\n\n\"Their goal is to destroy everyone,\" she said. \"And everybody knows it.\"\n\nReaders in the UK affected by sexual abuse or violence can find support information via the BBC website here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"", "A&E doctor and ex-Love Islander Alex George has been appointed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as youth mental health ambassador for the government.\n\nHe will \"shape policy\" and advise on support for young people in his role, Downing Street said.\n\nIn a post to his 1.7 million Instagram followers, Alex wrote: \"Never has mental health been as important as now.\n\n\"From schools to universities, the NHS and the wider public, mental health matters.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the focus of Alex's role will be on children and young people's mental health, saying they've \"heroically adapted\" in the pandemic.\n\n\"This has understandably had a huge impact on their mental health, so I want to shine a spotlight on this vital issue ahead of their return to school,\" the PM said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm delighted that Dr Alex George will be working with us as we do everything in our power to improve people's mental wellbeing.\"\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\nSince his appearance in Love Island in 2018, Alex has been back in his day job, working in A&E at University Hospital Lewisham in London.\n\nLast year he lost his brother, Llŷr, to suicide.\n\n\"Nothing will bring my brother back but if I can make a positive impact that saves even one life, it will be worth moving mountains for,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Alex: From Love Island to the frontline of a pandemic\n\nIf you've been following Alex on Instagram or TikTok, you'll have seen his posts encouraging everything from chlamydia testing to breathing exercises for anxiety.\n\nLast month, the 30-year-old publicly requested to speak to the prime minster about his campaign for better mental health provisions.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlex's new unpaid position will involve looking at what support is offered to young people in schools, colleges and universities, and advising the government on what more they can do.\n\nHe will also use his already existing platform to \"signpost the support that is already available\".\n\nThe government already has a loneliness minister, Baroness Barran, and a minister for mental health, suicide prevention and patient safety, Nadine Dorries.\n\nAlex will be part of the Mental Health in Education Action Group, set up specifically to look at people returning to school after lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"Right now young people need a voice in government, and I hope that through this role I can advocate for meaningful change in this area.\n\n\"I hope to have a positive impact on the lives of young people and their education for good.\"\n\nClaire Murdoch, mental health director, NHS England and NHS Improvement, said: \"I met Dr Alex recently and was struck by his commitment to the NHS and to the mental health of our nation.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Filters should not be applied to social media adverts if they exaggerate the effect of the product, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.\n\nThe ASA was responding to the #filterdrop campaign that called for it to be compulsory for influencers to state when they use a beauty filter to promote skincare or cosmetics.\n\nSasha Pallari, who started the campaign, said she was \"over the moon\".\n\nThe ASA said filtered beauty content could be \"misleading\".\n\nMiss Pallari, 29, from Weston-super-Mare, said she started #filterdrop in July 2020 in the hope of seeing \"more real skin\" on Instagram.\n\nThe use of filters on social media is a widely debated issue, attracting the attention of not only celebrities and social media influencers but also MPs.\n\nThe ASA examined two examples of where filters had been added to videos shared by influencers advertising tanning products, adding that the outcome of these rulings would apply to all UK brands, influencers and celebrities.\n\nThey were: two Instagram stories for Skinny Tan Ltd and one for Tanologist Tan which was banned for applying a filter that \"misleadingly exaggerated the effect the product was capable of achieving\".\n\nIt ruled the ads in both cases were likely to have misled consumers.\n\nSasha Pallari, photographed without a filter (left) compared to using the 'Paris' filter (right)\n\nIt said the ruling means that brands, influencers and celebrities should not apply filters to photos that promote beauty products if the filters are likely to exaggerate the effect the products are capable of achieving.\n\nThe ASA said that filtered beauty content could still be misleading, even if the name of the filter was referenced in the Instagram story.\n\nAds that break these rules would be taken down and prohibited from appearing again, which was likely to damage the advertiser and influencer's reputation, the ASA said.\n\nA spokesman said: \"An ongoing focus of our work in this area continues to be on raising awareness of the rules and supporting influencers with the guidance and tools they need to help get their ads right.\n\n\"We're also working closely with the social media platforms who can and will enforce our rulings where an advertiser is unwilling or able to work with us.\"\n\nMiss Pallari said: \"I feel like the detrimental effect this is having on social media users has finally been taken seriously and this is a huge step in the right direction for how filters are used and the way cosmetics are advertised online.\"\n\nShe said it was an issue she had been passionate about for a long time and she received messages \"every day\" from women struggling to match the beauty standards in real life that they see online.\n\n\"I can now help make a difference to how these women view themselves in the mirror and that's amazing,\" she said.\n\nMolly Nutt said she used to find it hard to match what she could achieve in reality with what she was seeing online\n\nMolly Nutt, 20, has been following Miss Pallari's campaign and welcomed the ruling, adding that much of her life has \"revolved around filters\".\n\n\"Filters with names like 'Pretty Girl', with blue eyes, bigger lips and a smaller nose, that just implies what you should look like, and not everybody is going to look like that,\" she said.\n\n\"Not everyone is an expert at make-up... and then with the filters as well it enhances it even more... I can't match up to how they look on Instagram.\n\n\"Most days I couldn't even leave the house without putting on make-up, but now I don't care as much... Sasha has made me feel more at ease with who I am and that I'm not an alien because of the way I look.\"\n\nRahi Chadda says when it comes to advertising online brands need to be authentic\n\nWith more than 900,000 followers on Instagram, model and influencer Rahi Chadda, said he \"completely agrees\" with the ruling but is concerned about how it will be policed.\n\n\"Having this ruling is a step in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"The logistics though will definitely be a point of concern for the majority of influencers, because what is the definition of a filter?\n\n\"When we are talking about filters, are we talking about lighting, special effects, make-up before promoting a product... in that way most pictures on social media will be naturally filtered... you have already glorified the product in such a way before it is reaching the audience.\n\n\"They are going to have to be a lot clearer about what they mean by a filter and where we draw the line.\"\n\nA photograph of Sasha without filter is seen side-by-side with an adapted version that has had a 'cats eyes' filter added\n\nWhen Miss Pallari set out on her campaign, she said she wanted to see three outcomes: to encourage as many women as possible to not depend on filters, for the ASA to demand that social media influencers and celebrities must state if they have used a filter when promoting cosmetics and to get face-changing and morphing filters removed from Instagram.\n\nShe said with two of her aims achieved, she would fight to get face-altering filters removed from Instagram altogether.\n\n\"There's no point coming this far, to only come this far,\" she said.\n\n\"How can Instagram agree to remove filters that promote plastic surgery, but not filters that alter your shape - how else are we going to alter our face without plastic surgery?\"\n\nThe most recent celebrity to speak out about face-altering filters is former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson.\n\nShe took to her Instagram feed on Tuesday to encourage her 7.6m followers to embrace their natural looks.\n\nThe 29-year-old said while she \"loves a little Instagram filter that makes you look a bit more tanned or your skin a bit fresher\", she does not understand why most filters alter her appearance, giving her a \"tiny nose and huge lips\".\n\nShe went on: \"I don't understand why Instagram feels the need to squash your nose and make it really skinny. What's wrong with a standard nose?\n\n\"I'm so confused why whoever makes these filters think that is what beauty is?\"\n\nLittle Mix star Jesy Nelson is the latest celebrity to criticise face-altering filters\n\nResponding to the ASA ruling, Skinny Tan said it had since reviewed its guidelines on the user-generated content it chose to share on social media.\n\n\"We do not encourage the use of beauty filters that exaggerate or provide a misleading impression of the results our products can achieve,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Whilst we were disappointed with the ASA ruling, as the intention behind the particular Instagram stories in question was not to mislead but rather to share her positive comments and experience with using our products, we do fully understand our responsibility as a brand to protect consumer interests.\n\nA spokesperson for Tanologist said it was disappointed but respected the ASA's ruling, although it had not used the content on its brand account.\n\n\"The influencer content in question demonstrated before and after self-tan product results.\n\n\"The 'after' content - which depicted the results of the self-tan product - did not have a filter applied.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment about the #filterdrop campaign and the ASA ruling, Instagram declined to comment, but the BBC understands that brands, celebrities and influencers are asked to comply with CMA and ASA guidance on sponsored social media posts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nAn MP who travelled from London to Glasgow after testing positive for Covid has appeared in court charged with culpable and reckless conduct.\n\nMargaret Ferrier, who represents Rutherglen and Hamilton West, is accused of ignoring Covid regulations when she made the trip last September.\n\nThe 60-year-old made no plea during the two minute appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nIn September, she was suspended by the SNP and apologised after admitting she had taken a test after experiencing \"mild symptoms\".\n\nBut she said she had then decided to travel to Westminster from Scotland by train because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBetween 500 and 600 Australian Open players, officials and support staff will go into isolation after a worker at one of the event's quarantine hotels tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThursday's play at the six warm-up events at Melbourne Park has been cancelled as a result.\n\nBut Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said: \"At this stage there is no impact on the tournament proper.\"\n\nPlayers will be free to return to competition after a negative test.\n\n\"We will work with everyone involved to facilitate testing as quickly as possible,\" said Australian Open organisers.\n\nThe Grand Slam tournament, which was pushed back by three weeks to enable players to quarantine, starts on Monday.\n• None Boulter and Konta lose in Australian Open warm-ups, but Evans wins\n\nAndrews said a 26-year-old man had tested positive for Covid-19 - which could be the UK strain of the virus - after working at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne's Central Business District.\n\nThe security guard tested negative after his final shift at the hotel on 29 January, but returned a positive result after he was tested again on 2 February.\n\nThis was one of the hotels where some of the 1,000 players, officials and support staff stayed to complete a 14-day quarantine period on their arrival in Australia.\n\nAndrews said the 500-600 people connected to the Australian Open were deemed to be \"casual contacts\" of the man.\n\n\"This is one case, there is no need for people to be panicked or alarmed,\" said Andrews, who announced the state of Victoria would return to some restrictions including masks to be worn indoors.\n\n\"We have proved as a state very successful in managing these sort of outbreaks and issues.\"\n\nAustralia has imposed some of the world's toughest restrictions over the past year in a bid to suppress the coronavirus.\n\nMonths of strict border controls - both internationally and domestically - have helped limit Covid-19 cases to less than 29,000 and deaths to less than 1,000.\n\nAsked about the impact of the hotel worker's positive test on the Australian Open, Andrews added: \"We have one case and we are going to work very hard to keep the numbers as low as we can. The decision has been made and the event will proceed next week.\"\n• None How has Pep turned things round and can Micah get Timo Werner firing?\n• None How Kanye West challenged ideas about rap and religion", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has been defeated in the House of Lords on its post-Brexit Trade Bill, with peers backing a move to stop the UK doing deals with countries that abuse human rights.\n\nThey supported an amendment giving the High Court the right to determine if genocide has been committed.\n\nIf it decided it had, the government would then have to hold a debate to set out what it proposed to do.\n\nMinisters say they are are committed to working with Parliament on a solution.\n\nThe House of Lords has been considering the Trade Bill for a second time after MPs overturned a series of changes peers made in January.\n\nThe legislation enables the UK to strike new trade deals with countries after leaving the EU.\n\nBut there is concern over the human rights records of current and potential trading partners, including China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe government says it has spoken out strongly against human rights abuses in China and around the world.\n\nCrossbench peer Lord Alton, who brought forward the amendment, said it was time \"to speak and to act\".\n\nUnder his plans, the High Court would be given the right to make a preliminary judgement on genocide and ministers would then be obliged to have a debate in Parliament if such human rights abuses were found to have occurred.\n\nMinisters would have to set out what they planned to do \"within a reasonable time\".\n\nSpeaking in the debate, Lord Alton said it was an attempt to \"impose a limitation\" on ministers where genocide was shown to have taken place.\n\nPeers backed his amendment by 359 votes to 188.\n\nThe government also lost votes on two other amendments.\n\nOne by Conservative Lord Lansley would give Parliament the opportunity to set negotiating terms for trade deals.\n\nThe other, by Labour's Lord Collins, would compel ministers to report on human rights before trade deals are considered.\n\nInvestment minister Lord Grimstone insisted that \"trade does not have to come at the expense of human rights\".\n\nHe said genocide was \"notoriously hard to prove\", but the government had \"some sympathy\" with calls to give Parliament a greater role to scrutinise where there were \"credible concerns\".\n\nLord Grimstone indicated that, if a parliamentary select committee published a report on genocide and sought a debate, the government would facilitate one, adding that human rights abuses could not be \"swept under the carpet\".\n\nBut many Conservative backbench MPs are uneasy at the government's approach.\n\nIn January, the government narrowly avoided defeat in the Commons when 33 of them voted to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to have committed genocide.\n\nThe Trade Bill will now return to the Commons for MPs to vote on the amendments, in the latest series of parliamentary back-and-forth between the two Houses, known as ping-pong.", "Boris Johnson visited the Valneva site in Livingston last Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson has said he was not aware of a Covid outbreak at a vaccine factory ahead of his visit last week.\n\nThe prime minister toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston as part of a trip to Scotland.\n\nThe company has now said that a number of coronavirus cases had been reported among staff at the site earlier in January.\n\nBut Valneva has insisted that Mr Johnson's tour of the factory last Thursday was \"Covid secure\".\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons that \"nobody raised that issue with me before or since\".\n\nBut Downing Street later admitted it had been told in advance of the visit.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"Valneva made us aware that some Covid cases had been reported and they had brought in some Covid secure procedures.\n\n\"The site director has said if there had been any risk they would not have allowed the visit to go ahead.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was his job to visit every part of the country and \"nothing or no one is going to stop me\".\n\nAnd he said there are \"few things more important\" than the vaccination programme and recognising the work of the scientists involved.\n\nHis visit to Scotland had already proved controversial, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon questioning at the time whether it was genuinely \"essential\" for the prime minister to travel during the current lockdown restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson also visited the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow, which is used for processing PCR samples\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions, the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the visit was \"utterly, utterly reckless\" and an \"absolutely shocking error of judgment\".\n\nHe also accused Mr Johnson of putting \"politics before public health\".\n\nMr Blackford added: \"What an absolute shambles, that he's gone to a plant where there was a Covid outbreak.\n\n\"The Daily Record story is very clear, the PM and his advisers knew there was a serious Covid outbreak at this plant, they knew the visit posed a risk but he made a deliberate choice, they made the irresponsible choice.\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I think what the people of Scotland want to see is the whole country pulling together and working to develop the vaccine as that fantastic plant in Scotland is doing.\n\n\"One of the advantages of the Valneva vaccine is that it may be able to combat all sorts of variants in a very comprehensive way. It's amazing, wonderful to see Scottish scientists working to do that. I had a fantastic time.\n\n\"Nobody, by the way, raised that issue with me before or since and it is my job to visit every part of this country, nothing and no-one is going to stop me and I am very, very proud of the record of the government in rolling out the vaccine.\"\n\nIn a statement, Valneva said \"a number of coronavirus cases were reported among staff\" at the Livingston site last month.\n\nIt said staff who may have been affected had been self-isolating and that the prime minister's visit was Covid-compliant.\n\nThe Daily Record quoted Valneva's chief financial officer, David Lawrence, as saying that Downing Street was informed of the outbreak ahead of the trip.\n\nMr Johnson also visited the Lighthouse Laboratory at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow, where coronavirus tests are processed, and met troops setting up a vaccination centre in Castlemilk.\n\nI was not aware of Covid cases among workers at Valneva when I visited the site to interview the prime minister on behalf of UK broadcasters last week.\n\nBoris Johnson made no reference to a Covid outbreak. Neither did anyone from his Downing Street team or from the company. It was simply not mentioned.\n\nHowever, Valneva appeared to be a highly Covid conscious company on the occasion of the prime minister's visit.\n\nI was required to fill out a form to confirm details of my health and travel history. I had to wear personal protective equipment including a lab coat, plastic shoe coverings and an industrial grade face covering. As did the PM.\n\nDowning Street has now confirmed it had been made aware of the cases before Mr Johnson's visit.\n\nRemarkably, it does not appear to have told the prime minister, having been advised by Valneva it had Covid-secure procedures in place.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said Scotland had vaccinated more people on Tuesday than any other day so far\n\nWith the Scottish government facing questions about the progress of the vaccine rollout north of the border, Mr Johnson has repeated the UK government's offer to \"help Scotland with the rollout of vaccines\".\n\nThe British Army is to start administering the coronavirus vaccine in Scotland for the first time, with 57 personnel deploying on Thursday to help health boards with the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe medics and management staff will make up a \"vaccine quick reaction force\" which will see five teams of 10 able to deploy across Scotland at short notice.\n\nThey will be in addition to the 98 members of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards who are already supporting the vaccine effort.\n\nScotland has been lagging behind the other three UK nations in the overall percentage of people it has vaccinated, with Scotland's health secretary and national clinical director admitting on Tuesday that it needed to speed up the rollout.\n\nBut at Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon said more than 38,000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine on Tuesday - the highest daily total so far.\n\nShe said the Scottish government had focused on getting the most vulnerable vaccinated first, and that the programme was now accelerating.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' Ruth Davidson called for the Scottish government to publish daily breakdowns of vaccination figures for each health board area.\n\nAnd Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie raised concern that there was a \"growing postcode lottery in vaccine rollout\", which Ms Sturgeon denied.\n\nAfter outlining cases brought to her attention of people not being told when they will receive their first dose, she told the first minister: \"These examples aren't a one-off but they are part of a growing postcode lottery in vaccine rollout, and it's slowing Scotland's recovery from Covid-19.\n\n\"The weekly Public Health Scotland figures show a huge variation across the country in the proportion of the population receiving the vaccine.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted: \"People are not being penalised because of where they live.\n\n\"There will be differences in speed because of geographies, because of how different health boards are organising this to take account of the differences between urban areas and rural areas, the different sizes of communities, but all health boards are making progress.\"\n• None 'Reckless' Boris Johnson visited Scots vaccine firm where there was coronavirus outbreak - Daily Record The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helicopter footage shows the bushfire's trail of destruction north of the city\n\nHundreds of Australians have fled to evacuation centres as a bushfire on the outskirts of the locked-down city of Perth continues to grow and threaten communities.\n\nThe blaze - the largest the city has seen in years - has burnt through 9,000 hectares, destroying 71 homes. Six firefighters have suffered injuries.\n\nFire services were expecting further challenging conditions on Wednesday.\n\nThey urged communities near the blaze to prepare to leave or take shelter.\n\nThe Western Australia (WA) capital is in the middle of a coronavirus lockdown, complicating safety advice messages for Perth's two million residents.\n\nState officials have urged people to prioritise their immediate safety over the virus risk, which is considered very low. Perth entered a five-day lockdown - due to end Friday - over just one locally acquired infection.\n\n\"The important thing is the preservation of life. So, if you're quarantining and you're required to evacuate, you should just evacuate,\" said WA fire commissioner Darren Klemm.\n\nOfficials have urged people to wear masks and self-isolate where possible at evacuation centres.\n\nThe Wooroloo fire, which started on Monday, has a 100km (62 miles) perimeter and is burning about 30km (18.5 miles) east of central Perth.\n\nStrong winds on Tuesday caused it to spread rapidly and made it \"near impossible\" for firefighters to suppress, official said. Embers were reported 5km ahead of the firefront.\n\nThe winds were forecast to return to highs of 75km/h later on Wednesday, potentially driving the already \"erratic\" blaze to new populated areas.\n\nEvacuation warnings have been issued for communities north and north-east of Perth - including the suburbs of Shady Hills, Bullsbrook, The Vines and Aveley.\n\nOn Tuesday, Perth was also smothered in smoke which turned skies a hazy orange and at times rained ash over suburban homes.\n\nParts of the city were rated the worst in Australia for air quality. Officials issued public health warnings urging people to stay inside and avoid inhaling the smoke.\n\nPerth has endured days of temperatures over 30C (86F) as well as extended dry conditions.\n\nFirefighters battling the blaze in the suburb of Brigadoon on Tuesday\n\nOn Wednesday, WA Premier Mark McGowan said the state faced an unprecedented situation: \"A full lockdown and raging bushfires. It will test us all.\"\n\nResidents not near the fire have been urged to follow health orders and stay at home.\n\nThe city entered a snap lockdown on Sunday after Western Australia's first local infection in 10 months. No new cases have been reported since then.\n\nAustralia suffered extreme bushfires in its most-populated eastern states last summer, but those areas have largely experienced cooler and wetter conditions this year - influenced by a La Nina weather phenomenon.\n\nAuthorities had predicted that the other side of the country - Western Australia - would see the greatest fire danger this summer.\n\n\"Western Australia has largely missed out on the rainfall in 2020 and conditions are very dry, with parts of the south and south west coasts expecting above normal fire conditions through summer,\" warned the Bushfires and Natural Hazards Central Resource Centre last December.\n\nOn Tuesday, deputy fire commissioner Craig Waters said the area had not seen such large fires historically but \"in the last few years, we have seen increased fire behaviour with rapid escalation overnight\".\n\n\"The changing climate... and moisture deficit in the soil is impacting how the fire behaves,\" he said.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.", "The alert named the fictional doll Chucky as a suspect in a child abduction\n\nOfficials from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) have apologised after sending out an emergency message featuring the horror character Chucky.\n\nAn Amber Alert message, used to warn of missing children, was sent out featuring the Child's Play villain along with his fictional child, Glen.\n\nScreenshots of the message show the suspect was listed as a doll dressed in denim overalls wielding a large knife.\n\nThe alert was sent out during a test malfunction, DPS officials said.\n\n\"We apologise for the confusion this may have caused and are diligently working to ensure this does not happen again,\" they said in a statement to local news outlets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by KPRC 2 Houston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 unusual test message listed Glen, from 2004's Seed of Chucky, as the missing child.\n\nBoth Glen and Chucky were described as having red or auburn hair and blue eyes, with their height and weight reflecting their fictional size in the Child's Play horror franchise.\n\nFirst released in 1988, the film's plot centres around the soul of a serial killer possessing a toy doll. The film gained a cult following after its release and has spawned a handful of sequels and remakes.\n\nUS media reports suggest the fake warning message was sent out three times via email.\n\nThe Amber Alert system was first developed in the US in 1996 - seeking to send vital information out fast so that the public can help assist and identify children in immediate danger.\n\nThe warnings are sent out to local media outlets as well as directly to the public through social media and messaging systems.\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. Dancing to music, this aerobics instructor caught a moment of Myanmar's history on camera", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Contagion, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon looks at what would happen in the event of a virus spreading around the world.\n\nThe Hollywood film Contagion showed the importance of securing enough Covid vaccines for use once they had been approved, the health secretary said.\n\nMatt Hancock said he had watched the film - which is about a deadly virus - and insisted the UK ordered enough jabs for its population.\n\nHe told LBC Radio the 2011 movie also shows there is a \"huge row\" about who should be given the vaccine first.\n\nIt led to the UK setting out early its \"order of priority\" for the jabs.\n\nContagion, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon, looks at what would happen in the event of a virus spreading around the world.\n\nMr Hancock said in the film it shows the \"highest stress\" around the vaccine programme is after it starts getting rolled out.\n\nThe health secretary said the film shows the pressures around a virus vaccination programme\n\nHe said the movie was not his \"primary\" source of advice but he knew when the vaccine was approved the demand for it would be \"huge\".\n\n\"In the film it shows the moment of highest stress around the vaccine programme is not in fact before it's rolled out - when actually it's the scientist and the manufacturers working together at pace - it's afterwards when there's a huge row about the order of priority,\" he told the radio station.\n\n\"I insisted we ordered enough for every adult to have two doses but also we asked for that clinical advice on the prioritisation very early and set it out in public, I think for the first time in August or September, so that there was no big row about the order of priority.\"\n\nContagion was made in the hope that it might prevent a future worldwide pandemic like coronavirus, according to epidemiologist Dr Ian Lipkin.\n\nHe was the scientific adviser for the film and he said it took a \"long time to try and get all the details as accurate as we possibly could make them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK has secured 407 million doses of different coronavirus vaccines - more than enough for the entire population.\n\nThis includes 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which was approved for use by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the UK's regulatory body, on 30 December.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first. A list of nine high-priority groups which covers about 32 million people is being followed.\n\nThe health secretary said he knew the UK would need to be ready to vaccinate \"every adult in the country\", adding: \"I wasn't going to settle for less in the same way that I wasn't going to settle for a contract that allowed for the Oxford vaccine to be delivered to others around the world before us.\"\n\n\"I was insisting we could keep the British public and all of the British public safe, as my primary responsibility as the UK health secretary is to the health of the nation,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week, the EU was involved in a much-criticised row with both the UK and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca over vaccine shortages.\n\nIn particular it was condemned over its threat to put checks on the Northern Ireland border to prevent vaccines produced in the EU from reaching the UK.\n\nAstraZeneca had said it could deliver only a fraction of the doses it promised for the first quarter of the year - blaming production issues at European plants.\n\nThe EU had said doses made elsewhere should make up the shortfall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The actor said he had just returned from kayaking on his local creek\n\nHollywood actor Russell Crowe has sent a surprise birthday message to a sailor in a round-the world yacht race.\n\nPip Hare, from Poole, Dorset, is competing in the gruelling Vendee Globe and was tweeted by Crowe after she said she was a big fan in a BBC interview.\n\nIn a video message, he urged her to \"keep going\".\n\nHare celebrates her 47th birthday on Sunday. She is in the Atlantic Ocean, with more than 2,000 nautical miles to the finish line remaining.\n\nPip Hare has crossed the equator on her approach to the finish line in France\n\nDuring an interview from her yacht, she told BBC Radio Solent presenter Steve Harris that she was a big fan of the Master and Commander actor.\n\nThe presenter speculatively tweeted Crowe asking for a birthday message for the sailor - and he obliged.\n\nCrowe, who is currently in Australia, responded with a video saying: \"Happy birthday Pip. What an amazing feeling you're going to have when you can say you've claimed the globe.\"\n\nThe three-month, solo, non-stop, round-the-world race is known as the \"Everest of the Seas\".\n\nMr Harris described Hare as a \"force of nature\".\n\n\"I have enjoyed sharing her story with my listeners over the last three months, and with her birthday coming up, I started approaching people to record messages for her - I never expected Russell to work out,\" he said.\n\nHare has been a professional sailor for 25 years but only started solo sailing 10 years ago. She is currently in 20th place in the race.\n\nYannick Bestaven was declared the winner of the race on 28 January, after being handed a time bonus for his role in rescuing a fellow competitor.\n\nHe crossed the finish line in 80 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes and 46 seconds.\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. Matt Hancock: \"Our mission must be to stop its spread altogether\"\n\nIt is \"critical\" that people in areas singled out for enhanced testing for the South African variant stay at home, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told MPs there were other \"mutations of concern\" in Bristol and Liverpool, and people there should also only go out when \"absolutely essential\".\n\nThe government is expected to announce surge testing in certain postcodes of the two cities.\n\nHome testing kits are already being deployed in a number of other areas.\n\nOn-the-spot doorstep tests and mobile testing units are also being used with the aim of reaching 80,000 people, amid fears the more infectious variant may be spreading in communities in England.\n\nGene sequencing has so far uncovered 105 cases of the South African variant, which - like the variant previously discovered in Kent - is thought to be more contagious although not more deadly.\n\nEleven of the cases of the South African variant had no link to foreign travel, prompting concerns it is spreading in the community.\n\nOver-16s who live or work in these areas will now be asked to take tests whether or not they have symptoms, as part of \"surge testing\":\n\nIn most of the areas, the home testing kits are being delivered and collected, while some local authorities are also providing mobile testing sites. The tests will be PCR ones, which involve swabbing the nose or throat and are regarded as the most reliable.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, the health secretary said: \"We have also seen 11 cases of mutations of concern in Bristol and 32 in Liverpool, and are taking the same approach.\n\n\"In all these areas it is imperative that people must stay at home and only leave home where it is absolutely essential.\"\n\nHe also urged people to take a test if offered one by their local authority.\n\nVolunteers were out delivering test kits in Woking on Tuesday\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) later confirmed that the 11 cases in Bristol were the new Kent variant with the E484K mutation, which has already been seen in the South African and Brazilian variants.\n\nThe 32 cases in Liverpool are the original version of Covid-19 but also have the new E484K mutation.\n\nThere is some concern this mutation might make vaccines less effective.\n\nA PHE spokesman said it was \"monitoring the situation closely and all necessary public health interventions are being undertaken, including enhanced contact tracing and control measures\".\n\nA spokesman for Bristol City Council said local public health teams would begin to plan for extra testing in the area, with details released when approved.\n\nThe news on mutations has obviously caused alarm.\n\nWhat is more, there are likely to be more out there - the ones detected so far come from random sampling of between 5% and 10% of positive cases.\n\nBut that should not detract from the progress that is being made in terms of spread of the virus.\n\nThis is the second day in a row that cases have been below 20,000.\n\nAt the start of the year around 60,000 new cases a day were being diagnosed.\n\nThis drop has now started to translate to significantly fewer admissions to hospital - the numbers have dropped by nearly a quarter in the past week.\n\nThis will mean deaths will soon start falling - in fact it already looks as if the peak may have been passed last week.\n\nLater in the month it would be hoped the impact of vaccinations would be felt, which could result in a quite marked drop in deaths.\n\nThe mutations require vigilance, but the bigger picture shows real progress is being made.\n\nMeanwhile, tougher quarantine restrictions will be extended to all travellers arriving directly into Scotland, to minimise the risk of new variants entering the country, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nThe four UK nations have already agreed that people arriving from high risk countries under travel bans will have to isolate in hotels rather than at home, with the measure due to be introduced in the coming weeks.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said this did \"not go far enough\" and her government intended to implement \"managed quarantine\" for anyone who arrives directly in Scotland.\n\nShe added that five cases of the South African variant had been identified in Scotland but they were all linked to travel.\n\nLabour has also called for hotel quarantine to apply to all UK arrivals.\n\nIn December, the discovery of the new variant prompted a ban on foreign nationals travelling into the UK from South Africa and later from southern African countries.\n\nIt comes as the latest figures show the UK has given out more than 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including more than 9.6 million first doses.\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus cases recorded in the UK continues to fall, with 16,840 cases recorded on Tuesday - the lowest daily figure since 9 December.\n\nThere have also been a further 1,449 deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures.\n\nIt compares to 1,631 deaths recorded last Tuesday and means the number of deaths has fallen for seven days in a row, compared to the same day the previous week.\n\nDo you live in an area where the South Africa variant is suspected? Tell us your concerns 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.", "Macmillan said people with cancer symptoms should visit their GP\n\nAbout 3,500 cancer patients are \"missing\" from treatment services since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a charity.\n\nMacmillan said stronger messaging was needed to tell the public the NHS was open to get symptoms checked.\n\nAnother charity, Tenovus, said it had faced \"push back\" from ministers over a recovery plan for cancer services.\n\nThe Welsh Government says a \"national meeting\" will be held in the coming weeks to discuss them.\n\nCancer screening services were paused from the start of the pandemic until the end of June 2020 to ensure the safety of staff and patients and so resources could be redeployed to tackle the virus.\n\nOpposition parties called on the Welsh Government to come up with a plan to tackle the problem.\n\nThe national cancer clinical director for Wales, Tom Crosby, said the number of suspected cancer patients fell by about 75% at the start of the pandemic.\n\nHe said they have since picked up, but not returned to their previous level.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales's Eye on Wales programme: \"I think it's fair to say there was some thousands of patients with a cancer diagnosis that we would have expected to present last year and haven't.\"\n\nMacmillan's calculations, based on how many people have been diagnosed during the pandemic compared to previous years, estimate around 3,500 people could have missed a cancer diagnosis between March and November 2020.\n\nRichard Pugh, from Macmillan in Wales, said: \"We also know that since that date, Wales has entered a national lockdown and that our health services have had to cope with the highest levels of coronavirus infection Wales has seen since the pandemic began.\n\n\"The worry is that the current situation could be even worse than suggested.\n\n\"We've had a very successful public health campaign: 'Stay home, stay safe, protect the NHS.'\n\n\"Unfortunately, there are people sitting at home with symptoms at the moment who have got cancer.\n\n\"What we desperately need to see now is a renewed confidence in people's local health care services. Whether it is a cough, a lump or unexplained bleeding, please contact your GP if you have any new, or persistent changes to your health. They are still there to help you.\"\n\nProf Crosby said cancer services post-Covid would need to run at \"120% to 130%\" of their previous capacity for a couple of years to deal with an increased number of patients, some with cancer in a later stage than it would have been had they sought medical advice earlier.\n\nTom Crosby said there were \"thousands\" of patients that were likely to have not sought treatment\n\nCancer charities say a national plan is needed to co-ordinate health boards' response to tackling the backlog of cancer cases, once the pressure on NHS resources from coronavirus begins to ease.\n\nMr Pugh said: \"You cannot furlough cancer and it feels like we're being furloughed at the moment. We are parking a risk that's going to come back.\n\n\"Because an election is due, it shouldn't stop us planning a way out of this and sadly I think that is the case at the moment.\"\n\nJudi Rhys, chief executive of Tenovus Cancer Care, said: \"There's definitely a push-back from Welsh Government to this collective plea to get a cancer strategy in place.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"As the vaccine is rolled out and as the public health situation improves, we will be focusing on the recovery of NHS services.\n\n\"A national meeting will be held in the coming weeks to discuss cancer services.\"\n\nAngela Burns, health spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives, called for an action plan to tackle the backlog.\n\n\"The people of Wales need the reassurance from Labour that this potential hidden pandemic will be tackled now and as a priority - not 'in a few weeks',\" she said.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth of Plaid Cymru said it was not the time for the Welsh Government to be without a cancer delivery plan.\n\nHe said: \"Wales already has one of the worst cancer outcomes in Europe, and the impact of the pandemic has and will continue to exacerbate this.\"\n\nEye on Wales is available online and on the BBC Sounds app and is broadcast at 18:30 GMT on Wednesday 3 February 2021 on BBC Radio Wales\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine near Bedford\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has encouraged members of the public to clap for Captain Sir Tom Moore at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died with coronavirus in Bedford Hospital on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson said the clap would also be for \"all those health workers for whom he raised money\".\n\nCapt Sir Tom's family said they were \"incredibly touched\".\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said they would be \"taking part with huge love in their hearts for their father, grandfather and father-in-law\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDozens of tributes have been left outside his home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nMeanwhile at least 10 petitions calling for a state funeral for the late Army veteran, have been started on the website Change.org.\n\nThe only non-Royal to be paid such an accolade in recent times was former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, though ceremonial funerals, which observe many of the same traditions were held for Diana, Princess of Wales and Margaret Thatcher.\n\nOther petitions have called for a statue, a minute's silence, a burial in Westminster Abbey and a 21 gun salute or flypast.\n\nPeople view a mural of late record-breaking centenarian Capt Sir Tom Moore, in Two Gates, Tamworth, Staffordshire\n\nA man leaves flowers outside the residence of the late Capt Sir Tom Moore, in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire\n\nPeople look at flowers left near Capt Sir Tom Moore's home, following his death\n\nA union jack flies at half mast from the top of Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's hearts by walking 100 laps of his garden last spring during the first coronavirus lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nCapt Sir Tom tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nHe had initially set out to raise £1,000, but he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5 million supporters and was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nThe charity said the total would rise to £39m when Gift Aid was taken into account.\n\nA weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nBefore Prime Minister's Questions earlier, the House of Commons held a one-minute silence in memory of Capt Sir Tom and those who have lost their lives as a result of the pandemic.\n\nIn the government's afternoon press conference, Mr Johnson said: \"Tonight let's clap together for Captain Tom at 18:00 and let's clap for the spirit of optimism that he stood for.\n\n\"But let's also clap for all those he campaigned for - our brilliant NHS staff and care workers - and let's do everything we can to carry on supporting them. \"Because if we stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives then, in the words of Captain Tom, tomorrow will be a good day.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Captain Tom Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 House of Commons held a one-minute silence on Wednesday in memory of Capt Sir Tom and those who have died during the pandemic\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added Capt Sir Tom \"embodied the spirit of Britain\" and welcomed the announcement.\n\nA silence was also held in the House of Lords. Leading the tribute, the Lord Speaker Lord Fowler said: \"His quiet resolve and selfless spirit of public service will never be forgotten.\n\n\"As we pause to remember him and his enduring legacy, we also remember all those who have died since the start of the pandemic.\"\n\nThe family of Capt Sir Tom, originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, said the last year of his life was \"nothing short of remarkable\".\n\nThey added that he had \"experienced things he'd only ever dreamed of\".\n\nA BBC News special, Captain Tom: We Salute You, presented by Michael Ball, is being broadcast on Wednesday at 19:30 GMT on BBC One and will be available on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Trevor Phillips used to chair the UK's racial equality watchdog\n\nThere are fewer black people at the top of FTSE 100 firms despite long-standing diversity targets, research has found.\n\nFor the first time in six years, there are no black chairs, chief executives or finance chiefs, the Green Park consultancy found.\n\nGreen Park chair Trevor Phillips said talented black people did not stay at big firms because they felt they would be used as \"window dressing\".\n\nA \"vanilla boys' club\" of senior executives was to blame, he said.\n\nAccording to Green Park's research, just 10 out of 297 FTSE 100 chairmen and women, chief executives and finance chiefs are from an ethnic minority background.\n\nThat makes 3.4%, the same proportion as when the consultancy started collecting its data six years ago.\n\nRecent changes in the FTSE 100 have removed what black representation there was at the most senior level.\n\nCruise operator Carnival, led by African-American chief executive Arnold Donald, fell out of the index last year.\n\nMeanwhile, Fred Phaswana, a South African, retired as chairman of packaging and paper firm Mondi in 2019.\n\n\"I have to say that our team was astonished to see this,\" Mr Phillips, the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nHe said that many talented black people were joining big firms, but not staying the course, because they felt they had little chance of reaching the top.\n\nDaunted by the \"snowy peaks\" of UK business, they either moved to smaller companies or sought better prospects in the US, he added.\n\n\"They think that they're not going to get anywhere or that they're just window dressing,\" he said.\n\nThe prospects for future increases in black participation \"look slim\", Green Park said, \"with numbers in the leadership pipeline decreasing over the past year from 1.4% to 0.9%.\"\n\nMr Phillips said companies had gone for token anti-racism in the wake of last year's Black Lives Matter protests, but they needed to change their culture and become more diverse.\n\n\"Chairs of boards and chairs of nomination committees need to look at what they've got, which is essentially a vanilla boys' club, and reach out further than they are doing,\" he added.\n\n\"They need to take responsibility.\"\n\nFrank Douglas, a black former HR director at a FTSE 100 firm and now in charge of recruitment advisory company Caerus Executive, told the BBC that big firms lacked the \"personal and emotional commitment\" to having black executives.\n\n\"What we are witnessing right now in UK PLC is lukewarm acceptance [of the idea],\" he said.\n\nBusiness group the CBI called for firms to make themselves publicly accountable for increasing diversity.\n\nCBI president Lord Bilimoria said: \"It's staggering that we continue to see so little black, Asian and ethnic minority participation in our boardrooms.\"\n• None 'My African name stopped me getting jobs'", "Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine near Bedford\n\nThe memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore is to be marked \"properly and appropriately\", the government said.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died with coronavirus in Bedford Hospital on Tuesday.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock said he had \"touched the hearts of the nation and we should remember that\".\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of tributes have been left outside the veteran's home in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire.\n\nWembley Stadium said it was joining the nation \"in remembering and celebrating the life and achievements\" of Capt Sir Tom Moore\n\nWhen announcing his death via a family statement, his daughters Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said they \"shared laughter and tears\" with their father in their final few hours together.\n\nThey said his final year of fundraising had been \"nothing short of remarkable\".\n\nHe tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nMr Hancock said Capt Sir Tom had been \"a symbol of people's resilience during an incredibly difficult year\".\n\n\"When the NHS was under pressure during the first lockdown - he didn't just sit at home, he asked the question 'what can I do to help?',\" he said.\n\n\"We should find a way to make sure we mark the memory of Captain Tom and thank him for the contribution he made to the NHS.\n\n\"I will ensure that we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment.\n\n\"I think everybody would welcome that... he touched the hearts of the nation and we should remember that.\"\n\nThe Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle led the minute's silence tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore\n\nThere was a one-minute silence in the House of Commons in honour of Capt Sir Tom, and all victims of the pandemic, ahead of Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced there would be a national clap for Capt Sir Tom and \"all those health workers for whom he raised money\" at 18:00 GMT.\n\nAsked by a newspaper journalist later if he supported calls for a statue of Captain Sir Tom, the prime minister said the idea was \"an excellent one\".\n\n\"We will be working with his family to see what they think is most appropriate,\" he added.\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's hearts by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden last spring during the first coronavirus lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nThe fundraising group said that \"when the time is right\" it will also \"put together a suitable tribute... in honour of everything he did for the NHS and NHS charities\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, had initially set out to raise £1,000 by walking 82ft (25m)-loops of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5 million supporters and was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nThe charity said the total amount would rise to £39m when Gift Aid was taken into account.\n\nPeople have been leaving floral tributes outside Capt Sir Tom's home in Marston Moretaine\n\nPiccadilly Circus in London and Blackpool Tower were also involved in paying tribute to Capt Sir Tom\n\nMarston Moretaine's retired vicar, the Reverend Gill Webb, said she remembered him as a \"lovely gentleman\".\n\n\"He didn't have a stress-free life... but his attitude was always put your best foot forward, lift your chin up and meet what comes,\" she said.\n\n\"He'll be with us in spirit urging us onwards.\"\n\nA notice placed in the village by Marston Moreteyne School said the children had been \"lucky enough to be living next door to their very own superhero\".\n\n\"We have watched as Captain Tom, in his quiet dignity and compassion, showed us how to live out our values - to take positive action to help others in our time of need,\" the message said.\n\n\"We won't remember a caped crusader but a superhero who showed us how to spread kindness and compassion to a whole world of people.\"\n\nKarl Clark, landlord of The Bell pub in the village, said: \"He was just a brilliant fellow, you looked at him and you just had to smile. He just cheered you up. If you were having a really bad day he just made you feel that little bit better,\" he said.\n\nThe village postmaster, Bill Chandi, said he had been \"shellshocked\" at the news of Capt Sir Tom's death and, having known him for more than 20 years, he counted him as \"a dear friend, not just a customer\".\n\nHe said the Post Office handled about a quarter of a million 100th birthday cards for Sir Tom last year, and had already received more than 100 cards addressed to the family on Wednesday.\n\nChief nurse at the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Liz Lees, said it had been their \"immense privilege\" to care for Capt Sir Tom.\n\n\"We share our deepest condolences and sympathies with his family and loved ones at this incredibly sad time,\" a statement read.\n\n\"We'd also like to say thank you, and pay tribute to [him] for the remarkable contribution he has made to the NHS.\"\n\nA Facebook group called \"Clap for Captain Sir Tom this Thur 4th Feb 2021. 7pm\" has more than 85,000 members.\n\nA BBC News special, Captain Tom: We Salute You, presented by Michael Ball, is being broadcast tonight at 19:30 GMT on BBC One and will be available on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nHave you benefited from Captain Tom's fundraising? Share your stories by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Elton John has had \"very positive\" talks with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden about EU travel for UK musicians, but said visa-free touring is not currently \"on the cards\".\n\nLast month, the star signed a letter demanding action to cut red tape and fees for musicians after Brexit.\n\nThe matter was \"swept under the carpet\" before the UK left the EU, he said.\n\nHe said it was now his \"duty\" to try to help improve the post-Brexit conditions for younger stars and crews.\n\nUp-and-coming acts hoping to tour the continent when it is safe to do so will be \"up against a brick wall\" of fresh \"bureaucracy\", \"paperwork\" and added \"finances\", he said.\n\n\"It's much more difficult for young artists to get this together because of all the red tape,\" Sir Elton told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz. \"Every country has these different rules, there's so much procedure to go through.\n\n\"People like myself are not really affected by it, we have a foundation of people who can look after it, it still has to be done but it's much easier,\" the 73-year-old continued.\n\n\"[But] we find ourselves in the situation because of Brexit, this has arisen. How do we fix this? How can we fix this?\n\n\"I want the situation to be resolved, so that young people don't have the difficulties of trying to tour in Europe, because it will affect their careers, it will stunt their growth and their creativity.\"\n\nSir Elton has had hits with songs such as Rocket Man, I'm Still Standing and Candle in the Wind. He noted how music had always been one of \"Britain's biggest exports\", pointing to the likes of Dua Lipa and Lewis Capaldi as well as leading ballets and operas.\n\nHe said he and Mr Dowden spoke for about 20 minutes and discussed ideas like the potential creation of a permanent site, backed by record labels, that could \"help them with the logistics of touring in Europe\".\n\nHe explained: \"If they can be helped through this it will take away a lot of their fears, and make life easier. I'm sure we can establish this, and we have to basically, otherwise they're going to have not much of a future, and that is a crying shame, as there's so many great artists out there.\"\n\nMr Dowden tweeted to say he had \"a v positive call\" with Sir Elton and husband David Furnish, and that there was \"lots of work going on in Govt on this\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Dowden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Analysis: Expect many arguments to come...\n\nSo good news. Ten million have had a dose of the vaccine. And, importantly, England's chief medical officer says we're past the peak of this wave, or at least we should be if infection rates don’t start climbing again. Both are significant. They’re also the reason why Boris Johnson was starting to come under pressure, with questions like why can’t those who have had the vaccine start to mix with each other at least? Could schools go back earlier in England? It’s clearly still too early for the government to be able to signal to people that they can begin to relax. The numbers of people infected with Covid-19 around the country, at one in 55, are still very high. The prime minister would only say that he will set out, on 22 February \"the timetable, the earliest dates we can do things\". And he indicated he was still thinking about loosening the current restrictions in stages. \"It feels to us that we will be going down the tiers nationally,\" said Johnson. Expect many arguments to come about when any loosening should happen, how soon should schools reopen, and whether some areas will move faster than others.", "Campaigners against the tunnel have labelled it a \"complete violation\" and \"international scandal\"\n\nCampaigners challenging the approval of a road tunnel near Stonehenge have been granted a court hearing to allow the decision to be scrutinised.\n\nSave Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) is seeking permission for a judicial review of the £1.7bn project.\n\nThe hearing will determine whether a review should be granted and will take place at the High Court, with a date likely to be set next week.\n\nSSWHS believes the scheme will have a detrimental impact on the ancient site.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps approved the scheme in November against the recommendations of planning officials.\n\nThe tunnel is part of a £1.7bn investment in the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down\n\nHe said the need for the development \"outweighed any harm\" that might be caused.\n\nWiltshire Council backed the decision to approve the plans, with leader Philip Whitehead saying he saw it as a solution to \"horrendous\" traffic in villages near the A303.\n\nBut SSWHS said the two-mile (3.2km) tunnel along the A303 will cause \"significant harm\" to the area, and raised £50,000 in order to apply for a judicial review.\n\nThe SSWHS is part of The Stonehenge Alliance, a coalition of groups fighting the tunnel plans.\n\nIts president, Tom Holland, said: \"We have always believed that the government's intention to build a great gash of concrete and tarmac through the World Heritage Site is a dereliction of its responsibilities, and we are delighted that there will now be the opportunity to test this conviction in a court of law.\n\n\"We urge Grant Shapps to review his decision and act to conserve rather than vandalise this most precious of prehistoric landscapes.\"\n\nThe road tunnel has the backing of Wiltshire Council, English Heritage, the National Trust and Historic England\n\nSolicitor Rowan Smith, acting for SSWHS, said although there was \"a huge level of public outrage\", the case must proceed on the basis of \"procedural error\".\n\n\"Today's decision means that our client's case and the government's decision-making process will now be fully scrutinised by the courts,\" he said.\n\nThe project, expected to take five years to complete, is scheduled to get under way in 2023.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been approached for comment.\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.", "Tens of millions of people will still be travelling daily between now and the beginning of March Image caption: Tens of millions of people will still be travelling daily between now and the beginning of March\n\nIn the past 24 hours, China has reported no new domestically-transmitted cases of Covid-19.\n\nThis has pretty much been the story for the last week, and Chinese media have been praising these statistics, and thanking groups of people that the government urged shouldn’t travel during the Spring Festival holiday period. In particular, they have praised university students, migrants and overseas Chinese.\n\nIn January, there were multiple outbreaks of the virus in the northeast of the country.\n\nAnd as hundreds of thousands of people traditionally travel across China for the Lunar New Year – which this year fell on 12 February - to spend time with their families, there were government concerns this annual migration might exacerbate the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nConsequently, China’s central government tried to discourage people from travelling this year, and local governments introduced financial incentives for people to stay put.\n\nThe government also introduced special measures for those who did still intend to travel, in order to keep them safe. Travellers were instructed to show a negative Covid-19 test within seven days of their journey, and encouraged to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival at their destination.\n\nTens of millions of people will still be travelling daily between now and the beginning of March, but today is the last public holiday in China, so the majority of people made their return journeys today.", "James McClean has played for Sunderland, Wigan Athletic and West Bromwich Albion since leaving his hometown club Derry City\n\nRepublic of Ireland footballer James McClean has welcomed political support he has received over online abuse directed towards him and his family.\n\nEarlier this week Stoke City's McClean, 31, shared an Instagram message that threatened to set his family home on fire, in a string of abusive messages.\n\nNI First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster was among politicians who condemned the abuse.\n\n\"All I am asking for is people to respect my views,\" Mr McClean said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, the footballer from Derry's Creggan estate said: \"I welcome the support because it's not a green or orange thing or a point-scoring thing. It is about anti-Irish abuse and how it's been over decades.\n\n\"Fellow players have backed me and even today Arlene Foster from the DUP, Michelle O'Neill from Sinn Féin and the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister), Micheál Martin.\n\n\"It is no longer acceptable and people need to stand up and speak out against it because it's been going on for far too long.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill expressed her solidarity with the family and said footballing authorities \"must take immediate action to tackle the scourge of anti-Irish racism\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken also said that \"too many of the people indulging in such abuse are able to hide behind anonymous online accounts\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the Taoiseach Micheál Martin also tweeted his support for the McClean family, congratulating them for \"speaking out about years of horrific abuse they've suffered online\".\n\nGlentoran defender Patrick McClean has also been the subject of online abuse, James McClean has said\n\nMr McClean also told the programme that his brother, Patrick McClean, who plays for Northern Ireland Football League club Glentoran, has also been the subject of online abuse.\n\nThe Football Association of Ireland issued a statement on Monday offering its support to McClean and his family and also condemned the abuse.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association and McClean's club Stoke City have also condemned the abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Micheál Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr McClean said by speaking out he hopes that future generations will not have to experience the level of abuse he and his family have been subjected to.\n\n\"I was a young boy growing up in Creggan with dreams of becoming a footballer.\n\n\"I am in a position where I can provide for my family so it's worth it, but it would be even more worth it when my career is over and done that the next generations are not subjected to this kind of abuse.\"\n\nHe added: \"I have a five-year-old son and all he wants to be is a footballer, all he knows is Stoke City and Ireland.\n\n\"If we can stop this now, God willing he becomes a professional footballer, because he's good enough, playing his trade in the UK he won't have to put up with this.\n\n\"Not just him, but any young Irish footballer who has aspirations of coming across the water, can play their football freely and not have to put up with this.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford has been named in Time magazine's Next 100 list as someone who is helping shaping the future, in recognition of his campaigning work on child poverty.\n\nThe list comprises athletes, entertainers and political leaders among others, with the 23-year-old appearing under the classification 'advocates'.\n\nSeven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton was chosen by the American weekly magazine to write the entry on Rashford.\n\nHamilton writes : \"By standing up for the most vulnerable in our society, and using his platform and influence to create positive change, Marcus inspired countless others to join him on this mission and cemented his status as a role model.\n\n\"In a year that showed us the power of working together toward a common goal, he was a galvanizing force behind uniting people across the UK in the effort to ensure no child goes hungry.\n\n\"His determination, resilience and persistence have been truly inspiring. I cannot wait to see how he continues this important work.\"\n\nRashford was made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his work fighting child food poverty in his home country over the past year and was also recognised with a special award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nA petition set up by the footballer calling for free school meals to be offered in England during school holidays reached one million signatures in October and, after huge public pressure, the government agreed to offer extra support to hard-pressed families over the winter.\n• None The top ten unexpected revelations from his incredible guests\n• None Listen as Bill Gates outlines his plan to save the earth", "The boss of the company that made the Grenfell Tower cladding has said it was not his \"priority\" to understand fire safety tests and certificates.\n\nClaude Schmidt, president of Arconic, told the inquiry into the fire that he only learned about a key British fire safety standard after the disaster.\n\nIt also heard claims the French firm \"arranged\" for some fire tests to pass.\n\nArconic is being investigated for not informing a British standards board about failed tests.\n\nThe inquiry is looking into how Grenfell Tower came to be covered in combustible materials, leading to the fire killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nArconic manufactured the cladding panels in France and the product was never put through the standard test widely used in the UK construction industry.\n\nMr Schmidt was asked by the inquiry's lead counsel Richard Millett QC why, when he became managing director in 2007, he did not \"seek to understand thoroughly the testing and certification which supported that product\".\n\nSpeaking in French through an interpreter, Mr Schmidt replied: \"Because it wasn't my priority\".\n\n\"This is to do with fire safety and life safety. Why wasn't it your priority?\" Mr Millett asked.\n\nMr Schmidt said he thought these words were \"a bit too strong\".\n\nThere are a number of ways that building materials can comply with regulations in order to be used on high-rise buildings.\n\nOne of them is meeting the British standard, known as Class 0. Though some sections of the government guidance on which standards are required for certain products are disputed.\n\nArconic was awarded a product certificate for its cladding in the UK by the British Board of Agrément (BBA) in 2008.\n\nThis said Arconic's Reynobond PE cladding panel \"may be regarded\" as having met the Class 0 standard. The UK building industry relied heavily on it.\n\nAcross the country, and at Grenfell, cladding suppliers believed that if the cladding had a BBA certificate and was Class 0, it could be used on tall buildings.\n\nBut the inquiry heard on Tuesday that the standard British test had not, in fact, been carried out. The French arm of Arconic relied, instead, on European tests that were similar.\n\nOn top of that, there were a series of issues with the tests which were done.\n\nSome versions of the panel, when it was shaped into \"cassettes\" or boxes, had \"failed spectacularly\", Mr Millett said.\n\nArconic did not tell the BBA, so the product certificate remained in use right up to the decision to use the cladding on Grenfell Tower.\n\nA statement from Claude Wehrle, a technical manager who worked for Arconic, said the company believed the test was a \"rogue result\", the inquiry heard.\n\nThe inquiry chairman, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, asked Mr Schmidt to respond to the view that Arconic was \"irrational and irresponsible not to carry out further tests\".\n\nMr Schmidt said: \"Yes... extra tests should have been carried out.\"\n\nWhen another version of the cladding was put through the European test in 2005 it was given a Class B rating, on a scale where A1 is the best and F is the worst. This meant it could be used on high-rise buildings.\n\nBut on Tuesday the inquiry was shown an email 11 years later in which Mr Wehrle said the Class B rating had been achieved \"by 'arranging' the system to pass\".\n\nMr Wehrle, a French national, has refused - despite repeated requests - to come to the inquiry to give evidence, because of legal advice he says he has received.\n\nWhen asked how Mr Wehrle might have \"arranged\" the system to pass, Mr Schmidt said: \"I don't have an answer.\"\n\nThe issue of which standards the Arconic cladding met, and what testing was done on it, is at the centre of this phase of the public inquiry - and is an important component of the Metropolitan Police investigation.\n\nIt is also one of the factors behind the building safety crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the country.\n\nImmediately after the fire, residents of the Chalcots Estate in Camden, North London had to leave their homes when the fire risk of Arconic Reynobond PE aluminium composite cladding was realised.\n\nArconic's position has always been that it simply produced the raw materials for cladding systems, and it didn't necessarily know how they would be used, so could not know that they might not meet building regulations.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Schmidt was asked by Mr Millett about \"occasions when Arconic did understand what project the product would be used for.\"\n\nAsked whether Grenfell Tower was \"an example of that\", Mr Schmidt said: \"Yes.\"", "The daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Princess Latifa, fled the country in 2018 before she was captured by officials.\n\nBBC Panorama has obtained secret video messages showing Latifa being held against her will back home.\n\nA photograph with the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson went viral in December 2018 after it appeared to show proof of Latifa's life, but Ms Robinson now admits she was \"horribly tricked\".\n\nThe governments of Dubai and UAE have not responded to requests for comment from the BBC. They have always said Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.", "Luke Treadaway starred in the original production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n\nThe National Theatre has said uncertainty over obtaining visas and work permits in mainland Europe has led it to shelve plans to tour there.\n\n\"We are currently not able to confirm any touring commitments in Europe as a result of Brexit legislation,\" it said.\n\nUK actors, musicians and crews can't work freely across the continent following the departure from the EU.\n\nOn Tuesday the government said it hopes to open negotiations with individual EU countries to help British artists tour.\n\nCulture minister Caroline Dinenage admitted there were \"a lot of obstacles to overcome\" after arts figures told a committee of MPs that Brexit had created an \"absolute crisis\".\n\nOne of those figures, freelance lighting designer Paule Constable, said she had been told that the producers of War Horse would no longer tour the show in Europe.\n\nThe National Theatre later clarified that it was in fact another of its acclaimed plays that had been affected.\n\n\"We had planned to take our production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, not War Horse, to venues in Europe as part of the now postponed 2020-21 tour,\" the theatre's spokeswoman told BBC News.\n\nShe continued: \"The potential additional costs for visas and current lack of clarity around social security contributions as a result of the [Brexit] deal means regrettably it is currently not financially viable.\n\n\"We're awaiting further details of ongoing negotiations in this area and hope that in future we will be able to return to mainland Europe.\n\n\"However, due to the amount of time needed to plan a tour, we are not able to commit to European touring until we have clarity around these points.\"\n\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which is based on Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, opened at the National in 2012. It won seven Olivier Awards and transferred to the West End before moving to Broadway and touring the world.\n\nSir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart signed an open letter on Tuesday\n\nThe National's concerns echoed those voiced before the House of Commons culture select committee on Tuesday and by more than 100 members of the performers' Equity union in an open letter to the government.\n\nSir Ian McKellen and Dame Julie Walters were among the signatories of the letter, which urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to negotiate new terms with the EU that would allow \"creative practitioners\" like themselves \"to travel to the EU visa-free for work\".\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, told MPs that some British musicians were having their summer concert plans cancelled, while others had been sacked from European orchestras.\n\n\"I have been inundated with personal testimony from musicians as to the work that they have lost or are going to lose now in Europe as a result of the new visa and work permit arrangements,\" she said.\n\nLiam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti put their names to a previous open letter\n\n\"Some of them are really quite heart-rending, with musicians saying they are thinking of giving up being a musician altogether.\"\n\nConstable, representing campaign group Freelancers Make Theatre Work, told the committee the current situation was \"absolute chaos\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Two's Newsnight on Tuesday, This Life and Doctors star Cyril Nri said he and his fellow actors had been \"left behind\" and were \"losing out on so much\".\n\n\"The hurdles in our way at this moment in time are huge,\" he said. \"We are going to lose a cultural exchange and the ability to bring in huge amounts of revenue to this country and to develop the actors of the future.\"\n\nNri claimed that actors with European passports were now being cast ahead of those without, suggesting UK passports had become \"a mill around our necks\".\n\nDifferent EU countries have different arrangements for working musicians and other artists. Spain, for example, requires extra visas, while France does not.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, committee chairman Julian Knight MP said the creative industries, a \"world-leading part of the UK economy\", had effectively \"had to endure a no-deal Brexit\".\n\nMs Dinenage said striking deals on work permits and visas with individual countries that do require extra paperwork and fees was a \"more likely success route\" than attempting to reach an EU-wide agreement.\n\nAlastair Jones, a senior civil servant in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), told the committee: \"Those conversations are happening within government now, and they will be happening with member states very shortly.\"\n\nResponding to the National Theatre's statement on Wednesday, a government spokesperson said: \"Touring in Europe is currently not possible due to Covid-19 and EU member states have not set out plans for when it will be. We are working urgently with the UK's creative industries to help ensure they can work confidently in Europe once touring can safely resume.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Researchers want the government to add fatigue, headache, sore throat and diarrhoea to the existing three symptoms which trigger a Covid test.\n\nCurrently, anyone with a cough, fever or loss of smell or taste qualifies.\n\nTesting for these additional symptoms could pick up 40% more cases, King's College London and the Zoe Symptom Study app have suggested.\n\nHowever, this would mean many more people who don't have the virus being tested.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"An expert scientific group keeps the symptoms of Covid-19 under review.\n\n\"The main symptoms have been carefully selected to capture those most likely to have Covid-19, while not capturing a great number of people who do not.\"\n\nThe Zoe team was the group to first identify loss of smell and taste as a symptom of Covid, leading to it being added to the official symptoms list.\n\nThey spotted this by looking at the symptoms reported by people using their Covid Symptom Study mobile app, who went on to test positive.\n\nBy analysing data from more than 120,000 adults logging potential symptoms on the app, of which 1,200 reported a positive test, the team identified seven common symptoms.\n\nThe classic three, any of which already qualify people for the more sensitive PCR test which is processed in a lab, are:\n\nAnd the further four already mentioned, including a sore throat and diarrhoea.\n\nAnyone reporting one of this wider group of symptoms was invited by Zoe to take a PCR test.\n\nWhile the seven symptoms suggested by the Zoe app may be features of early-stage Covid, they are also extremely common and may have many other causes.\n\nThe concern is that if everyone with a headache goes for a Covid test, it could overwhelm the system.\n\nGP Dr Margaret McCartney told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health programme that a \"pragmatic\" approach was needed, with those living in areas with high levels of the virus treating those wider symptoms with more suspicion than those in low-Covid areas.\n\nThe Zoe team does acknowledge the strategy would increase the number of people without the virus being tested - rising from 46 negative tests for every positive to 95 negatives for every case identified if the seven symptoms were used.\n\nBut Dr Claire Steves, lead scientist on the app, said, \"When PCR testing was scarcely available, it made sense to restrict it.\n\n\"Now in the UK we have plenty of tests available, thanks to so much effort by labs all over the country, and every positive person detected could save lives.\"\n\nProf Tim Spector, who is leading the project, said: \"We've known since the beginning that just focusing testing on the classic triad of cough, fever and anosmia [loss of smell] misses a significant proportion of cases.\n\n\"For us, the message for the public is clear: 'If you're feeling newly unwell, it could be Covid and you should get a test'.\"\n\nHe added that this was \"especially important\", since new variants could cause different symptoms.\n\nA study by the Office for National Statistics found a cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who tested positive for the UK variant of coronavirus.\n\nA DHSC spokesperson said: \"Anyone experiencing the main symptoms - a high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to sense of smell or taste - should get a test as soon as possible, and immediately self-isolate along with their household.\"\n\nThose with no symptoms, or symptoms outside of those three, may be able to access rapid testing through their local council or their workplace.", "The company that made the Grenfell Tower cladding told a \"misleading half-truth\" to a British standards board, its boss has accepted.\n\nArconic only shared one successful fire test result with the British Board of Agrément (BBA), and not a failed result, an inquiry into the fire heard.\n\nBut Claude Schmidt, Arconic's president, denied the failed test was \"deliberately concealed\" by his firm.\n\nHe said the BBA should have found the poor test result as part of an audit.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower Inquiry is looking into how the west London tower block came to be covered in combustible materials, leading to the fire which killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nArconic was awarded a product certificate for its Reynobond PE aluminium composite cladding in the UK by the BBA in 2008, opening up the possibility of more sales in the UK.\n\nHowever, Arconic's own fire tests of the product, years earlier, had produced very different outcomes.\n\nThe first, on a version of the cladding designed to fit flat against the outside of a building, resulted in a class B rating, on a scale from A1 to F, where A1 is best.\n\nThis result would have allowed it to have been used on high-rise buildings such as Grenfell Tower.\n\nThe second test was carried out on a folded section of cladding, known in the industry as a \"cassette\". That test resulted in a class E rating as the cladding caught fire.\n\nWhen Arconic applied to the BBA for the certificate, the inquiry heard, it sent the results of the first test, but not the second, despite being asked to provide more evidence.\n\nThe folded design was later chosen by designers for use on Grenfell Tower.\n\nThe inquiry's lead counsel, Richard Millett QC, put it to Claude Schmidt that Arconic had a contractual requirement to provide all relevant information upfront.\n\nMr Millett said the company had concealed the class E test, in which the cladding \"performed disastrously\" - which might have \"substantially affected sales of the product in the UK\".\n\nSpeaking in French through an interpreter, Mr Schmidt said: \"I don't know why at the start that test wasn't mentioned... but it could have been found out, discovered in an audit.\"\n\nMr Millet asked if Mr Schmidt accepted that Arconic \"was telling the BBA a misleading half-truth\".\n\n\"Yes, you can see it like that,\" Mr Schmidt replied.\n\nMr Schmidt accepted Mr Millett's suggestion that any user of Arconic's product would see the test result as \"absolutely crucial safety information\".\n\nBut Arconic's president said it was \"too strong\" to describe the information as \" life-and-death stuff\".\n\nDocuments presented to the inquiry show that negotiations with the BBA were led by a technical manager, Claude Wehrle.\n\nMr Schmidt said: \"I can't know what Claude Wehrle was thinking about or reasoning at the time.\"\n\nMr Wehrle, a French national, has refused - despite repeated requests - to come to the inquiry to give evidence, because of legal advice he says he has received.\n\nThe inquiry has the power to force British witnesses to give evidence, but not foreign nationals.\n\nThe issue of which standards the Arconic cladding met, and what testing was done on it, is at the centre of this phase of the public inquiry - and is an important component of the Metropolitan Police investigation.\n\nIt is also one of the factors behind the building safety crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the country.\n\nImmediately after the fire, residents of the Chalcots Estate in Camden, north London, had to leave their homes when the fire risk of Arconic Reynobond PE aluminium composite cladding was realised.\n\nArconic's position has always been that it simply produced the raw materials for cladding systems, and it didn't necessarily know how they would be used, so could not know that they might not meet building regulations.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Schmidt was asked by Mr Millett about \"occasions when Arconic did understand what project the product would be used for\".\n\nAsked whether Grenfell Tower was \"an example of that\", Mr Schmidt said: \"Yes.\"", "The Texas deep freeze has left millions without power\n\nThe mayor of a city in Texas has quit after posting that \"only the strong will survive and the weak will perish\" in a deadly winter storm sweeping the southern US state.\n\nTim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, took to Facebook in anger at people \"crying and looking for a handout\".\n\n\"Sink or swim it's your choice,\" he raged. \"The city and country... or any other service, owes you nothing.\"\n\nMillions are now in a third day without power and struggling for heat in Texas.\n\nMore than 20 people have died across four southern states.\n\nIn his original post, now deleted, Mayor Boyd starts by saying: \"Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute.\"\n\nHe says it is not local government's duty to support people through \"trying times\", adding: \"I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout.\"\n\nCalling the situation the \"product of a socialist government\", he urges people to think \"outside of the box\" and not wait \"for someone to come and rescue you\".\n\nHe adds: \"Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic].\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by ET Breaking News\n\nIn a follow-up post he mentions his resignation and \"apologises for the wording and some of the phrases that were used\", adding: \"I would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true need of help to be left to fend for themselves.\n\n\"I was only making the statement that those folks that are too lazy to get up and fend for themselves but are capable should not be dealt a handout.\"\n\nHe also said his wife had been sacked over his comments and the family had received \"hateful\" messages.\n\nColorado City, in west-central Texas, has a population of about 4,000.\n\nMany Texas residents have been deprived of power due to the enormous surge in demand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHouston police said a woman and a child died from carbon monoxide poisoning as they ran their car for heat, while four people died in a house fire in Sugar Land. They are among at least 10 deaths in the state, local media say.\n\nLocal officials and service providers have come in for criticism for the loss of power and other services.", "Dramatic new details have come to light about the extraordinary kidnapping and secretive detention of Princess Latifa.\n\nIt has been many months since Tiina Jauhiainen last heard from her friend.\n\nPrincess Latifa, imprisoned in Dubai after attempting a daring escape, had kept in touch with her for some time using a secret phone.\n\nBut all of a sudden, the contact stopped.\n\nWhen Tiina last saw Latifa, they had lain on the deck of a yacht gazing at the stars, travelling across the Indian Ocean.\n\nIt was February 2018, and they had embarked on a risky plan to get Latifa out of Dubai and start a new life abroad.\n\nThe princess is one of 25 children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.\n\nThe sheikh has transformed the emirate into a glittering city, a place people flock to for business, and the playground of the region. But for Emirati women, the laws and customs can make life very restrictive.\n\n\"I'm not allowed to drive, I'm not allowed to travel or leave Dubai at all,\" Latifa said in a video recorded just before her escape.\n\n\"I haven't left the country since 2000. I've been asking a lot to just go travelling, to study, to do anything normal. They don't let me. I need to leave.\"\n\nSitting in Tiina's apartment, Latifa spoke cheerfully of what was to come.\n\n\"I'm feeling positive about the future. I don't know how I'll feel just waking up in the morning and thinking I can do whatever I want today. I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\nThe princess had no access to her passport and was under surveillance, so they had to slip out of Dubai and drive to the coast of Oman. It took hours for them to get out to international waters, riding a dinghy and jet ski. By the evening they reached the yacht which was supposed to carry them to freedom.\n\nPrincess Latifa and Tiina Jauhiainen on the first leg of their journey in 2018\n\nThey planned to sail across the Indian Ocean, and then fly to the United States where Latifa could try to claim political asylum.\n\nBut eight days later, as the coast of India neared, the escape went horribly wrong.\n\nArmed men boarded the boat. The friends hid in the bathroom until smoke grenades forced them up to the deck.\n\n\"Latifa was screaming and kicking. She kept saying 'don't take me back to the UAE. Just shoot me here',\" Tiina said. It was the last time she saw her friend.\n\nIn her later videos, released only now, Latifa gives a vivid account of the storming of the yacht.\n\n\"I was fighting, and this guy came with a small pouch and he took out the needle and he injected me in my arm.\"\n\nLatifa says she was then transferred to an Indian military ship.\n\n\"The commandos carried me through this corridor, and to a big room, and there was in front of me like maybe four or five generals.\n\n\"I'm repeating to them 'my name's Latifa al Maktoum'.\n\n\"I don't want to go Dubai, I want to get asylum. I was in international waters, you should let me go.\"\n\nHer pleas fell on deaf ears, and she says she was then manhandled by an Emirati commando.\n\n\"He grabs me. Lifts me up. Kicking and fighting, he's much bigger than me. So I see that his sleeve is rolled up and arm exposed. I had one shot. Bit as hard as I can, and shake my head. And he screamed.\"\n\nShe says she was tranquilised and flown back to Dubai.\n\n\"I just felt really sad at that point. I felt everything I was working on for so many years to get my freedom was gone. And I've been here ever since, by myself, so solitary confinement. No access to medical help, no trial, no charge, nothing.\"\n\nTiina was taken back to the UAE with the yacht's crew, where she was detained for two weeks. Then she began telling the story to the international media. She formed the campaign group Free Latifa and took the princess's case to the United Nations.\n\nBut as the months passed, she heard nothing from Latifa.\n\nThen one day in early 2019, while she was visiting family in Finland, she got a message from a stranger.\n\nFirst she had to answer security questions. Years earlier, Tiina had taught Latifa capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. Now the stranger wanted to know Latifa's capoeira nickname.\n\nSoon Tiina was able to get a phone to the princess directly.\n\n\"When I first heard her voice, I was crying. I couldn't help it. It was very, very emotional.\"\n\nLatifa was able to start recording video messages. What they reveal is shocking.\n\nThe princess, now 35, appears in the corner of her bathroom, speaking in a fragile whisper.\n\n\"I'm doing this video from a bathroom, because this is the only room with a door I can lock. I'm a hostage. I am not free. I'm enslaved in this jail. My life is not in my hands.\"\n\nPale and puffy, she has spent three years with little access to sunlight.\n\n\"I am in a villa, and this villa has been converted into jail. All the windows are barred shut. There's five policemen outside and two policewomen inside the house. And I can't even go outside to get any fresh air.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Latifa imprisoned against her will in \"villa jail\"\n\nThe villa is just metres from the beach, in a luxury neighbourhood.\n\n\"We shouldn't pretend that just because it's a villa, it's fine\", the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth, says.\n\n\"This woman is imprisoned. It's basically solitary confinement except for her jailers. Solitary confinement of that sort is broadly considered to be a form of torture, as it becomes prolonged in the way this has right now.\"\n\nThe fear is palpable in Latifa's videos. There is a constant urgency and a desperation in her voice.\n\n\"Every day I am worried about my safety and my life. I don't really know if I'm going to survive this situation. The police threatened me that I'll be in prison my whole life and I'll never see the sun again. So I'm not safe here.\"\n\nBut despite the risk that she would be caught with the secret phone, she began to calmly and methodically document her extraordinary story.\n\n\"For me it's simple, it's like, am I free or am I not free? So ok, the world is going to know that I'm not free. Anybody who cares is going to know that I'm not free, and I'm not going to go along with their propaganda. That's just how I am.\"\n\nThe sheikh has said that he considers Latifa's return to Dubai a rescue mission.\n\nIn December 2018, after Latifa had been missing for nine months, the UAE was facing pressure. The United Nations had requested proof of life - or it would go public with concerns that the princess might have died.\n\n\"She said to me it would be like a test, to see how you will react around people after being in prison for so long,\" says Latifa in one video. \"And if you act well, you react well, you're going to be out in a few days.\"\n\nUnbeknown to Latifa, Princess Haya had been spun an elaborate lie, that Latifa had bipolar disorder and was vulnerable to exploitation. To help prove to the UN that all was well with Latifa, Haya called a friend, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.\n\nOn 15 December 2018, Mary Robinson flew to Dubai where she says Haya and her officials briefed her about Latifa's supposed \"medical condition\". She agreed to help contact the UN.\n\nLatifa, meanwhile, was kept in the dark. Over the lunch they discussed the environment, skydiving, and Mary Robinson's upcoming book.\n\n\"We never discussed me. We never discussed my case,\" Latifa says. She had no idea that Robinson was a former UN Human Rights Commissioner.\n\nMary Robinson told us that she did not question Latifa about the video or her escape, or ask to meet with her one-on-one.\n\n\"I didn't know how to address somebody who was bipolar. I really didn't actually want to talk to her and increase the trauma over a nice lunch.\"\n\nBut Robinson did allow photographs to be taken of Latifa which she agreed to send on to the UN. Robinson says she believed these were private photographs and that she was stunned when the UAE released them to the world nine days later.\n\nAfter the lunch Latifa was taken back to her prison villa. \"It was all a set up. It was like they tricked me,\" Latifa says. Nothing changed for the missing princess.\n\nBut for her stepmother Princess Haya, there was an extraordinary development.\n\n\"Relatively shortly afterwards,\" recalls Robinson, \"I got a call from Haya, saying 'Mary, I am in London. I have just come to London with my two children. I have come in the clothes we were in because I am so fearful. We were wrong. I have found out a lot.'\"\n\nHaya later said that the sheikh did not welcome her interest in Latifa and that he became progressively more hostile to her. By April 2019, she says that she believed her position in Dubai was unsafe. On 15 April, she fled to the UK.\n\nNow confronted with the escape of one of his wives as well as two more children, the Sheikh began a High Court battle to have the children returned to Dubai. But he got more than he bargained for.\n\nIn March 2020, a High Court judgement revealed further details about his treatment of his adult daughters. Eighteen years earlier, a second daughter, Shamsa, had been abducted in the UK and returned to Dubai, where she has been captive ever since. The judgement laid out the full story, for the first time, of how the sheikh's agents had tracked her down in Cambridge, and flown her back.\n\nThe judge also found that Haya had been intimidated and Latifa had been abducted and imprisoned - and that the sheikh had not been honest and open with the court.\n\nFor Tiina, this was a breakthrough. \"I thought that would have been something that could have quickly led to her release.\"\n\nBut once again, little changed for Latifa in her prison in Dubai.\n\n\"It's almost like, what do we need to get her free? It's sad. It's very very sad,\" says Tiina.\n\nAlone in her villa in Dubai, Latifa followed the case and maintained daily contact with her friend, along with her UK-based maternal cousin Marcus and Free Latifa co-founder David Haigh. What had begun as concise, factual video recordings evidencing her situation had turned into lengthy text chats.\n\n\"The phone meant a lot, it was a lifeline,\" says Marcus.\n\nLatifa was now in her third year of imprisonment and solitary confinement.\n\n\"Every day was a struggle for her, and you could hear that in her voice. I know she was tired, I know her health was not the best,\" says Marcus.\n\nBut then one day, the contact stopped just as dramatically as it had begun.\n\nNow, many months later, Tiina, David and Marcus have taken the decision to release some of Latifa's videos in the hope they will help pressure the sheikh to release her.\n\n\"We haven't taken this decision lightly, there's been some sleepless nights thinking about this\", Tiina says.\n\n\"But it's time to do something. I feel that she would want us to fight for her, and not give up.\n\nThe governments of Dubai and the UAE have said that Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.\n\nTiina is consumed by fear for her friend.\n\n\"Initially, I thought maybe she had problems with her phone. I was hoping she would reappear. I didn't want to believe it,\" says Tiina.\n\nBut then it dawned on her that Latifa was not coming back.\n\n\"We are extremely worried about her well-being,\" she says. \"If we assume that she was caught with the phone, her conditions now are probably a lot worse.\"", "People living in Wales and England have been urged to download the government's contact-tracing app\n\nPeople in Wales who are told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 phone app can now apply for a £500 payment, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nUntil now it has only been available to low-earners who have been asked to isolate by either Test, Trace, Protect or their child's school.\n\nPeople need to contact their council to access the scheme.\n\nThe Conservatives said it was confusing and said people should be able to have payments backdated.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said payments would not be backdated for anyone who had been told to self-isolate by the app before the latest announcement.\n\nPeople will also have to show evidence their income will be reduced by isolating.\n\nIt is available to people who are employed or self-employed and unable to work from home.\n\nThe applicant or their partner must be currently receiving universal credit, working tax credit, income-based employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income support, housing benefit or pension credit.\n\nSome will have their application accepted under the discretionary element of Self-Isolation Support Scheme.\n\nPeople living in Wales and England have been urged to download the contact-tracing app.\n\nNHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate if it detects they were near to someone who has the virus.\n\nThe Housing and Local Government Minister Julie James said the Welsh Government was \"committed to protecting people's health and well-being\".\n\n\"We will continue to support the people of Wales during this difficult time,\" she said.\n\n\"The £500 payment has already provided financial security to those asked to self-isolate, helping to break the cycle of transmission and ensure no-one has to choose between feeding their family or going to work and potentially spreading the virus.\"\n\nShe said local authorities had \"once again risen to the challenge\" of ensuring all those who need financial support throughout receive it while developers amend the process so people can apply for help directly through the app.\n\nAngela Burns, the Welsh Conservative health spokeswoman, criticised the fact that \"applications still cannot be backdated to September, meaning people in Wales who need this £500 payment - and who are likely to fall into the financially vulnerable category - cannot access it and are therefore badly disadvantaged\".\n\nTravel is currently limited to essential purposes in Wales, such as for work and caring responsibilities, and international travel is barred.\n\nBut, after a tough year with the pandemic, many people will be dreaming about a holiday in 2021.\n\nWhile bookings for UK staycations are \"coming in thick and fast\", some people are gambling on a foreign trip in the hope restrictions will ease later this year.\n\nUse this form to tell us about your plans.\n\nIn some cases your comments will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump and other prominent US conservatives have been paying tribute to controversial radio personality and political commentator Rush Limbaugh.\n\nThe radio host's wife announced his death on Wednesday following his diagnosis of lung cancer last year.\n\nBest known as the host of radio programme The Rush Limbaugh Show, the 70-year-old was a towering figure in the conservative movement for decades.\n\nMr Trump described him as a \"legend\" in his first post-presidency interview.\n\n\"There aren't too many legends around. But he is a legend,\" Mr Trump told Fox News. \"And those people who listen to him every day, it was like a religious experience for a lot of people.\"\n\nLimbaugh was as controversial as he was influential - accused of voicing racist, sexist and homophobic views throughout his career.\n\nHe was known for offensive characterisations of those whose politics he disagreed with and had a reputation for peddling conspiracy theories to his millions of listeners.\n\nMr Trump bestowed Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom - the highest US civilian honour - in 2020.\n\nBorn in 1951, Limbaugh got his start in radio in the 1980s and was on his way to stardom by the end of the decade when his show was syndicated nationally.\n\nThe Rush Limbaugh Show is widely considered the most-listened-to show of its kind with an estimated 15 million weekly listeners.\n\nLimbaugh's wife Kathryn announced his death on the radio show on Wednesday.\n\n\"I know that I am most certainly not the Limbaugh that you tuned in to listen to today,\" she told listeners, before revealing he had died of complications from late-stage lung cancer.\n\nTributes have been pouring in from leading figures on the political right.\n\nThe Rush Limbaugh Show has been on the air since the 1980s\n\nMr Trump called into Fox News shortly after news of the death broke to pay tribute to what he called a \"great gentleman, a great man\" with \"tremendous insight\".\n\nHe told the network he had spoken with Limbaugh \"three or four days ago\" and said the host had been with him from the very beginning of his 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nJust days after his impeachment acquittal, Mr Trump also again pushed the false narrative that victory had been stolen from him in the 2020 election, saying: \"Rush thought we won, and so do I. I think we won substantially.\"\n\nMike Pence, the former vice-president, said the country had \"lost a giant\" with the host's passing while former President George W Bush described him as \"an indomitable spirit with a big heart\".\n\n\"While he was brash, at times controversial, and always opinionated, he spoke his mind as a voice for millions of Americans and approached each day with gusto,\" he said.\n\nAlthough hugely popular among millions of American Republicans, the radio host was a deeply divisive and criticised figure.\n\nHe was known for sharing inflammatory views with his millions of listeners and pushing baseless conspiracy theories like casting doubt on ex-President Barack Obama's birthplace.\n\nEven in his final months of broadcasting, he played down the coronavirus pandemic and touted unfounded claims of electoral fraud.\n\nA White House spokeswoman said President Joe Biden's condolences went out to Limbaugh's family and friends.\n\nThere are few people more responsible for the current shape of US conservative politics than Rush Limbaugh. Before social media allowed the masses an avenue to speak outside the filters of mainstream media, Limbaugh did so by building a powerful talk radio megaphone essentially from scratch. And if he didn't invent the genre of right-wing populist radio punditry, he re-invented it for the modern era.\n\nHis daily radio programme, which expanded into a television and print empire, set the agenda for the Republican Party. He could make or break conservative political careers with a well-timed diatribe or words of praise. He turned back-burner issues into pressing topics of debate. He seemed to welcome controversy and fan the flames of political grievance, knowing they only helped his ratings.\n\nHe had listeners who tuned in because they loved his politics and listeners who did so because they hated him. He was seldom boring.\n\nHis critics - and there are many - will say he brought a level of toxicity and vitriol to American politics that has sharpened the nation's partisan divisions. His supporters will say his anger was righteous and he spoke to those the political elite ignored.\n\nEither way, there's no understating the mark he left on American life.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal saw his bid for a 21st Grand Slam title end as Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas fought back from two sets down to reach the Australian Open semi-finals.\n\nThe Spanish second seed, 34, was stunned as Tsitsipas claimed a 3-6 2-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 7-5 victory in Melbourne.\n\nTsitsipas, 22, broke out into a huge smile, almost in disbelief, after converting his third match point.\n\nFourth seed Medvedev beat compatriot Andrey Rublev to reach the last four at the Australian Open for the first time.\n\nThe 25-year-old won 7-5 6-3 6-2 as his childhood friend Rublev, who was seeded seventh, struggled in the 29C temperatures at Melbourne Park.\n\nATP Finals champion Medvedev now puts a 19-match unbeaten streak on the line against Tsitsipas, who needed over four hours to overcome Nadal.\n\n\"I'm speechless, I have no words to describe what just happened on court,\" said Tsitsipas, who was still out of breath in his on-court interview.\n\n\"My tennis speaks for itself. It is an unbelievable feeling to fight at such a level and give it my all on the court.\n\n\"I started very nervous, I won't lie. I don't know what happened after the third set. I flew like a little bird.\n\n\"Everything worked for me and the feelings are indescribable.\"\n• None Preview: Williams to face Osaka for place in final\n\nCalm Tsitsipas comes of age against Nadal\n\nFew would have predicted this outcome between Tsitsipas and Nadal going into the match - and even fewer after the opening two sets.\n\nTsitsipas looked befuddled by Nadal's presence, clean-hitting and court-craft, with 20 unforced errors coming off the Greek's racquet to put the Spaniard in command.\n\nThe pair met two years ago in Melbourne when Nadal allowed Tsitsipas just six games in a one-sided semi-final.\n\nAfter that match, a despondent Tsitsipas talked about how Nadal had a unique \"talent\" of making his opponents \"play bad\".\n\nInitially, it appeared to be a case of deja vu. This time, however, Tsitsipas remained composed and dragged Nadal into a physical battle which proved beyond him.\n\nTsitsipas cut out the errors in the third set and, although he did not win a point in Nadal's service games, pounced in the pivotal tie-break when the Spaniard missed two overhead smashes and miscued another return.\n\n\"I focused a lot on staying calm and holding my nerves, it is a very important element for me,\" said Tsitsipas.\n\n\"I have failed to do it in some of my matches. A big part of my win was staying calm in the crucial tight moments.\"\n\nWith increasing confidence as momentum turned, Tsitsipas pushed Nadal further back on the court and applied serious pressure on his service games as the Spaniard began to miss shots.\n\nTsitsipas served out the fourth set after crucially breaking for 5-4 following another Nadal forehand error, then took his serve to love for 6-5 in a tense decider.\n\nNerves crept in as Nadal threatened to ensure a final-set tie-breaker would settle a thrilling match, only for Tsitsipas to regain his focus and seal a famous victory.\n\n\"My mood was consistent and I have been trying to keep everything to myself. I'm happy with my attitude on court,\" he said.\n\n'No excuses' from Nadal as chance to overhaul Federer passes by\n\nNadal won his 20th Grand Slam title at the French Open in October and had the opportunity in Melbourne to overhaul Roger Federer's once-seemingly untouchable men's record for the first time.\n\nAfter dismantling Tsitsipas's game with powerful and precise hitting in the opening two sets, Nadal's level dropped as his opponent's increased.\n\nNadal showed no signs of the back injury which ruled him out of the warm-up ATP Cup, but questions will be asked about whether a lack of match practice - and, perhaps, his ageing body - played a part in his younger opponent outlasting him.\n\n\"I can't find a lot of excuses or reasons,\" said Nadal, whose only triumph in Melbourne came in 2009.\n\n\"It was a little bit of everything. I missed a couple of balls in the tie-break that I could not miss if I want to win. And that's it.\n\n\"I should be ready to play four hours. I think my physical shape holds up quite well.\n\n\"But it is true that I probably needed a little bit more time because I was in great shape and for 20 days I was not able to practise the way that I expected, not able to play one single match in ATP Cup.\"\n\nOnly once had Nadal previously lost a Grand Slam match after winning the first two sets and, after being broken to love for Tsitsipas to serve for the match, looked stunned as he sat on his chair and shook his head.\n\nWhile he regrouped and had chances to break back to force a final-set tie-break, there were few complaints from the Spaniard.\n\n\"Stefanos played better than me probably in important moments. It was an equal match,\" he added.\n\n'One of the best matches I've played lately'\n\nBy beating Rublev - one of the most in-form players on the ATP Tour over the past year - Medvedev extended his run of wins against top-10 players to 11 matches.\n\nThe Russian pair were closely matched in a competitive first set, trading breaks before Medvedev took the opener as 23-year-old Rublev was broken to love.\n\nRublev particularly struggled with the humidity, at one point sitting down on his box of towels after a gruelling 43-shot rally.\n\nBoth players were breathing deeply as the match progressed but it was Medvedev, who has improved his fitness in his rise to the top 10, who dealt with the conditions better.\n\nMedvedev sealed victory on his first match point to reach his third career Grand Slam semi-final, although there was a slight concern when he called for the trainer at the end of the match after getting cramp in his left thigh.\n\n\"It was one of the best matches I've played lately,\" Medvedev said. \"This match is really unbelievable.\"\n• None The top ten unexpected revelations from his incredible guests\n• None Listen as Bill Gates outlines his plan to save the earth", "One resident said workmen put the \"slab of brick\" into a van\n\nA Banksy artwork has been removed from the side of a building in Nottingham and sold to a collector.\n\nThe mural, which depicts a girl hula-hooping with a bicycle tyre, appeared on a residential street in October.\n\nThe \"slab of brick\" was seen being cut from the wall in Rothesay Avenue from about 05:00 GMT.\n\nGallery owner John Brandler told the BBC he paid a \"six-figure sum\" for the piece, and wanted to help preserve it, as well as put it on display.\n\nResident Dan Golstein said workmen were \"drilling into the wall\" in the early hours. The artwork was then seen being loaded into the back of a van.\n\nMr Brandler said the workers were part of a \"very specialised company\" which had removed Banksy art before.\n\nHe added he is now sending it to Scotland to be restored.\n\nThe collector owns a number of the elusive artist's pieces, including Seasons Greetings, which he bought from a garage in Port Talbot in 2019.\n\nThe hula-hooping girl artwork appeared in Nottingham in October\n\nHe claimed he had saved the Nottingham artwork \"in time\" before damp could cause damage under the plastic cover put on by Nottingham City Council.\n\n\"If you put Perspex over a picture the moisture gets into the brick wall and can't escape - the wall needs to breathe,\" he said.\n\n\"If I hadn't bought it and removed it, in two years' time there wouldn't have been a Banksy there at all.\"\n\nMr Brandler said he planned to feature the piece in a street exhibition later this year at the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.\n\nBut he added: \"Work with me and it would be lovely to bring the whole show back [to Nottingham].\"\n\nCity rejuvenation board The Nottingham Project said they had been in touch with Banksy's team - Pest Control - since the mural appeared, and they believed its removal would go against his wishes.\n\nThe wall in Rothesay Avenue has now been boarded up\n\nA spokesman said they had sought Banksy's approval to move the piece to a different location in the city.\n\nHe said: \"They responded asking for the artwork to remain, so we respected the artist's wishes.\"\n\n\"Whilst we respect that this was a private decision for the landlord, we think it's a great shame that Nottingham has lost its Banksy and we hope this doesn't stop the artist coming back to the city in the future,\" he added.\n\nIn art world terms, this would be described as a site specific work, meaning Banksy specifically chose that location for that work and that's what made it successful.\n\nDon't forget Nottingham's relationship with bicycles and bicycle making, with Raleigh the most famous of many firms. And Banksy would have been aware of all this.\n\nIt was intended to be there, enjoyed by people, to be a social comment - it wasn't Banksy's intention that it be chipped off the wall and taken somewhere else.\n\nHe does accept it's part of what happens to his work - others have been whitewashed and had graffiti put all over them so they're no longer visible.\n\nBut my own view is the work is substantially diminished by removing it because the work was so site specific, because it was responding to the bike on the lamp-post, because it was responding to the history of Nottingham, it worked so well in that spot.\n\nWhen you remove it, it is diminished, it doesn't say the same things, and I think it is worth less. Not worthless, but worth less.\n\nA Nottingham City Council spokesman said the authority had tried to secure the work for the city but \"those options were exhausted\" and so it was left to the property owner to decide what to do next.\n\nBut he said the council had been unaware of the plans to move it.\n\nSurinder Kaur, who leases the building, said: \"I didn't know anything about this - no-one has informed me. I'm shocked now at what's going on.\"\n\nThe Nottingham Post reported the owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, had tried to \"donate\" the artwork and said \"substantial discussions\" had taken place with a number of local organisations, charities and national bodies, which ended unsuccessfully.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, they said: \"Since we were unable to donate the artwork itself, we'll be donating the proceeds privately instead.\"\n\nJohn Brandler also bought the Banksy piece Seasons Greetings from a garage in Port Talbot in 2019\n\nThe BBC has attempted to make contact with the building's owner.\n\nThe hula-hooping girl first appeared on the building, at the junction of Rothesay Avenue and Ilkeston Road, on 13 October.\n\nA few days later it was claimed by the artist via his Instagram account, and people flocked to have their picture taken next to it.\n\nPeople queued to see the artwork when it first appeared\n\nMany local residents have expressed their disappointment at the mural's removal.\n\nJasinya Powell, 39, said: \"It's capitalism at its finest - it's all about the Benjamins [money] at the end of the day.\n\n\"At least we got a taste of it.\n\n\"It got people talking about Raleigh, about Nottingham, about what the city has produced and done.\"\n\nJasinya Powell has been a fan of the artwork since before Banksy claimed it\n\nAlex Mitchell-Messam, 32, saw the artwork being put up covertly just a few yards away from his shop.\n\nHe said people were still visiting to take photos of it until yesterday.\n\n\"It's sad to see it's leaving,\" he said. \"I think it should stay in the area it was put in.\n\n\"Banksy travelled to Nottingham, he chose to put that artwork here when he could have chosen anywhere.\n\n\"It was great, bringing new faces to the area and having a vibrant effect.\"\n\nMr Mitchell-Messam believes some arrangement \"could have been agreed\" to allow the artwork to remain in the city without a large bill for taxpayers\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Overseas holidays are unlikely to be possible in the summer\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned Scots not to book Easter holidays as it is \"highly unlikely\" that hotels or self catering accommodation will be open.\n\nThe first minister advised against booking a break either overseas or in Scotland at the start of April.\n\nShe also said it was unlikely that overseas holidays would be possible in the summer.\n\nHowever, she said \"staycations\" might be possible - although it would depend on the Covid data nearer the time.\n\nGiving her Covid update statement to MSPs at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said the risks posed by new variants of the virus meant it was \"hard to overstate the necessity of being careful, cautious and gradual as we exit this lockdown\".\n\nShe said that meant continuing to abide by the \"stay-at-home\" requirement.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes to publish a \"revised strategic framework\" next week which will set out how Scotland can exit lockdown and what conditions will need to be met before restrictions can be eased.\n\n\"We are likely to advise against booking Easter holidays, either overseas or within Scotland, as it is highly unlikely that we will have been able to fully open hotels or self catering accommodation by then,\" said the first minister.\n\n\"However, for the summer, while it is still highly unlikely that overseas holidays will be possible or advisable, staycations might be - but this will depend on the data nearer the time.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had always made it clear that education should be the priority.\n\nShe confirmed that the youngest pupils are to return to Scotland's classrooms for face-to-face teaching from next week, along with some secondary pupils who need to complete coursework.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home, and are unlikely to return to school until at least 15 March.\n\nAll other existing lockdown measures will remain in place until at least the end of this month, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the country remains in a precarious position.\n\nMarc Crothall, chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA), said the first minister's statement had made tourism businesses \"extremely anxious\".\n\nHe said the STA Board would meet Ms Sturgeon in the coming weeks and update her on the \"desperate state\" the industry is in.\n\n\"I know of numerous businesses who are wholly reliant on being able to trade again at Easter in order to stay solvent,\" Mr Crothall said.\n\n\"Today's indication that this is highly unlikely will, I know, serve as a crushing blow to many.\"\n\nHe called for more support if businesses are not going to be able to trade viably for months to come.", "Boris Johnson has drafted former Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost into his cabinet to take charge of forging a new relationship with the EU.\n\nHe will seek to maximise post-Brexit trading opportunities when he becomes a full cabinet member next month, Downing Street said.\n\nHe will also replace Michael Gove as co-chair of a committee on implementing the Brexit withdrawal deal.\n\nMr Gove will keep his seat at the cabinet table.\n\nThe change means Mr Gove, who will keep the title of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, will be Lord Frost's new boss at the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe peer said Mr Gove had done an \"extraordinary job for this country\" in talks with the EU over the past year.\n\nIn taking over from him as chair of the EU-UK committee tasked with implementing the Brexit deal, he said: \"I stand on the shoulders of giants.\"\n\nLabour's shadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry tweeted: \"So we've finally got one minister taking a grip of the problems with our post-Brexit trading relationships with Europe.\n\n\"Someone who has never been elected by anyone in this country, and won't be accountable in the House of Commons to any of us who have.\"\n\nThis appointment again shows that Brexit didn't end with the signing of a trade deal.\n\nWhile the UK is no longer a member of the EU, negotiating with Brussels and member states will preoccupy this and future governments for years to come.\n\nSince the start of the year (and the end of the transition period) serious tensions have flared up between Westminster and Brussels over trade disruption between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and vaccine supplies.\n\nOther issues, such as the City of London's access to EU markets, remain unresolved.\n\nLord Frost will now be the UK minister responsible for co-ordinating all this and it will be a full time job.\n\nRather than responsibility for the EU being shared between several departments - such as the Foreign Office and International Trade - the decision to put Lord Frost in the cabinet and in charge of the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee gives him huge clout overseeing policy.\n\nIt also takes a lot of work away from Michael Gove and means there will be a single minister responsible to parliament for EU relations - although of course he'll be answering questions in the House of Lords and not the Commons.\n\nSpeaking last week to a select committee, Lord Frost said the UK's relationship with the EU since the trade deal between the two came into force at the start of the year, had been more \"problematic\" and \"bumpy\" than he had expected.\n\nHe said he hoped we would \"get over this\", but added that it was going to require a \"different spirit\" from Brussels.\n\nLord Frost - who is said to be highly rated by the prime minister - had been due to become the UK's new national security adviser earlier this month, but was replaced days before he was due to start.\n\nHe will be the co-chair of the UK-EU joint committee, which was set up to resolve differences arising from the treaty which took the UK out of the EU in February 2020.\n\nSince the UK left its Brexit transition period in January, this committee has mainly focused on overcoming trade tensions in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is continuing to follow EU single market rules on goods.\n\nThis provision, agreed as part of the withdrawal agreement, was designed to get rid of the need for checks at the border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it has meant checks had to be introduced on some goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nSince the new rules came into force, there has been tensions at ports in Northern Ireland, with disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries.\n\nLord Frost will also become UK chair of a separate committee being set up to oversee the post-Brexit trade deal he negotiated with Brussels last year.\n• None Can the Northern Ireland Protocol be tweaked?", "Ms Ri and Mr Kim were all smiles at a concert on Tuesday\n\nThe wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appeared in public for the first time in over a year, according to state media.\n\nRi Sol-ju joined her husband at a concert on Tuesday to mark the birthday of Kim's late father and former leader, Kim Jong-il.\n\nMs Ri has often accompanied Mr Kim to major events in the past, but had not been seen since January last year.\n\nHer absence stoked speculation over her health or a potential pregnancy.\n\nSouth Korea's National Intelligence Service had reportedly told congressmen yesterday that Ms Ri was avoiding appearing in public due to concerns over Covid-19 and may have been spending time with her children.\n\nNorth Korea has not officially reported any Covid-19 cases - though experts say this is unlikely.\n\nThere was a noticeable lack of masks and social distancing measures at the concert\n\nAccording to the Rodong Sinmun, the couple entered the Mansudae Art Theatre together on Tuesday to \"thunderous cheers\".\n\nPhotos showed the couple laughing - as well as a conspicuous lack of masks or social distancing measures.\n\nMs Ri comes from an upper class family, with her father being a professor and her mother an obstetrician, according to analyst Cheong Seong-chang.\n\nMedia reports say Ms Ri, who is reportedly aged 31, was previously a singer in the Unhasu Orchestra - an elite troupe whose members are handpicked by the state.\n\nMr Cheong adds that she is believed to have married Mr Kim in 2009, with the marriage arranged in a hurry by the late Kim Jong-il after he suffered a stroke in 2008.\n\nAccording to South Korean intelligence, the couple have three children together.\n\nFormer US basketball star Dennis Rodman had previously revealed that the couple had a baby daughter named \"Ju-ae\", adding that Mr Kim was a \"good dad\" to her.\n\nMr Kim had earlier in the day also visited the Kumusan Palace of the Sun, where the bodies of his father and grandfather lie, to lay wreaths for their anniversary, known as the Day of the Shining Star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A KRT news reader shows the first footage of Kim Jong-un and his new wife Ri Sol-ju since their marriage was revealed, on a visit to a pre-school\n\nState media also once again referred to Mr Kim as \"President\" - a departure from his usual official title, which is \"Chairman\".\n\nThe title of president was first used by North Korea's Central News Agency last week.\n\nTypically, the title of president in North Korea is usually reserved for the late Kim Il-sung - the state's founder and grandfather of Mr Kim.", "BBC Panorama has obtained secret video messages showing the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum imprisoned against her will.\n\nPrincess Latifa, 35, fled by boat in 2018 and planned to seek asylum in the United States. She says it was intercepted by commandos before she was tranquillised and flown back to Dubai.\n\nFootage shows Princess Latifa saying she has been \"a hostage\" in \"solitary confinement\" for over a year \"with no access to medical help\".\n\nThe governments of Dubai and UAE have not responded to requests for comment from the BBC. They have always said Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM was asked whether he agreed with a \"data, not dates\" approach to relaxing Covid restrictions\n\nBoris Johnson says it is \"absolutely right\" to take a \"data not dates\" approach to leaving lockdown, stressing England will ease measures \"cautiously\".\n\nThe prime minister said he would set out \"what we can\" in a road map for easing restrictions on Monday.\n\n\"We want to be going one way from now on, based on the incredible vaccination rollout,\" he said.\n\nIt follows a call from scientists for a data-led approach to lifting measures.\n\nSpeaking at a mass vaccination centre in Cwmbran, south Wales, Mr Johnson said relaxation of measures would be done in \"stages\" and that the reopening of hospitality was one of the last things to return after the first lockdown.\n\n\"You have to remember from last year that we opened up hospitality fully as one of the last things that we did because there is obviously an extra risk of transmission from hospitality,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether he agreed with a data-led approach, Mr Johnson said \"I do think that's absolutely right\" and said the relaxation of measures will be \"based firmly on a cautious and prudent approach\", in such a way as to be \"irreversible\".\n\nOfficial figures show the UK has recorded a further 12,718 Covid cases and another 738 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. Last Wednesday, 13,013 cases and 1,001 deaths were reported.\n\nA total of 15,940,972 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine.\n\nAt the weekend ministers were hopeful that schools could reopen from 8 March, with non-essential shops to follow and later pubs and restaurants.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said he expected \"gradual easing\" to be the approach from when restrictions were reviewed but the government needed to \"do more to stop the spread\".\n\n\"We have to be driven by the data, but we have to be cautious because this has got to be the final lockdown,\" he said.\n\nProf Dame Angela McLean, deputy chief scientific adviser, earlier told the Commons Science and Technology Committee that each step of easing measures should be \"irrevocable\", adding \"that means we have to be extremely careful, before we add another unlocking\".\n\n\"We want to understand the impact on each step before taking the next steps,\" she said, adding that required a \"large gap\" after children go back to school.\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse, an expert in infectious diseases from Edinburgh University who advises the government, said it was right to be cautious.\n\nBut he said it must also be recognised the falling rates of infection seen during lockdown were more encouraging than many thought they would be.\n\nHe said schools were not a \"significant driver of infection\" and there had never been a surge in cases seen across western Europe after reopening schools - although the new UK variant, which is more contagious, needed to be considered.\n\nOn Tuesday, Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the phased return of primary school pupils from Monday, while in Wales pupils aged three to seven will return to school after half-term. They remain closed to most pupils in Northern Ireland.\n\nInfection rates are coming down - more quickly than many thought they would given the new more contagious UK variant.\n\nThe vaccination programme is also going well, providing protection to the most vulnerable. And the arrival of spring should be expected to help keep rates low.\n\nSo why the caution? While most believe Covid will become seasonal, a bounce-back in the summer is not being ruled out.\n\nAnd even if rates rebound only a little, there are still large numbers of vulnerable people. Nearly half of hospitalisations have been in the under-70s.\n\nWhat is more, high levels of infection at a time when vaccines are being rolled out and immunity being built provides the perfect breeding ground for new variants. Mutation may be unavoidable in the long-term, but encouraging them at this point would, many experts believe, be foolish.\n\nIt means the government is likely to be more cautious than some would want - and indeed maybe need to be given the cost of lockdown. But the judgement being made is it's better to go slowly and surely rather than having to take any more steps back.\n\nAlso speaking at the committee earlier was Prof Sir John Bell, Oxford University's regius professor of medicine, who said it was \"not plausible\" to expect people to comply with major curbs after they have received two doses of vaccine.\n\n\"It's better to plan for that than to assume you can hold back the water with a dam, because you won't be able to,\" he said.\n\nThe committee heard that ministers may need to consider what society sees is an \"acceptable\" level of Covid infection and deaths as restrictions are eased.\n\nAsked about this on BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, Prof Peter Openshaw, from the government respiratory virus threats advisory group Nervtag, said some \"hard-nosed... calculations are going to be done\".\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health managers, has suggested the number of new daily cases should be below 1,000 before restrictions are lifted.\n\nThe average is currently above 10,000.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said the end of April, once the top nine priority groups have been vaccinated, was the \"logical point at which we can start considering easing restrictions\".\n\nMeanwhile, healthy volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first \"human challenge\" study which will take place in the UK.", "BBC Panorama have obtained secret video messages allegedly showing the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum imprisoned against her will.\n\nSheikha Latifa, 35, fled by boat in 2018 and planned to seek asylum in the United States, but she has said she was intercepted by commandos, tranquillised and flown back home.\n\nThe secret videos document her alleged kidnapping and imprisonment which has lasted over a year.", "Texas is experiencing record low temperatures, with some places dipping to 0F (-18C).\n\nThe sudden increase in electricity demand caused the state's power grid to fail.", "Christian Cooper's video of Amy Cooper calling the police on him went viral last year\n\nA white woman who called police on a black man bird watching in New York's Central Park has had the criminal case against her dismissed.\n\nProsecutors say Amy Cooper completed a therapy course addressing racial bias and asked for her charge to be dropped.\n\nA video of Ms Cooper went viral in 2020 and sparked outrage across the US.\n\nIn it she was seen threatening Christian Cooper, no relation, with the police after he reportedly asked her to put her dog on a lead.\n\nThe incident happened the same day that unarmed black man George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, triggering weeks of national and global anti-racism protests.\n\nMs Cooper apologised after the video went viral but lost her job and was later charged with filing a false police report.\n\nChristian Cooper, who is prominent in the New York bird watching community, posted the encounter on Facebook and said it came after he had asked her to put her dog on a lead in an area where it was required.\n\nThe video showed her telling Mr Cooper that she would tell police \"there's an African-American man threatening my life\" before she is seen calling emergency services in a distressed tone to say an \"African American man\" was \"threatening me and my dog\" and asked dispatchers to \"please send the cops immediately!\"\n\nProsecutors later said that Ms Cooper had repeated the claim and accused Mr Cooper of trying to assault her during a second call.\n\nAt the time, District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Ms Cooper had \"engaged in racist criminal conduct\" and said it was \"fortunate\" that \"no one was injured or killed in the police response to Ms Cooper's hoax\".\n\nBut on Tuesday the single misdemeanour charge against her was dropped on the basis that Ms Cooper had completed a five-session educational therapy programme.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said the sessions were \"designed for introspection and progress\" and focused \"on the ways in which Ms Cooper could appreciate that racial identities shape our lives but we cannot use them to harm ourselves or others\".\n\nShe was offered the programme as part of a restorative justice initiative in part because of her lack of criminal background, the prosecutor said.\n\nIn a tweeted statement, Ms Cooper's lawyer Robert Barnes thanked officials for the decision and suggested she might seek further legal action over the incident.\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 Cooper has not publicly responded to news of the charge being dropped.", "In Wales, independence is still a minority view, but a campaign aimed at making it a reality has gained momentum in the past year\n\nIn the past few years, debate has raged about whether the United Kingdom faces a future without Scotland.\n\nPolls have suggested for months that support for Scottish independence has been higher than for Scotland staying in the UK.\n\nIn Wales, independence is still a minority view, but a campaign aimed at making it a reality has gained momentum in the past year.\n\nNow, a former adviser to David Cameron on devolution says there is \"no room for complacency\" about support for the union in Wales.\n\nLord Dunlop was also commissioned by Theresa May in July 2019 to produce a government review into strengthening the union.\n\nCompleted more than a year ago, it remains unpublished.\n\nNow, as some Labour peers describe the union as \"under threat as never before\", cross-party pressure is mounting on the government to release it.\n\nBut how \"under threat\" is the union in Wales?\n\nJanuary's Welsh Political Barometer poll for ITV Wales and Cardiff University suggested 22% would vote yes if a referendum was held.\n\nMost, 53%, told the poll they would say no, while a quarter of respondents said they did not know.\n\nMeanwhile, the pro-independence campaign Yes Cymru says its membership has jumped from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The number of people who had attended pre-Covid marches and polls had suggested support for independence is on the rise\n\nElsewhere, rows have broken out between UK and Welsh ministers over who should control funds replacing EU aid and a new trade law that the UK government says will protect Welsh businesses, but critics say will centralise power in London.\n\nWelsh ministers have said Westminster-Cardiff relations have worsened since Boris Johnson took over from Theresa May - though the UK government says there has been regular engagement on issues such as coronavirus and Brexit.\n\nLord Dunlop says reforming intergovernmental relations is one of the key recommendations in his unpublished report.\n\n\"It needs to be less ad hoc, more predictable, a flow of meetings, I think the agendas need to be more about joint decision-making. It needs to feel jointly owned.\"\n\nHe said people in Wales should not get \"carried away by individual polls\" but there was not \"any room for complacency\".\n\n\"There's been some suggestion devolution has failed because it hasn't killed nationalism. Whereas my view is devolution isn't a failed project - it's an unfinished project.\"\n\nHe believes making discussions between governments more \"transparent\" would encourage a \"constructive atmosphere to intergovernmental relations rather than the grievance-fest that it has been in the past.\"\n\nPrivately, there are some Conservative MPs pondering if the Dunlop review is now out of date or a bit too \"tame\" to save the union.\n\nOther, more devolution-sceptic voices in the party resent talk of more devolution or even phrases like \"four-nations approach\".\n\nLord Dunlop, pictured when he was a frontbencher in the Lords, said relations between the governments needed to be less ad hoc\n\nMrs May's de-facto deputy Sir David Lidington warned her cabinet in the past not to be complacent about Wales.\n\nNow outside government, he said while it was \"nice to be flattered\", if Welsh ministers felt relations were better under Mrs May, the UK government should \"give some thought as to what lies behind that\".\n\n\"It's not rocket science,\" he said.\n\n\"It's allowing enough time for consultation, being open with people, sharing as much information as you can, inviting devolved officials and ministers to some of the cross-departmental committees and Cobra meetings that are sorting out UK-wide policy but have a devolved impact,\" he said.\n\nHe said that should be \"supported by confidential, private conversations between ministers\".\n\nPolitical analyst Laura McAllister says Welsh independence is a topic on all parties' radars.\n\n\"We know at the moment independence in Wales remains a minority interest,\" she said.\n\n\"But, and I think this is an important consideration, there is real momentum behind the Yes Cymru campaign and a real sense of growth and energy around it which of course contrasts with those who want to keep the union in place at all costs - because there isn't an energy around that and there isn't a kind of strategic plan either.\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic Welsh independence marches attracted large crowds, including this gathering in Merthyr Tydfil\n\nBehind the scenes in Downing Street, a Welsh special adviser has been working in No 10's union unit over the past few months.\n\nIt is understood the UK government will soon be hosting regular \"lobby briefings\" for journalists with the Welsh Secretary Simon Hart.\n\nDowning Street sources say while their approach is more defensive when it comes to Scotland, the prime minister is excited by opportunities in Wales.\n\nOne senior UK government source said: \"There's definitely an increased recognition within No 10 that Wales is a strong unionist nation, and that there is an opportunity to build upon the 2019 general election result by levelling up the Welsh communities that have felt left behind by both the Welsh Government and previous UK governments.\"\n\nMr Hart has previously said Welsh ministers want to use new spending powers granted through the UK Internal Market Act to invest in Wales.\n\nIn response to recent calls for the Dunlop report to be published, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it would be published \"in due course\" but it would be alongside a joint review of intergovernmental relations reforms with the devolved administrations.\n\nSome parties support independence while one wants devolution ended\n\nMeanwhile, Labour have set up a constitutional commission advised by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to look at devolution across the UK.\n\nLabour's Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith said: \"Unfortunately some comments the prime minister has made has made Wales feels as if it's an afterthought.\n\n\"Of course people are saying: 'Would we be better just with our own Welsh Government?' But obviously what we all have to remember is there are so many things we can also do together.\n\n\"I think the really important thing is listening to what people are saying. What is it that is making people want independence and what do they mean by independence?\n\n\"Do they actually mean the sort of independent decision making that we currently have in Welsh Government?\n\n\"Or do they mean completely trying to cut off and have no rapport whatsoever - that's what the first discussion has to be.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru, the Green Party, Gwlad Gwlad and Propel - if it is registered in time - are standing on an independence platform in May's Welsh parliament elections.\n\nMeanwhile, the Abolish the Assembly Party want Welsh devolution abolished completely.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said there was a \"growing realisation the length and breadth of Wales that unless we act, we will be left behind as an appendage to England in a rump UK\".\n\nShe said that \"for the first time ever, independence will be a key issue going into a Senedd election\".", "MPs are complaining that the Treasury is set to claw back money from a mismanaged government scheme to help people insulate their homes.\n\nThe Green Homes Grant scheme is in such chaos that a huge majority of its £1.5bn budget for this year is unspent.\n\nThe government has said it will pocket that money, rather than rolling it over to next year’s £320m fund.\n\nBut the Environmental Audit Committee says that would be a “deeply retrograde step”.\n\nConservative MP Philip Dunne, who chairs the committee, told the BBC: “We need a long-term commitment to helping people insulate their homes – at the very least until the end of this Parliament.\n\n“We (Conservatives) promised £9.2bn for energy efficiency in our manifesto – and we have to deliver that or we won’t reach our climate change targets.”\n\nThe government’s advisory Climate Change Committee says even more - £2bn of public money a year - is needed until 2030.\n\nThe current green homes programme has been heavily criticised, with householders unable to get quotes from registered contractors and the firms unable to get paid.\n\nIn a parliamentary answer on Tuesday, the government confirmed only £94.1m of the £1.5bn allocated for homes in England until April has so far been spent.\n\nMr Dunne said: “The Green Homes Grant scheme is a good idea but its implementation has been woeful.\"\n\nHe said the scheme designed to create jobs and improve energy efficiency had turned into a “job destruction” scheme because so many builders laid off their workers when government payments didn't come through.\n\nMr Dunne said the project had been devised with too much bureaucracy because Treasury officials didn’t want a repeat of Northern Ireland's Northern Ireland's \"cash for ash\" renewable heat scheme, where millions of pounds were lost because rules were badly devised.\n\nAs a result of the red tape, he said, small builders in the Federation of Master Builders were reluctant to apply for accreditation.\n\nMr Dunne said out of 7,400 members of the federation, only three had been accredited.\n\nMr Dunne’s committee says the government needs to invest heavily in carbon-cutting measures as part of the its response to Covid-19.\n\nIn a report, it has urged the government to create “green” jobs by investing in areas such as energy efficiency, nature recovery and adaptation to a heating climate.\n\nIt wants the government to:\n\nMr Dunne said: “The Covid-19 crisis must be treated as a wake-up call - it is a symptom of a growing ecological emergency.\n\n“A tax system fit for net-zero Britain is key. It will encourage innovation, give confidence to the sector and support companies to make the low-carbon transition.”\n\nThe MPs also say ministers should also set targets for the huge amounts of carbon generated to make steel and cement for new buildings.\n\nThis idea is gaining traction, because it would increase the use in construction of wood products that have soaked up CO2.\n\nWill Hurst from the Architects' Journal said: \"For far too long we have ignored the carbon footprints of (constructing) buildings, worrying only about their energy efficiency once built.\n\n\"Regulations actually encourage this state of affairs. The VAT system perversely incentivises wasteful demolition and rebuild while upfront or ‘embodied’ carbon emissions in construction are largely ignored in planning policy.\"\n\nCaterina Brandmayr from the think tank Green Alliance said: “The report rightly puts the spotlight on what the government still needs to do to deliver a green recovery.\n\n“Front-loading investment in climate solutions, nature and the circular economy, and ensuring recovery plans are consistent with climate and environmental goals must be a priority. This will help create jobs, and benefit businesses and communities across the country.”\n\nA government spokesman said the Treasury was examining ways to fund the UK's transition to net zero emissions and ministers were \"committed to building back better and greener from the pandemic\".\n\nThe prime minister's recently announced 10-point climate change plan will \"put the UK at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution and create hundreds of thousands of green jobs,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"We continue to bring forward bold measures to cut emissions, with plans to invest £9bn in improving the energy efficiency of buildings forming part of our wider commitment to end our contribution to climate change by 2050.\"", "Four air passengers have each been fined £10,000 for failing to declare they had travelled from a \"red-list\" country, West Midlands Police has said.\n\nThey were stopped at border control by officials and were not able to leave Birmingham Airport.\n\nUnder new rules, arrivals in England have to quarantine in hotels, if within the last 10 days they have been in a country deemed a high Covid risk.\n\nThe \"red list\" of 33 countries includes Portugal, Brazil and South Africa.\n\nThe regulations came into effect on Monday and the four passengers had been fined by midday, a senior officer told a meeting of the West Midlands Strategic Policing and Crime Board.\n\nTemporary Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said that in the same timeframe, the airport received six passengers who did declare travel from a red-list country, who were taken to a quarantine hotel.\n\nBut of the offenders he added: \"There are some people who have attempted to hide their routes but that's not worked out.\"\n\nA police spokesperson said the fines were issued by Border Force.\n\nBirmingham Airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK.\n\nThose who fail to self-isolate as required face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nThe rules aim to stop coronavirus variants entering the UK.\n\nIt was not clear in the board meeting which country or countries the fined parties had been in.\n\nJust four flights touched down in Birmingham on Monday, including a plane from Istanbul with about 100 passengers, some of whom were believed to be from a red-list country.\n\nThe other four airports where quarantine hotel guests may enter the UK include Heathrow, Gatwick, London City and Farnborough.", "Waiting lists for hospital treatment could more than double by April and hit 10 million in England, the Reform think tank is warning.\n\nA worst-case scenario could see delays continue as a new wave of referrals are made, Reform said.\n\nTreatment referrals by GPs were six million lower in 2020 than the year before, suggesting a mounting backlog.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said \"trumpeting worst-case scenarios\" was \"not helpful\".\n\nHe said while there was a \"significant problem\" which would take time and investment to overcome, a similar methodology had suggested waiting lists would hit 10 million by December last year, but they were currently at 4.4 million.\n\nHe also warned the NHS is likely to be \"at full stretch\" for at least another six weeks and England was still \"some way away\" from being able to start lifting restrictions.\n\nAre you waiting for hospital treatment? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nMr Hopson, whose organisation represents NHS trusts in England, has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to say case numbers are \"still far too high\" to end virus curbs.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the end of April, once the top nine priority groups had been vaccinated would be the \"logical point at which we can start considering easing restrictions\".\n\nSetting out the conditions they believe are needed to allow current restrictions to relax, trust leaders outlined four tests that could be applied.\n\nAmong the tests are: a \"significant\" drop in case numbers; a return to normal NHS capacity; solid progress with vaccinations; and a \"robust and effective\" strategy to identify new virus variants.\n\nMr Johnson is due to outline a roadmap for easing the current national lockdown in England on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the UK's vaccine taskforce, Clive Dix, told Sky News all adults could be fully vaccinated by August \"or maybe sooner if we need to\".\n\nReform - a centre-right think tank that focuses on public services - praised the work of frontline NHS staff, but said more now needed to be done to tackle the growing backlog in care.\n\nCommunity diagnostic centres for cancer, cardiac and other conditions should be set up to restart screening programmes halted by the pandemic, coupled with a renewed focus on prioritising those most urgently in need of care currently on waiting lists, it said. And for routine treatments, it said more use should be made of the private sector.\n\nReform's Eleonora Harwich said: \"We must never have the equivalent of a 'National Covid Service' again.\n\n\"This is a system problem and in no way detracts from the heroic effort of NHS staff battling Covid-19.\n\n\"However, the cessation of so much non-Covid care means patients are facing more serious health conditions or disabilities, and some will die prematurely.\"\n\nLayla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, which represents hospital bosses, accepted the NHS faced a \"mammoth task\" to tackle the backlog - although she questioned the waiting list prediction of 10 million people by April.\n\nShe said the real problem was that the NHS was under-funded and had been operating \"at the top of its capacity for far too long\".\n\nResponding to accusations that the NHS has become a Covid-only service, Ms McCay pointed out cancer services were now operating at pre-pandemic levels.\n\nMr Hopson also said that Reform's suggestion that the NHS had been a \"Covid-only service\" was not helpful as staff had worked hard to keep other services going.\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said tackling the backlog would require both the use of the private sector, and extra investment in the NHS.\n\nA further 10,625 new coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, alongside another 799 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nOver 16 million people have now received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine across the UK.", "The use of \"invisible\" tracking tech in emails is now \"endemic\", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request.\n\nHey's review indicated that two-thirds of emails sent to its users' personal accounts contained a \"spy pixel\", even after excluding for spam.\n\nIts makers said that many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the \"big tech\" firms.\n\nDefenders of the trackers say they are a commonplace marketing tactic.\n\nAnd several of the companies involved noted their use of such tech was mentioned within their wider privacy policies.\n\nEmails pixels can be used to log:\n\nThis information can then be used to determine the impact of a specific email campaign, as well as to feed into more detailed customer profiles.\n\nHey's co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says they amount to a \"grotesque invasion of privacy\".\n\nWithout special software, it is not easy to spot which emails contain a tracking pixel\n\nAnd other experts have also questioned whether companies are being as transparent as required under law about their use.\n\nTracking pixels are typically a .GIF or .PNG file that is as small as 1x1 pixels, which is inserted into the header, footer or body of an email.\n\nSince they often show the colour of the content below, they can be impossible to spot with the naked eye even if you know where to look.\n\nRecipients do not need to click on a link or do anything to activate them beyond open an email they are embedded in.\n\nBritish Airways, TalkTalk, Vodafone, Sainsbury's, Tesco, HSBC, Marks & Spencer, Asos and Unilever are among UK brands Hey detected to be using them.\n\nBut their use was much more widespread despite many members of the public being unaware of it, said Mr Hansson.\n\n\"It's not like there's a flag saying 'this email includes a spy pixel' in most email software,\" he added.\n\nHey does offer such a facility, but users must pay an annual subscription.\n\nHey alerts its customers to the use of pixel trackers and automatically blocks them\n\nAlternatively, users can install free plug-ins into other email programs to strip out many pixel trackers. Other options are to simply set their software to block all images by default, or to view emails as plain text.\n\n\"On average, every Hey customer receives 24 emails per day that attempt to spy on them,\" Mr Hansson said.\n\n\"The top 10% of users receive more than 50.\n\n\"We're processing over one million emails a day and we're just a tiny service compared to the likes of Gmail, but that's north of 600,000 spying attempts blocked every day.\"\n\nThe BBC also uses email pixels in some of its communications, although this was not picked up by Hey.\n\nTracking pixels are a standard feature of automated email services used by large and small businesses, and in many cases the facility is difficult to turn off.\n\nTwo years ago Superhuman, a consumer-focused email client, tried to extend their use to the public as a default feature of its own, but reversed course after a public outcry.\n\nThat had little impact on the marketing industry's continued reliance on the tech.\n\nClients can use them to track how many emails in a specific campaign are opened in aggregate, as well as to automatically stop sending messages to customers who ignore them.\n\nBut a study by Princeton University also indicated the data gathered was sometimes linked to a users' cookies. This allows an individual's email address to be tied to their wider browsing habits, even as they move from one device to another.\n\n\"The resulting links between identities and web history profiles belie the claim of 'anonymous' web tracking,\" the paper warned.\n\nIn addition, trackers can also lead to personalised follow-ups.\n\n\"Particularly with salespeople or consultants, they can go: 'I saw you open my email yesterday, but you haven't replied yet. Can I call?'\" said Mr Hansson.\n\n\"And in some cases they get outright belligerent when they see you've opened it three times but have still not replied.\"\n\nUse of tracking pixels is governed in the UK and other parts of Europe by 2003's Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (Pecr) and 2016's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nThey require organisations to inform recipients of the pixels, and in most cases to obtain consent.\n\nOne privacy consultant said the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had previously ruled that such consent must be \"unambiguous\" and \"a clear affirmative act\".\n\n\"Solely placing something in a privacy notice is not consent, and it is hardly transparent,\" said Pat Walshe from Privacy Matters.\n\n\"The fact that tracking will take place and what that involves should be put in the user's face and involve them opting in.\n\n\"The law is clear enough, what we need is regulatory enforcement. Just because this practice is widespread doesn't mean it's correct and acceptable.\"\n\nMr Walshe noted that the ICO had used a pixel within its own e-newsletter.\n\nThe ICO tells users their interactions with its newsletter will be tracked on the sign-up form\n\nThe watchdog told the BBC it was used to track email openings, but not users' locations, adding: \"We're working with our provider to remove the pixel functionality and this should be completed soon.\"\n\nThe BBC asked some of the companies identified by Hey for their own response.\n\nBritish Airways said: \"We take customer data extremely seriously, and use a cross-industry standard approach that allows us to understand how effective our customer communications are.\"\n\nTalkTalk said: \"As is common across our industry and others, we track the performance of different types of communications to understand what our customers prefer. We do not share this data externally.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe UK government has been told it must be \"much more proactive\" and \"urgently\" address the involvement of a suspected crime boss in professional boxing.\n\nLast week Daniel Kinahan confirmed he is organising \"multiple world title fights\", insisting that allegations of criminality are part of a \"campaign\" against him.\n\nIt followed revelations over his continued involvement at the top of the sport by the BBC's Panorama, leading to calls for tighter regulation.\n\nKinahan has no criminal convictions, but was named in Irish courts as the head of a prominent drug cartel.\n\nOn Tuesday, Stephen Farry MP said \"stronger pressure was required\" from the government, including \"a willingness to legislate\".\n\nThe deputy leader of the Alliance Party accused ministers of a \"passive response\" to a series of questions he had asked about the controversy.\n• None The suspected gangster at the heart of world boxing\n• None BBC team threatened after Boxing and the Mob probe\n\nKinahan helped set up boxing management business MTK Global - but it was announced last year he was stepping away from the sport.\n\nHowever, the company told Panorama that he still advises some of its boxers, and the suspected gangster then issued his own statement, insisting he was innocent, and that he continued to work on \"record-breaking\" fights.\n\nIn the wake of the programme, Farry wrote to the government asking what plans it had to introduce regulation of advisers in boxing, a fit and proper person test for those involved in the sport, and what steps it was taking to ensure that it was not influenced by people alleged to be involved in organised crime.\n\nThe Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) replied, saying fit and proper persons tests \"are a matter for the national governing bodies\".\n\n\"We do not intend to intervene in this autonomy at this time but we expect national governing bodies and competition structures to put adequate levels of protections in place,\" it said.\n\nIn response, Farry - who represents the North Down constituency in Belfast - tweeted \"self-regulation has not happened so far\", and said he would be following up further with the government on \"serious issues surrounding Daniel Kinahan's role in professional boxing\".\n\nKinahan's role in world boxing caused an outcry in June last year when it emerged he had been working as a personal adviser to world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury before a much-anticipated £200m fight later this year with fellow British world champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nPanorama asked Fury whether Kinahan was still his personal adviser, but he did not respond.\n\nLast week promoter Eddie Hearn was asked by BBC Radio 5 Live if the Fury v Joshua fight - set to be the biggest bout in British boxing history - could have been negotiated without Kinahan's influence.\n\n\"No, because that's Fury's adviser,\" he replied.\n\n\"That's his team… we were told to deal with Daniel Kinahan to make that fight, initially. Then there was a backlash and those reins were passed over to [US promoter] Bob Arum.\n\n\"He's been an important part of Team Fury for a long time and when you are dealing with making a big fight you have to deal with that team that that fighter has put together and the person that the responsibility has been given to… Of course, he represents other fighters as well.\"\n\nLast week, Scotland's Josh Taylor confirmed Kinahan was helping to broker his world title unification fight against Jose Ramirez. Taylor is one of a host of fighters to publicly back the Irishman. However, pressure is building on broadcasters over their plans for fights involving Kinahan.\n\nIn a statement, BT Sport, which televises Fury's fights, said: \"We find the recent allegations extremely concerning, and would like to state we have no dealings, nor relationship with the individual referenced.\n\n\"We only work with certified agents and rights holders.\n\n\"As a broadcaster of multiple different sports, we are not able to control an athletes' choice of management and representation.\"\n\nRival broadcaster Sky Sports said it had never had any direct commercial or contractual relationship with MTK.\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control has said it is powerless to stop Kinahan advising boxers as it does not regulate such roles and he is not licensed with them.\n\nLawyers for MTK Global told Panorama that while Kinahan \"provides some personal advice to a number of boxers managed by MTK Global\", he had never owned, controlled or been an employee of the company.\n\nKinahan's lawyers also told the programme he has no criminal convictions and the allegations about him running a violent cartel were false and had no evidential basis.\n\n\"He is proud of his record in boxing to date. He has operated on the basis of honesty and with a commitment to putting fighters' needs first,\" they said.\n\n\"Mr Kinahan is a successful and independent adviser in the boxing industry in his own right. It is a matter of public record that he has exited the business of MTK.\"", "Seyi Omooba was dismissed after her Facebook post from 2014 caused a social media backlash\n\nAn actress sacked over a Facebook post attacking homosexuality has had her claim for discrimination, breach of contract and harassment rejected.\n\nSeyi Omooba, 26, sued Leicester's Curve Theatre and her former agents for £128,000 after being dropped from a stage performance of The Color Purple.\n\nShe had been due to play the lead character Celie, sometimes depicted as being in a lesbian relationship.\n\nBut she was dismissed when a Facebook post she wrote in 2014 emerged.\n\nThe post was shared on social media by another actor unconnected to the play a few days after she was announced as being part of the cast in March 2019.\n\nThe entry, written when the Christian actress was 20, said: \"I do not believe you can be born gay, and I do not believe homosexuality is right, though the law of this land has made it legal doesn't mean its right.\"\n\nThe virtual hearing of the Central London Employment Tribunal heard it sparked a social media backlash and she was sacked by Leicester Theatre Trust Ltd six days later following discussions in which Ms Omooba stood by her views.\n\nThree days later her contract with her agency Michael Garrett Associates Ltd (Global Artists) was also terminated.\n\nDirector Steven Spielberg and Whoopi Goldberg, who played Celie, on the set of The Color Purple film\n\nThe panel was told she had been \"unconditionally\" offered her full salary for the role by the theatre but refused to invoice the trust, instead bringing legal action on the grounds she had suffered extensive career damage for espousing her religious beliefs.\n\nAt the tribunal she sought £4,309 from the theatre plus a further £25,000 for injury to feelings and reputational damage.\n\nShe also sued her former agency £98,752 for loss of earnings, future losses, injury to feelings and reputational damage.\n\nHowever, Ms Omooba's claims of discrimination, harassment and breach of contract were rejected by the tribunal panel.\n\nThe panel dismissed her suggestion that her sacking by the theatre amounted to discrimination against her religious beliefs.\n\nIn a written judgement, it concluded it was \"the effect of the adverse publicity from [the 2014 post's] retweet, without modification or explanation, on the cohesion of the cast, the audience's reception, the reputation of the producers and 'the good standing and commercial success' of the production, that were the reasons why she was dismissed\".\n\nOn the harassment claim, it said: \"In the view of the tribunal Mr Stafford [Chris Stafford, chief executive of Leicester Theatre Trust] did not have the purpose of violating the claimant's dignity or creating an intimidating or humiliating environment for her. His purpose was to save the production.\"\n\nMiss Omooba had claimed the character's sexuality was ambiguous and she would have refused the role if she had considered her gay.\n\nBut this was rejected by the panel, with the panel commenting: \"She had taken part in a similar production, she had the script, and knowing that a lesbian relationship was at least one interpretation, she should have considered much earlier whether a red line was to be crossed.\"\n\nThe panel also rejected Ms Omooba's demands for compensation for loss of earnings, future losses and reputational damage as a result of her agency contract being terminated.\n\n\"There is no financial loss because she would not have played the part,\" it said.\n\n\"There is no loss of opportunity to enhance her reputation by performing, because she would not have played the part.\n\n\"If there is damage to her reputation, it was not caused by being dropped from the production but by an unconnected person's tweeting... of her Facebook post and the outcry resulting from that.\"\n\nThe production was due to open at the Curve Theatre in June 2019\n\nMs Omooba's case had been supported by the legal arm of Christian Concern, an organisation co-founded by her father, pastor Ade Omooba MBE.\n\nAndrea Williams, the group's chief executive, said: \"We're disappointed by the judgement and Seyi is considering her options for appeal.\"\n\nCurve Theatre's management team said it was pleased with the outcome following a \"hugely challenging and upsetting time\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Seyi Omooba accepted a lesbian part in our production of The Color Purple knowing full well she would refuse to play this iconic gay role as homosexual.\n\n\"We believe the case had no merit from the outset and should never have been brought to the tribunal.\n\n\"We now look forward to drawing a line under this painful chapter and focusing our energies on how we rebuild our theatre after the pandemic.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chris Lewis has been in an intensive care unit\n\nMore than £500,000 has been raised to help a mountain rescue volunteer who suffered life-changing injuries going to the aid of campers who had broken coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nChris Lewis, a member of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team in the Lake District, suffered severe spinal injuries when he fell 500ft (150m).\n\nColleagues described the fundraising support as \"phenomenal\".\n\nThe campers, from Liverpool and Leicester, have both been fined £200.\n\nMr Lewis, 60, also suffered multiple facial fractures in the fall at Red Screes, above Kirkstone Pass on 6 February.\n\nHe has received treatment in an intensive care unit after being airlifted to hospital in Preston.\n\nThe funds were raised online in less than 48 hours.\n\nTwo further rescue teams were called into action, with one aiding the initial effort and another helping Mr Lewis\n\n\"Phenomenal probably sums up the response,\" said Mike Blakey, a fellow volunteer with the team.\n\n\"What's really struck me is the number of people who have donated. The fact more than 20,000 have contributed is remarkable.\"\n\nMr Blakey, who has been in regular contact with Mr Lewis in hospital via FaceTime, said it may take 12 months before a clearer understanding of the long-term implications emerges.\n\n\"We won't really know what functionality Chris will have until he's been through rehab.\n\n\"The funds will pay for things like a wheelchair and any adaptations to property if they're needed, possibly a vehicle.\n\n\"I've spoken to him every couple of days. As he can't use his hands because of his injuries, he relies on an intensive care nurse to hold the phone.\n\n\"He's remarkably positive about moving on and doing what's required.\"\n\nThe two campers had called for help after one of them began suffering chest pains.\n\nSome members of the team had just reached the pair when Mr Lewis is believed to have slipped.\n\n\"It was after midnight, the temperature was just above freezing and it was sleeting, although there was no snow.\"\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 Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Google has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for content from news sites across its media empire.\n\nNews Corporation said it would be sharing its stories in exchange for \"significant payments\".\n\nMr Murdoch has long called for Google and other internet platforms to pay media companies for their output.\n\nAmid mounting pressure from lawmakers in Australia and elsewhere, Google last year said it would start to pay some publishers for stories.\n\n\"This has been a passionate cause for our company for well over a decade and I am gratified that the terms of trade are changing, not just for News Corp, but for every publisher,\" said Robert Thomson, News Corporation chief executive.\n\nThe company owns The Sun, The Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Australian, among other publications.\n\n\"For many years, we were accused of tilting at tech windmills, but what was a solitary campaign, a quixotic quest, has become a movement, and both journalism and society will be enhanced,\" Mr Thomson said.\n\nGoogle last year said it would start licensing \"high-quality content\" from publishers around the world as part of a $1bn initiative. It has signed up hundreds of media outlets in Germany, Brazil and the UK, among others, to participate in its Google News Showcase programme.\n\nThe deal with News Corp comes just days before Australia is due to pass a law allowing it to appoint an arbitrator to set fees if Google or other platforms cannot not come to terms with publishers on their own.\n\nGoogle has threatened to cut its search engine in Australia over the plans. On Wednesday, Facebook said it would restrict news on its platform in the country.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Thomson said \"particular thanks\" was due to Australian politicians who backed the proposal.\n\nIn addition to payments, Google's News Showcase product makes tweaks to its news app, like promoting participating publishers in the newsstand section.\n\nIt also gives news organisations more control over which stories are promoted and how they appear to users who follow their outlets.\n\nAs part of its three-year-agreement, News Corp said the two firms would also collaborate on a subscription platform, share advertising revenue and invest in video journalism on YouTube, which shares a parent company with Google.\n\nNews Corp has previously struck payment deals with Apple and Facebook.\n\nFinancial deals of the News Corp deal were not disclosed.\n\nReuters has reported Google agreed to pay $76m over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a dispute over copyright laws in Europe.", "Scientists want to understand more about the virus and test vaccines against new variants\n\nHealthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 \"human challenge\" study, which will take place in the UK.\n\nThe study, which has received ethics approval, will start in the next few weeks and recruit 90 people aged 18-30.\n\nThey will be exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment while medics monitor their health.\n\nThe UK has given doses of a Covid vaccine to more than 15 million people.\n\nHuman challenge studies have played a vital role in pushing the development of treatments for a number of diseases, including malaria, typhoid, cholera and flu.\n\nThe trials will help scientists work out the smallest amount of coronavirus needed to cause infection, and how the body's immune system reacts to it.\n\nThis will give doctors a better understanding of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, which will feed into the development of vaccines and treatments.\n\nThe Human Challenge study is being delivered by a partnership between the UK government's Vaccines Taskforce, Imperial College London, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and the company hVIVO, which has pioneered viral human challenge models.\n\nClive Dix, interim chair of the Vaccines Taskforce, said: \"We have secured a number of safe and effective vaccines for the UK, but it is essential that we continue to develop new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19.\n\n\"We expect these studies to offer unique insights into how the virus works and help us understand which promising vaccines offer the best chance of preventing the infection.\"\n\nWe have hugely effective Covid-19 vaccines already so why do we need challenge trials?\n\nFirst, they tell us things that are almost impossible to discover in the real world.\n\nHow much virus does it take to start an infection? How does the immune system mount its initial defence? Can you tell which people will develop symptoms or not?\n\nThe trials in the UK will start off by focusing on these fundamental scientific questions.\n\nBut there are also new vaccines in the pipeline and the virus itself is evolving.\n\nLater this year it will become almost impossible to run large-scale Covid vaccine trials in the UK because so many people will have been immunised.\n\nBut challenge trials involving just a small numbers of volunteers will still give the answer to crucial questions - from how second-generation vaccines compare, to whether vaccines protect against new variants.\n\nChief investigator Dr Chris Chiu, from Imperial College London, said: \"We are asking for volunteers aged between 18 and 30 to join this research endeavour and help us to understand how the virus infects people and how it passes so successfully between us.\"\n\nVolunteers will be screened to check they are healthy and have not been infected by the virus before. They will have the virus squirted up their nose and then spend 14 days quarantining in hospital, while being closely monitored by a medical team.\n\nFinding out how the virus grows in the nose and analysing the very early stages of infection in people before symptoms develop are two main aims.\n\nVolunteers will be compensated for their time, to the tune of around £4,500 over the course of a year, which will include follow-up tests.\n\nInitially, the study will use the virus that has been circulating in the UK since the pandemic began in March, which is of low risk to healthy adults, to deliberately infect volunteers.\n\nIn time, a small numbers of volunteers are likely to be given an approved vaccine and then exposed to the new variants, helping scientists to find out the most effective jabs - but this phase of the study has not yet been given the go-ahead.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eight Conservative candidates were shortlisted for the South Wales Central region\n\nLeaked documents show that three Conservative candidates standing at this year's Senedd election support abolishing the Welsh Parliament.\n\nAll prospective candidates for the South Wales Central regional list were asked how they would stand in a hypothetical referendum late last year.\n\nNow BBC Wales has seen statements from three of the selected candidates stating they are anti-devolution.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said attention needs to be on the election.\n\nThe Tories have won two of the four seats in the South Wales Central region in every Senedd election since devolution in 1999.\n\nIn December, all candidates for the seats - which is based on the additional member system - were asked about the Senedd during the selection process to determine who would be selected for the list.\n\nCouncillors Joel James, Calum Davies and Chris Thorne - respectively selected second, third and fourth as Conservative South Wales Central candidates - sent applications to party members setting out their anti-devolution stance.\n\nThe party's former Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies was selected top of the party's list for the area.\n\nCommenting at the time, David Melding, who is standing down as the second Conservative Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central at the 2021 election, said he did not believe \"such a question would have been sanctioned by the Welsh Conservative Party\".\n\nOne party source dismissed the question as \"random\", but another said it showed the party's \"strong abolish streak\".\n\nIn an application, seen by BBC Wales, Mr James, councillor for the Llantwit Fardre ward in Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: \"As Welsh Conservatives, is it not our duty to say that after 20 years of devolution, it has failed, and that enough is enough?\n\n\"I believe that the time has come to respond to the changed political landscape, harness the anger and concerns of those voters ignored by an arrogant and self-electing elite, and take a sledgehammer to Labour's original 'Red Wall', finally ending their devolution experiment in Wales.\n\n\"I will challenge the cosy Cardiff Bay consensus that has underachieved for Wales for so long, I will continue to push Welsh Labour out of south Wales, and I will campaign to end devolution in Wales.\"\n\nCalum Davies, is in third spot, with Chris Thorne, in fourth. It is unlikely that either will be elected.\n\nCalum Davies said in his application: \"The simple truth is devolution is failing and must be abolished.\n\n\"So, if you want accountability, a disrupter of the cushy Cardiff Bay consensus, and someone who not only recognises the danger in devolution but will fight to abolish it, then I'm your Conservative and Unionist,\" he added.\n\nMr Thorne said: \"In any future referendum on the future of the assembly, I would vote to abolish the institution.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Mr Hart said: \"I'm not in the same place as they are in terms of rolling back devolution and all those things.\"\n\nHe said it \"reflects intense frustration in the fact that for 23 years there has been a sort of one-party state in Wales\".\n\n\"And I think everybody's attention needs to be on the election in May.\"", "Carmaker Ford has said its passenger vehicle line-up in Europe will be all-electric by 2030.\n\nBy the middle of 2026, all its cars will be available as electric or hybrid models, it added.\n\nIt joins a growing list of car brands cutting petrol and diesel production, including Jaguar and Bentley.\n\nEuropean regulators are clamping down on emissions, with countries including UK planning to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel motors.\n\nFord said it would spend $1bn (£720m) updating its factory in Cologne, with the aim of producing a mass-market electric vehicle by 2023.\n\n\"Our announcement today to transform our Cologne facility, the home of our operations in Germany for 90 years, is one of the most significant Ford has made in over a generation,\" said Stuart Rowley, president of Ford in Europe.\n\n\"It underlines our commitment to Europe and a modern future with electric vehicles at the heart of our strategy for growth.\"\n\nFord is the largest carmaker to make such an announcement in Europe, holding a 15% share of the regional market.\n\nOn Monday, Jaguar Land Rover said its cars would be all-electric by 2030, with its Jaguar brand electrified by 2025. GM and Volvo Cars have set similarly ambitious targets.\n\nThis year car makers in the EU will face hefty fines if they fail to meet emissions standards. The UK meanwhile has said it plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, with France is targeting the same by 2040.\n\nDavid Leggett, automotive analyst at GlobalData, said: \"Automotive electrification is an expensive proposition for vehicle manufacturers, but they are nevertheless concluding that they must take the investment hit to be well-positioned competitively later this decade when the end for new internal combustion engine vehicle sales will be in sight in a number of markets.\"\n\nOn Tuesday it emerged that Coventry Airport could be the site for a gigafactory - a plant to manufacture electric car batteries.\n\nThe UK government previously announced £500m funding as part of a ten point plan to support the electrification of vehicles, including developing gigafactories across the UK.", "Accountancy firm KPMG is creating 200 jobs in a new \"centre of excellence\" in Belfast.\n\nThe £14m investment will deliver services in cyber security, applied intelligence and digital transformation.\n\nThis will benefit clients in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nSome 160 of the roles will be involved in the Assured Skills Training Programme with Belfast Met aimed at graduates over the next three years.\n\nJohnny Hanna, partner in charge of KPMG in Northern Ireland, said: \"The creation of the new centre of excellence is the next step in the evolution of KPMG in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We have continually grown the firm to meet the ever-changing demands of our clients and the addition of this digital centre adds an exciting offering, which will have global reach.\"\n\nHe also said the new post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland offered \"lots of opportunities\".\n\nWhile acknowledging some disruption in the first weeks of operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol, he said he was optimistic issues would be resolved quickly.\n\n\"We all recognise that there are many challenges at the moment and the disruptions - we're going to need to address some of them, certainly on the GB-NI part of it.\n\n\"But there's lots of opportunities would be my view - I think once things settle down and we get a bit of time.\"\n\nHe said the protocol, which gives Northern Ireland companies unfettered access to sell into both the Great Britain and EU markets, could prove beneficial but added this latest investment was not linked to Brexit.\n\nThe Department for the Economy is funding almost £1.3m of training over three years.\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said the jobs would contribute more than £7m a year in salaries.\n\n\"This investment also reinforces KPMG's confidence in Northern Ireland as a key business location post-EU Exit,\" she added.", "Vulnerable children must be at the heart of government plans to \"build back better\" after the pandemic, England's children's commissioner says.\n\nAnne Longfield called on Boris Johnson to put them at the \"centre stage\" of plans to \"level up\" the nation.\n\nIn a final speech after six years in the role, she said it was a \"terrible thing\" that \"most of their lives would have got worse\" during the pandemic.\n\nMinisters said protecting vulnerable children was central to its response.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"That's why we have enabled the most vulnerable children to continue attending school in person, while providing laptops, devices and data packages to those learning at home and ensuring the most disadvantaged children are fed and warm.\"\n\nIt comes after warnings that children may be \"losing all hope for their future\" and as surveys suggest young people's mental health is worsening, partly due to the fallout from Covid-19.\n\nMs Longfield said the prime minister's commitment to putting schools at the heart of reopening of society when lockdown eases was \"really welcome\".\n\n\"There have been points during the year where I was dismayed when schools stayed shut and shops and pubs opened but the prime minister's come behind what we were pushing for which was for the schools to be the last last to close and the first to open,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe estimated around £10bn will be needed for children's mental health support and help for pupils in school to catch-up.\n\nMs Longfield said she believed Boris Johnson wants to \"build back better\" for children but did not think he has the \"structures in government around him\" to be able to do that.\n\nTory MP Robert Halfon, the chairman of the Education Select Committee, said the pandemic had \"laid bare the damning truth about our educational divide\".\n\nIn a response to Ms Longfield's speech, Mr Halfon said on Twitter that children were facing a \"torrid barrage of lost learning and a new frontier of vulnerabilities\".\n\nHe urged ministers to focus on the \"complex challenges that exist in some children's lives\", adding that the school closures could reverse the progress made since 2011.\n\nMs Longfield said her departing address aimed to set out a \"challenge to government and all political parties\".\n\nAn entire generation risks being defined by the coronavirus crisis and some children may start school so far behind their peers \"they'll never catch up\", she said.\n\nBut she said while the pandemic meant the country was facing the \"biggest challenge to our society in 70 years, it is also an opportunity to reflect and rebuild\".\n\nMs Longfield suggested the £1.5bn so far committed to a pupil catch-up fund for England was a demonstration of the Treasury's \"institutional bias against children\" - when compared with a research group's estimate that children are facing up to £350bn in lost earnings as a result of school closures.\n\nShe highlighted US President Joe Biden's new package of tax credits and benefits for families with children as an example of the type of action the government could take.\n\nMr Johnson's promise to \"level up\" the country will be \"just a slogan\" unless children are at the heart of the effort, she added.\n\nMs Longfield said ministers had focused too much on school improvements \"without recognising that many of the outcomes for the children attending the schools are overall getting worse\".\n\nCalling for a new \"Covid Covenant\" of education and well-being support in every community, she said school holidays should be used to catch children up with lost lessons.\n\nThe children's commissioner said is a \"national scandal\" the fact almost a fifth of children in England leave school or college without basic qualifications.\n\nAnd highlighting the case of a 16-year-old who died after being coerced into drug trafficking, she said children exploited by gangs are being failed by adults who \"simply don't see them\".\n\nA government spokesman said its long-term catch-up plans would combine with an investment of more than £1bn to \"ensure we make up for lost time in education over the course of this Parliament\".\n\nHe added: \"Anne Longfield has been a tireless advocate for children, and we're grateful for her dedication and her challenge on areas where we can continue raising the bar for the most vulnerable.\"\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, a former chief executive of a multi-academy trust, will take over as the new children's commissioner for England in March.", "A worker collects a swab from a car window at a test centre in Goldsworth Park, in Surrey\n\nSurge testing for the South African variant of Covid-19 is being expanded in several areas across England.\n\nThe tests will take place in areas of Norfolk, Southampton and Surrey. Surge testing for a mutation of the Kent variant will also expand in Manchester.\n\nPeople in the latest targeted areas should take a test this week whether they are showing symptoms or not, the Department of Health (DoH) said.\n\nSurge testing for the South African variant began on 1 February.\n\nAt that stage, residents across Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms.\n\nThe DoH said additional surge testing and genomic sequencing would now be deployed to the following postcode areas:\n\nA government spokeswoman said people with symptoms should book a test in the normal way, while those without symptoms should visit their local authority website for more information.\n\nSurge testing is the roll-out of additional community testing to help reduce the spread of infection by finding asymptomatic cases and prompting people to self-isolate.\n\nPositive cases will be sequenced for genomic data to help scientists and public health officials understand the variant and its spread.\n\nThe DoH said surge testing in parts of the London boroughs of Haringey and Merton, along with Sefton in Merseyside, were complete.\n\n\"Further data on surge testing will be provided in due course,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Billings said people had told him about their \"bad experiences\" on the M1 smart motorway\n\nSmart motorways should be abandoned so \"more serious injuries or fatalities\" can be avoided, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has said.\n\nDr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire's PCC, made his comments after two coroners raised concerns about deaths on a stretch of the M1 in the county.\n\nMeanwhile, South Yorkshire Police has said it will examine inquest documents relating to two smart motorway deaths.\n\nHighways England said it wanted \"to make motorways as safe as possible\".\n\nOn a stretch of M1 smart motorway in South Yorkshire, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane and drivers who break down are encouraged to pull in to emergency stopping places.\n\nIn a statement, Dr Billings said: \"I do not believe there is anyone who uses this stretch of the motorway, as I do, who does not feel anxious when driving along it.\"\n\nHe also highlighted a crash on Friday on the northbound M1 between junction 30 and 31 which he said involved a lorry hitting \"a stationary car in a live running lane\".\n\nAs a result, both carriageways were closed for a time, with motorists experiencing long delays.\n\nThe accident is currently subject to a police investigation, Highways England said.\n\nDr Billings said: \"I call upon the minister and Highways England to abandon this type of smart motorway before we have more serious injuries or fatalities.\"\n\nHe added that he had been contacted by lorry drivers concerned over the dangers of stationary vehicles in a motorway lane and the difficulties of being able to pull out into fast-moving traffic.\n\nHe said he had written to the transport secretary over his concerns.\n\nResponding to Dr Billings, a Highways England spokesperson said: \"We want to do everything we can to make our motorways as safe as possible.\n\n\"We are aware of the ongoing concerns from Dr Billings and others and we are working hard to deliver the improvements set out in the transport secretary's action plan.\"\n\nIn March, the government published a report which found that \"in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, conventional ones\", the agency 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.", "The supermarket chain has its headquarters in north Wales\n\nA supermarket chain's PR chief has been sacked after comments about Wales, its language and the UK Celtic nations.\n\nKeith Hann was dismissed by frozen food specialists Iceland \"with immediate effect\" after remarks on Twitter.\n\nFurther comments on a personal blog also emerged, describing the Welsh language as \"incomprehensible\" and \"gibberish\".\n\nIceland is based in north Wales, and said the comments did not reflect their values.\n\nAn official at Iceland apologised for any upset or offence caused by the comments.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hann to respond.\n\nHis latest controversial post on Twitter commented on the TV star Amanda Holden being accused of breaching lockdown rules by travelling to Cornwall.\n\n\"Your periodic reminder that the inhabitants of the UK's Celtic fringe loath ALL visitors, in and out of lockdown,\" he said.\n\nHis social media account was later made private, with his profile stating: \"All views my own and usually joking\".\n\nKeith Hann's original tweet responding to the Amanda Holden story has been deleted, along with his account on the social media platform\n\nThe account has since been deleted.\n\nFurther posts in a personal blog called Bloke in the North then emerged.\n\nIn one, dating back to 2009, he reflected: \"I suppose as a last resort we could always move a couple of miles west so that I could legitimately call myself Bloke in the North (of Wales), with the (of Wales) being silent.\n\n\"The price for this, if we sent the baby to a state school, would be having part of his education conducted in gibberish. But I dare say that Welsh would prove no more incomprehensible and useless to him than trigonometry and algebra did to me in my day.\"\n\nIn another, he referred to Welsh signage in supermarkets as \"incomprehensible\" and described it as \"a dead language that sounds uncannily like someone with bad catarrh clearing his throat\".\n\nAnnouncing Mr Hann's departure, Iceland said in a statement: \"Iceland has taken action in light of recent comments made by its director of corporate affairs, resulting in the dismissal of Mr Hann with immediate effect.\n\nThe firm, whose headquarters are on Deeside in Flintshire, added: \"We would like to reiterate that these comments in no way reflect the values or philosophy of our business.\n\n\"We are a proud Welsh company, with a long history of investment in communities across Wales, and apologise for any upset or offence caused.\"\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said Mr Hann's comments showed a lack of respect, adding \"these attitudes belonged to the past, but unfortunately there are individuals who still harbour these views\".\n• None Is this the end of office working?", "Anne Longfield has been England's children's commissioner for six years\n\nChildren exploited by gangs are being failed by adults who \"simply don't see them\", the Children's Commissioner for England has said.\n\nIn her final speech in the role, Anne Longfield highlighted the case of 16-year-old Jacob, who died after being coerced into drug trafficking.\n\nShe condemned the \"national scandal\" of a fifth of children leaving school without basic qualifications.\n\nThe government said it had prioritised protecting vulnerable children.\n\nThe children's commissioner's six-year term ends this month, and she spoke earlier to a virtual conference of more than 2,000 people.\n\nJacob, 16, was found dead in his bedroom in April 2019. A serious case review showed he had not been provided any type of education for 21 months.\n\nThe report exposed failings by the local authorities and police, which left him to be targeted by so-called \"county lines\" gangs.\n\nMs Longfield said Jacob was just one of many young people failed by Whitehall officials who need to rethink their priorities.\n\n\"I have been shocked to discover how many of these officials have never met any of the children they are responsible for,\" she said\n\n\"So many seem to view them as remote concepts or data points on an annual return.\n\n\"This is how children fall through the gaps - because too often the people in charge of the systems they need simply don't see them and try to understand their world.\"\n\nJacob was \"coerced and controlled\" into committing crimes for drug gangs\n\nMs Longfield also mentioned Corey Junior Davis and Jaden Moodie, two other children \"caught up in gang violence who were let down by a succession of adults whose job it was to keep them safe\".\n\nShe said the \"basic flaw\" in how the government works is that \"different parts of the system know different areas of these children's lives, but nobody connects the dots\".\n\nIn her speech, she called for the government's \"build back better\" strategy to focus on \"rethinking our priorities and the way we care for children\".\n\nShe said: \"It's impossible to overstate how damaging the last year has been for many children.\n\n\"Covid is the biggest challenge to our society in 70 years. But also an opportunity to reflect and rebuild.\"\n\nJacob, from Banbury, was coerced into a life of crime, and the report said his schooling absence played a \"significant role\" in leaving him vulnerable to being exploited.\n\nHe was recorded as a suspect or an offender in 26 police reports, mostly for violent crimes, but was never brought before the courts.\n\nMs Longfield said: \"This was not some evil criminal mastermind.\n\n\"This was a child who the report says talked to his friend about buying a school uniform and walking into school, just to feel like the other kids.\"\n\nA coroner concluded he was \"intoxicated and distressed\" when he died but said there was \"insufficient evidence\" that he intended to kill himself.\n\nInvestigators found there was \"a lack of responsibility and accountability\" in the council's education department.\n\nRight to left: Councillors Ian Hudspeth, Steve Harrod and Lorraine Lyndsay-Gale all declined to comment on the council's failings\n\nOxfordshire County Council admitted \"more should have been done\" but has refused to answer further questions on the case.\n\nThames Valley Police said it recognised it did not get the \"balance right\" in Jacob's case between \"dealing with children who are exploited but may also pose a risk to and offend against others\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Protecting vulnerable children has been at the heart of our response to the pandemic, driven by our commitment to level up opportunities and outcomes.\n\n\"Anne Longfield has been a tireless advocate for children, and we're grateful for her dedication and her challenge on areas where we can continue raising the bar for the most vulnerable.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "A group of skaters had to be rescued after plunging into freezing water when the ice they were standing on cracked and broke in Amsterdam.\n\nThe rare freezing of waterways across the Netherlands attracted many ice skaters at the weekend, however warmer temperatures is melting the ice, prompting a warning about the danger from officials.\n\nBystanders used ropes, hockey sticks and golf clubs to drag the ice skaters to safety, some also putting their own safety at risk.", "A Plaid Cymru politician has been ordered to appear in court after she retweeted \"highly inappropriate\" comments about a murder trial.\n\nHelen Mary Jones MS shared a tweet from a domestic abuse campaigner expressing \"hope\" that a man would be found guilty of murdering his wife.\n\nThe tweet was posted on Saturday and shared by Ms Jones the same day.\n\nIt related to the trial of Anthony Williams, 70, who killed his wife during lockdown in March.\n\nThe tweet was written by Rachel Williams, who was shot at her Newport hair salon by her estranged husband Darren Williams in 2011.\n\nHe was found hanged in a woodland hours after the attack, and six weeks later her 16-year-old son took his own life in the same area.\n\nMs Williams went on to become a prominent anti-domestic violence campaigner and pioneer of the Ask for Ani [Action Needed Immediately] scheme, of which the Duchess of Cornwall is a patron.\n\nHer tweet included the comment: \"As so many of us will know, there would have been history of domestic abuse. I hope this jury finds him guilty of murder.\"\n\nRachel Williams has become a prominent campaigner against domestic abuse\n\nThe issue can only now be reported after reporting restrictions were lifted on Wednesday.\n\nBoth Ms Jones and Ms Williams have been ordered by Judge Paul Thomas to appear at Swansea Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nMs Williams deleted the tweet on Monday, after being contacted by Gwent Police officers on the instruction of the judge.\n\nNo evidence was heard during the trial that the defendant had a history of domestic abuse.\n\nIn England and Wales, jurors are meant to deliver verdicts solely based on evidence heard in court, and told to ignore any information or commentary from external sources, including on social media.\n\nThe Contempt of Court Act makes it an offence to publish anything which could prejudice or impede a trial.\n\nAnthony Williams was found not guilty of murdering his wife - but admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility\n\nThere was no evidence of a history of domestic abuse heard during the trial of Anthony Williams, who strangled his wife Ruth during lockdown\n\nThe tweet was posted after the jury in the murder trial had adjourned their deliberations for the weekend.\n\nOn their return to court on Monday, Judge Thomas drew their attention to the social media commentary, saying: \"It's come to my attention that, over the weekend, there have been some highly inappropriate comments made on social media about this case.\n\n\"I should make it abundantly clear that those comments have not come from anybody connected with the case and, having been shown the contents of one such piece of social media, they clearly don't have any idea about the evidence in this case or the issues in this case.\"\n\nThe judge said domestic violence \"is a terrible scourge\", but added that a \"one-size-fits-all approach is highly inappropriate, particularly in this case\".\n\nAddressing both prosecution and defence, Judge Thomas said: \"This case will be before me on Thursday. Those involved will have to make themselves available on Thursday, and they should be told that forthwith.\"\n\nNo jury members said they had seen the Twitter posts, and resumed their deliberations before finding Williams not guilty of murder on Monday afternoon.\n\nHe will be sentenced for manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility on Thursday after previously admitting the charge.\n\nA spokesman for Plaid Cymru said \"it is not appropriate for the party to comment\" about Ms Jones' summons to court.\n\nMs Williams confirmed she has also been asked by the judge to attend the court on Thursday, but declined to comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister praised the work at the Cwmbran vaccination centre\n\nDevolution has not been an \"overall\" disaster, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nSpeaking on visit to a vaccination centre in Cwmbran, Torfaen, he said \"it depends\" what the devolved authorities do.\n\nSince 1999, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have had more control over their own affairs.\n\nThe comments come amid debate within the Conservative Party itself about the future of devolution and the union itself.\n\nA group of Conservatives were recently selected to stand for the Welsh Parliament after telling members they would support abolishing the institution.\n\nPlaid Cymru Liz Saville Roberts said Mr Johnson's defence of devolution was \"lukewarm\".\n\nMr Johnson's visit also took him to South Wales Police's headquarters in Bridgend, although a Senedd minister questioned whether he should have travelled to Wales given the current lockdown rules.\n\nAsked if he thought devolution had been a disaster, Mr Johnson said: \"Certainly not overall, absolutely not overall.\"\n\nHe said he had been a \"proud beneficiary\" of devolution when he was mayor of London.\n\n\"I think that devolution can work very well, but it depends very much on what the devolved authorities do,\" he added.\n\nAlso while on the visit, Mr Johnson said the UK and Welsh governments were working to \"concert\" their messages on lockdown.\n\nIn Wales, the National Assembly was set up following a referendum in 1997.\n\nIts powers grew and, after a further referendum in 2011, it gained law-making powers and has since changed its name to the Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru.\n\nElections to the Senedd determine what ministers form the Welsh Government, which is a separate body currently led by First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nMr Drakeford has been in charge of Covid-19 restrictions in Wales and has been free to vary the rules from the UK government.\n\nThe two governments chose to go into lockdown at different times during the winter months and have, at times, disagreed on the messaging to the public. The whole of the UK is now under lockdown, however.\n\nMr Johnson said UK ministers were having \"continuous conversations\" with Mr Drakeford and the two sides tried \"to make sure we concert our approach and concert our general messaging\".\n\n\"Overall, if you look at infection rates across the UK, they are coming down a bit now, that's very encouraging.\"Mr Johnson added that while there were \"some encouraging signs\" this could be driven by vaccination and it was \"still early days\".\n\nThe prime minister said a \"data not dates\" approach would be \"absolute right\" in exiting restrictions in England.\n\nMark Drakeford recently partly blamed the UK government's programme of austerity as being behind high rates of coronavirus deaths in parts of the south Wales valleys.\n\nMr Johnson said he would be \"reluctant to ascribe a single cause like that\".\n\n\"Yes, sadly, some parts of the UK have been worse hit than than others,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that there will be a time where we go over everything and when the pandemic has really come to an end then we try to isolate all the particular causes, but I think it is multifactorial.\"\n\nA Welsh minister questioned whether Mr Johnson's visit should have gone ahead\n\nThe UK government was recently warned to avoid \"complacency\" over the Welsh independence movement.\n\nMr Johnson told journalists that he was \"confident\" about the future of the union, although he said he wasn't complacent.\n\n\"I believe passionately in the Union. And I think that its, its advantages are clear.\"\n\n\"When you see vaccination being rolled out by the NHS invented in the UK, it's impossible not to be very moved and also very confident about the future of our of our country.\"\n\nWelsh Government Wellbeing Minister Eluned Morgan said she was not sure Mr Johnson's visit could be classed as essential travel.\n\nShe told a press conference: \"Of course he is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and has to make his own judgement on that.\n\n\"In an ideal world, I think, as many people as possible should stay at home and, yes, in an ideal world, perhaps that should have happened in this instance.\"\n\nWork is an exception to the stay-at-home lockdown rules.\n\nMs Morgan said the relationship with the UK government had \"ebbed and flowed\".\n\nShe added: \"In an ideal world, we would like to be coming out of the lockdown together, but at the end of the day we will do what is right for us in Wales, and that will depend on the rates of infection and how quickly we can roll out the vaccine, and we are doing incredibly well in Wales on that score.\"\n\n\"This was a pointless 140-mile cross-border journey to Wales to make public comment on matters relating to England only,\" she said.\n\n\"Mr Johnson's lukewarm defence of devolution is undermined by his actions. This is a Prime Minister who has overseen the biggest Westminster power grab since the advent of devolution and has consistently refused to support Welsh lockdown measures with the financial support needed to make them work.'", "UK house prices climbed 8.5% in 2020, the highest annual growth rate since October 2014, according to official figures.\n\nThe average UK house price reached a record high of £252,000 in December 2020, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nThe North West had the highest growth of 11.2%, while London rose just 3.5%.\n\nThe stamp duty holiday due to end this March contributed to the rise, the ONS said.\n\nSpending more time at home in the pandemic meant some people also decided they needed more space.\n\nThat was reflected in the average price of detached properties climbing by twice as much as flats and maisonettes during 2020, up 10% and 5% respectively.\n\nMeanwhile Wales experienced the fastest price growth, with property values rising 10.7% to £184,000.\n\nIn England, prices climbed 8.5% to £269,000, in Scotland, 8.4% to £163,000 and in Northern Ireland 5.3% to £148,000.\n\n\"Recent price increases may reflect a range of factors including pent-up demand, some possible changes in housing preferences since the pandemic and a response to the changes made to property transaction taxes across the nations,\" the ONS said.\n\nThe UK housing market is made up of lots of local markets, with different factors affecting property prices such as the performance of schools and the availability of jobs. The ONS figures are based on sale completions.\n\nAlthough average London prices were up by 3.5%, over last year, prices fell in the capital by £5,000 between November and December, despite a UK-wide price increase of 1.2% over the month.\n\nBut the city still has the highest average house price in the UK, at £496,000.\n\nThe North East continued to have the lowest average house price at £141,000, and has become the final English region to surpass its pre-economic downturn peak of July 2007.\n\n\"2020 was the year that fundamentals came home to roost,\" said Nicky Stevenson, managing director at estate agent Fine & Country.\n\n\"There was no escaping a lack of space for households who suddenly found they were living on top of each other with little respite. That has powered annual growth that reached a six-year high.\"\n\nThere were four major drivers of overall house price rises in 2020, said Anna Clare Harper, chief executive of asset manager SPI Capital.\n\n\"The temporary stamp duty reduction and cheap debt as a result of very low interest rates, which give buyers a 'discount'; the release of pent-up supply and demand and desire to improve surroundings amongst existing homeowners; and the 'flight to safety', since in times of uncertainty, people want to keep their money in a stable asset with low volatility.\n\n\"But looking to the future when the temporary stamp duty reduction ends, we're likely to see a slowdown in house price rises,\" she said.\n\n\"However, there is still some life in the market as lockdown helps to concentrate many potential buyers and sellers' minds as far as moving is concerned,\" said north London estate agent Jeremy Leaf.\n\n\"Intense speculation remains as to whether the 31 March stamp duty deadline will be extended and we can't help but have sympathy for many who have started the process several months ago who have been unavoidably delayed by a backlog in searches, surveys, conveyancing, or all three, to say nothing of problems in the new-build industry.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cut down version of the December planning and environment meeting soon became a \"must see\"\n\nA council that sparked an internet sensation when a meeting descended into chaos has again been dogged by rows.\n\nA clip of a Handforth Parish Council meeting featuring insults and members being kicked out was watched by millions earlier this month.\n\nJackie Weaver, who was trending on Twitter after the December Zoom meeting went viral, was not involved when the council met on Wednesday evening.\n\nMembers of the public interjected and made cat-calls throughout the meeting.\n\nWednesday's meeting was being watched on YouTube by more than 3,500 people at one stage.\n\nJackie Weaver was not present for the meeting on Wednesday\n\nCouncillor John Smith and chairman Brian Tolver had a tense disagreement over the events of the Cheshire council's viral meeting in December.\n\nMr Smith offered a lengthy defence of Ms Weaver and described Mr Tolver and others' comments towards her as \"abusive\".\n\nIn response, Mr Tolver said: \"I have much to dispute in what councillor Smith just said. I don't want to bore everybody but he was wrong on just about every point he raised.\"\n\nShortly afterwards a member of the public asked Mr Tolver if he would like to apologise for his actions in the December meeting, and Mr Tolver asked for the person to be muted.\n\nWednesday's meeting included a number of references to the viral meeting, with members of the public interrupting proceedings with laughter and quoting catchphrases like \"read the standing orders, read them and understand them\".\n\nAn argument also broke out among the councillors about the previous meeting's minutes, with Mr Tolver trying to defer the minutes to a future meeting but other councillors telling him this needed to be decided with a vote.\n\nMr Tolver then briefly left the meeting after the argument and when a vote on minutes was taking place.\n\nDozens of members of the public joined the parish council Zoom meeting\n\nAlthough Ms Weaver was not part of the meeting she did listen in to parts of it.\n\n\"I would have been perfectly happy to have been involved this evening but I don't think it's right for Handforth,\" she said.\n\n\"Now the clerk is back it's absolutely right and proper they've taken their proper place, which they're perfectly competent to do.\"\n\nTonight's meeting was a demonstration of why the parish council for this commuter village on the northern tip of Cheshire has become so dysfunctional.\n\nThe councillors were arguing over nearly everything - most of it being finer points of law and procedure as opposed to policy.\n\nNot to mention the continual din from more than 80 members of the public who were on the Zoom call un-muted.\n\nThe most intense debate was about what happened in THAT viral meeting - where the chair who claims he was chucked out asserted that Jackie Weaver had no authority to do so and didn't apologise for his conduct when a member of the public called 'Joe' asked him to.\n\nAfter that, the councillors agreed the public would be muted.\n\nCheshire East Council mayor Barry Burkhill, who faces a vote of no-confidence over his role in December's viral meeting, did not attend.\n\nHe did not send his apologies but the chairman said he had attended a Cheshire East Council meeting earlier on Wednesday.\n\nHis vote of no confidence was referred to Cheshire East Council's Standards Committee.\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 BBC has said it will give people over the age of 75 more time to pay their licence fee due to the pandemic.\n\nThe right to a free TV licence for the elderly ended last August for all except those in receipt of the pension credit benefit.\n\nMore than 2.7 million households with someone over 75 have now bought a licence, with 750,000 more applying for a free one under the new system.\n\nHowever, the BBC said around one in seven have not yet made arrangements.\n\nA spokeswoman denied reports that the corporation was introducing an amnesty on prosecutions for those who do not sign up.\n\n\"There is no amnesty, nor have we announced any new policy,\" she said. \"We are simply giving more people time to safely set up their licences in light of the pandemic.\"\n\nA BBC statement on Tuesday said: \"We fully recognise this is a tough time for many people, which is why we are giving people plenty of time to get set up and there are payment plans available to help spread the cost.\"\n\nIt also said no enforcement action had been taken against anyone who previously held a free over-75s TV licence.\n\nLast week, former cricketer Lord Botham called for a pledge that no over-75s will be prosecuted for failing to pay.\n\nResponsibility for TV licences for the over-75s was passed from the government to the BBC as part of the broadcaster's last royal charter.\n\nThe BBC said continuing to fund free licences for all older viewers would have force it into \"unprecedented closures\" of services. But in 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the BBC should \"cough up\" and cover the cost.\n\nLast month, the government decided not to move ahead with plans to decriminalise non-payment of the TV licence fee, but said it would \"remain under active consideration\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There are now more people in Scottish hospitals with Covid than there were at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nOn the day the first lockdown started at the end of March last year there were 329 in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe numbers rose steeply and by 20 April there were 1,520 patients in hospital with Covid in Scotland.\n\nThe latest daily figures show there are now 1,530 in hospital, up 340 in the past week.\n\nIn addition, there are now 102 people in intensive care units in Scotland being treated for Covid - which is up 29 on a week ago.\n\nThe number of people in intensive care is still significantly lower than the April peak, which was 208.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday that this partly reflected the fact that treatment of Covid had improved significantly.\n\nBut, even so, the total number of patients in intensive care in Scotland is already above normal winter levels.\n\nIndeed, all mainland health boards have now exceeded their normal intensive care unit capacity.\n\nThe increased spread of the virus is attributed to the new variant, which is up to 70% more transmissible than previous strains.\n\nThe new strain now accounts for half of cases in Scotland. A week ago the figure was 42.8% and a month earlier it was less than 6% of all UK cases.\n\nOn 19 December, when concerns over the new strain led to announcements that mainland Scotland would be moving to level four a week later, the cumulative seven-day incidence per 100,000 people was 136. It has since risen to more than 250.\n\nThe figure for England is above 500 per 100,000 and in some regions it is much higher.\n\nThe highest rate in Scotland is in Inverclyde at almost 573 per 100,000. Dumfries and Galloway, which previously recorded low case rates, has increased by more than 400 in the past week to 552 cases per 100,000.\n\nThe increased number of people in hospital and the rapid spread of the new strain led the Scottish government to take action and impose a lockdown similar to the one in March last year.\n\nOn Monday, it published a paper which showed its \"modelling\" of three scenarios on the transmission of the disease without a stricter lockdown.\n\nScenario two, the one considered most likely, showed the number of people in hospital with Covid reaching the April peak in the week commencing 18 January.\n\nIn fact, the figure was reached on 8 January.\n\nThe scenario then sees the number of cases almost double again over the next two weeks to 2,900.\n\nThe NHS had put the Covid surge capacity in Scotland at 3,656 hospital beds but this was revised down to 2,400 for the winter to account for \"additional seasonal pressures including weather-related issues and increased staff absence\".\n\nIn the evidence paper, Scenario 3, the most pessimistic outcome, which factored in an estimate of Christmas spread, suggested there could be 8,300 in hospital by the week commencing 1 February.\n\nThere are fewer than 13,000 hospitals beds in the whole of the NHS in Scotland and occupancy in normal winter months is close to 90%.\n\nThe first minister said NHS services were coping at present, although the pressure on frontline staff was considerable.\n\nHowever, the position in some areas is fragile and getting more challenging.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the increase in case numbers seen in past two weeks could not continue unchecked and that was why the lockdown had been imposed.\n\nWithout it, she said, there would be a real risk of the NHS being overwhelmed.", "Mount Etna has erupted, sending hot lava and ash clouds into the sky.\n\nLocated on the Italian island of Sicily, Etna is considered one of the world’s most active volcanoes.\n\nCatania International Airport was temporarily closed because of Tuesday's eruption, but local authorities have told residents of nearby towns not to worry.", "The most vulnerable children are being \"failed by the state\" and a broken residential care system, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\nGreater use of private provision has led to a fragmented, unco-ordinated and irrational system amid \"significant profits\", said Anne Longfield.\n\nThe system has been allowed to slip deeper into crisis, she said.\n\nThe government said an independent review of children's social care would begin \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Longfield has published three reports detailing the plight of children the system \"doesn't know what to do with\".\n\nShe said the government has failed to respond to previous warnings that thousands of these children are in danger of becoming victims of criminal and sexual exploitation.\n\nOlder children were found to be living in \"disgusting\" conditions akin to a prison cell, one of the reports said.\n\nIt described how one 17-year-old said her accommodation was filthy and smelly, with just one working shower - covered in mould - between 14 children and young adults.\n\n\"Elsewhere children have told us they have not even been provided with the means to eat or sleep - things like duvet covers, plates or cutlery,\" the same report said.\n\nAll three reports highlight a shortage of children's home places, resulting in:\n\n\"Only last month, a High Court judge wrote to me after an extremely vulnerable child in care could not get a suitable care home place anywhere in the country, even though the courts had found their life was in danger,\" said Ms Longfield.\n\n\"These shocking cases used to be rare but are now routine, and I am worried the whole system is becoming immune to the devastating effect this is having on children who may have previously been abused and neglected, or have serious mental or physical health needs.\"\n\nOne of the reports analyses how, over the past decade, as demand for care has grown and local authority provision has failed to keep pace, private provision has expanded.\n\nThe researchers found the majority of private provision was rated good or outstanding by Ofsted, although smaller providers were more likely to have lower ratings than either larger providers or local authorities.\n\nSome providers are owned by private equity companies and carry \"significant amounts of debt\" which could \"risk their stability\", says the report.\n\n\"Both the government and councils have failed in their responsibilities by leaving it to the market,\" said Ms Longfield.\n\n\"The growing reliance on private providers, some of whom are making millions, is another symptom of a system failing to prioritise the needs of children.\"\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the reports were enormously worrying but not surprising.\n\n\"The Children's Society is very concerned about how children in care are being failed by the very services who are supposed to be caring for and protecting them,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The findings of a 2019 BBC investigation on children in care were called \"a scandal\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils across England, says it shares the commissioner's concerns about the risk of businesses running children's homes going bust as adult care provider Southern Cross did, almost a decade ago.\n\n\"Providers should also not be making excessive profit from providing placements for children,\" said Judith Blake, who chairs the LGA's Children and Young People Board.\n\nA Department for Education statement said: \"The education secretary has been clear that no child should be denied the opportunity for a loving, stable family life, or be bounced around the care system in accommodation that does not meet their needs.\n\n\"We have also set out that children under the age of 16 should not be living in unregulated homes.\n\n\"Our bold, broad and independently led care review will launch as soon as possible, and will support improvements in the children's social care system.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Youngest pupils to return to classrooms in Scotland\n\nThe youngest pupils are to return to Scotland's classrooms for face-to-face teaching from next week.\n\nThe move will see all children in P1 to P3 and those at pre-school returning from Monday 22 February.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home, apart from some secondary pupils who need to complete coursework.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was unlikely that any other pupils would return to school before 15 March at the earliest.\n\nAll other existing lockdown measures will all remain in place until at least the end of this month, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the country remains in a precarious position.\n\nThe EIS teaching union said it still had significant concerns over school safety which had not yet been addressed, and a blended learning model - with around half of pupils in classes at any one time - would have more appropriate.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Larry Flanagan, said: \"Everyone is supportive of face-to-face teaching returning as soon as possible - that should not override safety concerns, however, and teachers will be understandably nervous around today's announcement.\"\n\nThe Scottish government will draw up a \"revised strategic framework\" - to be published next week - to set out how Scotland can exit lockdown and what conditions will need to be met before restrictions can be eased.\n\nWill your child be returning to school on Monday? Share your stories.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was unlikely that hotels and holiday accommodation would be open again in time for people to book any sort of Easter break, but \"staycations\" may be possible by summer.\n\nIn an update at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said she had \"more reason to be hopeful now than we did a few weeks ago\" that the race against the virus could be won, with the vaccination programme picking up pace while lockdown contains the spread of new cases.\n\nTeaching unions say they are concerned that the new variants of the virus could be more transmissible\n\nShe said she was \"very hopeful that vaccination will start to have a significant impact in reducing the number of people who die from Covid\", saying there was already evidence of this in care homes.\n\nHowever, the first minister warned that \"our situation is still very fragile\", saying: \"Even a slight easing of restrictions could cause cases to start rising rapidly again\".\n\nWhile she said it would continue to be \"extremely cautious\", the government is focused on a \"gradual, phased return to as much normality as possible\".\n\nThis is to begin with schools, with the youngest pupils to return to classrooms as soon as next week.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said there would be trade-offs, adding: \"We are choosing to use the very limited headroom we have right now to get at least some children back to school - because children's education and wellbeing is such a priority.\n\n\"But being able to get children back to education may mean the rest of us living with some other restrictions for longer.\"\n\nCareful, cautious, gradual are the watchwords for the easing of lockdown in Scotland.\n\nThat is to say we're not going to get back the everyday freedoms we once took for granted, quickly.\n\nThe stay at home instruction will remain in place into March, possibly longer, with the anniversary of the first lockdown drawing nearer.\n\nA further reopening of schools is a priority but will not happen before 15 March.\n\nEaster holidays are unlikely to be allowed at home or abroad. The same will probably apply to overseas holidays this summer.\n\nWhy all this caution when the vaccination programme is now progressing at pace?\n\nBecause, at this stage, ministers remain nervous that opening up too quickly could mean losing control of the virus again in the wider population.\n\nThey are desperate to avoid a third lockdown later in the year.\n\nA return to local protection levels should form part of the exit plan to be announced next week.\n\nBut expect the restrictions associated with each level to be tighter than before, given this system was overwhelmed as autumn turned to winter last year.\n\nThe first pupils to return to schools will be those in preschools, those in P1, P2 and P3, and \"a limited number of senior phase students who need access to school for essential practical work\".\n\nMinisters hope to set out second phase of schools reopening in two weeks time, but Ms Sturgeon said there was \"unlikely to be any further return to school before 15 March\" so that the impact of the initial changes can be assessed.\n\nShe said at-home testing sets would be provided to senior phase pupils, teachers and school staff once they do return, and that secondary pupils would have to maintain a 2m distance in school buildings.\n\nPlans for the \"gradual\" easing of the strict stay at home lockdown are set to include a return to a regional levels system.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"caution will be necessary\", and that she would be clear about what will not be possible in the immediate future - including holidays.\n\nShe said: \"We are likely to advise against booking Easter holidays, either overseas or within Scotland, as it is highly unlikely that we will have been able to fully open hotels of self-catering accommodation by then.\n\n\"However, for the summer, while it is still highly unlikely that overseas holidays will be possible or advisable, staycations might be - but this will depend on the data nearer the time.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said it was \"very welcome news\" that schools could start opening again safely.\n\nHowever she said that \"to get us even closer to normality, we need to get all key workers vaccinated as early as we can\", saying government plans were \"short on detail\".\n\nAnd she urged the Scottish government to publish its plans for helping pupils to catch-up with the schooling they have missed, which she said should be built around a tutoring service to stop the attainment gap growing.\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie also challenged Ms Sturgeon over the vaccine rollout, urging the first minister to commit to more ambitious targets for completing priority groups.", "Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the 71-year-old billionaire ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates.\n\nIn the Middle East, he is renowned for overseeing the transformation of Dubai into a top business and tourism destination. Elsewhere, he is perhaps best known for his connection to horseracing, as the owner of the Godolphin stables.\n\nOne of his daughters, Princess Latifa, has now made headlines after secret videos recorded by her in captivity have been obtained and released by the BBC's Panorama. Latifa made the videos while being held under her father's orders in Dubai in a barred villa.\n\nSheikh Mohammed was born in 1949 at his family home in Shindagha, near Dubai Creek. He was the third of the four sons of Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum, who ruled Dubai for 32 years from 1958.\n\nAfter finishing secondary school in 1965, Sheikh Mohammed moved to the UK to study English at a language school in Cambridge. The young sheikh later attended a six-month training court at the British Army's Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, Hampshire.\n\nIn 1968, following his return to Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed accompanied his father to a meeting with the then ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, at which they agreed to a union that would lead to the establishment of a federation of emirates.\n\nAfter the UAE gained independence from the UK in 1971, Sheikh Mohammed was named defence minster - a position he still holds.\n\nSheikh Mohammed also became heavily involved in his father's plan to compensate for Dubai's dwindling oil reserves by diversifying its economy and becoming an international trade and financial centre, as well as a tourist destination.\n\nToday, more than 95% of the emirate's gross domestic product is non-oil-based, with tourism contributing 20%.\n\nDubai's population has also grown from about 40,000 in the 1960s to 3.3 million, including almost 3.1 million non-Emiratis, many of whom live in the hundreds of high-rise buildings filling its skyline.\n\nIn 1990, Sheikh Rashid died after a long illness resulting from a stroke. He was succeeded by Mohammed's eldest brother, Maktoum.\n\nFive years later, Sheikh Maktoum named Mohammed crown prince of Dubai. He also handed over much of the day-to-day running of the emirate to him.\n\nSheikh Mohammed succeeded his elder brother Sheikh Maktoum (left) as Dubai's ruler in 2006\n\nSheikh Mohammed became ruler of Dubai and vice-president and prime minister of the UAE in 2006, after his brother died aged 62 during a visit to Australia.\n\nIn 2008, the emirate unveiled the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa; Dubai Mall, then world's largest shopping centre by total land area; and the Dubai Metro.\n\nSuch ambitious projects were, however, reliant on borrowing billions of dollars.\n\nThe global financial crisis caused Dubai's real estate market to crash and in 2009 state-linked companies came close to defaulting on their debts. Abu Dhabi stepped in and loaned the Dubai government the money it desperately needed.\n\nDubai's construction boom also relied on low-paid migrant construction workers, many of whom complained that they suffered exploitation.\n\nSheikh Mohammed has also become famous for his involvement in horseracing, and is credited with transforming it into a global industry.\n\nHe rode horses on beaches in Dubai as a child and was introduced to the sport in 1967 in the UK. Ten years later, he enjoyed his first success as an owner.\n\nThe sheikh subsequently set up the world's largest horseracing team, Godolphin, as well as the successful stallion breeding operation, Darley.\n\nGodolphin - which has facilities in the UAE, England, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Japan and the US - has won 6,000 races across the world since 1992, including 315 prestigious Group One races.\n\nSheikh Mohammed frequently attends major horseracing events such as Royal Ascot, where he has been pictured with Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe sheikh shared a love of horses with his sixth and \"junior\" wife, Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and half-sister of King Abdullah II. The pair married in Amman in 2004 and had two children, Al Jalila and Zayed.\n\nPrincess Haya painted a picture of a perfect family life in interviews, but cracks began to appear in 2018 when Princess Latifa, one of Sheikh Mohammed's adult daughters with another wife, tried to flee the UAE with the help of a former French spy and a Finnish fitness instructor.\n\nA boat carrying them was intercepted at sea off the coast of India and Latifa was returned to Dubai. In a video filmed beforehand, she alleged that she had been imprisoned for more than three years and subjected to physical abuse after another unsuccessful escape attempt in 2002.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNow, new videos made by Latifa have been released after being obtained by the BBC's investigative current affairs programme, Panorama.\n\nThe footage was recorded over several months by Latifa after she had been taken back to Dubai following her failed escape in 2018. They were made using a phone that was secretly given to her by friends who are campaigning for her freedom.\n\nIn the videos, she describes how she fought back against the soldiers during her capture, before being tranquillised and flown back to Dubai. She said she was being held alone without access to medical or legal help in a villa with windows and doors barred shut, and guarded by police. The secret messages have since stopped, leading her friends to urge the UN to step in.\n\nAfter the 2018 escape attempt, Princess Haya had backed claims by the Dubai government that Latifa had been \"vulnerable to exploitation\" and was \"now safe\". But after fleeing Dubai for the UK via Germany along with their children in April 2019, sources alleged that she had become aware of new information relating to Latifa.\n\nSheikh Mohammed did not comment on the breakdown of his marriage, but he did write an angry poem accusing an unnamed woman of \"treachery and betrayal\" and posted it on Instagram.\n\nIn July 2019, Haya applied for a forced marriage protection order and a non-molestation order at the UK High Court in London - as well as wardship of their children. Sheikh Mohammed meanwhile applied for the children's return to Dubai.\n\nEight months later, the High Court issued a series of fact-finding judgements that said Sheikh Mohammed had ordered and orchestrated the forcible return of Latifa in 2002 and 2018, as well as the unlawful abduction of her elder sister Princess Shamsa in 2000.\n\nShamsa fled the family's UK estate in Surrey that year but was later recaptured in Cambridgeshire by agents of the sheikh and forcibly returned to Dubai. A request by Cambridgeshire Police to visit Dubai to investigate was refused.\n\nThe court found that Sheikh Mohammed \"continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty\".\n\nIt also said Haya, who'd had an adulterous affair with a bodyguard, was now living in fear of her life after receiving numerous threats both in Dubai and in London. These included a pistol placed on her pillow.\n\nSheikh Mohammed rejected the judgements and findings, and appealed unsuccessfully to keep them out of the public domain.\n\nHe said the appeal was \"made to protect the best interests and welfare of the children\" and that the \"outcome does not protect my children from media attention in the way that other children in family proceedings in the UK are protected\".\n\n\"As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the court's fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release of a 'fact-finding' judgment which inevitably only tells one side of the story,\" he added.\n• None BBC Two - Escape from Dubai- The Mystery of the Missing Princess", "The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening \"as a precautionary measure\" after feeling unwell, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, was taken to the King Edward VII Hospital in central London, the statement added.\n\nA palace source told the BBC the duke travelled by car to the hospital, where he was admitted on his doctor's advice.\n\nHe had been feeling unwell for a few days, but it was not related to coronavirus, the source added.\n\nThey said the duke - who is due to celebrate his 100th birthday on 10 June - was \"in good spirits\" in hospital, where he is expected to remain for a few days of observation and rest.\n\nThe Queen, 94, has remained at Windsor Castle. Earlier, she spoke by telephone with the First Sea Lord, Admiral Tony Radakin, about the work of the Royal Navy at home and abroad.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also carried out official duties on Wednesday, visiting the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to speak to patients and NHS staff.\n\nLast month, the palace announced that Prince Philip and the Queen had received Covid-19 vaccinations from a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple have been spending the recent lockdown in England at Windsor Castle with a small household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThey celebrated Christmas quietly at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional family gathering at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said Prime Minister Boris Johnson sends his \"best wishes\" to the duke as he \"undergoes a few days of rest in hospital\".\n\nThe palace is pretty protective of the privacy of members of the Royal Family when it comes to health issues; those hoping for running commentary are invariably disappointed.\n\nBut palace spokespeople have gone out of their way to emphasise that this was not an emergency admission and that it was precautionary.\n\nThe duke has been in and out of hospital a bit over the past few years, most recently just before Christmas in 2019 when he had treatment for a pre-existing medical condition.\n\nBut overall his later years were marked by his health and energy; he gave up smoking the day he married the Queen; he has never drunk heavily and was for decades a keen sportsman, driving himself constantly to stay fit and strong when others might have been tempted to take it easy.\n\nThe last time he was seen in public he seemed in good health, standing unaided - and he walked into hospital on Tuesday evening, having travelled there by car.\n\nIn December 2019, the duke was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital as a \"precautionary measure\" and received treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nHe was discharged on Christmas Eve after four nights and driven to Sandringham, where he spent Christmas with the Queen.\n\nLast July, Prince Philip took part in a ceremony at Windsor to hand over his role as colonel-in-chief of The Rifles to the Duchess of Cornwall\n\nIn April 2018, he was admitted to the King Edward VII hospital for a planned hip replacement, and was discharged after nine days.\n\nHe waved to the media as he was driven to Windsor Castle to recuperate, before attending the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex the following month, walking unaided.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was pictured with the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding in May 2018\n\nHe escaped injury after being involved in a car crash while driving near the Sandringham estate in January 2019.\n\nHis Land Rover Freelander landed on its side after colliding with a Kia as he pulled out of a driveway.\n\nPrince Philip was unhurt, but he visited hospital for a check-up. The Kia's two passengers required hospital treatment and he later wrote to one of them - Emma Fairweather - who broke her wrist in the accident.\n\nBuckingham Palace later announced that \"after careful consideration\" he had voluntarily surrendered his driving licence.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were photographed in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle ahead of his 99th birthday last year\n\nLast July, Prince Philip and the Queen attended the private wedding of his granddaughter Princess Beatrice in Windsor. It was believed to be the first time the couple had attended a family gathering since lockdown began.\n\nLater that month, in his first official engagement in over a year, the duke took part in a ceremony at Windsor to hand over his role of colonel-in-chief of The Rifles to the Duchess of Cornwall, who received the honour at a separate ceremony at Highgrove.\n\nLast November, the Queen and Prince Philip marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph of themselves opening a card made for them by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's children.", "Dramatic new details have come to light about the extraordinary kidnapping and secretive detention of Princess Latifa.\n\nIt has been many months since Tiina Jauhiainen last heard from her friend.\n\nPrincess Latifa, imprisoned in Dubai after attempting a daring escape, had kept in touch with her for some time using a secret phone.\n\nBut all of a sudden, the contact stopped.\n\nWhen Tiina last saw Latifa, they had lain on the deck of a yacht gazing at the stars, travelling across the Indian Ocean.\n\nIt was February 2018, and they had embarked on a risky plan to get Latifa out of Dubai and start a new life abroad.\n\nThe princess is one of 25 children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.\n\nThe sheikh has transformed the emirate into a glittering city, a place people flock to for business, and the playground of the region. But for Emirati women, the laws and customs can make life very restrictive.\n\n\"I'm not allowed to drive, I'm not allowed to travel or leave Dubai at all,\" Latifa said in a video recorded just before her escape.\n\n\"I haven't left the country since 2000. I've been asking a lot to just go travelling, to study, to do anything normal. They don't let me. I need to leave.\"\n\nSitting in Tiina's apartment, Latifa spoke cheerfully of what was to come.\n\n\"I'm feeling positive about the future. I don't know how I'll feel just waking up in the morning and thinking I can do whatever I want today. I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\nThe princess had no access to her passport and was under surveillance, so they had to slip out of Dubai and drive to the coast of Oman. It took hours for them to get out to international waters, riding a dinghy and jet ski. By the evening they reached the yacht which was supposed to carry them to freedom.\n\nPrincess Latifa and Tiina Jauhiainen on the first leg of their journey in 2018\n\nThey planned to sail across the Indian Ocean, and then fly to the United States where Latifa could try to claim political asylum.\n\nBut eight days later, as the coast of India neared, the escape went horribly wrong.\n\nArmed men boarded the boat. The friends hid in the bathroom until smoke grenades forced them up to the deck.\n\n\"Latifa was screaming and kicking. She kept saying 'don't take me back to the UAE. Just shoot me here',\" Tiina said. It was the last time she saw her friend.\n\nIn her later videos, released only now, Latifa gives a vivid account of the storming of the yacht.\n\n\"I was fighting, and this guy came with a small pouch and he took out the needle and he injected me in my arm.\"\n\nLatifa says she was then transferred to an Indian military ship.\n\n\"The commandos carried me through this corridor, and to a big room, and there was in front of me like maybe four or five generals.\n\n\"I'm repeating to them 'my name's Latifa al Maktoum'.\n\n\"I don't want to go Dubai, I want to get asylum. I was in international waters, you should let me go.\"\n\nHer pleas fell on deaf ears, and she says she was then manhandled by an Emirati commando.\n\n\"He grabs me. Lifts me up. Kicking and fighting, he's much bigger than me. So I see that his sleeve is rolled up and arm exposed. I had one shot. Bit as hard as I can, and shake my head. And he screamed.\"\n\nShe says she was tranquilised and flown back to Dubai.\n\n\"I just felt really sad at that point. I felt everything I was working on for so many years to get my freedom was gone. And I've been here ever since, by myself, so solitary confinement. No access to medical help, no trial, no charge, nothing.\"\n\nTiina was taken back to the UAE with the yacht's crew, where she was detained for two weeks. Then she began telling the story to the international media. She formed the campaign group Free Latifa and took the princess's case to the United Nations.\n\nBut as the months passed, she heard nothing from Latifa.\n\nThen one day in early 2019, while she was visiting family in Finland, she got a message from a stranger.\n\nFirst she had to answer security questions. Years earlier, Tiina had taught Latifa capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. Now the stranger wanted to know Latifa's capoeira nickname.\n\nSoon Tiina was able to get a phone to the princess directly.\n\n\"When I first heard her voice, I was crying. I couldn't help it. It was very, very emotional.\"\n\nLatifa was able to start recording video messages. What they reveal is shocking.\n\nThe princess, now 35, appears in the corner of her bathroom, speaking in a fragile whisper.\n\n\"I'm doing this video from a bathroom, because this is the only room with a door I can lock. I'm a hostage. I am not free. I'm enslaved in this jail. My life is not in my hands.\"\n\nPale and puffy, she has spent three years with little access to sunlight.\n\n\"I am in a villa, and this villa has been converted into jail. All the windows are barred shut. There's five policemen outside and two policewomen inside the house. And I can't even go outside to get any fresh air.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Latifa imprisoned against her will in \"villa jail\"\n\nThe villa is just metres from the beach, in a luxury neighbourhood.\n\n\"We shouldn't pretend that just because it's a villa, it's fine\", the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth, says.\n\n\"This woman is imprisoned. It's basically solitary confinement except for her jailers. Solitary confinement of that sort is broadly considered to be a form of torture, as it becomes prolonged in the way this has right now.\"\n\nThe fear is palpable in Latifa's videos. There is a constant urgency and a desperation in her voice.\n\n\"Every day I am worried about my safety and my life. I don't really know if I'm going to survive this situation. The police threatened me that I'll be in prison my whole life and I'll never see the sun again. So I'm not safe here.\"\n\nBut despite the risk that she would be caught with the secret phone, she began to calmly and methodically document her extraordinary story.\n\n\"For me it's simple, it's like, am I free or am I not free? So ok, the world is going to know that I'm not free. Anybody who cares is going to know that I'm not free, and I'm not going to go along with their propaganda. That's just how I am.\"\n\nThe sheikh has said that he considers Latifa's return to Dubai a rescue mission.\n\nIn December 2018, after Latifa had been missing for nine months, the UAE was facing pressure. The United Nations had requested proof of life - or it would go public with concerns that the princess might have died.\n\n\"She said to me it would be like a test, to see how you will react around people after being in prison for so long,\" says Latifa in one video. \"And if you act well, you react well, you're going to be out in a few days.\"\n\nUnbeknown to Latifa, Princess Haya had been spun an elaborate lie, that Latifa had bipolar disorder and was vulnerable to exploitation. To help prove to the UN that all was well with Latifa, Haya called a friend, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.\n\nOn 15 December 2018, Mary Robinson flew to Dubai where she says Haya and her officials briefed her about Latifa's supposed \"medical condition\". She agreed to help contact the UN.\n\nLatifa, meanwhile, was kept in the dark. Over the lunch they discussed the environment, skydiving, and Mary Robinson's upcoming book.\n\n\"We never discussed me. We never discussed my case,\" Latifa says. She had no idea that Robinson was a former UN Human Rights Commissioner.\n\nMary Robinson told us that she did not question Latifa about the video or her escape, or ask to meet with her one-on-one.\n\n\"I didn't know how to address somebody who was bipolar. I really didn't actually want to talk to her and increase the trauma over a nice lunch.\"\n\nBut Robinson did allow photographs to be taken of Latifa which she agreed to send on to the UN. Robinson says she believed these were private photographs and that she was stunned when the UAE released them to the world nine days later.\n\nAfter the lunch Latifa was taken back to her prison villa. \"It was all a set up. It was like they tricked me,\" Latifa says. Nothing changed for the missing princess.\n\nBut for her stepmother Princess Haya, there was an extraordinary development.\n\n\"Relatively shortly afterwards,\" recalls Robinson, \"I got a call from Haya, saying 'Mary, I am in London. I have just come to London with my two children. I have come in the clothes we were in because I am so fearful. We were wrong. I have found out a lot.'\"\n\nHaya later said that the sheikh did not welcome her interest in Latifa and that he became progressively more hostile to her. By April 2019, she says that she believed her position in Dubai was unsafe. On 15 April, she fled to the UK.\n\nNow confronted with the escape of one of his wives as well as two more children, the Sheikh began a High Court battle to have the children returned to Dubai. But he got more than he bargained for.\n\nIn March 2020, a High Court judgement revealed further details about his treatment of his adult daughters. Eighteen years earlier, a second daughter, Shamsa, had been abducted in the UK and returned to Dubai, where she has been captive ever since. The judgement laid out the full story, for the first time, of how the sheikh's agents had tracked her down in Cambridge, and flown her back.\n\nThe judge also found that Haya had been intimidated and Latifa had been abducted and imprisoned - and that the sheikh had not been honest and open with the court.\n\nFor Tiina, this was a breakthrough. \"I thought that would have been something that could have quickly led to her release.\"\n\nBut once again, little changed for Latifa in her prison in Dubai.\n\n\"It's almost like, what do we need to get her free? It's sad. It's very very sad,\" says Tiina.\n\nAlone in her villa in Dubai, Latifa followed the case and maintained daily contact with her friend, along with her UK-based maternal cousin Marcus and Free Latifa co-founder David Haigh. What had begun as concise, factual video recordings evidencing her situation had turned into lengthy text chats.\n\n\"The phone meant a lot, it was a lifeline,\" says Marcus.\n\nLatifa was now in her third year of imprisonment and solitary confinement.\n\n\"Every day was a struggle for her, and you could hear that in her voice. I know she was tired, I know her health was not the best,\" says Marcus.\n\nBut then one day, the contact stopped just as dramatically as it had begun.\n\nNow, many months later, Tiina, David and Marcus have taken the decision to release some of Latifa's videos in the hope they will help pressure the sheikh to release her.\n\n\"We haven't taken this decision lightly, there's been some sleepless nights thinking about this\", Tiina says.\n\n\"But it's time to do something. I feel that she would want us to fight for her, and not give up.\n\nThe governments of Dubai and the UAE have said that Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.\n\nTiina is consumed by fear for her friend.\n\n\"Initially, I thought maybe she had problems with her phone. I was hoping she would reappear. I didn't want to believe it,\" says Tiina.\n\nBut then it dawned on her that Latifa was not coming back.\n\n\"We are extremely worried about her well-being,\" she says. \"If we assume that she was caught with the phone, her conditions now are probably a lot worse.\"", "Four years to wait for her day in court: Jenny's story sounds extreme - but not exceptional\n\nThe backlog in the Crown Courts has hit a record of 56,000 cases - meaning some cases are now being timetabled for 2023. The Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Robert Buckland - the cabinet minister in charge of the courts - is promising that a recovery plan will bring justice. But will those plans make a difference to victims waiting for their voices to be heard?\n\nIf you want to know what it feels like to wait for justice for a serious crime, consider the limbo that \"Jenny\" finds herself in.\n\nFor legal reasons, the BBC is not revealing any details of the case but, put briefly, she quietly and secretly coped for years with having been the victim of serious sexual violence. When the #MeToo movement took hold, she decided that she too had to speak out.\n\nIn 2018 detectives video-recorded Jenny's allegations and, after a long and complex investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service concluded last summer that her abuser should be charged with serious offences.\n\nJenny agreed not to begin deep trauma therapy because it may affect her evidence in court.\n\nLast autumn, she learned when her abuser would face trial - and she was devastated.\n\nWeeping, she recalled her conversation with the police officer.\n\n\"The first court hearing and second court hearing were really close to each other. And so that gave me some faith, I thought it's taken this long to get to this point. But actually, maybe this next bit isn't going to be as long.\n\n\"I was asked... to provide dates of availability for court for the next nine months. So I thought, it's just another nine months. I can do this. And then I got the call - and they gave me the date. It was 2022.\n\n\"I said down the phone, 'You do mean 2021?' And they said, 'No, we mean, 2022.' And I got really angry. How can anyone believe that that is acceptable that you keep somebody in trauma and you don't give them the access [to the therapy] that they need?\"\n\nEvery week since has been a rollercoaster - to the point that Jenny cannot currently work and her family are rallying around to support her as she tries to comprehend the absence of justice.\n\n\"I start having a panic attack in the middle of town, I can't breathe. My body goes tight. I start convulsing, I'm sometimes sick, I'm shaking, I'm wailing. Trying to understand, why is that happening?\n\n\"There have been two occasions where I felt suicidal. The second time was when I was told the trial would be 2022.\n\n\"I felt like I'd been let down by the state. This was the whole system letting me down.\"\n\nJenny 's experience sounds extreme - but it is not exceptional, because of the enormous delays in criminal justice.\n\nLast month the watchdogs that report on the police, prosecution, prisons and probation all agreed that the backlog in Crown Courts of 54,000 cases was of grave concern.\n\nIn the last week, it's hit an all-time record of 56,000.\n\nThere was a backlog in the Crown Courts before the pandemic hit. Coronavirus made operations far harder because many courtrooms are too small to safely distance everyone who needs to be inside.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Buckland has defended the government's attempts to tackle these record backlogs. He has promised that his court recovery plan will work - but it will take time.\n\nToday, he's announcing 14 more temporary \"Nightingale Courts\" - converted spaces and hotel conference facilities that are part of £113m of spending to alleviate the pressure.\n\nPart of Manchester Crown Court will be knocked through to create a new \"super court\" for large socially-distanced gang trials. About 20,000 monthly remote video hearings - not without some technical problems - are already part of the court process.\n\n\"I think we're virtually at the limit of what we think is feasible, we continue to look to see what more can be done,\" he says. \"But I think the key now is, it's not just about capacity, it's about getting cases listed. Working with [judges], I think that we can make solid progress this year.\"\n\nA court sketch from a major trial at the Old Bailey shows some of the measures that have been put in place to allow justice to continue\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association says new spaces are not enough - they need to be staffed.\n\nIn 2009-10, the budget for Crown Courts in England and Wales meant judges could \"sit\" for more than 108,000 days. Last year, it was 86,000. That roughly equates to only 45% of available court space being used, before the pandemic hit.\n\nMr Buckland says reductions in \"sitting days\" were driven by projections of falling levels of crime. His critics say it was also a political decision to deliver cuts. He is now promising a huge increase in sitting days - above 100,000 - in effect a return to where the courts were.\n\n\"I'm working out the number of days to be agreed with the Lord Chief Justice,\" he says. \"But I can assure everybody that that number [of sitting days] will be significantly in advance of 82,000 to many, many tens of thousands of days above that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Two young lawyers share their concerns about the profession\n\nIt's worth noting that before he became a minister, Mr Buckland sat as a part-time Crown Court judge.\n\nSo what does he say to victims like Jenny who are in limbo?\n\n\"That case is a dramatic example of a number of cases that concern me. I don't want to see victims and witnesses having to wait an inordinate length of time. I can understand her perspective.\n\n\"I accept what you say about the huge frustrations and the anxiety and the concern that is out there. But I'm doing everything I can to mitigate those problems.\"\n\nOne of the most significant changes has been the extension of the option of pre-trial video-recorded testimony and cross-examination for vulnerable victims and witnesses - in essence allowing them to give evidence long before a court hears the case.\n\nThe government has also pledged an extra £40m to support vulnerable people waiting for trial - including £16m for more independent sexual violence advisers - specialists who have been instrumental in supporting Jenny as she waits for justice.\n\nJenny meanwhile has been given permission by prosecutors to get additional help - but she can't get the specific deep counselling that could help her because the waiting list in her part of the country is staggeringly long.\n\n\"I'm resilient. I've got support. What about individuals who have got no family, no friends?\" she says. \"How many of those have walked away? Not because a crime didn't happen, but because the system hasn't enabled their voice to come out?\n\n\"The system is not broken because of Covid. It was well broken before that. And you might put your Nightingale courts up and running, but you need to go back to asking: what do the victims need?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe daughter of Dubai's ruler who tried to flee the country in 2018 later sent secret video messages to friends accusing her father of holding her \"hostage\" as she feared for her life.\n\nIn footage shared with BBC Panorama, Princess Latifa Al Maktoum says commandos drugged her as she fled by boat and flew her back to detention.\n\nThe secret messages have stopped - and friends are urging the UN to step in.\n\nDubai and the UAE have previously said she is safe in the care of family.\n\nEx-UN rights envoy Mary Robinson, who had described Latifa as a \"troubled young woman\" after meeting her in 2018, now says she was \"horribly tricked\" by the princess's family.\n\nThe former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and president of Ireland has joined calls for international action to establish Latifa's current condition and whereabouts.\n\n\"I continue to be very worried about Latifa. Things have moved on. And so I think it should be investigated,\" she said.\n\nDubai's Princess Latifa before her escape attempt in 2018\n\nLatifa's father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is one of the richest heads of state in the world, the ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\nThe videos were recorded over several months on a phone Latifa was secretly given about a year after her capture and return to Dubai. She recorded them in a bathroom as it had the only door she could lock.\n\nIn the messages, she detailed how:\n\nTiina Jauhiainen, Latifa's fitness instructor, helped her with the escape plan\n\nLatifa's account of her capture and detention was revealed to Panorama by her close friend Tiina Jauhiainen, maternal cousin Marcus Essabri and campaigner David Haigh, who are all behind the Free Latifa campaign.\n\nThey say they have taken the difficult decision to release the messages now out of concern for Latifa's safety.\n\nIt was they who managed to establish contact with Latifa as she was held in a Dubai \"villa\", which she said had barred windows and police guards.\n\nPanorama has independently verified the details of where Latifa was held.\n\nThe Missing Princess is on BBC One in the UK on Tuesday at 20:30, or watch it later on BBC iPlayer\n\nSheikh Mohammed has built a hugely successful city but rights activists say there is no tolerance of dissent and the judicial system can discriminate against women.\n\nHe has a vast horse-racing enterprise and frequently attends major events such as Royal Ascot, where he has been pictured with Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nQueen Elizabeth in 2019 with Sheikh Mohammed, second from right, who regularly attends horse racing events\n\nBut he has faced severe criticism over Princess Latifa and also her stepmother, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussain, who fled to London in 2019 with her two children.\n\nLatifa, now 35, first tried to flee at 16 but it was only after contacting French businessman Herve Jaubert in 2011 that a long-planned escape was put into motion. This was done with the help of Ms Jauhiainen, initially her instructor for capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.\n\nOn 24 February 2018, Latifa and Ms Jauhiainen took an inflatable boat and jet ski to international waters, where Mr Jaubert was waiting in a US flagged yacht.\n\nBut eight days later, off India, the boat was boarded by commandos. Ms Jauhiainen says smoke grenades forced her and Latifa out of hiding in the bathroom below deck and they were held at gunpoint.\n\nLatifa was returned to Dubai, and hadn't been heard from since until now.\n\nMs Jauhiainen and the crew on the boat were freed after two weeks of detention in Dubai. The Indian government has never commented on its role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBefore her 2018 escape attempt, Latifa recorded another video which was posted on YouTube after her capture. \"If you are watching this video, it's not such a good thing, either I'm dead or I'm in a very, very, very bad situation,\" she said.\n\nIt was this that sparked huge international concern and calls for her release. The UAE came under intense pressure to account for her and a meeting was arranged with Ms Robinson.\n\nShe flew to Dubai in December 2018 at the request of her friend, Princess Haya, for a lunch at which Latifa was also present.\n\nMs Robinson told Panorama she and Princess Haya had earlier been presented with details of Latifa's bipolar disorder, a condition she does not have.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former UN official Mary Robinson says she was \"horribly tricked\" in the Dubai princess scandal\n\nShe said she did not ask Latifa about her situation because she did not want to \"increase the trauma\" of Latifa's \"condition\".\n\nNine days after the lunch, the UAE's foreign ministry published photographs of Ms Robinson with Latifa, which it said was proof that the princess was safe and well.\n\nMs Robinson said: \"I was particularly tricked when the photographs went public. That was a total surprise... I was absolutely stunned.\"\n\nIn 2019, the tensions within Dubai's ruling family were laid bare before England's High Court after one of the sheikh's wives, Princess Haya, fled to the UK with two of her children and applied for a protection order and non-molestation order against the sheikh.\n\nPrincess Haya (left) arrives with Baroness Fiona Shackleton her lawyer, at the High Court in February 2020\n\nLast year, the High Court issued a series of fact-finding judgments that said Sheikh Mohammed had ordered and orchestrated the forcible return of Latifa in 2002 and 2018, as well as the unlawful abduction from the UK in 2000 of her older sister Princess Shamsa, who had also tried to escape.\n\nThe court found Sheikh Mohammed \"continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty\".\n\nLatifa's friends had hoped that the court case in March last year that ruled against Sheikh Mohammed, calling him \"not honest\" and in favour of Princess Haya, might help.\n\nOn the decision to release the messages now, Ms Jauhiainen just says that \"a lot of time has passed\" since contact was lost.\n\nShe says she thought hard about releasing the video messages now, but adds: \"I feel that she would want us to fight for her, and not give up.\"\n\nThe governments of Dubai and the UAE have failed to respond to requests for comment from the BBC about Latifa's current condition.", "Parents whose children were self-isolating were not able to claim the grant\n\nSelf-isolation payments are being extended to include parents and carers on low incomes whose children have to self-isolate.\n\nThe move by the Welsh Government comes after some parents told BBC Wales they were struggling to pay bills because they did not have access to the grants.\n\nThe payment will be extended from next Monday.\n\nIt is currently only available to people who were forced to stay off work because they tested positive for Covid.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said the payment \"will provide parents and carers on low incomes with the financial support they need while they look after their children\".\n\nApplications for the £500 grants, set up to support those on low incomes, opened in November following criticism of a delay in getting it up and running.\n\nPeople can access the grant if they test positive or are contacted by contact tracers, and cannot work from home during the 14 day self-isolation period.\n\nPlaid Cymru economy spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones said she was pleased to hear the change will be implemented.\n\nBut she called for assurances from the Welsh Government that it will look at other barriers, both financial and practical, that people face when needing to self-isolate.", "Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's family shielded him from \"pretty horrific\" internet trolling that would have \"broken his heart\", his daughter said.\n\nThe 100-year-old Army veteran, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died in Bedford Hospital on 2 February.\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore said they had faced some \"outrageous negativity\" after a trip to Barbados in December.\n\nBut she said her father left an \"incredible legacy\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mrs Ingram-Moore said Capt Sir Tom's death had left a \"deafening silence\".\n\nHe had been determined to continue raising funds, his daughter said, and was \"really excited about coming out for steak and chips and getting his frame back outside\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capt Sir Tom Moore's daughter, Hannah, told BBC Breakfast there's a \"deafening silence\" without him\n\nShe spoke about some of the \"trolling\" the family received over the past year, which culminated after the family holiday to Barbados.\n\n\"That trip to the Caribbean was a holiday of a lifetime for him. He sat outside in 29 degrees, in shorts, short-sleeve shirts and sandals,\" she said.\n\nHe read novels, the newspapers, ate fish on the beach and talked with his family.\n\nShe said they were \"all so pleased we could give him that\".\n\nHowever, the trip caused further backlash.\n\n\"I think we accept that whatever we do somebody won't like it and there was outrageous negativity and yet we realised we had to shelter him from that,\" she said.\n\n\"It came in its thickest and fastest when we were already realising he was not very well and that's what triggered it. It felt so grossly unfair.\n\n\"What do you do with it, though? We had to put it away and say those people who say those terrible things they have no idea how hurtful they are being obviously otherwise they wouldn't do it.\n\n\"They have no idea what we are going through as a family and so we shut it away but it just added a little more pain to the pain that we were going through.\"\n\nCapt Sir Tom with daughters Lucy Teixeira (left) and Hannah Ingram-Moore (right)\n\nDespite the criticism, the family said they focused on the \"massive majority of people who we connect with\" rather than a \"vile minority\".\n\nShe added: \"We never told him because I don't think he could have ever understood it. I think it would have broken his heart honestly if we'd said to him people are hating us.\"\n\nCapt Sir Tom had tested positive for Covid-19 the week before he was admitted to hospital.\n\nHis family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for charities supporting the NHS\n\nMrs Ingram-Moore said: \"I think that when he went into hospital we really all believed he'd come back out.\n\n\"We thought the oxygen would help, that he would be robust enough - the truth is, he just wasn't.\"\n\nHe was \"old and he just couldn't fight it\", she said.\n\nShe spoke emotionally about the impact Capt Sir Tom had had on the family's life when he moved in to their Marston Moretaine home in Bedfordshire in 2007.\n\n\"We've lost a huge part of our life,\" she said.\n\n\"He'd been with us for over 13 years and it's the deafening silence - that's the way I can describe it.\"\n\nShe described him as \"everything - he was the noise, he was the reason almost everything we've done together in the last 13 years as a family has centred around what he needed, because his needs were different\".\n\nHowever, she said her father would not have wanted the family to grieve and he himself had remained positive to the end.\n\nThe captain served in India and Myanmar, also known as Burma, during World War Two\n\n\"He was really excited about coming out for steak and chips and getting his frame back outside and his walker, and so the last real conversation was positive and about carrying on, and that's a lovely place to be,\" she said.\n\n\"I can honestly say the thing he was so proud of - it just oozed out of him - [was] 'I'm coming back out, there's more fundraising in me yet. There's more walking in me yet.'\"\n\nHis fighting spirit and positivity would be his legacy that would live on, she said.\n\nShe spoke of his pride in the charitable foundation set up in his name after he had completed his fundraising walk which, after Gift Aid, raised a total of £39m.\n\n\"What a legacy…a legacy that he could never have imagined that he was going to leave until his last year of life.\n\n\"He was so proud and he wasn't a man to articulate pride,\" she said.\n\n\"He really believed - and we really believe - it can make a tremendous, positive difference.\"\n\nCapt Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen in July\n\nShe said the \"outpouring of love and condolence\" from around the world since his death was announced had been \"simply amazing\".\n\n\"Yes, it's incredibly sad, but his legacy is hope and his legacy is positivity.\"\n\nShe also spoke of his pride at meeting the Queen when he was awarded a knighthood in July - his \"standout\" moment of a remarkable year.\n\n\"Alongside so many incredible things, it seems a little harsh on all the other things, but there is only one, and that was meeting the Queen,\" said Mrs Ingram-Moore.\n\n\"And she said thank you, and recognised what the family had done. We can never undo that, nothing can ever undo that.\"\n\nThe Queen led tributes to Capt Sir Tom when his death was announced.\n\n\"We had a lovely letter from her and I think she felt genuine loss - it's another one of her generation,\" Mrs Ingram-Moore said.\n\nMore than 150,000 birthday cards were sent to Capt Sir Tom for his 100th birthday in April last year\n\nMrs Ingram-Moore said her father and the family had discussed his funeral last year.\n\n\"I said 'I think your idea of the cardboard coffin and using the cheapest funeral that you could, is probably not going to cut it.'\n\n\"It was quite emotional for him because I think he was just overjoyed that we were asking, and we wanted him to tell us exactly what he wanted.\n\n\"We have a very clear directive from him about what that last day will look like - and how it should go - right down to the sandwiches.\"\n\nThe details have not yet been released but she said they would be \"making sure that those final moments for him are exactly what he wanted\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout is running weeks ahead of schedule, says Health Minister Robin Swann\n\nNorthern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme has been extended to include carers and more people with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe vaccine rollout will be divided between GP practices and the seven regional vaccination centres.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccine rollout is running weeks ahead of schedule, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Department of Health recorded six more Covid-19 related deaths, taking its death toll to 2,015.\n\nPeople aged 18 to 64 with underlying health conditions - as well as their carers - will now be contacted by GPs for their jab.\n\nThis extended target group largely mirrors those who receive the winter flu vaccine each year because of their medical conditions.\n\nCarers aged 60-64, anyone aged 65-69 and those who received a shielding letter because they are Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) will now be able to receive the vaccine at a regional vaccination centre.\n\nIn addition, anyone over 70 who has not yet had their first dose from their GP will have the option to book a vaccination appointment at one of the seven regional centres.\n\nThe timing of vaccination jabs for people with asthma depends on the severity of their condition, and is based on an assessment from their GP, said the health department.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann encouraged anyone eligible for vaccinations to book as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,800 people who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab\n\n\"It had been planned to begin vaccinating carers in early March,\" he said.\n\n\"I am delighted that we are now able to bring this forward, on a staggered basis.\n\n\"As ever, the rate of our progress through the eligible groups will depend on available supplies of vaccines,\" added Mr Swann.\n\nThere are currently 434 Covid inpatients in Northern Ireland's hospitals, with 53 being treated in intensive care, 44 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe Department of Health said there were currently 53 active outbreaks in care homes.\n\nIn Wednesday's figures, the largest increase in cases came in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon area, where 75 extra cases of Covid-19 were reported in the last 24 hours.\n\nThe council area has also seen the biggest increase in new cases of the virus reported over the last seven days.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland reported 650 new cases on Wednesday, and 57 Covid-19 related deaths, bringing the country's death toll to 4,036.\n\nSo far, more than 2,800 people in Northern Ireland who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid-19 jab.\n\nClinically housebound patients have been receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The department began vaccinating that cohort of patients on 6 February.\n\nWhile just under 16,000 people are registered to receive the flu vaccine at home according to the Department of Health, a number of housebound people have been receiving their Covid jab at their GP practice as well.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Department of Health\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive is due to meet on Thursday to review the ongoing coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt has been seven weeks since Northern Ireland re-entered lockdown and officials have urged caution over the easing of any restrictions.\n\nA lockdown began in Northern Ireland on 26 December, with schools closed along with non-essential shops.\n\nIt falls to the five parties that make up Stormont's power-sharing executive to decide whether to extend restrictions beyond 5 March, or begin the process of lifting them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February, 60,000 tonnes slipped down the hillside at Tylorstown\n\nAlmost 300 old coal tips in Wales have been classed as \"high-risk\" a year on from a 60,000 tonne landslip caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nThe matter was discussed at a Welsh Government summit on mine safety on Tuesday.\n\nWales has more than 2,000 coal tips. Most are on private land and most are around the south Wales valleys.\n\nOf those, 294 are categorised as \"high-risk\", meaning they could endanger life or property.\n\nSeventy are in Caerphilly, 64 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 59 in Merthyr Tydfil, 42 in Bridgend, 35 in Neath Port Talbot, 16 in Blaenau Gwent and eight in Swansea.\n\nThe landslip last year was at Tylorstown, in Rhondda. Since it happened, work has been done to map tips and assess their stability.\n\nCoal Authority boss Lisa Pinney said any old mining material on a hillside could pose a risk\n\nThe Welsh and UK governments, the Coal Authority, local councils and other bodies have been examining the problem.\n\nTheir investigation has concluded current legislation surrounding tips is \"neither sufficiently robust or fit for purpose in relation to inspection and maintenance\".\n\nCoal Authority chief executive, Lisa Pinney, said managing tips on hillsides was key to reducing risk to communities.\n\n\"Just under 300 are higher-risk sites but that really just means that they needed much more regular attention and inspection to make sure they stay safe,\" she said.\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said he feared local councils would be asked to pay to make tips safe\n\nShe said when there were concerns, action would be taken.\n\n\"Any tip which is old mining material sitting on a hillside can pose a risk, obviously, but the key thing to their safety is to manage water and keep it away,\" said Ms Pinney.\n\n\"And that's why these inspections and maintenance are so important.\"\n\nNo-one was hurt in the Tylorstown landslip and work is under way to secure the hillside.\n\n\"It's shocking that no proper register of disused coal tips was made when the mines closed, so this work is long overdue,\" he said.\n\n\"With so many on private land this is going to be a massive and complex piece of work in which Parliament and Senedd must work together.\n\nMore than 50 years after the Aberfan disaster hundreds of \"high-risk\" tips remain in Wales\n\n\"My biggest fear is [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak will demand that local councils pay for this out of their council tax but the poorest communities in the UK should not be forced to pay for tidying up our national industrial heritage.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru Member of the Senedd for Rhondda Leanne Wood said the UK government should foot the full bill for making the tips safe and anything less would be \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"When the profits from coal mining were not seen in Rhondda, nor in many other coalfield areas across Wales, coupled with the high cost to health and lives of the workers and their families, that funding and more is owed to us,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Conservative Janet Finch-Saunders said long-term work to make the tips safe could only be done in partnership with the UK government.\n\nCoalfield historian Ben Curtis said some tips were removed or made safe after the Aberfan disaster in 1966.\n\n\"But it is a potential problem that continues to remain for some of these tips to become unsafe over time, perhaps [because of] factors like the effects of climate change and increased rainfall,\" he said.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Ever since the devastating storms of early 2020, the UK government has been working with the Welsh Government on its devolved responsibility to provide extra support for flood relief and protection to the communities which were so badly affected.\n\n\"In December we confirmed that £31m would be provided for this vital work, of which £9m was to repair vulnerable coal tips.\n\n\"We also provided the Welsh Government with an additional £1.3bn for next year at the recent spending review so they are well placed to continue this work\"\n\nIn Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, 80 people had to leave their homes after flooding caused by water from a mine shaft\n\nThe summit - which was held virtually - was also due to discuss wider issues of mine safety after water escaped after building up in a mine shaft in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, flooding nearby homes in January.\n\n\"The coal tip is made up of what we call unconsolidated materials so this is loose material like grains of sugar, all stacked up on top of each other,\" Ashley Patton, an engineering geologist from the British Geological Survey said.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"When it gets to a certain angle it can make it unsafe and then when you get triggering factors, such as water from a spring line or from heavy rain that we've seen quite a lot of in south Wales, it can just make it destabilise.\n\n\"The main problem with south Wales is you've got lots of steep-sided valleys and then if you're going to put coal spoil on top of those steep slopes that's just going to make it more likely that it's going to fail...\n\n\"The most important thing is to take what we call the angle of friction so you're looking at what is the perfect angle for that material - so if you can cut it back to a shallower angle... generally speaking, it could be quite stable, and of course the other important thing is to make sure that the slopes are not sited on any spring lines or areas where farmers are putting water onto the slopes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Latifa’s older sister Shamsa escapes while on holiday with other members of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s family at their Surrey estate. The sheikh launches a search for her, but doesn’t inform the police – his men track her down in Cambridge over a month later. In an email to her solicitor, Shamsa says she was bundled into a car by four Arab men and driven to her father’s house in Newmarket, where she was injected and given tablets. The next morning, she is flown back to Dubai on a private plane.\n\nLatifa makes her first escape attempt aged 16. She tries to get across the border of UAE and Oman but is caught and brought back to Dubai, where she is jailed for three years and four months. She says she was kept in solitary confinement and tortured.\n\nLatifa meets Tiina Jauhiainen, a fitness instructor hired to teach her a Brazilian martial art called capoeira. They become close friends. Latifa’s movements are restricted - she’s not allowed to have a passport, drive or leave Dubai.\n\nLatifa contacts Herve Jaubert, a French businessman who years before had successfully escaped Dubai after being convicted in absentia of embezzlement. Over the next few years, they plan her escape in detail and Tiina Jauhiainen is enlisted as an aide and go-between.\n\nLatifa records a video documenting her life and plans. She calls it a “just in case” video and sends it to a group of trusted people with instructions to publish it if the escape fails. It details the restrictions she is under in Dubai, her first escape attempt and her plan to leave Dubai and claim asylum.\n\nLatifa and Ms Jauhiainen meet early in the morning and take a 26-mile trip by inflatable boat and jet ski to international waters, where Mr Jaubert is waiting in a US flagged yacht. They plan to head to India, from where Latifa hopes to fly to the United States and claim political asylum.\n\nEight days into the journey, just off the coast of India, the boat is boarded by Indian special forces. Latifa and Ms Jauhiainen hide in the bathroom, but smoke grenades make it hard for them to breathe and they make their way to the top of the deck, where they are held at gunpoint. Latifa is dragged off the boat. Ms Jauhiainen and the crew are detained in a high security facility in the UAE before being released two weeks later.\n\nThe anti-UAE pressure group Detained in Dubai release her video and Ms Jauhiainen begins to tell her story to the world.\n\nThe day before the release of a BBC documentary telling the story of Latifa’s escape attempt, the government of Dubai publishes a statement saying that Latifa and her sister Shamsa are “adored and cherished\" by the family. They say that Latifa is now \"safe in Dubai\" and is celebrating her birthday \"in privacy and peace”.\n\nThe UAE Foreign Ministry releases three photos of Latifa from a 15 December lunch with one of Sheikh Mohammed’s wives, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and Mary Robinson, a former UN human rights commissioner. This is the first time anyone has seen Latifa since the failed escape. Three days later, Mary Robinson appears on the BBC’s Today Programme where says she was asked to visit Latifa by Princess Haya. She describes Latifa as a “troubled young woman\" who is receiving \"psychiatric care.” She immediately receives pushback from the international human rights community and campaign groups accuse her of pedalling the “Dubai line”.\n\nLatifa in one of the secret videos she made Tiina Jauhiainen receives a message from a stranger claiming to be in contact with Latifa. After Ms Jauhiainen passes a number of security questions, she begins direct communication with Latifa and manages to get a phone to her. Latifa begins recording video messages in which she describes the conditions she is being kept in: solitary confinement, the windows barred shut and no daylight. In the months after they establish phone contact, Ms Jauhiainen, her lawyer David Haigh, and her maternal cousin Marcus Essabri have daily contact with Latifa.\n\nPrincess Haya with Sheikh Mohammed at Royal Ascot in 2010 On the 15 April, Princess Haya, the second “official wife” of Sheikh Mohammed, escapes Dubai to the UK with her two children, reportedly in fear of her life. Haya, who became the Sheikh’s sixth wife in April 2004, is his only spouse with a public profile, and is often seen with him at events around the world.\n\nSheikh Mohammed starts proceedings in the UK court to have his two children with Princess Haya returned to Dubai. Princess Haya applies for her children to become Wards of Court as well as a forced marriage protection order and non-molestation order.\n\nThe High Court in the UK releases a fact-finding judgment which finds that on the balance of probabilities, Sheikh Mohammed was responsible for the abduction and forced return of both Shamsa and Latifa to Dubai. The judge rules that the sheikh has waged a campaign of intimidation towards Haya and that he has not been open and honest with the court.\n\nDavid Haigh realises the messages to Latifa are not getting through. Contact with her is lost.\n\nIn her first interview since the pictures of her and Latifa were released in 2018, Mary Robinson says that Princess Haya and her were tricked by the sheikh, and that she is deeply worried about Latifa. She says she was blindsided when the UAE released the photographs of her and Latifa, and she admits that she regrets not seeing Latifa on her own, or asking her about her condition.\n\nUK police are passed a letter written by Latifa in 2019 urging them to re-investigate the kidnap of her sister Shamsa from a Cambridge street in August 2000. Cambridgeshire Police said the letter would be “looked at as part of the ongoing review” into the incident.", "Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page has been cast as the lead character in the film adaptation of fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, reports say.\n\nThe actor sent hearts aflutter as the mysterious Duke of Hastings opposite Phoebe Dynevor's Daphne Bridgerton in the hit Netflix drama.\n\nHe will now join the likes of Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Justice Smith in the new fantasy adventure.\n\nDungeons & Dragons began as a table-top game in the 1970s.\n\nIt has since spawned video games, an animated TV show and several movie attempts.\n\nPeople dressed as Dungeons & Dragons characters at the Dragon Con convention in Atlanta, Georgia in 2015\n\nThis time around, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley - who previously worked on movies like Spider-Man: Homecoming and Game Night - will direct and write the script, based on a draft by Michael Gilio, according to outlets including Variety and Hollywood Reporter.\n\nBritish-Zimbabwean actor Page was recently nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work on Bridgerton, which Netflix announced last month had become its \"biggest series ever\".\n\nAs a result he is very much in demand, and will also guest host US sketch show Saturday Night Live this weekend.\n\nPage was included on Time magazine's 100 Next list on Wednesday, with Bridgerton producer Shonda Rhimes paying tribute to him in the publication as \"that rare actor, one who brings an intensity, an intelligence and a precision to his work, providing endless depth to any scene\".\n\nShe wrote: \"His disappearance into character builds a vibrant world for us to enter, making it impossible to imagine any other actor playing the role. Few actors craft their moments so beautifully - or steal our attention so quickly.\n\n\"As evidenced by his performance in Bridgerton, Regé is a singular talent whose prospects are limitless. Today, he may be our duke. By tomorrow... not even I can dream big enough to imagine.\"\n\nPage is also among the favourites to follow Daniel Craig in the role of James Bond.\n\nMeanwhile, Netflix has confirmed that when the popular Regency-era period drama, inspired by Julia Quinn's novels, returns for a second series, the main plotline will centre around a new female lead played by Sex Education and Broadchurch star Simone Ashley.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Netflix This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe British actress will feature as Kate Sharma opposite Viscount Anthony Bridgerton, portrayed by Jonathan Bailey.\n\nHer character is described as \"a smart, headstrong young woman who suffers no fools - Anthony Bridgerton very much included.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Three North Koreans have been charged in the US over a scheme to steal and extort more than $1.3bn (£940m) from banks and businesses around the world.\n\nThe three, who are not in custody, are also accused of deploying malicious cryptocurrency programs.\n\nA Canadian-American citizen was also charged with money laundering.\n\nThe men are also accused of being part of the Wannacry cyber-attack of 2017, which crippled UK health service computer systems on a national scale.\n\nAnnouncing the charges, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John Demers, said North Korea \"has become a criminal syndicate with a flag\".\n\nOne of the defendants, Park Jin Hyok, was previously charged two years ago for his role in the 2014 hacking of Sony Entertainment Pictures.\n\nMr Park, Jon Chang Hyok and Kim Il are accused of criminal conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud.\n\nThe Department of Justice says the defendants work for the Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's military intelligence agency.\n\n\"North Korea's operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency instead of sacks of cash, are the world's leading bank robbers,\" Mr Demers said.\n\nAll three men are believed to be in North Korea, which does not extradite its citizens to face US charges.\n\nThe Canadian-American man, 37-year-old Ghaleb Alaumary, from Mississauga, Ontario, is accused of being the group's money launderer in a separate case announced on Wednesday. Officials say he has agreed to plead guilty to the charge\n\nSony Entertainment Picture's 2014 film, The Interview, is widely believed to have been the initial motive for the attack on the film company.\n\nThe satirical film, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, ridicules North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and centres around a fictitious assassination plot against him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-hacker Marc Maiffret spoke to the BBC in 2014 about the Sony attack\n\nThe men are also believed to have had a hand in the WannaCry 2.0 ransomware attack in 2017.\n\nThe attack temporarily crippled UK National Health Service (NHS) computer systems and affected more than 150 countries around the world.\n\nAbout 40 NHS organisations and some medical practices were hit, with operations and appointments cancelled.\n\nThere are broadly three reasons why governments choose cyber-attacks to further their interests: to spy on each-other; to steal intellectual property; or to meddle in politics.\n\nThis indictment adds further evidence to the theory that North Korea bucks the trend. The politically isolated country is actually far more interested in making money.\n\nAs the assistant attorney general put it, North Korean hackers are \"the world's leading bank robbers\".\n\nOf all the major cyber powers, North Korea has time and time again used its considerable skills to prop up a struggling economy.\n\nIt's working rather well, too - with well over $1bn in the bank from these hacks alone.\n\nWhile other nations cause chaos and political noise with their hackers, North Korea seems content to quietly continue lining its coffers.\n\nThe three men hit by the indictment also conducted campaigns targeting US defence and energy contractors. As part of this, Department of State and Pentagon officials were tricked into sharing their credentials so hackers could access their computers.\n\n\"The scope of the criminal conduct by the North Korean hackers was extensive and long-running and the range of crimes they have committed is staggering,\" Acting US Attorney Tracy Wilkison said.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said it fully supported the criminal charges.\n\n\"Working with our allies we are committed to countering malicious activity by state and non-state actors and will defend ourselves from disruptive behaviour in cyber-space,\" said the organisation's director for operations, Paul Chichester.", "Singer Glenn Medeiros has revealed how he and other artists were often asked for sex by music industry figures in return for help with their careers.\n\nMedeiros, who found fame with Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You in 1988, said he turned down \"many offers\" for sexual relationships but others agreed.\n\n\"You saw it everywhere,\" said Medeiros, who now runs a school in Hawaii.\n\n\"Would it have led to me being more successful in my career? Potentially. But I wasn't willing to do that.\"\n\nHe said: \"I had friends who specifically said, 'I am going to be moving in with this person because this person is going to be helping me with my recording career.'\n\n\"I've never done it and I do feel proud of that, but at the same time I can understand why some other people did. I remember talking to some of my friends who said, 'The person's attractive and I like them anyway, so it's OK.'\"\n\nAfter spending four weeks at number one in the UK with his debut single, the heartthrob topped the charts in the US two years later with She Ain't Worth It, with Bobby Brown.\n\nHowever he left the music business in the mid-90s to become a teacher and is now president of Saint Louis School in his native Hawaii.\n\n\"You hear things about the #MeToo movement and that was such the norm when I was in the music industry,\" he told the podcast Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did.\n\n\"Unfortunately most of the females and some of the males I met - it literally took them having to have relationships with others to be able to get to the top.\n\n\"I'd even talk to the artists about it and they'd say, 'Hey, you know what, I've got to do what I have to do.' For me, I never took that approach.\"\n\nSpeaking to podcast host Genevieve Hassan, he recalled going to the house of one successful male songwriter, who told him he was better than the artists whose gold discs he had on the wall.\n\n\"And then he says, 'I need to get something', goes back to another room, comes back in a robe,\" recalled Medeiros, who was 18 at the time.\n\n\"You kind of knew what the next moves were going to be, so I just remember saying, 'Oh my God I forgot I have an appointment, I have to be going', and I made the choice.\"\n\nNow 50, he said he would not name those involved, which he acknowledged some people would find \"gutless\".\n\n\"But for me, I wouldn't mention it because I still think I had a choice,\" he said. \"As far as having a relationship with someone to make that [success] happen, I had a choice.\"\n\nHe has recently been writing a memoir, which will include his experiences of the murky side of fame.\n\n\"The other thing is, the music industry is riddled with a lot of drugs, and the Mafia is very much a part of the music industry,\" he said. \"A lot of people don't like to talk about that, but it's out there.\"\n\nSome artists sold drugs, while others had their houses, cars and other expenses paid for by the Mafia, who in effect \"owned\" them, Medeiros claimed.\n\n\"So they were basically being pimped out, for lack of a better term. I don't know why more people don't talk about it, to be honest. I guess I'm out of the industry now, so I can just clearly say, 'Hey, this is what I saw.'\n\n\"To me between all of those things - the drugs, the pimping out of artists and also the sexual relations that were happening - it was the music industry that I saw.\"\n\nNot everyone was drawn into such shady dealings, though, he added. \"In the music industry there are some people who are really good.\n\n\"There have been artists who have been able to steer away from that and have success and have done it in a way that they respected themselves, and I have a lot of respect for those people, so not everyone has fallen victim to that.\"\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. Mr Buckley said scenes like that in Cardiff last year must not be witnessed again\n\nA brewery boss who is in hospital with Covid has called for pubs to only reopen when safe to fully serve people.\n\nSimon Buckley, chairman of the Brewers of Wales, said he had been at \"death's door\" but was now \"on the mend\" at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.\n\nHe said pubs must only reopen when it was \"the right time\" and rules could be properly enforced.\n\nA revised plan out of Wales' lockdown, which began in December, is expected in the next few days.\n\nBefore Christmas, pubs, bars and restaurants across Wales were forced to close as \"stay at home\" lockdown measures were introduced, leaving them able to only sell takeaways.\n\nThere have been repeated warnings from the sector about the impact of Covid restrictions on the hospitality and tourism industry, with Brains pubs being taken over after the company came under \"significant financial pressure\".\n\nMr Buckley, the owner of Evans-Evans Brewery in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, said while the industry was now desperate to reopen, it should only happen when customers felt safe.\n\n\"We have written off tens and tens of thousands of pounds worth of stock because of stop- start... everybody wants a safe environment, but if we are having rules, lets have rules which are enforced,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to get the pubs open but we have to do it at the time and in a place and in a way that makes sense for our consumers.\"\n\nMr Buckley spoke as the chairman of JD Wetherspoons said pubs should reopen at the same time as non-essential shops.\n\nLarge groups of people visited Cardiff Bay and drank when travel restrictions were eased last year\n\nSpeaking on the Jason Mohammad show on BBC Radio Wales, Mr Buckley, who has been in hospital for 13 weeks, said he previously thought he was a \"superhero\" and immune from Covid.\n\nHe said that if pubs were to reopen any time soon, scenes like that in Cardiff city centre in September, where people crowded outside bars and clubs, must not be allowed to happen again.\n\n\"I've just been very very lucky... there are people who every day have risked their own life when they were sorting me out,\" he said.\n\n\"People need to understand this is not a joke... and I for one was brazen, I was bold enough to think that I wouldn't get it, I was Mr superhero.\n\n\"I was at death's door... had it not been for the nursing staff, the chairman of the Brewers of Wales would not be talking to you today, about rolling out our industry and saving it for the future.\"\n\nMr Buckley said the industry had measures in place to keep the public and staff safe and could be reopened successfully, but if people behaved irresponsibly, it could \"give us huge problems\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Final night of drinking at Welsh pubs, restaurants and cafes\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, businesses have been closed and reopened as lockdown rules changed, with measures introduced including alcohol bans and early closing times.\n\nWhile the Welsh Government is yet to set out any moves to ease current restrictions, its guidance for alert levels suggests that pubs, bars and restaurants would be allowed to reopen, but initially alcohol sales will be banned and they will have to close at 18:00.\n\nEven at alert level one - the lowest level of restrictions, when cases are at their lowest - they would have to stop serving at 22:00.\n\nSpeaking from the hospital, Mr Buckley said the sector must not be placed in a position again where pubs were told to open and then forced to close again, leading to thousands of pounds of food and drink being thrown away.\n\n\"What we would ask for is no limited opening hours, no limits on the offer we can make, it's open properly, let us do what we are good at,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to make sure that it is not stop-start, we have to make sure that when we go, we go professionally and properly and the government is behind us, not looking to trip us up at every opportunity.\"", "The plane was stopped just before it was due to fly from Heathrow to Bucharest\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after police stopped a plane flying to Romania.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said they tracked down a man to Heathrow Airport after receiving a report that a four-year-old girl had been taken.\n\nThey received a call at 16:57 GMT on Thursday, and the flight to Bucharest was due to take off at 18:00.\n\nThe 32-year-old is known to the girl, who has been reunited with her mother, a spokesman said.\n\nDet Sgt Ruth Walker said it was \"a hugely complex and challenging case\", and thanked officers from the Metropolitan Police for their assistance.\n\n\"The plane was taxiing ready for take-off, but we were able to get there just in time before it took flight,\" she said.\n\n\"[It] then returned to the terminal and the man was arrested.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the swift coordinated multi-agency response there may have been a very different outcome.\"\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.", "Only five days after it began, Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial has concluded. As was widely predicted, the final verdict was that the former president was not guilty of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol last month.\n\nThere have now been four presidential impeachment trials in US history, and this one was by far the shortest.\n\nWhat it lacked in duration, however, it will make up in consequence. A precedent - a former president standing trial - was set. Reputations were burnished and tarnished. And a tumultuous stage was set for political battles to come.\n\nHere's a look at some of the key players, and how they emerged from this moment in US history.\n\nTrump once again avoided conviction by the US Senate because his fellow Republicans, by and large, stuck by his side. The final tally was 57-43, which left the prosecution 10 short of the two-thirds majority required.\n\nThat, at its most basic level, is a win for the former president. He is still eligible to run for president again in 2024, if he so chooses. His base, by all indications, is still largely intact. Both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, most Republican officeholders opposed the impeachment proceedings - and those who broke ranks are already facing ferocious criticism and, in some cases, formal reprimands from their Republican constituents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Proud Boys led the assault - and who was in the pro-Trump mob\n\nIn a press statement, the former president celebrated his acquittal, condemned Democrats and said that his political movement was just beginning.\n\nTrump - and his movement - did not emerge from this impeachment trial unscathed, however. One of the most memorable portions of the prosecution case by House managers were the new videos of Trump's supporters, wearing Make America Great Again hats and waving Trump flags, ransacking the Capitol.\n\nThose images will forever be associated with the Trump brand. Every rally he holds from here on will evoke memories of that riot. It may not cost him among the Republican rank and file, but independent voters - and moderates - are unlikely to forget.\n\nA year ago, only one Republican senator - Mitt Romney of Utah - voted to convict Trump. This time, he was joined by six others.\n\nIt's no coincidence, however, that of those who broke ranks, three of them - Susan Collins, Ben Sasse and Bill Cassidy - were just re-elected and don't have to face voters for six years. Two - Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Richard Burr of North Carolina - are retiring.\n\nThat highlights the challenge facing many of the Republican senators in the chamber. A vote to convict would have attracted the ire of primary voters, many of whom would view the turn against Trump as a betrayal. For those in safe Republican states, a challenge from a fellow conservative is a much more pressing concern than whichever Democrat faces off against them in November.\n\nRepublican senators up for re-election next year in swing states - in places like Florida, Wisconsin and Iowa - may have to worry about their vote to acquit being used against them by their Democratic opponents in a general election. One can already envision the attack adverts, accompanied by video of the violence on Capitol Hill.\n\nA lot could depend on what Trump does next. Does he launch himself fully into US politics again, reminding his supporters - and his critics - of these impeachment battles as the next election day approaches? Or does he stick to seclusion of his private clubs and golf course?\n\nI think we all know which is more likely.\n\nIf every Senate Republican had their own political calculation to make before casting their vote - weighing whether to risk the ire of their party or the judgement of general election voters - one particular senator's drama was on particularly stark display.\n\nMitch McConnell of Kentucky, leader of his party in the Senate, had been outspoken for weeks in his criticism of Donald Trump's conduct on 6 January. For a while, his final vote in the trial was in doubt. On Saturday morning, however, he informed his fellow senators he would support acquittal.\n\nAfter the Senate rendered its final verdict, he explained why. He condemned Trump's behaviour and said he engaged in a \"disgraceful dereliction of duty.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There's no question that president Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,\" McConnell said\n\nHis not guilty vote, he said, was because former presidents were not eligible for impeachment trials. If such a precedent were followed, he said, any private citizen - regardless of status - could be impeached and ruled ineligible for public office by the Congress.\n\nMcConnell's critics will view that as a cop-out, not a principled stand. And it is noteworthy that his procedural objection allows him to avoid being out of step with the majority of Senate Republicans, which is a risky place for a congressional leader to be.\n\nIt's a fine line for McConnell to walk, and time will tell if his fellow Republicans are satisfied by his vote, if not his words.\n\nFor most of their careers, members of the House of Representatives languish in relative obscurity. Few in the 435-member chamber, save for the Speaker, ever get the kind of national spotlight that was cast upon the impeachment managers prosecuting the case against Trump in his Senate trial this week.\n\nThe nine-member team put together a slick presentation over the course of the five-day trial, complete with packaged videos of the 6 January riot accompanied by maps of the Capitol showing how close the mob came to US politicians, including the Vice-President Mike Pence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nLead manager Jamie Raskin will probably best be remembered for his emotional opening remarks, where his voice caught as he recalled a conversation with his 24-year-old daughter after they were evacuated by the Capitol building. Throughout the rest of the week, he presided over the prosecution with a more cerebral detachment that hinted at his background as a constitutional law professor at American University.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Neguse's closing argument: \"We humbly ask you to convict President Trump\"\n\nSecond-term Congressman Joe Neguse has been considered a rising star in Democratic politics, and his turn in front of the cameras did little to dispel that notion. The biggest surprise from the team, however, was probably Stacey Plaskett of the US Virgin Islands. As a non-voting delegate from a US territory, she has little influence in Congress - but she gave some of the most impassioned, memorable monologues of the entire trial. Democrats might start rallying for Virgin Islands statehood after her performance.\n\nIf there was one mark against the managers, it was their on-again, off-again attempt to call witnesses. Starting down that road, and then aborting, will be seen by some on the left as an unforced error, leaving a bitter taste in their mouths.\n\nThe current president's strategy for handling the former president's impeachment trial was to keep the whole ordeal at arm's length.\n\nHe wasn't closely following the proceedings, White House officials said. During the trial he kept a busy schedule of events related to the coronavirus pandemic. When Biden did comment, it was only to remark about the new videos of the Capitol violence - images that had been played repeatedly on television news.\n\nThe Biden administration's calculation is that his long-term political fortunes rest on his success in dealing with the pandemic, the economy and the American public's other concerns, and not with the outcome of Trump's impeachment trial.\n\nIn the end, the trial had little practical impact on his progress toward enacting his legislative agenda. The Senate lost only three days of business. The chamber won't be able to take up Biden's Covid relief bill until the House passes the version, which it has spent the week working on.\n\nWith the trial concluded, the Senate also will resume confirming Biden's administration appointments, including attorney general nominee Merrick Garland, after it returns from a week recess.\n\nAll of this should please Biden and his team. If the Democratic base decides, however, that the price of moving forward with Biden's political agenda was the failure to hold Trump fully accountable - for instance, by conducting a speedy trial without witnesses - he may pay a political price nevertheless.\n\nIn the political battles ahead, Biden needs a united Democratic Party. If there is second-guessing after this impeachment trial, cracks might start to emerge.\n\nBruce Castor, the supposed lead lawyer on Donald Trump's legal team, may put that old saying that \"there's no such thing as bad publicity\" to the test. He opened the defence of the former president with a long, rambling discourse that may have pushed one senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, into siding with the Democrats.\n\nAfter that - and amid reports that Trump himself was displeased - Castor receded into the background, replaced primarily by Michael van der Veen, a fellow Philadelphian who primary law practice involves personal injury and liability law cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVan der Veen did a much better job translating the former president's pugnacious attitude toward his political opposition into his legal presentations. He would frequently scrunch his nose into a wide sneer when referring to the House impeachment managers.\n\nAt one point, he prompted jeers from Democrats when he derided a question presented by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. And he flashed anger when Democrats laughed at his threat to hold hundreds of depositions at his office in Pennsylvania if the Senate chose to call witnesses in the trial.\n\nIn the end, he was able to navigate his way out of the prospect of an extended trial, however, and bring the proceedings to a speedy, satisfactory conclusion.\n\nLawyers are ultimately judged by their wins and losses, and van der Veen, Castor and fellow lawyer David Schoen got their client off the hook.", "If every Senate Republican had their own political calculation to make before casting their vote - weighing whether to risk the ire of their party or the judgement of general election voters - one particular senator’s drama was on particularly stark display.\n\nMitch McConnell of Kentucky, leader of his party in the Senate, had been outspoken for weeks in his criticism of Donald Trump’s conduct on 6 January. For a while, his final vote in the trial was in doubt. On Saturday morning, however, he informed his fellow senators he would support acquittal.\n\nAfter the Senate rendered its final verdict, he explained why. He condemned Trump’s behaviour and said he engaged in a “disgraceful dereliction of duty.”\n\n“There’s no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said.\n\nHis not guilty vote, he said, was because former presidents were not eligible for impeachment trials. If such a precedent were followed, he said, any private citizen - regardless of status - could be impeached and ruled ineligible for public office by the Congress.\n\nMcConnell’s critics will view that as a cop-out, not a principled stand. And it is noteworthy that his procedural objection allows him to avoid being out of step with the majority of Senate Republicans, which is a risky place for a congressional leader to be.\n\nIt’s a fine line for McConnell to walk, and time will tell if his fellow Republicans are satisfied with his vote, if not his words.", "Olivia Grist, pictured at Times Square in New York before coronavirus hit, says crowds now make her feel anxious\n\nAs the vaccine rollout gathers pace and coronavirus rates drop across Wales, it's natural to start to picture \"normal life\" again.\n\nAnd while we don't know if and when all restrictions will be lifted with coronavirus no longer a part of our daily lives - whether it takes months or years - will we adapt easily?\n\nOr has keeping our distance from strangers become engrained?\n\nWill we recoil if a stranger leans over us to reach an item in a shop?\n\nAnd will hand sanitising be a knee-jerk reaction after touching a table in a pub? Will shaking someone's hand or a friendly hug become a thing of the past?\n\nAnd if so - is that a good thing or a bad thing?\n\nOlivia says she can't imagine being in close contact with crowds, as pictured here with her friends before the pandemic\n\nWhile some may immediately forget social distancing, sanitising and masks as restrictions lift, student Olivia Grist cannot imagine feeling comfortable in her old life again.\n\n\"The thought of being back amongst crowds gives me anxiety,\" she said.\n\n\"I haven't really been out of my house since I moved home from university apart from walking my dog, but even then in an open space if someone comes too close I find myself panicking and moving back.\n\n\"I feel rude doing it, but it's become an automatic response now.\"\n\nOlivia, 21, sees her future in stark contrast to her pre-pandemic life.\n\n\"I don't understand how before Covid I could happily spend hours at a night club for example, crammed against people having their sweat dripped on me.\n\n\"I thought I'd be desperate to go back to that sort of normality being a uni student, but actually it's going to take me a while.\n\n\"I feel like I'm going to forever feel the need to wear a mask in public places, even if there's no need any more.\"\n\nOlivia used to enjoy going out socialising but feels her life has changed for the long-term\n\nOlivia, who studies journalism at the University of South Wales, does not feel she will leave the extra hygiene measures of the pandemic behind.\n\n\"If I'm honest, I think it's brought in precautions and safety measures that should've already been in place but it's taken a pandemic for us to realise that.\n\n\"I haven't had a cold this winter, when I'd usually spend most of it full up with one.\n\n\"In the future I think I will always be wary of the health repercussions being out and about could have. It will take me a while before I don't panic if someone comes too close to me.\"\n\nNicola Gray, a psychology professor at Swansea University, agrees habits could become long term - especially for people who felt they or a loved one were particularly vulnerable to the virus.\n\n\"It totally depends on a person's personality, some people are more anxious and sensitive than others and were naturally made that way,\" she said.\n\n\"Covid deniers, people who don't believe the virus exists, won't see any risk so they're not going to change their behaviours at all, or young people with no risks and no-one vulnerable in the family won't see the need to restrict their own freedoms.\"\n\nOlivia is also worried that the lockdown, and lingering fears about contact, will affect families.\n\n\"Before the pandemic I would visit my nan, who lives alone, multiple times a week and would often stay the night to keep her company.\n\n\"Obviously then I had to stop, but even when we've been allowed to form a bubble with a single household she has told me she doesn't want me there.\"\n\nOlivia has only been out to walk her dog\n\nOlivia added: \"I understand why and it doesn't offend me, but I can definitely see how it can cause a rift between people.\"\n\nAuthor Jess Childs, who wrote a book to help children deal with grief after experiencing bereavements before and during the pandemic, said she too had \"no desire\" to be in a crowd again.\n\n\"I've never been that paranoid about the virus itself but I don't feel like I'll be drawn back to large crowds easily,\" she said.\n\n\"Partly because I've got out of the habit and also because being at home so much has made me reassess how I spend my spare time anyway.\"\n\nJess Childs has two daughters, aged five and three\n\nJess, who grew up near Hay-on-Wye, Powys, but now lives near Cardiff, said watching TV filmed before the pandemic can now feel strange.\n\n\"It does feel a bit odd when you see larger groups congregating on a TV screen without a problem, particularly if those scenes are sad or depict a situation like a wedding or a funeral where family would normally be coming together without a problem.\n\n\"All we have wanted as a family in the past year or so has been to be together as much as we can, and to think how easy it used to be is a bit strange after all this time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Author Jess Childs was inspired by a poem she wrote for her late father's memorial service\n\nOne of the bigger challenges mother-of-two Jess, 39, feels she will face is getting used to not wearing a mask.\n\n\"I saw a man in the post office the other day not wearing one, hopefully for medical reasons, and I was keen to distance myself and get out of there, which surprised me a bit.\n\n\"I'm not at all high risk and I've also had the virus, but it's still going to take a while for old habits to die hard, I think.\"\n\nProf Gray said the pandemic had added a whole new layer of risk evaluation to our daily lives.\n\n\"Now we're thinking 'what if someone in this shop has Covid? What if someone with Covid touched this loaf of bread and now I've touched it and Covid's on my hand and I've touched my face?'\n\n\"It's a whole extra layer of evaluating risk, and questioning 'how much do I actually want to do it?'\"\n\nFor Rhian Daniell, who works at Alexanders Estate Agents in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, normal life will resume but the caution will stay with her.\n\n\"2020 was the year when everything changed. There was fear and anxiety with record levels of stress,\" she said.\n\nRhian Daniell says she will go back to restaurants and shops, but some things won't return to normal\n\nSome forms of her old life continued, as there were periods she was able to continue with house viewings and helping people move homes.\n\n\"I think moving forward, the staff in the industry will be more cautious and considerate when attending properties.\n\n\"This will still involve wiping down surfaces, door handles and doing what we can to prevent other illnesses such as the common cold.\"\n\nRhian celebrated Christmas with several households in 2019 before the pandemic hit\n\nBut her Christmas in 2020 was a much quieter affair\n\n\"I will return to restaurants, shops, offices and I will still travel. I think it will take time, but lockdown has affected people's psychology,\" she added.\n\n\"The connection between crowds and viruses has become so entrenched in the public that just the sight of a large group can cause fear and anxiety.\"\n\nProf Gray agrees that living long-term under the shadow of the pandemic may cause long-term behavioural change, but said the extent depended on people's personalities and the level of risk they felt they, or a loved-one, faced.\n\n\"But is it a bad thing that we're still worried about washing our hands and who might be breathing on us and what we're touching?\n\n\"It could well be a good thing. Many people die of flu and other diseases and maybe that awareness will keep those rates down.\"\n\nAnd habits or new passions developed in lockdown such as baking or gardening, and home-based activities, could be with us long-term too.\n\n\"I think we will change the way we live our lives and the decisions we make, and where we get our pleasures and rewards from,\" Prof Gray said.", "Natalie Paul has to spend hundreds on Covid tests before she can travel for her cancer treatment\n\nA woman who has to travel to Germany for brain cancer treatment says new travel rules are adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of her therapy.\n\nNatalie Paul, from Bubbenhall in Warwickshire, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour in 2017.\n\nWhen chemotherapy failed, she started a course of treatment in Cologne but faces high costs from new regulations covering both coronavirus and Brexit.\n\nThe government said it was considering medical exemptions for its Covid rules.\n\nThe new regulations, introduced this week, say that travellers must take a coronavirus test before leaving the UK and again on days two and eight of quarantine on their return, but they need to pay for these tests themselves.\n\nRather than fly, the family drive from the UK to Cologne to better protect Ms Paul from Covid-19, due to her vulnerable condition\n\nMs Paul, 30, is too unwell to travel alone and so is accompanied by her parents. She expects tests for all of them will add an extra £1,800 to their costs each time they travel - and that's before the bill for the treatment itself.\n\nDendritic cells help the immune system recognise and attack abnormal cells and when grown alongside cancer cells in a lab can be used to stimulate the immune system to attack cancer, according to Cancer Research UK.\n\nResearch is still at an early stage, however, so the treatment is not yet available on the NHS.\n\nFor each round, Ms Paul will have to pay £56,000.\n\nMs Paul has set up a GoFundMe page to help with the costs, but has no idea how many rounds of treatment she will need.\n\n\"The extra costs now are starting to erode the stuff we want to gather for the treatment which is ridiculous,\" her mother Liz Paul said.\n\nThe family have also experienced additional costs relating to Brexit, for example securing green cards so they can drive on the continent.\n\nMs Paul started the treatment in Germany when she found chemotherapy had \"no effect\" on her tumour\n\n\"We couldn't really have chosen a worse time to be going to Germany for this treatment, but we don't really have the luxury of waiting,\" Mrs Paul said.\n\n\"We've got to go for it now while Natalie is fit enough to have the treatment.\"\n\nThe situation has led to calls from The Brain Tumour Charity for the government to at least pay for patients to be tested for Covid-19.\n\n\"We're reassured to hear people will received a medical exemption,\" Sarah Lindsell, the charity's chief executive, said.\n\n\"But actually if people are covering the costs of their own treatment surely the NHS should pay for the costs of their tests.\"\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.", "A White House spokesman has been suspended for a week without pay after allegedly threatening to \"destroy\" a female reporter who was asking questions about his private life.\n\nTJ Ducklo reportedly threatened Politico reporter Tara Palmeri, who was investigating his relationship with another journalist.\n\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday that Mr Ducklo had apologised to Ms Palmeri.\n\nHe has not commented independently.\n\nSome observers have criticised President Joe Biden for failing to take stronger action. He has previously said he would fire \"on the spot\" any staff speaking disrespectfully to colleagues.\n\nThe suspension of Mr Ducklo, the White House deputy press secretary, came after Vanity Fair magazine reported on his alleged threats to Ms Palmeri.\n\nThe Politico reporter had been investigating Mr Ducklo's relationship with Alexi McCammond, a journalist with Axios who had covered Mr Biden's election campaign.\n\nHe allegedly rang her and said: \"I will destroy you\". He also made other derogatory and misogynistic comments, Vanity Fair reports.\n\nPresident Biden's spokeswoman tweeted on Friday that TJ Ducklo was \"the first to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the President\".\n\nShe said that as well as being suspended without pay for a week, Mr Ducklo would no longer work with Politico reporters when he returned to the White House.\n\nPresident Biden told his staff on his first day in office that he would not tolerate bullying behaviour.\n\n\"I'm not joking when I say this: If you ever work with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. No ifs, ands or buts,\" he said.\n\nSome commentators, such as CNN anchor Jake Tapper, are now asking whether the same punishment should not apply to the way his staff treat journalists doing their job.\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.", "The man in the e-fit is described as being in his 40s, about 6ft tall, with a stocky build\n\nPolice have released an e-fit of a man wanted in connection with an attempted theft of a dog.\n\nIt comes after former amateur boxer James Cosens, 29, fought off two would-be \"dognappers\" who tried to grab his 20-week-old collie, Rosie.\n\nIt happened on the Millennium Coastal Path near Llanelli in Carmarthenshire on 5 February.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has set up a taskforce to investigate a rise in dog and puppy thefts.\n\nDemand for puppies during lockdown is believed to be behind a national increase in dog thefts.\n\nMr Cosens said he rescued Rosie after a \"struggle\"\n\nThe man in the e-fit is described as being in his 40s, about 6ft (183cm) tall, with a stocky build.\n\nHe was wearing light blue jeans and a dark puffer jacket.\n\nThe second man is described as being in his 20s, about 5ft 6in (168cm) tall and wearing similar clothing.\n\nMr Cosens said his dog Rosie ran up to the two strangers at the Morfa Berwig Nature Reserve near Bynea - and one of them picked her up and said: \"I am taking your dog. If you try to take her back I will stab you.\"\n\nMr Cosens said despite the threats of the attackers, he did not see any weapons - and rescued Rosie after a \"struggle\".\n\nDet Insp Llyr Williams said: \"We are working extremely hard as a force to catch the men responsible for this attempted theft of a family pet.\n\n\"Our officers are aware of the impact this incident has had on the community, and are keen to progress this investigation with your support.\"\n\nNo further similar incidents have been reported to Dyfed-Powys officers involved with Op Rhinestone.\n\nThe force said its neighbourhood policing teams were carrying out increased patrols and offering advice to dog owners about keeping pets safe.", "One good scene doesn't make a great movie, but it does hint at what could have been.\n\nMalcolm (John David Washington) and Marie (Zendaya) have been bickering for well over an hour when a moment of theatrical excellence (at 80 mins, to be precise) lights up an otherwise pedestrian drama about a couple having a domestic.\n\nI won't go into details because that would be to take the one ripe banana from the bunch, but I will say that it vividly demonstrated the impressive acting chops of Washington and Zendaya, talents which are otherwise buried beneath a mountain of verbose dialogue that isn't half as interesting as the column inches of comment it has generated.\n\nI'll come to that in a minute, but first an outline of the film which is now streaming on Netflix:\n\nMalcolm and Marie are a young couple returning from the premiere of Malcolm's new film, upon which critics and peers have lavished praise.\n\nThe production company behind the movie have rented the couple a fancy modernist home, which is where all the action - such that it is - takes place. It's around 1am. Marie is making macaroni and cheese for Malcolm who is giddy with excitement after his successful evening. He is drinking whisky and dancing to James Brown, she is quietly simmering along with the mac 'n' cheese.\n\nThe couple arrive home -- with Marie (played by Zendaya) far from sharing Malcolm's euphoria (acted by John David Washington)\n\nHe can't understand why she's down in the dumps and not up on cloud nine with him.\n\nShe says it's best left till the morning.\n\nHe doesn't want to go to bed until the air is cleared.\n\nHe won't let it drop. So, she tells him:\n\n\"You forgot to thank me, Malcolm\", she says, referring to the speech he gave earlier, in which he acknowledged just about everybody who supported the making of his film except the person he considers to be the \"love of my life.\"\n\nThat is a proper clanger. Plus, she's much more than his girlfriend, it is her story that was his inspiration and the basis for his film's strung-out protagonist whom everybody thought so \"authentic\".\n\nAnd yet he forgot to thank her?\n\nAn argument ensues that goes on and on and on: a verbal boxing match with the occasional big shot but mainly padded out with glancing blows and wild swings that miss by miles. She gets the best lines, he gets to vent.\n\nIt's a 20-minute short stretched out to a 105-minute feature film, with a narrative arc that flatlines and characters you care less about the longer it goes on.\n\nWashington (BlacKkKlansman, Tenet) and Zendaya (Euphoria) are good actors with charisma, dynamism, presence and range. Added to which, Zendaya brings a seemingly effortless naturalism to her craft that marks her out as one to watch.\n\nJohn David Washington picked up a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor as Ron Stallworth in Spike Lee's critically-acclaimed BlacKkKlansman\n\nZendaya won an Emmy last year for her role as Rue Bennet in Euphoria, the drama series that was created by Sam Levinson\n\nThey are backed up by Sam Levinson's neat and tidy directing, as well as his choice of shooting in black-and-white, which gives the beautifully shot film a superficial elegance to match its characters' insecurity about how they are perceived (being seen as \"mediocre\" is the one comment that gets to Malcolm, not being publicly acknowledged the insult that gets to Marie).\n\nAt 15 minutes the potential for a classic, claustrophobic two-hander is a distinct possibility.\n\nBut sadly director-writer Levinson, whose script has Malcolm being hailed as the next Spike Lee or Barry Jenkins, is unlikely to be compared to Harold Pinter (The Dumb Waiter) or Cormac McCarthy (The Sunset Limited) when it comes to the art of building psychological menace into a closed encounter.\n\nThe comedian Lee Evans (on the floor) and Jason Isaacs starred in the 50th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter in 2007\n\nBeyond the first act and aforementioned late scene, there is no dramatic tension, no ominous suspense, and no structural development to the endless quarrelling.\n\nMalcolm rants, Marie puts him right, they kiss and make up. Malcolm rants, Marie puts him right, they kiss and make up. Malcolm rants, Marie puts him right, they kiss and make up. Malcolm rants, Marie puts him right, they kiss and make up. Malcolm rants, Marie puts him right, they kiss and make up. Malcolm rants, Marie puts him right, they kiss and make up.\n\nIt is one of Malcolm's many rants that caused the massed-ranks of culture columnists to crank up their typewriters.\n\nThroughout the film Malcolm refers to a white, female film critic working for the LA Times, whom he despises, although she has been positive about his new movie.\n\nThis has caused comment on three levels:\n\nThe first area of debate concerns Levinson, a white man, writing a black male character through whom he explores issues of race, specifically the experience of black creatives in Hollywood.\n\nThe second, is the singling out of a white, female film critic from the LA Times as incapable of appreciating the nuances of filmmaking and character. The accusation levelled at Levinson is for using his male protagonist as a cipher to get at Katie Walsh, a white, female film critic writing for the LA Times who gave an unfavourable review to Levinson's film Assassination Nation (2018).\n\nSam Levinson's Assassination Nation explored female exploitation in the age of social media\n\nAnd, thirdly, the use of highly aggressive language deployed to belittle the \"white lady\" film critic, \"the kind of language with which female critics are far too familiar\" wrote Mary McNamara, culture columnist at the LA Times.\n\nSam Levinson has said the movie has autobiographic elements (he once forgot to thank his wife in a speech), and that he wrote it very quickly after shooting on the second season of Euphoria was abruptly cancelled due to Covid and Zendaya asked him to come up with a new project.\n\nMaybe he wrote it too quickly.\n\nHe certainly wrote it too long.\n• None Review: The film hoping to get us back into cinemas ★★★★☆", "Did Trump know Pence was in serious danger?\n\nRepublican Senators Mitt Romney and Susan Collins just posed one of the more interesting queries – to both sides – so far during the trial’s four-hour question time. When Donald Trump sent a disparaging tweet about Mike Pence, they asked, did he know that the vice-president had been removed from the Senate chamber by Secret Service for his safety? Answering for the impeachment managers, Congressman Joaquin Castro said that the president must have known that Pence was being threatened by the mob. The violence was being broadcast on national television, the White House has the extensive communications facilities and the president himself had just been informed by Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville that Pence had been evacuated during a phone conversation the two had at roughly the same time. Responding for Trump’s defence, lawyer Michael van der Bleen said Trump did not know. He added that the House Democrats had done no investigation into the matter during their “rushed” impeachment proceedings and, besides, Trump’s actions during the Capitol riot were not included in the impeachment article, which dealt with inciting an insurrection. The question - from two Republicans who are likely to vote to convict - gets to the heart of the case against the former president. Did Trump’s actions during the riot - including his condemnation of Pence - indicate that he knew that violence was likely and that he welcomed and encouraged them? The House impeachment managers insist the answer is yes.", "Some of the asylum seekers have been waiting for months in Mexico for their cases to be heard by US courts\n\nThe Biden administration says it will start gradually allowing into the US tens of thousands of asylum seekers currently forced to wait in Mexico.\n\nIt says it will begin next week processing about 25,000 people with active cases.\n\nAsylum seekers will first be required to register and pass a Covid-19 test, before being allowed in via one of three border crossings.\n\nThe move reverses the much-criticised policies of ex-President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Migrant Protection Protocols programme was enacted in 2019, deterring would-be asylum seekers from coming to the US.\n\nIt required migrants entering through the southern border to wait in Mexico while their cases were being heard by US immigration courts.\n\nBut on his first day in office since winning last year's election, President Joe Biden suspended the policy.\n\n\"As President Biden has made clear, the US government is committed to rebuilding a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,\" Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.\n\n\"This latest action is another step in our commitment to reform immigration policies that do not align with our nation's values.\"\n\nThe Biden administration plans to start with two border crossings each processing up to 300 people a day and a third crossing taking fewer numbers, according to the Associated Press.\n\nThe authorities say asylum seekers will be released with notices to appear in court in cities close to or in their final destinations, typically with family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Mayorkas stressed that \"individuals who are not eligible under this initial phase should wait for further instructions and not travel to the border\", amid concerns that many people would try to cross the border illegally.\n\nFriday's announcement was welcomed in a sprawling migrant camp in the Mexican city of Matamoros, just across the border from Texas.\n\n\"Honestly, I have no words for how I'm feeling right now!\" Salvadoran asylum seeker Sandra Andrade, who has been waiting in Mexico for over a year, told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe border cities where migrants wait for months are suffering from growing crime rates.\n\nLast year, charity Human Rights First said \"returned families, children and adults are being sent to highly dangerous situations where many suffered kidnappings, attacks, sexual assaults, threats and other incredible cruelty\".", "The antibodies that protect against infection with Covid-19 fade over time, so it's likely that vaccination will not provide a permanent defence. Covid could become an illness like flu, says Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary - one that flares up in society at regular intervals, and that people have more than once.\n\nFour million people in the UK have now tested positive for Covid and one of the burning questions they are asking is: will they get it again? Some viral infections such as measles, mumps or chickenpox only infect us once. They trigger an immune response that provides a lifetime of antibody protection. Some viruses such as flu are masters of disguise, mutating rapidly to escape the detection from our immune surveillance. Other viruses like the common cold, and other endemic coronaviruses, have forgettable faces that fade from our immune memory and come back to visit us year after year.\n\nJust before Christmas I wrote about my surprise at having a possible reinfection with Covid. With 100 million people infected worldwide the number of reinfections appeared to be vanishingly small.\n\nAs medical students we immerse ourselves in textbooks full of rare and exotic diseases and in our innocence we then spend our early years diagnosing them in all the patients that we see, only to be gently reminded by our teachers that what is common is common. There is an old medical aphorism for this: when you hear hoofbeats, don't look for zebras.\n\nSo when I received my positive PCR result, my first instinct was to ignore the zebra and assume that my first positive antibody test, last summer, had found antibodies arising from common seasonal coronaviruses similar to Covid, not from Covid itself.\n\nMy positive test for previous infection (left) and my colleague Dinesh Saralaya's negative one\n\nResults from the recent national Siren study have made me rethink. Back at the start of the pandemic Susan Hopkins, an infectious diseases expert, realised that lots of healthcare workers were getting infected, but the lack of testing availability meant that they did not have confirmed PCR (antigen) results. She was being asked about the risk of reinfection and the possibility of issuing \"antibody passports\" that would allow people who had recovered from Covid to carry on their normal lives.\n\nShe realised that she didn't have the answers and so did what all good scientists do, set up a research study, which got under way in June.\n\nHealthcare workers were among the most at risk during the first wave, so provide a rich soup to study Covid infections. She and her team devised a study of 10,000 NHS staff to follow up for 12 months and as the urgency of the research grew, the study expanded to include 50,000 staff all across the UK.\n\nThose in the study, which is still continuing, get PCR and antibody tests for SARS-CoV-2 every two to four weeks.\n\nIn the first set of results, published in January, about one-third of them turned out to have antibodies for the virus, confirming previous infection during the first wave of the pandemic, and the remaining two-thirds had remained clear of infection.\n\nSusan Hopkins found that almost 1% of staff who had evidence of prior infection became reinfected in just the initial five months of the study. Most of these staff had been asymptomatic in their first infection, and so probably had mild infections with immune responses that that faded quickly, but about 25% had a full Covid syndrome and yet still got reinfected. So the severity of the initial illness did not necessarily protect against subsequent infection. Crucially, the study also highlighted that previous infection did not prevent the risk of future transmission of the virus.\n\nThe study also found that some people lose their antibodies really quickly, and others lose them more slowly over time.\n\nThese results are likely to be a precursor of what happens to our antibodies with vaccines, and so it is becoming clearer that we are unlikely to reach zero Covid. Rather, we will see ongoing outbreaks as our immunity waxes and wanes. One analogy being used foresees the current forest fire of cases becoming a bonfire, then a pile of smouldering embers, and after that just smoke - followed by small fires sparking up, perhaps in the winter months. Previous infection or vaccination will not necessarily protect you.\n\nIt may become a feature of lives, like seasonal flu.\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThis is likely to be an unsettling thought for those who had severe symptoms, for example Jennie Marshall-Hamad, a nurse manager in charge of a female Covid ward. When I last wrote about Jennie, in April, she had sent her four-year-old boy, Zedi, to live with her mother in order to dedicate herself to her work.\n\nA month later she caught the virus. She was unwell for two weeks, and had begun to recover when fatigue and breathing problems set in, keeping her off work for more than three months. She's still attending the long Covid clinic and taking care to get enough rest between shifts.\n\n\"I've never been poorly in my life and it's such a big thing that's affected me massively,\" she says.\n\nJennie Marshall-Hamad lived apart from her son throughout the first wave\n\nThe vaccine provides a degree of confidence. Jennie says she feels safer on the wards, but she remains careful. Like other hospital staff, she takes lateral flow tests twice a week \"to reassure us that we're OK\" and she still only sees her grandparents - who are in their 90s - from the garden.\n\nEighty per cent of the staff on her ward have now had Covid, Jennie says, and they will all by now have had the vaccination too.\n\nSo how will this combination of immune challenges - infection and vaccination - affect risk of future infection? The Siren study should be able to tell us this, while also showing how single doses of vaccines differ from two doses.\n\nIt will also be able to investigate the risk of reinfection with new variants such as the Kent variant and help us understand to what extent our immune response to one type of virus protects us against others.\n\nBut it seems highly likely that as more variants emerge across the world, the genetic mutations in the virus will make it a moving target for our body's defence system, and for vaccine manufacturers.", "Wales edged out 14-man Scotland in a mesmeric thriller at Murrayfield to maintain their 100% start to their Six Nations campaign.\n\nTries from Darcy Graham and Stuart Hogg had the Scots in a 17-8 half-time lead.\n\nBut a frantic seven minutes saw the hosts have a try disallowed and Zander Fagerson sent off, while the visitors went over twice to swing the momentum.\n\nA Wyn Jones try was bookended by two from Louis Rees-Zammit, the latter proving crucial in the bonus-point win.\n\nScotland claimed a losing bonus point too, but 20-year-old Rees-Zammit's efforts were the highlight of the encounter.\n\nHis first try came just moments before the break to offer hope for the Welsh, while Liam Williams' try on 52 minutes came just three minutes after Gary Graham's score was ruled out.\n• None Wales cannot get carried away - Pivac\n\nIt's hard to recall a time in living memory when Wales went into a Test against Scotland as clear underdogs - with good reason as it turned out - but they made a bright enough start even if their pressure only delivered three points from Leigh Halfpenny's boot. There was plenty of grunt but precious little craft - and there was a gulf between the sides in that regard.\n\nFinn Russell levelled it on the 10-minute mark as Scotland slowly but surely turned the screw on the injury-hit visitors. Scotland, seeking a fifth straight win in the championship for the first time since 1984, struck the first significant blow of a bitterly cold day when Darcy Graham went over for the first try.\n\nIt was a beauty, too. A score borne out of vision and anticipation and ambition. Russell started it with a little break and offload to Jonny Gray who galloped in behind the Welsh defence. The big man, exceptional at Twickenham, had support coming in waves.\n\nThe key men were Ali Price, who spotted Wales' flat defence and dinked a gorgeous chip over the top, and Graham, who read his scrum-half's mind and gobbled up the dropping ball. Halfpenny tried to recover his ground, but it was too late. Russell's conversion put the Scots seven points clear.\n\nThis reborn Scotland side came again soon after. A scrum, a wraparound in midfield, a chip ahead from Hogg which should have been dealt with by Halfpenny, but wasn't. The full-back, so often the scourge of the Scots, slid to deal with the loose ball but then nightmarishly allowed it squirm from his grip. Hogg seized on it and scored. Russell made it 17-3 and the questions about Scotland's ability to back up the Twickenham win were being answered.\n\nThey got sloppy for a spell afterwards, though. Penalties flowed and so, at last, did Wales, Nick Tompkins and Liam Williams putting Rees-Zammit over in the corner just before the break. A nine-point game now.\n\nEarly in the new half it looked to all the world as if that gap would stretch in Scotland's favour when Gary Graham piled over at the posts, but Scott Cummings was done for obstruction and everything turned from there.\n\nWales came downfield, launched a devastating maul, threw a dummy runner and some deception in midfield, and Rees-Zammit went through a gap and fed Williams to score. Callum Sheedy banged over the extras, 17-15.\n\nThen, drama. Fagerson walked when his shoulder connected with Wyn Jones' head at the breakdown. Scotland down to 14, Wales with a one-man advantage for the second week running. Another powerful Welsh maul added to Scotland's pain. The sinned-against became the scorer. Try for big Wyn - and a three-point lead for Wales.\n\nThis pulsating game was far from done, though. The 14 men got themselves back up the pitch, piled the heat on Wales under their own posts and then struck out, Russell finding Hogg who took Owen Watkin on the outside to score. It was a terrific finish from the captain. Russell, from 41 metres out and away on the angle, rifled over a valuable conversion. Scotland now had a four-point lead.\n\nIn keeping with the mini-classic we were watching, Wales regained the lead minutes later and again it was the sensational Rees-Zammit at the heart of it. This was all about the brilliant wing. He sped down the touchline, chipped ahead, gathered and outpaced the retreating Scots, Hogg among them. Wonderful.\n\nSheedy missed another conversion so the gap stayed at one. Ten minutes to go. Terrific. Scotland's 14 threw everything at Wales but they defended stoutly in the closing minutes.\n\nNo way through, no way back for Scotland, not even when Duhan van der Merwe looked to be away in the closing seconds only to be tap-tackled to the floor by Watkin. A mammoth injury list they may have had, but this was a gargantuan victory for Wayne Pivac's men.\n\n'I'm loving playing on this stage' - what they said\n\nScotland captain Stuart Hogg speaking to BBC Scotland: \"I thought we were excellent in large parts of that game. We talked a lot during the week about our discipline. Conceding one penalty is fine, conceding four on the bounce is unacceptable.\n\n\"Wales were outstanding, they took their opportunities but we gave them to them.\n\n\"It's pointless me whinging about the red card, what's done is done.\"\n\nWales' man of the match Louis Rees-Zammit told BBC One: \"We've come a long way from the last Six Nations campaign and worked so hard in training. It's hard to come up here and get a win.\n\n\"I'm thoroughly enjoying it, the whole team have helped me settle in and I'm loving playing on this sort of stage.\"\n\nGlasgow Warriors & Scotland hooker Fraser Brown: \"Some decisions are completely subjective. Either give the officials full autonomy to make their own decision about it, and accept that there will be differences in how they see it, or say absolutely any contact to the head is a red card and we end up playing games with eight or seven players.\n\n\"People don't want that because it ruins the spectacle but we have to think, are we doing this for the players' safety or are we doing it just for lip service?\"\n\nFormer Wales fly-half James Hook: \"A lot better performance by Wales this week, we showed a lot more. Rees-Zammit was the spark that everyone knows he can be, and he showed it today.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nDaniil Medvedev's coach walked out as the Russian blew a two-set lead before winning a five-setter for the first time in the Australian Open third round.\n\nMedvedev repeatedly yelled at his box as he went 4-1 down in the fourth - with coach Gilles Cervara eventually picking up his bag and leaving.\n\nHe did not return to see Medvedev dial back in to dominate the deciding set.\n\n\"He said just before leaving that he's sure I'm going to win the match, but he's going to leave to let me be more calm,\" Medvedev said of Cervara's exit.\n\n\"Sometimes maybe I will disagree but this time for sure it was a good thing to do.\n\n\"Today it helped, and definitely we're going to talk about it a little bit, but there is not a big deal.\"\n\nMedvedev, among the favourites to challenge defending champion Novak Djokovic, yelled in French, Russian and English as the match against the Serb slipped from his grasp.\n\nHe also complained about the spider-camera at Melbourne Park, saying it was obstructing his toss on serve, and at one point shouted: \"This Australian Open sucks.\"\n\nHe received a medical time-out in the fourth set after complaining of buttock pain and then went on to win the final set without dropping a game in just 25 minutes.\n\nMedvedev, who won the season-ending ATP Finals in 2020, has often caught attention for his on-court antics.\n\nHe was booed throughout the US Open in 2019 where he reached the final, and he later admitted that the crowd spurred him on.\n\n\"Sometimes I'm a very temperamental person on the court so it can still get out, and usually it doesn't help me to play good,\" he said.\n\n\"Now I think I have made big steps already working on my mental strengths.\"\n\nThere are no crowds at the tournament after the state of Victoria entered an emergency five-day lockdown on Saturday.\n\nMedvedev will play Mackenzie McDonald next after the American beat Lloyd Harris of South Africa 7-6 (9-7) 6-1 6-4.\n\nGreek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas also advanced, beating Mikael Ymer of Sweden 6-4 6-1 6-1.\n\nHe will play eighth seed Matteo Berrettini after the Italian edged out Karen Khachanov of Russia 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-5).\n\nCasper Ruud became the second Norwegian man - after his father, Christian - to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam.\n\nRuud beat Moldova's Radu Albot 6-1 5-7 6-4 6-4 and will play Andrey Rublev next after the Russian seventh seed beat Feliciano Lopez of Spain 7-5 6-2 6-3.\n\nRuud's father reached the fourth round of the 1997 Australian Open.\n\nRafael Nadal beat Britain's Cameron Norrie in straight sets to set up a fourth-round meeting with Fabio Fognini, who ousted Alex de Minaur of Australia 6-4 6-3 6-4.\n• None Rhod Gilbert with a frank, funny and personally revealing look at the condition\n• None Scarlett Moffatt Wants To Believe: What is the theory behind ghost sightings and does it prove anything?", "The home of Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti has been the target of a burglary, the BBC understands.\n\nTwo male offenders stole a safe from a property in Crosby, near Liverpool, after 18:30 GMT on Friday, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe occupants were unharmed, a police spokesperson said.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone with information to contact them, saying the burglars wore black clothing and balaclavas.\n\nAncelotti was appointed Everton boss in December 2019, after signing a four-and-a-half-year deal that runs until the end of the 2023/24 season.\n\nThe 61-year-old Italian has won 20 trophies, including league titles in four countries and the Champions League three times, doing so twice with AC Milan and once with Real Madrid.", "Karim Khan has acted for Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto and Saifd Al Islam, son of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi\n\nA leading British barrister has been elected the next chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC).\n\nKarim Khan, 50, currently heads a United Nations investigation into war crimes committed by the Islamic State group in Iraq.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said success in a closely-fought election would be seen as a diplomatic win for the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe ICC is the only permanent body investigating crimes against humanity.\n\nMr Khan won the votes of 72 out of 123 countries in the second round of voting, and will begin his nine-year term at the court in the Hague in June.\n\nHe defeated candidates from Ireland, Italy and Spain.\n\nMr Khan will be only the third chief prosecutor in the court's 18-year history, succeeding Gambian judge Fatou Bensouda.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab welcomed his election, saying: \"Karim's extensive experience in international law will be pivotal in ensuring we hold those responsible for the most heinous crimes to account and gain justice for their victims.\"\n\nSince 2018, Mr Khan has led a UN investigation aimed at identifying and bringing to justice the perpetrators of IS atrocities in Iraq.\n\nIn his 27-year law career, he has previously worked for the prosecution in the International Criminal Tribunals for crimes committed in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide.\n\nMr Khan has been working in Iraq investigating crimes such as the massacre of the Yazidi minority by IS\n\nAnd he has defended figures such as Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto at the ICC - which threw out charges of murder, deportation and persecution following the country's 2007 elections - and the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saifd Al Islam.\n\nAmong his first tasks as ICC chief prosecutor will be to decide how to handle controversial investigations into war crimes in Afghanistan, and potentially in the occupied Palestinian territories.\n\nLast year the US - which along with China and Russia does not recognise the court - imposed sanctions on the current chief prosecutor Ms Bensouda when she tried to investigate US actions in Afghanistan.\n\nAnd Israel - which is also not a member of the ICC - accused the court of infringing \"the right of democratic countries to defend themselves\" when it ruled it had jurisdiction over war crimes and atrocities committed in the Palestinian territories.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that, with the support of vaccines and new treatments, Covid-19 will become a \" treatable disease\" that we \"have to live with, like we do flu\".\n\nBut there are experts who warn we are still \"a long way\" from being able to treat the virus as we do flu - with mutations getting \"more dangerous\" and \"more infectious\"\n\nDr Richard Horton has suggested it would up to four years to build up sufficient levels of immunity in the population, but agreed we can't live under restrictive measure indefinitely.\n\nBBC Health Correspondent Nick Triggle says it's simply about being realistic:\n\n\"Covid isn't something that can be eradicated like smallpox.\n\n\"Temporary suppression, which is essentially what countries like New Zealand have done, is about protecting people in the short-term. Unless they keep their borders shut forever, it cannot work long-term.\n\n\"Vaccines mean immunity builds up and, at the very least, should stop most people falling seriously ill.\n\n\"There will be an ongoing challenge of keeping up with a virus that will mutate - although this is likely to be less difficult than it seems as coronaviruses tend to be much more stable than flu, for which different strains circulate every year.\n\n\"There will always be people who are susceptible, either the vaccine doesn't work or they have refused to have it. That is why the continued advances in treatments are essential.\n\n\"But we should never again see the levels of deaths we have.\n\n\"Thousands will still die in winters to come. But each year this should lessen until it gets near to the levels of mortality we see with flu - something which society readily accepts.\"", "Emergency services have been searching the area for almost two weeks\n\nThe bodies of a man and woman have been recovered from a car that has been in the River Trent for almost two weeks.\n\nSearches had been ongoing since witnesses saw a car floating in the river near Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, on 1 February.\n\nEmergency services had located the car days later but struggled to reach it because of the fast flow of water caused by flooding.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said relatives of the deceased had been informed.\n\nThe force said specialist divers discovered the two bodies inside the vehicle after 10:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\n\"Underwater recoveries of this nature are always very challenging, but our divers' work has been further complicated by the very fast flowing water at the site,\" he added.\n\n\"It was simply not safe to attempt this work before today.\"\n\nPolice said low visibility and flooding caused problems in searching the river\n\nThe car had been located using sonar technology days after the report but \"treacherous conditions\" prevented its recovery, police had said.\n\nWitnesses had reported seeing two occupants inside a car floating along the river after it left Hoveringham Road and entered the water.\n\nEyewitness Pauline Bulpitt said at the time: \"It was quite shocking. My husband rushed to get his Wellington boots, hoping the car would come into the bank further up and we might be able to do something to help.\n\n\"There was another gentleman running down the field to see if he could do something to help but the car carried on down.\"\n\nAlthough the bodies had not been recovered sooner, police said they believed they knew who the people were and their relatives had been supported by officers.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man and woman were arrested on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy\n\nA couple have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy they were set to adopt.\n\nPolice said a 37-year-old woman and 34-year-old man, from Barrow-in-Furness, had been arrested on suspicion of murder, causing or allowing the death of a child and two counts of assault.\n\nThey have been released on bail, Cumbria Police said.\n\nCumbria County Council said the child was under its care but was living with the couple before the adoption.\n\nThe council said it had recommended an independent safeguarding review was carried out.\n\nPolice said the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) was called on 6 January and the child was taken to Furness General Hospital in Barrow before being transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nDet Ch Supt Dean Holden said: \"Two people have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the tragic death of a one-year-old boy in Barrow.\n\n\"An investigation is under way by a dedicated team of detectives and other specialists in order to establish the full circumstances of the death in full consultation with the coroner.\"\n\nThe county council said a final adoption order had not yet been granted by the courts, however it is a requirement of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 that a child lives with their adoptive parents for a period before an application for an adoption order can be made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy snow across all counties caused travel disruption but created spectacular scenery\n\nHeavy snow has caused disruption in Northern Ireland and a warning of strong winds has been issued.\n\nOn Saturday transport was disrupted and some sporting fixtures were called off, with people advised to only make necessary journeys.\n\nDriving conditions were difficult on the Glenshane Pass\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for wind for counties Down and Antrim from 04:00 GMT on Sunday to 23:59.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland there is an orange warning for wind in some parts.\n\nCairn Wood was a popular spot for people to enjoy a walk in the snow\n\nThere were slippery, icy conditions in Northern Ireland on Saturday with snow accumulating even at low levels.\n\nSome roads in several counties were impassable.\n\nSnowboarders took to Prince of Wales Avenue at Stormont\n\nPublic transport operator Translink suspended all bus services to and from Armagh city, while there was also disruption on the Belfast-Dublin and Belfast-Newry routes.\n\nBelfast City Council closed Roselawn Cemetery to visitors on Saturday because of the weather.\n\nIn County Fermanagh people were urged to stay away from the Cuilcagh Boardwalk.\n\nIn spite of efforts to clear snow from the Oval, the Glentoran v Coleraine match was postponed\n\nParts of the path were inaccessible due to the weather and road access in the area was described as \"hazardous\".\n\nIn football's Irish Premiership, Ballymena United v Linfield and Warrenpoint Town v Glenavon were both been called off.\n\nAn impressive snowman from Patrick Rodgers in Cookstown County Tyrone, (l), and fun at Stormont, Belfast (r)\n\nThe Glentoran v Coleraine match was postponed after a pitch inspection and kick-off in Portadown's fixture against Cliftonville was delayed by two hours.\n\nThe snow eventually cleared to the east, with temperatures increasing to between 4C and 6C.\n\nPortstewart in County Londonderry was covered in a snowy blanket\n\nSaturday night will be cloudy and windy but mainly dry, with lows of 1C or 2C and icy conditions expected.\n\nSunday will become milder with temperatures rising to 9C or 10C.\n\nThe waterfall at Seacoast Road, Downhill, County Londonderry was frozen\n\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has advised the public not to visit forests, country parks or nature reserves on Sunday.\n\nIt said that was \"due to increased risks associated with falling branches and debris\".\n\nA little robin captured on camera in Belfast on Saturday morning\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the meteorological service Met Éireann has issued an orange warning for wind in counties Donegal, Dublin and Mayo.\n\nIt is warning of the risk of \"coastal flooding\".\n\nSheep in the snow in Augher, County Tyrone\n\nThe rest of the country is subject to a yellow warning for wind.\n\nSeveral thousand homes and businesses were without power for much of Saturday in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nA number of crashes were reported on Irish motorways, including an eight-car pile-up between junctions six and seven on the M3.", "Nearby streets were flooded after the burst in Glasgow\n\nWater supplies have been restored to more than 65,00 homes and businesses in Glasgow and Inverclyde after supply pipe problems.\n\nScottish Water said a 36in (91cm) trunk main failed in Anniesland early on Saturday, affecting 53,000 customers.\n\nNearby roads were flooded, with the water turning to ice in many places in the sub-zero temperatures.\n\nA separate problem in Inverclyde left 13,000 homes and businesses without water.\n\nDivers had to be brought in to remove the ice that was blocking a pipe to the Greenock water treatment plant which gets its water from Loch Thom.\n\nSupplies of bottled water were distributed in Greenock, Gourock, Inverkip, Wemyss Bay and Skelmorlie as specialist teams worked to fix the problem.\n\nSupplies were restored at about 21:00 on Saturday.\n\nDuring the first incident in Glasgow, police were brought in to manage traffic as roads were flooded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scottish Water This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Scottish Water said: \"We would like to apologise to customers in Glasgow who experienced disruption to their water supply this morning.\n\n\"With all customers now back in supply, work is under way to excavate and repair the trunk water main so that the water network can be restored to normal operation.\n\n\"We're grateful for local communities' patience and support while our teams are working in challenging conditions to keep the city's water flowing.\"\n\nEngineers were working to isolate the damaged pipe\n\nCustomers were warned that water may initially appear discoloured or cloudy.\n\nThey are advised to run their cold tap at half pressure until the water runs clear.", "India v England: Virat Kohli refuses to walk after being bowled by Moeen Ali Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nKohli went into the second Test with an average of 53.24 Outside edges are one thing, but India captain Virat Kohli took it to another level when he refused to leave the crease despite being bowled by Moeen Ali in the second Test against England. Kohli, the country's sporting hero and batting superstar, was cheered to the crease by a 15,000-strong crowd on the opening morning in Chennai. He failed to score off his first four deliveries. The fifth, tossed up outside off stump, tempted Kohli into an ambitious cover drive. The ball turned sharply, went between bat and pad and clipped the top of middle and off stump. England celebrated. The crowd fell silent. And Kohli just stood there. A look of disbelief etched on his face as he glanced back at the bails on the ground, he looked pleadingly towards batting partner Rohit Sharma. The umpire even had to ask for the replay to be shown on the big screen before Kohli finally left the field, still struggling to grasp what had happened to him. His depature to Moeen was the first time Kohli had been bowled for a duck by a spinner in Test cricket \"It was an extraordinary performance. Presumably the umpires had to show him a review to get him off the field,\" said BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew. \"The last person that stood like that after being clean bowled was WG Grace.\" Legend has it that Grace refused to walk and once said \"they came to see me bat, not you umpire\" when given out lbw. Within moments of Kohli's dismissal, Grace was trending on Twitter.\n• None 'It's a bit like VAR' - Leach jokes about review system after TV umpire controversy It was only the second time Kohli had been bowled by an off-spinner in 89 Tests, while all-rounder Moeen savoured the perfect start to his first Test since August 2019. \"It did turn big but Moeen did him with the drift - he lured him in,\" former England captain Alastair Cook said on The Cricket Social. \"That was a beautiful ball. If Graeme Swann bowled that we would be saying 'that's amazing'.\" Former England captain Michael Vaughan joked that the wicket was similar to his dismissal of India legend Sachin Tendulkar in 2002... Vaughan bowled Tendulkar for 92 at Trent Bridge in 2002 'The great man is gone' Moeen bowled Kohli in his fifth over 'Spilled coffee and a stubbed toe' - how you reacted England fans were rewarded for an early-morning wake-up... Dr. Ben: Crowd silent. Kohli refusing to walk. Worth waking up so early. Niall Davey: Seeing Kohli getting clean bowled for a duck has definitely justified my decision to get up ridiculously early on a Saturday for the cricket! Time for a spam sandwich... Angus: Spilt half a coffee on my leg and stubbed my toe after being caught off guard by that Kohli dismissal. I can offer no higher reward for Moeen than that. Stuart Broad's Bandana: Think I'll watch the replay of that Kohli dismissal on loop for the whole of the lunch interval. Charlie: You would have to actually hate cricket to not absolutely love seeing Moeen do that! And one even penned a poem... Ruth Brooksbank: Couldn't resist this: There once was a captain called Kohli, Who to the Indian supporters is holy. But it was comedy gold, As he got clean bowled, And walked off ever so slowly.\n• None Rhod Gilbert with a frank, funny and personally revealing look at the condition\n• None Scarlett Moffatt Wants To Believe: What is the theory behind ghost sightings and does it prove anything?", "Justin Timberlake dated Britney Spears for several years, breaking up in 2002\n\nJustin Timberlake has apologised to Britney Spears after a new documentary led to criticism of how he treated her during and after their relationship.\n\nFraming Britney Spears featured archive clips of Timberlake discussing his sexual relationship with the singer.\n\nIn a statement on Instagram on Friday, Timberlake said he was \"deeply sorry\" and wanted to \"take accountability\".\n\nHe also apologised to Janet Jackson, after failing to support her over their controversial Super Bowl performance.\n\nTimberlake and Spears dated between 1999 and 2002, while he was a member of boy band N*Sync.\n\nAfter their split, he indirectly accused her of cheating on him when he hired a lookalike actress to appear in the video for his single Cry Me A River.\n\n\"I've seen the messages, tags, comments, and concerns and I want to respond. I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right. I understand that I fell short in these moments and in many others and benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism.\n\n\"I specifically want to apologise to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson both individually, because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed. I also feel compelled to respond, in part, because everyone involved deserves better and most importantly, because this is a larger conversation that I wholeheartedly want to be part of and grow from.\n\n\"The industry is flawed. It sets men, especially white men, up for success. It's designed this way. As a man in a privileged position I have to be vocal about this. Because of my ignorance, I didn't recognise it for all that it was while it was happening in my own life but I do not want to ever benefit from others being pulled down again.\n\n\"I have not been perfect in navigating all of this throughout my career. I know this apology is a first step and doesn't absolve the past. I want to take accountability for my own missteps in all of this as well as be part of a world that uplifts and supports. I care deeply about the wellbeing of the people I love and have loved. I can do better and I will do better.\"\n\nAfter finding fame at the end of the 1990s, Spears said she was waiting until she was married to lose her virginity.\n\nBut during a radio interview, a clip of which features in the documentary, Timberlake publicly revealed that they had slept together.\n\nTwo years later, at the 2004 Super Bowl, Timberlake performed with Janet Jackson, accidentally exposing her breast. The \"wardrobe malfunction\", as it became known, led to outcry and complaints from viewers.\n\nAlthough both apologised, Jackson absorbed the bulk of the negative publicity. She was fined and blacklisted by US radio and MTV, and Timberlake's failure to publicly support her was heavily criticised in later years.\n\nInterest in Spears has been renewed by the release of the New York Times documentary, which examines how Spears has been treated throughout her career.\n\nIt has led to criticism of Timberlake and other figures including journalist Diane Sawyer, who told Spears during a 2003 interview she had \"disappointed a lot of mothers\", and gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who was involved in the coverage of her 2007 breakdown.\n\nThe film also goes into detail about the singer's conservatorship, a legal arrangement that has given her father Jamie Spears control over her career and financial affairs since 2008.\n\nHowever on Thursday, a judge upheld a previous ruling that made a financial company a co-conservator for the singer, and rejected Mr Spears' request to keep his previous level of power over his daughter's investments.\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. Camila Batmanghelidjh: \"I am delighted that the justice system paid attention to the facts\"\n\nThe founder and former trustees of the collapsed charity Kids Company have won a High Court battle against being disqualified from other organisations.\n\nThe Official Receiver argued they were \"unfit\" to hold directorships because of their handling of the charity.\n\nBut the ruling cleared former chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh and the seven others of personal wrongdoing.\n\nThe judge added the charity may have survived had it not been for unfounded allegations of criminal activity.\n\nA plan to restructure the organisation's finances had been agreed with David Cameron's government.\n\nBut the charity closed its doors in 2015 after the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into sexual assault allegations, following the broadcast of a BBC Newsnight report.\n\nThe police investigation concluded in 2016 after finding no evidence of criminality.\n\nIn her ruling, Mrs Justice Falk said the charity, which worked with hundreds of vulnerable children in London and Bristol, may have survived financially to continue its work had it not closed.\n\nDuring the lengthy court battle, the Official Receiver - a body that looks into potential wrongdoing by company directors - had alleged that the charity's former leaders should be disqualified as directors because the organisation had been so badly run.\n\nIn the run-up to its collapse, the charity was spending around £20m a year, up to a quarter of which came from the government.\n\nThe Official Receiver alleged that Kids Company's business model had become unsustainable from around September 2013 and its failure was inevitable.\n\nIt also alleged that the defendants knew or ought to have known that and should have planned to avoid financial collapse.\n\nThe charity's chairman at the time of its collapse, who was also cleared by the ruling, was the former BBC executive Alan Yentob.\n\nMrs Justice Falk said the case was not proven.\n\n\"There was no allegation of dishonesty, bad faith or personal gain,\" said the judge.\n\n\"There was no allegation of inappropriate expenditure in relation to any of the children assisted by Kids Company.\n\n\"The allegation is not made out against any of the directors and they are not unfit. The case against them fails.\n\n\"While aspects of the charity's work were high-risk, the business model was not unsustainable.\"\n\nMrs Justice Falk said the charity had grown rapidly from its south London base as demand for its specialist support services for vulnerable children grew.\n\nDespite having a substantial and stable government grant, it also needed to raise additional funds from private donors - and by 2015 it was in talks with Whitehall over how to do that amid concerns about its cash flow and staff costs.\n\n\"That restructuring plan was agreed and a further government grant was awarded,\" said the judge.\n\n\"However the charity was forced to close after sexual assault allegations [the same week]. The charity was exonerated following a police investigation - but by that time it was too late.\n\n\"Had it not been for those unfounded allegations, it is more likely than not that the restructuring would have succeeded and the charity would have survived.\"\n\nThe judge described the people running the charity as a \"group of highly impressive and dedicated individuals who selflessly gave enormous amounts of their time to what was clearly a highly challenging trusteeship\".\n\nIn a statement after the ruling, Ms Batmanghelidjh, who founded Kids Company in 1996, said: \"I hope this judgement will be the first step in refuting the many lies that have been told and banishing the false myths.\n\n\"My regret is that many thousands of children whom we supported were left unassisted and vulnerable once our service was withdrawn and that there were many others who never got a chance to receive help.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, Ms Batmanghelidjh said the ruling was \"justice\" for the \"thousands of staff, volunteers and donors who created Kids Company over nearly 20 years\".\n\nBut she said Kids Company would not have had to \"carry that burden of child protection if the child protection system in this country was fit for purpose\".\n\nA statement issued on behalf of former trustees said: \"Kids Company was forced to close in August 2015 following what the judge records as 'unfounded allegations' of child abuse, which made fundraising from private and government sources impossible.\n\n\"We are pleased that finally the facts have been gathered and assessed in a court of law.\"", "The Government is confident that its post-Brexit worst-case scenario of disruption from queues of thousands of lorries in Kent has now been avoided.\n\nOverall freight flows have returned to the same levels as last year.\n\nInternal figures seen by the BBC show outbound roll-on roll-off lorry traffic for Great Britain for the month so far at 98% of last February's levels.\n\nInbound traffic is at 99% of last year's levels.\n\nThe transition period after the UK left the EU is now over, and a new regime is in place.\n\nOne official says the government is \"pleased that overall flows are back to normal\".\n\nAbout 80-90% of laden lorries are arriving border-ready.\n\nLarger manufacturing firms in particular appear to have taken advantage of new systems designed to prepare loads for the border on leaving premises.\n\nOfficials say they are pleased that overall flows are back to normal.\n\nHowever, their analysis of data from multiple sources - ferry manifests, port traffic, the Channel Tunnel, French officials and Kent Permit checks - also shows:\n\nLorry traffic on the crossing from Kent to the EU on ferries and via the Channel Tunnel in January was 67% of the same month in 2020, and 82% in February.\n\nAlthough there is no formal count of empty lorries, a variety of ferry company, French, and UK official data suggest the proportion of empty lorries going back to the EU at around 50%.\n\nFrench sources suggested Eurotunnel, which tends to transfer higher-value loads, was seeing 50-60% empty loads.\n\nIndustry sources said the existence of such empty lorries was not new, but that this was normally at 25-30%.\n\nSo far this year, there is also evidence of freight routes changing and more traffic going via Harwich and Immingham to the Netherlands, though this will also reflect the recent French Covid testing policy.\n\nThe Government's data on lorries turning back due to the wrong documentation is now below 2.5%, having been closer to 8% in the first days of the new regime.\n\nCombining the reduction in traffic flow with the increased number of empty lorries, it is possible to calculate that actual lorry transfers of freight in January from Kent to the EU were substantially down, by around 2,000 lorries a day compared to January 2020.\n\nEven now, with overall levels back to normal, there are around 1,000-2,000 fewer lorries exiting the whole of Great Britain with actual freight.\n\nThis is partly down to pre-Christmas stockpiling, but that effect is likely to be waning now.\n\nThe government has also internally identified what type of exports are in the lorries, as that information is reported in ferry manifest data.\n\nFrom this, it has concluded internally that exports of clothing and apparel have been hit mainly by a Covid lockdown impact.\n\nBut the fall in food, agriculture and sea fish exports is the impact of the post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThe big picture is that the worst-case scenario queues have not materialised. But the economic impact in specific areas of the economy is noticeable in the same data.\n\nFrench officials confirmed this same general picture, and both sides of the Channel reported a good level of cooperation in ironing out problems with, for example, IT systems.\n\nOfficial statistics on this will only start to be available with trade figures for July published next month.\n\nInternally, the Government's hope is that the lack of congestion can now tempt cautious traders back into fully using these trade routes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens: \"This has been a very encouraging start, and obviously there is much more to do\".\n\nPeople aged 70 or over who have not yet had a Covid jab are being urged to come forward, in a final push by ministers to meet their vaccination target.\n\nMore than 14 million people in the UK have had at least one dose - with the aim being 15 million by Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the UK could this year live with Covid \"like we do with flu\".\n\n\"I hope that Covid-19 will become a treatable disease by the end of the year,\" he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nOver the weekend, ministers are taking part in a renewed drive to encourage people in the top four priority groups - comprising of people aged 70 and over, front-line health and social care workers, care home residents and the clinically extremely vulnerable - to get vaccinated.\n\nVaccinating the 15 million people in these priority groups would cover 88% of those most at risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nOn Friday, Wales said it was the first UK nation to meet the target.\n\nOverall uptake of the vaccine has been high, with a 93% take-up rate among the over-75s in England, according to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).\n\nAcross the UK, a quarter of adults have already received one dose, including around nine in 10 over-70s.\n\nPeople aged 70 or over in England have already been asked to contact the NHS to arrange their jab. They can book an appointment online, or by calling 119 or contacting their local GP.\n\nHealth and social care workers should speak to their employer if they have not had their vaccine yet, the DHSC said.\n\nAnd GP teams have been asked to contact their clinically extremely vulnerable patients to make sure they have been offered a jab.\n\nAlmost 30 ministers are taking part in visits and virtual meetings across the UK in a further push to encourage everyone eligible for the jab to get vaccinated.\n\nThey will hear from NHS staff and volunteers helping with the rollout, as well as people getting the vaccine.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"I am determined that we protect as many of our country's most vulnerable people from this awful disease as soon as possible.\"\n\n\"Vaccines are the way out of this pandemic and it is testament to the strength of our Union and the combined power of our United Kingdom that we've seen such incredible progress in the roll-out of our vaccination programme,\" he added.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS medical director, said the UK's vaccination programme was \"off to a strong start\".\n\n\"People in the priority groups have not missed their chance to get jabbed and if you are aged 70 and over and haven't yet taken up the offer, please do come forward and make an appointment,\" he said.\n\nThe government has also published a plan to help boost vaccine uptake in all communities, including those who may feel more hesitant about it.\n\nIt aims to raise awareness of how the NHS is making vaccination available to all, especially ethnic minorities, homeless people, asylum seekers and those with disabilities.\n\nIt highlights successful examples of community-led engagement which other areas could replicate, including a mobile vaccination service in Crawley to help reach those who are housebound and the use of social media resources to dispel vaccine myths in Slough.\n\nAbout two thirds of care home staff have accepted the offer of a vaccine, Professor Anthony Harnden, the deputy chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation JCVI, said.\n\nHe rejected suggestions the jab should be made compulsory for those who wish to carry on working in care homes.\n\n\"I would much prefer to be able to persuade by the power of argument than to force people or to make people lose their jobs because they didn't take up the vaccine,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"The plan is working but we're a long way off getting this sorted\"\n\nThe next wave of vaccinations will include the over-50s and people with underlying health conditions, due to be vaccinated by May, with details to be set out next week.\n\nSome regions have already begun inviting the over-60s, who are part of the next phase, to be vaccinated.\n\nOn Friday, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the number of Covid cases was going down in all nations of the UK - although infection levels remained high.\n\nOn Friday, 15,144 new cases were recorded in the UK, as well as 758 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "\"Significant gaps\" remain in the hotel quarantine plan that comes into force on Monday, Heathrow Airport has said.\n\nTravellers arriving in England from 33 high-risk countries will be required to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nBut the airport said ministers needed to ensure appropriate measures were in place to avoid compromising the safety of passengers and airport staff.\n\nThe government said it was working closely with airports and hotels to manage any issues that arose.\n\nUK nationals and Irish residents returning from the \"red list\" - mainly consisting of countries in South America and Africa, plus Portugal - will have to quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels to try to stop new coronavirus variants entering the country.\n\nThey will have to pay £1,750 for their stay, which covers the cost of the hotel, transport and testing, and book it in advance using a government portal.\n\nThose who fail to quarantine in such hotels face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nBut, less than two days away from the measures coming into effect, Heathrow said it had yet to receive \"necessary reassurances\" from the government.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have been working hard with the government to try to ensure the successful implementation of the policy from Monday, but some significant gaps remain.\n\n\"Ministers must ensure there is adequate resource and appropriate protocols in place for each step of the full end-to-end process from aircraft to hotel to avoid compromising the safety of passengers and those working at the airport.\"\n\nThe airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK and is expected to receive the largest number of passengers.\n\nThe other four are Gatwick, London City, Birmingham and Farnborough Airfield.\n\nRegulations for the hotel quarantine measures, which come into force from 04:00 on Monday, have have now been published.\n\nBut on Friday the Immigration Services Union said its officials had yet to receive guidance on how the system would work.\n\nThe union said officials still did not know what levels of checks they should be conducting on travellers.\n\nIt also raised concerns about the safety of security halls.\n\nAnd the GMB union has warned that \"rushed\" government plans are not thorough enough to make sure workers on the front line in quarantine hotels are protected.\n\nThe union said security guards were one of the occupations worst hit by Covid deaths, adding that it wanted to meet employers to develop a strategy to better protect workers.\n\nBeckie Morris said travellers should not be used as \"guinea pigs\"\n\nMeanwhile, a family returning to the UK after four years living in Abu Dhabi have said travellers should not be used as \"guinea pigs\", amid confusion over hotel quarantine rules.\n\nBeckie Morris, 30, planned to repatriate to the UK with husband Matthew and their five-week-old daughter, but they now face a quarantine bill of thousands of pounds if they do.\n\nThe new mother said there was \"no information\" on the government website about what to do with young children.\n\nShe said: \"We'd have to arrange all the formula. I don't know what we do about sterilising bottles, or nappies or washing their clothes - there's all this unknown. I tried to reach out, and I know it's still really early days, but there's just no information.\n\n\"They haven't really laid out what actually happens when you get to that hotel and I don't think that's going to be known until the first person goes in there.\n\n\"People shouldn't be used as guinea pigs - especially not paying that amount, that is an extortionate amount of money.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every essential check - from pre-departure testing to the passenger locator form - will help prevent the importing of new coronavirus variants into the UK.\n\n\"We are working closely with airports and hotels to manage any issues that arise and ensure the new process runs as smoothly as possible, and we are clear the safety of all staff and passengers is a priority.\"\n\nAre you due to arrive in the UK from a \"red list\" country? 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.", "South Wales Police said it wanted to speak to this man about the incidents\n\nNine sex attacks took place in a city park in the space of just five hours, police say.\n\nThe assaults happened in and around Singleton Park, Swansea between 08:00 GMT and 13:00 on Friday, South Wales Police said.\n\nA 24-year-old man, who was arrested on Friday, has been released with no further action.\n\nA cyclist who was captured on CCTV has been urged by the force to come forward.\n\n\"We appreciate these incidents are concerning to local residents who are regularly using the park during lockdown,\" Det Insp Peter Collins said.\n\n\"We are taking this very seriously and our investigation is ongoing. We also have extra patrols in and around the park.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with any information to contact the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On the fourth day of the impeachment trial, the former president’s defence set out their case.\n\nThey argued that the article of impeachment was an act of ‘political vengeance’. Donald Trump has been impeached for inciting an insurrection following the Capitol riots on 6 January.\n\nHis lawyers argued that the premeditated attack absolves the former president of responsibility.", "Greene King has changed the name of four of its pubs\n\nA brewery has renamed four of its pubs over concerns they had racist connotations.\n\nGreene King has changed the names of three pubs called The Black Boy, and another called The Black's Head.\n\nManaging director Wayne Shurvinton said there was a perception the names were \"linked with racism\".\n\nDr Halima Begum, of The Runnymede Trust, welcomed the news, saying the names had been a continual reminder of a \"history of oppression\".\n\nThe Black Boy pubs - in Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury in Suffolk, and Shinfield in Berkshire - along with the Black's Head, in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, have been given new names, but Greene King says it will take a while for the signage to be changed.\n\nIt is believed there are about 70 pubs called The Black Boy in the UK, and there remains no consensus on where the name comes from.\n\nLinks to the mining industry and a nickname for King Charles II have both been cited as possibilities.\n\nAnother theory relates to Native American figures placed outside premises to sell tobacco.\n\nMr Shurvinton said \"despite the obscure origins\" there was a perception the names were \"linked with racism, which is why we knew we had to take this step if we wanted to continue on our journey to become a truly anti-racist organisation\".\n\nThe Black Boy in Shinfield is one of four pubs getting a new name\n\nNew names were decided for the pubs following online polls, in which more than 7,000 people took part.\n\nLast year, the pub chain apologised for its historical links to the slave trade. It was founded in 1799 by Benjamin Greene, who owned highly profitable plantations.\n\nGreene King said it was working on plans to invest in black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, after consulting with staff.\n\nDr Begum, chief executive of racial equality charity The Runnymede Trust, said Greene King should be acknowledged for taking steps regarding its founder's exploitation of black people and for being open about its historical links to slavery.\n\nShe said: \"The company has made several symbolic efforts to address its founder's legacy of oppression, not least by diversifying its hiring practices and through its work with the Slavery Museum in Liverpool - but is the renaming of a few pubs enough to make amends? No. Not in the slightest.\n\n\"No doubt members of BAME communities walk past these hostelries and read the names above the door every day. They are essentially having the history of oppression rubbed in their faces on a daily basis.\n\n\"We should not single out Greene King. Many companies that remain household names today profited from the unconscionable ownership and exploitation of black people.\"\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.", "Pauline Vincent (left) said she did not like being left alone\n\nTwin sisters are celebrating their 90th birthdays by moving in together for the first time in decades.\n\nPauline Vincent and Jacqueline Hetherington had been living in separate sheltered accommodation in Ashburton, Devon, when they decided it was time to become flatmates.\n\nMrs Hetherington's daughter Jaine Swift said they were inseparable.\n\n\"They really need each other and get very anxious when they are apart,\" she said.\n\n\"At this stage of their lives it seems perfect that they move in together.\"\n\nMrs Swift and other family members helped the sisters move on Friday and made them a birthday breakfast of smoked salmon and champagne on Saturday.\n\nPauline Vincent said they had a good childhood and were \"very spoilt\"\n\nThe sisters, who were born in Halifax, west Yorkshire, in 1931, came to Devon in the 1960s, with Mrs Vincent working as a secretary and Mrs Hetherington raising a family of four children.\n\nMrs Swift said the twins had not lived together since their 20s when her mother married but remained close throughout their adult lives.\n\nAsked if the siblings ever fought, Mrs Vincent said they were \"harmonious together\" but Mrs Swift pointed out that her aunt was the tidier - and more bossy - of the pair.\n\n\"I don't like to be left alone,\" Mrs Vincent added.\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 says he will set out \"as much detail\" as he can give in his lockdown road map on 22 February\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"optimistic\" he will be able to set out plans later this month for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister said \"huge progress\" had been made with the rollout of vaccines, with ministers hopeful that schools can reopen from 8 March.\n\nAfter this, the government would look to open non-essential shops and then later the hospitality sector, he said.\n\nIt comes as scientists warned against easing lockdown measures too quickly.\n\nMr Johnson will set out his \"road map\" out of lockdown on 22 February.\n\nSo far, more than 14.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, according to Saturday's government figures.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first jab to everyone in the top four priority groups - about 15 million people - by Monday.\n\nThe figures also show a further 612 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 116,908.\n\nSpeaking at a visit to the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies plant in Billingham, Teesside, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm optimistic, I won't hide it from you. I'm optimistic but we have to be cautious.\"\n\nSetting out the government's priorities, he said: \"Our children's education is our number one priority, but then working forward, getting non-essential retail open as well and then, in due course, as and when we can prudently and cautiously, of course we want to be opening hospitality as well.\n\n\"I will be trying to set out as much as I possibly can in as much detail as I can, always understanding that we have to be wary of the pattern of disease.\n\n\"We don't want to be forced into any kind of retreat or reverse ferret,\" the PM added.\n\nHe also echoed comments made earlier by Health Secretary Matt Hancock that Covid-19 could become an illness that we live with - like the flu - by the end of the year.\n\n\"A nasty disease like this will roll through. A new disease like this will take time for humanity to adapt to, but we are,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"I do think that in due time it will become something that we simply live with. Some people will be more vulnerable than others - that's inevitable.\"\n\nMr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that he hoped new drugs by the end of 2021 could make Covid a \"treatable disease\", and one that we live with \"like we do the flu\".\n\nThis suggested that he was ruling out a \"zero Covid\" strategy, aimed at eliminating the virus entirely from the UK.\n\nHowever, scientists said coronavirus mutations were getting \"more dangerous\" and \"more infectious\" and warned against treating it like the flu.\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, a virologist at the University of Brighton, told the BBC: \"It's not a type of flu. It's not the same sort of virus. It doesn't cause the same sort of disease, it's very, very nasty.\"\n\nShe added: \"The mutations, the variations, that we're seeing are becoming more infectious, not less infectious and a bit more dangerous, not less dangerous.\"\n\nProf Steven Riley, a member of the SPI-M modelling group, told BBC Radio 4 Today: \"If for some reason we were to choose to just pretend it (coronavirus) wasn't here anymore, then there is the potential to go back to a wave that is a similar size to the one that we are in now.\"\n\nAdam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said vaccines were \"doing what we wanted them to do\", particularly among the very elderly and vulnerable, who were among the first to receive the jab.\n\nAlthough acknowledging that it was \"desperately important\" for schools to return and society to reopen, he cautioned against getting into a cycle \"where we are constantly opening up and then closing down again and everything is very unstable\".\n\n\"It's worse to open up, have another wave of pandemic, another bunch of hospitalisations and have to close down again than to be able to progressively normalise things,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nNHS Confederation chairman Lord Victor Adebowale said 8 March for schools could still be too soon, adding that the NHS workforce was \"on its knees\".\n\n\"I understand the pressure to open schools. We need to do so very safely. I think mid or late March is when we should be reassessing.\n\n\"We have had a number of false dawns when we have set dates, taken the action, then find ourselves having to row back very quickly,\" Lord Adebowale told Today.\n\nBut the prime minister is facing calls from some MPs in his party to ease restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Hospitality said for every week the hospitality sector remains shut down more companies are being placed in jeopardy and millions of jobs across hospitality and the supply chain are being put at risk.\n\nThe trade association's chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"That is why we urge the prime minister to work with us on delivering a safe, swift and sustainable exit from lockdown for hospitality.\"", "Mass tests are being carried out in Middlesbrough after a case of the South African variant was found\n\nA case of the South African variant of Covid-19 has been identified in a village in Hampshire.\n\nAnyone aged 16 or over in Bramley, near Basingstoke, will be subjected to surge testing from next week.\n\nAdditional tests will also be held in Middlesbrough and Walsall following recent discoveries of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the mutation can spread faster and vaccines may not be as effective.\n\nMass testing - or surge testing - is already taking place in parts of England to help stop the spread of new, more infectious strains of Covid-19.\n\nIt will now be deployed to targeted areas of Middlesbrough in the TS7 postcode, areas in Walsall and areas in the RG26 postcode in Hampshire.\n\nSimon Bryant, Hampshire County Council's director of public health, said: \"I appreciate that this news may be worrying but it's really important to understand that the risk of transmission from this single case is considered to be very low.\"\n\nHe added that the rapid local testing programme was \"primarily a precautionary measure\" to help the government understand and prevent the spread of new variants.\n\nDetails of how the programme will work will be published on the authority's website early next week.\n\nA test centre has been set up in Middlesbrough and anyone over 16 from Marton and Coulby Newham is being urged to get a test.\n\nThe Teesside town has the fifth highest infection rate in England.\n\nPublic Health England said as of 8 February, the rate per 100,000 people in Middlesbrough was 357.5 - down slightly from 359.6 the week before.\n\nConsultant in public health Esther Mireku said: \"While the overall Covid infection rate in Middlesbrough has now halved from its peak in early January, it has still not decreased as much as we would have liked.\n\n\"The high prevalence of Covid in the town, combined with the reporting of this variant, are a reminder to everyone of the importance of staying at home as much as possible and following hands-face-space when out for an essential reason.\"\n\nMobile testing units had already been set up in Walsall earlier this month following the discovery of the South African variant in the town.\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\nPeople in Myanmar are reacting with defiance as authorities use night-time raids to arrest opponents of the military coup.\n\nVideo footage showed people banging pots and pans to warn their neighbours of approaching security forces.\n\nMass protests have taken place since the military seized control of the South East Asian country on 1 February.\n\nThe army announced on Saturday that arrest warrants had been issued for seven prominent opposition campaigners.\n\nThey are wanted under the rarely used charge of \"disturbing tranquillity\". One of them, Min Ko Naing, was one of the student leaders involved in the failed 1988 uprising against the then-military dictator. He has appeared in a social media video denouncing the use of night-time raids to make arrests.\n\nThe United Nations human rights office said on Friday that more than 350 people had been arrested since the coup.\n\nThe country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Myanmar coup: How did we get here?\n\nThe military on Saturday also suspended laws requiring court orders for detaining people longer than 24 hours and for searching private property.\n\nBBC Burmese journalist Nyein Chan Aye said people in Myanmar were feeling \"extremely insecure, anxious and uncertain about what will happen next\".\n\n\"Sleepless nights are becoming common here in Myanmar. Security forces are raiding people's residences in many places across the country and trying to arrest those who are against the military junta. People are protecting each other, staying up late at night,\" he said.\n\nIn the country's biggest city, Yangon, footage showed people chanting and alerting neighbours as security vehicles approached. In a video shared with Reuters news agency, crowds could be seen surrounding and marching alongside police vehicles.\n\nThe videographer told the news agency the crowd had at least once made the police turn back from driving in the direction of West Yangon Hospital.\n\nOther footage showed people gathering in Yangon to demand the release of a teacher who had reportedly been detained, and banging pots and pans when they thought police units were conducting raids to arrest people.\n\nAs people took to the streets for the eighth consecutive day on Saturday, protesters chanted: \"Stop arresting people at night-time.\"\n\nMass protests in Myanmar entered their second week on Saturday\n\nInternet memes captioned \"Our nights aren't safe anymore\" have been circulating on social media.\n\nPhil Robertson, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, told the BBC there were \"more and more night-time raids\" taking place in Myanmar, in which people were dragged from their homes in the middle of the night.\n\n\"We have neighbourhoods now who are trying to organise. They're using pot banging when it looks like the police or military are coming into the area. It really has become a situation where the crackdown is now going after anybody that the military identifies as leaders of these protests,\" he said.\n\nMyanmar group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has also voiced concern about overnight arrests.\n\n\"Family members are left with no knowledge of the charges, location, or condition of their loved ones. These are not isolated incidents, and night-time raids are targeting dissenting voices,\" it said in a statement.", "Police broke up the party on the canal boat on the River Lea in the early hours of the morning\n\nA man has been arrested and 26 people reported for £800 fines after police broke up a party on a canal boat.\n\nSome 30 people were discovered on the vessel on the River Lea in east London at about 04:20 GMT.\n\nThe Met said a 31-year-old held on suspicion of breaching Covid health protection regulations had previously been reported for a £10,000 fine over another boat party.\n\nThe partygoers were dispersed and the boat has been seized.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said it was \"incredibly disappointing that incidents of this nature continue\".\n\n\"To have an individual who has repeatedly ignored these regulations and who appears to have organised multiple events is dangerous and indicates a complete disregard for the safety of all involved,\" he said.\n\nMet Police officers also shut down another large party in a house in Wandsworth, south-west London, on Thursday night.\n\nAbout 30 to 40 people were found at the gathering shortly before 23:40.\n\nOne woman was arrested for breaching Covid regulations while a man was held for an unrelated offence.\n\nFixed-penalty notices were issued to the other attendees found there.\n\nInsp Matt Ebbs said: \"These are challenging times but we must all play our part, and I urge everyone to follow the rules to protect themselves and their community.\"\n• None What powers do police have?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is scrapping a cap of £95,000 on public sector redundancy payments, after court action by trade unions.\n\nMinisters say they are looking for new ways to tackle excessive pay-outs for higher earners.\n\nThose who have left their jobs since the change was introduced in November should be reimbursed the shortfall.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the cap was withdrawn due to \"the unintended consequences\" it had on employees.\n\nThey added that the government remained committed to bringing forward proposals to tackle unjustified exit payments.\n\nThe cap came into force last November, with the aim of ensuring exit payments represented value for money and were fair to taxpayers.\n\nBut unions had fought the move, seeking a judicial review into the regulations.\n\nUnison said the rules, meant to prevent excessive payments to the highest earners, would have hit ordinary workers.\n\nUnite said long-serving public servants earning relatively low salaries of £25,000 a year would have been affected, and welcomed the decision to remove the cap.\n\nNewly published guidance from the Treasury encourages employers to pay any former workers who left between 4 November and 12 February the amount they would have received without the cap.\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea described the cap as \"damaging\", saying it had \"threatened to blight the retirement of millions of workers\".\n\n\"Through no fault of their own, long-serving staff over the age of 55 and facing redundancy would have been hit by the regulation,\" she added.\n\n\"Because they're obliged to take their pensions if they lose their jobs, when combined with redundancy payments the final amount could have exceeded the £95,000 cap.\"\n\nAnnouncing the cap in 2015, the government said it wanted to significantly reduce the cost to the taxpayer of public sector pay-offs, which totalled about £6.5bn between 2011-12 and 2013-14.\n\nMore than £1bn of this cost came as a result of exit payments costing more than £100,000, it said.\n\nThe BBC introduced a £150,000 maximum limit on redundancy payments in 2013 following criticism of severance packages paid to some departing senior executives.", "A new trial is to test how well the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine works in children.\n\nSome 300 volunteers will take part, with the first vaccinations in the trial taking place later in February.\n\nResearchers will assess whether the jab produces a strong immune response in children aged between six and 17.\n\nThe vaccine is one of two being used to protect against serious illness and death from Covid in the UK, along with the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAs many as 240 children will receive the vaccine - and the others a control meningitis jab - when the trial gets under way.\n\nVolunteers who live near one of the four study sites - the University of Oxford, St George's University Hospital, London, University Hospital Southampton and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children - are being asked to sign up.\n\nThose interested in taking part must complete a short questionnaire.\n\nAndrew Pollard, professor of paediatric infection and immunity, and chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, noted that most children were relatively unaffected by Covid and were unlikely to become unwell with the virus.\n\nBut he said it was important to establish the safety and immune response to the vaccine in children and young people as some children might benefit from vaccination.\n\nThere are currently no plans for children to be vaccinated with the Oxford-Astrazeneca jab in the UK, as it has only been authorised to prevent Covid in people aged 18 or over.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech jab is only authorised in those aged over 16. The vaccine priority list also excludes anyone under the age of 16, even the clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nEarlier this week England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, told ITV News several trials were under way to develop vaccines that were safe and effective in children, saying it was possible there would be some licensed children's vaccines by the end of the year.\n\nThe University of Oxford said its was the first trial of a Covid vaccine in the six to 17 age group. It said other trials had begun but only measuring efficacy in those aged 16 and 17.\n\nThe Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health says there is evidence Covid-19 can cause death and severe illness in children but this is rare.\n\nIt said: \"In children, the evidence is now clear that Covid-19 is associated with a considerably lower burden of morbidity and mortality compared to that seen in the elderly.\n\n\"There is also some evidence that children may be less likely to acquire the infection. The role of children in transmission, once they have acquired the infection, is unclear, although there is no clear evidence that they are any more infectious than adults.\"\n\nA third vaccine, from Moderna, has been approved for use in the UK but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.", "Pupils who begin a phased return to secondary school later this month could face two-metre social distancing rules.\n\nA Scottish government advisory group says the \"additional protective measure\" should also apply on school buses.\n\nThe two-metre rule is already in place for teachers at secondary schools, while primary pupils should observe it \"whenever possible\".\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are likely to return full-time from 22 February.\n\nSome senior secondary pupils could also be back in the classroom from the same date to complete practical work in certain subjects.\n\nThe tougher new social distancing guidelines have been put forward by the government's advisory group on education and children's issues.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney described the proposals as \"an important scientific and clinical update\".\n\nThey are in addition to advice that there should be two-metre distancing between adults not from the same household within primary schools.\n\nLateral flow home testing kits will also be offered to primary, secondary, special school, early learning and childcare staff at local authority, independent and grant-aided schools.\n\nThe government advice calls for \"a combination of approaches that prevent crowding\" within schools.\n\nThese include classroom distancing and staggered start times \"especially in older age groups\".\n\nScotland's largest teachers' union has called for the new social distancing proposals to be extended to also include younger pupils.\n\nEIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: \"We are concerned about the new (Covid) variant and its impact on transmissibility amongst young people.\n\n\"So we think that mitigations beyond that from the advisory group are required - the use of medical-grade face masks, for example.\n\n\"We would support physical distancing amongst young people as well as secondary-aged pupils, and we are pressing the Scottish government on these issues before schools reopen.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said any proposals which accelerate pupils returning to classrooms were to be welcomed.\n\nBut the party's education spokesman Jamie Greene added: \"In reality, universal social distancing will be very difficult for many councils to deliver and SNP ministers will have known that for a long time.\n\n\"We need to see what measures they have taken to support schools to introduce social distancing, as this issue has been consistently flagged for months.\"\n\nCovid restriction rules introduced for schools last October meant senior pupils and their teachers had to wear face coverings in classrooms.\n\nPrior to that, secondary pupils and staff only had to wear face masks when moving about within the school and on school buses. They were encouraged to social distance \"where possible\" but there were no formal distancing rules for pupils.\n\nOne-way systems were introduced in corridors and physical contact including hugging and high-fiving was ruled out.\n\nSchools across Scotland have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since the Christmas holidays, with learning being done at home and online.\n\nThe first children back in school on 22 February are expected to be all pupils in P1-P3 as well as pre-school children.\n\nThere will also be a part-time return, but on a very limited basis, for senior secondary pupils to allow them to complete work for national qualifications.\n\nOnly between 5% and 8% of a secondary school's pupil roll will be able to be present at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has stressed that the reopening of schools was dependent on the continued suppression of coronavirus.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City extended their winning run to 16 games and their lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points as they easily defeated Tottenham at Etihad Stadium.\n\nIlkay Gundogan scored twice after Rodri had put City ahead from the penalty spot midway through the opening period.\n\nRaheem Sterling might have had another late on as City strengthened their grip at the summit, where they also have a game in hand over second-placed Leicester.\n\nIt was a chastening night for Tottenham and their manager Jose Mourinho.\n\nWhen they won the first meeting between these sides in November, Tottenham were top of the table.\n\nSince then, City have taken 41 points from a possible 45 to take a decisive advantage in the title race.\n\nIn contrast, Spurs have now collected 16 points in 14 games and lost four games out of five in all competitions and remain in eighth.\n\nOn this evidence, few will give Mourinho any chance of overcoming Pep Guardiola at Wembley when these sides meet in the Carabao Cup final on 25 April.\n• None Is Gundogan on track to be player of the season?\n\nAfter last week's win at Liverpool, when Gundogan became the third City player to miss from the spot, Guardiola suggested goalkeeper Ederson might be next in line.\n\nIt was not entirely clear whether the City boss was joking.\n\nCertainly Ederson did not think so judging by the way the Brazilian strode purposefully forward after the foul on Gundogan by Pierre-Emile Hojberg had been confirmed by the video assistant referee.\n\nIt took a firm hand from Bernardo Silva to stop him and there was an element of disgruntlement at the way Ederson went back to his position as Rodri found the net.\n\nIt was easy to have sympathy for the City keeper.\n\nAside from the Harry Kane free-kick that hit the post in the opening minutes, Ederson had virtually nothing to do until Erik Lamela fired straight at him just before the hour.\n\nHis disappointment did not last, though.\n\nWhen he dropped a superb long ball from the edge of his own area over the visitors' defence for Gundogan, the German ensured Ederson could claim the assist to a quite brilliant goal as he got the better of Davinson Sanchez before finishing superbly.\n\nFrom 70 yards away, Ederson celebrated with a wide smile and a thumbs up.\n\nIt took Gundogan's tally to 11 goals in 12 games, having already benefited from Raheem Sterling's excellent close control and pass to double the hosts' advantage five minutes after the break.\n\nThere was concern at how Gundogan's night ended as he was substituted with what appeared to be a groin injury.\n\nCity will hope the problem will not keep the Premier League's player of the month out for too long.\n\nIt was another frustrating night for Gareth Bale.\n\nRestored to the Spurs squad after a rather odd week, in which Mourinho said the Welshman had asked to be left out of the FA Cup defeat by Everton in midweek because he did not feel right, then rejected the insinuation of a social media post that he was training well, Bale was not introduced until the 71st minute.\n\nBy then, Tottenham were three down and Mourinho had already used two substitutes, which further underlines the gap between manager and player.\n\nBale was responsible for the only moment of inspiration for the visitors in open play, when he took possession from Rodri, then beat three men before shooting too close to Ederson from the edge of the box, allowing the City keeper to save.\n\nWithout a swift change of fortune, a season that promised so much for both parties is in danger of turning into damp squib, with the plea from those close to Bale that he just needs a run of games to find his form unlikely to be heeded.\n\n'Patient, patient, calm' - what they said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"It was well deserved, they hit the post and that can turn the game but the way we wanted to play was there. Tottenham have special quality, we have played well against them in the past and lost 2-0.\n\n\"They don't need anything to create chances. It is the quality and the approach of their manager. We have a special way to play and we will continue, you have to be patient, patient. Calm.\n\n\"The penalty is clear and then the first time we attack in the second half we score, that can happen.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"Having the biggest chance of the game to open 1-0 and then we were punished by what I call the modern penalty.\n\n\"The penalty you cannot deny there was a contact but now in modern football every contact is a penalty. Always against us.\n\n\"I am not saying it is not a penalty, I am calling it a penalty of modern football.\"\n• None Ilkay Gundogan has scored more goals than any other player across Europe's top five leagues since the turn of the calendar year, netting nine goals in nine Premier League games in 2021.\n• None Manchester City have not trailed for a single minute in any of their last 15 Premier League games, since a 2-0 loss to Tottenham in November.\n• None Tottenham have lost four of their last five Premier League games, as many defeats as in their previous 28 league matches.\n• None City are the first side to keep 14 clean sheets from their opening 23 Premier League games in a season since Manchester United (17) and Chelsea (14) in 2008-09.\n• None Spurs have conceded a combined eight goals in their past two games (5 v Everton, 3 v Man City) - the most Jose Mourinho has conceded across a two-game period in all competitions in his managerial career.\n• None Ederson's assist for City's third goal was the third assist he has registered for the club in all competitions, also doing so against Huddersfield in August 2018 and Schalke in February 2019.\n\nManchester City are next in action in a re-arranged Premier League game at Everton on Wednesday (20:15 GMT). Tottenham resume their Europa League campaign on Thursday against Austrian side Wolfsberger in a last-32 first-leg tie that has been switched to Budapest (17:55).\n• None Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Rhod Gilbert with a frank, funny and personally revealing look at the condition\n• None Scarlett Moffatt Wants To Believe: What is the theory behind ghost sightings and does it prove anything?", "Vaccines and treatments could mean that - by the end of the year - Covid-19 is an illness we can live with \"like we do flu\", the health secretary has said.\n\nMatt Hancock told the Daily Telegraph he hoped new drugs by the end of 2021 could make Covid a \"treatable disease\".\n\nThe drugs - and vaccines - represent \"our way out to freedom\", he said.\n\nHowever, scientists have warned against treating coronavirus like the flu, as mutations are getting \"more dangerous\" and \"more infectious\".\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, a virologist at the University of Brighton, told the BBC: \"It's not a type of flu. It's not the same sort of virus. It doesn't cause the same sort of disease, it's very, very nasty.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he hoped all UK adults could be offered the vaccine \"a bit before\" September.\n\nHe said new treatments were needed for a \"small number\" who may not be protected by vaccines - a first dose of which has already been given to 14 million people.\n\nAntibody treatments are being trialled as an alternative to vaccines for people with impaired immune systems.\n\nMr Hancock said new treatments would play an important role in \"turning Covid from a pandemic that affects all of our lives into another illness that we have to live with, like we do flu. That's where we need to get Covid to over the months to come\".\n\nLiving with Covid safely would also depend on the vaccines:\n\nMr Hancock's comments suggest he is ruling out a \"zero Covid\" strategy, aimed at eliminating the virus entirely from the UK.\n\nConservative MP David Davis told BBC Radio 4 Today: \"There will come a point where there will be a death rate from Covid but it's at a normal level and then we have to cope with it.\n\n\"Obviously we try to prevent it, but we accept it, I think, we have to.\"\n\nThis is simply about being realistic. Covid isn't something that can be eradicated like smallpox was.\n\nTemporary suppression, which is essentially what countries like New Zealand have done, is about protecting people in the short-term. Unless they keep their borders shut forever, it cannot work long-term.\n\nVaccines mean immunity builds up and at the very least should stop most people falling seriously ill.\n\nThere will be an ongoing challenge of keeping up with a virus that will mutate - although this is likely to be less difficult than it seems as coronaviruses tend to be much more stable than flu, for which different strains circulate every year.\n\nThere will always be people who are susceptible, either the vaccine doesn't work or they have refused to have it. That is why the continued advances in treatments are essential.\n\nBut we should never again see the levels of deaths we have.\n\nThousands will still die in winters to come. But each year this should lessen until it gets near to the levels of mortality we see with flu - something which society readily accepts.\n\nProfessor Steven Riley, a member of the Spi-M modelling group, said the rollout of vaccination did not mean coronavirus controls could be dropped, adding that Britain could face a wave as big as the current one if lockdown restrictions were all lifted.\n\n\"No vaccine is perfect. We are certainly going to be in the situation where we can allow more infection in the community but there is a limit,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"In the short term, if we were to allow a very large wave of infection, that wave will find all the people who couldn't have the vaccine for very good reason (and) those people who had the vaccine but unfortunately it didn't give them the protection they need.\"\n\nDr Pitt added: \"The mutations, the variations, that we're seeing are becoming more infectious, not less infectious and a bit more dangerous, not less dangerous.\"\n\nRichard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, told the BBC politicians would have to decide what level of deaths would be acceptable if \"zero Covid\" was not possible - adding that, in some years, 30,000 people died from flu.\n\nHe said the UK was likely to see another spike in Covid-19 cases next winter and suggested it would take two, three or four years to build up sufficient levels of immunity in the population.\n\n\"Even if we do have high levels of population immunity, our borders are not going to be secure - and we can't keep locking people up in hotels for the next five years,\" Dr Horton said.\n\nMeanwhile, the efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in children will be tested in a clinical trial, starting this month.\n\nSome 300 volunteers between the ages of six and 17 will be involved in the study to assess whether the jab produces a strong immune response in children.", "Klete Keller, seen here in a court sketch, has not commented publicly on the charges against him\n\nKlete Keller, a two-time Olympics gold medallist swimmer, is facing new charges in connection with the 6 January riots at the US Capitol.\n\nThe 6ft 6in (1.9m) tall swimmer was identified in photos of the riots because of his stature and the fact he was wearing a Team USA jacket.\n\nHe was initially charged with three counts, but this was increased to seven by a grand jury earlier in the week.\n\nMr Keller has not commented on the charges against him.\n\nThe 38-year-old Olympic champion was first charged, a week after the riots, with knowingly entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct in the Capitol building and impeding law enforcement.\n\nAt the time of charging him, the US District Court in Washington was shown screenshots of videos and photos posted on social media that appeared to show Mr Keller standing in the Capitol's Rotunda with a group of Donald Trump's supporters.\n\nThe crowd were pushing against police officers, although there was no suggestion the swimmer was participating in any of the violent acts seen on the day.\n\nKlete Keller was one of the US team's gold medal winners at the 2008 Beijing Olympics\n\nLike many others charged over the riots, prosecutors asked for his case to be considered by a grand jury, the Washington Post reports.\n\nThey returned a new indictment with seven charges, which also include civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. The new charges carry a maximum sentence of nearly 30 years, the Post reports.\n\nKlete Keller is best known for helping the US swimming team win gold in the 2x400 freestyle relay at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The terror of being trapped in the US Capitol - three eyewitness accounts of politicians", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens: \"This has been a very encouraging start, and obviously there is much more to do\".\n\nThe NHS is \"firmly on track\" to offer everyone in the top four priority groups in England a Covid vaccine by Monday, says the head of NHS England.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said it had been \"the fastest and largest vaccination campaign in history\".\n\nThe UK government's aim is to reach 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February - and 14 million have been vaccinated so far.\n\nWales said on Friday it was the first UK nation to meet its target.\n\nSpeaking at the Coventry hospital where the first person in the UK to be vaccinated - 91-year-old Maggie Keenan - received her first dose, Sir Simon said it had been an \"incredible achievement\" by staff and volunteers.\n\n\"The uptake has been fantastic - we thought three-quarters would say yes to the vaccine but more than nine out of 10 have done so,\" he said.\n\nAnyone aged over 70 in England who hasn't been vaccinated can go online or call 119 to book an appointment.\n\nFrom next week, details of who will be vaccinated in the next phase of the programme involving the over 50s and people with underlying health conditions will be set out. They are due to be vaccinated by May.\n\nSome regions of the UK have already begun inviting the over-60s, who are part of the next phase.\n\nIn the meantime, Sir Simon said it was important that people come forward for their second dose when invited because it \"gives extra protection and immunity\".\n\nIn the 10 weeks since vaccinations against coronavirus began in the UK, a first dose has been given to:\n\nIncluded in the first four priority groups, which covers 88% of those most at risk of dying from Covid-19, are people aged 70 and over, frontline health and social care workers, care homes residents and those at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus.\n\nAcross the UK, a quarter of adults have already received one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nIn Wales, the percentage of over-16s vaccinated is higher - at 28% - than in the other UK nations.\n\nNine out of 10 people aged 70 and over have taken up the offer to be vaccinated in England, the NHS says.\n\nLatest figures for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland suggest their uptake numbers for the over-70s are lower, but these are not directly comparable with England.\n\nThe latest data on other age groups in England, up to Sunday 7 February, suggests:\n\nBy Wednesday, in England, more than two million people had been vaccinated in the Midlands, 1.8 million in the South East, 1.7 million in the North East and more than a million in all other regions.\n\nThe smallest number of doses, nearly 1.3 million, had been given to people living in London.\n\nThe UK's vaccination programme began on 8 December 2020 with people receiving the vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.\n\nBoth vaccines, which require two doses for full protection, were approved by the UK's medicines regulator.\n\nA decision was taken by health officials to offer a first dose to as many vulnerable people as possible by extending the gap between doses to from three to four weeks to closer to 12 weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100 people have been injured after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in Japan.\n\nSaturday's 7.3-magnitude quake was felt strongly in Tokyo, but no tsunami warning was issued.\n\nThe quake came nearly a decade after an earthquake and tsunami killed over 18,000 people.\n\nThat tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - the worst such incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.\n\nJapan's meteorological agency (JMA) said Saturday's earthquake was believed to be an aftershock of the massive 2011 quake. Aftershocks after a large earthquake can continue over a period of many years.\n\nAn aerial shot showed the damage at the Ebisu circuit in Fukushima prefacture\n\nSaturday's quake hit at 23:08 local time (14:08 GMT) at a depth of 60km (37 miles) in the Pacific, off Japan's eastern coast, JMA said. Aftershocks have continued to hit the region since.\n\nThe quake caused nearly one million homes to lose power while a smaller number lost water. Train services have been halted.\n\nIt also triggered landslides, with one burying a motorsport complex.\n\nBut there were no reports of irregularities at nuclear plants.\n\n\"Surveys are being done at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear pant... We have received reports that Onagawa nuclear plant and Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant are not showing any abnormality,\" Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said.\n\nA store owner tries to clean up smashed bottles in his shop in Fukushima\n\nDespite reassurances from officials, many residents on the coast evacuated their homes and headed for higher ground, Japanese news agency Kyodo reports.\n\n\"Even if people say we don't need to worry about a tsunami, I won't buy it,\" one 50-year-old man told the publication. \"I learned from my bitter experience 10 years ago, and that's why I evacuated.\"", "Josh Warrington fell to one of the biggest shock defeats in a British ring in recent years as Mauricio Lara landed a stunning knockout at Wembley Arena.\n\nMexico's Lara, 22, landed a heavy knockdown in the fourth round and Warrington struggled to make the bell, his legs barely able to support him.\n\nDespite showing grit and trying to find poise, Warrington - a 1-25 betting favourite - was never able to recover.\n\nIn the ninth, a barrage of left hooks and a hard left hand wiped him out.\n\nThe former IBF world featherweight champion - who had not fought in 16 months and gave up the belt in January to pursue other titles - was left flat on his back and was later taken to hospital for checks after a first career defeat.\n\n\"A young man, 22, comes in, no one gave him a chance,\" said promoter Eddie Hearn, who said Warrington had a rematch option. \"I've not seen bravery like I saw from Warrington for a long time.\n\n\"He came out, he was erratic, the ring rust showed. He got caught and never recovered. How he got through the fourth I'll never know but he was on empty. The bravery was incredible.\n\n\"You have to give Lara tremendous credit. For Warrington it's a crushing blow.\"\n\nAfter a reckless opening during which both fighters looked leaky in their defence, it was Warrington who wilted when a left hand dropped him. Though he fought until the bell, had referee Howard Foster stepped in, the former champion could have had no complaints.\n\n\"If Josh survives this it's one of the greatest comebacks I've ever seen in a British ring,\" tweeted former world cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew after round four.\n\nWarrington spent the early part of the fifth in survival mode but seemed fully aware his legs were shaky underneath him and was heard telling his corner his shoulder was in pain when the three minutes were up.\n\nLara, cut but on the brink of the win of his life, grew in confidence. He was rugged in his approach rather than polished and while he was taking punches himself, he could not miss with the left hook when up close.\n\nHe had two defeats in his 23 previous outings but when he took two hard blows in the eighth and yet instantly backed Warrington up with a punch of his own, the greater power he carried and the vulnerability of his opponent was obvious.\n\nA round later it was all over, a right to the body and left to the face sealing a knockout win that will be felt the world over, none more so than in the Lara's boxing-crazed homeland.\n\n\"We worked really hard and it worked out how we planned,\" said Mexico City's Lara. \"Our confidence was because we believed we could do it.\"\n\nSome will ask if Warrington's 16-month spell of inactivity was key, others may question if a fighter who typically enjoys passionate support lost his edge in fan-free surroundings, and there may also be questions as to whether he was looking past his opponent.\n\nWhatever his reasoning, he must pick the bones out of a first defeat in 12 years and 31 professional outings, a loss no-one saw coming.\n\n'He fought his heart out' - analysis\n\nWe have seen one of the biggest upsets in a British ring in recent years. There's an aura of gloom in this very dark arena. We shouldn't forget this was some contest. A first defeat of Warrington's career, but there was a lot there that was inclusive of everything we love about this sport and everything we are so troubled by.\n\nYou have to commend how tough and resilient Warrington is. In the end, it was more than the shots, fatigue played its part. That's upset of the year, already, forget about the rest of the months.\n\nWhat guts Warrington showed in the fifth, sixth and seventh when he didn't know where he was. He was fighting on instinct. He was doing what he knew he had to do, but he had no idea he was doing it.\n\nLara was phenomenal, he's gone to the home country of the number one featherweight and he's gone to that ring fearless. He fought his heart out.\n\nJosh will be back. He will go through a torrid few days, maybe even a torrid few weeks, but he will come back more determined. One thing he will not do is give one excuse. It is what happens in boxing and it is what happens in big-time boxing.\n\nWhat they said - was complacency to blame?", "Ten people will be allowed per group and groups can consist of members from different households\n\nPubs and restaurants in Jersey will be allowed to reopen for table service only from 22 February, the government has announced.\n\nUp to 10 people will be allowed per group and groups can consist of people from different households.\n\nCustomers must have a substantial meal and a social distance of 2m (6ft) must be kept between tables.\n\nFurther relaxations to Covid restrictions will begin next week, the government said.\n\nFrom next Wednesday, faith groups will be allowed to meet for worship in groups of up to 40 people.\n\nControlled outdoor sports gatherings can also restart from Wednesday for up to 35 people under 18 and from 8 March for up to 35 people over 18.\n\nFrom 22 February, any pubs that cannot serve food must remain closed, the government said.\n\nLast orders at those that can reopen must be placed by 22:00 GMT and masks must be worn at all times except when eating and drinking.\n\nRules on household gatherings will remain unchanged, with islanders banned from mixing with others in their homes.\n\nChief minister, Senator John Le Fondré, said the current levels of infection in the island showed it was safe to continue reopening group activities \"carefully and with mitigation measures in place\".\n\nHe said: \"Risks remain though, which is why we are not opening up too quickly and why we are not yet relaxing our travel arrivals policy.\"\n\nThe minister for health and social services, Deputy Richard Renouf, said the relaxation of public heath measures created some risk but there were \"significant wellbeing benefits to reconnecting some of the activities we have all been missing\".\n\nMinister for economic development, Senator Lyndon Farnham added that he was sure the move would be \"welcome news to our hospitality industry\".\n\nFollow BBC Jersey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Traffic officers divert motorists off the M4 at junction 35 eastbound at Pencoed\n\nThe M4 has reopened after being closed for several hours following the death of a pedestrian.\n\nThe motorway was shut in both directions between junctions 35 at Pencoed and 33 at Cardiff West, after several vehicles hit the man at about 05:45 GMT.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the 34-year-old's family was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nThe road reopened shortly before 16:00, about 10 hours after it was closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"The plan is working but we're a long way off getting this sorted\"\n\nLevels of Covid are going down in all nations of the UK, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.\n\nThe data is more evidence lockdown is controlling the virus, even with the more infectious variants circulating - although the health secretary said there is \"still a long way to go\".\n\nThe latest R number, estimated to be between 0.7 and 0.9, also suggests infection numbers are shrinking.\n\nThis is the first time since July that R has been this low.\n\nIt means, on average, every 10 people infected pass it on to between seven and nine other people.\n\nIt comes as 15,144 new cases were recorded in the UK, as well as 758 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the ONS figures were \"clearly good news\", but pointed out there were still more than 24,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nHe said: \"Everyone can have confidence that the plan is working, that what we're collectively doing is having a positive impact but there's still a long way to go.\"\n\nIt is not clear yet when lockdown will begin to be lifted. Scientists advising government say the lower the cases can get, the better. Unlocking too soon risks another surge of the virus, even though more people are being vaccinated against the disease every day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will outline plans for easing any restrictions in the week of 22 February.\n\nGetting schools back will be the immediate priority, the government says.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman did not rule out the possibility of social distancing being maintained until the autumn, saying: \"The latest data and evidence clearly shows that we remain in a difficult situation with the pressure on the NHS still very significant.\n\n\"We will set out a gradual and phased approach towards easing the restrictions in a sustainable way.\"\n\nThe ONS figures, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nLondon continues to have the highest proportion of people likely to test positive for coronavirus in any region of England, with around one in 60 estimated to have had Covid-19 in the week up to 6 February.\n\nThe ONS's data is slightly out of date - covering the week up to 6 February - so may not reflect the situation right now.\n\nSenior Statistician Sarah Crofts said: \"Rates of infection remain high but have continued to decrease in England and across the UK.\n\n\"The percentage of positive cases compatible with the new UK variant also continues to decrease in all regions of England except for Yorkshire and The Humber, the East Midlands and the South West where trends remain uncertain.\"\n\nThe evidence is clear - lockdown is having the desired effect of controlling the virus, bringing the number of new infections down.\n\nIt is very welcome news, but does it mean we can now safely start to lift some restrictions? Not quite yet, say experts.\n\nAs one explained, it's a bit like when a relative has been very ill in hospital and you hear that they are getting better - it's wonderful, but it doesn't mean that the \"treatment\" can stop or that things can't take a turn for the worse.\n\nThere is still plenty of the virus circulating that people could catch.\n\nAnd although the vaccine rollout is going really well, there are lots of people in the UK who are not yet protected and who could fall serious ill with Covid-19 if they become infected.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 14 million people in the UK have had at least their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe government's pledge is to offer a vaccine to around 15 million people in the top four priority groups - which includes people over 70, health and social care workers and people who are extremely clinically vulnerable and shielding - by Monday 15 February.\n\nIn a video message, the prime minister said the government appeared to be \"on target\" to meet the pledge - adding the latest figures on vaccinations highlighted an \"incredible national effort\" by NHS staff, Army personnel and volunteers.\n\nWales says it has already achieved this. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to announce the same soon.\n\nThe 14 million figure includes some people outside of these initial groups.\n\nSome regions of the UK have begun inviting groups planned to be reached later in the month, such as the over-60s and people aged 16-64 with underlying health conditions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is another Beast from the East on the way?\n\nThe UK is set to experience much colder conditions by the end of the weekend, with some significant spells of snow likely.\n\nThe Met Office has issued an amber warning for snow across parts of south east England with 5-10cm or more of fresh snow expected on Sunday. There are additional yellow warnings for snow and ice issued across the country through the weekend.\n\nCold air coming from the Arctic Circle will spread in from the east over the weekend and as it tracks across the relatively mild North Sea, showers will form, bringing snow to eastern areas of the UK and a significant wind chill.\n\nThe cold conditions have been influenced by three 'sudden stratospheric warming' events in the last month, which have disrupted weather patterns.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Ben Rich explains the phenomenon known as sudden stratospheric warming.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deluge washed away hydro and bridge infrastructure\n\nDozens of people are missing and feared dead after a piece of a Himalayan glacier fell into a river and triggered a huge flood in northern India.\n\nThe floodwaters burst open a dam and a deluge of water poured through a valley in the state of Uttarakhand.\n\nVillages have been evacuated, but officials warned more than 125 people may have been caught in the torrent.\n\nVideo showed the floodwater barrelling through the area, leaving destruction in its wake.\n\nOne witness said a wall of water and rock sped down the Dhauliganga river so quickly there was no time to sound the alarm.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi said he was monitoring the situation. \"India stands with Uttarakhand and the nation prays for everyone's safety there,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nA piece of the glacier fell into a river and crashed into the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project dam\n\nUttarakhand police said the avalanche struck at about 11:00 local time (05:30 GMT), destroying a dam known as the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project.\n\nPolice said the impact catapulted water along the Dhauliganga river, damaging another power project downstream in the Tapovan area.\n\nOne witness compared the flash flood to \"a scene from a Bollywood film\".\n\nUttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said 125 people were confirmed missing so far, but that number could rise.\n\n\"Seven bodies have been recovered from the site and rescue operations are going on,\" Mr Singh Rawat told reporters at a briefing on Sunday.\n\nMost of those missing were workers at the two power projects swept away by the deluge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment a man trapped inside the tunnel is rescued\n\nMore than 50 people working at the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project were feared dead, Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar said.\n\nBut he said some workers had been rescued from the site.\n\nEmergency crew managed to rescue 16 workers who had been trapped inside a tunnel that had been filled with debris.\n\nIndian media said around 30 others were trapped in a second tunnel, with emergency crews prepared to work through the night to rescue them.\n\nMr Singh Rawat said teams from the police and the army were \"doing their best to save the lives of the workers\".\n\nDozens of emergency workers have been deployed to the region\n\nEmergency workers evacuated dozens of villages, but authorities later said the main flood danger had passed.\n\nHundreds of troops, along with military helicopters and other aircraft, have been sent to the region. They will begin searching for survivors on Monday morning.\n\nThe neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh has put some riverside areas on high alert for flooding.\n\nThe remoteness of where this happened means no-one has a definitive answer, so far.\n\nExperts say one possibility is that massive ice blocks broke off the glacier due to a temperature rise, releasing a huge amount of water.\n\nThat could have caused avalanches bringing down rocks and mud.\n\n\"This is a strong possibility because there was a huge amount of sediment flowing down,\" said DP Dobhal, a senior glaciologist formerly with the government's Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.\n\nExperts say an avalanche could also have hit a glacial lake that then burst.\n\nAnother possibility is that an avalanche or landslide may have dammed the river for some time, causing it to burst out after the water level rose.\n\nUttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, is prone to flash floods and landslides.\n\nSome 6,000 people are believed to have been killed in floods in June 2013 which were triggered by the heaviest monsoon rains in decades.\n\nSunday's disaster has prompted calls by environment groups for a review of power projects in the ecologically sensitive mountains.", "Many private businesses work in Cuba's tourist industry which has been hit hard by the pandemic\n\nCuba has announced it will allow private businesses to operate in most sectors, in what is a major reform to its state-controlled economy.\n\nLabour Minister Marta Elena Feito said the list of authorised activities had expanded from 127 to more than 2,000.\n\nOnly a minority of sectors would be reserved for the state, she said.\n\nThe communist country's economy has been hit hard by the pandemic and US sanctions introduced by the Trump administration.\n\nLast year its economy shrank by 11% - its worst decline in almost three decades - and Cubans have been facing shortages of basic goods.\n\nMs Feito said just 124 economic activities would be exempt from private involvement although she did not mention which ones.\n\n\"That private work continues to develop, is the objective of this reform,\" Ms Feito was quoted by AFP as saying. She said the move would \"help free the productive forces\" of the private sector.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What changed in US-Cuba policy under Trump?\n\nExperts on Cuba's tangled and complicated economy say the step essentially opens up almost all economic activity on the island to some form of private enterprise, the BBC's Will Grant in Havana says.\n\nThis will be a significant shot in the arm for those families and individuals who harbour hopes of moving beyond just the very small businesses into medium-sized ventures, he notes.\n\nApart from hundreds of thousands of small farms, Cuba's non-state sector is composed mainly of small private businesses run by artisans, taxi drivers and tradesmen. Around 600,000 people, around 13% of the workforce, joined the private sector when the opportunity arose.\n\nHowever a large number of private businesses are involved in the island's tourist industry, which has been hard hit by the pandemic and sanctions.\n\nGiven how slowly reforms tend to move in Cuba, it may still be some time before the change is noticeable in daily economic life, our correspondent says.\n\nSome 60 years of hostility between the US and Cuba were eased in 2015 when then US President Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro agreed to normalise relations, allowing US citizens to visit the island and empowering local businesses.\n\nBut Obama's efforts were rolled back by his successor, President Donald Trump, with the support of hawkish Cuban-Americans who saw Mr Obama's historic opening as an appeasement of Castro's communist regime.\n\nNew US President Joe Biden - who was Barack Obama's vice-president - has previously signalled that he wants to improve US-Cuban relations but observers say it is not clear how high it might be on his priority list.", "Labour's shadow attorney general has apologised for previously describing the Covid-19 pandemic as a \"gift that keeps on giving\" for lawyers.\n\nAccording to the Mail on Sunday, Lord Falconer made the comments during an online event hosted by a legal firm last June.\n\nThe Labour peer said he had been referring to legal questions arising from frequent changes to the law.\n\n\"But I very much regret my choice of words,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, he made the remarks during an online seminar hosted by law firm Gibson Dunn about law changes during the pandemic.\n\nLord Falconer, who served as justice secretary under former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, is a partner at the company.\n\nIn his introduction to the seminar, he is quoted as saying: \"This is a gift that keeps on giving, the law keeps on changing, keeps on getting more complicated, and is always interesting.\"\n\nThe Labour peer told the BBC his comments \"were expressly directed to the pace at which the government is making changes to the law and the legal questions that gives rise to\".\n\nAsked about Lord [Charlie] Falconer's remarks, Labour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"He shouldn't have said it.\n\n\"He was talking in the context of lawyers and the way the law was changing. But it was a very poor choice of words.\"\n\nMr Miliband said he had spoken to his colleague before appearing on the BBC programme and he was \"very, very sorry and apologises for what he said\".\n\n\"It shows that we have to be careful with our words, all politicians have to be very careful with our words,\" Mr Miliband went on.\n\n\"Charlie thinks the country has been through a terrible, terrible trauma and this in no way reflects his view about the Covid crisis.\"\n\nAs well as being justice secretary, Lord Falconer was a minister at the transport department, and then the Home Office, during the Blair era.\n\nHe went on to be appointed shadow justice secretary under the acting leadership of Harriet Harman, a role he kept under Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he was among a dozen shadow cabinet members to later resign in the wake of the 2016 Brexit referendum over Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nHe was appointed shadow attorney general after Sir Keir Starmer's election as Labour leader in April last year.", "TikTok creators have been offering \"risky\" trading tips in the wake of the GameStop shares frenzy, a UK regulator has warned.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said people should be wary of users \"promising high-return investments\".\n\nMany videos contain financial advice without disclaimers about the risks involved.\n\nTikTok said it removed content that \"deceives people to gain an unlawful financial advantage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What's been going on at GameStop?\n\nThe BBC found several popular video-makers on TikTok encouraging people to buy shares in GameStop, BlackBerry and AMC.\n\nThe share price of these companies saw a boost at the end of January, as people on a Reddit message board encouraged one another to invest.\n\nOther videos encouraged people to invest in the crypto-currency Dogecoin.\n\nMillions of videos have been posted using hashtags such as #bigstocktips, #fintok, #stonks, #stocktok and #stockstobuy.\n\nMany of the videos fail to warn users that the content should not be taken as financial advice and that making investments carries a risk.\n\nSeveral videos used examples of past market performance as an indication that users would receive a profit in the future. Past market performance can never guarantee future profits.\n\nOne popular astrologer with more than one million followers suggested that the position of the planets could affect the price of crypto-currency.\n\n\"This February is not the cutest for Bitcoin… Mercury is in retrograde,\" they said. The same account also made forecasts for Tesla, GameStop and the crypto-currency Ethereum.\n\n\"Consumers should be wary of adverts and advice online and on social media promising high-return investments, and should always do further research on the product they are considering,\" an FCA spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"There are risks with taking unregulated investment advice and we engage with social media platforms to have pages which breach our regulations taken down.\"\n\nThe FCA said it hoped the government would include \"financial harms\" in its forthcoming online safety bill.\n\nThe crypto-currency trading platform Paxful analysed more than 1,200 TikTok videos and found that 14% of them encouraged users to make certain financial decisions without a warning about the risks involved.\n\nIn total, those videos had clocked up 16,765,837 views and 2,239,684 likes.\n\n\"Videos that encourage risky, over-simplified and impulsive financial decisions without appropriate disclaimers can mislead young or inexperienced viewers, damaging their finances as a result,\" it said in a blog post.\n\nSince TikTok videos are short, there is little time in which to fully explain the financial risks, said Nick Agwuncha, co-founder of Money Medics, a start-up that provides financial education for millennials.\n\n\"TikTok is fast food content. It lacks depth,\" he said.\n\n\"You shouldn't be gullible to get-rich-quick schemes. If you're looking at personal finance and investing, you should always try to take a long-term mindset, do your due diligence and research.\"\n\nSome influencers may be self-motivated to recommend certain stocks they have already invested in, to increase demand and push up the share price, he added.\n\nIn a statement, TikTok said:\" We are committed to promoting a safe environment on TikTok, and actively work to educate our community about online safety and media literacy.\"\n\nTikTok said it removed content that depicted or promoted investment schemes with promises of high returns, fixed betting or any other types of scams.", "The Yazidi community of northern Iraq has brought home 104 of its members who were killed by the Islamic State group during its reign of terror in 2014.\n\nTheir remains had been identified and exhumed from mass graves, and they were laid to rest in the village of Kocho near Mount Sinjar in Ninevah province.\n\nThousands of men were killed and women and children enslaved and raped when IS overran the Yazidis' homeland.\n\nThe UN says IS carried out genocide against the community.\n\nThe 104 were all men who had been killed by IS militants in August 2014, the head of the Yazidi Organisation for Documentation, Khairi Ali Ibrahim, was quoted as saying.\n\nA funeral was held for them at the Unknown Soldier memorial in Baghdad on Thursday before they were brought home to Kocho.\n\nEach coffin was adorned with a photo of the man who had been lost.\n\n\"This is a first step in respecting the remains of these victims and it will be also a step of transitional justice that the other victims, the women, the children, who survived the genocide will be compensated,\" said Yazidi human rights activist Mirza Dinnayi.\n\n\"I hope that we can do far more in protecting the Yazidi and to say never again for the future.\"\n\nYazidis practise a form of religion which combines elements of ancient Iranian religions with parts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They were considered heretics by IS, a Sunni jihadist group.\n\nThere were believed to be an estimated 550,000 Yazidis living in Iraq before IS invaded on 3 August 2014. Some 360,000 Yazidis escaped and found refuge elsewhere.\n\nAmnesty International said in July that some 2,000 Yazidi children who had survived brutal captivity at the hands of the IS were still not getting the care they needed and were suffering severe physical and mental health problems.", "PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne has said he accepts he is under increased scrutiny but Michelle O'Neill said she was not calling for him to resign\n\nNI's deputy first minister has said there is a \"crisis in confidence\" in policing among nationalists over the PSNI's handling of a commemoration event on Friday.\n\nHowever, Michelle O'Neill said she was not calling for NI's police chief to resign.\n\nAn officer has been suspended and another redeployed, with Simon Byrne issuing an apology after a man was arrested at the event.\n\nMr Byrne has said he will not quit.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics programme Ms O'Neill said she would lead a delegation on Monday morning to put questions to the PSNI's chief constable.\n\nShe said she wished to \"engage with him directly\" on who will be held accountable for what happened.\n\nThe arrest happened after people had gathered on the Ormeau Road in Belfast to mark the anniversary of a gun attack, in which five people were murdered by loyalists.\n\nPeople gathered at the scene of the 1992 gun attack to remember the victims\n\nRelatives of the victims had gathered at the site to lay flowers and mark the 29th anniversary of the murders.\n\nThe man who was arrested, Mark Sykes, had been shot and injured in the attack on a Sean Graham bookmakers shop in February 1992.\n\nVideo footage posted on social media shows a confrontation between police and people attending the event, after which Mr Sykes was arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the incident has been posted online\n\nHe was released a few hours later.\n\nLarge public gatherings are banned under current coronavirus restrictions and police said that \"30 to 40 people\" had attended the memorial.\n\nMs O'Neill described the actions of officers as \"crass\" and \"vulgar\".\n\nShe compared the police's actions on Friday to images, circulated on social media, of masked men in east Belfast, saying they were \"allowed to walk uninterrupted\".\n\n\"I think that the direct contrast in policing is laid bare for all to see.\n\n\"I think anybody who considers all those things in the round would understand that there certainly is a crisis in confidence in policing among the nationalist community.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party leader Jim Allister told Sunday Politics that Sinn Féin was using the issue to \"destabilise\" Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Once more we hear all this talk that we used to hear 20 years ago about an unacceptable police force,\" he said.\n\n\"It's quite clear to me that it's playing into the agenda that is never far from the surface of destabilising Northern Ireland because, though they're in government in Northern Ireland, they don't want it to work.\"\n\nOn Saturday night, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne made a public apology for the actions of his officers.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference outside police headquarters on Saturday evening, Mr Byrne acknowledged that his leadership of the PSNI is under increased scrutiny.\n\n\"Clearly that's the question on everybody's lips, but I'm not a quitter,\" he said.\n\n\"I took this job with my eyes open, determined to invest my time, my capital working with a top team, to deliver on my promise which was visible, accessible and responsive community policing.\n\n\"If I quit now it would just leave the same set of problems for whoever stood in my shoes. This is about leadership, it's about calm heads and direction.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald had described the statement by Mr Byrne as a \"token gesture\" and said it would not undo \"the damage done to public confidence in policing\".\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) questioned why the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) took action against officers before the outcome of a Police Ombudsman inquiry.\n\nThe party said: \"We cannot have trial by social media and we cannot have rushed announcements to suit some political agenda.\"\n\nOne of the most striking comments by the chief constable was his acceptance that his leadership is being questioned.\n\nRather than pretend it is not an issue he said \"clearly that's the question on everybody's lips\".\n\nHis words, and actions, suggest he knows he is man under pressure.\n\nHe clearly felt the need to clear the air, and re-affirm his leadership, even if it meant standing in the freezing cold for 10 minutes on a Saturday night.\n\nThe head of the Police Federation, which represents officers in Northern Ireland, said the two officers disciplined were \"being scapegoated\" and that it was not acceptable.\n\nMark Lyndsay said the PSNI had been criticised in the past for taking \"no action whenever there are potential breaches\" of Covid-19 restrictions, such as at funerals.\n\n\"Here, all of a sudden, when we do actually go to speak to people we're absolutely crucified.\n\n\"So it seems at the minute, as far as police dealing with Covid is concerned, we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't.\"\n\nThe chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board Doug Garrett said the chief constable's apology was a \"welcome first step\".\n\nMr Garrett said there was an \"urgent necessity to repair damage caused to community relations arising from the policing approach on Friday\".\n\nHowever, four DUP members of the Policing Board questioned that statement, saying it was \"not an agreed position\".\n\nIn a joint statement, NI Assembly members Joanne Bunting, Trevor Clarke, Tom Buchanan and Mervyn Storey said the \"proper course of action would have been to await the outcome of the Ombudsman inquiry\".\n\nThe Police Ombudsman's Office confirmed on Friday night that it has begun an investigation into the events and the PSNI said it is co-operating with that inquiry.\n\nSimon Byrne has said he will not resign over the PSNI's handling of the Ormeau Road incident\n\nMr Byrne has been chief constable of the PSNI since July 2019.\n\nHis previous contract, as chief constable of Cheshire Police, ended in June 2018 while he was fighting a disciplinary case involving complaints of bullying staff.\n\nHe was exonerated and a review found the investigation was \"flawed\" and based on \"flimsy\" allegations.\n\nMr Byrne had the most experience of the four applicants for the £207,000-a-year PSNI job, having held high ranks in the Metropolitan, Merseyside and Manchester police forces.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands of people take part in the largest protest in Myanmar in more than a decade\n\nMyanmar's military rulers have shut down the country's internet as thousands of people joined the largest rally yet against Monday's coup.\n\nA near-total internet blackout is in effect with connectivity falling to 16% of ordinary levels, said the monitoring group NetBlocks Internet Observatory.\n\nPolice with riot shields have blocked the main roads into the city centre.\n\nThe internet shutdown happened hours after the military blocked access to Twitter and Instagram to stop people mobilising for protests. Facebook had been banned a day earlier.\n\nMany users had evaded the restrictions on social media by using virtual private networks (VPNs) but the more general blackout severely disrupted that.\n\nCivil society organisations urged internet providers and mobile networks to challenge the blackout order, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International called the shutdown \"heinous and reckless\" and warned it could put the people of Myanmar at risk of human rights violations.\n\nThe military has not commented. It temporarily blocked access to the internet following the coup on 1 February.\n\nOn Saturday morning, protesters - including factory workers and young students - called for the release of those detained by the army, including elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nThey marched through the streets of Yangon as city buses sounded their horns in support.\n\nBystanders flashed the three-finger Hunger Games salute, which has become a symbol of defiance against authoritarianism, while residents clapped or banged pots and pans on their doorsteps.\n\nMany households have also been displaying red stickers in their windows in support of Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, the BBC's Burmese editor Soe Win Than reports.\n\nProtesters in Yangon received support from thousands of residents, who clapped on doorsteps\n\nPolice with riot shields used barbed wire to block roads and water cannon were put in place in some areas as a precaution, but the demonstration reportedly remained peaceful, with no attempt by protesters to pass police lines.\n\nDemonstrators gave police roses and bottles of drinking water, calling on them to support the people not the new regime.\n\nOne female protester, who asked not to be named, said she would not accept the \"unjust seizing of power\".\n\n\"Because of military dictatorship, many of our lives have been destroyed,\" she said, adding: \"We cannot allow our future generations to meet the same fate.\"\n\nSpeaking from Yangon, Britain's ambassador to Myanmar, Dan Chugg, told the BBC that people were taking to the streets in increasing numbers.\n\n\"The grief and the sadness of the last few days is gradually turning to anger,\" he said, adding: \"Doctors are refusing to work and civil servants have been refusing to work... There's quite a sense around the country of unhappiness at what's happened - and outrage.\"\n\nPolice in riot gear have blocked roads in Yangon\n\nAnother demonstration took place on Saturday in Myanmar's second city, Mandalay.\n\nMyanmar - also known as Burma - has remained mostly calm in the aftermath of the coup, and there were no immediate reports of violence after Saturday's protests. More demonstrations were expected to be held later.\n\nThe military authorities are hunkered down in the capital, Nay Pyi Daw, and have so far avoided direct engagement with the protesters.\n\nThe BBC's Nyein Chan in Yangon says the Burmese know very well the violent crackdowns that the military is capable of. The country was ruled by an oppressive military government from 1962 to 2011.\n\nBut now that people have had time to digest what is happening, they are finding different ways to get their voices heard, our correspondent says.\n\nMs Suu Kyi is under house arrest, according to her lawyer. Police documents show she is accused of illegally importing and using communications equipment - walkie-talkies - at her home in the capital.\n\nThe coup took place as a new session of parliament was set to open, following November's landslide election win by the NLD party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We wish them to fall\": Teachers in the city of Yangon have joined protests against Monday's military coup\n\nMany Burmese watched the events unfold in real time on Facebook, which is the country's primary source of information and news. But three days later, internet providers were ordered to block the platform for stability reasons.\n\nFollowing the ban, thousands of users were active on Twitter and Instagram using hashtags to express their opposition to the takeover. By 22:00 local time (15:30 GMT) on Friday access to those platforms had also been denied.\n\nThere was no official word from the coup leaders but AFP reported it had seen an unverified ministry document that said the two social media sites were being used to \"cause misunderstanding among the public\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Twitter said the ban undermined \"the public conversation and the rights of people to make their voices heard\". Facebook, which owns Instagram, called on the authorities to \"restore connectivity\".\n\nMyanmar is a country of 54 million people in South East Asia which shares borders with Bangladesh, India, China, Thailand and Laos.\n\nIt was ruled by an oppressive military government from 1962 to 2011, either directly or indirectly, leading to international condemnation and sanctions.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi spent years campaigning for democratic reforms. A gradual liberalisation began in 2010, though the military still retained considerable influence.\n\nA government led by Ms Suu Kyi came to power after free elections in 2015. But a deadly military crackdown two years later on Rohingya Muslims sent hundreds of thousands fleeing to Bangladesh.\n\nIt triggered a rift between Ms Suu Kyi and her previous supporters in the international community after she refused to condemn the crackdown or describe it as ethnic cleansing.\n\nBut she has remained hugely popular at home, shown in her party's landslide win in the November election.\n\nHave you been affected by recent events in Myanmar? 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.\n• None What is happening in Myanmar and why?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirty-two people have been rescued after vehicles became trapped overnight in snow on the A835 in the Highlands.\n\nHighland Council and mountain rescuers assisted emergency services reaching the 22 vehicles at the scene at Loch Droma.\n\nPolice described it as a \"major incident\", which came during heavy snowfalls across parts of Scotland.\n\nSnow drifts of 2-3m (6-9ft) blocked the A835 between Ullapool and Garve.\n\nWelfare centres were set up in Ullapool and Aultguish for those caught in the bad weather.\n\nThe road at the scene was reopened just after 14:00, but Traffic Scotland warned driving conditions were \"tricky\" due to the weather.\n\nVehicles in the snow on the A835\n\nA car and van in drifting snow on the A835 in an image taken by lorry driver John Maclean\n\nThe problems started when a lorry jack-knifed on Thursday night and traffic queued either side of the truck. Snow carried by high winds built up around the vehicles and filled the road.\n\nRoads company Bear NW Trunk Roads said there were drifts of snow 2m (6ft) deep on the A835.\n\nRoads crews, emergency services and Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team assisted in the rescue effort.\n\nThe road was cleared enough to allow the vehicles to be moved on Friday morning. No-one was injured.\n\nA driver and five passengers on a coach were among those caught up in the incident.\n\nPassenger Andy Pyott praised the coach driver for keeping spirits up\n\nCoach passenger Andy Pyott, who was trying to return home from work, said it became clear by about 22:00 that the bus would not be able to make it through the snow to Inverness.\n\nHe said: \"The snow building up around the bus was quite remarkable. There must have been about three feet of snow in front of the bus.\n\n\"All praise to the driver. He really kept everyone's spirits up.\"\n\nJordan Clark was trapped in a vehicle for 14 hours\n\nJordan Clark, from Renfrew, who was in the Highlands working, was in another vehicle trapped in snow for 14 hours.\n\nMountain rescuers, assisted by excavators, dug Mr Clark's vehicle free and he was able to get to Ullapool.\n\nHe said: \"The wind was blowing 55mph and I've never seen snow so thick.\"\n\nMr Clark praised welfare centre volunteers for the help they had given him and others.\n\nThe Met Office has an amber warning for snow in place until Saturday morning. It also has yellow \"be aware\" warnings for snow and ice for the weekend and Monday.\n\nEngineers from power company SSEN have been busy in the snowy conditions\n\nThere were concerns earlier this week about the impact of the poor weather on Covid-19 vaccinations.\n\nOn Friday, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said roads around vaccination centres would be treated as a priority. He said he did not anticipate the weather would have a serious effect on the vaccination programme.\n\nPolice said \"multi-agency efforts\" ensured people in communities affected by the A835 closure were able to attend vaccination appointments.\n\nA number of homes have been left without power due supply faults in parts of Skye, Lewis, north west and central Sutherland, and near Inverness.\n\nSSEN said the problems affected about 100 properties and engineers were working to restore supplies.\n\nAbout 40 drivers have had to be rescued from deep snow drifts on the A835\n\nThere was a rescue operation on the A835 on Friday morning\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said drifting snow had caused disruption to services on the Highland Mainline on Friday morning despite snow ploughs operating overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said the deepest accumulations of snow would be over high ground, with as much as 50cm (19in) of new snow in some places.\n\nThe Scottish Avalanche Information Service has rated the potential avalanche hazard in the Northern and Southern Cairngorms as \"high\".\n\nThe avalanche hazard in four other areas - Lochaber, Torridon, Creag Meagaidh and Glen Coe - has been rated \"considerable\".", "It was after sunset on a crisp November evening when Megumi Yokota left her last badminton practice. Sharp winds chilled the fishing port of Niigata, and the grey sea rumbled at its brink.\n\nThe lights of home were seven minutes' walk away.\n\nMegumi, 13, with her book-bag and badminton racquet, said goodbye to two friends 800ft from her parents' front door. But she never reached it.\n\nAs six o'clock became seven and the quiet street failed to produce her daughter, Sakie Yokota began to panic. She ran to the gym at Yorii Middle School, expecting to meet her en route.\n\n\"They left a long time ago,\" the school's night watchman said.\n\nPolice, tracker dogs, torches splitting the darkness. They scoured a nearby pine forest calling Megumi's name. Sakie sped down the road to the beach, frantically scanning every car parked nearby.\n\nIt made sense to search the shoreline. But perhaps something stronger and more ineffable drove the mother to the water's edge that night.\n\nOut on the Sea of Japan, out of Sakie's sight, a boat manned by North Korean agents was speeding towards the Korean Peninsula with a terrified schoolgirl locked in the hold.\n\nThey left no evidence, and not a single witness.\n\nThe crime was so brazen and bizarre that few would even imagine it, let alone solve it. But over the years, it became clear that Megumi was not the only victim.\n\nThe Japanese government says that from 1977 until at least 1983, North Korean agents abducted 17 Japanese citizens. Some analysts believe the true figure could be more than 100.\n\nIn the year that followed Megumi's disappearance, police poured 3,000 staff days into the search. A kidnapping unit occupied the Yokota house. Patrol boats cross-hatched the sea.\n\nMegumi's father Shigeru paced the sand every morning. At night, he cried in the bath. Sakie cried when she was alone, hoping Megumi's brothers, twins aged nine, wouldn't hear her.\n\nA dark sand-timer had turned over for the Yokota family. For years, they tried simply to endure the void.\n\nA North Korean spy who defected to the South in 1993 told Seoul in detail about an abducted Japanese woman who matched her description. \"I remember her very clearly,\" said Ahn Myong-jin. \"I was young, and she was beautiful.\"\n\nHe said one of her kidnappers - a senior spy-master - had told him her story in 1988:\n\nThe abduction was an unplanned blunder, he said. No-one had meant to take a kid. Two agents finishing up a spy mission to Niigata had been waiting on the beach for a pick-up boat, when they realised they'd been spotted from the road. Fearing discovery, they grabbed the figure. Megumi was tall for her age, and in the darkness they couldn't tell she was a child.\n\nMegumi pictured aged 13 (right), and in a picture later provided by North Korea, which alleged that it shows her aged 20\n\nShe arrived in North Korea after 40 hours locked in a pitch-black storage room, Ahn said, her fingernails torn and bloody from trying to claw her way out. The agents who took her were chastised for their poor judgement. She was too young; what use did they have for a little girl?\n\nMegumi cried for her mother and refused to eat, unnerving her state minders. To soothe her, they promised that if she worked hard and learned fluent Korean, she would be allowed to go home.\n\nIt was a lie to fool a devastated child. Her captors had no such intention. Instead, North Korea would force Megumi to work as a spy trainer, teaching Japanese language and behaviour at an elite school for espionage.\n\nFor this to happen once would be extraordinary. But the bungled abduction set a kind of precedent in North Korea.\n\nThe country's future leader Kim Jong-il, then head of its intelligence services, wanted to expand his spy programme. Kidnapped foreigners weren't just useful as teachers. They could be spies themselves, or Pyongyang could steal their identities for false passports. They could marry other foreigners (something forbidden to North Koreans), and their children, too, could serve the regime.\n\nThe beaches of Japan were full of ordinary people, ripe for abduction, who would stand no chance against highly-trained agents.\n\n\"People think I don't remember much about my sister... but I do clearly remember her, even though I was third or fourth grade in elementary school.\"\n\nWhen Megumi's younger brother, Takuya Yokota, and his twin Tetsuya were nine, the police hunting for Megumi showed them martial arts videos, urging them - \"don't get beaten - be strong.\"\n\nEvery day for 43 years, he has tried to heed that advice. Now 52, he sits in a business suit holding a copy of a postcard his sister sent before her kidnapping. At the end she wrote, \"I'll be home soon!! Please wait.\"\n\nTakuya Yokota, one of Megumi's younger brothers, holds a copy of a new year postcard she sent as a child\n\n\"She was very chatty, very active and bright,\" he says. \"She was like a sunflower for our family.\n\n\"Without her at the dining table, conversation was limited. The atmosphere got very dark.\n\n\"I was very worried, but somehow I went to bed and got up in the morning - every day, to find that she was missing. I got up, and I still couldn't find her.\"\n\nFor the first two decades after Megumi disappeared, the Yokotas had nothing but a cold case and their own desperate need to understand what had happened.\n\nThey tried to guess how she might be ageing. She had been tall at 13; was she still? Had she kept her childhood dimples? A shadow hung over every question. They had no clue if she had survived that last November night.\n\nIn coastal towns in the late 1970s, rumours hovered like sea gulls. Locals spoke of strange radio signals and lights from unknown ships, or Korean cigarette packets discarded by the shore. In August 1978, a couple on a beach date in Toyama prefecture were gagged, hooded and handcuffed by four men who spoke oddly formal, accented Japanese. They were hastily abandoned when a dog-walker came by and the dog barked, spooking their attackers.\n\nOn 7 January 1980, Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper ran a front-page story: \"Three couples on dates evaporate mysteriously along the coasts of Fukui, Niigata, and Kagoshima - is a foreign intelligence agency involved?\"\n\nBut it took a convicted terrorist to finally firm up the link to North Korea.\n\nKim Hyun-hui had killed 115 people by helping to smuggle a bomb onto a South Korean passenger plane in 1987. Staring down a death sentence in Seoul, she testified that she was a North Korean agent acting on state orders. She said she had learned Japanese language and behaviour so she could work undercover. Her teacher, she said, was an abducted Japanese woman whom she lived with for almost two years.\n\nKim Hyun-hui pictured leaving court in Seoul, South Korea, in April 1989, after she was sentenced to death for blowing up a passenger plane\n\nThe testimony was compelling. But Japan's government wouldn't officially acknowledge that North Korea was stealing people. The two countries had a hostile history and no diplomatic relations. It was easier to ignore the evidence.\n\nWhen Japanese negotiators tried to raise the issue privately, the North angrily denied any abductees existed and terminated talks.\n\nIt was 1997 - 20 years after Megumi went missing - when Pyongyang finally agreed to investigate.\n\n\"We have information that your daughter is alive in North Korea.\"\n\nShigeru was stunned. A Japanese official named Tatsukichi Hyomoto, the personal secretary to an MP, had contacted the Yokotas out of the blue. He had been probing abductions by Pyongyang for a decade, and wanted to meet them as soon as possible.\n\nAlong with deep shock, a mad hope sprang back into the family's hearts. The government believed Megumi was alive. So the question at once became: How do we get her back?\n\nThe Yokotas went public with their kidnap story. They were terrified North Korea would kill Megumi to cover up what had happened, but her father argued the case would be treated as hearsay unless her name was revealed. They had to spread the news across Japan, and beg the country for help.\n\nThe family appeared on primetime TV. Questions were raised in parliament. In May, the government publicly confirmed that Megumi was not an isolated case: There were more like the Yokotas, aching for stolen daughters, sons, sisters, brothers and mothers.\n\nSeven of these families formed a support group to demand the rescue of their loved ones: the Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea.\n\nThey talked at length, pooling what little they knew. The abductions appeared opportunistic, but patterns soon emerged. Most victims were young lovers in their twenties. Beaches across Japan had been recast as crime scenes.\n\nOn 12 August 1978, nine months after Megumi disappeared, 24-year-old office clerk Rumiko Masumoto went to watch the sunset with her boyfriend, Shuichi Ishikawa, 23, at a beach in Kagoshima Prefecture. Just a day earlier, she had shyly told her family about their relationship over dinner.\n\nTheir car was found locked at the scene, with Rumiko's wallet and sunglasses in the passenger seat. Her camera was there too - filled with pictures the couple took of each other the day they disappeared. Police picked up one of Shuichi's sandals not far from the water's edge.\n\nWhen Rumiko Masumoto disappeared, police found her car locked near the beach. Her wallet and driver's licence were still inside\n\nEvery kidnapping was a private tragedy. A loved one who fell out of the world without notice. Some of those left bereft were driven to the edge of madness by their loss.\n\nThe press and the public weren't always sympathetic. News reports referred to the abductions as \"alleged\". Several Japanese politicians believed the claims were South Korean disinformation spread to discredit the North.\n\nBut as the families drew up petitions, filled the airwaves, and lobbied the government, the truth was gathering weight like a rolling snowball.\n\nFive years later, in North Korea, it would stop at the feet of Kim Jong-il himself.\n\n\"As the host, I regret that we had to make the prime minister of Japan come to Pyongyang so early in the morning,\" said North Korea's leader.\n\nBut his companion's anger had nothing to do with the time.\n\nPrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had flown in to discuss normalising Japan's relations with North Korea, hoping the step would boost his flagging opinion rating. Instead, he had walked into a diplomatic ambush.\n\nJunichiro Koizumi (R), pictured with then North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, was the first Japanese leader to visit North Korea since World War Two\n\nAfter a brutal 1990s famine believed to have killed more than two million North Koreans, Kim Jong-il wanted food aid and investment, and an apology for Japan's 35-year colonisation of Korea. Japan wanted - and had refused to proceed without - details of every citizen abducted by Pyongyang's spies.\n\nHalf an hour before the historic meeting, the list of names appeared: North Korea admitted to kidnapping 13 Japanese citizens. But just five were said to be alive.\n\nThe causes of death given for the other eight included drowning, choking on the fumes from a broken coal heater, a heart attack in a woman of 27, and two car accidents in a country where private citizens rarely own cars. Pyongyang claimed it could not provide their remains, as floods had washed away almost all their graves.\n\n\"I was utterly distressed by the information that was provided,\" he told Kim Jong-il, \"and as the prime minister, who is ultimately responsible for the interests and security of the Japanese people, I must strongly protest. I cannot bear to imagine how the remaining family members will take the news.\"\n\nKim listened in silence, taking notes on a memo pad, then enquired: \"Shall we take a break now?\"\n\nDebating their predicament in an anteroom, deputy Cabinet spokesman Shinzo Abe - who would become Japan's longest-serving prime minister - urged Koizumi not to sign the declaration committing to normalisation talks unless Pyongyang formally apologised for the kidnappings.\n\nWhen the delegates reconvened, Kim picked up a memo and read: \"We have thoroughly investigated this matter, including by examining our government's role in it. Decades of adversarial relations between our two countries provided the background of this incident. It was, nevertheless, an appalling incident.\n\n\"It is my understanding that this incident was initiated by special mission organizations in the 1970s and 1980s, driven by blindly motivated patriotism and misguided heroism.\n\n\"[…] As soon as their scheme and deeds were brought to my attention, those who were responsible were punished. This kind of thing will never be repeated.\"\n\nThe dictator of Pyongyang said the abductions were designed to provide its spies with native-Japanese teachers, and false identities for missions in South Korea. Some victims were snatched from beaches, yes - and others lured from studies or travels in Europe.\n\nHe spoke of Megumi, the youngest named abductee by many years, saying her kidnappers had been tried and found guilty in 1998. One was executed, and the other died during a 15-year sentence, he said.\n\n\"I would like to take this opportunity to apologise straightforwardly for the regrettable conduct of those people. I will not allow that to happen again.\"\n\nBack in Japan, at a Tokyo guesthouse owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the abductees' families were waiting anxiously for news.\n\nMegumi's parents sat down with the Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Shigeo Uetake. He took a breath.\n\nNorth Korea says Megumi Yokota hanged herself in a pine forest on 13 April 1994, on the grounds of a Pyongyang mental hospital where she was being treated for depression.\n\nThis is her second death date. The North initially claimed she had died on 13 March 1993, before declaring that an error.\n\nAs evidence, Pyongyang produced what it said was a hospital \"death registry\". It was a form with the words \"Registry of Patient Entering and Leaving the Hospital,\" on the back of it. But \"Entering and Leaving the Hospital,\" had been crossed out several times and the word \"Death,\" written instead. Japan told North Korea it found the document highly suspect.\n\nAnother kidnapped Japanese woman, Fukie Chimura, later said that Megumi had moved in next-door to her and her husband in North Korea in June 1994, two months after Megumi's supposed death, and lived there for several months.\n\nThe Yokota family don't believe Megumi killed herself. Still, Sakie finds the details of Pyongyang's story chilling.\n\n\"In Niigata, we had pine forests,\" she told the Washington Post in 2002. \"I'm sure she missed them. I'm sure she was very lonely. For a minute, I thought maybe she longed so much for us and she couldn't come back that, in an instant, she [took her own life.]\n\n\"I cried. But in the next minute, I said no, that could not have happened. I do not want it to have happened. I don't want her to have gone through that.\"\n\nTwo years after declaring Megumi dead, Pyongyang handed over what it said were her ashes. They arrived on the 27th anniversary of her kidnapping. Her parents had kept their daughter's umbilical cord when she was born - a Japanese tradition - and DNA tests were performed.\n\nThe scientist who tested the ashes would later say they could have been contaminated, making the result inconclusive. But North Korea had form for providing dubious remains. It had already sent bones it claimed were those of abductee Kaoru Matsuki, a man it said had died aged 42. They included a jawbone fragment which a dental expert said belonged to a woman in her sixties.\n\nOn 15 October 2002, the five abductees who North Korea said were alive landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.\n\nThey stepped off the plane to Japanese flags and homemade \"Welcome home\" banners, and sobbed on the runway in the arms of their families.\n\nPyongyang had agreed the five could visit Japan for a week to 10 days.\n\nThey would never set foot in North Korea again.\n\nIt was the first time the five abductees had been on Japanese soil for almost 25 years\n\nHow do you rescue someone whose captor insists they are dead? Of course, the Yokotas weren't the only family facing this nightmarish question.\n\nRumiko Masumoto, the young office clerk who disappeared with her new boyfriend, was also on the list of deceased.\n\nNorth Korea says Rumiko died of a heart attack in her twenties. Her family don't accept that. \"There's no one in my family with heart failure,\" her brother says simply.\n\nTeruaki Masumoto was 22 and studying fishery in Hokkaido at the time of his sister's 1978 abduction. He is 65 now, retired from a job grading tuna at Tokyo's main fish market.\n\nHe and Megumi Yokota share a birthday - 5 October - though they are nine years apart. Megumi would be 56 now, and his sister Rumiko 66.\n\nRumiko doted on her brother, the youngest of four Masumoto siblings.\n\n\"She was very kind to me,\" he says. \"Since our family wasn't so affluent, we lived in one room with a family of six. Rumiko and I slept on the same futon until I was about 12 years old. She loved me so much. When I got scolded by my father, she cried and defended me.\"\n\nTeruaki has charted four decades of lost time on a precious gift from Rumiko: a watch she gave him when he got into university.\n\nIn recent years, the war of missing seconds has grown to feel ever more urgent.\n\nRumiko and Teruaki's father, Shoichi, died of lung cancer in 2002. Their mother Nobuko made it to 90 before passing away in 2017.\n\nFor four decades she waited for her daughter to come home. But in her later years, she acknowledged that death might reach her first.\n\nThe search for a stolen child, dead or hidden in a pariah state, is a brutal legacy to leave. But it's an issue many abductees' families have been forced to address. With the parents' generation now gone or in their twilight years, should they tell their present, living children to fight on with everything they have? Is it even a choice?\n\nThere was no formal handover, but Teruaki tends the dark sand-timer now.\n\n\"My father, when he was still alive back in around 2000, became unable to come to Tokyo,\" he says. \"At the time he said to me - 'I'm sorry.' And I felt sort of puzzled and uncomfortable, because I was doing this not because of my father but because of my missing sister.\n\n\"My mother sometimes told me that she wondered if Rumiko would ever come back to Japan. So I think my mother half doubted that she would see her alive. But they didn't say things like, 'this is your time' or 'I want you to keep doing this rescue mission.' No, they didn't say that to me.\"\n\nTeruaki Masumoto still wears the watch his missing sister gave him more than four decades ago\n\nMegumi's brother, Takuya Yokota, was still in his thirties when he felt the mantle settling on his shoulders.\n\n\"When I went to the United States to see President Bush in 2006, I found my ageing parents had trouble spending a long time on a plane,\" he says. \"And in Japan too, if we went somewhere far from Tokyo, they would also have trouble travelling. At that time, I understood that my parents would not be able to go to far-away places any more.\"\n\nOnly two of the victims' parents remain alive. Sakie, the youngest, will turn 85 in February.\n\nMegumi's father Shigeru, softly-spoken but steely, died on 5 June 2020. He went into hospital in April 2018, and fought every day that followed to stay alive a little longer, with his treasured daughter's picture by his bed.\n\nShigeru Yokota, pictured with his wife Sakie, campaigned for more than 40 years for his daughter's safe return\n\nIn Japan, where everyone knows about \"The Abduction Issue\", it's not possible to protect a child with personal ties for long. Both Teruaki Masumoto and Takuya Yokota are fathers: Teruaki to a young daughter, and Takuya to a son in his early twenties.\n\nTakuya believes his son was in infant school when they told him what had happened to Aunt Megumi. \"Probably when he was six or seven years old. I'm sure I had talked to him at the age of nine, the age I was when my sister got abducted.\"\n\n\"My daughter knows about Rumiko,\" he says. \"My wife told her before she entered kindergarten. There's this festival in Japan in summer, in July, when we think a couple separated by the Milky Way meet once a year up in the sky. We write our wish on a short piece of paper and put it onto a tree. On that paper, my four-year-old daughter wrote, 'I want to see my aunt.'\n\nNot every abductee's family has the luxury of insulating children from the burdens of loss and duty, as Teruaki knows.\n\nSince 2004 he has campaigned alongside Koichiro Iizuka. The person stolen from Koichiro was his mother. He was 16 months old at the time.\n\nKoichiro Iizuka was barely a toddler when his birth mother went missing\n\nAged 22, Yaeko Taguchi was a nightclub hostess, and single mother to a baby son and three-year-old daughter. When she disappeared with no explanation in June 1978, her children were left abandoned in their Tokyo nursery.\n\nYaeko's baby son was adopted by her brother, Shigeo Iizuka, and raised as his fourth child. Her daughter was cared for by an aunt.\n\nNow 43, Koichiro Iizuka remembers nothing about his birth mother. He's notably polite, calling her \"Yaeko-san\" - \"Ms Yaeko\".\n\n\"Mum\" and \"Dad\" are Shigeo and his wife Eiko. And until he reached 22, he had no idea his life was more complex than that.\n\nKoichiro Iizuka grew up unaware that his uncle and aunt had adopted him\n\n\"When I got a job I had the chance to go abroad for training, and I needed to apply for my passport,\" he explains. \"In order to do that I needed to get a family registration paper. And I took it and looked at it, and found that I was adopted by Mr Iizuka.\n\n\"First I couldn't imagine why they had kept this secret for so long; I just couldn't imagine, so I needed some time. It took me a week before I went to my parents.\n\n\"When I came home, my mother was out of the house but my father was there. So I told him I had looked at the family registration paper and had found out I was adopted. And I asked him - what happened to me?\"\n\nShigeo took him to lunch and told him the truth. \"He told me, as the paper says you're not my biological child. And I have this youngest sister - whose name is Yaeko - and you are a child of hers.\"\n\nHe held back the darkest part until they were home.\n\n\"He told me, there is this person Kim Hyun-hui - the North Korean agent, the bomber of the KAL plane in 1987, and she said she was taught by a Japanese teacher. Kim Hyun-hui was shown several pictures twice [by Japanese police] - and she picked Yaeko-san, saying 'this is my teacher.' From that it was clear that she was one of the abductees in North Korea.\"\n\nThe claim was corroborated by Fukie Chimura, one of the abductees returned to Japan, who said she had shared accommodation with Yaeko.\n\nYaeko Taguchi, pictured, is believed to have been forced to teach Japanese to North Korea's spies, like Megumi Yokota\n\nIn 2004, two years after the five Japanese made it home from North Korea, Koichiro decided to reveal publicly that he was Yaeko Taguchi's son. He was frustrated by the diplomatic impasse on rescuing the others, keen to do all he could to push the issue.\n\n\"This person Yaeko-san wasn't real in my memory - she was like someone in a story,\" he says. \"But this woman in the story gave birth to me, so it was shocking to me that I wouldn't be able to see her.\n\n\"My father was given a lecture by a foreign ministry official who said there was no proof to support North Korea saying that she was dead. And my father said he just couldn't believe it - he couldn't take the word of North Korea.\n\n\"So we thought - I thought - that I wanted to rescue her, help her.\"\n\nThe plane bomber Kim Hyun-hui had been sentenced to death for her crimes, but was ultimately pardoned by South Korea's then president. In 2009, Koichiro and Shigeo Iizuka travelled to Busan, South Korea to meet her, and learn what they could about her time with Yaeko.\n\n\"She said, I feel that Yaeko-san is my sister, and I'm very happy to see my sister's son today,\" recalls Koichiro. \"And I hope someday that the four of us can meet at one time.\"\n\nShigeo Iizuka (left) and Koichiro Iizuka at their 2009 meeting with the former North Korean spy Kim Hyun-hui\n\nOfficially, North Korea says Yaeko Taguchi died in a car accident in 1986. But Ms Kim disputes that, saying she spoke to a driver who reported seeing her alive the following year. She would now be 65.\n\nKoichiro knows he may ultimately be left searching for his mother, the missing stranger, without the backing of those who knew and loved her.\n\n\"Of course I feel time is very important. Especially because Yaeko-san has two siblings who have already died. My father is ageing. I want him to see her again very much. Not only my family, but the other abductees' families… I can easily see they're getting older. People who used to be very active - some of them are gone already, and some are very frail.\"\n\nNorth Korea has never admitted it was behind the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858, and maintains there is no such person as Kim Hyun-hui.\n\nYaeko Taguchi's family fear that after tutoring Kim and spending her days surrounded by spies, Yaeko may simply know too much ever to be released.\n\nAll those caught up in this struggle share a common dread: That passing time will make a mockery of it, as the abductees age beyond reasonable hope of survival.\n\nWould they have died of old age in North Korea by now? At time of writing - no. But it will fall to the current generation to address the question.\n\n\"Time passes equally for both sides,\" says Takuya Yokota. \"Yes, they are getting older too. And I think spending a year or 20 years in Japan or in England or the US has a different meaning to spending the same amount of time in North Korea. In North Korea, it's very hard not only to stay alive until tomorrow, but to keep alive today.\"\n\nFor Teruaki Masumoto, not even their loved ones' deaths would justify giving up.\n\n\"If their deaths were proven then we would want their bones to be back with us. That's the Japanese mentality. We would also continue to hold the Japanese government accountable for not being able to rescue the abductees. Even though there are 17 abductees 'approved' by the government, I think many, many more are in North Korea - more than a hundred. If there are other abductees, we should be able to establish what happened to them. So we're not going to stop working any time soon.\"\n\nIn 2014, North Korea agreed to open an investigation into the fates of the eight acknowledged abductees it has not returned, despite having declared them dead. It was dragged out until 2016, then cancelled in a spat over nuclear test sanctions.\n\nMegumi's father dreamed of walking her through the lights and liveliness of Roppongi, Tokyo's entertainment district. But in her mother's prayers, they go to a field together where they can lie down looking at the sky, without anybody around, and just quietly and peacefully spend time.\n\nSakie writes open letters to her daughter, in the hope the words may somehow reach her.\n\nPart of one, published by JAPAN forward last year before the loss of her husband, reads as follows:\n\n\"I know it might seem a bit strange that I am just casually reaching out to you. Are you well?\n\n\"[...] I have been trying my best to live a full life, but I feel my body weakening, and every day gets a little bit harder. When I see your father at the hospital desperately doing his rehabilitation exercises, I am overcome with an urgency to find a way for him to see you.\n\n\"This is the reality of ageing. It's not just your father and me. We may be dealing with ageing, sickness, and weariness, but the families of all the victims in North Korea still go on yearning to see their loved ones back on native soil and hold them in their arms.\n\n\"We don't have much time left. We've fought long and hard with our hearts and souls, but we cannot hold out much longer.\n\n\"[...]I want to celebrate my next birthday with you. Only the nation of Japan - the government - can make that happen. But sometimes I'm overcome with a sense of unease and am concerned that our efforts are futile when I see what's going on in our government. I doubt they have the will to solve this problem and figure out a way to bring the victims home.\n\n\"[…] Somehow, I have managed to survive this raging storm. I am thankful that you also have survived, supported by a greater power. We are not alone. And so I pray again today as I think of all of you.\n\n\"It will take more effort than ever before to bring all the victims back to Japan. Of course, Japan must stand up for itself, but we also need courage, love, and righteousness from around the world. (Those of you who read my letter, please take a moment to remember in your heart the abductees still trapped in North Korea. Please speak out for them.)\n\n\"Dearest Megumi, I will keep up the fight to bring you back home to me, your father, and your brothers Takuya and Tatsuya. My resolve remains unshaken, even at age 84. So please take care of yourself and never lose hope.\"\n\nAll in-person interviews were conducted prior to the coronavirus pandemic", "A total of 68 positive tests have been recorded at the home since 20 December\n\nTen care home residents have died after a Covid outbreak in Fife.\n\nNHS Fife said 25 residents and 43 staff at Mossview Care Home in Lochgelly tested positive for the virus.\n\nIt was closed to new admissions after the first case was recorded on 20 December. It has now reopened after 14 days without one.\n\nThe home expressed its sympathies to those who died and described recent weeks as \"extremely difficult\"\n\nNHS Fife said its experts worked alongside the Fife health and social care partnership and environmental health to reduce further transmission.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"NHS Fife is aware of a recent cluster of confirmed Covid-19 cases associated with Mossview Care Home in Lochgelly.\n\n\"Sadly, ten people died after contracting Covid-19 and our thoughts are with their loved ones at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe home confirmed the cases were detected during routine testing and those who died were all residents.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are deeply saddened by these losses and we extend our sympathy to the family members and friends of all those who have lost a loved one.\n\n\"Our aim is always to provide the best possible care for our residents, and we pay tribute to our loyal, hard-working and committed employees for continuing to care for our residents at this most difficult time.\"\n\nThe vaccine rollout to care homes began in Scotland on 14 December.\n\nOn 13 January NHS Fife confirmed the first round of vaccinations had been carried out in all of the region's 76 care homes.\n\nThe health board said around 5,000 residents and staff were immunised.\n\nAcross Scotland the latest figures show 99% of residents in older care homes and 93% of all care home residents have now received their first jab.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many holiday plans were torn up by the coronavirus crisis\n\nOnline travel agent Lastminute.com failed to keep to a promise to refund people for Covid-hit holidays.\n\nIn December, it agreed to pay all outstanding package holiday refunds by the end of January.\n\nBut consumer group Which? said several customers still hadn't received a full refund after the deadline had passed.\n\n\"The refund process has been a very complex and difficult,\" Lastminute.com said.\n\nWhich? has called on the Competition and Markets Authority to uncover how many customers were not refunded in time and take appropriate action.\n\n\"Despite being given ample time to return all outstanding refunds to customers - as well as clear instructions regarding its liability for refunding both accommodation and flight costs - Lastminute.com has failed to meet its commitment to the regulator,\" said Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel.\n\n\"The CMA must send a clear message that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable.\"\n\nA CMA spokesperson said: \"CMA action led to Lastminute.com committing to pay out over £7m to customers waiting for money back.\n\n\"They must now report to us on how they are complying with the commitments they signed up to and the deadlines agreed. Should it become clear that they have breached these undertakings we will consider further action.\"\n\nLastminute.com said: \"Throughout this very challenging year, our customers have remained our number one priority, and we continue our commitment to dedicating our resources to helping them with their requests.\n\n\"Each customer request is unique, and often requiring a human touch-point and we've been working hard to get the money processed back through the system and into our customers' pockets as quickly as possible.\"\n\nLastminute customer Sheryl McLeod had her Barcelona holiday cancelled but hasn't yet had a full refund\n\nSheryl McLeod booked a holiday for two adults and two children to Barcelona for July 2020 through Lastminute.com.\n\nThe firm told her in June the flights and hotel were cancelled and there were no alternatives, so the trip would be cancelled and refunded.\n\nIn September she was told by email that her refund was ready and she accepted the option of a cash refund.\n\nFor months afterwards Lastminute.com claimed it was finalising her refund. Then, on 27 January, she was finally sent £932.49 - more than £300 short of the £1,274.68 she was owed.\n\nClaire Barder is another customer who told Which? she didn't receive a full refund for her cancelled holiday before the CMA's deadline.\n\nDespite receiving confirmation of a refund for her July holiday to Barcelona, she was only given £431.75 - nearly £600 short as it did not include the flight portion of the trip.\n\nAfter Which? approached Lastminute.com both customers were told they would receive their outstanding money back.\n\n\"We can confirm that the refund has been sent to the customers also for the flight,\" Lastminute.com said.\n\nIf your travel company cancels a package holiday for any reason, it has to give you a full refund by law within 14 days.\n\nSimilarly, if you booked a flight (which was departing or arriving in an EU country or the UK or on an EU or UK airline) through a holiday company and the flight was cancelled, you must be reimbursed.\n\nBut many people have been left waiting months for a pay-out during the pandemic as travel firms face a cashflow crisis.\n\nSince the start of the Covid crisis, the CMA has written to more 100 package holiday firms to remind them of their obligations to comply with consumer protection law.\n\nLast week it began an investigation of Teletext Holidays following complaints it has failed to refund people for trips that have been cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSome online travel agents have reported difficulties in securing refunds from airlines to pass on to their customers, meaning they have handed only partial refunds for cancelled package holidays.\n\nBut under the Package Travel and Linked Travel Regulations 2018, if a package holiday is cancelled by the provider, the customer is legally entitled to a full refund - including all travel and travel-related services - within 14 days.", "A snow plough on the A66 near Bowes in County Durham where the road was closed due to heavy snow\n\nHeavy snow and ice has brought disruption to parts of the UK, with coronavirus vaccination centres and schools shutting in some areas.\n\nYellow warnings for snow cover much of England and Scotland, as well as parts of Northern Ireland until Wednesday.\n\nPolice have warned people not to travel, with long delays expected and road closures in some parts.\n\nOn Monday, 30cm (12in) of snow fell in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, while up to 22cm fell in parts of the east of England.\n\nHeavy snowfall and temperatures as low as -15C have been forecast for parts of Scotland, with the Met Office issuing an amber warning for snow for areas including Perthshire, Stirlingshire and Fife from 03:00 to 21:00 on Tuesday.\n\nFurther south temperatures could get as low as -10C, BBC Weather's Billy Payne said, in what he described as the most significant cold spell since the Beast from the East three years ago.\n\n\"We'll see further snow showers over the next couple of days and widespread overnight frosts and ice with temperatures for some not rising above freezing,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowy scenes across the UK as Storm Darcy causes disruption\n\nThe Met Office said it was \"bitterly cold\" due to Storm Darcy's strong easterly winds, with temperatures in parts of the UK around freezing.\n\nThe AA said \"treacherous driving conditions\" had caused \"numerous\" accidents.\n\nSome roads were closed in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Hertfordshire, with police forces in parts of East Anglia warning drivers some roads had become \"impassable\".\n\nNational Rail told train passengers that services across the country were likely to be affected by the conditions and said it may be necessary to close some routes.\n\nSouthern Rail cancelled services in south-east London, while networks in Kent and Essex also closed train lines.\n\nAbandoned cars in a snowy ditch in Suffolk on Monday\n\nThis snowplough was out in action in Ipswich\n\nThe conditions led to some vaccination centres being closed, including several in Essex and Suffolk, as well as in Surrey and Norfolk.\n\nAnd a number of schools also had to close across the south-east of England and Lincolnshire.\n\nIn Suffolk, a man who is thought to have been kitesurfing died on Sunday after being found on a beach in stormy conditions.\n\nEmergency services were called after reports of a person in the North Sea off Walberswick and the man was later found on the shore by members of the public. He died at the scene.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Nick Miller said it was a \"very cold week to come\" with day temperatures close to freezing, and overnight frost making it feel \"colder still\" with \"significant windchill\".\n\nIn the south east of England, eastern England, the Midlands and the North East, there is the greatest prospect of \"significant\" falls of snow and disruption, he added. Some areas will get \"shower after shower, with snow building up\".\n\nHowever, the severe conditions brought by Storm Darcy are not expected to be as widespread as 2018's Beast from the East, forecasters said.\n\nSnow falling in Auchleven in Aberdeenshire on Monday morning\n\nYellow warnings - meaning there could be travel disruption and a slight chance of power cuts or communities being cut off - include:\n\nThere were 28 flood warnings across England, as of 20:00 on Monday.\n\nPublic Health England has issued a cold weather alert for the whole nation through to Wednesday.\n\nDr Owen Landeg said it was \"crucial\" people looked out for those who may be vulnerable during the current cold snap, calling on the public to make sure those at-risk have enough food and drink to stay warm and well.\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands of people take part in the largest protest in Myanmar in more than a decade\n\nMyanmar has seen its largest protests in more than a decade, as tens of thousands of people rallied against the military coup and demanded the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\n\"We don't want military dictatorship. We want democracy,\" the crowds chanted in the main city, Yangon. Rallies were held in more than a dozen other cities.\n\nInternet access has now been restored after a day-long blackout.\n\nThe army has not yet commented on the growing opposition to Monday's coup.\n\nThe military seized power after claiming, without evidence, that the November election was fraudulent. The rulers declared a year-long state of emergency and have been hunkered down in the capital, Nay Pyi Daw.\n\nMs Suu Kyi and senior leaders of her National League for Democracy Party (NLD), including President Win Myint, have been put under house arrest.\n\nIn Yangon, people wore red shirts and held red balloons, the colour of Ms Suu Kyi's party, while cars and buses slowed to sound their horns in support. Many flashed the three-finger salute, a symbol of defiance against authoritarianism in the region.\n\nDemonstrators waved flags of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Yangon\n\nThe internet shutdown imposed by the military failed to curb the protesters. \"Respect our vote,\" read one banner, in reference to the NLD's landslide win in November.\n\nSunday's protests in Yangon were the biggest since the so-called Saffron Revolution in 2007, when thousands of the country's monks rose up against the military regime.\n\nCrowds marched towards the Sule Pagoda in the city centre while police vehicles and officers in riot gear were stationed near Yangon University. There were no immediate reports of violence.\n\nAnti-coup protesters gathered in Yangon on Sunday despite an internet shutdown\n\n\"First, we don't want to go back to military rule. We don't want to live in fear. Secondly, we want Mother Su to be freed from being under detention unjustly,\" a protester told the BBC. \"And third, we want to root out the system where soldiers take civilian administrative positions.\"\n\nAnother demonstrator said that Ms Suu Kyi was \"our true leader\", adding: \"She is our only hope for our democracy, if she died or something happened to her, what is our future? We really need her back.\"\n\nA third said: \"This protest is not the end. We'll group... [every day] until we're free from the dictatorship.\"\n\nSmaller protests were also held in Nay Pyi Daw, Mawlamine and Mandalay, the country's second-largest city.\n\nIn the town of Myawaddy, there were reports of shots being fired, but no immediate reports of any injuries. According to some local media outlets, police had used rubber bullets to break up a rally.\n\nPeople from all different backgrounds, not just students and activists, have joined the protests in Yangon. They shouted anti-military slogans and sang famous revolutionary songs from the 1988 student uprising against the military regime.\n\nThe atmosphere was charged and protesters were defiant. They are angry but also quietly afraid.\n\nThey know that the military is capable of using violence to suppress dissent but they feel like they have no choice.\n\nWhen a group of protesters met a row of soldiers they chanted at them: \"You're trained to be professional soldiers, do not kill civilians.\"\n\nThe monitoring group NetBlocks Internet Observatory said connectivity rose to about 50% by 14:00 local time (07:30 GMT) but access to social media, including Facebook and Twitter, remained blocked.\n\nThe shutdown was criticised by human rights groups. Amnesty International said the blackout was \"heinous and reckless\" and warned it could put people at risk of human rights violations.\n\nThe United Nations special rapporteur on Myanmar, Tom Andrews, called on the agency's Human Rights Council to convene a special session on the \"unfolding crisis\", saying: \"[The] junta must stand down now.\"\n\nThe coup took place as a new session of parliament was set to open. Many Burmese watched events unfold in real time on Facebook, which is the country's primary source of information and news.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We wish them to fall\": Teachers in the city of Yangon have joined protests against Monday's military coup\n\nMyanmar is a country of 54 million people in South East Asia which shares borders with Bangladesh, India, China, Thailand and Laos.\n\nIt was ruled by an oppressive military government from 1962 to 2011, either directly or indirectly, leading to international condemnation and sanctions.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi spent years campaigning for democratic reforms. A gradual liberalisation began in 2010, though the military still retained considerable influence.\n\nA government led by Ms Suu Kyi came to power after free elections in 2015. But a deadly military crackdown two years later on Rohingya Muslims sent hundreds of thousands fleeing to Bangladesh.\n\nIt triggered a rift between Ms Suu Kyi and her previous supporters in the international community after she refused to condemn the crackdown or describe it as ethnic cleansing. But she has remained hugely popular at home.\n\nHave you been affected by recent events in Myanmar? 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.", "The Pope has appointed a woman as an undersecretary to the Synod of Bishops for the first time.\n\nSister Nathalie Becquart, who is from France, will have voting rights in the body, which advises the pontiff and debates some of the most controversial issues in the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nMs Becquart has worked with the synod as a consultant since 2019.\n\nThe body's secretary-general, Cardinal Mario Grech, said the appointment showed that \"a door has opened\".\n\nHe noted that the decision reflects the Pope's desire \"for a greater participation of women in the process of discernment and decision-making in the church\".\n\nThe BBC's John McManus says the move is not a precursor to ordaining women as priests, although some opponents may regard it as a further step in that direction.\n\nThe Synod of Bishops studies key questions of Catholic doctrine\n\nLuis Marín de San Martín, a priest from Spain, was also named as a new undersecretary of the synod.\n\nIn recent years, the Synod of Bishops has debated topics of doctrine including the treatment of divorced and married Catholics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vatican News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe news comes less than a month after Pope Francis formally changed the law in the Church to allow women to administer communion and serve at the altar, although the decree stressed that ordained priesthood would remain open to men only.\n\nLast year, meanwhile, the pontiff appointed six women to the council which oversees the Vatican's finances.\n\nMore on Pope Francis and the Vatican:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pope Francis: \"This is not a time for indifference\"", "Sumatran tigers are critically endangered with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild. File image\n\nA zookeeper has been killed after two critically endangered Sumatran tigers escaped from a zoo on Borneo island.\n\nThe female tigers, both aged about 18 months, escaped the Sinka Zoo after a landslide caused by days of torrential rain damaged their enclosure.\n\nOn Saturday, one of the animals was captured after it was hit with a tranquiliser dart.\n\nBut the other tiger was shot dead after it behaved aggressively and attempts to tranquilise it failed.\n\nThe 47-year-old zookeeper was found dead close to the tigers' enclosure after the animals escaped late on Friday. He had bite wounds and scratches on his body, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nA number of dead animals, including an ostrich and a monkey, had earlier been found near the enclosure.\n\nThe escape triggered a large-scale hunt in the town of Singkawang, West Kalimantan. Nearby tourist attractions were ordered to close by police and people were told to stay at home.\n\nAnd while officials hoped to catch both animals alive - they said they were forced to shoot one of the tigers.\n\n\"We tried with a tranquilliser gun first but it didn't work, so we were forced to shoot the tiger because it was already behaving very aggressively,\" Sadtata Noor Adirahmanta, the head of a local conservation agency, told AFP.\n\n\"We were afraid it would escape to the nearest neighbourhood,\" he added. \"Although we tried our best to catch it alive, our priority is humans' safety.\"\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Indian government launched ‘Project Tiger’ to save the animals from extinction\n\nA cage filled with animal prey was prepared in an attempt to lure the remaining tiger back to the zoo at feeding time.\n\nDrones were also used to try to locate the tiger in the dense forest surrounding the zoo. \"We had a hard time finding them,\" the local police chief told CNN Indonesia.\n\nBut officials managed to capture it alive after shooting it with a tranquiliser dart. The animal is now being monitored at the zoo by medical experts.\n\nSumatran tigers are critically endangered, with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales took advantage of Peter O'Mahony's 14th-minute red card to beat Ireland in their Six Nations opener.\n\nFlanker O'Mahony became the first Irishman to be sent off in the Six Nations following a reckless elbow to the head of prop Tomas Francis.\n\nIreland bounced back to lead 13-6 at half-time through a Tadhg Beirne try and Johnny Sexton's boot.\n\nTries from George North and Louis Rees-Zammit and 11 points from Leigh Halfpenny sealed success for Wales.\n\nBut they nearly lost it at the death, with a penalty giving Billy Burns the chance to kick for the corner and a potential match-winning line-out drive, only for the replacement Ireland fly-half to kick the ball dead, to Wales' huge relief.\n\nIt was a fourth win for Wales coach Wayne Pivac in 11 competitive matches and the first against a leading nation following previous successes against Italy and Georgia.\n\nIreland are still to win an away game under Andy Farrell despite the 14 men of Ireland enjoying territory and possession advantage while Wales' forwards dominated the tackle charts.\n\nIt was a bruising battle with Wales losing Dan Lydiate, Johnny Williams, Hallam Amos and Tomos Williams to injury.\n\nIreland lock James Ryan failed a head injury assessment and skipper Sexton's afternoon ended 11 minutes from time when Wales flanker Justin Tipuric's knee accidentally caught him in the head.\n\nAfter playing the autumn series at Parc y Scarlets, Wales returned to their Principality Stadium home after the iconic ground had been used as a coronavirus hospital in 2020. The eerie Cardiff city centre atmosphere belied what the Welsh capital would usually be like on international day.\n\nAfter a period of experimentation, Pivac returned to some tried-and-tested men by picking the most experienced Wales starting side in history.\n\nCaptain Alun Wyn Jones played his first game for two months after recovering from a knee injury and was sporting a black eye following an altercation in training with Jake Ball, who was not named in the squad.\n\nWales had already been disrupted by suspended duo Liam Williams and Josh Adams, the latter due to a Covid-19 breach.\n\nA cagey start saw Leigh Halfpenny open the scoring before his opposite number Hugo Keenan demonstrated his attacking abilities with an incisive break.\n\nDan Lydiate's first international match for more than two years was cut short after his right leg buckled underneath him, forcing the flanker off to be replaced by Josh Navidi.\n\nThe game's controversial moment came in the 14th minute when O'Mahony was red carded for a reckless arm to the head of Francis when trying to clear out a ruck.\n\nReferee Wayne Barnes showed the Munster man a deserved red and it looked as if the game's complexion would change.\n\nIrish indiscipline continued with a high tackle from Sexton on Johnny Williams, allowing Halfpenny to double the lead.\n\nWales centre Williams and Ireland lock James Ryan were both forced off with head injuries before Sexton opened the Ireland account with two penalties to level the scores.\n\nWales' line-out woes continued and another failure set up the platform for Robbie Henshaw to burst through a missed Justin Tipuric tackle and release Josh van der Flier, with Tadhg Beirne following up to dive over.\n• None We only have ourselves to blame - Sexton\n\nSexton converted as Ireland deservedly led 13-6 at half-time, at which point Wales lost scrum-half Tomos Williams to a hamstring injury to the final move of the half.\n\nIt was a masterful first-half performance of game management orchestrated by Sexton as Wales were starved of possession and forced to make three times as many tackles as the visitors.\n\nReplacement scrum-half Gareth Davies entered the fray before North crossed for Wales' opening try with an excellent break for his 42nd Wales try in his 99th international. Halfpenny missed the conversion as Wales trailed by two points.\n\nThe hosts regained the lead with a fantastic finish from Rees-Zammit in the right-hand corner with Halfpenny converting.\n\nA thunderous charge from CJ Stander bounced Faletau on his backside before a Halfpenny penalty gave Wales an eight-point advantage.\n\nWales rung the changes which included a major backline reshuffle with replacement fly-half Callum Sheedy coming on for wing Amos. The alterations included Biggar moving to full-back and Halfpenny switching to the wing.\n\nIreland lost Sexton after his head caught the left knee of Tipuric before his replacement Burns reduced the deficit to five points with a penalty.\n\nIn a frantic finale, Gareth Davies needlessly kicked the ball away with 10 seconds left before Tipuric produced a wonderful tackle on Garry Ringrose as Ireland battered away at the Wales defence.\n\nIreland had a final chance, but Burns inexplicably kicked the ball dead from a penalty as a delighted Wales secured victory.\n• None What can we expect from tonight's showdown?\n• None Here's some US classics that will keep you fuelled all night", "Andrew RT Davies says it is a \"time for consistency\" on areas where all four UK chief medical officers agree\n\nA \"common framework\" of UK-wide Covid rules should be adopted, according to the leader of the Tories in the Senedd.\n\nAndrew RT Davies wants Welsh ministers to work with the UK government to provide \"consistency\" in areas where all four UK chief medical officers \"undoubtedly agree\".\n\nMr Davies said devolution \"shouldn't mean the Welsh Government should always do things differently\".\n\nWales currently has a lower Covid case rate than England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe youngest pupils will return to Welsh primary schools the week after the February half-term, but English schools are not set to reopen until the start of March.\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd on Tuesday, the first minister said he was \"pleased\" the Welsh Government had \"regular meetings with the UK government every Wednesday - and a number of days in between most weeks now - where we are able to talk about common approaches\".\n\nWales has a lower Covid case rate currently than England and Northern Ireland\n\nBut Mark Drakeford added: \"We will all [four governments in the UK], nonetheless, be calibrating the decisions that we make in the circumstances that we face.\n\n\"The number of people falling ill with coronavirus per 100,000 of the population in Wales is falling at the moment every day.\n\n\"It's about half the level that is to be seen across the border in England. I wouldn't want to deny Welsh businesses or outdoor attractions the chance of opening earlier if our circumstances allowed that to happen.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he intends to announce plans to ease England's lockdown restrictions from the 22 February.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, the Conservatives' Senedd leader said his party \"rejects the 'how can Wales be different just for the sake of it' approach of Welsh Labour.\"\n\nMr Davies said: \"That doesn't mean each and every decision made by a Conservative government in Wales would be identical to one made by a Conservative government in Westminster.\n\n\"But it's time for consistency in areas where all four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom undoubtedly agree, rather than persisting with the professor in the Bay's policy of poking the prime minister in the eye at every turn.\n\n\"Like people and business across Wales, we want to cut the politics and see the adoption of a common framework on restrictions.\"\n\nIn his article, Mr Davies referenced a recent YouGov poll conducted in Wales.\n\nThe poll from January suggested 63% of respondents believed decisions around lockdown measures should happen at the same time for the whole of the UK even if some areas are at different levels than others at reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nA separate question asking how coronavirus lockdown rules are decided suggested that 47% believed the UK government should decide the rules for the whole of the UK, 43% said devolved governments should decide the rules, with 10% saying they didn't know.", "Workplace Covid testing is being offered to more companies in England, for staff who cannot work from home during lockdown, the government says.\n\nBusinesses with more than 50 employees are now able to access lateral flow tests, which can produce results in less than 30 minutes.\n\nPreviously only firms with more than 250 staff qualified for testing.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock urged businesses and employees to take up the offer to \"stop this virus spreading\".\n\n\"When you consider that around one in three people have the virus without symptoms and could potentially infect people without even knowing it, it becomes clear why focusing testing on those without symptoms is so essential,\" he said, adding that firms should regularly test staff.\n\nThe government said the wider criteria would \"hugely\" increase the number of different businesses that are able to sign up, with small and medium sized companies now able to take part.\n\nA website has been launched for more businesses to register for the rapid testing programme.\n\nIt comes as England's national lockdown continues, and the UK's daily reported coronavirus deaths and cases remain high.\n\nThe latest figures showed another 828 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and there were a further 18,262 cases.\n\nAs of Friday, the UK had given a first jab to nearly 11.5 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs in England will be paid an additional £10 by the NHS for every housebound patient they vaccinate against Covid-19.\n\nAs well as offering vaccinations at their practices, GPs have been visiting patients to provide jabs to often vulnerable people who cannot leave their homes.\n\nThe extra £10-per-visit funding is to recognise the extra staff time and complexity of vaccinating housebound people, NHS England said.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the expanded workplace testing regime would complement the rollout of Covid vaccines in the drive to \"reopen the economy and recover our way of life as soon as it is safe to do so\".\n\nAnd the British Chambers of Commerce said it would be \"working hard to ensure that eligible businesses take up this opportunity\".\n\nBut union officials said employers could not rely on lateral flow testing alone to ensure the safety of staff, citing that Public Health England (PHE) found examples of missed asymptomatic positive cases during the mass testing pilot in Liverpool last year.\n\nDan Shears, GMB union's health, safety and environment director, said: \"These rapid tests are not a magic bullet, and it is vital that employers understand the limitations and take steps to address them.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth welcomed the extra testing but said \"so much more needs to be done to make workplaces Covid-secure including improving ventilation and upgraded PPE (personal protection equipment) standards\".\n\n\"This is even more important when the most recent data shows hundreds of outbreaks in workplaces since the start of January,\" he said.\n\nSome 112 UK organisations have so far signed up to take part in workplace testing, with employees being tested across 500 sites, according to government figures.\n\nThis includes private sector organisations in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and public sector employers such as job centres, transport networks, and the military.\n\nNHS Test and Trace said that, as of 29 January, it had provided Transport for London (TfL) staff with 2,173 tests, identifying 28 positive cases who would have otherwise continued working alongside colleagues.\n\nBut a CBI survey found that 87% of UK businesses were not currently testing in the workplace, citing reasons such as the availability of NHS testing for individuals, unclear guidance, and the operational, logistical and/or regulatory complexity of offering testing.\n\nOf those not carrying out workplace testing, 69% said they were not planning to offer testing in the next three months.\n\nThe CBI said the government had \"a big role\" to provide guidance and make it simple to introduce workplace testing.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health, tests are currently being provided free to both public and private sector employers until at least 31 March, and the government's support will be kept under review.\n\nNHS Test and Trace will support organisations to deliver the asymptomatic testing by supplying the kits, and offering guidance and training for delivery.\n\nThe additional funding for GPs is retrospective and will apply to any vaccinations that have already been delivered to those who cannot leave their homes.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP services are part of the NHS vaccination programme, alongside over 250 hospital hubs and nearly 200 services run by high street pharmacies.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each offer their own advice on testing.\n\nHave you had or tried to have a coronavirus test sent to you at home, a walk-in or a drive-in centre? 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 government has ruled out plans to issue so-called \"vaccine passports\" to enable people who have had the jab against coronavirus to travel abroad.\n\nThe Greek prime minister has said he would welcome British holidaymakers if they could prove they have been vaccinated.\n\nVaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that people could get evidence from their GP.\n\nLabour says vaccine passports may be necessary.\n\nThe possibility of giving people \"vaccine passports\" to allow a return to international travel is being debated in the UK and elsewhere.\n\nFormer UK prime minister Tony Blair and Greek leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis are among those calling for their introduction.\n\nIn the UK, more than 11m people have been vaccinated against coronavirus so far.\n\nMr Zahawi had previously said that the government was \"looking at the technology\" to create vaccine passports, leading to accusations from critics that civil liberties would be infringed.\n\nBut speaking on the Marr show, Mr Zahawi insisted that was not the plan.\n\nHe said there were several reasons why vaccine passports would not be introduced, not least because the vaccine was not mandatory in the UK.\n\n\"That's not how we do things. We do them by consent,\" he said.\n\nMr Zahawi said vaccine passports would be \"discriminatory\" and it wasn't clear what impact they would have on transmission of the virus.\n\nHe said people could talk to their doctor if they needed written evidence to travel.\n\n\"Of course you have the evidence that you have been vaccinated held by your GP and if other countries require you to show proof of that evidence then that is up to those countries,\" he said.\n\nThe shadow business secretary, Ed Miliband, said vaccine passports \"may be necessary\" but he was more concerned with getting a comprehensive quarantine programme in place for arrivals in to the UK.\n\nMr Miliband added: \"We should be open to this but there are complications to do this vaccine passport. Is it just for international travel? Is it for as you go about your business in your society?\"\n\nHe said \"We are five or six weeks on from the South African variant being discovered.\n\n\"We still don't have a quarantine system in place. We still don't have a plan for a comprehensive quarantine system, so let's proceed a step at a time, and of course, look at the vaccine passport - but let's get the quarantine right and let's get the rollout right too.\"", "People are being urged to check in on the elderly and vulnerable as cold and snowy weather threatens disruption.\n\nAn amber snow warning - meaning travel issues and power cuts are likely - is in place for parts of east and south-east England until Monday morning.\n\nYellow snow and ice warnings are also in force for much of England, Scotland and eastern Wales.\n\nMet Office weather expert Steven Keates said there would be \"many similarities\" with the Beast from the East in 2018.\n\nIt is due to a combination of cold air from Scandinavia and Russia plus Storm Darcy bringing winds and snow, he said.\n\nAsked whether he thought it was fair to call it the Beast from the East Two, the meteorologist said: \"I think so. The air mass is not quite as cold as it was then, so it's not quite as extreme, but nonetheless this is probably the coldest weather we'll see across the UK as a whole since then.\n\n\"And if you're stepping outside at all through the next few days, it really is going to feel cold. Temperatures [will be] barely above freezing on a thermometer, and when you factor in a strong easterly wind, you'll be feeling many degrees below freezing.\"\n\nPeople enjoy a chilly walk along the Basingstoke Canal in Hampshire\n\nParts of Scotland have already seen heavy snowfall in the past few days, with up to 50cm in some places - but Scotland's amber warning for snow has now expired.\n\nMore snow is expected in eastern parts of Scotland later, with 10 to 15cm possible in some areas, especially above 200m.\n\nOne amber warning is now in place for parts of London, the south-east and the east of England until 09:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThose areas could see between five and 10cm of snow on Sunday - with up to 20cm in some places, the BBC Weather Centre said.\n\nYellow warnings - which mean there could be travel disruption and a slight chance of power cuts or communities being cut off - are also in place for:\n\nParts of Scotland, including Ballater in Aberdeenshire, have seen persistent heavy snowfall and blizzards\n\nMet Office forecasters have warned of \"significant disruptive snowfall\" and gale force winds in the south-east of England, saying up to 30cm of snow is possible in the Kent Downs and more widely on the North Downs.\n\nMeteorologist Sarah Kent said: \"It is a small chance, but the threat is there, up to a foot of snow potentially combined with extremely strong easterly winds. Even inland in that area, gusting could be 45mph and higher than that on the coasts.\n\n\"This could lead to significant drifting of any lying snow and obviously blizzards for the snow coming past you for anyone who is attempting to travel.\n\n\"Sadly there will be people who have to make journeys for the emergency services and there are still lorries that have to go to the ports. It is going to be really disruptive.\n\n\"With that sort of snowfall, you would expect some roads to be closed or blocked by the drifting snow, and long delays or some cancellations of public transport.\"\n\nPublic Health England's Dr Owen Landeg said it was \"crucial\" people looked out for those who may be vulnerable during the current cold snap.\n\nHe called on the public to make sure those at-risk have enough food and drink to stay warm and well.\n\nThe conditions are caused by cold air spreading east from the Arctic Circle, tracking across the relatively mild North Sea to form showers that bring snow and a significant wind chill.\n\nStorm Darcy, which was named by the Netherlands, is bringing an area of low pressure, adding moisture to the cold air to help form the snow.\n\nIn Scotland, parts of which have seen heavy snow and ice since the end of last year, road clearing will be prioritised around Covid vaccination centres, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said.\n\nHe said it was possible weather conditions would create challenges for the vaccination programme.\n\nDrivers in the Highlands reported being stuck after heavy snow drifted\n\nOn Friday, about 20 vehicles were stranded in snow at Loch Droma, north west of Inverness, and emergency services have been assisting a rescue operation, Highland Council said.\n\nThe vehicles became stranded in two-metre snow drifts, said road management organisation Bear Scotland.\n\nNetwork Rail said services have been disrupted on the Highland Mainline despite plough trains being used to clear snow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is another Beast from the East on the way?\n\nAside from icy conditions, there were 52 flood warnings in place as of Sunday morning across parts of England, along the River Severn and the River Thames, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nIn Berkshire, parts of Cookham were left submerged after heavy rain caused flooding at Widbrook Common.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued a flood warning for Greenlaw to Allanton in the Borders.\n\nFlood alerts are in place across England, with roads almost impassable in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire\n\nDrivers are advised to make sure their vehicle is ready for the cold weather amid predictions of an increase in breakdowns.\n\nRAC spokesman Ben Aldous said: \"This means checking oil, coolant and screen wash levels, as well as ensuring the tyres have plenty of tread and are inflated properly.\n\n\"Large amounts of snow on vehicles should be cleared before setting off to avoid it falling on to other road users. And never attempt to use the windscreen wipers to clear an icy or snowy windscreen - you risk damaging not only the wipers but the linkages too, which could be a more costly repair.\"", "A \"wonderful, caring\" nurse has died with Covid-19 in the hospital she had worked at for nearly two decades.\n\nEstrella Catalan, 52, died on Friday at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), where she was an emergency department staff nurse.\n\nShe had been receiving treatment in the hospital's critical care complex.\n\nChief executive of NNUH NHS Foundation Trust, Sam Higginson, said Ms Catalan, who had worked at the hospital since 2002, \"will be terribly missed\".\n\nMs Catalan had previously been interviewed by the BBC from her intensive care bed while she was unwell with Covid-19.\n\nMr Higginson said: \"Our deepest and heartfelt condolences are with Estrella's loved ones and friends at this very difficult time and with all those who worked alongside Estrella and knew her.\"\n\nEstrella Catalan had worked at the hospital since 2002\n\nHe called Ms Catalan a \"wonderful person and a caring and conscientious nurse, who loved to teach and mentor students\" and said they would \"formulate a fitting memorial to Estrella\".\n\n\"This is a heartbreaking reminder of the situation we are facing every day to help others and we want to thank our staff for their ongoing courage and commitment during the pandemic,\" added Mr Higginson.\n\nAccording to a GoFundMe page which has raised more than £4,700, Ms Catalan is survived by her husband Melvin and their sons John and Josh, and added that her eldest son Vince died two years ago.\n\n\"She puts the needs of others first before her own,\" the page said.\n\n\"Her selflessness and dedication carried on even when she was on her hospital bed, she still thought and talked about when she could go back to work to help patients and colleagues throughout this pandemic.\n\n\"Estrella promised her family, 'I will be back' when she was taken to the hospital few weeks ago... sadly, a promise that she could no longer physically keep.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Fourteen adults were issued £11,200 in fines after police broke up the party in Victoria Street, Mansfield\n\nMore than £11,000 in Covid fines have been handed out to 14 adults after they attended a one-year-old's birthday party.\n\nNottinghamshire Police were informed of the celebrations on Thursday after members of the public reported seeing party banners outside the gathering.\n\nOfficers said 24 people, including 10 children, were bunched into \"a small flat\" in Victoria Street, Mansfield.\n\nEach adult was fined £800 for attending the party.\n\nUnder new Covid-19 measures introduced in January, people attending a gathering of more than 15 people at a house party incur a higher fine.\n\nPolice said a number of people travelled from Birmingham to attend the celebrations.\n\nOfficers said the revellers were also having a family barbecue. Police issued £11,200 in fines after breaking up the celebrations at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nPolice were told about the party in Victoria Street, Mansfield, after reports of party banners outside the gathering.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Cooper said: \"Officers are putting their own health, as well as their families' health, on the line by attending these kind of house parties night after night.\n\n\"We would appeal to all local residents to comply with the Covid-19 regulations which are there to protect everyone.\"\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.", "Humphrys is best known as a former presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today show\n\nJohn Humphrys will step down as host of long-running BBC quiz Mastermind at the end of the current series.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Humphrys, 77, said he would be giving up the role in March, after 18 years.\n\n\"Now, after more than 750 shows, it really is time to finish,\" he said in a nod to the show's catchphrase.\n\nHumphrys, who took on the quizmaster role in 2003, said he did not envy his successor - adding Mastermind was a show you tinkered with \"at your peril\".\n\nThe BBC said it wanted to thank Humphrys for his work on the programme. \"He has been a first class presenter and we look forward to working with him on other projects in the future,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThere is currently no word on who might follow in Humphrys' footsteps.\n\n\"When the present series comes to an end in March there will be someone else in the chair,\" the former Today programme presenter wrote in his newspaper column.\n\n\"I wish my successor well - but I'm not sure I envy them, whoever 'they' may be.\n\n\"What are the odds on the first female?\" he added.\n\nHumphrys said when he took on the role of Mastermind host in 2003, the BBC stipulated that he must retain predecessor Magnus Magnusson's much-mimicked coda: \"I've started, so I'll finish.\"\n\n\"Mastermind is one of those programmes you tinker with at your peril,\" he wrote in Saturday's column. \"Allow a contender to choose a light-hearted subject and the cry goes out: 'Dumbing down!' Change the format even slightly and you are 'sexing up'.\"\n\nMagnusson was the first host of Mastermind, which debuted on BBC One in 1972.\n\nThe show features four contenders who each answer questions on a specialist subject of their choice against the clock, followed by a series of general knowledge questions. There are no cash prizes, just kudos.\n\nThe show, which originally aired in a late night slot amid fears it was too highbrow, has become a national institution - and is famous for its black leather chair, in which the contestant sits, and ominous theme tune, aptly titled Approaching Menace.\n\nBroadcaster Humphrys built a reputation as a tenacious interrogator of politicians on BBC Radio 4's Today show, stepping down as a presenter on the show in September 2019, after 32 years.\n\nHe has since taken on a presenting role on Classic FM.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nScotland claimed a first win at Twickenham since 1983 as returning fly-half Finn Russell orchestrated a shock 11-6 Six Nations victory over England.\n\nCapitalising on the hosts' ill discipline, Russell gave Scotland a three-point lead before helping to set up Duhan van der Merwe's try.\n\nDefending champions England clawed back six points and Russell's charge was briefly halted by a yellow card.\n\nBut a resilient Scotland were undeterred and added another penalty.\n\nEngland had been favourites to win the tournament but, with France having opened their Six Nations with a 50-10 defeat of Italy, their chances suddenly seem much slimmer.\n\nScotland, on the other hand, look likely to improve on last year's fourth-place finish with Wales their opponents at Murrayfield next weekend.\n\nThat is one of three home games for the Scots in the 2021 Six Nations, with round three's trip to Paris now looking decisive for their title hopes.\n• None 'The scoreboard might say otherwise, but the Scots won hands down'\n\nThere was no shortage of history surrounding the Calcutta Cup match. It marked the 150th anniversary of the first time England and Scotland played each other and the fact Scotland were without a win at Twickenham in 38 years was a key talking point in the build-up.\n\nAll the players had been confined to coronavirus bubbles in the week before the tournament, with England only allowed to socialise outside or otherwise stay alone in their rooms.\n\nThe joy of breaking free of their confines combined with the sense of occasion meant both sides sprung out onto the Twickenham pitch, but it was Scotland who looked keenest, determined to throw off the shackles of such a long winless run south of the border.\n• None Scotland can do something special - Townsend\n\nEngland, who fielded a relatively inexperienced front row with three experienced props absent, proceeded to concede four penalties in the first five minutes.\n\nThe fourth gave Russell - who was returning to international duty after a shoulder injury - the chance to put Scotland ahead.\n\nEngland's lack of attacking prowess drew criticism in their victorious Autumn Nations Cup campaign and they had promised better in 2021, but it was the visitors who shone in that area as debutant Cameron Redpath made repeated breaks.\n\nFor the hosts, the misdemeanours continued. On the eighth penalty conceded, referee Brace had had enough and sent number eight Billy Vunipola to the sin-bin after catching him offside.\n\nAs England's penalty count entered double digits, the visitors got their just reward.\n\nIt started with Russell and travelled through a who's who of Scotland's backline, the excellent Stuart Hogg, Redpath and hooker George Turner combining to feed Van der Merwe, who stepped inside and powered over near the left corner.\n\nThe celebrations were briefly halted as Scotland gave away a penalty and England captain Owen Farrell sent the ball over from just inside his own half.\n\nAs Farrell lined up a second penalty, he suggested the television match official reviewed a trip by Russell on England scrum-half Ben Youngs - leading to a yellow card for the talismanic 10.\n\nAfter Russell had left the field, Farrell scored his penalty and cut Scotland's lead to two.\n\nLess optimistic Scotland fans might have thought their side would unravel with Russell off the pitch but, after gathering their thoughts at half-time, the visitors continued to look threatening without their main man.\n\nSome had said that at an empty Twickenham and with several England leaders missing, this was Scotland's best chance of a win since 1983.\n\nEngland boss Eddie Jones questioned before the match whether that expectation might become \"heavy\" for the Scots, but they looked to be carrying their lead lightly as the second half wore on.\n\nIn the absence of Russell, Hogg stepped up to show he had his own box of tricks. A sublime kick to the corner meant Van der Merwe came close to another try and, although Scotland did not get five points, they were rewarded with the return of their fly-half.\n\nNot only were Scotland outplaying England in attack, they were outgunning them at their own kicking game with Hogg continuing to make good use of his boot.\n\nEngland's defence managed to avoid further embarrassment by halting a Scotland maul a few metres out and Redpath continued to show his quality.\n\nThe centre - son of former Scotland captain Bryan - surely caught the eye of British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland in the stands as he stole the ball from Tom Curry on the floor, much to the delight of the Scottish bench.\n\nThe Scots did not let up and if anything their pace only became more relentless as the end drew near. Jonny Gray lifted England wing Jonny May off the ground to win a maul, Russell tried for one more drop-goal, but it was not to be.\n\nThe final whistle blew and it could almost have been a Scotland home game. All that could be heard at Twickenham were the cheers of every single member of the travelling Scottish side.\n\n'There's a lot more to come'- what they said\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They played tough, edged the set-piece, won in the air and we just could not get in the game. We were not at the races today.\n\n\"I take responsibility - I didn't prepare the team well enough. We just had one of those days. We don't have many, but we had a bad day today.\"\n\nScotland head coach Gregor Townsend told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There was a calmness on and off the field. I don't know whether it's because there's no crowd.\n\n\"It felt like the players were in control today. We had a bit of defence to do at the end but the players stood up well. I'm very proud of the performance and there's a lot more to come from the players.\"\n\n'One of the best Scotland performances ever' - analysis\n\nFormer Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"That is one of the best performances Scotland have ever put in.\n\n\"There was creativity, physicality, good kicking and an intensity and togetherness - the win was fully deserved.\n\n\"That is as dominant a performance from Scotland against England there has been for over 30 years. It was outstanding, an unbelievably good 80-minute performance.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What a fabulous tournament we are part of. Not winning for 38 years, then to bring a performance like this. I have never seen a Scotland performance like this. Total dominance in all areas, full stop. Scotland fans should quite rightly be celebrating long into the night.\"\n• None Eating With My Ex: Can they settle the score and go again?", "The Queen was shown legislation which may have forced her to reveal her private finances in the 1970s \"by convention\", Buckingham Palace says.\n\nPapers published by the Guardian suggest the monarch's personal lawyers successfully lobbied to change a draft law to conceal her wealth.\n\nThe documents were unearthed as part of an investigation into Queen's consent.\n\nIt is a process where Parliament asks for consent when debating bills which affect the Crown's interests.\n\nMore than 1,000 draft laws have been seen by the Queen or the Prince of Wales before being approved by MPs as part of the procedure, the Guardian said.\n\nQueen's consent is always granted where requested, the palace said.\n\nThe long-established convention sees the monarch asked to provide consent by Parliament when it is considering legislation \"which would affect the prerogative or interests of the Crown\", according to the Royal Family's website.\n\nThis process is separate to Royal Assent, where the monarch formally approves to a bill passed by Parliament for it to become law.\n\nRoyal Assent has not been refused since 1708.\n\nThe government memos, found in the National Archives, date back to 1973.\n\nThey show that the Queen, concerned that new legislation might force her to reveal her private holdings in companies, despatched lawyers to argue her case with the then Department of Trade and Industry.\n\nA revision to the draft law subsequently enabled her as a head of state to sidestep the new regulations.\n\nThe Guardian suggests that early sight of the draft legislation, under the powers of Queen's consent, gave the monarch an unrivalled opportunity to influence the legislation to her advantage.\n\nThis is a good get by the Guardian - shining a light into the always-sensitive interactions between palace and government as regards money.\n\nThe palace line on this is pretty simple - the mechanism of Queen's consent is a matter for government and discussions between the sovereign through her lawyers and government departments are a fact of life.\n\nGetting first sight of legislation that may affect you is a pretty significant advantage for any monarch. Not because anyone thinks about a block or veto or a threat of it. But because then you get a chance to get your lawyers round early.\n\nWhy is the palace denying a threat of a block, something that no one has alleged? Because, says a source, the allegations put to it by the Guardian were broader than those that turned up in the story published yesterday.\n\nIt's not entirely surprising that given the consultation in these areas, the Queen would have something to say.\n\nThe Queen is not a normal citizen. The tone of the correspondence published by the Guardian is a little surprising - it suggests a degree of involvement that belies the palace's claim that the mechanism is simply a formality.\n\nThe Guardian has compiled a list of 1,062 parliamentary bills that it says have been subject to Queen's consent since Elizabeth II's reign began in 1952 - which works out at about 14 uses of the procedure per year.\n\nIt features a wide range of legislation including laws which affected her private estates in Balmoral and Sandringham.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"Queen's consent is a parliamentary process, with the role of sovereign purely formal. Consent is always granted by the monarch where requested by government. Any assertion that the sovereign has blocked legislation is simply incorrect.\n\n\"Whether Queen's consent is required is decided by Parliament, independently from the royal household, in matters that would affect Crown interests, including personal property and personal interests of the monarch.\n\n\"If consent is required, draft legislation is, by convention, put to the sovereign to grant solely on advice of ministers and as a matter of public record.\"", "Emergency workers have rescued a man who was trapped inside a tunnel after a flood in northern India.\n\nThe flooding was caused by the collapse of a dam.\n\nDozens of people are missing and feared dead.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nDom Bess advanced England's chances of victory over India on day three of the first Test in Chennai, despite a sparkling knock from Rishabh Pant.\n\nSpinner Bess took 4-55 as India closed 257-6, still 321 runs behind.\n\nBess had India captain Virat Kohli caught for 11 and vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane for one, the hosts reduced to 73-4.\n\nPant then brutally targeted the spin of Jack Leach in a stunning counter-attack, while Cheteshwar Pujara made 73 in support.\n\nBut Bess returned to dismiss both batsmen with Pant caught at deep extra cover by Leach for 91 from 88 balls.\n\nJofra Archer earlier claimed the wickets of both India openers in a fine new-ball spell after England added 23 runs in 40 minutes with the bat. They were eventually bowled out for 578.\n\nA seventh-wicket partnership of 32 from Ravichandran Ashwin and Washington Sundar frustrated England late in the day but Joe Root's side look to be the only team who can win the Test.\n• None Reaction and analysis from day three in Chennai\n\nThree days in, England have still hardly put a foot wrong in this match.\n\nAfter patiently accumulating over the first two days, on day three they knocked over India's much-fabled top order.\n\nArcher and Bess were excellent, England's fielding outstanding too.\n\nJames Anderson caught opener Shubman Gill diving at mid-on and Root brilliantly clung on one-handed at extra cover at dismiss Rahane.\n\nAfter lunch they expertly squeezed the scoring rate, conceding just 14 runs in an hour during which Bess had star batsman Kohli caught at short leg off the inside edge.\n\nEven luck favoured England. Pujara was caught at mid-wicket after the ball had deflected to him off Ollie Pope's shoulder at short leg.\n\nEngland's only blemishes were Leach's inability to overcome Pant's dazzling attack and a drop by Archer late in the day to reprieve Sundar on 25. Archer was running back from long-on and spilled the ball as it dropped over his shoulder.\n\nStill, India, the leaders in the World Test Championship who have lost once at home since 2013, face a long battle to deny England over the final two days.\n\nPant came to the crease at 73-4 and almost immediately Root introduced Leach to bowl into the rough outside the left-hander's off stump.\n\nPant responded by attacking, as Ben Stokes had when faced with a similar challenge in England's innings.\n\nThe wicketkeeper-batsman, who was the star on the final day of India's historic recent series win in Australia, hit back-to-back sixes in Leach's first over of his post-lunch spell and repeatedly targeted the leg side.\n\nHis innings seemed to spur on the previously conservative Pujara, who played well before his unfortunate dismissal.\n\nAt one stage, Leach had figures resembling a Twenty20 rather than a Test match - 0-59 from six overs.\n\nPant, eyeing a first Test century in India, was drawn into one big shot too many in the end. Bess tossed the ball wide and Leach was able to gain revenge when the ball was skewed to him in the deep.\n\nBess has taken two five-wicket hauls in his 12 Tests but this was his best performance to date.\n\nPreviously criticised for leaking runs, he offered control for the most part, particularly in a key passage to Kohli and Pujara after lunch.\n\nHe also has a healthy knack of taking wickets with bad balls. Rahane hit a full toss to Root for his fine catch and it was Bess who benefitted by Pujara's freak dismissal.\n\nWith Anderson unusually quiet, Archer provided penetration with the new ball.\n\nHe bowled quick but also showed he is also a highly skilful bowler by finding movement from the pitch with fast cutters.\n\nAs well as removing Gill, he had Rohit Sharma caught behind with a rising ball from back of a length within five overs.\n\nThey were Archer's first five overs in red-ball cricket since August after he sat out the recent tour of Sri Lanka.\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"From an England perspective, it's been three days of perfect Test cricket. You can't play any better than that, apart from Jofra dropping a catch.\n\n\"It's been a great three days but there's still so much left in this game. If India get another 80 or 100 in another session then it's eating up a lot of time.\"\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess, speaking to Channel 4: \"I was trying to land it on a spot and build pressure for a long time and I guess the dismissal of Kohli just happened.\n\n\"I wasn't trying to bowl a magic ball and I just wanted to make sure my line and length weren't missing and I was just hitting the box. It just went a little bit more than the rest.\"\n• None What can we expect from tonight's showdown?\n• None Here's some US classics that will keep you fuelled all night", "A couple literally took the plunge and got married 20 metres underwater off the coast of Chennai, a city in southern India.\n\nV Chinnadurai and S Swetha donned traditional clothes and exchanged garlands in a Hindu ceremony - all underwater.\n\nMr Chinnadurai is a licensed scuba diver but Ms Swetha took lessons and trained in the months leading up to the wedding.\n\nThe entire ceremony was recorded before the couple swam back up to celebrate with family and friends.", "Gregory Campbell made the comments in a Facebook post last Sunday\n\nA Northern Ireland MP has been accused of \"race-baiting\" after describing the number of black people on an edition of Songs of Praise as \"the BBC at its BLM (Black Lives Matter) worst\".\n\nA number of anti-racism and ethnic minority organisations have called on Gregory Campbell to apologise.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP made his comments in a Facebook post on 31 January.\n\nHe was referring to the Gospel Singer of the Year competition.\n\nThe five semi-finalists, judges and presenter of the programme last Sunday were all of a black ethnicity.\n\nIn the post, the East Londonderry MP wrote: \"There were five singers, all of them black. There were three judges all of them black and one presenter who was incidentally, yes black.\n\n\"The singers were all very good but can you imagine an all white line up with an all white jury and presented by a white person? No I can't either.\"\n\nSinn Féin's Caoimhe Archibald said she has reported the comments to the standards commissioner at the House of Commons, while Alliance MP Stephen Farry called on the DUP to remove his party whip.\n\nA statement, published by the North West Migrants Forum and co-signed by a number of Northern Ireland-based organisations, called on Mr Campbell to withdraw his comments and issue \"a full public apology\".\n\nThe statement said it was \"both astonishing and shocking\" that Mr Campbell watched the programme and \"saw only skin colour\".\n\n\"Mr Campbell's statement is not a trivial matter; it is deeply irresponsible,\" it said.\n\n\"It is deeply worrying that Mr Campbell can confidently display such clear bias, apparently without fear of challenge or accountability.\n\n\"Given his role as an elected representative and public servant, Mr Campbell's statement cannot go unchallenged; the potential costs are too high.\"\n\nThe statement said Mr Campbell's comments had come three weeks after an arson attack at the headquarters of the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association.\n\n\"It is alarming that a political leader thinks it appropriate to use this kind of race-baiting to secure some sort of perceived political advantage, regardless of the consequences,\" it added.\n\nIt called on DUP leader Arlene Foster to \"ensure that he is held accountable for his words\".\n\nMs Archibald, an NI Assembly member representing the same area as Mr Campbell, said his comments were \"disgraceful\".\n\n\"[His] comments don't reflect the views of the vast majority of the constituents he's purport to represent,\" she said.\n\nAppealing to the DUP to remove his party whip, Mr Farry said: \"As we know there are genuine issues about diversity representation and racism in our society and that includes how people are perceived in the media.\n\n\"I find the comments objectionable and offensive and I think the DUP needs to take action in this regard.\n\n\"I do know that if any MP in parties in Great Britain were to make those comments they would have the whip removed by them.\"", "The government is planning to reverse reforms of the NHS in England introduced under David Cameron in 2012, a leaked document suggests.\n\nThe changes would aim to tackle bureaucracy and encourage health services from hospitals to GP surgeries and social care to work more closely.\n\nThe draft policy paper also says the health secretary would take more direct control over NHS England.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it did not comment on leaks.\n\nA spokesman added that details would be set out in due course.\n\nThe reforms by Mr Cameron's government in 2012 saw the creation of NHS England - to run the health service - and the scrapping of primary care trusts in favour of GP-led clinical commissioning groups to organise local services.\n\nUnder the latest proposals, set out in a leaked document published by health news website Health Policy Insight, there will be \"enhanced powers of direction for the government\" to \"ensure that decision makers overseeing the health system at a national level are effectively held to account\".\n\nInstead of a system that requires competitive tendering for contracts - sometimes involving private companies, the NHS and local authorities will be left to run services and told to collaborate with each other, says the draft White Paper, designed to set out proposed legislation.\n\nThere will also be more focus on GPs, hospitals and social care services working together to improve patient care.\n\nThe paper stresses that the Covid pandemic \"demonstrated plainly that this broader approach to health and care is not only desirable, but essential\".\n\nRichard Murray, chief executive of health charity The King's Fund, said the proposals amounted to \"major reform\", giving ministers more direct control of the NHS and public health.\n\nBut he raised concerns around the timing of such a move.\n\n\"While many might agree with the ultimate objective of more integrated health and care services, there are clear risks in distracting the service when the NHS is still battling Covid-19 and in the midst of the biggest vaccination programme in our history,\" Mr Murray added.\n\nThe trade unions for doctors and nurses, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing respectively, would not comment on the leaked proposals.\n\nA Conservative government headed by Boris Johnson is about to start reversing health reforms in England introduced under David Cameron.\n\nThat in itself is a significant moment, though it has been in the offing for a while.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Act of 2012 was highly controversial.\n\nThe left hated it because of the introduction of competitive tendering which was seen as a vehicle for private companies to undermine the NHS.\n\nMany Conservative politicians came to dislike it because of bureaucratic costs and confused lines of accountability.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, called for a redrafting of legislation to simplify the system.\n\nNow Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is grasping the nettle and will soon publish a government White Paper with plans to give ministers more control over the complex web of health entities in England.\n\nNHS organisations and local authorities will be told to focus on working together for the benefit of their local populations.\n\nBut the detail, as always, will be closely scrutinised.\n\nSome will question why the government has chosen to launch the plans with the pandemic still raging.\n\nOthers may ask whether this is a power grab by ministers which won't necessarily improve patient care.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of health policy think tank the Nuffield Trust, said the reforms should allow GPs, hospitals, community services and social care to \"work better and more effectively together\" in the longer term.\n\nHe told the BBC he hoped \"the changes in the wiring behind the dashboard shouldn't be too noticeable to patients and when it is, it will be in the longer term because the results they're getting are better\".\n\nBut he warned against over-optimism, saying structural change could help but was not \"the magic ingredient\" to better delivery of care.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr John Lister, of campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, said: \"The leaked draft of the White Paper has been interpreted as planning to 'scrap forced privatisation and competition within the NHS', but the draft makes clear that 'there will continue to be an important role for voluntary and independent sector providers'.\"\n\nFormer Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt welcomed the proposed changes.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"Last year was the first year in history where, across the world, there were more over-65s than under-fives, so we are all having to deal with this big change in our health provision of the growth in older people and what that means is you need a lot more joined up care.\"\n\nHe added: \"The structures need to be improved to make that possible and I think that's what these reforms are intended to do, so I think they could be very positive.\"\n\nHowever, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hunt warned against the emergence of \"cosy local monopolies\" and said the reforms needed to include \"a proper accountability mechanism\" - similar to Ofsted inspecting schools, he added.\n\n\"How we make sure that the NHS continues to be held accountable for these huge sums of public money is something that, I am sure, people will want to ask.\"\n\nThe 2012 Health and Social Care Act, brought in by the coalition government led by then-Conservative Prime Minister Mr Cameron, alongside his Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, put NHS England at arms length from the secretary of state.\n\nIt gave more control over budgets to GPs and other clinicians, while greater competition with the private sector was encouraged.\n\nHowever, the changes attracted criticism from professional bodies representing doctors, nurses and other NHS workers as well as opposition MPs.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said the service had come together \"to draw up practical proposals that will make it easier for those delivering health and care to work together to deliver the best possible care for patients, without some of the bureaucracy and fragmentation implicit in the 2012 act\".\n\n\"These proposals were set out publicly in the NHS Long Term Plan in 2019 and further developed last year, drawing on what the best local health systems are already doing,\" they added.", "More than 12 million people in the UK have now had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, after 550,000 first jabs were given out on Saturday.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer first doses to 15 million people in the top four priority groups by 15 February.\n\nAt the current rate, about 16 million people would receive a first jab by that date.\n\nThe UK's daily Covid cases continue to fall, but remain high - with another 15,845 reported on Sunday.\n\nAnother 373 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, the data also showed. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThe update on vaccine progress comes as scientists say early trials suggest Oxford-AstraZeneca's jab offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant.\n\nMeanwhile, workplace Covid testing is being offered to more companies in England, for staff who cannot work from home during lockdown, the government says.\n\nBusinesses with more than 50 employees are now able to access lateral flow tests, which can produce results in less than 30 minutes.\n\nPreviously only firms with more than 250 staff qualified for testing.\n\nThe speedy rollout of Covid vaccines to all vulnerable people is seen as critical to reducing the pandemic's death toll and relieving pressure on the NHS.\n\nOnce the first four priority groups, including the over-70s, healthcare workers and people shielding, have received their jabs, the programme will move on to people aged 50 and over and those with underlying health conditions.\n\nFrom spring, the government plans to begin vaccinating the rest of the adult population, another 21 million people. Teachers, transport workers, supermarket workers and the military could be prioritised.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each offer their own advice on testing.\n\nOn Sunday, Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman said her ambition was to have every adult vaccinated for Covid \"in the summer\".\n\nThe Scottish government had previously set a September target to vaccinate all over-18s.\n\nThe UK is currently receiving doses of two vaccines approved by the medicine regulator - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and a second vaccine, from Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine, made by US company Moderna, has been approved but supplies are not expected to be available until spring.\n\nThe UK is also lined up to receive at least three other vaccines if they are approved for use.", "The rescue team was responding to reports of a camper with chest pains on Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass\n\nTwo campers have been fined for breaching lockdown after a mountain rescue volunteer was seriously injured in a fall while going to their aid.\n\nThe volunteer, a man in his 60s, fell 500ft (150m) while responding to reports of one of the campers suffering chest pains in the Lake District in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPatterdale Mountain Rescue said he suffered \"significant injuries\" and is in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nThe force said one man from Liverpool and another from Leicester were camping in breach of coronavirus rules at Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass.\n\nThe Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association, which previously thanked people for following the lockdown rules, said the Patterdale team was heading to the campers when one of its volunteers fell down a steep slope.\n\nHe was airlifted to hospital while the ill camper was carried out on a stretcher and taken to hospital by road ambulance.\n\nThe association said its thoughts were with the camper as \"no-one sets out on the fells with the intention of having an accident\", but the \"simple truth\" is the more people who go out in the fells, the higher the number of rescues the teams will have to carry out.\n\nMike Blakey from the association said: \"This rescue and the subsequent life-changing injuries incurred by our team member were avoidable.\"\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.", "At times of great uncertainty, many people turn to faith leaders for support, but with the current social restrictions, it's more difficult than ever for ministers to offer pastoral and spiritual care to their congregations.\n\nPhotographer Louise Haywood-Schiefer set out to photograph Christian chaplains from churches and institutions around London to discover how they are facing these challenges.\n\nHere's what some of them had to say.\n\n\"I've found that if you make the time, the people you speak to are more open now and there's more opportunity for that conversation to get deeper and be more meaningful,\" says Reverend Bola Adamolekun, chaplain at HM Prison Brixton.\n\n\"It's been less about just wanting an excuse to get out of the cell, it's almost like they've treated it as a gift and they've decided that if I can engage with them, they will engage with me too.\"\n\n\"I'm still walking around and chatting to anybody at any time but our passenger numbers have massively depleted,\" says Reverend Jonathan Baldwin, head chaplain at Gatwick Airport.\n\n\"The wonderful thing is that the staff have got a little more time, they're not so rushed or pressurised and you can pick up more of an in-depth conversation.\n\n\"Like with the cleaners - there was one lad who came up to me and said 'can I have a chat?'. I've not met him before but wallop, it all came out.\"\n\n\"When you're on an operation in a war zone you face all sorts of restrictions from your movements and daily routines, to not being able to see or even speak to loved ones for weeks on end,\" explains Padre John Vincent CF, chaplain to the Household Division, The Royal Military Chapel (The Guards' Chapel).\n\n\"The way you deal with it is to ask yourself,\" What can I achieve today?\" rather than thinking of how many months more there might be.\n\n\"That's been my mental approach to this and I've tried to enjoy and cherish the things I am able to do.\n\n\"There will be an end to this at some point - you just have to readjust your sights.\"", "Homicide detectives are investigating the fatal stabbing on Wisbeach Road\n\nPolice have condemned a night of \"needless and abhorrent\" violence after a man died and nine others were hurt in a spate of stabbings in south London.\n\nOfficers were called to five stabbing incidents in the space of just over two and half hours on Friday evening.\n\nA 22-year-old man was killed in a fight at a block of flats in Wisbeach Road, Croydon, police said.\n\nNone of the attacks is being linked, but police said extra officers would be deployed in south London.\n\nPolice said the dead man was stabbed in an altercation with a group of males and a murder investigation was under way.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon friends and family of the victim, including his mother, laid flowers alongside a police cordon at the scene.\n\nAnd in a separate incident a man in his 20s was found dead in Kilburn in north London at about 17:40 GMT on Saturday. A boy believed to be in his teens has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 22-year-old man died after a fight at a block of flats in Wisbeach Road, Croydon\n\nDet Supt Nicky Arrowsmith said: \"Sadly, tonight [Friday] we have seen a number of needless and completely abhorrent violent altercations, including one that has tragically resulted in a loss of life.\n\n\"We need to hear from anyone who has information about crime, those who carry a weapon, or those who exploit others for gain or revenge, while putting young people's lives at risk - we need this information to help keep London safe.\"\n\nThe man who died was one of two men reported to have been injured at the property in Wisbeach Road.\n\nA resident described seeing police and medical staff trying to save him.\n\nThe witness, who asked not to be named, said: \"There was blood everywhere, it looked like he was cut in the leg and they tried to stop the bleeding.\n\n\"His mum was here crying and she was in pieces.\n\n\"It is terrifying, my son is 19 and I'm worried for him.\" Ch Insp Martin Thorpe, from the Met's Specialist Crime team, said: \"I am aware that this was one of a number of violent incidents in and around the south London area on Friday evening but there is nothing to connect these incidents together at this time.\"\n\nPolice said none of the nine other casualties was now considered to be in a life-threatening condition and added that two people had been arrested.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon a 10th man, aged 24, was stabbed near West Croydon station on Oakfield Road.\n\nThe other attacks are being investigated by officers from the South Area Basic Command Unit, the Met said.\n\nThese include a man who was stabbed on Chapman Road, Croydon, and four men who took themselves to hospital with stab wounds after a fight in the Penwortham Road area of Wandsworth.\n\nAnother two men, both in their 30s, also went to hospital after a stabbing on Jay Gardens, Chislehurst, just before 21:00.\n\nPolice said there would be extra patrols in the area over the weekend\n\nPolice are also investigating the stabbing of a man in his 40s who was found wounded on Dingwall Road at 21:12.\n\nThe victim has since been arrested on suspicion of affray and a 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and remains in custody, the Met added.\n\nLabour MP for Croydon North Steve Reed said in a tweet that the \"absolutely horrific news\" would \"devastate our community\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 74-year-old woman was found dead at a property in Sebastopol\n\nA 70-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a woman aged 74.\n\nPolice are investigating after the woman was found dead at a property in Sebastopol, Pontypool, at approximately 09:20 GMT on Saturday.\n\nOfficers said the arrested man, from Pontypool, is currently in police custody.\n\nGwent Police said officers were in the area \"to reassure the community and carry out investigations\".\n\nPolice officers are in Sebastopol carrying out investigations\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City took a potentially decisive hold on the Premier League title race as they thrashed Liverpool at Anfield - helped by a virtuoso performance by Phil Foden and a nightmare display from the champions' goalkeeper Alisson.\n\nCity's comprehensive triumph, their first at Anfield since 2003 and Pep Guardiola's first away to Liverpool as a manager, was achieved in such comfort that they were able to recover from Ilkay Gundogan's first-half penalty miss.\n\nGundogan, who skied his spot-kick after Fabinho fouled Raheem Sterling, made amends when he put City ahead four minutes into the second period, after Alisson could only push out Foden's shot.\n\nMohamed Salah equalised for Liverpool from the spot just after the hour after he was hauled back by Ruben Dias - but then came the combination of Alisson's errors and Foden's genius as the hosts were run ragged.\n\nAlisson was punished for two poor clearances as Foden set up Gundogan to put City back in front after 73 minutes, then three minutes later the Brazil keeper inexplicably sent a pass straight to Bernardo Silva, whose clever cross was headed in almost on the goalline by Sterling.\n\nCity saved the best until last when Foden, the game's outstanding performer and watched by England manager Gareth Southgatei, thundered a magnificent finish high past the beleaguered Alisson seven minutes from time.\n\nThe emphatic victory leaves City five points ahead of second-placed Manchester United, having played a game less - and 10 points ahead of Liverpool with a match in hand.\n• None Only Man City collapse will stop title win now, but I don't see them cracking - Shearer analysis\n• None 'Too soon to talk of crisis, but champions on worrying slide'\n• None Foden a 'huge talent' but can 'still improve' - Guardiola\n\nManchester City and Guardiola have had some miserable days and nights at Anfield since Jurgen Klopp became Liverpool manager - this was the game, the performance and the scoreline that made this almost the perfect day.\n\nGuardiola's incendiary reaction to Gundogan's first-half penalty miss demonstrated how much he wanted to win this game and perhaps how he feared history repeating itself. But his frustration was short-lived as City produced a second-half masterclass that left the champions badly beaten.\n\nAnd while the Reds will point to their collection of injuries as a reason for their fall from grace, it should also be pointed out that City were missing the brilliance of midfielder Kevin de Bruyne and the predatory instincts of striker Sergio Aguero.\n\nIt was only a rare error from Dias that gave Liverpool hope - although Sadio Mane headed over in the first half and Ederson saved well from Roberto Firmino - and once Gudogan restored City's advantage there was only one winner here.\n\nAt the heart of it all was the brilliant Foden, head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch and flourishing even more when Guardiola cleverly removed Riyad Mahrez and placed the 20-year-old England international on the right flank.\n\nHe made two goals and scored a sensational fourth as City put down a marker and confirmed their status as the team to beat in the title race. It was also a 14th straight win, which equals the all-time winning run by an English top-flight team, shared with Preston in 1892 and Arsenal in 1987.\n\nCity have been growing in stature in recent weeks, imperious in defence and threatening in attack - but this ruthless dismissal of an opponent that has haunted them at Anfield in the recent past is their most powerful statement of intent yet.\n\nThe sight of Liverpool keeper Alisson slumping in dejection after Foden's shot tore past him into the roof of the net - he could barely have seen it - for Manchester City's fourth goal summed up the sheer misery of the champions.\n\nAs Liverpool have won Premier League and Champions League titles, the 28-year-old Brazilian has been one of their most reliable figures, a game-changer to place alongside the arrival of defender Virgil van Dijk.\n\nHowever, he suffered arguably the biggest nightmare of his Liverpool career on Sunday, making two bad clearances in the build-up to City's crucial second goal, then compounding it with an even worse error as he picked out Silva standing all on his own with an inexplicable pass, the Portuguese accepting the invitation to set up Sterling.\n\nLiverpool showed occasional flashes of the old flair in the first half but ended up outclassed and on the receiving end of their third successive Premier League home loss, City following in the footsteps of Burnley - who ended the Reds' 68-match unbeaten league run at Anfield - and Brighton.\n\nIn reality, it was City - so organised, composed and determined to press Liverpool - who were vastly superior over the whole piece.\n\nOf course, Liverpool injuries will take a heavy toll, but this was a tough 90 minutes for midfielder Thiago Alcantara, who is struggling to adapt to the pace of the Premier League and made life difficult for himself with a needless early foul on Gundogan that brought a yellow card.\n\nAnd while much is rightly made of the attacking prowess of full-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson, they struggled to cope with City's width as Sterling and Foden exposed them brutally at times.\n\nLiverpool look very flat at Anfield and the stats say it all. They are the first side to lose three straight home matches the season after winning the title since Chelsea in March 1956 and have 27 points fewer than they did at the same stage last season - the biggest drop by any reigning champions in top-flight history.\n\nKlopp clearly felt this was not the day to risk his deadline-day centre-back signings Ben Davies and Ozan Kabak, but they still looked horribly vulnerable.\n\nLiverpool's manager and their players have enjoyed some triumphant days against City here in recent seasons - this was not one of them.\n\n'Two massive mistakes and a genius' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp told BBC Sport: \"I saw a really good game and big mistakes. In each game, when you make these kind of mistakes, it's very likely you concede goals.\n\n\"It's easy to agree that the first half was a really good game, two sides really trying a lot to cause problems for each other, and I liked a lot I saw in the game.\n\n\"Coming out in the second half, they changed the system and we didn't move enough in midfield. We scored our goal and in that moment it was possible the game goes in our direction, but Alisson made two massive mistakes, gave two goals away - and then a genius situation from Phil Foden.\n\n\"The confidence could have suffered after the last game but tonight I saw a very confident team, if I'm honest. I liked the football we played. It's very difficult to explain that we lost 4-1.\"\n\nManchester City boss Guardiola told BBC Sport: \"I have a lot of emotions, many things happening in the game. Gundogan missed a penalty - it's like a routine against them - but we started really, really well, doing what we want to do.\n\n\"In the second half, the way we reacted to the goal, the way we played with quality, made the difference.\n\n\"For many years we were not able to win here. Hopefully next time we can do it with people. Anfield is so intimidating.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports, he added: \"It is an important win, but it is February. Of course, the gap to fifth is big right now and [qualifying] for the Champions League next season is important - but 10 wins in a row in this period is something exceptional.\"\n\nMan City not on the spot but Foden shining amongst youngsters - the stats\n• None Four of the past six penalties to have missed the target completely in the Premier League have been by Manchester City players, with three of those coming against Liverpool (Mahrez in October 2018, De Bruyne in November 2020 and Gundogan on Sunday).\n• None In comparison, Liverpool have converted their last 19 Premier League penalties, with Salah scoring 13 of those.\n• None City's Sterling won his 21st penalty in the Premier League - more than any other player in the history of the competition.\n• None Sterling is only the third player to score 100 or more goals under Guardiola, after Barcelona's Lionel Messi (211) and City team-mate Aguero (120).\n• None Of all players to score at least 10 goals within the top five European leagues (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) this season, only Borussia Dortmund's Erling Braut Haaland (20 years 2021 days) is younger than Manchester City's Foden (20 years 255 days).\n• None Since netting his first goal of the season on 15 December, City's Ilkay Gundogan has scored at least three more Premier League goals than any other player (nine).\n\nLiverpool visit third-placed Leicester City in the Premier League on Saturday (12:30 GMT kick-off). Manchester City travel to Championship side Swansea City in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday (17:30) and then host Tottenham Hotspur in the league on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Goal! Liverpool 1, Manchester City 4. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 1, Manchester City 3. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 1, Manchester City 2. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Phil Foden tries a through ball, but John Stones is caught offside.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None What can we expect from tonight's showdown?\n• None Here's some US classics that will keep you fuelled all night", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe American achieved a famous upset win over Muhammad Ali in 1978, in just his eighth professional fight.\n\nHe had suffered with health issues in his later years and was diagnosed with advanced stage prostate cancer in 2019.\n\n\"His final fight was fought with the same skill, grace and grit that had carried him through so many lifetime challenges,\" said a statement from his management company.\n\nThe former US marine died on Friday evening in Henderson, Nevada, with his wife Brenda Glur Spinks by his side.\n\n\"Leon fought his battle with numerous illnesses resiliently, never losing his trademark smile. Showing true Spinks determination, he never threw in the towel,\" the statement added.\n\nBorn in St Louis, Spinks won gold at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, then rose to greater prominence a little more than 18 months later, given the nod via a split decision to stun Ali and claim the WBC, WBA and lineal heavyweight titles.\n\nIn one of the biggest upsets in the history of the sport, Spinks defied his 10-1 underdog odds with bookmakers to prevail after 15 rounds, winning 145-140 and 144-141 on two scorecards while a third went 143-142 in favour of Ali.\n\nHis reign as world champion lasted exactly seven months as a sharper and fitter Ali gained revenge in a rematch in September 1978, becoming the first three-time lineal heavyweight champion after a comfortable points win.\n\nSpinks did get another opportunity for heavyweight glory in June 1981, but was stopped inside three rounds by Larry Holmes.\n\nSpinks then dropped down to cruiserweight but was defeated by WBA champion Dwight Muhammad Qawi in 1986. He boxed on for another nine years and finished with a record of 26 wins, 17 defeats and three draws.\n\nKnown for his gap-toothed grin, Spinks' battles in the ring contributed to his ill health in later life. It was found he had shrinkage in the brain in 2012 before his cancer diagnosis was confirmed a few years later.\n\nHis son Cory, 42, is a former undisputed welterweight champion who also won a world title in the light-middleweight division.\n\nSpinks' younger brother Michael, 64, was undisputed light-heavyweight champion for a period in the 1980s, before moving up to heavyweight, where he won the IBF title and avenged Leon's loss to Holmes.\n• None What can we expect from tonight's showdown?\n• None Here's some US classics that will keep you fuelled all night", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Sarah Gilbert said the new version of the vaccine \"will be available for the autumn\"\n\nOxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant, scientists say early trials suggest.\n\nA new study, not yet peer reviewed, involved about 2,000 people who were on average 31 years old.\n\nBut Prof Sarah Gilbert, Oxford lead vaccine developer, said vaccines should still protect against severe disease.\n\nShe said developers were likely to have a modified Oxford jab by the autumn to combat the South Africa variant.\n\nSouth Africa has said it is putting its rollout of the Oxford vaccine on temporary hold, while scientists advise on the best way to proceed following the results of the study.\n\nThe variant, also known as 501.V2 or B.1.351, is already the dominant virus variant in large parts of South Africa.\n\nEarlier, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Andrew Marr that a booster in the autumn and annual vaccines could be required to combat variants.\n\nMore than 100 cases of the South Africa variant have been found in the UK.\n\nA study outlining early trials, first reported by the Financial Times, suggests the vaccine offered \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease caused by the variant, the University of Oxford said.\n\nProf Gilbert told the Andrew Marr Show current vaccines \"have a reduction in efficacy against some of the variant viruses\".\n\n\"What that is looking like is that we may not be reducing the total number of cases but there's still protection in that case against deaths, hospitalisations and severe disease.\"\n\nShe added: \"That's really important for healthcare systems, even if we are having mild and asymptomatic infections, to prevent people going into hospital with Covid would have a major effect.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Zahawi said the UK government had ruled out issuing so-called \"vaccine passports\" to enable people who have had the jab against coronavirus to travel abroad.\n\nThe mutation involved - known as E484K - seems to help the virus dodge immunity built up to previous variants and current vaccines.\n\nReal world trials of two other vaccines (Janssen and Novavax) showed a dip in performance in South Africa too.\n\nThis is the same mutation that has also appeared in some cases of the \"Kent variant\" in the UK.\n\nWe are still waiting for scientists to publish their report in order to find out what \"limited\" means in hard numbers.\n\nIf people are still getting sick, even if it's mild, then they can spread the virus and that will make it harder to get on top of cases.\n\nIf the Oxford vaccine can prevent severe disease, and AstraZeneca thinks it will, then it would still be a life-saving vaccine.\n\nBut it is clear coronavirus is a moving target and that we may need to change vaccines in the future to keep up.\n\nIn a separate statement, AstraZeneca said the jab offered \"limited\" protection against mild and moderate disease caused by the variant.\n\nA spokesman for the pharmaceutical company said it had not yet been able to properly establish whether the jab would prevent severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the South Africa variant because those involved in the study had predominantly been young, healthy adults.\n\nBut the company expressed confidence the vaccine would offer protection against serious cases, because it created neutralising antibodies similar to those of other coronavirus vaccines.\n\nThe study, which assessed a two-dose regimen, is due to be published on Monday.\n\nAndrew Pollard, professor of paediatric infection and immunity and chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, said: \"This study confirms that the pandemic coronavirus will find ways to continue to spread in vaccinated populations, as expected, but, taken with the promising results from other studies in South Africa using a similar viral vector, vaccines may continue to ease the toll on health care systems by preventing severe disease.\"\n\nIn a news conference on Sunday, Prof Shabir Madhi, who has led trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in South Africa, said the study had been \"largely disappointing\" in terms of the jab's efficacy against the South Africa variant.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the AstraZeneca vaccine does not work against mild and moderate illness,\" he said, adding that the data did not say whether or not the vaccine might still protect at least against severe infections.\n\nEarlier, Prof Madhi said a vaccine developed by Janssen showed it stopped moderate to severe disease, rather than all disease, and this kept people out of hospital.\n\n\"These findings recalibrate thinking about how to approach the pandemic virus and shift the focus from the goal of herd immunity against transmission to the protection of all at-risk individuals in population against severe disease,\" Prof Madhi added.\n\nOn Saturday, AstraZeneca said its vaccine provided good protection against the variant first discovered in Kent, which is now dominant in the UK.\n\nEarly results suggest the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against the new variants.\n\nData on two new coronavirus vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - appear to offer some protection.\n\nAnd early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.\n\nExperts say vaccines could be redesigned and tweaked to be a better match for new variants in a matter of weeks or months if necessary.\n\nHave you been affected by issues relating to the vaccine rollout? 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.", "Work was suspended at Wylfa Newydd in January 2019\n\nA site on Anglesey remains one of the best for a new nuclear development in Europe, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nJapanese backers Hitachi pulled out of the Wylfa Newydd scheme last September.\n\nIts subsidiary Horizon confirmed the end of the troubled project last month in a letter to the UK government.\n\nBut the Welsh Government refused to comment on a Sunday Times report that it wanted to take on a caretaker role until a developer was found.\n\nA spokesman said it continued to discuss potential ways forward.\n\nA new Wylfa power station had been planned on a site next to the old power plant on Anglesey.\n\nSenior Welsh Government sources told BBC Wales that ministers and officials were \"exploring all the available options\" because they wanted to \"support a developer to make Wylfa a reality\".\n\nOne said: \"We're not in a position to say we're going to take over the site but we're continuing discussions with Horizon and other partners.\n\n\"We're exploring all the options but it's too early to be saying anything.\"\n\nThe Wylfa Newydd project would have created up to 9,000 jobs during construction\n\nThe Welsh Government said in a statement: \"Hitachi's decision to withdraw from the Wylfa Newydd project is disappointing.\n\n\"While we will not comment on speculation, we remain convinced that Wylfa Newydd is one of the best sites for a new nuclear development in Europe and continue to discuss potential ways forward for the site with both Hitachi and Horizon.\"\n\nThe Wylfa Newydd site, which sits next to the former nuclear plant now undergoing decommissioning, was expected to have cost between £15-£20bn to develop.\n\nWork was suspended in January 2019 because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Wales, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said: \"We remain convinced that if there is to be a new nuclear power station that Wylfa is a perfect site for that.\n\n\"We will continue as a government to have discussions with both Hitachi and Horizon and the local authority about how we can utilise that site.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government bought Cardiff Airport in 2013 for £52m, and former First Minister Carwyn Jones said in 2016 he would have been prepared to take a stake in Tata Steel's UK operations, which are focused on Port Talbot.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders, the Welsh Conservative spokeswoman on the environment, energy and rural affairs, said the party was \"disappointed as plans for the Wylfa site have seen setback after setback\".\n\n\"While we maintain that the Anglesey site is ideal for a nuclear power plant, I'd urge caution over - if accurate - reports that the Welsh Government is considering taking over the project.\n\n\"Its track record on major projects has been patchy to say the least,\" said the Member of the Senedd for Aberconwy.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates and the UK government Business Secretary Kwasi Karteng are likely to discuss Wylfa's future during a scheduled meeting on Monday.\n\nIt comes after the UK's Planning Inspectorate released its report recommending the UK government \"should withhold consent\" for the Wylfa Newydd project.\n\nIn the report, dated July 2019, the inspectorate said: \"In terms of biodiversity, ecology and nature conservation the proposed development fails the tests.\n\n\"On balance, the matters weighing against the proposed development outweigh the matters weighing in favour of it.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the Welsh Government should concentrate on a \"green economic stimulus for Wales that will deliver far better long term economic benefits and also will avoid the serious environmental concerns that led to the planning inspector turning down the application for Wylfa\".\n\nHe added: \"I think it certainly is the wrong move to put our eggs in the nuclear basket when Wales has far more potential in terms of renewable, in terms of this green industrial revolution rather than putting our hopes on a nuclear power station.\"\n\nAnglesey council said it was \"supportive and eager to see Welsh Government and the UK government consider and pursue all options which could see a new development progressed on Anglesey\".\n\nHorizon said it did not comment on speculation.\n\nLast December the UK government began talks with French energy company EDF about the construction of a new £20bn nuclear power plant, Sizewell C, in Suffolk.\n\nEDF is also building the Hinkley Point C nuclear energy plant in Somerset in partnership with China General Nuclear Power.", "Amazon has been criticised for paying less in business rates than British bricks and mortar retailers.\n\nThe online retail giant's financial results revealed that UK sales for 2020 totalled $26.5bn (£19.3bn) - a 51% jump from $17.5bn in 2019.\n\nAmazon's overall business rates bill for 2020-2021 is estimated by researchers to be £71.5m - just 0.37% of its retail sales.\n\nThey say this is far lower than what the retail sector typically pays.\n\nAmazon insists that it pays its tax and has created thousands of jobs in the UK.\n\nBusiness rates are calculated by looking at a property's rateable value and multiplying it by a tax rate set by the government. A new tax rate comes into effect at the start of each financial year on 1 April.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), full-year retail sales at physical shops for the 12 months ending 31 December 2020 fell 10.3% from £318.5bn in 2019 to £285.8bn.\n\nRetail advisor Altus Group says that bricks and mortar retailers would have paid £8.25bn in business rates in 2020, had they not been given a tax holiday due to the pandemic.\n\nIt says the figure was calculated using rateable values, multiplied by the 2020 tax rate. The £8.25bn figure amounts to 2.9% of total retail sales, which is much higher than what Amazon pays.\n\nFor instance, Arcadia - which owns Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins - would have had to pay £91m in business rates on its 444 stores in 2020, had there not been a tax holiday, Altus Group says.\n\nWithout the business rates holiday, Arcadia Group would have paid £91m in taxes on its 444 stores in 2020, says Altus Group\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"We want to see thriving high streets, which is why we've spent tens of billions of pounds supporting shops throughout the pandemic and are supporting town centres through the changes online shopping brings.\n\n\"Our business rates review call for evidence included questions on whether we should shift the balance between online and physical shops by introducing an online sales tax. We're considering responses now.\"\n\nSeparately, the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) calculated the business rates paid by physical shops in 2019 and found that they paid £7.17bn in business rates, or 2.3% of their total retail sales in 2019.\n\nThe two organisations said that Amazon, which has close to 100 sites in the UK, including distribution warehouses and lockers on High Streets, is not paying enough tax.\n\nHowever, their calculations do not include corporation tax, which is currently at 19% of profits.\n\nAmazon would not comment on the calculations made by Altus Group and CRR.\n\nA spokesman for Amazon said: \"We've invested more than £23bn in jobs and infrastructure in the UK since 2010.\n\n\"Last year we created 10,000 new jobs and last week we announced 1,000 new apprenticeships. This continued investment helped contribute to a total tax contribution of £1.1bn during 2019 - £293m in direct taxes and £854m in indirect taxes.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing the way in which the business rates system works, and is also separately considering a 2% tax on online sales and services.\n\nBut business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned that any tax rises would place additional pressure on businesses that are already struggling due to the pandemic.", "Police have warned people not to travel to places to exercise\n\nPolice broke up two house parties and issued 15 fines following breaches in Covid lockdown rules in Swansea.\n\nNine people were fined for watching the England v Scotland rugby match at a house in Uplands on Saturday.\n\nAnd six people were also given fixed penalties after South Wales Police broke up a birthday party in Ynystawe.\n\nOn Sunday, police closed Cyfarthfa Park in Merthyr Tydfil to vehicular access saying too many were turning up, and exercise should begin at home.\n\nPeople are allowed to exercise outdoors but they should not drive to a location due to lockdown rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Merthyr Tydfil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople can only mix at home within their household or support bubble, with £60 fines issued for breaches.\n\nOfficers also stopped traffic in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, as householders expressed worries about numbers of people on its narrow streets on Saturday.\n\nOfficers stopped traffic in Penarth as householders expressed worries about people heading there to exercise\n\nJayne Harding said on one road, 75 people passed homes in just 15 minutes.\n\nShe said she would welcome them when there was not a pandemic. \"But this Covid is a completely different kettle of fish,\" she said.\n\nPeople are advised not to travel to exercise outdoors, with restrictions on all but essential travel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sven Badzak was chased by a group of males in Kilburn before being stabbed, the Met Police said\n\nA 22-year-old man killed in a double stabbing outside a Tesco store in Kilburn, north-west London, has been named by police as Sven Badzak.\n\nDetectives said Mr Badzak was chased by a group of males and was attacked after falling on Willesden Lane.\n\nMr Badzak's 16-year-old friend was also stabbed in the attack and remains critically ill in hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nCh Insp Guy Ellwood described the attack as \"barbaric\".\n\nOfficers were called to Willesden Lane at 17:40 GMT on Saturday where they found Mr Badzak injured.\n\nMr Badzak was taken to a hospital in central London where he later died, Det Ch Insp Darren Jones said.\n\nHe added that, at this early stage of the investigation, detectives believe Sven and his friend came into contact with a group of males who then chased them.\n\n\"As this group chased the pair, Sven and his friend became separated. Sven fell to the ground and was attacked by a number of the group.\n\n\"His friend was also attacked but managed to seek sanctuary in a shop. However, he remains critically ill in hospital.\"\n\nPolice said there had been no arrests in either of the fatal stabbings in Croydon and Kilburn\n\nDet Ch Insp Jones appealed for any witnesses who were in the Willesden Lane and Kilburn High Road areas at the time of the attack.\n\nThe murder investigation comes after another 13 people were injured in an \"abhorrent\" wave of knife crime across parts of the capital.\n\nThroughout Friday night the Met was called to separate stabbings in other parts of Croydon, Chislehurst and Streatham.\n\nOne of the victims, a 22-year-old man, died after being attacked in the Wisbeach area of Croydon.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon another man, aged 24, was stabbed on Oakfield Road near West Croydon station.\n\nHours later, a 15-year-old boy was attacked on the Churchill Gardens Estate in Westminster, police said.\n\nNone of those victims suffered life-threatening injuries, the Met added.\n• None One killed and 10 injured in spate of stabbings\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests have broken out in southern Chile after footage emerged of a police officer shooting dead a street performer.\n\nPublic buildings in Panguipulli were set alight and people also took to the streets of the capital, Santiago, to express their anger.\n\nInterior Minister Rodrigo Delgado has condemned the arson but said justice would be served in the shooting.", "The UK's coronavirus alert level has been lowered from level five to four in all four nations as the risk that the NHS could be overwhelmed \"has receded\".\n\nThe four UK chief medical officers and NHS England's national medical director agreed the change following advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre.\n\nThe alert level had moved to level five on 4 January, shortly before England and Scotland began fresh lockdowns.\n\nThe top medics urged people to \"remain vigilant\" by following lockdown rules.\n\nA change in the alert level does not automatically mean restrictions can ease, but it helps to inform government decisions on the rules.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have this week set out their separate plans to lift lockdown restrictions. Northern Ireland and Wales will outline their plans in the coming weeks.\n\nEngland's Prof Chris Whitty, Northern Ireland's Dr Michael McBride, Scotland's Dr Gregor Smith, Wales's Dr Frank Atherton and NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said their decision to reduce the alert level was made because the number of cases in hospital was \"consistently declining\".\n\nHowever, they warned: \"We should be under no illusions - transmission rates, hospital pressures and deaths are still very high.\"\n\nThey said the vaccine rollout would eventually have \"a major impact\" but for the time being \"it is really important that we all - vaccinated or not - remain vigilant and continue to follow the guidelines\".\n\nProf Whitty added in a tweet: \"If we continue to follow the guidance, cases will continue to fall.\"\n\nA further 9,985 new coronavirus cases were reported in the UK in Thursday's daily figures, as well as 323 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nThe coronavirus alert level, unveiled by the UK government in May 2020, is measured by a five-level, colour-coded system.\n\nLevel five (red), the highest level, is when there is a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" within 21 days, and extremely strict social distancing is enforced.\n\nLevel four indicates a high or rising level of transmission, with social distancing still enforced.\n\nThe UK's alert level dropped down to level three in June 2020. During the summer, restrictions were gradually relaxed to allow people to socialise in groups indoors, and much of society reopened, including pubs and restaurants.\n\nHowever, the alert level was moved back up to level four in September as case numbers began to climb again. The same month a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus was detected in Kent.\n\nAs cases spiralled across the UK, the country moved to the highest level, level five, on 4 January.\n\nThe move to alert level five was made because the chief medical officers were worried the NHS was at risk of being overwhelmed.\n\nIt was an announcement that essentially forced England's third national lockdown.\n\nBut since the number of cases peaked at over 39,000 in mid-January, cases have fallen rapidly.\n\nIn fact, the numbers of new admissions coming in each day are not far off what you would normally get for respiratory illnesses in winter.\n\nBut while the immediate threat is over, hospitals are still incredibly busy. There are over 16,000 patients with Covid in hospital - that's only around 25% lower than the total in the peak of the first wave.\n\nOperating theatres continue to be used as temporary critical care areas and non-urgent care is being cancelled in some places.\n\nBut with infection levels still coming down, we know this will ease further, hence the move to level four.\n\nThe Joint Biosecurity Centre, set up by the government in spring last year, has the task of recommending what the alert level should be, based on:\n\nThe centre's scientists identify changes in infection rates using testing, environmental and workplace data.\n\nNHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said despite the UK's alert level dropping, there was a \"long way to go yet\" and that no-one from the health service was \"anywhere near declaring this phase of battle won\".\n\nMeanwhile, new NHS England figures suggest one in five adults in England under the age of 70 have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nAn estimated 20.3% of people between the ages of 16 and 69 had been given their first jab as of 21 February, the figures say.\n\nHowever, the figures highlight some regional variations, with at least one in four over-70s yet to receive their first dose in several parts of London.\n\nMore than 18 million people have had a first vaccine dose - equivalent to one in three adults in the UK.\n\nThe vaccine rollout has entered its next phase, after everyone in the top four priority groups was offered a jab.\n\nMany areas are now offering vaccine appointments to over-60s, adult carers of disabled people and younger adults in care homes.", "Pressure to hit school performance measures may lead some head teachers to take decisions that are not in a child's interests, a union has warned.\n\nTim Pratt of the ASCL union believes there are some examples of pupils being removed from registers so their grades do not count towards school data.\n\nIt follows concerns about so-called \"off-rolling\" in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said any evidence would \"not be tolerated\" and this had been made \"absolutely clear\" to heads.\n\nA parliamentary committee and the English schools' inspectorate has raised concerns about some schools moving pupils from their register to other settings such as pupil referral units or home education.\n\nThose pupils' exam results would not count against the school's performance measures.\n\nThe way schools are measured is different in Wales and Estyn, the inspectorate in Wales, said it discussed information about changes to pupil rolls with school heads during inspections and local council officials each term.\n\n\"In a few secondary schools where there have been significant changes to the Year 10 and/or Year 11 cohort this has been explored by inspectors and information is already used to inform our evaluations of the school,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"We are currently undertaking further, more detailed analysis, at school, local authority and national level during this term.\"\n\nMr Pratt, director of the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru (ASCL) said: \"It does happen. I don't think from the evidence we have, we would regard it as a major issue but nor would we deny that in certain cases it does take place.\n\n\"Our view is that whatever happens should be in the best interests of a child.\n\n\"The pressures on a school, the pressures on school leaders might sometimes lead them to take decision that in other circumstance they wouldn't.\n\n\"That doesn't make the decision right and I think we have to keep coming back to this that from a moral point of view we have to say that whatever the circumstance, the interests of the child must come first.\"\n\nBut he believes changes to accountability measures being introduced by ministers should help.\n\nIn the past, the percentage of pupils achieving five A* to C passes including English or Welsh and maths has been an influential measure of school performance, but that is being ditched as part of reforms.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We have been working with head teachers on a range of new interim performance measures that place a greater focus on raising our aspirations for all learners.\n\n\"These new measures will remove the narrow focus on the achievement of just C grades that has occurred as a result of the current measures and will value the progress of all pupils across the cohort. This will ensure that every child matters.\"\n\nErika Lye said it was unfair the pressures schools are under\n\nErika Lye, who's the chair of a home education charity, is concerned about the number of young people leaving the school system late in their schooling, particularly children with additional learning needs.\n\nShe believes that is partly driven by pressures on budgets and performance measures.\n\n\"Home education is a valid choice, it's a successful choice but it should be a choice. It shouldn't be something that parents are forced into.\n\n\"If they want their children in school, the state should be providing what those children need.\n\n\"It's really unfair the pressures that the schools are under, and teachers themselves are under - they need more resources - they need more support.\n\n\"Government is the one that's setting these targets and I suppose society has this expectation of performance outcomes where really you want a happy school for your child, you want an inclusive environment for your child.\n\n\"Performance outcomes really shouldn't be what you plan your child's education for. For your job, for anybody's job you're going to work to your performance targets.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Around 10% fewer train services should run once the country opens up again, compared to the pre-pandemic timetable, the chairman of Network Rail has said.\n\nThe old pattern of five days of peak commuter travel may not return, Sir Peter Hendy warned the National Rail Recovery conference.\n\nInstead, leisure travel might boost weekend traffic, especially if limits on international travel continue.\n\nCommuter traffic could return to 80% of pre-pandemic levels, he suggested.\n\n\"The service doesn't run better if you put too many trains on the track. We've proved that,\" said Sir Peter.\n\n\"You shouldn't try to get more out of the infrastructure than it can give you. All of my experience is that people prefer reliability to journey time.\"\n\nPassenger numbers fell precipitously in March when the pandemic struck and have only partially recovered since. Many commuters are working from home and some businesses remain closed.\n\nThe government's timetable foresees a gradual opening up of the economy over the coming months. However, some firms have already signalled some workers may continue to work from home for some of their working week.\n\nSir Peter said commuter traffic on the railways could remain at around 80% for the next one to three years, although he said that Network Rail, which manages the UK's rail infrastructure, were also looking at a range of possibilities between 60% and100%.\n\nHe warned that the working week could change so dramatically that commuter routes may only see one peak day a week and that ticketing options should be looked at to even out the service.\n\nLeisure visits to family or for recreation could boost passenger numbers on summer weekends, he suggested.\n\n\"I used to watch the trains to the Cornish Riviera from Paddington and it was packed and we might need to get used to that again,' he told the conference.\n\n\"If Saturday and Sunday get busy in the summer we need to do engineering work at other times.\"\n\nThe rail network may rely more on leisure travellers in future\n\nRail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris also acknowledged that commuting was not going to return to previous levels quickly.\n\n\"We are not going back to before - this is the new normal. We now need to fundamentally change,\" he said. Without a concerted cross-industry effort passengers might not return, he added.\n\nIn December, the government said it was \"committed to providing a more flexible, modern ticketing system for passengers\" and asked rail operators to develop flexible season tickets.\n\nWhen many commuters travelled to work four or five days a week, a season ticket provided value for money. Part-time commuters currently face a much higher price per journey.\n\nThe Department for Transport expects flexible season tickets to be introduced across England later this year, which could save commuters \"hundreds of pounds\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said during the pandemic passenger numbers fell to levels \"not seen since the 19th Century\" but everyone would work hard to restore business, and ensure a safe and clean network. He said this would require a \"coherent approach, [where] innovation is needed more than ever\".\n\nKeith Williams, whose much anticipated rail review is expected to be published soon, described the pandemic as a \"Black Swan\" event for the rail industry. The review had been due for release shortly before the pandemic began and has now been updated.", "Talks over the future of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car plant have been \"productive but not conclusive\", the car plant's owner said.\n\nStellantis has been in talks with the government for weeks about the site, which employs more than 1,000 people.\n\nIt is thought Stellantis is seeking financial incentives to make a fully electric car at the factory.\n\nThere are fears Stellantis, formed from the merger of France's PSA Group and Fiat-Chrysler, may close the factory.\n\nStellantis bosses have also voiced concern about the UK's decision to bring forward a ban on new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nMichael Lohscheller, who heads the parent group's Vauxhall unit, said it expects an \"eventual binding commitment by the UK government in the near future and will act accordingly.\n\n\"In the meanwhile, no investment decision will be made,\" he said.\n\nSpeculation over the future of the plant, which makes the Astra car, has been mounting since the merger of PSA and Fiat-Chrysler created a new automotive superpower.\n\nStellantis has been reviewing its options for plants worldwide. It has yet to decide if a new generation of a hatchback model will be produced there.\n\nVauxhall confirmed on Thursday that talks on \"different scenarios for Ellesmere Port\" were ongoing with UK authorities \"at both national and local levels\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been involved in discussions with Stellantis, which have been ongoing for several weeks.\n\nThe BBC understands that three options on the table for the plant include:\n\nStellantis boss Carlos Tavares recently referred to the \"brutal\" decision for the UK government to bring forward the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030 and said it might make more sense to move future electric production closer to its biggest market in the European Union (EU).\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"The Ellesmere Port plant is a major employer and winding it down would have devastating consequences, with 1,000 highly skilled jobs lost from the local community.\n\n\"To support our automotive manufacturing industry and boost its competitiveness, Labour has called for ambitious investment in electric vehicle technology, including the electric battery supply chain, through a £30bn green economic recovery. This investment would mean manufacturers have the long-term confidence they need to build new electric models in the UK.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are committed to ensuring the UK continues to be one of the best locations in the world for automotive manufacturing, and we're doing all we can to protect and create jobs, while securing a competitive future for the sector.\"", "Rina Sawayama will now be eligible for this year's Rising Star award\n\nA pop star who was told she was \"not British enough\" to enter The Brits and the Mercury Prize has won a reversal in the awards' eligibility rules.\n\nRina Sawayama was told she could not compete for the prizes last year, because she was not a British citizen.\n\nThe singer, who has lived in the UK for 26 years, has now won the right to compete, after meeting award bosses.\n\nUnder new rules, artists who have been resident in the UK for more than five years qualify for the main prizes.\n\nSawayama holds indefinite leave to remain in the UK, but retains a Japanese passport to maintain ties with her family, including her father, who live in her country of birth.\n\nAs Japan does not allow dual citizenship, she cannot have a British passport. That led to her critically-acclaimed debut album, also called Sawayama, being ruled ineligible for last year's Mercury Prize.\n\n\"It was just heartbreaking,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"I think a lot of immigrants feel this way - where they assimilate and they become part of the British culture... and to be told that we're not even eligible to be nominated is very othering.\"\n\nSawayama first raised concerns about the situation in an interview with Vice last year.\n\n\"All I remember is living here,\" she said. \"I've just lived here all my life. I went to summer school in Japan, and that's literally it. But I feel like I've contributed to the UK in a way that I think is worthy of being celebrated, or at least being eligible to be celebrated.\"\n\nThe hashtag #SawayamaIsBritish trended in the UK shortly after her interview was published.\n\n\"Part of me that worried that I was... going to get blacklisted from the music industry for bringing this up,\" she told the BBC. \"But I'm glad I did.\"\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 RinaSawayamaVEVO 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’. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe singer subsequently met with the BPI, which organises both the Brits and the Mercury Prize, and convinced them to review their criteria.\n\n\"I'm over the moon to share the news that, following a number of conversations, the BPI has decided to change the rules,\" Sawayama posted on Instagram on Wednesday.\n\n\"Starting this year, artists (like me) will be eligible for nomination even without British citizenship.\"\n\nThe Brit Awards confirmed the change to the BBC, saying it would apply to all its award categories, as well as the Mercury Prize.\n\nArtists will now have to meet one of three criteria to be eligible:\n\nThe change means Sawayama will be eligible for this year's Rising Star award, which recognises up-and-coming talent.\n\nHowever, she will not be able to compete in the main categories - including best British female and best album - as her record did not chart in the Top 40.\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\nSawayama has previously benefitted from funding from the BPI Music Export Growth Scheme, a grant that supports and celebrates British musicians, and her album is littered with references about growing up in London.\n\nThe record, which skilfully blends millennial pop and R&B with elements of nu-metal, was one of the best-reviewed new releases of 2020, with an average score of 89% on the review aggregation site Metacritic.\n\nMany publications, including the Guardian and the NME, named it among their best albums of the year; and it took 11th place in the BBC's \"poll of polls\", which combined the year-end lists from 35 influential newspapers, magazines and blogs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of Wales' most talented young sports stars has been advising the new US president on halting climate change.\n\nJoe Biden emailed Anna Hursey,14, from Cardiff, who is a United Nations champion for climate change in sport.\n\nAnna made history as the youngest-ever athlete to compete in the Commonwealth Games in 2018, aged only 11.\n\nAnd she has now sent her most important message to Mr Biden - that we all can take steps to help the world reach zero carbon emissions.\n\nPresident Biden has put climate change at the top of his agenda and on 22 April's Earth Day, he will host a summit of world leaders.\n\nOn him getting in touch Anna, who will be bidding for medals at next year's Commonwealth Games and the 2024 Paris Olympics, said: \"I was really surprised, I thought it was an amazing opportunity.\n\n\"His new agenda for climate change is bold, to achieve zero emissions in America by 2050 is incredible, so he's doing a lot already.\"\n\nHer profile as a young environmentalist was raised by her UN appointment last year.\n\nSince then, more than 110 sports organisations have signed up to the UN framework, pledging to promote environmental awareness and increase responsibility.\n\nPresident Biden seemed impressed by the 14-year-old's climate change credentials\n\nAnna said everyone can do more to protect the planet - a message she is keen to give to the new president.\n\n\"There are some really simple things we can do, cycling instead of using the car, using less plastic,\" she said.\n\nAnna, who started playing table tennis as a toddler, swiftly rose through the rankings and in 2018 travelled to Australia's Gold Coast, representing Wales for the games, in the singles and doubles.\n\nShe went to live and train full time in China to achieve her dreams of Commonwealth and Olympic medal glory.\n\nHowever, since the coronavirus outbreak she has been back in Wales, which means combining five hours of training with the Welsh senior squad six days a week and doing schoolwork online.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dylan Seabridge: \"Invisible boy\" who died from scurvy in Wales\n\nMinisters have failed to protect the rights of children who are home educated in Wales 10 years after a child's death, a review has found.\n\nDylan Seabridge, eight, died of scurvy in 2011 after not being seen by any services for seven years.\n\nA review by the Children's Commissioner claims the Welsh Government has \"failed to respond adequately\" to his death.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it took protecting children's rights \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThe review, which calls for changes to laws after the upcoming election, comes after Children's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland used her statutory powers to look into the Welsh Government's response following the death of Dylan in Pembrokeshire.\n\nIn 2015, an inquest into his death found he had not been seen by any authorities for seven years before he died.\n\nA child practice review published in 2016 said it was \"tragic there are many references that the child was 'invisible'.\"\n\nIt led to calls to ensure home-educated children are known to officials - either on a database or register - and for them to be seen by professional services.\n\nPlans for parents to have to register their children if educating them at home have been dropped\n\nMinisters have made a number of commitments to change home education regulation, but plans for a new law requiring councils to create a database of children not on a school register were shelved because of the pandemic.\n\nProf Holland said while she acknowledged the \"huge diversion of government resources\" because of the pandemic, she was concerned delays were \"long-standing and may continue in years to come\".\n\nProf Holland said while consultations and work had been carried out by the Welsh Government since Dylan's death, there had been \"no change or strengthening in any meaningful sense to the regulations around home education\".\n\nShe said that meant Wales remained one of the least regulated places in Europe for children being home schooled.\n\nFreedom of Information requests by BBC Wales Live found there were at least 2,250 home-educated children last year, but that number is likely to be higher.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner referenced another case in Powys which highlighted the need to strengthen home-education law.\n\nLast year a child practice review was published which described children being severely physically and emotionally abused.\n\nThe report noted that the current home-education guidance had \"deficiencies\", and the children involved said \"it should be the kids' choice whether to be home educated\" and that \"education officers should come to the house\".\n\nErika Lye said social services needed to be funded properly to protect children\n\nFamilies who opt to home educate have long opposed a formal register and any kind of local authority monitoring.\n\nErika Lye, of home education charity Mountain Movers, said the community was exhausted by the continued debate around regulation.\n\n\"It's really frustrating, this perpetual cycle that is ongoing every two years,\" she said.\n\n\"The reasons aren't justified and it won't affect the change that needs to happen.\n\n\"What needs to happen is to recognise that social services desperately need funding and resourcing. If social services were properly resourced and funded, they have all the existing powers they can help children [in need].\"\n\nToby Belfield was sacked as head teacher of Ruthin School in 2020\n\nIn her review, Prof Holland said ministers had also failed to close \"safeguarding loopholes\" to protect children attending independent schools, despite some issues being \"on their radar for at least 18 years\".\n\nIn 2018-19 almost 10,000 pupils were enrolled in independent schools, where there is currently no requirement for staff to register with the Education Workforce Council for Wales - the independent regulator for education staff.\n\nIt means staff cannot be struck off the workforce register, meaning they could continue to work with children even if they are sacked because of misconduct involving children.\n\nProf Holland said the case of Toby Belfield - a former headteacher of Ruthin School in Denbighshire sacked for messaging female students - should have \"acted as a catalyst\" to strengthen the law but it still \"had not been prioritised\".\n\nThe report makes a series of recommendations to be put forward by the next Welsh Government, including the introduction of new laws to ensure all children in Wales can be seen and spoken to about their education as well as \"substantially\" updating the regulation of independent schools.\n\nGareth Pearson, who chairs the Welsh Independent Schools Council, said the safeguarding and wellbeing of its pupils was its \"top priority\"\n\nHe said: \"We have consistently welcomed any opportunity to work with the Welsh Government to further strengthen our safeguarding provision and look forward to acting upon the recommendations of this report.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it took its responsibility for protecting children's rights \"extremely seriously\" and ministers were disappointed the pandemic had led to \"important planned work\" being dropped.\n\n\"In normal circumstances, work would have by now been nearing completion,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"However, we are not in normal circumstances and the government has had to fundamentally shift its focus thus having an impact on completing this work.\n\n\"We have noted the findings in the review and will consider the report in detail before responding more formally.\"", "Angelika Monks was able to meet Steven in the garden of his home but she says he did not understand why she could not come inside\n\nA change to prioritise people on the GP learning disability register for a Covid vaccine is \"the best news ever\", the mother of a 35-year-old man who needs round-the-clock care says.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething also confirmed people with mental illnesses which cause functional impairment will join priority group six.\n\nIt follows new advice from the joint committee on vaccination (JCVI).\n\nAngelika Monks from Anglesey said she was \"so relieved\" for her son Steven.\n\nShe has not been able to see him in person since Christmas Day, when they had to remain 2m apart, but speaks to him daily on video conferencing.\n\n\"Once the vaccine is done, then we can actually start seeing him again - it is just such a great deal,\" she told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nSteven with his parents Angelika and Ged in 2017\n\n\"My son has cerebral palsy, severe learning difficulties and a rare form of epilepsy, where every noise can set off the seizure, so he has multiple seizures during the day...\n\n\"He needs 24-hour care and it would have been impossible to look after him in the hospital should he contract coronavirus.\n\n\"So I was very, very concerned about this - yesterday I was glued to the television and it was the best news ever...\n\n\"I was so relieved I just couldn't believe it.\"\n\nSteven also likes to write to his parents\n\nOfficials have said they are taking an \"inclusion\" approach in identifying those who should be called forward, and they expect this to result in more individuals being prioritised than might otherwise be the case if the JCVI guidance was strictly interpreted.\n\nThe guidance recommends using GP surgeries rather than mass vaccination centres to administer the vaccines.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Gething said: \"Today really is good news and I hope we will give people lots of comfort that they can expect to be receiving those appointments in the very near future.\"\n\nMr Gething is responsible for the vaccination rollout in Wales while the UK government purchases the jabs.\n\nThe charity Mencap said everyone with a learning disability should check they are on the register and, if not, ask to go on it.\n\nPeople with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability in Wales and England were already in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and older people.", "Mr Salmond has written to the Lord Advocate asking for an explanation for the Crown Office's actions\n\nHolyrood faces a \"crisis of credibility\" over its inquiry into the handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond, opposition leaders have claimed.\n\nThe row centres on written evidence submitted to the inquiry by Mr Salmond that was later redacted at the request of the Crown Office.\n\nThe Crown Office has dismissed concerns the move was politically motivated.\n\nMr Salmond is now expected to give evidence to the inquiry on Friday.\n\nIn another development, MSPs on the inquiry committee have used their statutory powers to demand the release of more Crown Office documents.\n\nThey are asking the Crown Office to hand over all correspondence between Peter Murrell, chief executive officer of the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon's husband, Liz Lloyd, Nicola Sturgeon's chief of staff, Sue Ruddick, chief operating officer for the SNP and Ian McCann, SNP compliance officer.\n\nMr Salmond claims the documents being requested will show he was the victim of a high-level plot.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who has emphatically denied there was any such plotting against her former boss, is scheduled to appear before MSPs next week.\n\nShe described suggestions that the Crown Office's intervention was politically influenced as \"downright wrong\".\n\nAlex Salmond had been due to appear before the committee on Tuesday but pulled out when the parliament withdrew and then republished a redacted version of one of his submissions - after \"grave concerns\" were raised by the Crown Office.\n\nAnswering an urgent question in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC said the decision to ask for the document to be amended was taken independently by \"senior professional prosecutors\".\n\nAnd he said that government ministers had not sought to direct them.\n\nHe added: \"The Crown has no interest in interfering with or limiting the conduct of proceedings in this parliament.\n\n\"Its only interest is securing compliance with an order of the High Court with which we are all obliged to comply.\"\n\nThe law officer was responding to a question by Scottish Labour interim leader Jackie Baillie, who said it was \"simply unacceptable that the Lord Advocate refused to answer the questions put to him with any detail\".\n\nShe added: \"The fact of the matter is that the parliament is not getting straight answers from a Lord Advocate who appears to have viewed this afternoon's session in the chamber as a necessary chore and not a chance to engage with the Scottish Parliament in a spirit of democratic accountability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Advocate: \"The decisions in relation to this matter were made by senior professional prosecutors acting independently.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Salmond said in a statement that his lawyers would be writing to the Lord Advocate to ask for an explanation for the Crown Office's \"unprecedented and highly irregular actions\".\n\nMr Salmond said he had also instructed his lawyers to request specifically that the Crown \"preserve and retain all material and communications with all or any third parties which led to their decision to intervene at the very last minute\" before he was due to appear before the inquiry.\n\nHis submission to the inquiry accuses First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, and was posted on the parliament's website on Monday.\n\nIt was published after MSPs on Holyrood's corporate body decided after taking legal advice that it was possible to do so.\n\nBut the corporate body agreed on Tuesday morning to remove and revise the document after receiving a letter from the Crown Office which expressed \"grave concerns\".\n\nThe Crown Office later said it had taken action because of issues of potential contempt of court.\n\nLabour's Jackie Baillie said the Lord Advocate had failed to answer her questions in any detail in the Holyrood chamber\n\nThe inquiry has been hit by severe delays since it started its work, with opposition MSPs accusing both the Scottish government and Mr Salmond of attempting to frustrate it and avoid scrutiny.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme earlier on Wednesday, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said \"of course\" parliament was facing a crisis of credibility over the inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"This sleaze and scandal within the SNP has now undermined everything that's going on in Holyrood and the nationalists are clearly treating parliament and the Scottish people with contempt\".\n\nThe Lord Advocate was appointed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and is both the head of the Crown Office and the Scottish government's chief legal adviser.\n\nSeparate documents submitted to the inquiry by Mr Salmond accuse the Crown Office of being unfit for purpose under its current leadership, and claim it is too close to both the Scottish government and the SNP.\n\nMr Salmond also alleged that there was \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has dismissed claims that there was a conspiracy against Mr Salmond\n\nMr Ross claimed that the Lord Advocate being a member of the Scottish government meant there could be a possible conflict of interest in his involvement.\n\nRuth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative group leader at Holyrood, later told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that she believed there should be an independent, judge-led inquiry into \"why the government is not allowing a committee of its own parliament to have access to information they need\".\n\nShe added: \"At the moment the government is running riot and is denying the parliament its right of scrutiny.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is currently due to give evidence to the inquiry next week, has denied there was a conspiracy against Mr Salmond, saying her predecessor had made claims \"without a shred of evidence\".\n\nShe has also denied that she breached the ministerial code or that her government has attempted to obstruct the inquiry, and has said that she is \"relishing\" the prospect of giving evidence in person.\n\nThe inquiry is due to report next month but has been hit by a series of delays\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, she said: \"Decisions the Crown Office takes in relation to enforcing or upholding the law are taken independently of government.\n\n\"Any suggestion at all that these decisions are in any way politically influenced is downright wrong\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she did not believe the redaction of the document was a good reason for Mr Salmond to refuse to appear before the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry committee has been examining what went wrong with the government's internal investigation into sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond that were made by two female civil servants.\n\nThe government had to pay legal expenses of more than £500,000 to Mr Salmond after it admitted it had acted unlawfully during the investigation.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial last year.", "Online booking platform Airbnb has said it is preparing for a \"significant\" travel rebound as the world emerges from coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nHowever the company said it was still \"too early\" to predict how the business would fare this year.\n\nThe company's revenue dropped 30% last year to $3.4bn (£2.4bn), as Covid-19 restrictions kept many from travelling.\n\nThat was better than many other travel companies, as people took to their cars for longer stays in private homes.\n\nThe firm said it has already seen a smaller decline in travel this year than in the last three months of 2020, when revenue was down 22% year-on-year at $859m. That was better than many analysts had expected, given the resurgence of Covid cases and fresh lockdown restrictions in many areas.\n\n\"Travel is coming back and we are laser-focused on preparing for the travel rebound,\" its chief executive Brian Chesky said.\n\nMr Chesky said he expected new travel preferences to emerge from the pandemic that will benefit his company.\n\nHe said the firm is optimistic that staying in private homes will appeal to people travelling to see family and friends. Remote working patterns will also allow people to take more frequent weekend trips - or even spend several months away from home, he suggested.\n\n\"We've seen a number of new use cases,\" he said. \"We don't think we're ever going to go back to travel in 2019. It's going to change and it's going to be different.\"\n\nHowever, Airbnb also warned that it still had \"limited visibility for growth trends in 2021 given the difficulty in determining the pace of vaccine rollouts and the related impact on willingness to travel\".\n\n\"We are not providing an outlook for the rest of 2021 at this time,\" it said in its first financial update for investors since its public listing in December.\n\nAirbnb, which is active in more than 220 countries, said people around the world are travelling more domestically during the pandemic - but not enough to make up for the loss of business from international tourism.\n\nAirbnb was founded by Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia when they were in their 20s\n\nIts business in Europe, which is fuelled by cross-border travel, was the hardest hit region in 2020, especially the UK, Germany and Italy. North America was the most stable.\n\nOverall the firm lost $4.6bn last year, including $3.9bn in the last three months of the year, when it was hit with high costs connected with its stock market debut.\n\nA recent survey conducted for the company in the US found that more than half of about 1,000 respondents had already booked or were planning to travel this year.\n\nOn a call with analysts, the firm faced some questions about its relationships with hosts, which has been strained this year partly due to financial losses suffered after cancellations.\n\nBut Angelo Zino, an equity analyst at CFRA, said he expected revenue to come \"roaring back\" as vaccines become widely distributed in the US and Europe by the summer, \"reflecting the enormous amount of pent-up demand in the ecosystem\".\n\n\"We believe Airbnb's business model and growth opportunities are highly attractive and struggle to find a better way to play the travel space,\" he said.", "GCHQ, headquartered in Cheltenham, said AI could become a key tool in its fight against a range of issues\n\nUK intelligence agency GCHQ intends to use artificial intelligence to tackle issues from child sexual abuse to disinformation and human trafficking.\n\nThe UK's adversaries were already using the technology, it said.\n\nThe agency has published a paper, Ethics of AI: Pioneering a New National Security, saying the technology will be put at the heart of its operations.\n\nAnd officials say it will help analysts spot patterns hidden inside large - and fast growing - amounts of data.\n\nBut it cannot predict human behaviour such as moving towards executing a terrorist attack.\n\nThe paper also sets out how GCHQ wants to support the AI sector, including setting up an industry-facing AI lab from its Manchester office, dedicated to prototyping projects and mentoring start-ups.\n\nAnd GCHQ says it details how it will ensure it uses AI fairly and transparently, including:\n\nIt is a sign the agency wants to avoid a repeat of criticism people were unaware how it used data, following whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations.\n\n\"While this unprecedented technological evolution comes with great opportunity, it also poses significant ethical challenges for all of society, including GCHQ,\" the agency's director, Jeremy Fleming, said.\n\n\"Today, we are setting out our plan and commitment to the ethical use of AI in our mission.\n\n\"I hope it will inspire further thinking at home and abroad about how we can ensure fairness, transparency and accountability to underpin the use of AI.\"\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to publish its Integrated Review into security, defence, development and foreign policy, in which technology, including AI, is expected to play a central role.\n\nGCHQ outlined areas where adversaries were already using AI, including:\n\nAdversaries are already using AI to create deepfakes and spread disinformation, GCHQ says\n\nA growing number of states are using AI to automate the production of false content to affect public debate, including \"deepfake\" video and audio, GCHQ warns.\n\nThe technology can individually target and personalise this content or spread it through chatbots or by interfering with social-media algorithms.\n\nBut it could also help GCHQ detect and fact-check it and identify \"troll farms\" and botnet accounts.\n\nIncreasingly used to automate cyber-attacks, AI could also help identify malicious software and attackers as they continually develop new tactics to breach systems and steal data, GCHQ says.\n\nOrganised crime groups are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of technology, including encryption tools, the dark web and cryptocurrency, GCHQ says.", "Michael Gove should apologise to children who lost support from collapsed charity Kids Company, its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Woman's Hour, she also said she believed Kids Company was targeted by a \"smear campaign\".\n\nA government source later told the BBC the charity \"was badly run\" and \"beset by a litany of failures\".\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh's comments follow her High Court win against being disqualified from other organisations.\n\nThe ruling cleared former chief executive Ms Batmanghelidjh and seven others of personal wrongdoing.\n\nKids Company, which supported vulnerable young people in London and Bristol, closed its doors in 2015.\n\nIn the run-up to its collapse, the charity was spending around £20m a year, up to a quarter of which came from the government.\n\nA plan to restructure the organisation's finances had been agreed with David Cameron's government, but it was wound up after the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into sexual assault allegations, following the broadcast of a report on BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nThe police investigation concluded in 2016 after finding no evidence of criminality.\n\nA year earlier, Kids Company had also been investigated by the National Audit Office and the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts.\n\nAsked on the programme whether she felt she was owed an apology from anyone in government, Ms Batmanghelidjh said Mr Gove, now the Cabinet Office minister, had been \"disingenuous\".\n\nShe said he had initially supported the charity's work and handed her a CBE when he was in the Department for Education, but that by 2015 \"he was saying he never wanted Kids Co funded, you know, and I find it very difficult when people change colours\".\n\nThe state should be stepping up to protect children in care \"when their own parents aren't there to protect them\", Ms Batmanghelidjh said.\n\nShe added: \"I can live without Michael Gove's apology but the staff and the children are owed an apology from Michael Gove, [former Conservative MP] Oliver Letwin, all these people who promised that they were going to help us resolve the fact that children were pouring in through our doors.\"\n\nShe also explained why she felt the charity was wrongly tarnished, suggesting it had been subject to a \"smear campaign\".\n\n\"I think there were two targets,\" she said.\n\n\"One is, I believe, David Cameron, because he was seen to have chosen us as Big Society [Mr Cameron's initiative to fund voluntary projects] and I think the Brexit team wanted to discredit him.\n\n\"And I think another bit was campaigning for child protection issues and I think the country has no capacity to address its child protection problems.\n\n\"And I think we got sandwiched between these two concerns and that was why there was such a ferocious attack on us.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"The problems surrounding Kids Company that led to its closure have been well documented.\"\n\nHe added that the government was \"committed to levelling up outcomes for every young person, no matter their background or circumstance\" and pointed to investment of more than £2.4bn a year through the Pupil Premium to support the most disadvantaged pupils, raising the quality of children's social care and targeting support through our catch-up package to those who need the most help in getting back on track as a result of the Covid pandemic.\n\nAnd a government source said after the Woman's Hour interview: \"As two independent official investigations found, Kids Company was badly run, couldn't survive without government handouts and was beset by a litany of failures. That is why the charity collapsed.\"\n\nThe Official Receiver (OR) brought High Court proceedings against Ms Batmanghelidjh and the former trustees, arguing they were \"unfit\" to hold directorships because of their handling of the charity.\n\nBut, in a ruling on February 12, Mrs Justice Falk rejected the case and said the charity may have survived financially to continue its work had it not closed.\n\nA statement issued after the ruling on behalf of the former trustees said: \"Kids Company was forced to close in August 2015 following what the judge records as 'unfounded allegations' of child abuse, which made fundraising from private and government sources impossible.\n\n\"We are pleased that finally the facts have been gathered and assessed in a court of law, and that Mrs Justice Falk has exonerated both the former trustees and Kids Company chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh.\"\n\nFounded in 1996 in south London, Kids Company provided practical, emotional and educational support to up to 36,000 deprived and vulnerable inner-city children and young people.\n\nIt employed more than 600 people, with high-profile supporters including the then prime minister David Cameron.\n\nYou can listen to the full Woman's Hour interview here.", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nFast fashion chain Primark hopes to offload millions of pounds worth of last year's clothing stock when its shops reopen in England on 12 April.\n\nThe High Street giant does not offer online sales and says it expects to have lost £1.1bn in sales due to the latest lockdown closures.\n\nIt plans to sell more than £400m of last year's stock to help plug the gap.\n\nThe chain said its stores would also offer new ranges for all the new seasons, including this spring.\n\nPrimark said its 153 stores would reopen in England on 12 April, and in Scotland on 26 April.\n\nUnlike rivals, the retailer had no online operation to shift stock when stores were closed during lockdowns.\n\nBut Primark is not set up to sell online, and has said the costs involved in distribution and sales online would mean price rises for customers.\n\nPrimark's £1.1bn sales drop contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nPrimark owner Associated British Foods said sales for the 24 weeks to 27 February 2021 were £2.2bn, compared to £3.7bn in the same period last year, as lockdowns and closures in the UK and Europe stopped people going to many High Street shops.\n\nIts stores have been closed in many countries across Europe, including Germany and the Netherlands.\n\nIt has dates for reopening shops in those countries, but still does not know when it will reopen in Wales, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal.\n\nHowever, it is optimistic that customers will return to all of its stores as soon as they reopen: \"We know that people will welcome us back when we reopen,\" finance chief John Bason said. \"There is pent-up demand.\"\n\nIt will be selling a mix of new and old lines for the remainder of the year as it plays catch-up.\n\nWhen stores reopen Primark expects to sell £150m of spring and summer lines that were stored in warehouses from last year. It then aims to sell £260m of autumn and winter stock such as jeans and jumpers next season.\n\nThis is unusual in the fashion world, where unsold stock is usually sold off in end-of-season sales, and has in the past even been burnt or sent to landfill, to make space for new ranges.\n\nPrimark says it does not burn or bin any unsold stock but instead normally donates it to charity.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the closures of the Primark estate were \"costing a pretty penny\".\n\n\"However, the retail chain is a force to be reckoned with,\" she said. \"When previous lockdowns ended we saw demand rebounded strongly.\"\n\nWhile sales were down 15% in the last round of reopening, which \"sounds bad\", \"in reality that's an impressive recovery when you consider people had little reason to visit the High Street, and Primark's lack of online business\".\n\n\"Even more importantly, so strong is the demand for Primark's clothes, excess inventory has been less of a problem during the pandemic, because more of it flies off the shelf than expected once the doors open,\" she said.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\nBeing in fast fashion means it has low margins, so \"they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC in January.\n\nOnline players like Asos and Boohoo were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nHowever Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\nCustomers would be finding new ways of shopping with rivals, he said.\n\nPrimark's performance meant owner-Associated British Foods' first half sales and earnings would be lower than the previous year, the company said.\n\nBut Associated British Foods has a grocery division, with brands that include Kingsmill bread, Twinings tea and Ovaltine, as well as major sugar, agriculture and ingredients businesses.\n\nThese fared well as people stocked up during lockdown.\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, said: \"Primark store closures are inevitably punching a hole in profits, but the diversified nature of the business is serving AB Foods well.\n\n\"Changing habits arising from the pandemic have boosted other parts of the business.\"", "An advertising campaign has been launched to encourage people across the UK to \"keep going\" and remain at home.\n\nThe government adverts come amid falling infection rates, the success of the vaccine rollout and the launch of the roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nPeople are also being urged to continue behavioural changes, including social distancing, hand washing and wearing face masks.\n\nThe TV advert is being shown for the first time on Wednesday night on ITV.\n\nThe campaign will also run on radio, advertising billboards and social media.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 9,938 cases were recorded across the UK as well as 442 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to government figures. It takes the death toll by that measure to 121,747.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said \"we must all continue to play our part\" in controlling the spread of the virus.\n\nHe said: \"Infection rates are falling, but they still remain very high and the impact of Covid-19 is still putting pressure on hospitals across the country.\n\n\"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all continue to play our part in protecting the NHS and saving lives.\"\n\nWednesday's figures showed 18,242,873 have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe seven-day average for cases is down by 14.7% while deaths within 28 days of a positive test are down by 31%.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a four-step plan to ease England's lockdown, which could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nIn the first phase, on 8 March, schools will reopen and recreation in an outdoor public spaces - such as a park - will be allowed between two people.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The British resolve during this pandemic has been astounding. We've all pulled together to help each other out.\n\n\"I know it's been a long year but we can't let up now. Everything we're doing is bringing us one step closer to beating this virus.\n\n\"The vaccine rollout is going extremely well and is saving lives - but it is not the only way we will reduce infection rates and be able to get back to normality.\n\n\"So let's keep going. I encourage everyone to keep playing their part and stay at home - keep washing your hands, wearing a mask and maintaining a social distance which will ensure that, together, we beat this.\"", "Mass testing is taking place to ascertain the scale of the problem\n\nA Covid outbreak has hit five adult wards at a north Wales hospital.\n\nYsbyty Gwynedd, in Bangor, said 49 of the 75 coronavirus patients being treated are linked to the outbreak.\n\nThe hospital's medical director Dr Karen Mottart said testing had begun for staff and patients.\n\n\"As we continue with a programme of additional testing, we expect to find more cases in patients and staff who are not currently symptomatic,\" she said.\n\nDr Mottart added: \"This approach will help us build an accurate picture of the current situation, enabling us to safely manage patients and prevent any unknown potential transmission.\"\n\nShe said new variants are more transmissible and more patients have recently been admitted to the hospital than at any time during the pandemic.\n\n\"A significant risk is that a patient can test negative for Covid-19 while the virus is in its incubation period, and then test positive after being admitted to hospital,\" Dr Mottart added.\n\n\"All hospitals face the challenge of balancing the risk of infection while providing care for those who need it.\"\n\nFive wards have been affected by the outbreak\n\nShe asked people to help reduce the risk of transmission by only visiting hospitals when it is \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe area has some of the highest case rates in Wales - with 94.7 per 100,000 people in Gwynedd and 112.8 per 100,000 in neighbouring Anglesey.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said he was \"anxious to hear\" about the outbreak.\n\nThe MS for Anglesey added: \"It is yet another demonstration of the contagious nature of the virus around us and the need to take firm measures to bring down numbers.\n\n\"It also shows how easily pressure can mount on health and care services that are already under great strain.\"", "An artist impression of how George Street in Edinburgh will look after it is revamped\n\nCars are set to be banned from George Street in Edinburgh as part of transformation plans to open up the space for pedestrians, bikes, and outdoor seating areas.\n\nThe historic street will be given a \"European boulevard feel\" to better accentuate the surrounding A-listed buildings.\n\nBus stops will be located in side streets.\n\nCar parking will remain for blue badge holders and for shop loading access.\n\nThe plans form part of City of Edinburgh Council's 10-year transformation project, which will see the city centre become largely car-free by 2030.\n\nLesley Macinnes, transport committee convener, said: \"George Street has essentially become a car park.\n\n\"We have this phenomenal street, of immense beauty, that has become obscured - and the use of George Street has changed over the years, from retail towards hospitality, and we're certainly seeing a spine of people using that as a car park.\n\n\"Why, as a city, would we not want to showcase that beautiful street?\"\n\nThe plans aim to make the street much more of a public space\n\nProjects under the Edinburgh City Centre Transformation include the Meadows to George Street and city centre west to East Link schemes, which will transform walking and cycling routes, and other connections across the city centre.\n\nThese schemes also support the city mobility plan, a 10-year strategy to overhaul transport and mobility in the capital to deliver a sustainable, net zero carbon and inclusive future.\n\nThe design team for the new plans for George Street has included Tetratech and LDA Landscape Design.\n\nFurther consultation is to take place over the next month, the outcome of which will inform a final design proposal, to go before the council's transport and environment committee in April with construction set to start in the summer.\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. Man United's Marcus Rashford spoke about his tough upbringing in bid to end food poverty\n\nThe BBC has won scoop of the year at the Royal Television Society journalism awards for its interview with footballer Marcus Rashford about his experience of growing up in poverty.\n\nRashford spoke to BBC Breakfast in June as he urged the government to extend the provision of free school meals.\n\nThe awards' judges said it was the exclusive \"everyone wanted\".\n\nElsewhere, the BBC's Clive Myrie won television journalist of the year while Andrew Marr won interview of the year.\n\nThe corporation led the way at the RTS Television Journalism Awards, winning in nine of 19 categories.\n\nRashford had been urging the government to change its mind about not offering food vouchers during the summer holidays when he spoke to BBC Breakfast.\n\nDuring the first lockdown - which began in March 2020 - the government had provided vouchers to families whose children qualify for free meals, but had insisted this would not continue outside of term time.\n\nIn the Breakfast interview, the Manchester United striker told the BBC about how, when he was growing up, his mother had struggled to feed her five children.\n\n\"It's the stress on her shoulders that affected her, after we've ate our dinner, because she knows she's worrying about the situation. She's trying to go to sleep but she can't because she's so worried,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Everyone wanted this exclusive but only one team got it and it made headlines everywhere for days,\" the judges said.\n\nFollowing Rashford's intervention, the government ended up extending the provision of free school meals into the summer holidays.\n\nThe BBC's Clive Myrie won network presenter of the year for what judges called his \"versatile, measured and compelling style\".\n\nHe had documented life on the front-line of the pandemic with reports from the Royal London Hospital, where he found staff struggling to cope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clive Myrie spoke to Martin Freeborn, whose wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital\n\n\"The jury agreed the winner had had an astonishing year - as excellent as a package maker and interviewer as a studio and location presenter,\" the judges said.\n\nThe Andrew Marr Show was recognised for its interview with the Chinese Ambassador, Liu Xiaoming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Marr showed footage that appeared to show Uighur people being pushed on to trains\n\nHe was shown drone footage which appeared to show its Uighur population being blindfolded and led to trains, and which has been authenticated by Australian security services.\n\nThe judges described the interview as \"a master class in technique, gutsy and went for the jugular\".\n\nSky News won five awards, including news channel of the year, while daily news programme of the year went to ITV's News at Ten.\n\nThe judges' award was given to all the technical teams in recognition of the \"ingenuity, innovation and speed they demonstrated this year to keep journalism on the air\".\n\nChair of the awards Simon Bucks said: \"This has been an incredibly challenging year for all journalists and news organisations.\n\n\"Despite the difficulties of covering the Covid-19 pandemic, all the broadcasters who enter these awards have distinguished themselves with some remarkable coverage and every one of the nominees would have been a worthy winner.\n\n\"Moreover, many of them were not about the Coronavirus, but a range of other important stories which in any normal year would have dominated the agenda.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio Scotland. Live text commentary on BBC Sport website & app.\n\nFrance have suspended training after another player tested positive for Covid-19 before Sunday's Six Nations match against Scotland.\n\nCompetition organisers had announced on Wednesday that the match would go ahead as planned despite an outbreak that saw 10 French players contract the virus.\n\nThe French Rugby Federation says, as a result of the latest positive case, \"the entire group is in isolation\".\n\nThe Six Nations committee is meeting on Thursday to consider the implications.\n\n\"Following the RT-PCR tests carried out this Wednesday, 24 February in the evening and the appearance of a positive case within the squad of players, the FFR medical committee met this morning and decided to suspend training,\" the French said in a statement.\n\nThe Test had been in doubt after France head coach Fabien Galthie tested positive, followed by 10 players and two members of staff, but subsequent rounds of testing revealed no further positive cases until Wednesday evening.\n\nThe Six Nations confirmed at that stage it planned to stage the match in Paris as scheduled.\n\n\"We continue to monitor the situation very closely and are in regular contact with both unions,\" a statement read.\n\nGregor Townsend's men sit fourth in the table, having followed their historic victory against England at Twickenham with a one-point home loss to Wales, while unbeaten France top the standings.\n\nThe hosts were already due to be without a slew of key players, including captain Charles Ollivon and star scrum-half Antoine Dupont, who were isolating.\n\nGalthie has been involved in coaching sessions remotely while isolating and several players had been called up to replace those ruled out.\n\nA postponement could leave Townsend without more than 10 members of his squad, who would have to return to their clubs in England and France due to World Rugby player release regulations.\n\nScottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson told BBC Scotland: \"The hardest thing is just being able to plan properly. Things can change from one moment to the next.\n\n\"What we need to do is keep our players as safe as possible. It's a very fragile moment trying to get these games away. Touch wood, we're ready to go on Sunday.\"\n• None James Nesbitt stars in thrilling drama where the past won't die\n• None Have we been conditioned into accepting the fake as reality?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm so happy for all those people who've been living in fear,\" Jo Whiley said\n\nEveryone on the GP learning disability register should be prioritised for a Covid vaccine, the joint committee on vaccination has advised the government.\n\nThis means 150,000 people at higher risk with severe disabilities will be offered a jab more quickly in England.\n\nBut those with mild learning disabilities should not expect to be prioritised.\n\nIt follows DJ Jo Whiley's plea for people such as her sister, Frances, to be vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nWhiley was offered the vaccine before her sister, who has a rare genetic syndrome and lives in residential care.\n\nThe broadcaster's sister is recovering after being admitted to hospital with coronavirus earlier this week.\n\n\"This is a great day, I am so relieved. I'm so happy for all those people who have been living in fear,\" Jo Whiley said, adding that it was \"very difficult\" to categorise people according to their disability.\n\nThe charity Mencap said everyone with a learning disability should check they are on the register and, if not, ask to go on it.\n\nPeople with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability in England and Wales were already in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and the elderly.\n\nAnd adults with Down's Syndrome have already been offered a jab, in priority group 4, as part of the UK's target to vaccinate 15 million people by mid-February.\n\nNow everyone on their GP's learning disability register will be invited for vaccination as part of priority group six, Public Health England has confirmed, regardless of how severe their disability is.\n\nAnd the NHS is being asked to work with local authorities to identify other adults, in residential care or receiving support to live in the community, who are severely affected by a learning disability and may not be registered, but who should be offered a vaccine.\n\nIt comes after an analysis found that people registered with their GP as having a learning disability, who tend to be those at the more severe end, are more at risk of being seriously ill and dying from Covid.\n\nThere are 1.2 million people with a learning disability in England - but only a quarter to a third of them, or 250,000, are thought to be on the GP learning disability register.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said all those with severe learning disabilities were \"very disadvantaged\" and should be reached out to - but he said including people with mild learning disabilities was not recommended because they were at no greater risk than someone else of the same age.\n\nSpeaking in front of a committee of MPs, he said he didn't want lots of families who might be concerned about their relative with a mild learning disability to start contacting GPs and \"overwhelming them\".\n\nHowever, Nicola Sturgeon announced that Scotland would prioritise all people with learning disabilities in group six on Monday. She said priority group six would be expanded to include those with mild or moderate learning disabilities.\n\nA report from Public Health England in November found that people with a learning disability were up to six times more likely to die from Covid-19 and, in the 18-34 age group, their risk was 30 times higher.\n\nThe charity Mencap said the announcement was \"fantastic news for people with a learning disability\".\n\n\"It's now crucially important that everyone with a learning disability checks that they are on the register and asks to go on it if they are not,\" said the charity's Jackie O'Sullivan.\n\n\"Being on the register has many benefits and entitles people to annual health checks and prioritisation for future vaccinations, as well as allowing them to get the Covid vaccine and be confident they are protected.\"\n\nHelen Whately, minister for care in England, said everyone who is on the GP's learning disability register would be invited for vaccination to protect those at higher risk from the virus.\n\n\"I have heard first-hand how tough this pandemic has been for people with learning disabilities and their families,\" she said.\n\n\"We are determined those more at risk from Covid should be vaccinated as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople flooded out of their homes after a mine blow-out are in \"limbo and need answers\".\n\nEighty people were evacuated from Skewen in Neath Port Talbot on 21 January and residents have been urged to stay away due to safety fears.\n\nSome people will not be able to return home for at least six months, the Coal Authority has said.\n\nResident Kelly Birch said there was no clear plan about what was happening and insurers had been unable to visit.\n\nMs Birch said she and her family had been able to move in with her parents but many of her neighbours were staying in hotels.\n\n\"It's been really difficult because our houses are still full of flood water, sludge and slurry,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"We haven't been able to get any insurers in to have a look.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen helped evacuate people from their homes\n\n\"The Coal Authority have advised a six-month window but we don't know if that is six months before we can get people to start working on our houses or if that is six months until we're actually able to go back and live there.\n\n\"So we're all in a bit of limbo at the moment, we're getting pieces of information but we're never really getting the full picture.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Another resident Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nShe said if it was not for their local councillor Mike Harvey they would \"not know anything at all\".\n\nMs Birch said they had just finished decorating their home after moving there 18 months ago.\n\nKelly Birch's husband Wayne took this photo of the damage in their home\n\n\"We literally just finished doing everything to that house in November,\" she said.\n\n\"Every single thing downstairs is ruined, there's nothing salvageable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One local saw a river of orange water rushing through the village\n\nShe said she feared their possessions upstairs were becoming damaged because the house was damp after the flooding.\n\n\"It is full of mud and we don't know when that's going to be cleaned out,\" she said.\n\nMany people had been unable to return to get belongings and some neighbours had been unable to get their cars so could not go to work, she said.\n\nA £6.5m support package is available to people affected by flooding - on top of payments of between £500 to £1,000 per household - to help with the \"immediate cost of water damage and replacing belongings\" from Welsh Government.\n\nThe Coal Authority said the \"blow out\" was caused by a blockage underground which led to the water breaking out to find the easiest path.\n\nThe water rushed through the streets of Skewen\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said work to cap the mine shaft would take three months but a new water management system will have to be built deep underground to divert the water, which will take at least six months.\n\nShe said the authority was looking at \"every option\" to get as many people as possible back in their homes as quickly and safely as possible.", "The bill was introduced to allow Suella Braverman to take leave rather than quit office\n\nThe government has agreed to change its bill allowing ministers to take maternity leave, so that it uses the term \"mother\" rather than \"person\".\n\nThe Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill would ensure up to six months' leave on full pay.\n\nBut the House of Lords rejected the use of the word \"person\" in its text.\n\nThe government initially argued this was in line with \"drafting convention\" but has changed its view, saying use of \"mother\" is legally \"acceptable\".\n\nThe bill was introduced in time for Attorney General Suella Braverman, who is expecting her second child, to take maternity leave this year.\n\nUnder existing laws, she would have to resign if she wanted to take time off following the birth.\n\nDuring a debate on Thursday, Cabinet Office minister Lord True said the government \"recognised the strength of feeling\" on the use of language in the bill and would change its mind.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has backed the legislation, adding that the change to pregnant minister's rights \"should have been brought in a long time ago\".\n\nAnd Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said: \"The choice between taking leave to recover from childbirth and care for a new-born child or resigning from office is not acceptable in modern times.\"\n\nThe Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill, already passed by the House of Commons, is expected to enter law soon.\n• None Law change to allow maternity leave for minister", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his side \"have to be more clinical\" despite seeing another dominant display sweep aside Borussia Monchengladbach for a 19th successive win.\n\nGuardiola's team - favourites to win their first Champions League title this season - were far too good for their meek last-16 opposition in Budapest, and perhaps should have added to the first-leg lead given to them by Bernardo Silva and Gabriel Jesus.\n\n\"In general, we controlled the game. Unfortunately we were not clinical enough up front,\" Guardiola told BT Sport.\n\n\"That is something we have to improve in this competition. Up front we have to be more clinical. In this competition you have to be perfect to make sure you go through.\"\n\nSilva headed in a wonderful cross from Joao Cancelo to open the scoring, before the same two players combined to lay on the second for Jesus.\n\nGladbach, appearing at this stage of the competition for the first time in 43 years, had no answer and would need something close to a sporting miracle to turn the tie around when the sides meet in Manchester on 16 March.\n\nHolders Bayern Munich may well have something to say about City being favourites for this year's competition - but their fellow German side were rendered voiceless in Hungary.\n\nGladbach, no doubt handicapped by not being allowed to play at home because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, barely laid a glove on Guardiola's side. They struggled to get out of their own penalty area at times, never mind into City's, as the visitors pressed mercilessly.\n\nOnly Bayern (18) scored more goals in this season's Champions League group stage than Gladbach (16) but such was City's monopoly of possession that goalkeeper Ederson made his sole save in stoppage time.\n\nIt is a pattern that is becoming the norm. Never mind conceding, City have only faced nine shots on their goal in four away games in Europe this season. Keep that up and even Bayern will struggle to knock them out.\n\nThe runaway Premier League leaders are playing football with such composure, quality and control that they are frequently serving up mismatches and that continued on the continental stage as they wrapped up a 12th away win in a row - a record for an English top-flight club.\n\nTheir first-half dominance was rewarded when Cancelo, playing more in central midfield than in his nominal role of left-back, clipped a fine cross from deep which Silva headed down and in.\n\nJesus should have made it two after the break but took too long to shoot when free in the area, but did then prod home when Silva headed back another fine Cancelo ball.\n\nKevin de Bruyne was left on the bench throughout and record goalscorer Sergio Aguero was introduced as a late substitute after missing 14 games - and 14 wins - to give City another boost.\n\nThey are yet to reach a Champions League final. Is this their year?\n\n\"When I see Bayern Munich I don't think we are favourites,\" Guardiola said. \"My target is West Ham in three days.\n\n\"If people say we are favourites we have to accept it, but a team who in their whole history has been a semi-final once? OK, they say it, we have to accept it.\"\n\n\"How strong was that Man City bench? Kevin de Bruyne, John Stones, Riyad Mahrez, Sergio Aguero - it's super strong.\n\n\"It can be Man City's year, this year, I think they could do the quadruple with the squad they've got at the moment - I think they have a great opportunity.\"\n• None Man City have progressed from all four of the previous Champions League two-legged knockout ties when they've won the first leg away from home.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has scored in all five of his Champions League appearances in the last 16 for Manchester City, netting at this stage in each of his last four seasons.\n• None Manchester City are the first team to keep a clean sheet in their first four away Champions League matches in a campaign since Manchester United did so in 2010-11.\n• None Manchester City's Phil Foden featured in the Champions League knockout stage for a fourth time before turning 21, only the third player to do so in the competition's history after Cesc Fabregas (2004-05 - 2007-08) and Theo Walcott (2006-07 - 2009-10), who both did so with Arsenal.\n• None Attempt saved. Hannes Wolf (Borussia Mönchengladbach) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Walker.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Hannes Wolf replaces Jonas Hofmann because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ferran Torres.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Florian Neuhaus. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "About 29 million people in the UK may be entitled to compensation of up to £30 each if a legal claim from watchdog Which? is successful.\n\nIt is suing chipmaker Qualcomm, claiming it breached UK competition law by taking advantage of its dominance in the patent licensing and chip markets.\n\nWhich? alleges that it charged inflated fees to manufacturers, which were then passed on to consumers in the form of higher smartphone prices.\n\nQualcomm said the case had \"no basis\".\n\n\"As the plaintiffs are well aware, their claims were effectively put to rest last summer by a unanimous panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nWhich? is seeking damages for all affected Apple and Samsung smartphones purchased since 1 October 2015.\n\nIt estimates individuals could be entitled to up to £30 compensation each, depending on the type of smartphone they bought.\n\nAnabel Hoult, chief executive of Which? said: \"We believe Qualcomm's practices are anti-competitive and have so far taken around £480m from consumers' pockets - this needs to stop.\n\n\"We are sending a clear warning that if companies like Qualcomm indulge in manipulative practices which harm consumers, Which? is prepared to take action.\"\n\nIt has filed its legal claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal, which will decide if it can go ahead.\n\nQualcomm has been a dominant player in the mobile chip industry\n\nQualcomm, one of the world's biggest producers of mobile phone chips, has faced a series of allegations about anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nIn 2018, the European Commission fined the firm €997m (£858m) for violating competition laws in a series of deals it made with Apple.\n\nAnd in 2019, it issued another €242m fine for abusing its dominant position in the 3G chipset market, following a four-year investigation.\n\nQualcomm is appealing against both findings.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission in the United States also sued the firm for unfair practices in the way it licensed its technology back in 2017, but had its case dismissed last year.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer\n\nWith A-Levels and GCSE exams cancelled, school pupils are heading into another year shrouded with uncertainty.\n\nSome students are questioning if their work \"has gone down the drain\" while others are relieved exams have been axed.\n\nOn Wednesday, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled exams.\n\nBBC News spoke to pupils following the news to get their views.\n\nGeorgia Fuge misses not seeing her friends \"every day just for a simple face to face chat\"\n\nGeorgia Fuge, 15, said while she was relieved her GCSE exams had been cancelled, she feels like her \"hard work has been wasted\".\n\n\"I think that ultimately this is the fairest decision for every person in my position,\" she said.\n\n\"However, to some extent, I feel like my hard work has been wasted somewhat, not only for the last two years but my whole school career.\n\n\"Even from primary school we are reminded that in the end it comes down to our GCSEs at the end of Year 11 and I almost feel like I haven't had a proper chance to prove myself.\"\n\nGeorgia, who attends independent Redmaids' High School in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, added that during such an \"uncertain\" year, the main part of school that she missed was not being able to see and support friends, particularly those whose who struggled through the first lockdown \"with not ideal family situations and deaths of close relatives\".\n\n\"Just seeing their faces in person is enough to tell me whether they're feeling all right that day and lockdown has had, and will have, a huge effect on that.\"\n\nDaisy Hodge is trying to do all her work to a \"higher standard\" just in case it goes towards her final grade\n\nDaisy Hodge, 15, who also attends Redmaids' High School in Bristol said: \"I was glad they were cancelled, but at the same time I thought considering I have been having online lessons all the way through, I've been put in quite a good position and I know that if I had done the exams I probably would have done well.\n\n\"I've put in all of this hard work and if I'm not going to get the grades to reflect that, has all my work just gone down the drain?\n\n\"I know a lot of people who would cram a couple months before their exams and I think those are the people who are most stressed at the moment because they have realised they have to do a lot more work now to get their grade up just in case.\n\nAden Harris said that after missing so much of the curriculum there would be whole sections of exams they would not be able to answer\n\nAden Harris, 15, from Fishponds, Bristol, is in year 11 at Winterbourne Academy. He was due to sit his GCSEs this summer.\n\n\"I feel anxious and relieved at the announcement,\" he said.\n\n\"We missed months and months last year along with weeks of self-isolation this year, and huge disruption with teachers having to self-isolate to the point where we missed such big gaps in the curriculum, that sitting any sort of exam just wouldn't work because there would be whole sections we couldn't answer.\"\n\nAden said it was \"inevitable\" that exams would be cancelled but \"it's a shame\" it took the government so long to make the decision.\n\nHe added the last year has been full of stress and anxiety felt by him and his friends.\n\n\"It's been really hard, we had those months at the start where you couldn't go anywhere and it was really isolating and really stressful,\" he said.\n\n\"We then had that brief period where we thought we might go back for a couple of weeks at the end which we didn't and not being able to do the normal things like going to parties or going to gigs, it was really not great for anybody's mental health at all.\"\n\nThe Department of Education said vocational exams would go ahead \"where schools and colleges judge it right to do so\"\n\nWhile GCSEs and A-Levels have been cancelled, vocational exams are still expected to go ahead this month in England.\n\nA-level student Jacob Tait, from Stroud, is campaigning for BTecs exams to be cancelled.\n\nThe politics, maths and chemistry student said while he was pleased his A-level exams had been cancelled, it was \"immoral\" for vocational exams to go ahead as normal.\n\n\"We'd like BTecs to be on the same footing as GCSEs and A-Levels,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just unfair because we've missed at least 12 weeks of teaching, that's about three months.\n\n\"In different areas of the country different schools have been in lockdown for different amounts of time and people in different socioeconomic backgrounds have had different access to equipment.\n\n\"We've had a really good response online and with signature lists and we will be sending letters to our MPs.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK will never meet its carbon targets unless homes are better insulated, ministers have been warned.\n\nThe Climate Change Committee (CCC) - an independent body which advises the UK government and devolved administrations - says the struggling Green Homes Grant must be rescued.\n\nThe scheme offers households up to £10,000 to insulate their property.\n\nBut many have not been able to apply because contractors were overwhelmed - and some contractors have not been paid for work done.\n\nThe Times has reported that the scheme might be axed in next week's Budget.\n\nBut CCC chief executive Chris Stark said he believed no decision to scrap it had yet been taken.\n\nHowever, it is clear the chancellor wants to claw back cash from an original £1.5bn budget, of which just £109m has been spent on the scheme, which currently has one more month to go.\n\nThe government says Rishi Sunak will divert the under-spend into Treasury coffers, rather than keeping it for insulation.\n\nThe CCC is urging him to ring-fence the money and invest it temporarily on other insulation projects, deemed to be doing well.\n\nMr Stark said: \"There's no escaping the fact that the UK won't hit its legally binding climate change targets unless buildings are much better insulated and low-carbon heat systems are installed.\"\n\nHe added that \"an attractive and efficient programme for insulating homes and promoting low-carbon heating\" was needed.\n\nThe CCC says the government needs to spend at least £2bn a year through to 2030 for badly insulated homes, with extra cash for developing low-carbon heating.\n\nThe total allocated budget for home decarbonisation is around £3bn a year currently, but the CCC estimates a further £3bn a year is required.\n\nSo what is gone wrong with the grant scheme?\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy blames the coronavirus pandemic, which it says has made many reluctant to welcome tradespeople into their homes.\n\nCritics say that is wrong - and that many insulation contractors have gone out of business following stop-start government incentive schemes.\n\nQuestions are also being asked about ICF, the US-based consultancy that won the contract to administer the scheme.\n\nI understand the government is bound by a contract to continue with the company.\n\nBut a group of trades unions has written to the chancellor complaining of what it calls damage from outsourcing.\n\nIts letter says: \"The obvious answer to administrative problems is to strengthen the Green Homes Grants scheme by bringing it under public sector management and using the experience and knowledge of local authorities.\n\n\"Instead, the rug is apparently to be pulled from under the scheme. This backtracking would call into question whether this government has any real commitment to a green recovery.\"\n\nGovernment sources say the Treasury imposed strict conditions on administrators because it was stung by malpractice in the Northern Ireland \"cash-for-ash\" scandal.\n\nA government spokeswoman said around 76,000 grant applications had been made, and more than 26,000 vouchers had been issued.\n\nCritics say this does not include the thousands of people who could not find a contractor.\n\nThe government spokeswoman said there were 938 registered installer companies registered.\n\nBut, out of 7,400 members of the Master Builders' Federation, only three had been accredited.", "The images were released following an investigation by two councils and Natural Resources Wales\n\nA fly-tipper who is understood to have used a vehicle with false plates to dump rubbish is being hunted.\n\nAn image of the suspect, who was captured on camera fly-tipping at sites in Cardiff and Newport, has been issued by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).\n\nNRW is working with the cities' councils in the bid to find the man who uses a white Transit tipper van.\n\nIt said the suspect had used the registration ND06 LWZ to illegally dump waste between September and October.\n\nAuthorities believe the suspect is likely to strike again\n\nNRW said the offences were committed on land next to the LG plant in Coedkernew, Newport, and on Lamby Way and Hendre Road in Cardiff.\n\n\"The person who repeatedly fly-tipped this waste clearly has little regard for the environment or the local communities and businesses who are left to face the problem,\" said Pamela Jordan, senior officer at Fly-Tipping Action Wales.\n\n\"From the behaviour we've seen, we strongly believe they are likely to do this again, if they haven't already, which is why we're so keen to track down the individual for questioning.\"\n\nShe added: \"Remember that as a householder, if you are paying someone to take away your waste you need to check that they are a registered waste carrier.\n\n\"If your waste is fly-tipped, and can be traced back to you, you could face an unlimited fine and prosecution.\"\n• None No fines despite fly-tipping complaints on rise\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nScotland's Six Nations match with France is unlikely to take place on the weekend of 6-7 March after a further Covid case in the home squad forced its postponement.\n\nThe game was due to be played on Sunday, despite 10 French players and some coaches testing positive, but it was announced an 11th player had the virus earlier on Thursday.\n\nIt had been expected the game would be pushed to the fallow week, but the whole France squad are now isolating and would not be available by then.\n\nOrganisers say a new date will be announced \"in due course\" and they are currently considering several options, including a midweek game in the week commencing 8 March, or the weekend of 27 March.\n\nHowever, if the game takes place outside World Rugby's international window, Scotland could be missing more than 10 players as they will have to return to their clubs in England and France.\n\nScotland head coach Gregor Townsend says he is disappointed but accepts the decision.\n\n\"We will wait to see what options are available to play,\" he said. \"But it remains our position that we want all our eligible players available so we can compete to the level we would have this weekend.\"\n\nScotland sit fourth in the Six Nations table, having followed their historic victory against England at Twickenham with a one-point home loss to Wales, while unbeaten France top the standings.\n\nFrance captain Charles Ollivon and star scrum-half Antoine Dupont are among those isolating after positive tests, along with head coach Fabien Galthie.\n\nGalthie and another staff member were the first to test positive on 16 February and the virus has spread through the camp since.\n\nDupont tested positive a few days later, followed by wing Gabin Villiere and prop Mohamed Haouas.\n\nArthur Vincent, Julien Marchand, Ollivon, Brice Dulin, Cyril Baille, Romain Taofifenua, Peato Mauvaka and one other unnamed player have since contracted the virus.\n\nFollowing this weekend's round of matches, the Six Nations is scheduled to take a two-week break before returning on 13 March.\n\nBoth sides will want the game played - analysis\n\nFor the credibility of the tournament, everybody wants to see it completed and it is a blow that Scotland against France will not go ahead this weekend.\n\nThe French media is saying it will potentially go ahead the week after France v Wales or on the end of the Top 14 season here, which is mid-June.\n\nWe are looking at late June-early July, but that obviously clashes with summer tours, like the Lions tour - there are loads of things in place.\n\nIt's not going to be easy and, if the sports minister has asked for an inquiry, as she has done, there is a reason behind it.\n\nIf it is the case that somebody has broken protocol, I could see a scenario where Scotland are gifted a 28-0 victory, but everybody wants to see the game going ahead.\n\nIf we want to get more blue players in that Lions squad, they need to be winning in Paris.\n• None James Nesbitt stars in thrilling drama where the past won't die\n• None Have we been conditioned into accepting the fake as reality?", "The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue its case of neglect against parents Glynn and Julie Seabridge\n\nAn eight-year-old Pembrokeshire boy died of scurvy, a coroner has ruled.\n\nDylan Mungo Seabridge, from Dolau, Eglwyswrw, died from the disease shortly after being taken to hospital on 6 December 2011.\n\nThe inquest in Milford Haven heard how he had been rushed to hospital after his father called 999 because Dylan had collapsed.\n\nPembrokeshire Coroner, Mark Layton, recorded an open conclusion at the inquest in Milford Haven.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue its case of neglect against his parents Glynn, 47, and Julie, 46.\n\nThey were not present at the hearing.\n\nThe inquest into Dylan Seabridge's death was held in Milford Haven today\n\nThe inquest was told when ambulance crews arrived Dylan was unconscious and was not breathing and had bruising to his ankle and knee along with swollen legs.\n\nHe went into cardiac arrest at hospital but doctors were unable to save him.\n\nThe inquest heard how neither of his parents had sought medical attention for Dylan because they believed he was merely suffering from growing pains, for which they gave him painkillers.\n\nHome Office pathologist Dr Deryck Simon James, who carried out the post mortem examination, concluded that Dylan's death was due to a vitamin C deficiency, commonly known as scurvy.\n\nKatie Hanson, representing the Seabridges, told the inquest that Professor Joris Dlanghe, a specialist from Belgium, questioned those findings.\n\nShe told the inquest that Professor Dlanghe was of the opinion that other deficiencies such as folic acid would have been present too, but were not.\n\n\"The parents don't accept that Dylan died of scurvy,\" she said.\n\nPembrokeshire Coroner, Mark Layton, told the inquest that Dylan's death \"was subject to an in-depth criminal investigation\" and therefore he had to come to an open conclusion.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland succumbed to a 10-wicket defeat against India inside two days of an astonishing third Test in Ahmedabad.\n\nOn a scarcely believable day when both sides collapsed and 17 wickets fell in two sessions, India completed the quickest Test win since 1935 not long into the final session.\n\nEngland began the day with a thrilling fightback, turning India's overnight 99-3 into 145 all out.\n\nBut, faced with a first-innings deficit of 33, England were bowled out for 81 as India's spinners ran riot once again.\n\nIn a frenzied start to their second innings, England lost Zak Crawley and Jonny Bairstow within three balls - both bowled by Axar Patel.\n\nBen Stokes and Joe Root briefly calmed the raucous atmosphere but their dismissals in consecutive overs sparked a sorry procession to England's lowest Test total in India.\n\nSpinners were responsible for every wicket to fall on the day - and 28 of the 30 in the match - Joe Root taking 5-8 in the first session, Axar 5-32 and Ravichandran Ashwin 4-48, including his 400th Test scalp.\n\nIndia cruised to their target of 49 inside eight overs, an incredible game wrapped up before the floodlit conditions of a day-night Test could have an impact.\n\nVictory gave India, who lost the first Test, an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series with one match to play and ended England's hopes of qualifying for the World Test Championship final this summer.\n• None 'Should we applaud a 10-run partnership?' From hope to despair for England fans\n• None 'It was a slight misread' - Root on England picking one spinner\n\nIf the first day of this Test was remarkable - England bowled out for 112 despite winning the toss - the second was one of the most incredible in recent memory.\n\nNeither side got to grips with a turning pitch, at least not until India's chase when England were demoralised after their second collapse of the game.\n\nThe 17 wickets fell in 53 overs for the loss of 127 runs, the match over with almost 30 overs remaining on the second day.\n\nThe fact Root, a part-time off-spinner, claimed such extraordinary figures showed the difficulties faced by batsmen. The spinners found extravagant turn but wickets often fell to deliveries that skidded on.\n\nAlthough England's fightback brought them back into the contest, the skill and relentless accuracy of Axar and Ashwin proved too much for a side that also collapsed twice in the second-Test defeat.\n\nHad England mustered another 100 runs India would have had a difficult chase.\n\nInstead, under little pressure, Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma cantered to victory in one-day mode to the delight of the crowd in the world's largest cricket stadium.\n• None Tuffers & Vaughan podcast: 'Like watching an Eastenders Christmas special - too much going on'\n• None England lasted 476 balls across two innings - the fifth fewest in their Test history.\n• None England scored less than 200 runs in the game for only the seventh time, and the third since 1904.\n• None It is the eighth two-day Test since World War Two and England's first defeat inside two days since 1921.\n\nHaving wasted winning the toss on day one, England's fightback with the ball gave them a route back into the contest.\n\nJack Leach, who removed India captain Virat Kohli in the final over on Wednesday, struck twice early on day two, bowling Ajinkya Rahane as he tried to cut trapping a sweeping Rohit Sharma lbw for 66.\n\nRoot then ran through the lower middle order.\n\nRishabh Pant was caught behind off Root's first ball before Washington Sundar and Axar fell in the space of three balls to give the England captain figures of 3-0.\n\nWhile it was Root's first five-wicket haul in Tests, it only added the questions over England's choice to pick one frontline spinner in Leach - a view compounded when Root opened the bowling in the fourth innings.\n\nIndia collapsed from 114-3 to 145 as Leach finished with 4-48, but an impressive bowling performance was soon to be wasted by England's batsmen.\n\nEngland's first showing with the bat put them in a difficult position. The second was feeble and confirmed their fate.\n\nHaving seen Crawley bowled first ball, Bairstow attempted to sweep his first delivery and was given out lbw. Although he overturned the decision on review, he was bowled next ball to complete a pair on his return to the side.\n\nAfter Dom Sibley was caught behind attempting a leg-side heave at Axar, Root and Stokes batted positively in exceptionally difficult conditions but a wicket never felt far away.\n\nRoot had already survived a tight review when he was leg before for 19 pushing forward to Axar, and Stokes fell in similar fashion to Ashwin for 25.\n\nAshwin has now dismissed Stokes 11 times in Tests and, once he fell, the result seemed inevitable.\n\nAshwin tormented Ollie Pope before bowling him for 12, then had Jofra Archer lbw as he swiped across the line to give him his 400th Test wicket. Playing his 77nd Test, Ashwin is the second quickest bowler to reach the landmark, after Sri Lanka legend Muttiah Muralitharan's 72.\n\nA series that started so strongly with the bat - England scored 578 in the first innings of the first Test - is teetering on the brink of disarray.\n\nDefeat does not 'define' England - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We're bitterly disappointed. We don't define ourselves on a performance like that. It was a very challenging surface.\n\n\"We missed an opportunity, more in the first innings than anything. If we'd got 200, that would have been a very good score on that wicket and the game would have looked completely different.\"\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli: \"The result went our way but the quality of batting wasn't at all up to standard by both teams. We were 100-3 and hoping to get more than we needed. There was a lack of application from both sides.\"\n\nIndia spinner Ravichandran Ashwin: \"It felt amazing when the board was flashing 400 wickets and the crowd were clapping for me.\n\n\"When we collapsed I thought the game could be in the balance, but Axar Patel pulled it back for us and it was a good performance in the third innings.\"\n\nEngland bowler Steven Finn: \"England are going to have to look at their team selection. I'll be amazed if we don't see a different balance for the last Test.\n\n\"But the most important thing is doing your best to draw a line under this game now. They still have an opportunity to draw the series and it is only two Test matches ago that they produced one of the most complete performances by an England team in the sub-continent for a long time.\"\n• None James Nesbitt stars in thrilling drama where the past won't die\n• None Have we been conditioned into accepting the fake as reality?", "Lord Coe's throat condition was eventually diagnosed thanks to a Radio 4 listener\n\nSebastian Coe is receiving treatment for a problem with his vocal cords after a Radio 4 listener contacted the station to express concern over his \"gravelly\" voice.\n\nLord Coe, the president of World Athletics, had been speaking to the Today programme's Garry Richardson about the delayed Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThe interview prompted an email from a retired GP, which led to Lord Coe seeing an ear, nose and throat doctor.\n\nHe said it was an \"act of kindness\".\n\nOn hearing the interview in December, the retired doctor emailed the programme immediately, and said: \"If he or especially family and friends feel his voice has altered over any time, more than three to four weeks, he should see his GP for an ENT referral so that a specialist can look at his vocal cords, to make sure there are no significant or alarming changes.\"\n\nHer comments were passed straight to Lord Coe, who said he was \"slightly perturbed\".\n\nHe visited specialist Peter Valentine, from Guildford, in Surrey.\n\n\"It was obvious when he spoke to me for the first time that he had an issue with his voice, in the sense that it was rough and gravelly,\" Mr Valentine said.\n\n\"What I was able to do was examine Seb using a nasendoscope, which is a small flexible optic fibre that we pass through the nasal passages to go to the back of the throat.\"\n\nMr Valentine discovered a throat condition which is now being treated with speech therapy.\n\nLord Coe said: \"It's almost like being back in training because you're sort of working on muscularity, and all sorts of things and learning to breathe properly and through your diaphragm.\"\n\nHe warned other people to speak to a doctor if they find \"alarming symptoms\".\n\n\"Don't be stoic and brave and not say anything about it,\" he 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.", "Ikea will soon be selling pre-used versions of some of its best sellers\n\nIf you started lockdown last year putting together a work-from-home desk, don't throw away the Allen key yet.\n\nIkea UK is planning to launch its promised \"Buy Back\" venture shortly after retail reopens, giving you the chance to return used items if you're heading back to the office.\n\nThe start of the scheme was postponed in November due to the pandemic.\n\nFinancial results for last year also show UK sales and profits fell sharply after Ikea stores closed in March.\n\nSome lost custom was made up for with an expanded online service as people scrambled to refurbish their homes and gardens during lockdown.\n\nBut overall revenues fell 10% in the year running from September 2019 to August 2020 and the business made a loss of £32.7m.\n\nCustomers showed particular interest in sound absorbers and speakers, garden furniture, artificial plants and chairs and desks designed for gaming, Ikea said.\n\nEnthusiasm for Netflix series Tiger King prompted purchases of animal-themed wall art and sheepskin rugs, the firm added.\n\nOverall online sales were 31% higher than the previous year.\n\nBut the firm had to pause plans to start buying and selling second-hand items, postponing the scheme's November launch.\n\n\"Last year, Ikea was piloting Buy Back in our Edinburgh and Glasgow stores to explore how we support our customers to lead more sustainable lives, step by step,\" said Hege Saebjornsen, country sustainability manager for Ikea UK and Ireland.\n\n\"Irrespective of the trial being shorter than planned due to store closures, we believe strongly in the idea and moreover, believe that providing customers with more convenient ways to give their products a second life is the right thing to do.\"\n\nHe said Buy Back would launch as soon as possible after restrictions on non-essential shops were lifted, which the government has said will be some time after 12 April in England. In Scotland Ikea stores could open after 26 April. In Wales some non-essential retail may start to reopen from 15 March. Northern Ireland has not yet published a roadmap for reopening.\n\nThe Buy Back scheme offers customers cashback vouchers for a range of second-hand Ikea items including bookcases, tables, chairs and chests of drawers. Upholstered items will not be included.\n\nThe start of Ikea's \"Buy Back\" scheme in the UK was postponed in November due to the pandemic\n\nThe venture represented a \"brave\" move, said Lucie Middlemiss, associate professor in sustainability at the University of Leeds.\n\n\"I can't imagine it generating a lot of profit,\" she said. While the number of Ikea items available for resale on platforms like eBay suggested there was a market for things like Billy bookcases and desks, it wasn't clear whether customers would be willing to take the trouble of transporting the items to stores.\n\nThe items must be presented assembled, Ikea said. For larger items that could involve disassembling and flat-packing them to fit into the back of a car, before some quick work with an Allen key in the Ikea car park.\n\nIkea deserved credit for innovating in this area said Ms Middlemiss, but offering things like replacement sofa covers, which Ikea already does, probably did more to avoid \"fast furniture\", which like \"fast fashion\" encourages customers to update their styles on a regular basis, rather than keeping items for longer.\n\nIkea has already launched Buy Back schemes in 27 countries. In Australia, where it has operated for more than a year, more than 10,000 items have been returned.\n\nIkea has introduced further measures to improve its green credentials from using more sustainable wood and switching to renewable energy to adding plant-based balls alongside meatballs on its canteen menus.", "Nicola Sturgeon has denied allegations that the name of a woman who complained about Alex Salmond was passed to him during a government investigation.\n\nMr Salmond claims to have been told the name of a complainer when a meeting with Ms Sturgeon was being set up.\n\nLabour MSP Jackie Baillie said this was \"beyond belief\" and an \"extraordinary breach of confidentiality\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she did not accept Mr Salmond's account and said opposition MSPs had taken his claims \"as gospel\".\n\nThe first minister said the claims of a conspiracy against her predecessor were \"deeply unfair to the women involved\" and to \"the efforts to create a culture in Scotland where women feel they can come forward with complaints\".\n\nMr Salmond is expected to give evidence to a Holyrood inquiry into the government's handling of complaints against him on Friday, with Ms Sturgeon to follow next Wednesday.\n\nMr Salmond has made accusations of a \"malicious and concerted\" attempt to remove him from public life, taking aim at Ms Sturgeon, her government and the party he once led, the SNP.\n\nThe first minister has rejected the claims, saying there is \"not a shred of evidence\" that there was a conspiracy.\n\nAt her weekly question session at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon was challenged by opposition leaders about Mr Salmond's claims and whether her government had engaged in a \"cover-up\".\n\nMs Baillie - a member of the Holyrood inquiry committee - said the probe was at its heart about two women who had been failed by the government, after it admitted its investigation of their complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nAnd she said that \"astonishingly\", the name of one of the women involved had been passed to Mr Salmond while a meeting with Ms Sturgeon was being arranged.\n\nShe said the identity of the woman had been revealed to Geoff Aberdein - Mr Salmond's former chief of staff - and was then conveyed on to him.\n\nMs Baillie said this was an \"extraordinary breach of confidentiality\" and a \"fundamental breakdown of trust\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied: \"Jackie Baillie is accepting at face value Alex Salmond's account of all of this. I do not accept his account of much of this, which is why when I sit before the committee I will go through in detail what happened and what did not happen, and I think that is the right and proper way of proceeding.\n\n\"Accepting at face value the conspiracy theories and the account of the man that women accused of harassing them seems to me to be quite a strange way of standing up for and supporting those women.\"\n\nPressed by Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie on whether the name was passed on, Ms Sturgeon said: \"To the very best of my knowledge I do not think that happened.\"\n\nAlex Salmond is expected to give evidence to the committee on Friday\n\nThe breach is alleged to have occurred while arrangements were made for a meeting between Ms Sturgeon and Mr Salmond at the first minister's Glasgow home in April 2018.\n\nMs Sturgeon says this meeting was the first time she learned of the complaints, but has accepted that it was set up via a meeting with Mr Aberdein at her Scottish Parliament office on 29 March.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the truth was that Ms Sturgeon had known about the allegations prior to April 2018, and that this had been \"exposed\" by submissions made to the inquiry by Mr Salmond.\n\nParts of these submissions were later deleted after the Crown Office raised \"grave concerns\" about their contents, and Ms Davidson asked if Ms Sturgeon could \"understand why this looks to the public like a cover-up, when the exact evidence being redacted is the most damaging to her personally\".\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that there was no cover-up, pointing out that she had referred to the meetings in her own written evidence submitted in August 2020.\n\nShe said: \"Scrutiny of me is important and necessary and legitimate.\n\n\"What is not legitimate is to pursue a conspiracy theory and a scorched earth approach that threatens the reputation and integrity of Scotland's independent judiciary, just because you don't like this government - and to sacrifice all that, if I may say, on the ego of one man.\"\n\nThe first minister also said the deletions made to submissions would not affect what questions could be asked of her.\n\nAnd she added: \"All of Alex Salmond's allegations and claims about me are in the public domain and have been widely reported.\n\n\"I have always fully expected to be questioned in detail about all of those allegations when I appear next week - there is nothing in terms of publication or non-publication that has ever led me to expect anything else.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme SNP MSP Alex Neil said Mr Salmond did believe \"a number of people\" had been involved with \"conspiring against him and stitching him up\".\n\nHe is an ally of Mr Salmond and has previously said he would welcome the former first minister returning to Holyrood.\n\nMr Neil also said: \"I think Alex believes after he lost his Westminster seat there was a possibility of a by-election in Scotland in his neck of the woods and he believes some people were frightened of him coming back in, which he says he had no intention of doing anyway.\n\n\"I think the SNP leadership has got to try and put a lid on this.\n\n\"If it was proven there was a conspiracy - everybody involved in the conspiracy, I think, would be getting their jotters.\"", "Sarah McDonald says the assault has been a 'wake-up call' about runners' safety\n\nAn athlete who competes for Great Britain says she has been left in a \"state of shock\" after being assaulted at a canalside while training for the Olympics.\n\nMiddle-distance runner Sarah McDonald had her backside grabbed by a man on a moped while warming up in Birmingham.\n\nThe 27-year-old said she had received an \"overwhelming response\" to sharing the experience on social media.\n\nShe added she would be reporting the matter to police.\n\nMs McDonald, who has represented her country at World and European Championships level, was out with a training partner when the assault occurred on Wednesday.\n\nShe said in preparation for the 1,500m at the Tokyo Olympics, she had been using a quiet stretch of canal to train \"most days\" during lockdowns.\n\n\"I think it's quite common to have things shouted at you and catcalls, but I didn't think twice about those,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBut things took a turn shortly after her training partner shouted to \"watch out for a bike\".\n\nMs McDonald said: \"I stepped to the left. I wasn't even looking, but the [moped] slowed down and the man on the back grabbed my bum before zooming off into the distance.\"\n\nShe added: \"If I'd gone to the right-hand-side, I hate to think - they might have pushed me into the canal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah McDonald This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 McDonald's tweet highlighting the incident prompted other women to share stories of harassment and assault while out running.\n\n\"I normally don't speak out about these things, but on this occasion I had to make an exception and have been overwhelmed by the response,\" she said.\n\nA number of Welsh female sprinters have recently reported being verbally abused by strangers as they trained in public rather than at athletics tracks during Covid restrictions.\n\n[Until the incident] I'd have felt comfortable being on my own,\" said Ms McDonald who added: \"This has been a wake-up call - be vigilant and look after each other.\"\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.", "No child should have their prospects \"blighted by the pandemic\", the education secretary has said.\n\nGavin Williamson was speaking at a Downing Street briefing as he set out £700m in funding to help pupils in England catch up on missed learning.\n\nAsked about what would replace exam grades this year, he said they were \"putting trust\" in teachers.\n\nIt comes as the number of people to receive one dose of the vaccine in the UK surpassed 18 million.\n\nA further 9,938 coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Wednesday, as well as 442 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to government figures. It takes the death toll by that measure to 121,747.\n\nLabour said the government should put forward a \"long-term plan... not just a quick fix over the summer\".\n\nThe government has confirmed that all schools will open from 8 March, as part of the first step of a roadmap for easing England's lockdown.\n\nAs part of the latest announcements, schools will have the option to run summer classes for pupils who need it most, potentially starting with those who will be moving up to Year 7 at secondary school this year.\n\nThe government says it will be up to schools to decide how and if they run summer schools, how long they will be, and which pupils will be invited to attend.\n\nMr Williamson said the funding announcements were about offering \"immediate\" support for children and schools.\n\nBut the education secretary said many children would need longer term support, and \"extensive work\" was under way on plans for that.\n\nHe said: \"We're going to make sure we do everything can do to make sure children reach their potential - while looking at all issues - and we're not going to be timid in aspirations for them and the actions we need to take.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The education secretary said the wearing of face masks will be reviewed at Easter\n\nHe also reiterated that there would be \"no algorithms whatsoever\" used in determining A-level, AS and GCSE grades, with marks \"firmly in the hands of teachers\".\n\nIt has already been announced that exams will not take place.\n\nThe minister said there would be a \"clear and robust\" appeals mechanism for students who are unhappy with their results.\n\nFurther details on how students in England will be graded this year will be set out on Thursday.\n\nThe challenge for the education secretary is to keep sounding as though he has a new plan for what everyone can see is a massive problem with no obvious easy answers.\n\nChildren have missed a huge amount of school and exams have been cancelled for two years running.\n\nThe latest announcement on catch-up has an extra £400m, but it's focused on a familiar check list - summer schools, tuition, after-school activities, much of which happens anyway and with schools deciding how it will be spent.\n\nGavin Williamson told Wednesday's press conference that the government was \"not going to be timid\", but the reports about radical plans such as longer school days and shorter holidays seem to have fizzled away.\n\nThe unshowy and highly-experienced school recovery tsar, Sir Kevan Collins, will be more interested in long-term results than show-boating headlines.\n\nThe education secretary ran through the plans for pupils going back to school - from 8 March with testing and masks - and that date offers families some certainty.\n\nAlthough university students must think they are being kept in an expensive limbo, with no date yet set for when many of them can return.\n\nThe education secretary also defended the requirement for pupils in secondary schools to wear face masks in classrooms.\n\nHe said it was a \"temporary\" measure that would be reviewed over the Easter break.\n\nAsked if the government was looking at lengthening the school day in the future, Mr Williamson said it was not part of the immediate plans announced, but it could be something considered as part of a wider consultation being led by education recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins into the longer term support and change needed within schools following the pandemic.\n\nThis week, the government announced that secondary school and college students in England will be asked to take regular coronavirus tests at home when they return to school next month.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer for England Jenny Harries said more testing in secondary schools would mean that parents, teachers and grandparents could be reassured that schools would be as safe as they could be.\n\nThese measures would have a positive impact on breaking the chains of transmission, she said.\n\nBut she warned that \"children should not go hugging grandparents too much\" before the the impact of the vaccine rollout was felt.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Kate Green, said the impact of lost learning for children was now \"baked in\" and she was sceptical about whether the catch-up tutoring programme would reach many of the children who needed it most.\n\nShe also said there needed to be a \"really robust moderation process to make sure that children are treated fairly... a robust appeals process\" and time for schools and exam boards to assess pupils and standardise results.\n\nIn Scotland, younger primary pupils have gone back to school, along with some exam year students in secondary schools. A wider reopening has yet to be decided.\n\nIn Wales, younger primary years also returned on Monday - with older primary pupils set to go back on 15 March if Covid levels continue to fall.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, younger primary pupils will return to classrooms on 8 March.\n\nLast year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a £1bn catch-up fund for England, and later appointed Sir Kevan as education recovery commissioner.\n\nIn Scotland, the administration has promised £140m in funding to help disadvantaged pupils. Tens of millions of pounds have also been put into catch-up schemes in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe announcement comes as the Treasury has said its levelling-up fund will be extended to the whole of the UK to \"help boost growth\" in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Labour's support for keeping the UK's nuclear weapons is \"non-negotiable,\" the shadow defence secretary has said.\n\nBut in a speech, John Healey also promised to \"lead efforts to secure multilateral disarmament\" if the party wins power.\n\nLabour dropped its policy of unilaterally getting rid of the UK's nuclear weapons after then-leader Neil Kinnock lost the 1987 general election.\n\nMany on the party's left remain vehemently opposed to that decision.\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - a long-time opponent of the UK's Trident submarine-based missile system and a vice president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) - said in 2015 that he would never use it if he became prime minister.\n\nYet maintaining nuclear weapons remained a pledge in the party's 2019 election manifesto.\n\nIn a speech to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Mr Healey emphasised that the party leadership under Sir Keir Starmer is far clearer in its backing of this than Mr Corbyn was.\n\n\"Labour's support for the UK's nuclear deterrent is non-negotiable. The matter is settled,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Labour wanted to see the UK \"doing more to lead efforts to secure strategic arms limitation and multilateral disarmament\".\n\nMr Healey also said the party's commitment to the NATO military alliance - which Mr Corbyn said in 2012 should be disbanded, but later argued should focus on reducing \"tensions around the world\" - is \"unshakeable\".\n\nThis isn't a change in policy, but it's a distinct change in tone.\n\nLabour wants to make sure it gets a serious hearing on defence.\n\nIt knows that it needs its own position to be clear to be able to most effectively challenge the government's decisions (which is particularly important with the Integrated Review due soon).\n\nThat means definitively answering some of the questions which have been raised over recent years, especially around NATO and nuclear weapons.\n\nKeeping Britain's nuclear weapons system has always been a divisive issue within Labour, but it is party policy.\n\nThat didn't change under Jeremy Corbyn, but his lifelong personal opposition to nuclear weapons - and his statement in 2015 that he would never use them - allowed Labour's commitment to be questioned.\n\nStating that it is \"non-negotiable\" ends that speculation, although it is unlikely to go down well with everyone in the party.\n\nThe government launched its Integrated Review last year, looking at the UK's long-term foreign policy and defence priorities.\n\nMr Healey said the review should \"refocus our defence efforts on where the threats are, not where the business opportunities might be\".\n\nHe also called for the review - which ministers have promised this month - to be published now, to end \"confusion and speculation\" about its contents.\n\nHe added that unless the review confirmed a reduction in potential threats to the UK, it would be \"very hard to accept the case for reducing the strength of our full-time forces\".\n\nAnd he also urged the government to \"set a higher bar\" when deciding to buy military equipment from abroad.\n\nResponding to Mr Healey's speech, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament accused Labour's leadership of being \"stuck in a 20th Century rut\".\n\nIts general secretary Kate Hudson said the UK today was facing \"new and different threats,\" including climate change, pandemics, artificial intelligence and cyber warfare.\n\n\"This is where investment urgently needs to go, not on massively expensive nuclear weapons,\" she added.\n\n\"Labour has to stop pandering to an old agenda and give the people the sensible, forward-looking thinking that today's reality demands.\"\n\nThe government has promised an increase in spending on defence of 2.6% above the rate of inflation between 2019/20 and 2020/21.\n\nIt expects the overall figure to rise to £41.5bn during this time.\n\nMargaret Thatcher's Conservative government first acquired Trident - using submarines to carry up to eight missiles each - in the early 1980s, replacing the previous Polaris system.\n\nOpponents say the maintenance and update costs - running into billions of pounds - are excessive and that the deterrent effect of such weapons is questionable, and that is not truly independent as it relies on US technology.\n\nBut supporters argue that there is no alternative, and that Russia and China already have nuclear missiles, with several others attempting to develop them.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has described Trident as \"vital\" to protecting the UK.", "Almost half of people with potential cancer symptoms did not contact their GP during the first wave of the pandemic, a survey suggests.\n\nSymptoms left unchecked included coughing up blood, lumps and changes to the appearance of moles.\n\nNHS figures showed a fall in referrals to cancer services last spring.\n\nBut this study, of almost 8,000 people, captures the fall in people contacting their GP in the first place.\n\nThe team that carried out the study, from Cardiff University and Cancer Research UK, said this raised concerns that people could be diagnosed later - and so be less likely to be treated successfully and recover.\n\nThey surveyed a representative sample of people across the UK recruited from two panels - HealthWise Wales and Cancer Research UK's Cancer Awareness Measure - between March and August 2020.\n\nThe team found that of the 3,025 people who said they had experienced at least one symptom which could be a warning sign of cancer, 45% did not seek help.\n\nSome of the reasons given by people who did not contact their GP were not wanting to waste doctors' time or put extra strain on the NHS; not wanting to be seen as someone who made a fuss; and fear of catching Covid at appointments.\n\nBut people who did contact their GP reported feeling \"safe\" and \"secure\" when attending face-to-face appointments.\n\nWhile the first lockdown saw NHS services significantly reduced, this was not as true during the second wave of the UK's epidemic.\n\nThe Cardiff and Cancer Research team plan to run another round of the survey to see whether people's likelihood to contact their GP changed in the later part of 2020.\n\nMatt Black was worried about being a drain on the NHS during Covid's first wave\n\nMatt Black, 55, went to his GP after persuasion from his wife. He had been experiencing flu-like symptoms, stomach problems and unexplained weight loss but believed his symptoms were linked to Covid-19.\n\nIt was only after visiting the Royal Free Hospital in north London, having lost more than 10kg (22lb) in weeks, that a tumour 9cm (3.5in) long was discovered in his bowel.\n\nMr Black said Covid had \"delayed\" his decision to seek help, since he was \"worried about being a drain on resources\".\n\nHe added that \"there was so much confusion about what Covid symptoms were at that time\" that he assumed what he was experiencing must be related to the virus.\n\nMr Black wanted to send a message to others to not \"just think it will go away - if you've got a problem, a symptom, get it checked out\".\n\nMonths on and he said he felt like the \"luckiest guy in the world...I'm running, I'm walking, I'm working\".\n\nProf Kate Brain, who led the study, said she was concerned that the message during the first lockdown, to protect the NHS, might have left the public might thinking \"cancer can wait\".\n\nIn the first months of the pandemic, people were broadly discouraged from using health services, and many screening services were shut down.\n\nBut from last summer onwards, and during the second wave of infections, huge efforts were put into keeping NHS services running.\n\nPeople were encouraged to come forward with any health concerns, especially symptoms which could be cancer-related.\n\nWhile it's been well-reported that cancer screenings and referrals for treatment have fallen, Prof Brain said this was the first population study to assess people's \"attitude and behaviour towards cancer symptoms and screening\".\n\nThe message to the public was that \"the NHS is open safely,\" Prof Brain said.\n\nAnd she called for a concerted national campaign to encourage people to contact their GPs with urgent issues.", "Gaga is often accompanied by her dogs at award shows and film premieres\n\nTwo of Lady Gaga's French bulldogs were stolen on Wednesday night, after a gunman shot her dog-walker in Hollywood, Los Angeles.\n\nA male suspect fired a semi-automatic handgun at the dog walker, named in US media reports as Ryan Fischer, before making off with the dogs.\n\nThe victim was transported to hospital in an unknown condition, Los Angeles Police confirmed to the BBC.\n\nLady Gaga has offered a reward for the return of her dogs, Koji and Gustav.\n\nA third bulldog, named Miss Asia ran away and was later recovered by police.\n\nGaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, is currently in Rome working on a new Ridley Scott film, Gucci.\n\nShe is said to be offering $500,000 to anyone who can return the dogs.\n\nHer press representative said anyone with information on their whereabouts can email KojiandGustav@gmail.com.\n\nIt is not known whether Lady Gaga's pets were targeted because of her celebrity status, or whether it was a chance - or planned - attack, because of the breed of dog involved.\n\nThis is not an isolated incident involving French bulldogs. There have been several cases, around the United States, sometimes involving violent assaults on their owners, where the animals have been stolen.\n\nIn January, a woman in San Francisco was attacked at gunpoint by three men who escaped with her five-month-old puppy.\n\nFrench bulldogs are hugely popular and in much demand, but they are notoriously difficult to breed. They require artificial insemination and the physical characteristics of the dog - a large head and shoulders - mean they usually have to be delivered by Caesarean section.\n\nThe breeding costs explain the price tag of a puppy, which can range from $2,000-$10,000.\n\nLos Angeles Police Department confirmed that they are searching for a man who \"fired a gunshot from an unknown location and struck the victim\" on North Sierra Bonita Avenue at 21:40 on Wednesday.\n\nA \"possible suspect\" fled the scene in a white vehicle towards Hollywood Boulevard, they added.\n\nIt is not clear whether Lady Gaga's dogs were specifically targeted in the attack.\n\nGaga is known to be extremely protective of her dogs, who have accompanied her to the American Music Awards and her 2017 Super Bowl Halftime show.\n\nMiss Asia even has an official Instagram account.\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. An organised crime expert on the rising number of dog thefts in the UK\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Green Man is one of Wales' largest music festivals\n\nThe organisers of Green Man - one of Wales' largest music festivals - say they hope the event will go ahead this summer if Covid restrictions are eased.\n\nFestivals and gigs were cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOrganisers of Green Man said they were \"planning away\" after the Welsh Government suggested dates for some restrictions to be eased.\n\nOrganisers tweeted: \"We cannot wait to be together in the Welsh mountains again\".\n\nThe festival, held in the Brecon Beacons, tweeted the announcement shortly after organisers of Reading and Leeds festivals said they were \"very confident\" they would go ahead.\n\nIn Wales people are currently only able to leave their home for essential reasons, under stay at home lockdown rules in force since before Christmas.\n\nMass gatherings - including festivals and gigs - have been banned in Wales since the first lockdown began in March, with people fined for attending illegal raves.\n\nWhile ministers in Wales previously said some tourism might be able to reopen at Easter if cases continued to fall, no date has been suggested for concerts, festivals and other events to resume.\n\nTourism businesses in Wales have called for clarity to help them prepare for any decision to allow hotels, caravan parks, and holiday parks to reopen.\n\nIn England the UK Government is aiming to lift all restrictions on daily life by 21 June.\n\nOn Thursday the organisers of Green Man, held annually near Crickhowell, Powys, said things were \"looking a whole lot more positive\".\n\n\"We'll be following Wales' route out of lockdown so the guidance might look somewhat different to England, but we're planning away,\" they tweeted.\n\n\"Tickets and line-up will be landing in the next couple of months.\n\n\"A massive cheers to all of you folk for your support, we cannot wait to be together in the Welsh mountains again.\"", "Actor Ronald Pickup, who is best known for his roles in the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films and The Crown, has died aged 80.\n\nHis agent said he \"passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family. He will be deeply missed\".\n\nThe actor, who died on Wednesday, was the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2016's The Crown and played Neville Chamberlain in 2017 film Darkest Hour.\n\nHe worked in theatre, film and TV.\n\nPickup's career break came in 1964 with a role as a physician in Doctor Who episode The Tyrant Of France.\n\nPickup [centre] was in the National Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing\n\nIn 1967 he played Don John in a BBC studio recording of Franco Zeffirelli's famous production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.\n\nHe also starred in the films The Mission and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and played Norman Cousins in the Marigold Hotel films in 2011 and 2015, which also starred Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.\n\nHis extensive television work included a 2015 episode of Downton Abbey and 2014's Call the Midwife Christmas special. He also made appearances in shows including Vera, Coronation Street, Doc Martin, Parade's End, Holby City, The Bill and Silent Witness.\n\nPickup told the PA news agency in 2012 that his favourite role was playing the writer George Orwell in TV movie Crystal Spirit: Orwell On Jura, which told the story of him writing his acclaimed novel 1984.\n\nLast year he starred in horror film End Of Term, which starred former Doctor Who actor Peter Davison.\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. Tiger Woods suffered serious injuries in the crash\n\nTiger Woods will not face any criminal charges following the single-car crash he was involved in on Tuesday that left him with serious injuries.\n\nThe US golfing champion was driving alone on a Los Angeles downhill stretch of road known for crashes.\n\nHis SUV hit the central reservation, crossed into the opposite lane, rolled over several times and then plunged off the road and down an embankment.\n\nHe is recovering after surgery to his fractured leg and shattered ankle.\n\n\"A reckless driving charge has a lot of elements into it, this is purely an accident,\" Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters.\n\nThere no evidence Woods was impaired by drugs or alcohol, he added.\n\n\"He was not drunk,\" he said on Wednesday. \"We can throw that one out.\"\n\nHe added the most Woods could face would be a low-level offence known as an infraction if investigators concluded that he was speeding or not paying attention, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nWoods underwent surgery on his leg after he was removed from the wreck of his car by firefighters and paramedics.\n\nHe suffered fractures on the tibia and fibula bones in his lower right leg.\n\nInjuries to his foot and ankle have been stabilised with screws and pins.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Villanueva said of the road where the accident happened: \"Because it is downhill, it slopes and curves, that area has a high frequency of accidents. It is not uncommon.\"\n\nHe said the car hit a kerb, a tree and rolled over several times.\n\nWoods, who had been recovering from a fifth round of back surgery in January, was in Los Angeles to host last week's Genesis Invitational PGA Tour event and was driving one of the tournament cars when he crashed.\n\nTiger Woods won his fifth Masters title in 2019\n\nIt is not the first time Woods has been in a car accident. He was involved in a car crash in November 2009 which eventually led to admissions of infidelity and the breakdown of his marriage. He then took a break from golf, but returned shortly afterwards.\n\nFollowing five wins in 2013, Woods started just 24 events in the next four years because of chronic back pain and multiple surgeries.\n\nIn 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence when he was found asleep at the wheel of his car. He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving.\n\nHe had five prescription drugs in his system as he recovered from the spinal fusion surgery that ultimately gave him a second golfing career.\n\nWoods ended an 11-year wait to claim a 15th major title when he won the Masters at Augusta National for a fifth time in 2019.\n\nHe jointly holds the record for most PGA Tour wins at 82 with Sam Snead and is three behind Jack Nicklaus' mark of 18 major titles.\n\nWoods recently said he had hoped to recover from his back surgery in time to play in this year's Masters in April.\n\nHe ended 2019 sixth in golf's world rankings, but is now 50th.", "Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon has rejected remote working as a “new normal” and labelled it an “aberration” instead.\n\nMr Solomon said the investment bank had operated throughout 2020 with “less than 10% of our people” in the office.\n\nHis eagerness for workers to return to the office is at odds with many other firms, who have suggested that working from home could become permanent.\n\nMr Solomon suggested that it does not suit the work culture at Goldman Sachs.\n\n“I do think for a business like ours, which is an innovative, collaborative apprenticeship culture, this is not ideal for us. And it’s not a new normal. It’s an aberration that we’re going to correct as soon as possible,” he told a conference on Wednesday.\n\n\"I'm really not looking forward to going back into the office,\" Tom, a 35-year-old who works in urban planning, told the BBC.\n\nHe has enjoyed being more involved with his young children during the pandemic. But his employer is quite \"stubborn\" about wanting him back in five days a week.\n\n\"I have found the lack of understanding and support from the older generation of directors, as well as their eagerness to just go back to offices and not learn lessons really difficult.\"\n\nHe says his employer seems to assume there will be someone at home to cover childcare and other day-to-day demands, whereas the tech industry, where his wife works, allows more flexibility.\n\nTom is now looking for a new job that will offer him more choice.\n\n\"The best-case scenario for me would be two days in the office - to get that connection with colleagues - and two to three days at home.\"\n\nIn particular Mr Solomon was worried about an incoming “class” of about 3,000 new recruits, who wouldn’t get the “direct mentorship” they need.\n\n“I am very focused on the fact that I don’t want another class of young people arriving at Goldman Sachs in the summer remotely,” he said.\n\nAlthough he thought the Covid-19 pandemic had helped push the adoption of digital technologies and created ways for the investment bank to run more efficiently, Mr Solomon thought it would not lead to huge changes over the longer term.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to combat back pain while working from home\n\n“I don’t think as we get out of the pandemic the overall operating mode of the way a business like ours operates will be vastly different,” he said.\n\nWithin the finance sector, it appears Mr Solomon is not alone.\n\nIn September, JP Morgan’s chief executive Jamie Dimon said that working from home has had a negative effect on productivity.\n\nBarclays boss Jes Staley also expressed hope recently that the vaccine would allow employees to return to the office.\n\nHowever, more recently Lloyds Banking Group said it planned to cut the amount of office space it uses by 20% within three years, and HSBC has announced a 40% cut in its office footprint.\n\nTech companies, also appear to be more enthusiastic about work from home arrangements.\n\nMicrosoft, Facebook and Twitter have all said staff would have the option to work from home permanently.\n\nFacebook has suggested that up to half of its staff could work remotely within five to ten years.\n\nBut the social media giant has also hinted that remote workers might receive lower pay, as their expenses would be less away from San Francisco and Silicon Valley.\n\nAre you planning to return to the office soon? Are you looking forward to it? 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.", "EU countries are being urged to adopt a common vaccination passport\n\nGreece and Austria are urging other EU states to adopt coronavirus vaccination \"passports\" which could help revive Europe's stricken tourist industry.\n\nThe idea of such a document, likely to be a certificate, would be to permit those who have been vaccinated to travel freely within the EU.\n\nThe proposal was put forward during a virtual discussion between EU leaders.\n\nBut a vaccine passport faces opposition from some of the bloc's 27 member states.\n\nFrance and Germany say such documents could be premature because data on the efficacy of vaccines in preventing a person from carrying or passing on the virus is incomplete.\n\nThere are also concerns that enabling a vaccinated minority to enjoy foreign travel while others, such as young people who are not seen as a priority for inoculation, continue to face restrictions would be discriminatory.\n\nA further complication is the rapid spread of more contagious Covid variants - the English, South African and Brazilian forms - and the possibility of future mutations. So it is more likely that people will need booster jabs to remain protected.\n\nGreece - as well as Israel - already has digital vaccination certificates, and others such as Denmark and Sweden have talked about developing them.\n\nGreek Deputy Prime Minister Akis Skertsos told the BBC that a common digital certificate \"is not discriminatory at all\". He argued that non-vaccinated tourists could also visit Greece this summer, but the procedure for them would be slower - they would have to be tested and might have to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nGreece and Cyprus have agreed to admit Covid-negative Israeli tourists this summer - those who can prove their status with the Israeli \"green\" digital certificate.\n\nGreek Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis said a similar deal could be reached with the UK. However, the UK government has not yet approved any vaccination certificate, nor has it given the go-ahead for foreign holidays.\n\nGreek tourism slumped disastrously last year because of the pandemic. Its revenues fell to €4bn (£3.5bn; $5bn), from €18bn in 2019, Reuters news agency reports. Tourism makes up about a fifth of the Greek economy, employing one in five workers.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted that \"we're advocating a digital Green Pass, like Israel's\".\n\n\"That should allow you to prove, on your mobile phone, that you've been tested, inoculated or have recovered [from Covid]. Our goal: to avoid a lengthy lockdown and finally enable freedom to travel again in the EU, and freedom to enjoy events and cuisine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would take three months to set up a data system for use at the borders and in national healthcare systems, but that most countries agreed that \"a digital vaccination certificate\" could be necessary in the future.\n\nAs some EU countries now struggle with a third wave of the virus there are tensions over unilateral border restrictions. Germany is the latest to have received a complaint from the European Commission, since it imposed new police checks on the Czech and Austrian borders.\n\nDuring the virtual meeting on Thursday, EU leaders also discussed how to address concerns over the slow vaccine rollout that has been widely criticised.\n\nThe Commission - the EU executive - has been under fire over its vaccine procurement strategy. It got into a row with AstraZeneca, because the Anglo-Swedish drug firm fell far short of the first-quarter delivery target.\n\nSome member states have also implied that the AstraZeneca vaccine is somehow inferior to others - French President Emmanuel Macron said at one point that it might be \"quasi-ineffective\" in the over 65s, without offering any evidence.\n\nThis has reportedly led to issues of authorities in some countries, such as Italy, reluctant to use supplies of the drug.\n\nThe Commission still aims to get at least 70% of adults vaccinated in the bloc by mid-September. But so far, the total vaccinated is below 10%.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she felt assured that the target would be met. \"These are 255 million people in the European Union, and if we look at the planned figures, this is a goal we are confident we'll reach,\" she said.\n\nThe EU is desperately seeking ways to increase vaccine supplies and improve its ability to track new variants, BBC Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly reports. But it is pursuing policies that might pay off in months or years, when voters want answers in days or weeks, he says.\n• None Can you catch Covid outside?\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "Alum Rock has seen some of the lowest levels of vaccine uptake in Birmingham\n\nAlum Rock is an inner city suburb of Birmingham. It is deprived and ethnically diverse, with a large Pakistani community.\n\nThe area has seen high rates of infection and yet it has among the lowest number of people coming forward for vaccination. Just six in 10 of those aged over 80 have had the jab.\n\nA few miles to the north is Sutton Four Oaks, an affluent area with detached houses and tree-lined streets. Infection rates have been three times lower in recent weeks, but close to 95% of over-80s have been vaccinated.\n\nLocal MP Liam Byrne spoke about the problem in the House of Commons this week. It is, he told MPs, \"a story of two nations - rich and poor\".\n\nThis is not unique to Birmingham. It is a pattern that is being repeated across the country. The people who are most at risk from the virus are the ones, it seems, who are least likely to come forward for vaccination.\n\nDetailed data on uptake down to a community level is not being published by the government to the frustration of many - the figures for Birmingham were published by the council. But what information is available suggests the poorest and most ethnically diverse communities (there is a huge overlap between the two) are seeing the lowest levels of uptake.\n\nSir Sam Everington, who is a GP in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest areas in the city, says he has seen this pattern emerging, which he describes as \"enormously worrying\".\n\nHe believes the vaccination programme needs to be taken out into local communities more, instead of relying on mass vaccination centres and large community hubs.\n\nHe would like to see local GPs, nurses and the community working hand-in-hand, taking the vaccine out into community settings.\n\nIt is, to be fair, something that has already been recognised by the government. It has provided £23 million of funding under the Covid Champions Fund, to help councils address some of the problems.\n\nCouncils like Birmingham are using it to work with community leaders, training them to speak informatively and confidently about the benefit of vaccination. Some areas are setting up pop-up clinics in neighbourhoods where uptake is low. They have been run in mosques, churches and community halls.\n\nBut there is a barrage of misinformation out there, with videos and information circulating on the internet and social media claiming the vaccines cause fertility problems, contain animal products and even alter a person's DNA.\n\nThe Center for Countering Digital Hate estimates that the biggest English-language anti-vaxxers social media accounts enjoy a global following of 59 million, with the top 147 accounts increasing their reach by nearly a fifth in the last year.\n\nThese myths need busting. But Dr Farzana Hussain, of the NHS Confederation, which represents GPs in charge of the vaccination programme, says it is also important to recognise people have legitimate \"questions and fears\" too that they want addressing. \"It is not always resistance. It's been rolled out very quickly - [they ask] how can it be safe?\"\n\nBut this is not just about vaccination. It has been well-documented that those in more deprived and ethnically diverse communities have been at greater risk from the virus. Work by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods have been more than twice as likely to die from Covid as those in the least deprived - the reasons for this are complex, ranging from greater exposure to higher levels of poor health.\n\nAnd that is likely to continue. Infection rates are still circulating at higher levels in the poorest neighbourhoods. React, one of the government's surveillance programmes, showed that when the second wave peaked in January, infection rates were 50% higher in the most deprived areas than in the least deprived. Ethnic minority groups were twice as likely to be infected than their white peers.\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi, director of public health in Lancashire, believes this combination of lower vaccine uptake and higher infection levels could further \"entrench inequalities\" for years to come, with the virus clustering in the most deprived neighbourhoods.\n\nHe wants the government to \"progressively advantage\" such communities when it comes to the response to Covid. He says this could include everything from prioritisation in vaccination rollout, to better financial support to self-isolate, pointing out they work in higher risk professions where they have more frequent contacts, and are less able to work from home.\n\nWithout this, Dr Karunanithi is concerned that deprived areas face the prospect of cases rising when lockdown lifts or having tougher restrictions for longer, further disadvantaging communities.\n\nAnalysis by the Health Foundation has shown that even before the pandemic, people in the poorest tenth of the country were three times more likely to die prematurely than some in the richest tenth. The pattern emerging with Covid, the think-tank warned, was likely to increase that gap even further.\n\nThis is a \"real risk\", says Prof Jackie Cassell, a public health expert at the University of Brighton. \"The government is talking about the civic duty of people to do their bit, but that is harder for some than others.\"\n\nShe says there are so many complex factors at play. \"If you haven't got a car or you are in ill health, it may not be easy to get to a vaccination centre. We can't assume it is because people do not want to be vaccinated - it may be about access.\n\n\"And if you live in crowded housing, are on a zero-hours contract or have to provide care to an elderly relative, isolating when you have symptoms is not easy. If we don't find a way to address these challenges, it will be devastating for the most deprived. They will be left behind.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ayaan and Mikaeel raised thousands of pounds for children in Yemen by selling lemonade\n\nTwo seven-year-old boys who set up a lemonade stand to raise money for those affected by the Yemen crisis have been awarded Gold Blue Peter badges.\n\nAyaan and Mikaeel's stand raised £100,000 for children living in the war-torn country.\n\nThe best friends will feature on Blue Peter's Gold badge special show alongside other children who have \"achieved incredible things\".\n\nReceiving the award earlier, the boys said it was \"the best day ever\".\n\nAyaan and Mikaeel, from Redbridge in east London, set a target to raise £500 but by the end of their first day had raised £5,000.\n\nThey went on to receive a donation from Oscar-winning actor and campaigner Angelina Jolie.\n\nAyaan's mum Adeela said she was \"extremely proud\" of her son and his friend.\n\n\"It is something we started in the midst of lockdown as we wanted to teach them a lesson of charity,\" she said.\n\n\"We definitely didn't expect a letter and a donation from Angelina Jolie. It's just nice to see someone of her celebrity status recognising what the boys were doing and realising we are all on the same page.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie apologised that she could not buy any of the boys' lemonade\n\nOnly a small number of gold badges are awarded each year, to people who have inspired a nation, saved a life or who have shown bravery and courage.\n\nPrevious recipients of the gold badge include the Queen, Sir David Attenborough, TV cook Dame Mary Berry, footballer Raheem Sterling and fellow fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nIn a special message to the boys, rapper Stormzy said: \"I have heard about your incredible lemonade stand and all the amazing work you guys have done. I was blown away.\n\n\"You are a pair of little legends. Wear it with pride because you deserve it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ayaan, Mikaeel and their community have raised thousands of pounds\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford, who successfully lobbied the UK government into a U-turn over its free school meals policy in England, has also received a badge as has Greta Thunberg.\n\nBlue Peter editor Ellen Evans said: \"Each year only a few gold badges are awarded to our amazing audience who have shown outstanding bravery, overcome adversity and achieved the most brilliant things.\n\n\"It's so difficult to choose who is awarded a badge and I hope that [the children who received badges] inspire others with their stories, as both Greta and Marcus have done.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dylan Seabridge: \"Invisible boy\" who died from scurvy in Wales\n\nConcerns were raised about a boy more than a year before he died of scurvy, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nDylan Seabridge, eight, died in Pembrokeshire in 2011 but nothing has been published about whether agencies could have helped to prevent his death.\n\nThe inquest into his death heard that he had no contact with the authorities in the seven years before he died.\n\nPembrokeshire council said a Child Practice Review on the case would be published soon.\n\nA draft serious case review leaked to BBC Wales, which was written in 2013, concluded that the laws on home education in Wales needed to be strengthened as a matter of urgency.\n\nThe inquest into the death of Dylan, from Dolau in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, heard that scurvy was an easily preventable and treatable disease.\n\nThe inquest heard his parents Glynn and Julie Seabridge had told police they did not believe he had scurvy and thought he was suffering from growing pains.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue its case of neglect against parents Glynn and Julie Seabridge\n\nThey were charged with neglect but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped those charges in 2014.\n\nNo serious case review has been published since Dylan's death four years ago, but an unpublished draft report has been leaked to BBC Wales.\n\nIt said Dylan was educated at home and \"invisible\" to the authorities, though his parents dispute that.\n\nThe author of the report said she knew so little about Dylan that it was \"impossible for her to even draw a pen picture of him\".\n\nAlthough the family lived in Pembrokeshire, Mrs Seabridge worked in neighbouring Ceredigion before her work was terminated.\n\nDuring employment tribunal proceedings, a lawyer and a head teacher contacted social services after they became aware Mrs Seabridge suffered from mental ill health and her child was home educated.\n\nEducation officials visited the Seabridges but they had no power to see Dylan.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for Wales Dr Sally Holland said: \"This is a rare case, but I don't think Dylan Seabridge is the only child under the radar in Britain so we should be learning what we can from this case and of course as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it would publish new non-statutory guidance soon on home education.\n\nFiona Nicholson, a home education consultant, said the law was \"adequate as it is\".\n\n\"Changes aren't needed to safeguard children. If you turn it into policing, people will put up barriers,\" she said.\n\nPembrokeshire council said the serious case review was suspended pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings.\n\nSystem changes meant a different type of review was under way which would be published soon, it added.\n\nCeredigion council said it provided information for the report promptly and said current regulations do not give authorities enough power to monitor home educated children.\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. In February, 60,000 tonnes slipped down the hillside at Tylorstown\n\nAlmost 300 old coal tips in Wales have been classed as \"high-risk\" a year on from a 60,000 tonne landslip caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nThe matter was discussed at a Welsh Government summit on mine safety on Tuesday.\n\nWales has more than 2,000 coal tips. Most are on private land and most are around the south Wales valleys.\n\nOf those, 294 are categorised as \"high-risk\", meaning they could endanger life or property.\n\nSeventy are in Caerphilly, 64 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 59 in Merthyr Tydfil, 42 in Bridgend, 35 in Neath Port Talbot, 16 in Blaenau Gwent and eight in Swansea.\n\nThe landslip last year was at Tylorstown, in Rhondda. Since it happened, work has been done to map tips and assess their stability.\n\nCoal Authority boss Lisa Pinney said any old mining material on a hillside could pose a risk\n\nThe Welsh and UK governments, the Coal Authority, local councils and other bodies have been examining the problem.\n\nTheir investigation has concluded current legislation surrounding tips is \"neither sufficiently robust or fit for purpose in relation to inspection and maintenance\".\n\nCoal Authority chief executive, Lisa Pinney, said managing tips on hillsides was key to reducing risk to communities.\n\n\"Just under 300 are higher-risk sites but that really just means that they needed much more regular attention and inspection to make sure they stay safe,\" she said.\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said he feared local councils would be asked to pay to make tips safe\n\nShe said when there were concerns, action would be taken.\n\n\"Any tip which is old mining material sitting on a hillside can pose a risk, obviously, but the key thing to their safety is to manage water and keep it away,\" said Ms Pinney.\n\n\"And that's why these inspections and maintenance are so important.\"\n\nNo-one was hurt in the Tylorstown landslip and work is under way to secure the hillside.\n\n\"It's shocking that no proper register of disused coal tips was made when the mines closed, so this work is long overdue,\" he said.\n\n\"With so many on private land this is going to be a massive and complex piece of work in which Parliament and Senedd must work together.\n\nMore than 50 years after the Aberfan disaster hundreds of \"high-risk\" tips remain in Wales\n\n\"My biggest fear is [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak will demand that local councils pay for this out of their council tax but the poorest communities in the UK should not be forced to pay for tidying up our national industrial heritage.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru Member of the Senedd for Rhondda Leanne Wood said the UK government should foot the full bill for making the tips safe and anything less would be \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"When the profits from coal mining were not seen in Rhondda, nor in many other coalfield areas across Wales, coupled with the high cost to health and lives of the workers and their families, that funding and more is owed to us,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Conservative Janet Finch-Saunders said long-term work to make the tips safe could only be done in partnership with the UK government.\n\nCoalfield historian Ben Curtis said some tips were removed or made safe after the Aberfan disaster in 1966.\n\n\"But it is a potential problem that continues to remain for some of these tips to become unsafe over time, perhaps [because of] factors like the effects of climate change and increased rainfall,\" he said.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Ever since the devastating storms of early 2020, the UK government has been working with the Welsh Government on its devolved responsibility to provide extra support for flood relief and protection to the communities which were so badly affected.\n\n\"In December we confirmed that £31m would be provided for this vital work, of which £9m was to repair vulnerable coal tips.\n\n\"We also provided the Welsh Government with an additional £1.3bn for next year at the recent spending review so they are well placed to continue this work\"\n\nIn Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, 80 people had to leave their homes after flooding caused by water from a mine shaft\n\nThe summit - which was held virtually - was also due to discuss wider issues of mine safety after water escaped after building up in a mine shaft in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, flooding nearby homes in January.\n\n\"The coal tip is made up of what we call unconsolidated materials so this is loose material like grains of sugar, all stacked up on top of each other,\" Ashley Patton, an engineering geologist from the British Geological Survey said.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"When it gets to a certain angle it can make it unsafe and then when you get triggering factors, such as water from a spring line or from heavy rain that we've seen quite a lot of in south Wales, it can just make it destabilise.\n\n\"The main problem with south Wales is you've got lots of steep-sided valleys and then if you're going to put coal spoil on top of those steep slopes that's just going to make it more likely that it's going to fail...\n\n\"The most important thing is to take what we call the angle of friction so you're looking at what is the perfect angle for that material - so if you can cut it back to a shallower angle... generally speaking, it could be quite stable, and of course the other important thing is to make sure that the slopes are not sited on any spring lines or areas where farmers are putting water onto the slopes.\"\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. Thousands of images have been collected of elephants at every angle\n\nZoo keepers have compiled the world's largest collection of thermal images of elephants.\n\nThe pictures show elephants in every pose as they play, eat and hang out in their enclosure at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.\n\nThe 30,000 \"selfies\" are being used in a conservation project to help save endangered elephants.\n\nThe researchers are developing new technology to help reduce human-elephant conflicts in countries where elephants roam free.\n\nAlasdair Davies is conservation technology expert at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).\n\nHe said the project had implications for both wild elephants and the people they live alongside in Africa and Asia.\n\nThe camera can \"see\" the thermal shape of an elephant\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It can detect elephants confidently at a certain distance - and we want to get this into the field now and actually put it in the wild helping wild animals and communities live side-by-side.\"\n\nThe database of thermal images has been used to train cameras to recognise what an elephant looks like from the heat it gives off.\n\nThe cameras are able to detect when an elephant is close by - even in the dark - and send an alert.\n\nClashes between humans and elephants pose a grave threat to the survival of wild elephants in Asia and Africa.\n\nElephants played a pivotal role in developing the new tech\n\nPeople and elephants are being forced into ever closer contact as the human population grows and wild habitat disappears.\n\nThis can end in trashed crops, damaged property and the loss of lives.\n\nIndia alone reports annual deaths of 400 people and 100 elephants through conflicts arising when elephants damage crops or homes.\n\nDr Kate Evans of conservation charity, Elephants for Africa, said conflict between humans and elephants is a growing problem.\n\n\"Elephants are iconic species and they're really important to the ecology and economy of many countries so it's important we conserve them, however if you're a subsistence farmer bordering a national park or a protected area then living with elephants comes at a very big price.\"\n\nThe hope is that the new technology will be an affordable solution to helping wildlife and humans live in harmony - and help protect endangered species.\n\nBut ZSL warns that conservation efforts like these are put at threat by the funding crisis affecting UK zoos.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"In 2020, ZSL lost £20m of income due to the closures of London and Whipsnade Zoos, and the strictly limited visitor capacities when they were open.\"\n\nLast month, Chester Zoo announced that it was putting some conservation work in Africa and Asia on hold because of the impact of Covid on its finances.", "The entrance to the tunnel is through a shed in Euston Square Gardens\n\nThree activists have left a tunnel near Euston station dug in protest against the HS2 rail project.\n\nDan Hooper, known as Swampy, Isla Sandford, known as Blue, and a 22-year-old activist left after 30 days in the tunnel in Euston Square Gardens.\n\nOne person remains in the tunnel, thought to be 100ft (30m) long.\n\nHS2 Ltd said all three were assessed by paramedics before being handed to the Met Police and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe network of tunnels, dug in secret by HS2 Rebellion protesters, was discovered on 26 January.\n\nSo far eight people have left the tunnel, including Dr Larch Maxey who was removed and arrested on Monday.\n\nDan Hooper (left) Isla Sandford (centre) and a 22-year-old person left after 30 days in the tunnel\n\nLeaving the tunnel Ms Sandford, 18, said: \"Young people don't have much power against the deniers - the government, the oil companies, the mass media.\n\n\"Peaceful disobedience is the only thing that's working, but it's not enough.\n\n\"I'm going to carry on protesting with everything I have because I'm fighting for the lives of everyone I love.\"\n\nOn 10 February a High Court judge ordered the demonstrators to leave the tunnels.\n\nThe judge also rejected an application for an order to stop HS2 removing the protesters.\n\nIsla Sandford (left) says she will carry on protesting\n\nAn HS2 Ltd spokesperson said: \"As part of the ongoing operation at Euston Square Gardens we have successfully removed three further illegal trespassers from the tunnel.\n\n\"We continue to do all we can to end this illegal action safely.\n\n\"We reiterate our message to those (sic) who remain underground to comply with their court orders and exit the tunnel immediately - for their own safety and that of the HS2 staff, agents and emergency service personnel involved in this operation.\"", "The 50p coins were designed by paleo-artist Robert Nicholls\n\nThe life of 19th Century fossil hunter Mary Anning is being celebrated with a new commemorative 50p coin collection.\n\nAnning discovered Jurassic skeletons in her hometown of Lyme Regis, Dorset, which helped change long-held thinking about prehistoric life.\n\nBut her achievements were often overlooked at a time when the scientific world was dominated by men.\n\nThe cost of each of the three Royal Mint coins will range from £10 to £1,100 for a gold version.\n\nThe collection will depict a temnodontosaurus - a large-jawed marine reptile, a plesiosaurus - a large marine sauropterygian reptile, and a dimorphodon - a small flying reptile.\n\nMary Anning lived in the small Dorset town of Lyme Regis until her death in 1847, aged 47\n\nAnning, who was born in 1799, was the child of a poor family and had nine siblings when she started helping her father collect fossils which he sold to tourists.\n\nHer father died when she was 11 years old but she continued his work and, despite a lack of formal education, began teaching herself about geology and anatomy.\n\nIt was a year after her father's death that Anning discovered the skeleton - now known to be an ichthyosaur - that helped propel her into the history books.\n\nShe died in 1847, aged 47, of breast cancer.\n\nLyme Regis Museum stands on the site of Anning's birthplace\n\nThe new coins are part of the Royal Mint's Tales of the Earth commemorative 50p series, which have been created with the Natural History Museum.\n\nClare Matterson, from the museum, said the collection \"celebrates a pivotal figure in the understanding of palaeontology, important contributions to science that were rarely acknowledged in Mary's lifetime\".\n\nThe coins were designed by paleo-artist Robert Nicholls and feature augmented reality (AR), which was first used by the Royal Mint in 2020.\n\nAfter receiving the coin, collectors can use AR to scan the packaging to unearth facts, clips and images about the prehistoric beasts.\n\nThe coins will be available to buy on the Royal Mint's website.\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.", "Callum and his fellow students have not been in the workshop since mid-December\n\nThousands of students taking vocational courses in Wales will now have their grades decided by their teachers.\n\nIt comes after A-level, GCSE and vocational students in England were told teachers would decide grades.\n\nEnglish exam boards also oversee some qualifications in Wales.\n\nHowever Education Minister Kirsty Williams did not include vocational qualifications when she announced GCSE and A-level grades in Wales would be decided by teachers.\n\nBut where there are practical, hands-on skills to be tested, such as plumbing and electrics, some of these exams will continue in a Covid-safe way.\n\nThe announcement comes as those few college students who have returned to campus this week expressed mixed emotions after months of studying at home.\n\nOn Monday some students were allowed to return to college as coronavirus restrictions were slightly eased.\n\nColleges Wales said those taking practical courses had been unable to practice skills for months due to workshops being closed.\n\nSome students spoke of \"dreading\" trying to catch up with work while others said returning was a \"relief\".\n\nOn Monday, some school children also returned to class for the first time since before Christmas.\n\nA small number of college students and apprentices also returned to campus.\n\nStudents allowed to return include those who need a licence to practice, such as plumbers, electricians and those wanting to work in construction.\n\nChief executive of Colleges Wales, Iestyn Davies, said while it was encouraging that \"often forgotten\" college students appeared to have been prioritised by ministers, many had not been able to do parts of their courses due to being unable to access workshops and classrooms.\n\n\"Unfortunately it's been inevitable that many of these learners have had their very practical kind of learning disrupted more than those who can study at home, who could be doing their A-levels or GCSEs,\" he said.\n\n\"You can't learn to plumb, or to be an electrician or a welder simply by watching YouTube videos - you have to do it and demonstrate that you're competent and safe.\"\n\nHowever, when they returned to the classrooms, students saw differences in the way their courses are carried out, with strict social distancing measures in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Davies warned that the age profile of most college students made their return to the classroom \"a bit more risky in terms of public health\".\n\nHe said \"very specific\" social distancing and personal protection measures had been put in place to make the return as safe as possible.\n\nBefore Christmas students at Coleg Menai, Anglesey, and Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor, in Gwynedd, could study in \"contact groups\", also known as bubbles.\n\nNow they have to stay two metres apart from others while at the college and wear face coverings at all times.\n\nPrincipal Aled Jones-Griffith said: \"They can't take it off during the assessments either - so that is a critical difference to what things looked like before Christmas.\"\n\nMr Jones-Griffith said his colleges were inviting students back in a \"very controlled way\" and phoning them the evening before they arrived to check if they had Covid symptoms.\n\nTyler says he is dreading trying to catch up due to the missed practical time\n\nTyler Hard, 19, went back to Coleg Gwent to restart his welding and fabrication course on Wednesday after months out of college, and said he was now \"dreading\" catching up.\n\n\"Working from home has been difficult,\" he said.\n\n\"I just sit at home and get the emails sent to me for the work and have to just do them at the laptop.\n\n\"We haven't done any practical work all year - so it's about getting it all done, or at least as much as we can get down now.\"\n\nHis classmate Callum Gammon, 19, said it was a \"great relief\" to get back to the workshop and restart the course.\n\n\"It has been quite worrying just in case we wouldn't have the time to get the work done,\" he said.\n\nTeacher Alex Guppy said his students could not do the practical part of their course at home\n\nAlex Guppy, who teaches the course, said while many of his students had been able to practice their skills on their apprenticeships, it was no substitute to being able to learn in college.\n\n\"It's massive to get them in, it gets them re-engaged and motivated to get back into the course,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to give them the skills and industry to survive in the workforce.\"\n\nEducation minister Kirsty Williams has said she hopes year 11 and 13 students, due to sit their A-levels and GCSEs, along with those doing \"similar qualifications in colleges\" would be able to return from 15 March.\n\nEllie Kidd, 18, is in her first year of a Level 3 Sport NVQ at Coleg Cambria and said the lack of news about vocational courses in government announcements was \"frustrating\".\n\nEllie Kidd says she is frustrated at a lack of news about vocational courses\n\n\"People all over the country have completely different experiences learning at home,\" said Ellie, who added she has no idea when she will return to college.\n\n\"At least in school or college you're all getting the same education and learning the same things, but at home that's not possible for everyone.\"\n\nEllie said she hoped there would be clarity for students soon to help them return to face-to-face learning.\n\n\"In terms of announcements, I feel like all we normally hear about are GCSEs and A-levels,\" she said.\n\n\"It's quite irritating, because we just wish... we got more vocational course updates too.\n\n\"If you've taken a practical course it's because you enjoy the practical parts. Not having that practical element [at home] can make the written work a bit harder for you.\"", "Asda says it has begun consulting with workers over a major restructuring of the business which could put about 5,000 jobs at risk, including 3,000 non-store jobs.\n\nProposed cuts would include in areas such as cash management, where there is less work as more people shop online.\n\nThe company said it planned to create 4,500 jobs as it expands its online offering.\n\nThe cuts could also affect two online-only stores where orders are picked.\n\nAsda said its sites in Dartford and Heston that are used to pick online orders could close as the company switches to using regular stores to gather goods for online deliveries. This would mean the loss of 800 jobs.\n\nIt also plans to change about 1,100 store management roles, although it insists that this will mean an increase in jobs overall.\n\nAsda chief executive Roger Burnley said: \"The pandemic has accelerated change across the retail sector especially the shift towards grocery home shopping and our priority is to serve customers in the way they want to shop with us.\n\n\"The last 12 months have shown us that businesses have to be prepared to adapt quickly to change and I am incredibly proud of the way we demonstrated our agility and resilience through the pandemic.\"\n\nPeople close to the business insist that the move is led by a change in demand from shoppers rather than a cost-cutting drive, and point to the 4,500 new jobs being created as order pickers and delivery drivers.\n\nThe company can handle 90% more online orders compared to a year ago.\n\nAsda says it hopes many of those at risk can be moved to the new jobs and that the actual number of workers leaving the business will be lower.\n\nOne store manager, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, told the BBC the proposed job cuts would \"pile more pressure and stress on an already stretched workforce\" and described scenes of upset in their store.\n\nAsda was recently purchased by billionaire brothers Zuber and Mohsin Issa and private equity firm TDR Capital, in a deal valuing it at £6.8bn, funded largely with debt.\n\nThe deal came after a failed attempt at merging with rival Sainsbury's.\n\n\"Asda workers have had a torrid two years,\" Roger Jenkins, national officer for the GMB union said.\n\n\"The failed Sainsbury's takeover, twelve months working on the pandemic frontline and now the uncertainty of a new take over, sidling the company with huge debts and potential sell offs.\n\n\"This is the last thing they need.\"\n\nThe union said the company is profitable and does not need to enforce redundancies.", "Police powers to stop and search people in a specified area should be immediately suspended, Justice says.\n\nThe human rights group says stop-and-search is key in the disproportionate representation of black people in the criminal-justice system.\n\nIts report asks the Home Office for an independent evaluation of \"the impact and effectiveness of these searches\".\n\nThe government says stop-and-search is \"a vital tool which helped police seize 11,000 dangerous weapons last year\".\n\nAnd the Metropolitan Police says it as \"a hugely important police power for protecting the public\".\n\nOverall rates of stop-and-search have fallen in the past decade, despite recent increases.\n\nBut there had been no corresponding drop for people belonging to ethnic minorities, Justice found.\n\nBut 3%, known as Section 60s - in a set area, normally a neighbourhood, for a defined period of time, often following a violent incident or where police believe crimes may happen - do not.\n\nThere were almost 18,000, mostly in London, in the year to March 2020, an increase on the previous year.\n\nAnd a quarter of those searched were black people, according to Home Office figures.\n\n\"This disproportionate trend continued even at the height of the first wave of Covid-19 infections,\" Justice says.\n\nAnd only 4% of Section 60 stop-and-searches lead to arrest.\n\n\"How stop-and-search is conducted provides the single most important opportunity to change the relationship between BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] children and the police,\" the report says.\n\nAnd it demands the abolition of the Met's \"fundamentally discriminatory\" gangs violence matrix.\n\nIntroduced in the aftermath of the 2011 riots, the GVM is basically a spreadsheet containing details of people officers have identified as gang members.\n\nFollowing highly critical reports by Amnesty UK and the Information Commissioner's Office, more than 1,000 people were taken off the matrix.\n\nBut nearly 2,500 remain on it.\n\nAnd about 90% of them are Londoners belonging to ethnic minorities.\n\nThe \"GVM exacerbates perceptions of children, especially BAME children, as sophisticated criminals rather than vulnerable individuals\", Justice says.\n\n\"We are not convinced that the alleged policing benefits outweigh the manifest disproportionate and negative effect it has on BAME communities,\" the report says.\n\nA team of senior lawyers and experts at Justice put together the report because of rising concern about the proportion of children belonging to ethnic minorities in youth custody.\n\nThis has hit a record high, according to Ministry of Justice figures.\n\nAnd Justice say this \"represents the most acute manifestation of racial disparity\" in the youth justice system.\n\nA government official said: \"No-one should be stopped and searched because of their race.\n\n\"We are determined to tackle the deep-rooted causes of over-representation in the criminal-justice system.\"", "The Ellesmere Port plant currently builds an old model of the Vauxhall Astra.\n\nTalks to secure the future of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant will continue after no firm decision was taken on Wednesday.\n\nA board meeting of Vauxhall's parent company ended without agreement on its fate, although an announcement is expected within 48 hours.\n\nMore than 1,000 people work at the site - with many more in the supply chain.\n\nThe business secretary has met the management of parent company Stellantis three times in the last six weeks.\n\nThe most recent meeting took place on Monday night, with talks involving government officials along with company management and representatives of the local authority.\n\n\"We are committed to ensuring the UK continues to be one of the best locations in the world for automotive manufacturing, and we're doing all we can to protect and create jobs, while securing a competitive future for the sector,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\nThe BBC understands that there are three main options on the table for the Cheshire plant:\n\nWhile number three is obviously the outcome the government and unions would prefer, it requires confidence that the UK will be able to build the necessary battery production facilities to service this and other UK car plants.\n\nCurrently, the only viable battery plant is in the North East, which works exclusively with its former owner Nissan.\n\nUnder the terms of the Brexit trade deal, it is possible for batteries made in the European Union (EU) to be installed in UK-assembled vehicles for export back to the EU (where most are sold). But industry experts say the economics don't make sense as the batteries are heavy and hard to transport as they are not currently permitted through the Channel Tunnel for safety reasons.\n\nDoubts about the long-term future of the factory intensified after recent comments from the chief executive of the parent company Stellantis - the new name for the merged PSA and Fiat Chrysler.\n\nCarlos Tavares referred to the \"brutal\" decision for the UK government to bring forward the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030 and said it might make more sense to move future electric production closer to its biggest market in the EU.\n\nGovernment officials are aware that the future of car production in the UK depends on a rapid scaling up of battery production and it is widely hoped Chancellor Rishi Sunak will address the issue in his Budget speech next Wednesday, which is coincidentally the same day that Stellantis announce their annual results and operating review.", "Montmartre was still semi-rural when Van Gogh painted it\n\nA Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street has gone on display for the first time after spending more than 100 years behind closed doors.\n\nA Street Scene In Montmartre has been owned by a French family for most of the time since it was painted in 1887.\n\nSotheby's estimates it could fetch up to eight million euros (£6.9m) when it is sold at auction next month.\n\nVan Gogh expert Martin Bailey told BBC News that this is \"the first time we are able to see it properly\".\n\nSmall reproductions have been made in the past, often in black-and-white. \"What is exciting is that it is a Van Gogh painting which has been hidden away ever since it came off the artist's easel,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"It has always been in private collections, so only the owners and their friends knew it.\n\n\"It is an interesting picture because it is a transitional work between Van Gogh's Dutch years, when he painted in dark, earthy colours, and the exuberant works that he did in Provence. It was in Paris that he discovered the Impressionists, and this led him to explore colour.\"\n\nThe 1887 painting will be sold on 25 March\n\nIt is one of a series of works Van Gogh created while lodging with his brother Theo in 1886 and 1887 a short distance from the street depicted in the painting.\n\nThe estimated price tag of five to eight million euros reflects the fact that the artist's Paris paintings do not fetch the \"mega sums\" of his Provence paintings, added Mr Bailey, who writes a blog on Van Gogh for The Art Newspaper.\n\n\"But until the hammer goes down, one obviously never knows what will happen at an auction. There is now a great deal of interest in Van Gogh in the Far East, so the Van Gogh market is truly global.\"\n\nThe painting will be displayed at Sotheby's auction houses in Paris, Amsterdam and Hong Kong ahead of its sale on 25 March.\n\nSotheby's said: \"The appearance on the market of a work of this calibre, and from such an iconic series, is undoubtedly a major event.\"\n\nMontmartre was still semi-rural when the scene was painted. A windmill features prominently behind some perambulating locals. The famous Sacré-Cœur church that now dominates the area was under construction at the time.\n\nVan Gogh left Paris for the south of France in 1888. He died near Paris in July 1890.\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. Her Majesty The Queen: \"The jab didn't hurt at all\"\n\nThe Queen has urged the public to \"think about other people\" and get a Covid jab when they are offered one.\n\nThe monarch, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received their first doses of the vaccine in January.\n\nIn a video call with health leaders delivering the Covid vaccine across the UK, the Queen was asked about her experience of having the jab.\n\nShe smiled as she replied: \"Well, as far as I can make out it was quite harmless.\n\n\"It was very quick, and I've had lots of letters from people who've been very surprised by how easy it was to get the vaccine.\"\n\nThe Queen, who rarely talks about her own health, added: \"It didn't hurt at all.\"\n\nThe monarch said she understood getting a jab could be a \"difficult\" experience for some people but urged everyone to \"think about other people rather than themselves\".\n\nIt comes after UK vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said figures suggested 11-15% of people were vaccine-hesitant, with data skewed toward some black and ethnic minority communities.\n\nSome studies have also found disparities between poorer and wealthier areas.\n\nDr Emily Lawson, who is leading the vaccine deployment programme for the NHS in England, said the Queen's comments about her vaccine experience were an \"incredibly important vote of confidence in the programme\".\n\n\"We just want to make sure we create the conditions where everybody feels able to take up the offer of a vaccination when they're called,\" she said.\n\n\"And Her Majesty offering her view on that is a huge boost to our confidence and I hope to confidence more broadly in the programme.\"\n\nThe Queen also said the speed of the UK's vaccination rollout had been \"remarkable\" so far.\n\nSpeaking to the four officials overseeing the programme in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, she added: \"Keep up the good work.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many people have received the first dose of the vaccine in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out Vaccination rates by neighbourhood in your local authority and region People aged 40 and over vaccinated with at least one dose, as a percentage of the estimated population of over-40s Note: The map shows rates calculated using population estimates from the National Immunisation Management Service. They are based on GP registrations and people who are not registered with a GP may not be included. Some people may be counted in more than one neighbourhood if they have multiple GP registrations. Neighbourhood-level data only available in England.\n\nDuring the video call, which was held on Tuesday, the monarch likened the pandemic to a \"plague\" that has swept across the globe.\n\nAfter Derek Grieve, head of the Scottish government's vaccine rollout, told the head of state he would like to \"bottle\" the community spirit he had witnessed during the epidemic, she said it felt \"very much like\" the wartime spirit she experienced.\n\nMeanwhile, the Countess of Wessex has begun volunteering at a vaccination centre in south-west London.\n\nThe Countess of Wessex is among 10,000 St John Ambulance volunteers working in vaccine centres\n\nSophie, who is a St John Ambulance care volunteer, completed the required training to help provide reassurance and information to vaccine recipients.\n\nSt John Ambulance said it was \"delighted\" to welcome the countess to its team of more than 10,000 trained volunteers in vaccine centres across England.\n\nMore than 18 million people have had a first vaccine dose - equivalent to one in three adults in the UK.\n\nThe vaccine rollout has entered its next phase, after everyone in the top four priority groups was offered a jab. Many areas are now offering vaccine appointments to over-60s, adult carers of disabled people and younger adults in care homes.\n\nSome 600,000 people out of 1.7 million added to the shielding list last week are now being invited to book a slot for a vaccine, NHS England said, while the remainder have already had their jabs as part of the first phase of the vaccination programme.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have both received their first doses of the vaccine, with Camilla saying she \"leapt for joy\" after getting her jab.\n\nAnd the Duke of Cambridge said at a vaccine centre in Norfolk on Monday that he would be at the \"front of the queue\" for a vaccine to help to reassure people of its safety, but that he would \"wait my turn\".\n\nDuring his visit William also said his grandfather, Prince Philip, was \"OK\" after being admitted to hospital last week.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh remains at King Edward VII's Hospital in central London where he is being treated for an infection.", "The number of rough sleepers in England fell by a third over a year, official figures suggest.\n\nGovernment statistics show 2,688 people on the streets on one night in autumn 2020, down from 4,266 in 2019.\n\nThe fall follows the \"Everyone In\" scheme, which has housed about 37,000 people since the pandemic hit last March.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said he was \"heartened\" by \"this fantastic result\".\n\nMr Jenrick congratulated council officers and outreach workers on their \"incredible achievements\", but said these were only a beginning: \"Our ambition is that no one should need to sleep rough.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow housing secretary, Thangam Debbonaire, told MPs there was \"a real risk that the gains made last year will be lost\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick: \"The pandemic has been an incredible opportunity to reduce rough sleeping\"\n\nThe number of people housed by councils under Everyone In far outstripped the numbers in the 2019 official estimate.\n\nThe 2020 figures, from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, show:\n\nThe official estimate is based on a snapshot where councils in England either count rough sleepers on one night each year between 1 October and 30 November - or give an estimate based on information from \"local agencies\", often charities.\n\nBut research carried out by the BBC a year ago, also using figures from local authorities, suggested 25,000 people slept rough in England at some point in 2018, five times the figure in the autumn snapshot for the same year.\n\nThere's no doubt the government's approach to rough sleeping during the pandemic has proved what can be done.\n\nBut while there's widespread acknowledgement that the efforts were successful in the short term, questions remain about the government's strategy.\n\nCharities report that while the snapshot figures show a decrease in the last few years, people are still sleeping rough in significant numbers.\n\nAnd there's concern that without a sea change in support, rising unemployment and the financial pressures of the pandemic could lead to the problem getting much worse.\n\nIf Boris Johnson is to keep his promise to end rough sleeping by the end of this parliament, the figures will have to fall much further and faster than they have so far.\n\nIn the London Borough of Southwark, Helen Dennis, cabinet member for social support and homelessness, says the Everyone In scheme was \"really effective in getting people off the streets, particularly during the first lockdown\".\n\nBut she added: \"The challenge is we are seeing new people sleeping rough all the time.\"\n\nMs Dennis says the number of homelessness applications in the borough is currently 48% higher than at this time last year, and this is translating into a rise in the numbers of rough sleepers.\n\n\"We've seen people losing their jobs in catering, cleaning, so lots of people who maybe were on low-paid jobs to start with have lost that lifeline and find themselves homeless for the first time.\"\n\nArran Nahal, 25, originally from Stratford-upon-Avon, had just returned to the UK after a two-year stint working in hospitality in Australia and was due to start a live-in job at a hotel in the Cotswolds as the UK first locked down last March.\n\nThe Cotswolds job was cancelled, leaving him jobless and without accommodation, his savings ran low and he \"hit rock bottom\" when he had to spend the night in a central London bus stop.\n\n\"Not being quite familiar with homelessness in the past and rough sleeping... I was a bit lost, a bit scared.\n\n\"You have some deep dark thoughts during those hours.\"\n\nHe says he asked himself repeatedly: \"How has it come to this?\"\n\nThe next day he \"stumbled across\" Southwark's Manna day centre, which found him emergency accommodation and then a hostel room in east London where he still lives.\n\nHe had never heard of Universal Credit but now relies on it. Soon he hopes to move on, although the lockdown means jobs in hospitality are impossible to find.\n\n\"If it hadn't been for the help I received almost immediately, I don't know where I'd be right now,\" he says.\n\n\"It's opened my eyes, given me a new perspective on the struggles people go through.\"\n\nLaurence Cummins, now 20, found himself rough sleeping in London in 2019 after his father died and he could no longer stay in the family home.\n\n\"It was really cold, really dark and uncomfortable,\" he remembers.\n\n\"It's not a lifestyle you want really... but I didn't have a choice.\n\n\"At first I was very frightened. I just didn't really know what services were out there and that there were people who could provide accommodation for you.\"\n\nBy last winter, Laurence was sleeping in cold weather shelters. His earlier hopes of university and a good career were gone.\n\nIt was only when the he got an Everyone In hotel place at the start of the pandemic that he started receiving support to turn his life around.\n\nHe is now in stable accommodation, studying for a diploma in fashion and hoping to progress to a degree course.\n\nFor Laurence, the pandemic provided a lifeline and \"the chance to think\".\n\nHe was in the hotel for more than a month. It allowed him to sleep, watch TV and - with the help of youth charity New Horizons - plan a future.\n\n\"I just forgot about being homeless,\" he says.", "'We should be under no illusions' despite alert level change\n\nAs we reported a little earlier, the coronavirus alert level for the UK has been lowered from five, the highest level, to four. The four UK chief medical officers and NHS England's national medical director have agreed the change following advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre. In a joint statement they say: \"The health services across the four nations remain under significant pressure with a high number of patients in hospital, however thanks to the efforts of the public we are now seeing numbers consistently declining, and the threat of the NHS and other health services being overwhelmed within 21 days has receded. \"We should be under no illusions - transmission rates, hospital pressures and deaths are still very high. In time, the vaccines will have a major impact and we encourage everyone to get vaccinated when they receive the offer. \"However for the time being it is really important that we all - vaccinated or not - remain vigilant and continue to follow the guidelines. \"We know how difficult the situation has been and remains to be for healthcare workers, we thank them for their immense effort, skill and professionalism throughout the pandemic.\" There's more detail on how the alert level works here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA primary school teacher has described feeling \"utterly helpless\" as a pupil's parent had a seizure while he taught a class of 18 children online.\n\nAnthony Cannon-Jones was teaching his Year 4 class at Holton Primary School in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nHe said the boy's face \"turned ashen and he started shaking\" as he realised his father was unwell.\n\nThe teacher's efforts to keep children calm and help the boy and his father were \"heroic\", the head teacher said.\n\n\"The dad walked past in the background and gave a wave, as the parents often do,\" recalled Mr Cannon-Jones, originally from Shropshire.\n\n\"Then the child's face just turned ashen and he started shaking.\n\n\"I said 'are you alright? Then he uttered the words that we never really want to hear on an online lesson: 'My dad is having a seizure.\"\n\nMr Cannon-Jones was delivering a lesson over Zoom for pupils at Holton Primary School in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nMr Cannon-Jones lives in Cardiff, a 30-minute drive from where the boy, Rhys, lives.\n\n\"I felt utterly helpless because I'm so far away, but I had to do something,\" he explained.\n\n\"First, I asked Rhys to remain calm. At this point I could hear dad in the background was having difficulties breathing.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nMr Cannon-Jones' attention then turned to making sure the other children on the call, watching a \"show and tell\", could not see or hear what was going on.\n\nHe asked Rhys if he could call any family living nearby, and called the school himself to see if staff were available to go to the boy's home.\n\n\"As the situation developed, they had managed to get hold of grandpa who had come around and was assisting,\" said Mr Cannon-Jones.\n\n\"Then about five minutes later or so, the child came back on the video call to say dad was okay, they had managed to get him on the sofa, he was comfortable and was breathing normally.\"\n\nHe added: \"That was a huge relief.\"\n\nAsked how he managed to remain calm, Mr Cannon-Jones said: \"Honestly, I don't know. In the moment my teacher brain activated - the calm kicked in and I just did what I felt like I had to do.\"\n\nTeachers have been using video call technology to deliver lessons since schools closed were shut in December amid a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, with the youngest children returning to classrooms on Monday in a phased reopening of schools.\n\nDean Williamson with wife Claire and sons Rhys (l) and James\n\nThe episode, on February 10, was not the first time Rhys's father, Dean Williamson, has had a seizure, having developed epilepsy following surgery for a brain tumour in 2018.\n\nMr Williamson said the last thing he remembered was being on his knees looking for a card.\n\n\"My eldest son said, 'I'm going to ring my mum', but she wasn't answering. Then James tried his nanny. She said she would ring his bampy [grandfather] and luckily he was doing some work at my cousin's house which is near here.\"\n\nJames said he had done his best to help his father when he collapsed.\n\n\"I managed to lift him up, then I kept on trying to call my mum,\" he said.\n\n\"I felt like I was able to do it but I think Rhys felt way too scared to come [too close].\"\n\nMr Williamson was full of praise for his sons and everyone who helped that day, reserving special mention for the school.\n\n\"The boys were amazing and the school have been fantastic. They looked after James and Rhys the next day as they went into school.\n\n\"The headmaster called [my wife] Claire and said they were looking to recognise how Mr Cannon-Jones reacted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The American space agency has released stunning video of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars.\n\nNasa sent Perseverance to Mars festooned with cameras, seven of which were dedicated to recording the landing.\n\nTheir imagery represents vital feedback for engineers as they look to improve still further the technologies used to put probes on the surface of the Red planet.", "WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so.\n\nTheir account will be listed as \"inactive\". And inactive accounts can be deleted after 120 days.\n\nCalls and notifications will still function for \"a short while\" but, TechCrunch reported, probably only a \"few weeks\".\n\nThere was a backlash among many users who thought it meant the company was planning to change the amount of data it shared with its parent company, Facebook.\n\nIt later clarified this was not the case - the update is actually aimed at enabling payments to be made to businesses.\n\nWhatsApp already shares some information with Facebook, such as the user's IP address (a sequence of numbers attached to every device which connects to the internet, it can also be used to pin down its location) and purchases made via the platform.\n\nBut this is not the case in Europe and the UK, where different privacy laws exist.\n\nFollowing the initial announcement, platforms such as Telegram and Signal saw a huge surge in demand as WhatsApp users sought alternative encrypted-messaging services.\n\nWhatsApp delayed the initial rollout and has now changed the way it is notifying users of the changes.", "The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a \"roadmap\" to lift England's lockdown restrictions in stages - starting with the reopening of schools. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said there will be a \"progressive easing\" of its rules.\n\nOver the course of the past year, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has advised the authorities on the pandemic, assessing the risks of transmission of coronavirus in many areas of daily life.\n\nThis advice looks at how closing or opening certain sectors could affect its spread - although with varying degrees of confidence, as the precise impact of each measure is difficult to assess.\n\nScientists are still trying to understand the full impact of the vaccines and the new variants of coronavirus. These have not been factored in yet in the assessments from Sage, which have been publicly released.\n\nWe have looked at what they say about the risks in a number of areas.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that schools have a \"moderate\" impact on transmission.\n\nThe phased opening of schools has already started in Wales and Scotland. In England, the prime minister says all schools will reopen on March 8.\n\nBut the role schools have played in the spread of the virus is not clear-cut.\n\nOne report from Sage notes, perhaps unsurprisingly, that cases were highest among children when schools fully reopened in September 2020.\n\nThere is no clear evidence that schools are the driving force behind broader community spikes.\n\n\"It is difficult to quantify the size of this effect and it remains difficult to quantify the level of transmission taking place specifically within schools compared to other settings,\" Sage reported in November.\n\nIts evidence suggests that primary school children are \"less susceptible to infection than adults,\" but the risk increases among older children.\n\nSage concluded that closing secondary schools was \"more effective\" than closing primary schools due to this.\n\nIn fact, some recent research from the University of Warwick concludes that there is no hard evidence that primary schools spread the virus.\n\nWhen announcing the reopening of schools in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The key risk in reopening schools is not transmission of the virus within schools; instead, the risk comes from the increased contact that the reopening might spark among the wider adult population.\"\n\nThis could include parents gathering at the school gates, or people returning to work.\n\nAll recent Sage documents agree that the risk of serious illness to children is very small compared to adults over 60.\n\nSage has said (with \"high confidence\") that outdoor gatherings have a low impact on transmission.\n\nWales is relaxing its outdoor rules and small outdoor gatherings will be allowed in England from March 29 and in Scotland from March 15.\n\nCurrently, you are only able to exercise outdoors with one other person.\n\nSage has long been confident that small outdoor gatherings have a lower impact on transmission because coronavirus \"does not persist in well-ventilated outdoor areas for long\" and the virus's \"survival on surfaces is reduced under UV light [the sun]\".\n\nBut despite being considered low-risk, the virus is still able to spread outdoors. This is why when a lot of people had the virus in January, the government stopped gatherings outside.\n\nAnd, as ever, the closer you are to someone - for example, standing close to them and chatting - the higher the chance of droplets passing between you. So social distancing measures will still be encouraged.\n\nSage has said (with \"low-moderate\" confidence) that retail has a low impact on transmission.\n\nMost non-essential retail, such as clothes stores, is due to reopen in England from April 12 - at the earliest.\n\nPeople in Scotland will need to wait until at least the end of April for this.\n\nBefore the first lockdown was lifted, Sage recommended that \"opening non-essential retail safely would require a significant effort to ensure that environments are appropriate to minimise transmission (for example social distancing and hygiene measures, ventilation)\".\n\nThis follows the idea that contacts between people are more dangerous indoors as particles in the air are replaced less slowly with clean air.\n\nSage estimated that opening non-essential retail such as clothes shops would see a 10% increase in indoor contacts between people.\n\nThis is why when shops reopened we saw crowd control, one-way systems and designated spaces for people to queue.\n\nSage thinks that in general non-essential retail is \"low risk\" when these measures are in place and masks are worn.\n\nBut once again, if coronavirus is already highly prevalent in a community as it was in December, these \"low risk\" actions can become riskier as more people have the virus to begin with.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that hospitality has a moderate impact on transmission.\n\nWithout restrictions, the hospitality sector can see people from different households mixing indoors for long periods of time.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, Sage has said:\n\nSage has also noted that alcohol can have an impact on people following social distancing measures.\n\nBecause of these risks, hospitality is being opened up in stages.\n\nOn April 12 - at the earliest - customers in England will be able to drink or eat outside.\n\n\"Allowing customers to sit outside only [is] likely to be much lower risk,\" Sage reports.\n\nThis will be followed by groups being allowed to meet indoors as early as May 17.\n\nAnother restriction previously implemented in England was a 10pm closure for hospitality, but as Reality Check has previously reported, the evidence-base for this was minimal. This curfew has now been scrapped.\n\nPeople will need to wait until at least the end of April for hospitality to open in Scotland.\n\nSage has not issued specific advice on the risk of transmission in this sector.\n\nSelf-catering accommodation or holiday lets will be allowed from April 12, a full month before other types of holiday accommodation. This hasn't been announced in Scotland.\n\nIn the past, Sage has briefly mentioned the need for greater understanding of \"travel patterns and existing levels of seeding (or spreading from one region to another)\" before making conclusions on restricting travel between UK nations and between regions within them.\n\nLast year, Reality Check looked at whether large gatherings of tourists on Bournemouth beach had an impact on case numbers, but found no evidence of it leading to a spike.", "Holiday firms and airlines have reported a surge in bookings since the plan for easing lockdown was unveiled.\n\nDespite questions over the return of international travel, the UK's biggest holiday firm, Tui, said bookings for foreign trips jumped 500% overnight.\n\nThe owner of UK-based holiday firms Hoseasons and Cottages.com said it sold a record 10,000 breaks.\n\nThe government said a decision on easing international travel would not happen until mid-May at the earliest.\n\nBut Tui said its bookings for July-onwards had soared with Greece, Spain and Turkey the most popular destinations.\n\nAmid uncertainty over when foreign travel will be allowed, some holidaymakers have their sights set on a UK break.\n\nSimon Altham, group chief commercial officer at Awaze, the company behind Hoseasons, said: \"Last year following similar announcements we saw bookings peak at one every 11 seconds, but this time demand has exceeded our expectations and comfortably broken that record.\"\n\nNat Sommers told the BBC she had booked a family trip to Yorkshire after Boris had announced his plans to ease lockdown.\n\n\"We'd been keeping our eye on a few places over the last few weeks in anticipation of lockdown being eased,\" she said.\n\n\"We just decided to go for it an book it in the hope that things would be back to relative normality come August.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said a global travel taskforce would put forward a report by 12 April on how to return to international travel.\n\nThe government would then make a decision on removing restrictions on international travel, but not before 17 May at the earliest.\n\nAs the government has said dates could move for the start of international travel, Tui has said that anyone due to travel between 17 May and the end of June can change their booking to a later date without a fee.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director for Tui UK and Ireland, described the government's steps as \"positive\".\n\nThomas Cook said traffic to its website was up over 100% on Monday from 15:00 GMT onwards, with bookings \"flooding in\" for countries such as Greece, Cyprus, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.\n\n\"The government's announcement today is good news for those of us desperate to get away on holiday,\" said Thomas Cook's chief executive Alan French.\n\n\"While we await more details, it's clear that the government's ambition is to open up international travel in the coming months and hopefully in time for the summer holidays.\"\n\nThere was a big leap in family bookings for the summer holidays, especially for August, as well as people booking for the October half term and Christmas, a Thomas Cook spokesman said.\n\nCrete has seen a surge in bookings, according to EasyJet\n\nEasyJet reported a 337% surge in flight bookings and a 630% jump in holiday bookings for locations such as Alicante, Malaga, Palmo, Faro and Crete.\n\nThe airline's chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said Boris Johnson's announcement had \"provided a much-needed boost in confidence\" for its UK customers.\n\n\"We have consistently seen that there is pent up demand for travel and this surge in bookings shows that this signal from the government that it plans to reopen travel has been what UK consumers have been waiting for,\" he said.\n\nTour operator and airline Jet2 also reported a 1,000% increase in bookings in the 24 hours following the prime minister's announcement. Popular destinations include Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, with a notable spike in demand from July onwards.\n\nIts chief executive, Steve Heapy, said: \"The government's announcement is the news [holidaymakers] have been longing for, and the continued surge in bookings shows how ready our customers are to get away to the sunshine on a real package holiday.\"\n\nWhile bookings are high, there are still plenty of questions about how international travel will resume - and no guarantees that it will start again in mid-May.\n\nThe industry has seen restrictions put on top of restrictions over the last few months, with visitors from entire continents banned, the introduction of quarantine hotels and multiple tests required.\n\nRemoving them will take some careful unpicking.\n\nThe government has said that any removal will depend on the location of concerning variants, progress of vaccine rollouts here and abroad as well as death rates and hospital admissions.\n\nIt's also not just about us. Other countries will need to agree to allow British tourists in. But after fears they could be left off the roadmap, the travel industry is keen to make this plan and these dates work.\n\nAmanda Matthews, managing director and owner of Ramsbottom-based luxury travel agency network Designer Travel, said her firm had seen double the number of enquiries and new bookings for the summer.\n\n\"But we've also had hundreds of calls from people who've got bookings for travel in March, April, May and June - still very uncertain about whether they will be travelling or not,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Because there's no concrete date yet for the reopening of international travel, as a travel agent, we can't answer our existing clients' questions about holidays they've already booked for spring and summer. We've got no idea.\"\n\nDesigner Travel owner Amanda Matthews says her firm saw double the usual number of enquiries on Monday\n\nWhile the roadmap has provided hope for summer holidays, retail expert Kate Hardcastle said there was also \"huge disappointment\" for the travel industry - particularly among domestic overnight accommodation providers such as mobile home holiday parks and holiday cottage providers.\n\n\"Easter is obviously a critical part of the travel calendar for travel agencies and the industry, so it's a lost opportunity, one less holiday to be able to sell within,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I also know a lot of families are dependent on Easter holidays as it tends to be cheaper and more cost effective than the summer holidays. It would be awful to think that some people are completely priced out of a holiday this year.\"\n\nBut data from hotel technology company Avvio suggests a heyday for upmarket UK hotels, with August revenue for 4- and 5-star hotels more than tripling as would-be holiday makers bank on domestic breaks being more likely.\n\nOn Tuesday, global hotels group InterContinental Hotels, which owns the Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands, said the sector was unlikely to see a recovery until later this year, dependent on vaccine rollouts.\n\n\"2021 has begun with many of these challenges still in place,\" chief executive Keith Barr said, as the company unveiled a $260m (£185m) loss.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nUp to 10,000 fans could be back in stadiums by mid-May as part of the government's plans to move England out of lockdown.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a four-part plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nOutdoor sports including football, golf and tennis will be allowed to resume in England from 29 March.\n\nThe plan to ease lockdown requires four tests on vaccines, infection rates and new coronavirus variants to be met.\n\n\"The turnstiles of our sports stadia will once again rotate,\" said Johnson.\n\nIn an address to the nation later on Monday, the Prime Minister stressed the roll-out of the UK's vaccination programme had allowed the government to draw up this pathway, but that final decisions would be made \"on data\".\n\nLeisure centres, gyms and swimming pools can open from 12 April.\n\nVenues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses have been closed across England since lockdown was announced on 4 January.\n\nThe government says it will run a series of 'pilot' events in April and the English Football League (EFL) said it would be \"engaging\" with the government over the potential for a small number of fans to attend the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on 25 April.\n\nIf the pilots are successful, \"up to 10,000 people or 25% of total seated capacity, whichever is lower\" will be allowed in stadiums for sporting events, but not before 17 May.\n\nThat could mean the FA Cup final at Wembley on 15 May is played behind closed doors, as it was in August, although fans may be able to attend the conclusion of the Premier League, which is set to finish on 23 May.\n\nThe delayed Euro 2020 competition begins on 11 June with Wembley set to host seven matches, including the final on 11 July.\n\nWimbledon, which was cancelled in 2020 for the first time since the Second World War, is scheduled for 28 June to 11 July with Formula 1's British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 18 July.\n\nThe possibility of a 'home' British and Irish Lions tour has moved a step closer after Johnson's announcement that there could be capacity crowds in English stadiums by late June.\n\nThe Lions are due to visit South Africa in July and August with a three-Test series against the world champions.\n\nBut concern over the pace of South Africa's vaccination programme has thrown the tour into disarray.\n\nIt is understood the Lions have approached the UK government about underwriting the Lions' liabilities, which is thought to be an important part of the process.\n\nOther options are playing behind-closed-doors in South Africa or taking the tour to Australia.\n\nWhere the Test matches would be played remains up in the air, with Cardiff and Twickenham among the likely venues. BT Murrayfield is already scheduled to host the warm-up Test with Japan on 26 June.\n\nThe Lions are expected to make an official announcement in March.\n\nWhat will be allowed in England from 8 March?\n• None Under-18s sport can take place at school as part of educational provision, or as part of wraparound care.\n• None The stay-at-home restriction will continue but will be amended so people can leave home for recreation as well as exercise outdoors - with their own household, support or childcare bubble, or with one person from another household. Social distancing and other safe behaviours should be followed.\n• None Outdoor sports facilities such as tennis and basketball courts, and outdoor swimming pools, can reopen. Formally organised outdoor sports - for adults and under 18s - can also restart and will not be subject to the gatherings limits.\n• None Indoor leisure (including gyms) open for use individually or within household groups.\n• None All children will be able to attend any indoor children's activity, including sport, regardless of circumstance. Parent and child groups of up to 15 people (not counting children aged under five years old) can restart indoors.\n\nNo earlier than 17 May\n• None Sports events indoors will be allowed up to 1,000 people or 50% of a venue's capacity, whichever is lower, while outdoor events will have a capacity of either 50% or 4,000 people, whichever is lower.\n• None There will be a special provision for large, outdoor, seated venues where crowds can be safely distributed, allowing up to 10,000 people or 25% of total seated capacity, whichever is lower.\n• None Reopen the remaining closed settings and enable large events above the capacity restrictions (from no earlier than 17 May entry).\n\n'Very welcome' - reaction to the government's announcement\n\nA statement from the Football Association said: \"The FA is absolutely delighted fans will be allowed back soon.\n\n\"The game is simply not the same without them and we look forward to the return of full stadia as soon as it is safe and possible.\"\n\nSport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said: \"The Prime Minister's roadmap for the return of sport and physical activity is very welcome and a clear recognition of how important it is to the nation's physical and mental health.\n\n\"We know people are desperate to get back playing the sport they love and doing the activities they have so badly missed, and now it is at last in sight.\"\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association said: \"We know sport has a key role in supporting the physical and mental health of the nation, so its return will give a boost to the whole country, and is very welcome.\n\n\"Clearly tennis is a naturally socially distanced and safe activity and so we would have liked restrictions to be lifted without delay and made the case for this. However, we're now focused on supporting venues, coaches, officials and players to prepare for the return of outdoor tennis on 29 March.\"\n\nJon Dutton, chief executive of Rugby League World Cup 2021, said he was \"greatly encouraged\" and added: \"We've remained positive and optimistic fans would be able to attend the tournament, which will be held in October and November 2021 in England.\n\n\"We very much hope this tournament, predominantly being staged in many of the hardest hit areas across the north of England, will play a part in the nation's pandemic recovery plan and will be the biggest and best ever Rugby League World Cup.\"\n\nThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) \"welcomed\" the announcement and said: \"This is good news for the game and for players, coaches and volunteers across the country who will once again be able to enjoy the physical and mental health benefits of being involved in team sport.\"\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said: \"The ECB welcomes the government's decision to permit grassroots cricket to return across England in time for the start of the 2021 season. We will continue to work closely with the Welsh Government on the return of recreational cricket in Wales.\n\n\"We are very pleased to see the return of spectators to grounds from mid-May. Our leading venues believe they have the technology and know-how to return capacity crowds and we look forward to working with the government to identify ways this can be achieved in a safe and controlled manner.\"\n\nHowever, both Swim England and England Golf expressed some disappointment.\n\nSwim England chief executive Jane Nickerson said she had \"mixed feelings\" as she was \"delighted\" to see pools reopening but wanted the government to reconsider a ban on over-18s resuming club activities until at least 17 May.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed that the scientific evidence presented to government detailing how the sport can be played in a Covid-secure manner has not resulted in a return to play date earlier than 29 March\".\n\nIn Scotland, outdoor non-contact sports like golf and tennis are currently permitted and the government hopes to publish a route out of lockdown in the coming week.\n\nUnder Wales' current restrictions, sport and leisure facilities are closed but up to four people from two different households can meet to exercise outdoors.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has announced minor easing of restrictions and said he hopes the \"stay-at-home\" requirement can end within three weeks.\n\nIndoor and outdoor sports facilities are closed in Northern Ireland, where lockdown has been extended until 1 April, with a review of current measures on 18 March.\n• None The boys are back and wondering when Peter was at 'peak Crouch'", "Education Minister Kirsty Williams has said the Welsh Government will \"balance needs\" for the entire population in deciding which lockdown measures to ease.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford indicated that some non-essential shops could reopen before all secondary pupils were back to face-to-face learning.\n\nWhen asked about other areas of society opening before all children were back at school, Ms Williams said the government would \"use what available headroom we have to prioritise children and young people - that will not change\".\n\nBut she said there \"may be other headroom that allows us to do other things\".\n\n\"We also have to recognise the complexities of schools as organisations - they have potentially large numbers of pupils but also adults working in those circumstances.\"\n\nMs Williams said the government would \"maximise face-to-face contact\" but did not want to \"jeopardise further disruption in those schools\".\n\nShe added: \"The top priority of this government is to get pupils back to face-to-face learning. The government will balance needs of the entire population.\"", "Hayley Arceneaux, a cancer survivor, will achieve a number of firsts when she goes to space this year\n\nThe first bone cancer survivor to become an astronaut. The first person with a prosthetic body part to visit space. And the youngest American ever to orbit Earth.\n\nThese are the impressive firsts that could soon be attributable to 29-year-old Hayley Arceneaux.\n\nIn January, the physician assistant was picked to join the crew of the world's first all-civilian space mission.\n\nMs Arceneaux was ecstatic but, at first, she had to keep her lips sealed.\n\n\"I've held onto the biggest secret of my life for a month and a half. So now I get to share it with the world,\" she told the BBC.\n\nHer selection for the historic mission was announced on Monday by the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where Ms Arceneaux was once a cancer patient as a child and now works.\n\nLater this year, she will launch from Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket made by SpaceX, the company founded by business mogul Elon Musk.\n\n\"I think this mission is going to inspire people in so many ways,\" Ms Arceneaux said. \"It shows them that anything is possible.\"\n\nMs Arceneaux works as a physician's assistant in the hospital where she was a patient\n\nThere will be no professional astronauts on board the spacecraft.\n\nRather, Ms Arceneaux will be joined by two contest winners and flight commander Jared Isaacman, a 38-year-old billionaire who is paying for the entire mission.\n\nThe mission is the pet project of Mr Isaacman, who announced on 1 February that he had bought the rocket launch.\n\nMr Isaacman is aiming to use the flight to raise $200m (£142m) for St Jude, half of which he said he will donate himself.\n\nOf the four available seats on the spacecraft, one was offered to a member of staff at the hospital.\n\n\"From the start, we wanted a crew member that represented the mission's spirit of hope,\" Mr Isaacman said. \"I can't think of a better person than Hayley to fulfil that responsibility.\"\n\nFor Ms Arceneaux, the flight will be the realisation of a feat she never thought was possible.\n\nAt the age of 10, Ms Arceneaux was a bone cancer patient at St Jude.\n\nAs part of her treatment at the hospital, Ms Arceneaux had chemotherapy and surgery to replace some of her leg bones with artificial ones.\n\nMs Arceneaux was diagnosed with bone cancer as a child\n\nIn a different era, Ms Arceneaux's prosthetic leg bones would have grounded her ambitions for space travel as a Nasa astronaut, because of the agency's strict medical requirements.\n\nBut the emergence of private space missions in recent years has enabled more of us to reach for the stars.\n\n\"Until this mission, I could have never been an astronaut,\" Ms Arceneaux said. \"This mission is opening space travel to people who are not physically perfect.\"\n\nMs Arceneaux was at home in Tennessee when she got the \"out of the blue\" call on 5 January asking if she would join the mission.\n\nHer response? \"Immediately, I said, 'yes, yes please'.\"\n\nAfter checking with her family to \"make sure they were not adamantly opposed\", and her brother and sister-in-law who - as aerospace engineers - \"really reassured me how safe space travel is\", she agreed to join the crew.\n\nMr Isaacman is planning to select and reveal the remaining two crew members by March.\n\nOne will be the winner of a sweepstake competition, whose proceeds will be donated to St Jude.\n\nThe other will go to the winner of a contest which asks entrepreneurs to design an online store using software made by Shift4, Mr Isaacman's payment technology company.\n\nMr Isaacman will be the commander of the spacecraft\n\nOnce selected, the crew will undergo a rigorous, months-long training programme, including mission simulations in zero gravity.\n\nMs Arceneaux - the flight's medical officer - has already tried on her space suit. It was \"so cool\" but \"heavier than I expected\", she said.\n\nShe will presumably get used to it by the time the rocket lifts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, sometime at the latter end of 2021.\n\nThen, Ms Arceneaux will be wearing the suit for several days as her spacecraft - a SpaceX Dragon capsule - circles the globe.\n\nAt the end of the mission, the Dragon will re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a soft-water landing off the east coast of the US.\n\nMs Arceneaux said she hoped her space mission would inspire people with cancer\n\n\"I'm really not nervous. I've met the lead engineers for every aspect of this mission. I really trust them.\"\n\nCompared to what she went through as a child, space travel should be no problem.\n\n\"Getting to represent cancer patients and survivors is an incredible honour. It really wasn't that long ago that I was in their shoes,\" she said.\n\n\"When you're going through cancer treatment, you're so focused on the day-to-day. It can be really difficult to look toward the future. I hope that this mission will allow them to imagine their future.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Tim Peake's tips on becoming an astronaut", "Gareth Williams was found dead in his London Flat in 2010\n\nThe death of an MI6 agent whose naked body was found inside a locked holdall at his London flat is to be reviewed.\n\nMetropolitan Police investigators said new information about Gareth Williams, who died in 2010, had come to light.\n\nThe body of Mr Williams, from Anglesey, was discovered at his Pimlico flat, and a coroner later concluded he was unlawfully killed.\n\nA year later, in 2013, the Met concluded the 31-year-old had died as a result of an accident.\n\nAt the 2012 inquest into Mr Williams' death, coroner Fiona Wilcox reached her conclusion based \"on the balance of probabilities\".\n\n\"[However] most of the fundamental questions in relation to how Gareth died remain unanswered,\" she said.\n\nDNA profiling of a hair found at Gareth Williams' flat might be key to explaining how he died\n\nThe Sunday Times has now reported a scientist believes DNA profiling advances meant it may now be possible to get fresh information from a single hair found at the flat where Mr Williams was discovered dead, on August 23, 2010.\n\n\"There is an established review process for investigations whereby new information and/or forensic opportunities are considered,\" a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.\n\n\"At this stage no forensic review has been commissioned.\n\n\"However, the MPS is reviewing this new information and will assess whether there are any new investigative opportunities in this case.\"\n\nIn 2013, Mr Williams' family said they stood by the coroner's findings.\n\n\"We are naturally disappointed that it is still not possible to state with certainty how Gareth died and the fact that the circumstances of his death are still unknown adds to our grief,\" they said, in a statement at the time.\n\n\"We consider that on the basis of the facts at present known, the coroner's verdict accurately reflects the circumstances of Gareth's death.\"\n\nLater that year the Met concluded a three-year investigation into Mr Williams' death.\n\nAt that time, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said he was satisfied it was \"theoretically possible\" Mr Williams could have padlocked the bag from the inside, although \"many questions remain unanswered\" as to the circumstances of his death.\n\nBut he said there was no evidence the MI6 officer had intended to take his own life or his death was connected to his work.\n\nThere were 10 to 15 DNA traces in the flat from which it was not possible to gain full profiles, but all other DNA profiles and fingerprints had been eliminated, said DAC Hewitt.\n\nHe acknowledged the coroner, having studied \"all the evidence available at that stage\", had made \"the logical inference that it was more likely someone else was involved in Gareth's death\".\n\n\"At the end of our investigation, based on the evidence, or where we have been unable to find positive evidence, we believe that it is a more probable conclusion that there was no other person present when Gareth died,\" Mr Hewitt said.\n\n\"But the reality is that for both hypotheses, there exist evidential contradictions and gaps in our understanding.\"\n\nHamish Campbell, the detective who led the initial inquiry, told the Sunday Times he suspects Mr Williams' death was linked to his private life and not connected to his work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Whiley on her disabled sister's Covid: \"It's been the worst week of our lives\"\n\nDJ Jo Whiley says it has been \"the worst week of our lives\" as her sister, who has a learning disability and diabetes, is in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe BBC Radio 2 presenter said Frances, 53, had been offered a vaccine on Saturday but it was \"too late\" and she was now \"fighting for her life\".\n\nAnd she urged ministers to \"forget the classifications\" and protect all those with learning disabilities.\n\nThe government said it was working hard to vaccinate those most at risk.\n\nWhiley said her sister had become very ill since testing positive for coronavirus following an outbreak at her care home in Northamptonshire.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours ago we were talking palliative care and yesterday she rallied round and we are seeing her oxygen levels rise, so at the moment we have got hope.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours ago we didn't have any hope at all, so she is an amazing fighter, she always has been a great fighter and I'm just hoping that her spirit gets her through.\"\n\nBut she said it was particularly difficult to treat people with learning disabilities because they had complex needs and often struggled to communicate.\n\nShe said Frances had been so frightened that she would not allow medical staff to give her oxygen, adding: \"That is why her oxygen levels plummeted, that is why she ended up fighting for her life.\"\n\nWhiley said her parents had not slept \"for days\" but fortunately had been allowed to be with Frances in hospital.\n\nShe said: \"The idea of Frances having to do this on her own is unthinkable, and also actually people couldn't cope with Frances.\"\n\nHer sister was so terrified when she was admitted that \"she actually rampaged through the hospital and people couldn't contain her and security guards had to be involved, they had to restrain her\", Whiley explained.\n\nShe added: \"The fact that my mum was there and was able to talk her down and to be there with her and to try and give her oxygen was crucial.\"\n\nWhiley has previously questioned why she was offered the vaccine before her sister, who has the rare genetic syndrome Cri du Chat, but said it was possibly because she was deemed a carer for her sister.\n\nPeople with diabetes and those with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability are in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and the elderly.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, Whiley said: \"It felt like the cruellest twist in the world because I've been asking for her, wanting for her to have her vaccine for a year... to be protected.\n\n\"Then, for me to suddenly get a call to say that I've got the vaccine, it just felt hideously unfair.\n\n\"And she was actually called in for her vaccine last night, my mum got a message to say that she could get vaccinated, but it's too late, she's fighting for her life in hospital. It couldn't be crueller.\"\n\nWhiley said she hoped speaking about her sister would underline the need to get people with learning disabilities vaccinated \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nShe said: \"Forget the classifications, forget the cohorts, just protect these people. They are so precious, they're so vulnerable and they have no way of fighting for themselves - we have to fight for them. Get them and their carers vaccinated, stop them dying.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, also speaking to Andrew Marr, said: \"My heart goes out to Jo and to her sister and her whole family.\"\n\nAsked if he found it odd that Whiley was offered the vaccine before her sister, he said it was \"very important that we follow clinical advice in terms of the order of prioritisation\".\n\n\"And in group six, as it's called, that's where we vaccinate both those with learning disabilities and also their carers. And that group is being vaccinated right now.\"\n\nEdel Harris, CEO of learning disability charity Mencap, said the story of Whiley's sister had highlighted that people with learning disabilities \"suffered huge health inequalities\" in England and should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nMs Harris told the BBC: \"The virus is not deciding if you are profound or severe, or mild or moderate - GPs don't even use those definitions. That's why we think they're arbitrary, they don't mean anything.\"\n\nNearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England last year were disabled, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe Department of Health said in a statement: \"We understand this is an enormously challenging period for many people and the NHS is working hard to vaccinate those most at risk, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIt said the government was following the recommendations of independent experts at the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on which groups to prioritise for Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nIt added: \"The committee advised the immediate priority should be to prevent deaths and protect health and care staff, with old age deemed the biggest factor determining mortality.\"", "Schools in Wrexham will delay opening classes to children aged three to seven due to concerns over coronavirus rates.\n\nFoundation phase pupils are due to start a phased return to school from the Monday after half term.\n\nWrexham still has the highest rate of Covid infections in Wales, and will not be sending children back until Friday, 26 February.\n\nAnglesey, Denbighshire and Gwynedd are also delaying the immediate return of younger pupils.\n\nThe Welsh Government announced last week that primary schools would begin the process of reopening for the first time since Christmas on 22 February.\n\nWrexham council said: \"Although coronavirus levels are falling in Wrexham, the figures are still very high, so the council and headteachers are carefully considering plans, while continually monitoring the local situation.\n\n\"In light of this cautious approach, children will not be returning to schools in Wrexham until Friday, 26 February at the very earliest - depending on local coronavirus levels after half-term.\"\n\nWrexham and Flintshire still have six of the 10 highest localised rates in Wales, when they are broken down by community - or what are known as middle layer super output areas (MSOAs).\n\nAlthough these case rates too have dropped back in recent weeks.\n\nThe highest in Wrexham - Wrexham West - has seen 35 actual positive tests over the last week.\n\nThere are local hotspots too in Holywell and Bagillt and part of Connah's Quay in Flintshire\n\nFlintshire council, which currently has the second highest case rate in Wales, said it would review a decision to reopen schools on 22 February \"should the public health situation become a cause for concern\".\n\nSchools on Anglesey, which has the third highest rate of coronavirus infections in Wales, said it would also be delaying pupils returning, phased from Thursday, 25 February.\n\n\"Our aim is that all foundation phase pupils are back in their classrooms by Wednesday, 3 March at the latest,\" Anglesey officials said.\n\nMeanwhile Denbighshire said its primary schools would reopen to foundation phase pupils from Wednesday, 24 February, as long as \"all necessary safety measures\" are in place.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council has confirmed the Monday and Tuesday of that week will see schools remain closed for staff to prepare for pupils' return.\n\n\"Gwynedd's Education Authority has met with head teachers this week to ensure they are fully aware of the latest development and our officers continue to offer help and advice regarding the planned phased opening for foundation phase pupils during the week beginning 22 February,\" a spokesman said.\n\nFree school meals and school transport will be available for all eligible pupils when those schools reopen, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nChildren classed as vulnerable and those of critical workers have been able to remain in school during lockdown. No timetable has yet been given for the return of other children.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams schools should be \"last to close and first to open\"\n\nIn an open letter to headteachers, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said the Welsh Government had \"always said\" schools should be \"last to close and first to open\" when safe to do so.\n\nShe said \"much lower\" rates of transmission of Covid-19 and advice from its Technical Advisory Group had allowed the \"partial and phased return to face-to-face learning in schools\".\n\nMs Williams explained there would be some flexibility to the arrangement over the first week, but with all foundation pupils in school by the end of the week.\n\nAny further phased return for other year groups will be considered as part of the next 21 day review on 19 February.\n\nThe Welsh Government has also issued detailed guidance on the return to classes, with teachers told they will be expected to face masks in some circumstances.", "Security guards stand at the gates of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre in Huocheng County in Xinjiang\n\nCanada's House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to declare China's treatment of its Uighur minority population a genocide.\n\nThe motion - which passed 266 to 0 - was supported by all opposition parties and a handful of lawmakers from the governing Liberal Party.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau and most members of his cabinet abstained.\n\nThe motion makes Canada just the second country after the United States to recognise China's actions as genocide.\n\nLawmakers also voted to pass an amendment asking Canada to call on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing \"if the Chinese government continues this genocide\".\n\nChina responded late on Tuesday, saying it condemned and rejected Canada's motion, according to a Reuters report. It quoted foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin as saying that China had lodged \"stern representations\" with Canada.\n\nMr Trudeau has so far been hesitant to label China's actions against the Uighur minority in Xinjiang a genocide, calling the term \"extremely loaded\" and saying further examination was needed before a decision could be made.\n\nJust one member of his cabinet, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau, appeared in parliament for the vote. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Garneau said he had abstained \"on behalf of the government of Canada\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of the vote, opposition leader Erin O'Toole said the move was necessary to send a \"clear and unequivocal signal that we will stand up for human rights and the dignity of human rights, even if it means sacrificing some economic opportunity\".\n\nIn an open letter to Mr Trudeau earlier this month asking him to \"stand up to China\", Mr O'Toole noted the recent banning of BBC World News from China - a decision that followed a BBC report alleging systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture in China's \"re-education\" camps in Xinjiang.\n\nMonday's non-binding motion marks the latest escalation in Canada-China relations, which have soured over recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth reports from Xinjiang, where all filming and reporting by foreign media is tightly controlled (from 2018)\n\nChina's ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu had earlier told the Canadian Press that the motion was \"interfering in [China's] domestic affairs\".\n\n\"We firmly oppose that because it runs counter to facts,\" he said. \"There's nothing like genocide happening in Xinjiang at all.\"\n\nRights groups believe that China has detained up to a million Uighurs over the past few years in what the state defines as \"re-education camps\".\n\nBBC investigations suggest that Uighurs are being used as forced labour.\n\nCanada's symbolic motion does not lay out next steps, but says the Canadian government needs to follow the lead of its US neighbours.\n\nBoth the current and former US Secretaries of State, Anthony Blinken and Mike Pompeo, have declared that China's policies against Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang region constitute genocide.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatt Hancock says it was \"the right thing to do\" to delay publishing contracts during the pandemic, despite a court ruling he acted unlawfully.\n\nA judge ruled the health secretary had \"breached his legal obligation\" by not publishing details within 30 days of contracts being signed.\n\nBut Mr Hancock told the BBC his team had been focused on sourcing PPE.\n\nHe said they \"spent all of their time buying life-saving equipment, even if the paperwork was a little bit late\".\n\nBut one of the MPs who supported the legal action - the Green Party's Caroline Lucas - said Mr Hancock's response made her angry.\n\nShe tweeted: \"How dare Hancock suggest he broke [the] law to prevent shortages of PPE on the frontline?\n\n\"Health workers died for lack of [the] right PPE at [the] right time because of incompetence, cronyism and waste - does he think our memories are so short?\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would not call for Mr Hancock to resign over the court ruling, saying it was \"not what the public really want to see\".\n\nBut he told Sky News there had been \"a lot of problems... on transparency and on who the contracts went to\", as well as \"a lot of wasted money [which is] a real cause for concern\".\n\nOther Labour MPs have said the health secretary should quit, including Nadia Whittome, who tweeted: \"In what other job could you break the law and be let off?\"\n\nThe health secretary earlier told Sky News the issue had been \"put right over the summer\", and he committed to publishing \"what is legally required and what is normal to publish\" going forward.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) struck deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCampaign group the Good Law Project took legal action against the Department of Health - supported by three MPs Ms Lucas, Labour's Debbie Abrahams and Lib Dem Layla Moran - over its \"wholesale failure\" to disclose details of the contracts agreed.\n\nUnder the law, the government is required to publish a \"contract award notice\" within 30 days of the awarding any contracts for public goods or services worth more than £120,000.\n\nBut in his ruling, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish contract award notices within 30 days of the award of contracts.\n\n\"There is also no dispute that the secretary of state failed to publish redacted contracts in accordance with the transparency policy.\"\n\nThe judge called it an \"historic failure\" by the department, adding: \"The public were entitled see who this money was going to, what it was being spent on and how the relevant contracts were awarded.\"\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas - one of the MPs who supported the legal action - reacted angrily to Matt Hancock's comments\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr if he would apologise following the ruling, Mr Hancock said the contracts had been published \"just after a fortnight late\" on average, \"because my team were working seven days a week, often 18 hours a day, to get hold of the equipment that was saving lives\".\n\nThe health secretary said \"of course contracts like this need to be published\" and the judge's comments about ensuring transparency were \"100% right\".\n\nBut he said: \"People can make up their own view about whether I should have told my team to stop buying PPE and spend the time bringing forward those transparency returns by just over a fortnight or whether I was right to buy the PPE and get it to the frontline.\n\n\"You tell me that that's wrong. You can't and the reason you can't is because it was the right thing to do and legal cases about timings of transparency returns are completely second order compared to saving lives.\"\n\nMr Hancock added: \"There is no health secretary in history that would have taken the view that they need to take people off the project of buying PPE in order to ensure nine months later the health secretary didn't have a slightly bumpy interview on the Marr programme.\n\n\"It is not what it is about, it is about doing the right thing.\"\n\nBut shadow justice secretary David Lammy called on Mr Hancock to come to Parliament and explain how he would make the system more transparent.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the government should cancel the temporary rules put in place during the pandemic to speed up government procurement contracts.\n\nAnd he accused Mr Hancock of using the emergency measures \"without any accountability or any transparency\" - calling his actions \"outrageous\".", "Belfast's SSE Arena will run as a vaccination centre in parallel with regional centres and GP clinics\n\nBelfast's SSE Arena will be used as a mass vaccination centre for Northern Ireland's adult population, Health Minister Robin Swann has confirmed.\n\nIt is expected the arena will open in April as a facility for those aged 60 and under who have not already been vaccinated.\n\nRegional centres and GPs' clinics will still offer vaccines.\n\nFour more people died with Covid-19 in Northern Ireland in the past day, according to the latest statistics.\n\nDepartment of Health figures, released on Monday, take the Covid-19-related death toll to 2,036.\n\nAnother 187 positive cases have also been confirmed in the past day.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, there has been one more death linked to Covid-19 and 686 new cases in the past day.\n\nA total of 156 people with Covid-19 are in hospital intensive care units.\n\nMeanwhile, a total of 488,826 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe figure comprises 458,030 first doses and 30,796 second doses.\n\nAs the vaccine roll-out continues in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health said plans were underway to allow community pharmacies to offer the jab.\n\nThe car park of the SSE Arena is already being used as a drive-through Covid-19 test centre.\n\nMr Swann said it was \"yet another significant step forward\" in the vaccination rollout.\n\n\"The programme is continuing at pace and we are likely to being vaccinating priority group seven, followed quickly by all other priority groups starting in early April,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see everyone 60 and under being offered the vaccine - a monumental next step in a population-wide vaccination programme.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Department of Health said Northern Ireland's vaccination programme had been \"making good progress and is ahead of schedule\".\n\nIt came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said all UK adults should be offered a first dose of the vaccine by the end of July, compared to a previous target in September.\n\nUnder the accelerated vaccination target announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, all UK adults aged 50 and over would be offered their first vaccination by 15 April.\n\nIn addition, all UK adults at higher risk due to underlying health conditions would also be given the option of receiving a first jab by the same date.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations each have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations and have different lockdown rules and vaccination programmes.\n\nSlightly more than 23% of NI's population have received their first dose of vaccine, which is slightly behind Wales (26.8%), Scotland (25.7%) and England (25.4%).\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann announced that all carers over the age of 18 could now book a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre.\n\n\"There are many elderly or disabled people who rely on carers to look after them and their welfare would be a risk if their carer took ill,\" he said.\n\n\"We must continue to protect the most vulnerable from the effects of Covid. That includes doing the right thing and waiting your turn.\"\n\nThe current restrictions were imposed on 26 December to manage the spread of Covid-19\n\nThe executive is due to publish a pathway to recovery for coming out of lockdown.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme the NI executive had been watching what other parts of the United Kingdom were doing.\n\nShe said she would be looking at the impact the reopening of schools in Scotland and Wales had on the reproduction (R) number.\n\nShe also said she would follow England's plan closely as \"our transmission rates are probably similar to theirs and we will want to take that into account\".\n\n\"What I must do is make sure that we don't go back into lockdown again and that of course is a balancing act,\" she said.\n\n\"We have to do it in a way that makes sure that we don't step back again.\"", "Hinpack was awarded a £30m contract to make test tubes during the pandemic\n\nA firm is being investigated by the UK medical regulator after it was awarded a £30m contract during the pandemic.\n\nAlex Bourne - who used to run a pub near Matt Hancock's old constituency home in West Suffolk - made vials for Covid testing through his firm Hinpack, which had no history of medical goods.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has confirmed it is now investigating the company.\n\nMr Hancock has previously said he had nothing to do with the contract.\n\nThe MHRA said it took \"all reports of non-compliance very seriously\".\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said early in the UK's epidemic it asked \"suppliers in multiple industries\" to help to support the national effort to secure products needed for Covid tests.\n\nAll suppliers must pass through \"a rigorous regulatory and validations process\" to ensure they meet quality standards, he said.\n\n\"We continue to ensure all contracts are awarded in line with procurement regulations and transparency guidelines,\" he added.\n\nThe Guardian reported Mr Bourne had offered his services to the government via a personal WhatsApp message to the health secretary, saying they had known each other for years.\n\nThe businessman told the newspaper that messages had been exchanged between the pair over several months, but he said there was \"no evidence\" he was given preferential treatment by the Department of Health and Social Care because of the connection.\n\nLawyers for Mr Bourne told the Guardian the test tubes that Hinpack manufactures are \"by no means complicated and are well within our client's existing skillset\".\n\nThey also said the MHRA had previously approved and inspected Hinpack's products and working practices, and allegations being reported against them were \"untrue\".\n\nAsked about it at a Downing Street press conference in December, Mr Hancock said: \"I had absolutely nothing to do with that contract.\"\n\nThe confirmation comes in the same week Mr Hancock was ruled to have acted unlawfully in failing to publish details of government contracts within 30 days.\n\nEarlier, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme it had been \"the right thing to do\" so his staff could focus on sourcing PPE at the height of the pandemic.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said the inquiry into Mr Bourne's company was \"extremely worrying\", adding: \"The reasons for handing this contract out in the first place must be investigated and shared in the public interest\".\n\nDirector of devices at the MHRA, Graeme Tunbridge, said he could not disclose why the company was being investigated as the inquiry was ongoing.\n\nBut in a statement, he said: \"We are currently investigating the allegations about Hinpack and will take appropriate action as necessary.", "More than 70 people died following the fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017\n\nThe use of a company's cladding at Grenfell Tower was \"an accident waiting to happen\", one of its bosses has agreed at a public inquiry.\n\nClaude Schmidt said \"maybe yes\" to a barrister's description of the risk.\n\nMr Schmidt, Arconic's French president, was giving his fifth day of evidence to the Grenfell Tower public inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry heard that even after the fire, an \"error\" on a draft product certificate for the cladding suggested it could be used on tall buildings.\n\nMr Schmidt was being questioned by Richard Millett QC, the inquiry's senior counsel, about the weeks after the fire on 14 June 2017, which led to 72 deaths.\n\nArconic's cladding panels had quickly emerged as a likely cause of the swift spread of flames across Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, west London.\n\nOn 26 June, Arconic withdrew the product from the market for buildings taller than 18m, claiming that it had realised it was being \"incorrectly used\", including on Grenfell.\n\nMr Millett asked him \"isn't the reality that Grenfell, as far as the use of Reynobond PE 55 [cladding] was concerned, that it was an accident waiting to happen and only then did you withdraw it from the market\".\n\nMr Schmidt's response, as translated from French, was \"maybe yes.\"\n\nBut he said the company \"were among the only ones to withdraw the product from the market. It was because we couldn't control the supply chain.\"\n\nArconic's case is that it realised after the fire it could not be sure customers would use its flammable polyethylene version of the cladding safely.\n\nMr Millett said \"wasn't that all the more reason to stop selling\".\n\nHe said that the decision not to sell the cladding for high-rise buildings was not made because it was \"inherently dangerous\" but said it did \"have certain characteristics which, if it is used incorrectly, can increase the risk of fire spread\".\n\nThe inquiry says the cladding was a major cause of the rapid spread of flames during the disaster and this phase of its hearings are determining why it was used.\n\nThe inquiry has heard, and Mr Schmidt also agreed, that for 12 years before the Grenfell fire, Arconic failed to reveal poor fire test data for the cassette form of its cladding to an important British building industry body.\n\nThe British Board of Agrément had issued a standards certificate for the product, relied on by the industry, which suggested all versions of the cladding met British standards.\n\nThis document was sent to the contractors for Grenfell. They selected the Arconic cladding, and a design which would use it in exactly the cassette configuration which the tests suggested would allow fires to spread.\n\nEven after the fire, a redrafted BBA certificate continued to claim better fire test data than the company had.\n\nIt also emerged at the inquiry that a BBC investigation into Arconic in 2018 prompted the Board to challenge the cladding firm about what information it had been given.\n\nThe BBC had discovered the series of poor fire tests reports, commissioned by Arconic, which have been at the heart of this phase of the inquiry.\n\nThey were carried out in France, but were not published in the UK, and not passed to the British Board of Agrément.\n\nIn March 2018 the BBC shared them with the Board, which confirmed the information, crucial to the product certificate, had not been handed over.\n\nChallenged by the BBA, Mr Schmidt said he was \"happy\" to send them. Brian Moore, from the BBA, responded that it was \"concerning\" to hear that Arconic had the reports.\n\nBut despite this exchange of emails, they were never handed over, due to legal advice, Mr Schmidt said.\n\nBy this point, the inquiry, and the police had begun in-depth investigations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US plane engine fire: \"I just knew something was wrong\"\n\nUS plane manufacturer Boeing has recommended grounding all of the 777-model aircraft which have the same type of engine that suffered failure and shed debris over Denver on Saturday.\n\nIt said 128 jets should be suspended until inspections are carried out.\n\nUnited Airlines and Japan's two main operators have already stopped using 56 planes with the same engine.\n\nFlight 328, carrying 231 passengers, was forced to make an emergency landing at Denver airport. No-one was injured.\n\n\"While [an] investigation is ongoing, we recommended suspending operations of the 69 in-service and 59 in-storage 777 aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nPratt & Whitney said it had dispatched a team to work with investigators.\n\nAccording to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), United is the only US airline flying this model of 777, with the others being in Japan and South Korea.\n\nKorean Air, which has six planes in operation and 10 in storage, said it was awaiting instruction from South Korean regulators regarding any measures for its 777 jets.\n\nUnited Flight 328, bound for Honolulu, suffered a failure in its right-hand engine. Debris from the jet was found scattered over a nearby residential area after it returned to Denver airport.\n\nDebris from the engine was found scattered in a residential area\n\nThe agency has ordered extra inspections of Boeing 777 jets fitted with the Pratt & Whitney 4000 engine following the incident. \"We reviewed all available safety data following [Saturday's] incident,\" said FAA administrator Steve Dickson in a statement.\n\n\"Based on the initial information, we concluded that the inspection interval should be stepped up for the hollow fan blades that are unique to this model of engine, used solely on Boeing 777 airplanes.\"\n\nThe FAA met representatives from the engine firm and Boeing on Sunday evening.\n\nThe initial finding of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is that most of the damage occurred in the right engine, where two fan blades were fractured and other blades also impacted. The main body of the aeroplane suffered only minor damage.\n\nThe engine failure is the another blow for Boeing after its 737 Max aircraft was grounded for 18 months following two aviation accidents that left 346 people dead.\n\nAircraft engine failures are rare. Uncontained failures, where debris can erupt from the engine in any direction are mercifully very rare indeed. But an uncontained failure is also much more dangerous.\n\nA modern twin-engine airliner is designed to be able to fly safely for hours using a single engine.\n\nThe shrapnel from an uncontained failure, however, can cause serious damage to the rest of the plane, and if it passes through the cabin, it can be lethal. Experts say the failure in the Denver incident appears to have been uncontained, but the damage to the aircraft itself was thankfully minor.\n\nAlso worrying is that the incident itself appears to have a number of similarities with another failure that occurred on a United Airlines flight in 2018.\n\nIf the cause in this case is found to be the same - and remember, it may not be - that would raise questions about why the response to that incident from the manufacturer and regulators was unable to prevent a repeat.\n\nPassengers on board the Denver flight described a \"large explosion\" shortly after take-off.\n\n\"The plane started shaking violently, and we lost altitude and we started going down,\" David Delucia said. He added that he and his wife placed their wallets in their pockets so that \"in case we did go down, we could be ID'd\".\n\nNo-one was injured in Saturday's incident with the United plane\n\nPolice in the town of Broomfield posted pictures of what appeared to be the front of an engine-casing in the front garden of a home. Other fragments were seen around the town, including on a football field.\n\nNo-one was injured by the falling debris.\n\nIn Japan, all 777s with the Pratt & Whitney 4000 model engines are to avoid its airspace until further notice. This includes take-offs, landings and flights over the country.\n\nThe government there has also ordered JAL and ANA airlines to suspend the use of its 777s with the same model engine.\n\nLast December a JAL flight was forced to return to Naha Airport due to a malfunction in the left engine - the plane is the same age as the 26-year-old United Airlines plane from Saturday's incident.\n\nIn 2018, the right engine of a United Airlines plane broke shortly before it landed in Honolulu. Following an investigation, the NTSB said the incident was caused by a full-length fan blade fracture.", "John Lewis is considering more store closures as it tries to cut costs and adapt to the boom in online shopping.\n\nIn what would be another blow for the High Street, the BBC understands up to eight department stores may remain permanently closed.\n\nThat would be on top of the eight stores it shut last year, which included two small travel hub shops at Heathrow and St Pancras.\n\nThat could leave it with 34 stores, down from its current total of 42.\n\nJohn Lewis has declined to comment on the potential move, which was first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nAny closures would be another blow to the high street and town centres, which are already grappling with the fall-out from the collapse of Debenhams and Sir Philip Green's Arcadia empire.\n\nThe rise in internet shopping, exacerbated by various lockdown measures amid coronavirus, has forced John Lewis to rethink how many stores it needs.\n\nIt already expects up to 70% of its sales will be online by 2025.\n\nIn July last year, John Lewis announced it was closing its stores in Birmingham, Croydon, Watford, Newbury, Swindon and Tamworth, as well as the smaller hubs at St Pancras and Heathrow, with the loss of 1,300 jobs.\n\nIn January, John Lewis said its Christmas trading had been better than anticipated and that it expected its full year profits to be ahead of its previous guidance of a small loss or a small profit.\n\nAny announcement on further store closures could come next month, when the John Lewis Partnership, which includes Waitrose, announces its annual results on 11 March.\n\nThe last set of results showed a half-year loss of £635m, and prompted it to cancel its annual staff bonus for the first time since 1953.\n\nThe shutting of more John Lewis stores would be another blow for the High Street, which has seen the closure of a number of so-called anchor brands - big names that attract shoppers and other shops to the area.\n\nTopshop, part of Sir Philip Green's failed Arcadia empire, and Debenhams have been among the high profile casualties of the shift of retailing online.\n\nEarlier this month, online fashion retailer Asos bought Topshop and other Arcadia brands Topman and Miss Selfridge out of administration. And Boohoo, another fast-growing online retailer, bought Arcadia brands Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton.", "The Duke of Edinburgh is \"OK\" after spending a sixth night in hospital, the Duke of Cambridge has said.\n\nSpeaking on a visit in Norfolk, Prince William also told reporters that doctors were \"keeping an eye\" on his 99-year-old grandfather.\n\nPrince Philip was admitted to the King Edward VII's hospital in London last week as a precaution.\n\nThe exact reason for his admission has not been disclosed but his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source said on Friday that it was likely Prince Philip would stay in hospital into this week.\n\nHe was visited by his son, the Prince of Wales, on Saturday.\n\nA palace source previously said that the duke, who turns 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nHe had been feeling unwell for a few days and was admitted as a precaution on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBoth he and the Queen, 94, received Covid-19 vaccinations last month.\n\nThe couple, who celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary last November, have been spending lockdown at Windsor Castle with a small household staff.\n\nPrince Charles, 72, spent about 30 minutes at the hospital visiting his father on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said he returned to his Highgrove residence after the visit.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge was asked about his grandfather while visiting a Covid vaccination centre in Norfolk\n\nPrince William was asked about the duke's health during a visit to a Covid-19 vaccination centre in the King's Lynn Corn Exchange, in Norfolk. It is near Anmer Hall, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been staying with their children during lockdown.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family have also continued with their official duties in the past few days.\n\nThe Queen knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor on Thursday.\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall unveiled a plaque to thank NHS workers during a visit to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham last week.\n\nPrince Philip has received treatment for various health conditions over the years, including a blocked coronary artery in 2011, a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.", "First Minister Arlene Foster wants the Stormont executive to \"revisit\" its discussion about the reopening date for schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe was speaking after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his lockdown exit plan, with 8 March set for the return all schoolchildren in England.\n\nIn NI, only children in preschool. nursery and primaries one to three will return to school on that date.\n\nSome principals have questioned Mrs Foster's call to reconsider that date.\n\nMrs Foster said Education Minister Peter Weir's preference was for all children to return to back at school on 8 March.\n\n\"Unfortunately our health advisors didn't think that that was the right way forward,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand that we have to take a safe and sustainable way forward but I hope that we can now revisit that again because I know full well from my own experience the kitchen table is no substitute for a classroom.\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader added: \"I'm not a teacher - teachers are professionally trained and therefore it is vital that we get our young people back into schools as soon as possible.\"\n\nArlene Foster says the progress made by the vaccination programme is giving a sense of optimism\n\nHowever Sinn Féin's education spokesperson said \"nothing has changed since last Thursday\".\n\n\"The [chief medical officer] told us last week that the reopening of schools completely would lead to a rise in the R number by between 0.3 and 0.7,\" Pat Sheehan told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\"If the R rate at the minute is sitting around 0.75, even if we only hit that lowest number, it brings us back above one and we're back in the exact same situation again.\"It's disappointing that Arlene wants to go and make policy on the hoof in interviews on the TV last night.\"You would think by now that the DUP would have learned not to hitch their wagon to Boris.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, speaking before the prime minister's announcement on Monday, said Northern Ireland's health officials had advised a slow and steady approach to schools.\n\nShe believed the executive had taken a \"very responsible approach\" in relation to a phased return to school.\n\nBut she added \"we're not out of the woods yet\" and insisted it was important to be honest with the public that it will be a \"slow and steady approach\" to lifting lockdown.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Maeve O'Lynn, whose son is a primary six pupil, said the uncertainty was \"creating a lot of anxiety and a lot of stress\".\n\nSome school principals are questioning Arlene Foster's call to reconsider the return-to-school date\n\n\"We were only being told last week that following the scientific advice... it was only safe to have the youngest children in,\" she said.\n\n\"Then suddenly the children in England are going back in and our first minister is saying to us late yesterday: 'Actually, we need to look at this again.'\n\n\"It leaves you feeling very unsure, very uncertain and not sure if you can trust what is being said.\"\n\nDiane Dawson, the principal of Braniel Primary School in Belfast, said children had to get back to school but the decision about how soon to allow that should be based on evidence from Northern Ireland's health officials.\n\n\"It can't be done because Boris Johnson makes an announcement five days after our executive have made a decision based on our science,\" she said.\n\n\"It is not good enough to make a decision... and not consult with us to respond fully and communicate properly to our parents, and now to say it's going to be revisited - on the basis of what?\n\n\"Someone needs to start talking to school leaders.\"\n\nWhiteabbey Primary School principal Keith Wysner said there needed to be \"sensible caution and we need to progress in a sustainable way\".\n\nMaire Thompson, the principal of Hazelwood Integrated College in Belfast, said that having pupils return to classrooms in phases was a \"much better approach to this\".\n\nStormont ministers are due to review the existing lockdown measures next Monday and discuss the next steps in their response to the pandemic.\n\nThe plan for schools in Northern Ireland is for students doing courses for GCSEs, AS, A-levels (in years 12 to 14) and other vocational qualifications like BTec will return to face-to-face teaching from 22 March.\n\nAll school pupils in England are to return to the classroom on 8 March\n\nBut pupils in years four to seven in primary school and years eight to 11 in post-primary schools will not be back in classrooms until after the Easter break at the earliest.\n\nMrs Foster said Health Minister Robin Swann confirmed the Covid-19 vaccination programme was making good progress and offered cause for hope.\n\n\"He confirmed to me that over 32% of our adult population have now been vaccinated - nearly 500,000 vaccines have been deployed here in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\n\"I very much hope that we can give optimism next Monday.\n\n\"The brighter days are coming - people do feel a sense of optimism not least because of our vaccination programme.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the full statement by Boris Johnson on England's roadmap out of the Covid-19 lockdown\n\nA new four-step plan to ease England's lockdown could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nShops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April in England under plans set out by the PM.\n\nFrom 17 May, two households might be allowed to mix in homes, while the rule of six could apply in places like pubs.\n\nIt requires four tests on vaccines, infection rates and new coronavirus variants to be met at each stage.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs the plan aimed to be \"cautious but irreversible\" and at every stage decisions would be led by \"data not dates\".\n\nThere was \"no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain nor indeed a zero-Covid world\", he said.\n\nMr Johnson later told a Downing Street news conference the coming spring and summer would be \"seasons of hope, looking and feeling incomparably better for us all\".\n\nHe described the plan as a \"one-way road to freedom\" but said he could not guarantee it would be irreversible \"but the intention is that it should be\".\n\nIt comes as the first data on the UK's coronavirus vaccine rollout suggested it was having a \"spectacular\" impact on stopping serious illness.\n\nAs part of the first step of the plan for easing lockdown in England:\n\nSecondary school pupils can access tests and will be required to wear face coverings in classrooms and shared spaces like corridors.\n\nThere will be a gap of at least five weeks between each of the plan's subsequent steps to allow for the impact of changes on infection rates and hospital admissions to be assessed.\n\nThe second step from 12 April would see major parts of the economy permitted to reopen:\n\nBut wider social contact rules will continue to apply in all settings - meaning no indoor mixing between different households will be allowed.\n\nMr Johnson confirmed the end of hospitality curfews - and requirements to eat a substantial meal alongside alcohol.\n\nHe said a review of international leisure travel restrictions would be announced by 12 April at the earliest.\n\nFunerals continue with up to 30 people, and weddings with up to 15 guests.\n\nThe third step will come from 17 May - if the data allows - and will see the \"rule of six\" abolished for outdoor gatherings, replaced with a limit of 30 people:\n\nUp to 30 people will be able to attend weddings, receptions, funerals and wakes.\n\nMr Johnson said this step would also \"consider the potential role of Covid status certification\" - which could refer to so-called \"vaccine passports\" - in helping indoor venues to reopen safely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty explains the length of gaps between each stage of reopening\n\nBefore the fourth step, ministers will carry out a review into social distancing and other \"long-term measures\" designed to reduce transmission, including the \"one metre plus\" rule and the wearing of face coverings.\n\nThey will also consider whether to lift the \"work from home\" guidance, which the government says people should continue to follow until the review has been completed.\n\nThe fourth step from 21 June will potentially see all legal limits on social contact removed, with the final closed sectors of the economy reopened - such as nightclubs.\n\nThe government hopes that - from this date - restrictions on weddings and funerals will also be abolished.\n\nMusic and events leaders called for more financial support for the sector, with the boss of one live music trade body saying his industry is \"at the back of the queue to re-open\" once restrictions are lifted.\n\nMPs will vote on the roadmap in late March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the plan but said certainty was needed over the future of the government furlough scheme for both businesses and workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance says home-working and mask-wearing measures may continue until next winter\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, said he thought the roadmap struck the \"right balance\" - but warned reopening schools risks increasing the number of cases reported each day.\n\nSpeaking later at the Downing Street briefing, UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it was \"very important\" to leave a gap of five weeks between the changes in the roadmap to avoid \"flying blind\".\n\nSir Patrick also said \"baseline\" measures - such as face coverings in certain situations, hand washing, and self-isolation - may be necessary next winter.\n\nThe vaccines are working well and infection levels have fallen to a fifth of what they were since the start of the year.\n\nSo why, many may ask, is there such caution?\n\nThe answer lies in the mountain of data published by the government as it unveiled its roadmap.\n\nAmong the documents was modelling done by Imperial College London.\n\nIt showed a rapid easing of restrictions could lead to surge in deaths over the summer and a total of 80,000 deaths by the middle of 2022.\n\nThere is much uncertainty about scenarios like this - for one thing it did not take into account any seasonal impact that the warmer weather could bring by reducing spread of the virus.\n\nThe gradual lifting could, by comparison, reduce that to around 30,000. That would bring it in line with the sort of deaths we could see during a bad flu winter.\n\nUK chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty says that should be the context in which we judge Covid now.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions but have largely moved in the same direction, though at different speeds, during the pandemic.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland would return to a tiered system of restrictions when lockdown measures are eased.\n\nIt means different parts of the country could be under different rules. Ms Sturgeon added that she would set out the likely phases for a gradual lifting of restrictions on Tuesday.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he hopes the \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster wants its executive to discuss the reopening date for schools following Mr Johnson's announcement in England.\n\nThe prime minister addressed the 1922 backbench committee of Conservative MPs tonight.\n\nHe faced criticism of what some saw as slow progress in removing restrictions.\n\nOne participant suggested he was talking \"gibberish\" when he compared his routemap to a motorway journey.\n\nAnother said the PM had been \"rattled\".\n\nWhat annoyed some MPs was an apparent lack of flexibility in the plan with restrictions not being lifted \"before\" certain dates.\n\nHe was urged to keep open the possibility of bringing these dates forward if data allowed but there was \"no backtracking\" on the five-week wait between steps.\n\nThe prime minister also said that \"a debate had to be had\" on domestic vaccine passport certificates.\n\nIt came as a further 10,641 coronavirus cases were reported on Monday, alongside another 178 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMore than 17.7 million people across the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, according to latest government figures.", "Gareth and Claire McKeever of Pure Lakes Skin Care in Kendal\n\nA number of businesses will be able to reopen from 12 April if conditions are met, the Prime Minister has announced.\n\nThe news has prompted relief across the business community, although many sectors warn they remain under severe financial pressure.\n\n\"We are delighted to have some dates to work towards at last,\" skincare maker Gareth McKeever told the BBC.\n\nHe and wife Claire hand-make Pure Lakes Skin Care products at a workshop in the Lake District.\n\nThey supply hotels and shops, as well as sell online, but lost four-fifths of their business during lockdown, so have been desperate for some certainty about the future so they can plan.\n\n\"Although our online sales have been a Godsend during lockdown, 80% of our business is supplying hospitality and non-essential retail, and that disappeared almost overnight,\" said Mr McKeever.\n\n\"We may still have some time to wait before these customers can reopen but at least we can now start to plan ahead and prepare.\"\n\nHe added that for a small, family-run business with limited access to third-party finance, \"uncertainty is a huge obstacle\" to buying raw materials and maintaining stock levels, let alone future growth plans.\n\n\"It is a big relief that we now have something to work towards.\"\n\nRestaurants and non-essential retailers have given a cautious welcome to the roadmap with its offer of hope of reopenings.\n\nMark Smith, marketing adviser for the Franzos chicken chain in the south east of England, said the news was a relief.\n\n\"It is great to hear the announcement today, a clear roadmap with restaurants allowed to allow customers to dine-in again inside in May,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We, as does the wider hospitality industry, welcome this decision and can't wait to welcome customers back.\"\n\nIan Watson, chief executive of Hotter Shoes in Lancashire, is pleased but cautious: \"It's good to see a route map for the reopening of non-essential retail, however I worry it is still lacking in confirmed dates and reliant on many ifs and buts.\"\n\nHe said retailers will need to understand the confirmed dates and criteria they are working to, \"not only so that we can prepare the business internally, but in order to care for our staff and our suppliers effectively.\n\n\"Our retail staff have been in limbo for the majority of the past 12 months, and now need clarity on when they will be returning to work.\"\n\nOther business sectors have welcomed the possibility of starting up again, but have warned that they will need more help to survive.\n\nHaving some certainty will help the events industry, said Matthew Shaw, creative director at events company Sauveur.\n\n\"The events and weddings industries have been crying out for a clear framework from which to build. At long last, this roadmap offers some much-needed visibility and guidance,\" he said. But he warned that it is only the first step.\n\n\"The second summer season decimated by the pandemic will not be easy,\" said Mr Shaw.\n\n\"It's vital that the Budget includes extensive support for freelancers and the self-employed, a clear plan for small businesses, and a substantial commitment to the events industry.\"\n\nSarah Haywood, spokesperson for the UK Weddings Taskforce, warned that 400,000 jobs in the industry remain at risk.\n\n\"It is disappointing that for the next four months we will only gradually get to 30 guests permitted at a wedding. This is simply unviable for most businesses,\" she warned.\n\n\"The infrastructure at the heart of our sector is close to collapse and until weddings can proceed normally, 400,000 jobs across 60,000 businesses remain in jeopardy.\"\n\nThe hospitality sector is also on a knife-edge, said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\nCouples who have splashed out on dream wedding venues say they are struggling to get new dates booked\n\n\"The sector is devastated that its reopening will be so far away. From the start of November, the sector will have been closed for nearly 200 days, with just a couple of weeks of heavily-restricted trading in December,\" she said.\n\n\"A major package of financial support is imperative if hospitality is to survive.\"\n\nThe gym sector too will need support, said Neil Randall, chief executive of Anytime Fitness UK.\n\n\"Today's announcement is a positive step and we acknowledge that leisure and gym facilities been given next priority after education and outdoor sport,\" said Mr Randall.\n\n\"However, we urge the chancellor to provide a comprehensive relief package for our sector which was endured over eight months of closure in the past twelve months.\"\n\nJonathan Geldart, director general of The Institute of Directors said: \"It is crucial that businesses have clarity around how the government perceives the UK is meeting its four key tests to help them plan, taking into considering the lead time's they need to ensure workplaces are Covid-safe and so they can start rehiring.\"\n\nMike Chery, national chairman, The Federation of Small Businesses said: \"It's important for this plan to protect against a fourth Covid wave and accompanying lockdown, the imposition of which would be devastating for the 250,000 firms that fear closure this year. The Chancellor must deliver on the Prime Minister's 'whatever it takes' pledge at next week's Budget.\"\n\nIan Wright, chief executive of The Food and Drink Federation said: \"For a great many of the food and drink manufacturers supplying the hospitality and food service sectors, a return to 'business as usual' seems an awful long way off. As such, it is only correct that the Chancellor outlines significant extensions to the furlough and credit insurance schemes as part of his Budget announcement next week.\"\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK said: \"We're grateful to the Prime Minister and Department for Transport for providing the clarity the whole sector was looking for that international travel can reopen this summer, as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: \"The fact that retail showrooms must remain closed until April at least, is deeply disappointing given these facilities are Covid-secure, large premises with low footfall and able to operate on an appointment-only basis.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nA decision on whether Scotland's Six Nations match in Paris can go ahead is expected on Wednesday after no more coronavirus cases were found in the latest round of testing.\n\nThe French Rugby Federation announced on Monday that five more players - including captain Charles Ollivon - had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nTen France players are isolating and will be unavailable for Sunday's game.\n\nLes Bleus are top of the Six Nations table after beating Italy and Ireland.\n\n\"Ensuring the health and safety of all players and staff is our number one priority,\" said a Six Nations statement.\n\n\"Should the decision be that the fixture cannot go ahead, the match will be rescheduled for the earliest possible date.\n\n\"Six Nations would like to wish all affected players, coaches, and support team a speedy recovery.\"\n\nScottish Rugby released a statement saying they could be without 10 players should the game be rearranged for another date.\n\nThe earliest possible date would appear to be next weekend, which is a rest week for the tournament and outside of World Rugby's designated international window.\n\nUnder World Rugby regulations, Scotland's players based in England and France will be released back to their clubs for domestic duty.\n\n\"Any postponement will have an impact on the player release agreement in place with clubs,\" said the statement.\n\n\"We will be working closely with our Six Nations counterparts to press the case for this week's game to go ahead, should it be medically safe to do so.\"\n\nMauvaka is the only one of the 10 players to have contracted the virus who did not feature in the matchday 23 for the round two win over Ireland.\n\nThe players and staff involved will return home to isolate and the rest of the side will return to training on Wednesday with testing taking place every 24 hours.\n\nStar scrum-half Antoine Dupont, centre Arthur Vincent, hooker Julien Marchand, wing Gabin Villiere, and prop Mohamed Haouas are already isolating after returning positive tests last week.\n\nHead coach Fabien Galthie and assistant William Servat also tested positive earlier this week and have been isolating.\n\nUncapped players Gaetan Barlot, Thierry Paiva and Cyril Cazeaux have been called up to the squad, along with Baptiste Pesenti and Thomas Ramos.\n\nScotland are fourth in the Six Nations table after winning their opening game against England before losing to Wales.\n• None The boys are back and wondering when Peter was at 'peak Crouch'", "The River Usk burst its banks, affecting roads in Crickhowell and nearby Llangattock in Powys\n\nNowhere near enough money is being invested in flood prevention in Wales, the leader of Plaid Cymru has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated and roads were closed as some areas saw a month's worth of rain within 24 hours.\n\nA pub owner in Powys said his pub was flooded on Saturday - a year after it suffered more than £400,000 worth of damage during Storm Dennis.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had invested more than £390m to manage flood risk in the past five years.\n\nAdam Price said the \"severity and frequency\" of flooding events \"should convince us all that flooding needs to become a strategic national priority\".\n\nHoward Baker, owner of the Bridge End Inn in Crickhowell, said the pub was flooded for the 30th time in 22 years at the weekend.\n\nThe pub, which sits on the banks of the River Usk, was gutted during Storm Dennis last February.\n\n\"It's taken us a year to get the pub back to where it was and this flood has taken it all out apart from the top floor,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"We have just spent 12 months and a lot of insurance money on doing it up, and now we are back to stage one again.\"\n\nAll three floors of the Bridge End Inn in Crickhowell, Powys, were damaged by floods during Storm Dennis last year\n\nMr Baker said his insurance company has told him it would cover the costs of repairing the latest damage - estimated at between £20,000 and £30,000 - but would not cover him for flooding when it is time to renew his policy.\n\nHe added: \"It's devastating. With these floods that are happening, when you lose your home, it's terrible. When you lose your business, it's terrible, but to lose two of them in one go, it's heart-breaking.\"\n\nGary Rees employs 12 people at his lorry repair garage in Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire, which was flooded during Storm Callum in 2018, and had come \"within an inch\" of being flooded again on Saturday.\n\nHe said insurance costs for his business had shot up to £30,000 since the floods in 2018.\n\n\"Had that flood come in, I would have had no alternative but to close the garage and pack it in,\" he said.\n\nThe Quay Centre community hub sits on the bank of the River Towy in Carmarthen\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast, Mr Price said: \"On the evidence of the last few days, once again, the fact that the severity and the frequency of these flooding events should I think convince all of us that flooding needs to become a strategic national priority.\n\n\"And in particular, we are investing nowhere near what is necessary to provide the level of resilience that is required to our communities.\n\n\"We need urgency in terms of getting from where we are now to providing the level of investment that for example the National Infrastructure Commission has recommended.\"\n\nParts of the Tywi Valley, near Capel Dewi in Carmarthenshire, were flooded\n\nWelsh Conservative member of the Senedd (MS) Janet Finch-Saunders said: \"Once again Wales is being hit by flooding, with people's homes and businesses being devastated, and yet very little has happened since the major floods last year to prevent or reduce their impact.\n\n\"The Welsh Government has had responsibility to protect communities from flooding for 20 years and yet year after year communities continue to be blighted.\n\n\"We need action not words to prevent flooding in the future.\"\n\nTheir calls come after 5in (127.6mm) of rain fell at Llyn-y-Fan, Carmarthenshire, between 06:00 on Friday and 08:00 on Saturday, and 4.5in (115mm) at Treherbert in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThat compares to an average rainfall of 3.9in (98mm) for the whole of February in south Wales.\n\nOne year ago, communities across the south Wales valleys were devastated by floods caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We know major flooding incidents are devastating for communities.\n\n\"Between 2016 and 2021, Welsh Government invested more than £390m in helping manage flood risk.\"\n\nThe River Cynin bursts its banks at St Clears\n\nIt said it would \"continue to pro-actively manage and respond to flood risk across Wales\" in line with its new National Strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management.", "P1 pupils Grace Lee (left) and classmate Grace McKeeman, both aged five, arrive for their first day back at Inverkip Primary School\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are returning to the classroom for the first time since the Christmas break.\n\nIt is stage one in a phased reopening of schools which have been closed to all but a minority of pupils since the beginning of January.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney insisted \"detailed clinical analysis\" assured him it is safe.\n\nBut concerns have been raised about the measures in place to reduce risk of transmission.\n\nMr Swinney told BBC's Good Morning Scotland that case prevalence data would be closely monitored to determine the impact of the phase one return.\n\nBut he said Scotland would not be following England, where all pupils are due to return to school on 8 March.\n\nAsked if it would be \"dangerous\" to send everyone back on that date, Mr Swinney said: \"I wouldn't have clinical authorisation to do that.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister added: \"We will move as quickly as we possibly can do but we have to do it within the scientific and clinical advice that is available to us.\"\n\nMr Swinney also urged parents to act responsibly during the first phase of lockdown easing.\n\nHe added: \"The biggest threat to the opening of schools is not outbreaks in schools. It is community transmission.\"\n\nEpidemiologist Dr Deepti Gurdasani told BBC Scotland at the weekend there was some evidence from England that younger children could bring infections back into homes.\n\nBut Prof Devi Sridhar, chairwoman of global public health at Edinburgh University, said the return of schools was about balancing the \"risks and benefits\".\n\nShe told BBC Good Morning Scotland: \"There will likely be cases emerging in schools over the next few weeks but the vast majority of schools should be fine, and that we have to keep perspective on.\"\n\nShe said the majority of scientific evidence was that there is an \"age gradient\" in infections - with very few outbreaks in nurseries but with teenagers and university students much more prone to infection.\n\nProf Sridhar added: \"I think what we have to do is work back up through that gradient. We are doing that starting with primaries and early years - the approach Denmark has also taken.\"\n\nOn Sunday the deputy first minister pointed to documents prepared by a government expert advisory group which states that younger children are less likely to catch or pass on the virus than older children and adults.\n\nAre you a parent or a teacher? How do you feel about children returning to school? 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\nPlans to reopen schools have been welcomed by opposition parties but the Scottish Conservatives have urged the government to publish plans for helping pupils catch-up with schooling they have missed.\n\nAs well as the youngest children returning to school, a small number of senior secondary pupils will be allowed into school buildings on a part-time basis to complete work for national qualifications.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home and it is unlikely they will return to the classroom before 15 March at the earliest.\n\nIn primary schools measures to minimise the spread of the virus include regular hand-washing, open windows, and 2m physical distancing between adults, and between adults and children.\n\nStaff will also be offered regular lateral flow tests.\n\nResources to support learners, teachers and parents during lockdown.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, the national clinical director, has written to parents asking them to play their part in the safe return.\n\nAppealing to parents not to relax the rules elsewhere, he reminded them that indoor play dates are not allowed - though children can play together outside.\n\nAnd he said parents should continue to work from home if they are able to do so.\n\nMr Swinney's safety assurance came after an epidemiology expert raised concerns about the knock-on effects of sending children back to school.\n\nDr Deepti Gurdasani, of Queen Mary University of London, said data from England showed primary school children were two times more likely to be the first Covid case in a household, and once infected were two times more likely to infect their contacts.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, she said children aged six and above should wear masks in schools and more attention should be paid to ventilation.\n\nThe EIS teaching union has also raised concerns about school safety and have said a blended learning model - with about half of pupils in classes at any one time - would be more appropriate.", "The prime minister struck a largely optimistic tone tonight .He was unveiling a \"one-way road to freedom\".\n\nBut it’s not clear that the journey will end on 21 June.\n\nThat’s the earliest date in the road map for the lifting of restrictions in England.\n\nBut at his press conference, Boris Johnson was careful to say this is when \"most\" restrictions will be lifted.\n\nThe accompanying document has made clear \"the government cannot rule out re-imposing economic and social restrictions at a local or regional level... to suppress a variant which escapes the vaccine\".\n\nBut even if that pessimistic pandemic twist doesn’t happen, at the end of the vaccination programme only two-thirds of the population will be inoculated.\n\nSo while 21 June could be the day when rules governing how many of us can meet and where will end, some of the now familiar paraphernalia of the pandemic could be with us for some time - some degree of social distancing, testing, and, yes, self-isolation.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson pointed out that quite a few matters are under review including the \"complex\" issue of whether to issue vaccination certificates.\n\nAnd while overall the prime minister was upbeat - \"spring is on its way\" - his medical and scientific advisers managed to restrain any enthusiasm.\n\nThere were warnings that Covid-19 could still be with us for several winters.\n\nAnd that’s worrying some of Boris Johnson's own MPs.\n\nThey say he is already moving far too slowly down \"Freedom Road\" and fear that he may yet do a U-turn and head, to them, back in the wrong direction.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe team who cared for a rare Amazonian cactus that flowered for just one night have been \"overwhelmed\" by the global response to the bloom.\n\nExperts at Cambridge University Botanic Garden believe it is the first time the moonflower Selenicereus wittii has bloomed in the UK.\n\nThousands tuned in as the flowering drew close and a YouTube stream has had almost 195,000 views.\n\nGlasshouse supervisor Alex Summers said the experience had been \"amazing\".\n\nMr Summers said the flower's scent changed from \"lovely\" to something \"in the realm of public toilets\"\n\nA webcam had been focused on the single bud for the previous 11 days.\n\nMr Summers said the flower, which was spotted developing in November, had been \"supposed to come out\" at 21:00, \"but plants never read the books\".\n\nHe said since the bloom, the team had \"been able to record it, pollinate it and share it with as many people as possible\".\n\nHowever, only the glasshouse's staff have been able to experience its unique scent, which Mr Summers said had \"started off... like honeysuckle or gardenias\", but by morning, had \"slightly altered and we're now in the realm of public toilets\".\n\nThe bud was spotted developing by the garden's staff in November\n\nThe plant normally grows high above the Amazonian floodplains by attaching itself to a host plant and flowers at night to attract its two pollinating species of hawkmoth.\n\nThe delicate petals of the white flower, measuring 11in (28cm) long by 6in (15cm) wide and sitting at a height of 12ft (3.5m) on the plant, started to fade overnight.\n\nThe garden's dedicated moonflower page has received nearly 205,000 views, from people as far afield as Australia, Finland and Thailand.\n\nThe moonflower started to bloom in the early afternoon and not at sunset as expected\n\nMr Summers said he thought the interest was due to the cactus usually being \"inaccessible\" where it grows in the \"deepest, darkest Amazon\".\n\nHe said the team had been \"overwhelmed\", adding: \"People have followed it from start to finish.\"\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.", "Secondary school pupils could have two Covid tests a week at home\n\nAll schools in England are going back from 8 March, the prime minister has confirmed, with schools able to decide a phased return during that week.\n\nThere will be mass Covid testing in secondary schools - with parents expected to carry out the testing at home, after three tests in school.\n\nHome testing for secondary pupils will be twice weekly - but with no testing so far planned for primary pupils.\n\nFace masks will also be required in some secondary school classrooms.\n\nAttendance will be compulsory when schools go back, with penalty fines able to be imposed.\n\nSchools can decide how they stagger the return for different year groups during the first week\n\n\"All the evidence shows that schools are safe and the risk posed to children by Covid is vanishingly small,\" the Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a press conference on Monday evening.\n\n\"But to offer even greater reassurance we're introducing twice weekly testing of secondary school and college pupils and asking them to wear face coverings for the rest of this term.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said \"the priority must be for all children to be back in school as quickly as possible and to stay in school\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, warned getting all pupils back at the same time \"runs the risk of increasing the rate of infection and prolonging the damaging cycle of stop-start schooling\".\n\nIndividual schools can decide on testing arrangements and how year groups go back during the week, but Mr Barton suggested it could need to be staggered over two weeks.\n\nUK chief medical adviser Chris Whitty emphasised his support for the return to school - and that the benefits outweighed any \"very small residual risk\".\n\n\"Everything is strongly in favour of children, whether primary or secondary, going to school - and the data on that I think are unambiguous,\" he said.\n\nProf Whitty said there were extra safety measures in place for this reopening - with testing, the greater use of masks and an early \"natural fire break\" of the Easter holidays.\n\nAfter three Covid tests in secondary school and one home test, there will be twice-weekly tests carried out by parents and carers at home.\n\nThe tests are voluntary and will operate \"based on trust\", officials said.\n\nTesting has already been operating in schools open for key worker and vulnerable children\n\nBut it remains uncertain how parents will feel about carrying out the lateral flow tests, which are usually swab tests, taking a sample from the back of the throat or from the nose.\n\nSchools will continue to provide some testing facilities for those children whose parents might not be able to carry out testing.\n\nWhen schools return, face masks will be required in some secondary and further education classrooms, at least for the rest of this term.\n\nThe Department for Education said there would be a requirement to \"wear face coverings indoors, including classrooms\" where social distancing of two metres cannot be maintained.\n\nBut the National Deaf Children's Society warned that face masks in the classroom will have a \"devastating effect\" on deaf children's ability to take part in lessons.\n\nStaff in primary school will be expected to wear face masks in corridors and communal areas \"where social distancing between adults is not possible\".\n\nThe return for all schools and colleges will be from the week starting 8 March.\n\nSchools will be able to decide how the return will be organised, with discretion over a phased return for the first week, such as the whether some year groups are brought back earlier.\n\nYoung pupils in Scotland have gone back to school\n\nBut an alliance of teachers' and head teachers' unions warned that sending back 10 million children and school staff at the same time was \"reckless\" and risked triggering a fresh wave of infections.\n\nA Sage scientific advisory group meeting from 28 January, with minutes published on Monday, cautioned with \"medium confidence\" that the \"opening of primary and secondary schools is likely to increase effective R by a factor of 1.1 to 1.5 (10% to 50%)\".\n\nThe National Education Union said the reopening plan showed the prime minister, \"despite all his words of caution, failed to learn the lessons of his previous mistakes\".\n\nMary Bousted, joint leader of the biggest teachers' union, said: \"It remains the case, unfortunately, that cases are three times higher now than when schools re-opened last September.\"\n\nAnother £300m has been added to the £1bn catch-up funding announced last year, in recognition of the amount of time pupils will have missed in school.\n\nThere will be future announcements on how this is likely to be spent, such as on summer clubs, tutoring, after-school lessons, activities and sports.\n\nA school catch-up tsar, Sir Kevan Collins, has been appointed to lead on this recovery, with particular concerns about the biggest negative impact falling on the most disadvantaged.\n\nCancelled GCSEs and A-levels are going to be replaced by teachers' grades, with more details expected on Thursday.\n\nThere will be \"mini-exams\" which are intended to \"inform\" the judgements made by teachers, rather than be used to decide results.\n\nThe mini-exams will be marked by teachers within schools and are likely to be options for schools to use to assess pupils, rather than being compulsory.\n\nResults could be published earlier than usual, allowing more time for appeals ahead of university admissions.\n\nVocational exams are also expected to use teachers' grades, but with different arrangements for qualifications requiring practical skills.\n\nFace-to-face teaching remained open for university students taking hands-on subjects, such as medicine, while other courses have switched online.\n\nA wider range of these practical subjects will return from March 8. But no date has been decided for when most other courses will return to face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe prime minister said a decision would be announced by the end of the Easter holidays, which would be in late April, with students promised at least a week's notice of any return to in-person teaching on campus.\n\nThis could hold out the prospect of a return in the summer term. But a number of universities have already announced they will stay online for most courses for the rest of the academic year.", "Scientists say climate change had an impact on bush fires in Australia in recent years\n\n\"Climate change is a threat to our security,\" Boris Johnson told world leaders as he chaired a United Nations Security Council session.\n\nIt is the first time a British PM has chaired such a meeting since 1992.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the Security Council this month and hosts the COP26 climate summit in November.\n\nThe summit in Glasgow will be attended by dozens of world leaders and is likely to be the most significant round of talks since the global Paris Agreement to tackle climate change was secured in 2015.\n\nAt the council meeting, Mr Johnson said some would argue \"all this green stuff from a bunch of tree-hugging tofu-munchers\" is not a suitable subject for a UN meeting.\n\n\"I couldn't disagree more profoundly,\" he said adding that the council need to act to protect \"peace, security and stability\" around the world.\n\n\"Whether you like it or not it is a matter of when, not if, your country and your people will have to deal with the security impact of climate change,\" he said.\n\nHe also highlighted measures the UK was taking to reduce emissions and stressed the importance of helping vulnerable countries \"adapt and build resilience\".\n\nA Greenpeace spokesperson accused the PM of \"weapons-grade hypocrisy\" for demanding action while \"planning new coal mines at home and stripping funds for carbon-cutting energy efficiency measures\".\n\n\"Until the government starts taking the prime minister's advice, his climate leadership will lack any credibility,\" they said.\n\nThis is the latest in a series of prime ministerial rallying calls on climate change.\n\nThe year is providing a remarkable stage for Boris Johnson's ambition on the topic - from the Security Council to the chairmanship of G7 in June, culminating in the vital Glasgow climate summit in November.\n\nBut as he bestrides the global stage, the PM is under fire for his performance at home.\n\nHis crucial project to cut emissions from home heating - the Green Homes Grant - is in disarray, with the chancellor pulling out funds.\n\nHis government is building the high-speed rail HS2, which is likely to be adding to carbon emissions until the back half of the century. And he's promoting a £27bn road-building programme.\n\nWhat's more, the PM is risking his international reputation by permitting a new coal mine in Cumbria while urging other nations to relinquish coal.\n\nEnvironmentalists say it's time for him to match words with deeds.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the meeting, Sir David said climate change posed \"threats to security of a new and unprecedented kind\".\n\nHe said changes in patterns of weather would \"turn forests into deserts and drown great cities\".\n\nAnd he warned that the world is \"perilously close to tipping points that once past will send global temperatures spiralling catastrophically higher\".\n\n\"If we continue on this path we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security - food production, access to water, ambient temperatures and ocean food chains,\" he said.\n\nHowever he also said the COP26 conference, new technologies and public support for change offered \"grounds for hope\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change could destroy \"entire cities\" in a matter of decades, says Sir David Attenborough\n\nMs Elsaim - who chairs the UN's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change - told the meeting that her country of Sudan was top of the list \"when it comes to climate instability\".\n\nShe said drought and food insecurity would lead to large-scale migration making \"conflict inevitable\".\n\nThe UN Security Council is made up of five permanent members - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC Panorama investigation finds licensed firms involved in the dumping of rubbish\n\nA BBC Panorama investigation has revealed how the government's licensing system for waste carriers fails to stop fly-tipping.\n\nAll businesses that transport and dispose of waste in England have to be licensed with the Environment Agency.\n\nBut there are few checks on who gets a licence and BBC Panorama found licensed firms can still be involved in the dumping of rubbish.\n\nThe government said the licensing system is being reformed.\n\nIt also said councils have been given greater powers to tackle fly-tipping.\n\nPanorama filled a garage in Harlow, Essex with rubbish that would be difficult to dispose of without paying fees under the landfill tax and then asked a licensed company to collect it.\n\nA responsible company would have charged around £200 to take the rubbish away, but Bears Waste Disposal from Letchworth offered to do the job for £120.\n\nTracking devices had been placed in the rubbish by the programme team and the items were later found fly-tipped in a country lane just off the A1.\n\nChris Poulter, from Bears Waste Disposal, later told Panorama he had never fly-tipped and he had sub-contracted the job to somebody else.\n\nHe said he had only taken the Harlow job as a one-off because another waste carrier had offered to dispose of the rubbish for him.\n\n\"I am sorry this has happened,\" he said. \"I would never take any jobs on with the intention of it being fly-tipped.\"\n\nThe most recent government statistics show there were more than a million fly-tipping incidents in 2019 in England alone.\n\nThe licensing system should be one way of stopping fly-tippers, but anyone can get a licence by filling in an online form and paying a fee.\n\nThere is a question that asks if the applicant has been convicted of an environmental crime, but convicted criminals can still get a licence even if they admit to the offence on the form.\n\nAsbestos is amongst the waste being illegally dumped\n\nOne campaigner got a licence in the name of his dead dog Oscar to highlight the flaws in the system.\n\nLast year the government set up a new unit to tackle the most serious cases. The Joint Unit for Waste Crime is targeting the organised criminal gangs that make millions by dumping waste on an industrial scale.\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesman said the Environment Agency had been given additional powers and funding.\n\nHe said: \"We will also reform the licensing system for waste carriers to ensure stricter background and competency checks which, in combination with mandatory electronic waste tracking, will increase compliance and make it harder for criminals to operate.\"\n\nPanorama: Rubbish Dump Britain is on BBC One at 19:35 GMT on Monday 1 March.", "The first data on the UK Covid vaccine rollout suggests it is having a \"spectacular\" impact on stopping serious illness, researchers say.\n\nWithin weeks, one shot reduces the risk of being admitted to hospital by at least three-quarters for the over 80s.\n\nResearchers said this was particularly impressive as this age group was the most frail and least likely to have a strong immune response.\n\nSo far a third of adults have received a vaccination in the UK.\n\nBut questions had been raised about the policy of leaving a gap of three months between first and second doses.\n\nThe data from Public Health England (PHE) and Public Health Scotland (PHS) has been published on the day the government in England has set out its roadmap for lifting restrictions.\n\nThe research was carried out separately in the two nations, but both studies involved tracking those who had been vaccinated and comparing them against people who had not been.\n\nThe PHS study found that, by the fourth week after the first dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines, the risk of being admitted to hospital had been reduced by 81%.\n\nIt was slightly higher when younger age groups were included.\n\nLead researcher Prof Aziz Sheikh said the results were \"very, very\" impressive and both vaccines were working \"spectacularly\".\n\n\"These results are very encouraging and have given us great reasons to be optimistic for the future,\" he added.\n\nIn England researchers followed up those who were vaccinated to see if they became ill, needed to be admitted to hospital and whether they died.\n\nThe cut off was two weeks after being given a Pfizer vaccine.\n\nIt found vaccination reduced the risk of symptomatic infection by 57%; for those infected the risk of being admitted to hospital was reduced by 40% and then if people were admitted to hospital it reduced the risk of dying by 56%.\n\nOverall this meant, the team said, the risk of being admitted to hospital and dying was reduced by at least 75%.\n\nThe PHE team was also able to get an idea of what the vaccine was doing in terms of slowing the spread of the virus.\n\nHealth staff who were vaccinated were routinely tested every two weeks whether or not they had symptoms.\n\nOne dose reduced the risk of catching the infection by 70% - if an individual is not infected they cannot pass it on.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisations of PHE, said: \"We should be very encouraged by these initial findings.\"\n\nAnd she added the findings for the over 80s were particularly impressive as they were the frailest people who are perhaps least likely to have a strong immune response.\n\nTrials of both vaccines had suggested they would have a significant impact at preventing hospitalisations.\n\nBut for the Pfizer vaccine studies, that had involved a second dose being given after three weeks.\n\nThe UK has adopted a policy of delaying the second jab of both vaccines by three months, which had led some to question whether the approach would give sufficient immunity.\n\nThe trials of the AstraZeneca looked at a longer dosing interval so there was more confidence about that vaccine.\n\nDr Josie Murray, of Public Health Scotland, said the findings were \"brilliant news\" and suggested the vaccine programme was working.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Afghanistan is not Vietnam\": President Ghani speaks to exclusively to the BBC\n\nAfghanistan's president says there is a \"window of opportunity to accelerate the peace process\" following Nato's announcement that it has made no final decision on withdrawing troops.\n\nAshraf Ghani made the comments in an exclusive interview with the BBC.\n\nThe Nato military alliance has close to 10,000 troops in the war-torn country. Under a US-Taliban deal, they were due to be withdrawn by May, after 20 years.\n\nBut there are concerns that Taliban violence could intensify.\n\nMr Ghani told the BBC's Lyse Doucet that Nato's announcement provided an opportunity for \"all parties to the conflict to recalculate and reach a conclusion that we've long reached, that use of force is not the solution\".\n\n\"We must reach a political settlement,\" he said.\n\nHe added that there needed to be a \"concerted effort\" internationally \"to send signals that certain types of behaviour are unacceptable\".\n\nThe Afghan president would not be drawn on how many foreign troops were needed, or for how long, saying it \"depends on the intensity of the war\".\n\nAshraf Ghani spoke to the BBC's Lyse Doucet at the Presidential Palace in Kabul\n\nUS President Joe Biden is currently reviewing the deal struck by his predecessor. While most foreign troops now in Afghanistan are not US forces, the Nato operation could find it hard to continue if American support was withdrawn.\n\nThe current US presence in Afghanistan dates back to 2001 when soldiers invaded to remove the Taliban from power, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the movement regrouped and by 2018 was active in more than two-thirds of the country, threatening the elected government.\n\nMr Ghani, who was shut out of the US-Taliban deal, told the BBC he was \"delighted\" with his relationship with the new US administration, and a new \"coherence\" among the international community's approach to Afghanistan's future.\n\n\"The force of coherence is what I'm counting on to avoid the tragedies. There's so many fears of collapse into civil war,\" he said, acknowledging that both sides were preparing for warfare.\n\nBut he dismissed fears of a Taliban military victory. \"This is not Vietnam. The government is not collapsing.\"\n\nHis comments came amid stalled peace talks between the two sides and high levels of violence in the country.\n\nBut Mr Ghani still said the context was \"one of hope, not one of despair\".\n\nThe Afghan leader is now facing growing calls for an interim government to bring the Taliban into power and avoid a descent into chaos and a possible civil war.\n\nHe said his five-year term mattered less than peace, but insisted \"the future will be determined by the people of Afghanistan, not by somebody sitting behind the desk, dreaming\".\n\nHe said hard decisions and sacrifices lie ahead on all sides in a year where peace would be won or lost.\n\n\"From our side, we have a sense of urgency, we're willing to make the hard decisions, and there are going to be hard decisions required. Forty years of violence in this country is enough,\" he said.\n\nThere's a new confidence in the heavily fortified palace.\n\nAfter years when President Trump's team seemed to send signals that the Taliban were worthier partners than the government, President Ghani feels he's now being listened to. But \"be ready to pay a price\" is also the warning conveyed to Kabul by a Washington which still doesn't want to stay a day longer than necessary.\n\nThat price could include President Ghani's five-year term and he seems to know that. But he's still insisting on elections - despite their tarnished history here.\n\nHis allies and enemies have other ideas on how to move more quickly towards a power-sharing arrangement. Some express cautious optimism a deal could be done in months. Others, including President Ghani, may believe gaps are too big to bridge so they're preparing for a hard fight.\n\nWhatever the change in mood, beyond palace walls Afghans are still losing their lives, day in day out.", "Police said the car park was \"evidently not a place of worship\"\n\nPolice have handed a £10,000 fine to the organiser of a church meet-up in a pub car park.\n\nOfficers from Nottinghamshire Police said the Church on the Streets service, involving about 30 people in Bardney Drive, Bulwell, Nottingham, broke lockdown rules.\n\nThey said when officers arrived, at about 12:15 GMT on Saturday, there were tents, food and a sound system.\n\nBut the church's pastor, Chez Weir, has said she will contest the fine.\n\nInsp James Walker, from the force, said they had been advising the group for a number of weeks about how and where they could worship during lockdown.\n\n\"Over the last week in particular, we have absolutely clarified these events are not allowed,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the rules state you can attend places of worship, this car park is evidently not a place of worship.\n\n\"Despite the warnings given over the last week in particular, this event continued to go ahead and that is why we have implemented our last resort of enforcement.\"\n\nThe pastor said those attending the gathering stayed in their cars\n\nThe pastor said those attending Church on the Streets gatherings stayed in their cars and the food, tents and sound system were all part of the service.\n\nShe said she had worked with the police throughout and had recently been advised against using a different car park for worship but did not realise the restriction also applied to the pub car park.\n\n\"We've looked at the guidelines and they are very vague,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm really disappointed. I'm going to challenge it because I don't believe I've done anything wrong.\"\n\nPeople are allowed to gather at places of worship under current lockdown rules.\n\nGovernment guidance states a place of worship can be somewhere used for religious gatherings, even sites usually used for other things.\n\nBut it adds they must be permitted to be open during lockdown and \"additional guidance may be applicable\".\n\nIt also recommends that, where possible, places of worship continue to stream worship or other events to avoid large gatherings.\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.", "Five activists have been removed by bailiffs since the protest began on 26 January\n\nAn activist who has been leading a protest against the HS2 railway project from inside a network of central London tunnels has been removed by bailiffs.\n\nGeography lecturer Larch Maxey had spent almost a month in the tunnels near Euston station, which are thought to be 100ft (30m) long.\n\nHe is the fifth protester to be removed from the tunnels, while another four are thought to remain underground.\n\nHS2 Ltd said it was likely Dr Maxey would face criminal charges.\n\nThe tunnels, which were discovered on 26 January, were dug in secret by HS2 Rebellion protesters to thwart their eviction from their Euston Square Gardens camp, which was set up in September in protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHS2 Ltd has always maintained it has \"legal possession\" of the land and has constantly urged protesters to leave \"for their own safety\" before they are removed by High Court enforcement officers.\n\nDr Maxey said in a video that his belongings were confiscated by bailiffs on Monday and although he \"feels fine\", medics had persuaded him to go to hospital to \"be on the safe side\".\n\nThe 48-year-old added: \"I've basically met my match, they've come for me and they've rinsed me completely.\n\n\"They've got all my stuff, they've got me backed into a corner and at that point I was like 'OK I'm coming out'.\"\n\nPreviously Scott Breen, Lachlan Sandford, a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were removed from the tunnel and taken to court.\n\nThe network of tunnels was revealed by the BBC on 26 January\n\nAn HS2 spokesman said Dr Maxey was likely to face charges \"for aggravated trespass or other related offences\" as well as penalties for breaching a High Court order issued on 2 February.\n\nBreaching the order is punishable by a fine, up to two years in prison, or both, the spokesman added.\n\nHe added: \"We continue to do all we can to end this illegal action safely, and we reiterate our message to those who remain underground to comply with their court orders and exit the tunnel immediately - for their own safety and that of the HS2 staff, agents and emergency service personnel involved in this operation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The band won a Grammy for album of the year in 2014\n\nDaft Punk, who were responsible for some of the most influential dance tracks of all time, have announced their retirement after nearly 30 years.\n\nThe duo broke the news in a typically-enigmatic video, titled Epilogue.\n\nIn the clip, musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, dressed in their iconic robot costumes, bid each other farewell in the desert, before one of them self-destructed.\n\nThe band's longtime publicist confirmed the split to the BBC.\n\nFormed in Paris in 1993, the group brought the French underground house scene into the charts with hits like One More Time, Da Funk and Around The World.\n\nTheir debut album, Homework, is considered a landmark in dance music; while they scored a worldwide hit in 2013 with the retro-disco single Get Lucky, featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.\n\nThe song was taken from their most recent record, Random Access Memories, which won the Grammy for album of the year in 2014.\n\nSince then, the band have kept a relatively low profile - although they collaborated with R&B star The Weeknd on two tracks, Starboy and I Feel It Coming, in 2016.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFamously publicity-shy, the musicians were seldom seen in public without their robot headgear, and used processed, computerised vocals on almost all of their biggest hits.\n\n\"We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features,\" de Homem-Christo once told Rolling Stone magazine, \"but the robots are exciting to people.\"\n\nAs they called time on their career, dozens of artists recognised Daft Punk's impact on dance music.\n\n\"Eternally grateful,\" wrote Christine and the Queens on Twitter. \"Thank you Daft Punk for everything! We will miss you!\" added Swedish DJ Alesso.\n\n\"Thankful to be a part of the journey,\" said The Weeknd on his Instagram Story.\n\nBangalter and de Homem-Christo met at school in Paris, and began making music together as teenagers alongside Laurent Brancowicz - later of the indie band Phoenix.\n\nOriginally called Darlin', the trio released some incredibly basic garage rock songs on a UK compilation album, Shimmies In Super 8, in 1993.\n\nA review in Melody Maker called the music \"a daft punky thrash\" - indirectly christening the band's second incarnation.\n\nPretty soon, they had abandoned rock for dance music. A subsequent Darlin' song called Untitled 18 sampled David Bowie's Starman and marked their first experimentation with robotic vocals.\n\nA year later, they passed a cassette of their music to Stuart MacMillan, co-founder of the Scottish techno label Soma, at a rave in Disneyland Paris. On it was the first official Daft Punk song - The New Wave, an uncompromising techno assault on the senses which Soma released in 1994.\n\nBut it was Da Funk's infectiously zany mix of G-funk and acid house that really put them on the map.\n\nOriginally pressed in a limited run of 2,000 12-inch records, it was virtually ignored until The Chemical Brothers started playing it in their DJ sets. By the end of 1995, it had sold 30,000 copies and as voted song of the year by French club magazine Soda.\n\nA record label bidding war ensued, with the band eventually signing to Virgin Records and releasing Homework - recorded in Bangalter's bedroom - in 1996.\n\nThere was something cartoonish about the band's early singles that compensated for the anonymity of the men behind them. It was an idea compounded by Michel Gondry's mesmerising video for Around The World, where every instrument is represented by a groups of dancers (skeletons represent the guitar line, mummies act out the drum pattern and synchronised swimmers are the synths).\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 Partizan 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 2 by Partizan Official\n\nIt took three years for the band to record a follow-up, during which time Bangalter also scored a major hit - Music Sounds Better with You - with his side project Stardust.\n\nDiscovery, released in 2001, was almost wilfully anti-cool, steeped in references to 70s disco and 80s crooners. At one point it even samples Barry Manilow's Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed.\n\nBut the band chopped, spliced, filtered and filleted those sounds to create audacious new songs, with a sense of fun and showmanship that dance music often lacks. If you can listen to the ridiculous guitar arpeggios of Aerodynamic or the party-starting chants of Crescendolls without cracking a smile, they seemed to be saying, maybe it's you who's the robot.\n\nThe album's most enduring song, however, is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.\n\nBased entirely around Edwin Birdsong's Cola Bottle Baby, a forgotten 70s funk track, it adds a simple vocal line (\"Work it harder, make it better / Do it faster, makes us stronger\") that is twisted and manipulated in increasingly inventive ways until it's barely recognisable as anything but signal noise.\n\nKanye West later lifted the track and used it as the basis for his own song, Stronger. Daft Punk were unaware of the sample until they heard it on the radio in Los Angeles.\n\n\"The DJ had made an edit of our song at the beginning and then it turned into his song,\" de Homem-Christo told Billboard in 2007.\n\n\"Our song had a good sound, but when he put Kanye's record on, the sound was really fat. It sounds really big. It's not a collaboration in the studio, but the vibe of the music we do separately connected in what he did with the song.\"\n\nAnother four years passed before the release of their third and least essential album, Human After All, after which they wrote the soundtrack to Disney's sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy.\n\nA rare photo of the band from 1995, before they adopted their masks. Guy-Manuel is on the left, with Thomas on the right\n\nThey returned to form with 2013's Random Access Memories - a lush, opulent tribute to the music they grew up with, recorded entirely on live instruments, and featuring guest appearances from Chic's Nile Rodgers, Muppets composer Paul Williams and disco innovator Giorgio Moroder, who narrated his own life story over nine minutes of interlocking dance grooves.\n\nThe album, which cost more than a million dollars to make, was preceded by the hit single Get Lucky. Speaking to NPR, Bangalter said the song represented the record's theme of connecting the past, present and future of dance music.\n\n\"It was somehow maybe a child's dream to possibly one day be able to make music with one of the musicians we really love,\" he explained.\n\n\"So Get Lucky is really about this encounter between Nile [Rodgers] and also Pharrell Williams, [who] we've been friends with and which we've worked with in the past, but about really teaming up and getting outside of our home studio and really reaching out to other musicians and performers and making music and having fun in the studio making music together.\"\n\nThe album brought the duo to a whole new audience, but now it also appears to be a full stop. The end point in their disco odyssey.\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 3 by Daft Punk This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe video announcing their split was based on an excerpt from their 2006 film Electroma.\n\nAs one of the robot bodies disintegrated, a caption appeared stating \"1993 - 2021\". The clip closed with one of the musicians walking into the sunset, accompanied by the song Touch, including the choral refrain: \"Hold on. If love is the answer you're home.\"\n\nThe band's publicist Kathryn Frazier offered no explanation for the break-up - but fans flooded social media with tributes.\n\nFrench media tracking service Visibrain said there were 27 tweets posted every second about the band on Monday afternoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Visibrain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPharrell Williams was among them, simply posting the phrase: \"Forever legends\".\n\n\"Daft Punk left the game with a flawless legacy. I would say enviable but impossibly unattainable is more appropriate,\" said Mark Ronson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mark Ronson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProducer Erol Alkan wrote, \"Respect to Thomas and Guy-Man. Farewell\"; while Dutch DJ Don Diablo thanked the duo \"for inspiring me to make music when I was a kid\".\n\n\"THE greatest to EVER do it,\" said UK dance act Disclosure. \"Words can't describe the inspiration & knowledge we gained from listening to the 2 robots over the years. Wishing them nothing but good energy & positivity for the future.\"\n\n\"As a French producer its hard to describe the huge impact Daft Punk had on my life, my music and career,\" added DJ/producer Habstrakt. \"Thank you for forever changing the landscape of music.\"\n\n\"Daft Punk's Discovery album was critical to my development.\" said Maurice Peebles, editor-in-chief of Complex magazine. \"[It] opened up an entire universe I didn't know existed. forever grateful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People living with HIV in England and Wales can now choose to have their Covid vaccine through specialist clinics, without notifying their GP.\n\nNHS England has updated its guidance for people not comfortable with sharing their status.\n\nEveryone with HIV should be in vaccine priority groups four or six, and offered a jab by mid-April at the latest.\n\nBut campaigners worried stigma would cause some to miss out.\n\nThe updated guidance, obtained by the i newspaper, follows the lead of NHS Wales which put the same measures in place last week.\n\nHead of leading HIV charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, Ian Green, said: \"Some may be surprised to hear that a significant number of people living with HIV feel unable to talk to their GP about their HIV status, but this underlines how much stigma still surrounds the virus even in 2021.\n\n\"This is great news and the right decision from the NHS as it means people living with HIV will be able to take up the potentially life-saving Covid-19 vaccine at their earliest opportunity.\n\n\"We are working towards a society where everyone living with HIV feels comfortable sharing their status with their doctor and other health professionals, but we're not there yet and we welcome this fast, pragmatic action.\"\n\nNHS England's LGBT health advisor Dr Michael Brady said he encouraged everyone living with HIV to \"register with a GP and make them aware of their HIV diagnosis so they get the best possible health care\".\n\nBut, \"for those not comfortable doing this\", local HIV clinics would now be able to arrange a vaccine through an alternative route.\n\nNHS England said due to \"sensitivities and stigma\" still surrounding HIV, an estimated one in five people with the virus were not sharing their status with their GP.\n\nStephen Doughty MP, the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/Aids, welcomed the changes in England and Wales but said he now hoped there would be \"urgent clarity on whether Scottish and Northern Irish ministers will follow suit\".\n\nThose at highest risk in group four - people with shielding letters - should have already been offered a vaccination appointment.\n\nThat might include people with a high viral load, low white blood cell count, a recent HIV-related illness or chronic condition.\n\nEveryone else with HIV should automatically fall into priority group six, meaning they should be invited for a jab by mid-April at the latest.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care recommends the Covid vaccine for everyone with HIV, regardless of their white blood cell count.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the coronavirus lockdown could \"deal fatal blow\" to HIV in the UK\n\nBut guaranteeing the offer of an appointment had previously relied on GPs being aware of their patient's HIV diagnosis.\n\nThe change in guidance means local specialist HIV clinics can refer people directly to a vaccination centre or local hospital hub.\n\nThe vaccines do not cause any live virus and so do not present any risk to people with compromised immune systems.\n\nSome vaccinations produce a \"weaker\" effect in people with HIV, according to the British HIV Association, because the body's immune response is compromised.\n\n\"We do not yet know if this is the case for the Covid-19 vaccines but they are expected to be protective in people with HIV and are recommended,\" the association's guidelines state.", "The chief executive of a live music trade body has said the industry is \"at the back of the queue to re-open\" once coronavirus restrictions are lifted.\n\nThe comments come after Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out his four-step plan to release England from lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said on Monday he hoped step four would see the end of all legal limits on social contact.\n\nBut Greg Parmley, chief executive of Live, said his sector \"could be months behind the rest of the economy\".\n\n\"The chancellor must acknowledge our extended closure in the budget and provide the economic support needed to ensure the jobs and livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of people that work in our industry exist as we come through this pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe proposed step two, from no earlier than 12 April, could see the return of outdoor hospitality, including drive-in cinemas.\n\nStep three, which would follow at least five weeks later, on 17 May at the earliest, could allow limited indoor mixing.\n\nThat would mean cinemas, theatres and other indoor entertainment attractions could operate with social distancing.\n\nMark Davyd, chief executive of the Music Venue Trust, welcomed the timeline for the return of socially distanced events, but said he now hoped to see \"sector-specific financial support to mitigate the damage being done to businesses and people's lives, careers and families right across the live music industry\".\n\nTheatres could operate with social distancing as part of step three\n\nJon Morgan, director of The Theatres Trust, said it \"supports the Government's cautious approach to easing lockdown restrictions\".\n\n\"We want to play our part in helping keep people safe and we do not want to be in a situation where theatres reopen too early only to be forced to close again after a short period,\" he said.\n\nMichael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association trade body, said: \"We are pleased to hear within the Prime Minister's statement the inclusion of a timeline for night-time economy businesses, in particular some of the hardest-hit businesses, many of which have been closed since March 2020, like nightclubs, bars and casinos.\"\n\nHe added: \"The sector urgently needs additional clarity on reopening and critical financial support from the Chancellor if we are to avoid economic and social damage that will last a generation.\"\n\nLast summer, the government announced the roll out of its £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund to help tackle the crisis facing cultural organisations and heritage sites. But culture secretary Oliver Dowden admitted that the cash could not save all artists and venues.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The famous 1893 painting will be displayed in the new National Museum of Norway from 2022\n\nArtist Edvard Munch wrote mysterious graffiti on his painting of The Scream, infrared scans have shown.\n\nA small and barely visible sentence written on one of the world's most well-known paintings has been the cause of much conjecture in the art world.\n\nThe words, \"Can only have been painted by a madman\", are inscribed in pencil in the top left-hand corner.\n\nNow, new tests made by The National Museum of Norway have confirmed they were made by the man himself.\n\nThe original painting, first displayed in Munch's home city Oslo (then Kristiania) in 1893, has become a radical and timeless expression of human anxiety. Its influence stretches as far as the 90s Hollywood Scream horror film series, and on to the modern-day emoji.\n\nThe artwork has undergone conservation in preparation for its installation in the new museum, which is due to open in the Norwegian capital next year.\n\nArt critics have long questioned whether the graffiti was an act of vandalism done by an outraged spectator, or written by Munch himself - who was known to have had mental health problems throughout his life.\n\nThe museum came to the conclusion the words were written by Munch, after using technology to analyse the handwriting and compare it with his own diaries and letters.\n\nNorwegian painter Edvard Munch, painting a self-portrait on a beach in Germany in 1907\n\n\"The writing is without a doubt Munch's own,\" said museum curator Mai Britt Guleng.\n\n\"The handwriting itself, as well as events that happened in 1895, when Munch showed the painting in Norway for the first time, all point in the same direction.\"\n\nIn 1994, The Scream was stolen from a Norwegian art museum. It was recovered in a daring undercover operation by British detectives.\n\nThe work provoked strong criticism at the time along with public speculation around Munch's mental state.\n\nMunch, according to his diaries, was profoundly hurt by the reaction and it's believed he returned to the painting to add his pencilled statement afterwards.\n\nBoth Munch's father and sister suffered bouts of depression and Munch was finally hospitalised after a nervous breakdown in 1908.\n\nHis mother and older sister both died before the artist turned 14, his father died 12 years later and another sister was admitted to an asylum, with bipolar disorder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art,\" Munch wrote.\n\n\"Without this anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.\"\n\nIn 2019, BBC Arts wrote that the work was \"an expression of his anxiety at a turning point in history, in a world increasingly cut loose from old traditions,\" noting that \"there are clear parallels in the world of today.\n\n\"This is surely why The Scream retains its power despite its ubiquity: it's a mirror of our own contemporary fears. Inside, aren't we all screaming too?\"\n\nThe Scream will be displayed with a number of Munch's other works, including Madonna, The Dance of Life and Self-Portrait with Cigarette, in The National Museum of Norway from 2022.\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. Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot in the head just before her 20th birthday by security forces\n\nHuge crowds in Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw have attended the funeral of a young woman killed in protests against a military coup.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot in the head just before her 20th birthday, the first of at least three people to die in the protests.\n\nOn Sunday, thousands lined the streets to honour her, some making the three-fingered salutes used by demonstrators.\n\nThe military overthrew the elected government earlier this month.\n\nPromises to hold early elections have failed to satisfy demonstrators, who are also seeking the release of the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nThe military alleges the NLD's landslide election win last year was fraudulent but has not provided proof.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing, a supermarket worker, was injured when police tried to disperse protesters earlier this month. She was kept on life support for 10 days but died on Friday.\n\nShe has become a focal point for demonstrators, with her image often displayed by people resisting the coup.\n\nHer coffin was driven through the streets in a black and gold hearse, accompanied by hundreds of motorbikes.\n\nProtesters took to the streets across the country again on Sunday, despite the previous day seeing the worst violence yet in weeks of protests.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing's body was driven through the streets of the capital\n\nTwo protesters were shot dead when police used live ammunition to disperse crowds.\n\nThe deaths brought widespread condemnation, with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres saying: \"The use of lethal force, intimidation & harassment against peaceful demonstrators is unacceptable.\"\n\nAlso on Sunday, the wife of prominent actor Lu Min said he had been arrested after posting a video denouncing the military leadership.\n\nThe two-week-old civil disobedience movement in Myanmar now has its martyrs - represented in posters, paintings and cartoons at rallies which have continued to take place across the country.\n\nTheir deaths will inflame public anger against the military government, but remind people too of the cost of resisting it.\n\nThe plan now is to escalate the daily protests into a nationwide general strike, starting next week.\n\nThis must damage an economy which is already suffering from the Covid pandemic - but its effect on the generals who seized power is harder to predict.\n\nIn the early hours of Monday, Myanmar entered its second week of nightly internet shutdowns, monitoring group NetBlocks reported.\n\nThe junta has been regularly blocking the web to try to stifle mass protests.\n\n\"In line with our global policies, we've removed the Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page from Facebook for repeated violations of our Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm,\" the company said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From blindfolded protests to dressing like Aung San Suu Kyi, why creatives are concerning Myanmar's army\n\nThe site is the main one run by the military, used to issue warnings to protesters and push its allegations about the election results.\n\nFacebook is the primary source of information and news in Myanmar. An estimated 22 million of the 54 million people in Myanmar use Facebook.\n\nThe military's leader Min Aung Hlaing and other top army chiefs are already banned from Facebook over allegations of human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"He [Alex Salmond] appears to be suggesting some kind of conspiracy or concerted campaign against him, without a shred of evidence.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has challenged Alex Salmond to prove there was a conspiracy against him, saying he has made claims \"without a shred of evidence\".\n\nMr Salmond is due to give evidence to the Holyrood inquiry into the government's mishandling of harassment complaints against him later this week.\n\nHe says he has \"documentary evidence\" of a \"malicious and concerted\" attempt to remove him from public life.\n\nBut the first minister said any claims of a conspiracy were \"not true\".\n\nAnd she said Mr Salmond had an \"obligation\" to \"replace the insinuation and assertion we have heard over several months now with evidence\".\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry was established after the government conceded an internal investigation of two harassment complaints against the former first minister had been \"unlawful\".\n\nHe was awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses following the judicial review case, and was subsequently acquitted of charges of sexual assault in a separate High Court trial.\n\nIn a written submission published on Monday, Mr Salmond said there had been \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned\".\n\nHe said the government and SNP \"felt threatened\" by the judicial review case, and said he had \"documentary evidence\" that there was a \"fishing expedition to recruit potential complainants\".\n\nIn other letters to the inquiry he has described the behaviour of the government as a \"disgrace\", accusing it of concealing key evidence from his legal team and of leaking information to the media to damage him.\n\nHe has also accused Ms Sturgeon of \"repeatedly\" misleading parliament over her meetings with him, making statements which are \"simply untrue\", and of breaking the ministerial code.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March 2020 having been acquitted of sexual assault charges\n\nMr Salmond is to give evidence to the inquiry on Wednesday, with Ms Sturgeon expected to face MSPs the following week.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped Mr Salmond would \"turn up to the committee and bring the claims he has been making out into the open\".\n\nShe said: \"He appears to be suggesting some kind of conspiracy or concerted campaign against him, without a shred of evidence.\n\n\"This is his opportunity - because the burden of proof of that lies on him, to replace the insinuation and assertion we have heard over several months now with evidence.\n\n\"I don't believe he can do that, because I know what he is claiming about a conspiracy is not true.\n\n\"If he can't substantiate it, it's time for him to stop making these claims - because it's not fair to women first and foremost who came forward with complaints, or the other people who have given years of loyal service to Alex Salmond who he appears to be directing those claims to.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she still had full confidence in her top civil servant, Leslie Evans\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, the first minister said she would \"stand by what I said in parliament\" about her meetings with Mr Salmond, saying she would \"relish the opportunity\" to go into detail.\n\nShe said: \"I will set out what I knew and I will set out my recollection of all these things, and answer questions for as long as the committee wants to hear about that.\n\n\"This is a situation where I and others were faced with a really difficult scenario - allegations against someone I had been very close to. I dealt with that to the best of my ability and I think I made the right judgements overall.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government \"did make a mistake in the application of its procedure\" for handling complaints, and said it would \"reflect on the lessons of that\".\n\nBut she insisted the new policy had been drawn up in response to \"the global MeToo movement\", not Mr Salmond.\n\nThis echoes evidence given to the committee by Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans - Scotland's top civil servant - who told MSPs that the government was not out to \"get Alex Salmond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she still had full confidence in Ms Evans, and that she expected her to remain in post for the duration of her current contract.", "The idea that children must \"catch up\" with learning lost due to the pandemic is heaping \"huge\" pressure on them, educational psychologists have warned.\n\nMany pupils have missed out on months of face-to-face teaching, and the PM has appointed a catch-up tsar to lead educational recovery in England.\n\nBut the British Psychological Society says children's wellbeing, rather than their learning, should be the focus.\n\nThe government said it was funding support for pupils' mental wellbeing.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will set out his \"road map\" for lifting lockdown restrictions in England later, with all schools expected to reopen on 8 March.\n\nSome younger children will also return to classrooms in Northern Ireland that week, while Wales and Scotland begin a phased return to schools for some pupils from Monday.\n\nDr Dan O'Hare, co-chair of the BPS division of educational and child psychology, said it was \"absolutely understandable\" that parents are concerned children have \"been missing out on many aspects of their formal education\" - but warned against setting expectations too high.\n\n\"The notion that children need to catch up or are 'behind' at school due to the pandemic reinforces the idea that children have 'one shot' at their education and puts them under even more pressure to perform academically after what has been a challenging and unprecedented time for everyone,\" he told the PA News agency.\n\n\"Formal lessons must of course continue, but we shouldn't simply expect children and young people to pick up where they've left off and 'catch up' immediately on any gaps in their learning.\n\n\"This places huge and unnecessary pressure on children who have been through an extraordinary and potentially stressful time.\"\n\nMr Johnson has previously said that \"no child will be left behind\" because of the pandemic, and has appointed Sir Kevan Collins as education recovery commissioner to oversee how England's schools can catch up from the disruption caused by the pandemic.\n\nSir Kevan said extra hours of academic learning - plus sport, music and drama - will be needed to help pupils make up ground.\n\nBut head teachers' leaders have warned against \"misconceived and unhelpful\" suggestions about longer schools days and shorter holidays to help pupils catch-up.\n\nThe BPS said children should be supported through socialisation and play, and echoed head teachers' calls for a quality-over-quantity approach to learning, saying there should be a phased return to regular schooling.\n\nDr O'Hare said it was \"unrealistic\" to expect children who have lived through such disruption to settle into formal learning.\n\n\"Whatever a child or young person's circumstances, we can't assume that the right thing to support their recovery and wellbeing is for them to be in lessons for longer each day,\" he added.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"We know the pandemic has had an impact on many children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, and that's why we are working to fully reopen schools as soon as possible.\n\n\"Our guidance has emphasised the importance of pastoral support both in school and as part of remote provision and included advice and support on mental wellbeing.\n\n\"The £650m catch-up premium funding can be used for pastoral support activity where needed to support reengagement and recovery.\n\n\"To support children returning to schools, our £8m Wellbeing for Education Return programme funds local expert support for education staff to respond to emotional and mental health pressures some children and young people may be facing.\"", "New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has attended a service held in tribute to the 185 people who died when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch ten years ago.\n\nThe earthquake flattened buildings and destroyed homes in the city on New Zealand's South Island. It caused a huge amount of damage as the epicentre was just 5 km below the city.", "The first results of the UK vaccination programme suggests it is having a \"spectacular\" impact on preventing serious illness.\n\nResearch led by Public Health Scotland found at four weeks after the first dose, hospital admissions were reduced by 85% and 94% for the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs respectively.\n\nIt is the first sign of the real world impact of vaccination in the UK.\n\nFigures for England are expected to be released later.\n\nAmong the over 80s, there was an overall 81% reduction in the numbers admitted to hospital.\n\nThe researchers did not look at the impact on transmission - whether people who were vaccinated passed it on - or whether immunity waned over time.\n\nThe preliminary data from the EAVE II project covers 1.14 million vaccinations given in Scotland between 8 December and 15 February.\n\nThe study looked at the numbers being admitted to hospital with Covid among this population and compared it to those admitted who were not vaccinated.\n\nIn total, there were just over 8,000 people who ended up in hospital, but only 58 were among the vaccinated group after the four-week mark.\n\nLead researcher Prof Aziz Sheikh said the results were \"very, very\" impressive and both vaccines were working \"spectacularly\".\n\n\"These results are very encouraging and have given us great reasons to be optimistic for the future.\"\n\nTrials of both vaccines had suggested they would have a significant impact at preventing hospitalisations.\n\nBut for the Pfizer vaccine studies, that had involved a second dose being given after three weeks.\n\nThe UK has adopted a policy of delaying the second jab of both vaccines by three months, which had led some to question whether the approach would give sufficient immunity.\n\nThe trials of the AstraZeneca looked at a longer dosing interval so there was more confidence about that vaccine.\n\nDr Josie Murray, of Public Health Scotland, said the findings were \"brilliant news\" and suggested the vaccine programme was working.\n\nScotland is a good place to do this kind of observational study of how the vaccines are working in the real world.\n\nIts population size and use of individual patient identifiers (known as CHI numbers) enable scientists to track data from the entire population and get results quickly. And while it's still early days, the data indicates that a first dose of either vaccine prevents most people becoming seriously ill.\n\nThere are limitations of course. The study only tracked those who were admitted to hospital and whether they had had a vaccine or not.\n\nIt didn't count anybody who had died from Covid in a care home, for example. And it didn't look at transmissibility, only the risk of becoming seriously ill.\n\nOther similar studies are being conducted across the UK but this data will be seen as extremely encouraging.", "The man, who cannot be named, is a senior member of a banned terrorist group linked to the London Bridge attack in 2017\n\nA terror suspect who caused nine hours tailbacks at British ports after absconding has been jailed for breaking counter terrorism rules.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is a senior member of the banned group al-Muhajiroun.\n\nHe triggered a manhunt in September after cutting off an electronic monitoring tag and fleeing his home.\n\nJudge Anthony Leonard QC said the actions had caused \"significant disruption for legitimate travellers\".\n\nAppearing at the Old Bailey by video link from prison, the man was jailed for three years and two months after previously admitting six breaches of his Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIM) order.\n\nTPIM notices allow the authorities to monitor and control people considered to be terrorists - but who are not facing criminal charges.\n\nSubjects face measures including being made to wear an electronic tag, curfews, relocation, bans on internet use, and limits on who they can meet and where they can go.\n\nA TPIM can currently be imposed on a person for a maximum of two years.\n\nMinisters are seeking to lower the standard of proof needed to impose a TPIM.\n\nThree people were the subject of TPIMs in the last official figures.\n\nProsecutor Kate Wilkinson said that, on 15 September last year, the man - known only as LF for legal reasons - cut off his tag, burned documents, ordered a taxi to London, and left his home at 01:00 BST.\n\nHe was arrested in central London around 36 hours later having arranged to hand himself in.\n\nMs Wilkinson said the manhunt for LF resulted in Operation Stack being introduced - a traffic management procedure that involves lorries departing from Dover being parked on motorways - and checks at UK ports generated \"nine hours tailbacks\" for travellers.\n\nShe said the operation took place to ensure \"that he could be found and not leave the jurisdiction\".\n\nThe court heard that prosecutors accepted that LF's actions in absconding did not have a terrorist motive.\n\nCatherine Oborne, defending, said her client had no plan during his \"short-lived\" flight.\n\nThe barrister said he had spent the night in the \"open air\" in London, and that he has experienced \"better mental health\" since being remanded in custody because he is less socially isolated or worried about breaching his TPIM measures.\n\nEarlier this month LF was one of two men who lost an appeal against the measures placed on them.\n\nThe pair were the first people to be made the subject of a TPIM for the second time.\n\nLF is a leading radicaliser in al-Muhajiroun, an outlawed organisation that has been linked to multiple attacks and plots, including Westminster Bridge, Fishmongers' Hall, and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.\n\nHe was an associate of Khurum Butt, the ringleader of the London Bridge attackers who murdered eight people in June 2017.\n\nIn 2019 LF was convicted of breaching his first TPIM, but was handed a suspended sentence by a judge at Kingston Crown Court.\n\nA breach of this suspended sentence added 10 months prison time to the one imposed today.\n\nFollowing the 2019 court case, he continued to engage with other al-Muhajiroun members. He was subsequently placed under the new TPIM in November that year after he was found to be involved in fresh \"terrorist related activity\", including encouraging terrorism by saying that attacks are permissible.", "More than half of UK employers intend to recruit staff in the next three months, according to new research.\n\nThe human resources body, the CIPD, said it was the first positive signs for employment prospects it had seen in a year.\n\nAbout 56% of 2,000 firms surveyed planned to hire in the first three months of 2021.\n\nThe sectors with the strongest hiring intentions include healthcare, finance and insurance, education and ICT.\n\n\"Our findings suggest that unemployment may be close to peak and may even undershoot official forecasts, especially given the reported fall in the supply of overseas workers,\" said Gerwyn Davies from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which carried out the survey with recruitment firm Adecco.\n\nThe survey also found that the number of firms planning to make redundancies in the first quarter of 2021 dropped from 30% to 20%, compared with the previous three-month period.\n\nThe most recent unemployment rate - for September to November - was 5%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThat is an increase of 0.6% over the previous three months, and means that 1.72 million people were unemployed.\n\nThere were 819,000 fewer workers on UK company payrolls in November than at the start of the pandemic, ONS figures show.\n\nAccording to figures released by the Insolvency Service in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request, some 292 British employers made plans to cut jobs in January, the lowest figure since the pandemic began.\n\nHospitality was the worst hit sector, accounting for a third of the job losses, followed by retail.\n\nOnly 36% of hospitality employers were intending to recruit new staff, the CIPD and Adecco found.\n\nThe government's furlough scheme, which is meant to end on 30 April, has slowed down the number of redundancies.\n\nNearly 10 million people were furloughed between the start of the scheme and 13 December (the latest date for which figures are available).\n\nThe scheme has enabled many businesses to keep their staff by furloughing them instead of making them redundant.\n\nHowever, the body for HR professionals cautioned that it could not rule out further private sector redundancies if the government does not extend the furlough scheme to the end of June, or if the British economy were to suffer any further \"shocks\".\n\n\"It would be hugely counterproductive if the government's financial support faltered, while some of the biggest sectors of the UK economy are still in survival mode,\" said Mr Davies.\n\nAre you unemployed? Please share your experiences of looking for work in a pandemic. 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll schools in England are to reopen on 8 March as part of the prime minister's \"cautious\" four-part plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBoris Johnson will share his finalised roadmap with ministers later, before unveiling it to MPs and then leading a news conference at 19:00 GMT.\n\nUp to six people or two households will be allowed to meet outdoors from 29 March, the vaccines minister said.\n\nRules will be lifted in stages and four conditions must be met at each stage.\n\nVaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast the prime minister would set out more details on the plan in a Commons statement, which is expected at around 15:30.\n\nThe first stage of easing will be split into two parts:\n\nAlthough schools are set to reopen to all pupils on 8 March, it is thought a few days' flexibility may be built in to allow measures like testing to be put in place.\n\nAlso on 8 March, new rules will allow each care home resident in England to have one regular visitor, with whom they can hold hands.\n\nAnd from 29 March it is also understood that people will once again be able to travel out of their areas - although guidance will likely still recommend staying local, and overnight stays will not be permitted.\n\nThe gap between each stage of restrictions being eased is expected to be five weeks, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt comes as children aged three to seven in Wales return to the classroom, along with some students on practical college courses.\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are also returning to face-to-face teaching in the first step of the phased reopening of schools there.\n\nMeanwhile, vaccination has had a significant impact on the risk of serious illness from Covid-19, analysis by Public Health Scotland shows.\n\nFigures for England are expected later.\n\nData will be used to inform \"every step\" of lifting restrictions, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We will be cautious about this approach so that we do not undo the progress we have achieved so far and the sacrifices each and every one of you has made to keep yourself and others safe,\" he added.\n\nThe roadmap will outline four steps for easing restrictions. But before proceeding to each next step, the government will examine the data to assess the impact of previous changes.\n\nThe four conditions that must be met at each phase of lockdown easing are:\n\nDowning Street said the four tests are currently being met so the first step of lockdown easing in England will proceed as planned on 8 March.\n\nThe first stage of easing restrictions will be across the whole of England, Downing Street added, due to the current uniform spread of the virus.\n\nMPs will be given the chance to vote on the regulations enabling England's roadmap in the coming weeks.\n\nSir Charles Walker, the vice-chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, said the government needed \"flexibility\" if infections levels dropped more quickly than expected.\n\n\"You can't have a timeline and say you you're going to be data driven. You can either have one or the other,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nThe rules of combat are beginning to change.\n\nNo longer is controlling infection and keeping R below 1 seen as the be-all and end-all.\n\nThat much is clear from the government's four tests for its roadmap to lift lockdown in England.\n\nInfection rates are only being seen as a problem if they risk a surge in hospital admissions.\n\nThe reasons for that change can be found from the early results published on the UK vaccination programme.\n\nScottish researchers have found a \"spectacular\" reduction in the risk of serious illness four weeks after the first dose of the vaccine is given.\n\nThe link between infections and serious illness is being broken.\n\nThat is not to say a surge in infections can or will be tolerated - the number of Covid patients in hospital is still only just below where it was in the first peak and not all vulnerable people have been vaccinated yet.\n\nBut it does give ministers some room for manoeuvre. That is important. Schools are not seen as a significant driver of infection, but reopening them for all could push infection levels up.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted the prime minister \"to learn the lessons of the last two lockdowns\" when \"he came out too quickly\".\n\nHe told LBC that with restrictions in place for longer, businesses \"desperately\" needed more support, including the extension of business rates relief and VAT cuts for the hospitality sector.\n\nAll four UK nations have been in lockdown for weeks, after hospitals were put under unprecedented pressure due to the rapid spread of a variant of the virus, first detected in Kent.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland would return to a tiered system of restrictions when lockdown measures are eased, meaning different parts of the country could be under different rules. She added that she would set out the likely phases for a gradual lifting of restrictions on Tuesday.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford said he hopes the \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister has played down the prospect of restrictions being eased in time for Easter. A review of current measures will take place on 18 March.\n\nPre-school, nursery and pupils in primaries one to three will return to classrooms in Northern Ireland on 8 March. After two weeks, they will resume remote learning so older pupils in years 12 to 14 can go back to school.\n\nChildren of key workers and vulnerable pupils have been able to attend school in all parts of the UK throughout the lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there was \"early data\" suggesting a reduction in transmission of the virus in people who have had a vaccine, adding that hospital admissions were falling \"much more sharply\" than they were in the pandemic's first wave.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the number of people in hospital - currently around 18,000 - was still \"far too high\".\n\nSir David Spiegelhalter, professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge, said the data on factors like hospital admissions and deaths were \"extremely positive\" and \"better than people would have predicted\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government would need to \"keep in reserve\" the option of using local measures to tackle outbreaks because of the big difference in infection rates in different parts of the country.\n\nThe government has set a new target of offering a coronavirus jab to adults aged 50 and over and those in the top nine priority groups by 15 April, followed by all adults by the end of July.\n\nSo far, more than 17.5 million people in the UK have received a vaccine dose.\n\nThe order of priority for the under-50s to receive jabs has yet to be outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, told the BBC on Sunday that he expected an announcement to be made on vaccine priorities at some point this week.", "A protester was removed from the crowd during the final\n\nAustralia's deputy prime minister has condemned the \"disgusting\" behaviour of some Australian Open tennis final fans who loudly booed mention of the country's Covid-19 vaccine rollout.\n\nThe booing happened during an awards ceremony after the men's final, when a tennis official referred to global vaccine efforts as a sign of optimism.\n\nSome cities saw anti-vaccination protests held at the weekend.\n\nThe men's number one player Novak Djokovic won the final against Russian Daniil Medvedev on Sunday.\n\nDjokovic has been criticised in the past for appearing to have a casual attitude towards virus-related restrictions and faced scrutiny last year over comments he made about vaccinations.\n\nThe demonstration was criticised by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack on Monday.\n\n\"I don't like booing at any event, and certainly any sporting event,\" he told reporters in Canberra.\n\n\"This vaccine is going to get our country back to some sort of pre-Covid normality.\"\n\nAustralia kicked off the first stage of its vaccine programme on Monday. Frontline, health and quarantine workers are in line to get the first of 60,000 Pfizer vaccine doses this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile the vaccine has broad support locally, it has also sparked protests. On Saturday, small crowds of anti-vaccination demonstrators marched in cities, including Melbourne and Sydney, to protest against its rollout.\n\nIn Melbourne, where the Australian Open was held, the crowd also booed mention of the Victorian state government when Tennis Australia chief Jayne Hrdlicka thanked authorities.\n\nLast week, the government ordered Victoria residents into a snap five-day lockdown amid fears of an outbreak. The tennis event was allowed to proceed and the virus did not spread.\n\nThe vaccine is not mandatory in Australia but is highly encouraged by health authorities. Australia aims to inoculate four million people - about a sixth of the population - by early March.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison was among the first to get his jab on Sunday, broadcasting the event in an effort to boost national confidence.\n\nGovernment polling has shown that close to two-thirds of Australians say they will \"definitely\" get vaccinated, while just over one quarter are \"unsure\".\n\nAustralia has received doses of the Pfizer vaccine and last week approved the AstraZeneca jab.\n\nBoth have undergone extensive safety checks and are already being used in several countries.\n\nCritics have suggested the relative delay of the vaccine's roll-out in Australia - compared to other Western nations - could explain a recent small uptick in people \"unsure\" about receiving it.\n\nThe government has defended the slow roll-out, saying it wanted all elements fully approved by regulators, and that the low infection rate meant it didn't warrant urgent distribution.\n\nAs of Monday, Australia had under 40 active cases, with most in its hotel quarantine programme. The nation has recorded about 29,000 cases and 909 deaths in the pandemic - far fewer than many nations.", "The migrants were picked up by Border Force in the English Channel\n\nFour small boats with 49 people on board have been intercepted as they crossed the English Channel, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nFrench authorities, meanwhile, stopped 126 migrants in eight boats from crossing, a government spokesman said.\n\nImmigration minister Chris Philp said the French have stopped more than 70% of attempted crossings in 2021.\n\nMore than 8,438 people crossed the English Channel in about 635 boats in 2020.\n\nAbout 311 people have made the crossing to the UK coast so far this year.\n\nMr Philp said: \"Since the start of the year, through the joint operational and intelligence deployment shared by our two countries, the French authorities have prevented more than 70% of attempted Channel crossings.\n\n\"The government continues to undertake substantial measures to tackle this unacceptable problem of illegal migration.\n\n\"In January we introduced new rules which mean we can treat asylum claims as inadmissible if they have travelled through safe countries to get to the UK.\"\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.", "Mask-wearing, hand hygiene and working from home could be expected to continue until next winter, the government's chief scientific adviser has said.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance said to expect \"baseline\" measures, though not the same ones we have now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTom Hayes, the first banker to be jailed for rigging interest rates, has told the BBC he believes fresh evidence will show his conviction was unsafe.\n\nIt raises questions about more than 20 other cases and some of the only bankers prosecuted in the UK since the financial crash.\n\nHis case is now being examined by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said he was found guilty by a jury and the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction.\n\n\"I don't blame the jury for it but they were presented with a false narrative and they reached a conclusion based on those facts. I believe had they been presented with full evidence they would have reached a very different conclusion,\" Mr Hayes - who was jailed for 11 years and served five and a half - told the BBC in his first TV interview since being released.\n\n\"This wasn't an easy sentence. In that time, I lost my mind, I lost my mental health. I suffered deep bouts of depression. I harboured suicidal thoughts often. I was very angry and bitter. I struggled with my emotions.\n\n\"Now I sit here in the park and I can smell freedom... but believe me, when you're sitting in a cell for 23 and a half hours a day with two other gentlemen and there's not even room to stand up - that's difficult, very difficult.\"\n\nThe former UBS trader was found guilty of manipulating Libor, the benchmark that tracks the interest rate banks pay to borrow cash from each other.\n\nThe new evidence is part of eight grounds of appeal now being examined by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the body set up to review allegations of miscarriages of justice.\n\nIn 2015, the SFO called Tom Hayes the \"ringmaster\" of an international conspiracy to rig interest rates. After a jury returned a guilty verdict, he became the first UK banker to be jailed since the financial crash.\n\nFormer trader Tom Hayes with his then wife Sarah Tighe at Southwark Crown Court in August 2015.\n\nRulings made prior to his 2015 trial outlawed any consideration of a bank's commercial interests when setting the Libor benchmark.\n\nThey followed evidence from a key prosecution witness, John Ewan, who said it was against the rules to allow a bank's trading positions to interfere with the process of setting that interest rate and that at no point did he suspect that was taking place.\n\nMr Hayes says the new evidence, of a conversation involving Mr Ewan at the body that regulates Libor, is in \"stark contrast\" to that testimony.\n\nThe rulings have since been used by the SFO to prosecute 23 further defendants in subsequent trials for interest-rate rigging.\n\nHowever, more have been acquitted than convicted as defendants' lawyers questioned if traders' conduct was regarded as unlawful at the time.\n\nCriminal proceedings have also been issued in the United States against six defendants for the same offence, resulting in four convictions, two of which have been overturned.\n\nWhat the FTSE or Nikkei are to share prices, Libor is to interest rates - an index that tracks the cost of borrowing cash between the banks. It's used to set interest rates on millions of residential and commercial loans around the world.\n\nTo work out Libor each day, 16 banks answer a question - at what interest rate could they borrow money? They submit their answers and an average is taken and published as Libor (the London Interbank Offered Rate).\n\nThe evidence against Tom Hayes and other traders consisted of messages and emails asking for those interest rates to be submitted \"high\" or \"low\".\n\nMr Hayes acknowledges his hope was it might move the Libor average in favour of his bank, UBS, which could make or lose money on trades it had done linked to the Libor rate.\n\n\"I sent emails and I made phone calls in full knowledge that all of these things were recorded. And I did it with abandon, because I didn't believe I was doing anything wrong,\" he said.\n\nThe Libor rate is meant to track how much banks pay to borrow cash from each other.\n\nWhile prosecutors said it was \"self-evidently\" corrupt, a key plank of his defence was that it was normal practice to ask for \"high\" or \"low\" rates - as long as they were still accurate.\n\nEach day banks were able to borrow at a number of slightly different rates (e.g. Barclays offering 3.18%, HSBC offering 3.20%, Lloyds offering 3.19%), creating a narrow range of rates which were all accurate answers to the Libor question - at what interest rate could you borrow?\n\nIt was standard industry practice, according to the CCRC application for Mr Hayes, to select a rate within that accurate range best suited to the bank's commercial interests - based, for example, on the trades it had done. That was, according to him and the other defendants in rate-rigging trials, in line with a fiduciary duty they had as part of their jobs to do all they could to maximise revenues and minimise losses for their banks.\n\nHowever, in his closing speech to the jury, SFO prosecutor Mukul Chawla repeatedly attacked the idea of a range, claiming that \"range…does not exist\".\n\nPrior to Mr Hayes' trial, presiding judge Mr Justice Jeremy Cooke found that any attempt to influence a Libor submission to suit a bank's commercial interests was in breach of the rules.\n\nHis finding, upheld by the Court of Appeal, established a precedent which was then used to prosecute 24 money brokers and traders at other banks such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank.\n\nMr Justice Cooke made his finding after seeing a witness statement from key prosecution witness John Ewan, who previously oversaw the rate-setting process at the British Bankers Association, which owned and supervised Libor.\n\nMr Ewan's witness statement prior to Mr Hayes' trial stated that attempting to move Libor to help a bank's trades was against the rules. The former Libor manager at the British Bankers Association testified that \"at no point\" did he suspect this was taking place. If he had been aware of it, it would have been investigated and steps taken to stop it.\n\nBut while in prison Tom Hayes came across a transcript, disclosed in US criminal proceedings but not at his trial. He says it shows taking trades into account was seen as acceptable if the rates submitted were \"representative\" - meaning they reflected the real rates at which banks were offering to lend cash that day.\n\n\"I was going through piles of paperwork in my cell and I couldn't quite believe what I was reading.\n\n\"John Ewan said in that conversation: 'I don't know if this is the result of any derivatives trading going on but the rates are representative so from that point of view I'm fine.'\"\n\n\"Now had commerciality not been allowed in the decision-making process, the moment he knew, or suspected that this was a result of derivatives trading going on, he wouldn't have cared whether the rates were representative or not, he would have straightaway said: 'Well, this is against the rules. I need to investigate.'\n\n\"It's absolutely in complete contrast to the rulings made by the court, to the evidence given at my trial.\"\n\nThe BBC offered John Ewan an opportunity to comment but has received no response.\n\nAt a later trial in early 2017 Mr Ewan acknowledged under cross-examination it was legitimate to set Libor with commercial interests in mind within the range of high or low rates that were \"representative\" of offers in the market.\n\nThe defendants in that trial were acquitted.\n\nMr Hayes has filed an application, running to more than 2,300 pages, currently being considered by the CCRC, the body set up to review miscarriages of justice.\n\nIn it he also questions why key evidence of Bank of England involvement in \"rigging\" Libor was not disclosed at his trial.\n\nIn 2017, the BBC discovered a secret recording implicating the Bank of England in rigging Libor in 2007 and 2008, pressuring banks to under-state what they were paying to borrow cash - a practice known as \"low-balling\", for which banks have been fined. It prompted MPs to call for an \"immediate inquiry\".\n\n\"Unfortunately some of that evidence was not actually in front of my jury,\" Mr Hayes said.\n\n\"But there was no desire to go after the real story here, which was the low-balling story - which was the submission of false and inaccurate rates - because it was just easier for everyone to go after the traders. At the time it was expedient that, for political reasons, a banker went to prison and I was that banker. I was given an egregious sentence and my life destroyed.\"\n\nIn 2019, after noting evidence of Bank of England involvement in manipulating Libor, a senior New York judge, Colleen McMahon, gave former Deutsche Bank trader Gavin Black and supervisor Matt Connolly, both convicted by a jury of manipulating Libor, light sentences of \"home confinement\".\n\n\"At certain times, such as during the height of the 2008 financial crisis, submissions were actually being manipulated at the request of the Bank of England,\" Judge McMahon stated in her sentencing remarks.\n\nShe later added: \"I'm always uncomfortable when I'm asked in any context - it usually happens in the drug context - to sentence the low man on the totem pole while the big guy goes free.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has said Libor was not regulated in the UK at the time.\n\nThe SFO maintained throughout Mr Hayes' trial and subsequent trials between 2016 and 2019 of traders at Barclays and Deutsche Bank that it was investigating low-balling and would pursue the evidence \"as high as it went\".\n\nHowever in December 2019, it shut down its investigation into low-balling.\n\nIn a short statement, the SFO said: \"Tom Hayes was found guilty by a jury of manipulating the Libor benchmark, and the Court of Appeal upheld Tom Hayes' conviction.\"", "Lockdown has been costing budget gym franchise PureGym hundreds of thousands of pounds a day, the company's boss has said.\n\n\"We are burning about £500,000 a day and that's the average over eight months of closure,\" Humphrey Cobbold told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nIt has meant about £120m of costs with no revenue for his 275 gyms, he says.\n\nHe is among business leaders who will carefully study Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to re-open the economy.\n\nMr Johnson will share his finalised roadmap with ministers later, before unveiling it to MPs and then leading a news conference at 19:00 GMT.\n\nIt is speculated that businesses branded as non-essential may not open until as late as May.\n\n\"It's been brutally tough,\" said Mr Cobbold of the period under lockdown.\n\nWhile the government furlough scheme has been paying a portion of staff salaries, he said his business has still been paying some staff costs such as pension contributions and has amassed sizeable rent arrears.\n\nMr Cobbold says he has been able to raise funds from investors, which has helped the business survive, and he insists that his business is ready to re-open safely.\n\n\"The sooner the better within safe operating procedures for us,\" he said. \"We can make a massive contribution to the health of the nation\"\n\nHowever, he says his and other firms have learned the hard way that government plans can come late and can be changed.\n\n\"I've learned over the last year not to make too many assumptions,\" he said.\n\nRalph Findlay, chief executive of pub chain Marston's, says he would also like to see a route out of the restrictions, since for pubs like his, they mean operating at a loss.\n\n\"For many businesses, operating with restrictions is very difficult,\" he told the Today programme. \"We did open last year - it's not as if we haven't done this before.\"\n\nThe severity of lockdown for pubs means \"sadly it's inevitable\" that some pubs will not be able to re-open, he said.\n\n\"As a sector we have had no income for nine months and we are still incurring costs,\" he said.\n\nThere are economic reasons to open pubs as well as social ones, he said. The industry employs millions of people, and Marston's generates about £500m a year for the government including direct and indirect taxes, he added.\n\nOn Monday, rival pub chain Mitchells and Butlers also revealed more of the scale of the challenges it faces.\n\nThe chain, which runs outlets including Harvesters, O'Neill's and All Bar One, said it was burning through £30-35m a month.\n\nIt said sales between the end of September and 16 January were 69.8% below last year. It said it had agreed a temporary break from paying into its staff pension funds.\n\nIt is now in the process of trying to raise £351m from investors.\n\nPhil Urban, the company's chief executive, said: \"M&B was a high performing business coming into the pandemic... we have every confidence that we can emerge in a strong competitive position once current restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"The hospitality industry has done everything that has been asked of it to date and, now that the vaccines are being rolled out and infections are dropping, we are hopeful that pubs and restaurants will soon be allowed to re-open safely so that we can start to serve our customers again.\"", "Police called it a \"deeply upsetting\" and \"tragic incident\" and said no-one else was being sought in connection with the fire\n\nA four-year-old girl and a couple have died in a house fire, police have said.\n\nThe girl, a man, 29, and a woman, 28, died following the fire in Clayton Road, Exeter.\n\nThree other children who were in the house, two boys aged four and nine and a seven-year-old girl, are in a stable condition in hospital said officers.\n\nPolice called it a \"deeply upsetting\" and \"tragic incident\" and said no-one was being sought in connection with the blaze.\n\nPolice said the blaze was extinguished by fire fighters at around 05:30 GMT.\n\nCh Supt Dan Evans said the incident would cause \"great distress to the community, particularly to those who knew the family\".\n\n\"It is a huge tragedy for all involved,\" he said.\n\nHe added police were working to understand the cause of the blaze.\n\nThe children who survived would be moved to Bristol Children's Hospital for treatment, he said.\n\nThe couple and the children were \"all related\" but the force said no further details were available.\n\nThe force is supporting the victims' next of kin.\n\nRoad closures in the area would remain in place for the next couple of days.\n\nDevon and Somerset Fire Service said in a statement its \"heartfelt thoughts are with the family and everyone involved in responding to this tragic incident\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Troops from both sides have faced off across the lake\n\nIndia and China have completed the pull-back of troops from part of their disputed Himalayan border, a joint statement issued by the Indian defence ministry says.\n\nSoldiers completed their withdrawal from the Pangong Tso Lake area on Saturday, according to the communiqué.\n\nClashes on the poorly marked border led to the deaths of 24 troops last June.\n\nBoth sides say they will work to cut tensions on other parts of the border, or Line of Actual Control.\n\nChina and India announced their intention to withdraw forces from the lake area on 11 February, and commanders met on Saturday to assess how the operation was going.\n\n\"The two sides positively appraised the smooth completion of disengagement of frontline troops in the Pangong Lake area noting that it was a significant step forward that provided a good basis for resolution of other remaining issues along the LAC in Western Sector,\" Sunday's statement said.\n\nCommanders held nine rounds of talks to get to this stage.\n\nThe statement acknowledged that other parts of the border remained tense and looked forward to continuing talks.\n\n\"The two sides agreed to follow the important consensus of their state leaders, continue their communication and dialogue, stabilise and control the situation on the ground, push for a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues in a steady and orderly manner, so as to jointly maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas.\"\n\nBefore the completed withdrawal round Pangong Tso Lake, troops from each side were positioned on the north and south shores in territory claimed by both sides.\n\nMonths of tension has increased fears that the continued deployment of thousands of troops in the Ladakh region and the Chinese-administered Aksai Chin could lead to an escalating conflict.\n\nIndia and China have been locked in a border dispute for decades and went to war in 1962. The border is 3,440km (2,100 miles) long and ill-defined.\n\nRivers, lakes and snowcaps along the frontier mean the line can shift, bringing soldiers face to face at many points, sparking confrontation. The two countries however have a long-standing agreement not to use guns or explosives along the border.\n\nIn January, troops on both sides were injured in a clash in the north-east in India's Sikkim state.\n\nTwenty Indian troops were killed in June's clash which was in the Galwan Valley. China admitted two days ago that four of its soldiers died in the encounter. Weapons used reportedly included stones and nail-studded clubs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at what happened on the India-China border in June 2020", "Imagine if, at the first coronavirus briefing in Downing Street last year, Boris Johnson had said that he would put limits on our lives and the economy for 15 months.\n\nImagine that he had, a week later, instead of saying that the tide could be turned in 12 weeks, said we should prepare for kids to be out of school, that most shops would be closed on and off for months, that families who don't live near each other might not be able to see each other either, that some of the most vulnerable would have to shield at home, from the disease, for all of that time.\n\nYou would hardly have believed it. He would hardly have believed it either.\n\nThe prime minister's trademark used to be optimism - accused often of bluffing over detail to hope for the political best.\n\nYet as Mr Johnson tries to steer the country towards the exit in the second year of this pandemic, that habit is not much in evidence.\n\nHe has accepted, at the insistence of the chief medical officer, there will be long gaps between the steps out of lockdown.\n\nAlso, despite the remarkable progress, and excited rhetoric around the vaccine, there was an important acknowledgement from Mr Johnson too, that it will never reach everyone.\n\nThe \"significant minority\" who will never take the vaccine will still therefore pose a risk.\n\nAnd while he has repeatedly promised the steps out of lockdown will be \"irreversible\", inside government of course there is an awareness that is just not the case.\n\nEveryone fervently hopes this is the last time but an aggressive and unforeseen variant of the disease could interrupt that plan.\n\nSome massive upset with the vaccine rollout could knock things off course.\n\nEven the limited easing up will lead to an increase in cases, and if that is more dramatic than hoped, the brakes could of course go back on.\n\nDramatic changes in the public's behaviour could also make a difference in the wrong way.\n\nAnd the government also retains the right to bring back aggressive local lockdowns if infections surge in particular areas.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's strongest motivation for the go-slow is the determination that this national lockdown can, should, and will be the last.\n\nWith a belief too that much of the public will be perhaps not content, but willing, to wait that bit longer for a drink with friends if it means children can go back to school and stay there.\n\nAll schools in England are going back from 8 March with schools able to decide a phased return during that week.\n\nHis calculation is that people, after all this time, will prefer certainty over haste.\n\nThat's why the prime minister won't be persuaded to go faster by some of his own restless backbenches.\n\nThat's why other parts of government, even those eager to pull back restrictions, worried about the costs of all this, concede to hurry would be wrong this time.\n\nAnd that's why Mr Johnson, right now at least, is playing the role of a leader for whom caution is number one.\n\nA mantle this long pandemic has lent him - a political persona that also, would have been almost impossible to imagine last year.\n\nP.s. A huge amount of information did emerge today about the road ahead for England, but there were also really big gaps.\n\nThere was no firm advice on when the millions of people who have been working at home will be expected to go back into the office.\n\nNo solid expectations of when foreign travel will come back, when the social distancing rules could be relaxed, or whether the government might really introduce some kind of vaccine certification after all (despite previous suggestions that they would not).\n\nAlongside the plans are several reviews that will shape much of what happens in the next few months.\n\nThe government, as well as Holyrood, Belfast and Cardiff, still has many big decisions to take.", "Only five days after it began, Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial has concluded. As was widely predicted, the final verdict was that the former president was not guilty of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol last month.\n\nThere have now been four presidential impeachment trials in US history, and this one was by far the shortest.\n\nWhat it lacked in duration, however, it will make up in consequence. A precedent - a former president standing trial - was set. Reputations were burnished and tarnished. And a tumultuous stage was set for political battles to come.\n\nHere's a look at some of the key players, and how they emerged from this moment in US history.\n\nTrump once again avoided conviction by the US Senate because his fellow Republicans, by and large, stuck by his side. The final tally was 57-43, which left the prosecution 10 short of the two-thirds majority required.\n\nThat, at its most basic level, is a win for the former president. He is still eligible to run for president again in 2024, if he so chooses. His base, by all indications, is still largely intact. Both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, most Republican officeholders opposed the impeachment proceedings - and those who broke ranks are already facing ferocious criticism and, in some cases, formal reprimands from their Republican constituents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Proud Boys led the assault - and who was in the pro-Trump mob\n\nIn a press statement, the former president celebrated his acquittal, condemned Democrats and said that his political movement was just beginning.\n\nTrump - and his movement - did not emerge from this impeachment trial unscathed, however. One of the most memorable portions of the prosecution case by House managers were the new videos of Trump's supporters, wearing Make America Great Again hats and waving Trump flags, ransacking the Capitol.\n\nThose images will forever be associated with the Trump brand. Every rally he holds from here on will evoke memories of that riot. It may not cost him among the Republican rank and file, but independent voters - and moderates - are unlikely to forget.\n\nA year ago, only one Republican senator - Mitt Romney of Utah - voted to convict Trump. This time, he was joined by six others.\n\nIt's no coincidence, however, that of those who broke ranks, three of them - Susan Collins, Ben Sasse and Bill Cassidy - were just re-elected and don't have to face voters for six years. Two - Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Richard Burr of North Carolina - are retiring.\n\nThat highlights the challenge facing many of the Republican senators in the chamber. A vote to convict would have attracted the ire of primary voters, many of whom would view the turn against Trump as a betrayal. For those in safe Republican states, a challenge from a fellow conservative is a much more pressing concern than whichever Democrat faces off against them in November.\n\nRepublican senators up for re-election next year in swing states - in places like Florida, Wisconsin and Iowa - may have to worry about their vote to acquit being used against them by their Democratic opponents in a general election. One can already envision the attack adverts, accompanied by video of the violence on Capitol Hill.\n\nA lot could depend on what Trump does next. Does he launch himself fully into US politics again, reminding his supporters - and his critics - of these impeachment battles as the next election day approaches? Or does he stick to seclusion of his private clubs and golf course?\n\nI think we all know which is more likely.\n\nIf every Senate Republican had their own political calculation to make before casting their vote - weighing whether to risk the ire of their party or the judgement of general election voters - one particular senator's drama was on particularly stark display.\n\nMitch McConnell of Kentucky, leader of his party in the Senate, had been outspoken for weeks in his criticism of Donald Trump's conduct on 6 January. For a while, his final vote in the trial was in doubt. On Saturday morning, however, he informed his fellow senators he would support acquittal.\n\nAfter the Senate rendered its final verdict, he explained why. He condemned Trump's behaviour and said he engaged in a \"disgraceful dereliction of duty.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There's no question that president Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,\" McConnell said\n\nHis not guilty vote, he said, was because former presidents were not eligible for impeachment trials. If such a precedent were followed, he said, any private citizen - regardless of status - could be impeached and ruled ineligible for public office by the Congress.\n\nMcConnell's critics will view that as a cop-out, not a principled stand. And it is noteworthy that his procedural objection allows him to avoid being out of step with the majority of Senate Republicans, which is a risky place for a congressional leader to be.\n\nIt's a fine line for McConnell to walk, and time will tell if his fellow Republicans are satisfied by his vote, if not his words.\n\nFor most of their careers, members of the House of Representatives languish in relative obscurity. Few in the 435-member chamber, save for the Speaker, ever get the kind of national spotlight that was cast upon the impeachment managers prosecuting the case against Trump in his Senate trial this week.\n\nThe nine-member team put together a slick presentation over the course of the five-day trial, complete with packaged videos of the 6 January riot accompanied by maps of the Capitol showing how close the mob came to US politicians, including the Vice-President Mike Pence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nLead manager Jamie Raskin will probably best be remembered for his emotional opening remarks, where his voice caught as he recalled a conversation with his 24-year-old daughter after they were evacuated by the Capitol building. Throughout the rest of the week, he presided over the prosecution with a more cerebral detachment that hinted at his background as a constitutional law professor at American University.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Neguse's closing argument: \"We humbly ask you to convict President Trump\"\n\nSecond-term Congressman Joe Neguse has been considered a rising star in Democratic politics, and his turn in front of the cameras did little to dispel that notion. The biggest surprise from the team, however, was probably Stacey Plaskett of the US Virgin Islands. As a non-voting delegate from a US territory, she has little influence in Congress - but she gave some of the most impassioned, memorable monologues of the entire trial. Democrats might start rallying for Virgin Islands statehood after her performance.\n\nIf there was one mark against the managers, it was their on-again, off-again attempt to call witnesses. Starting down that road, and then aborting, will be seen by some on the left as an unforced error, leaving a bitter taste in their mouths.\n\nThe current president's strategy for handling the former president's impeachment trial was to keep the whole ordeal at arm's length.\n\nHe wasn't closely following the proceedings, White House officials said. During the trial he kept a busy schedule of events related to the coronavirus pandemic. When Biden did comment, it was only to remark about the new videos of the Capitol violence - images that had been played repeatedly on television news.\n\nThe Biden administration's calculation is that his long-term political fortunes rest on his success in dealing with the pandemic, the economy and the American public's other concerns, and not with the outcome of Trump's impeachment trial.\n\nIn the end, the trial had little practical impact on his progress toward enacting his legislative agenda. The Senate lost only three days of business. The chamber won't be able to take up Biden's Covid relief bill until the House passes the version, which it has spent the week working on.\n\nWith the trial concluded, the Senate also will resume confirming Biden's administration appointments, including attorney general nominee Merrick Garland, after it returns from a week recess.\n\nAll of this should please Biden and his team. If the Democratic base decides, however, that the price of moving forward with Biden's political agenda was the failure to hold Trump fully accountable - for instance, by conducting a speedy trial without witnesses - he may pay a political price nevertheless.\n\nIn the political battles ahead, Biden needs a united Democratic Party. If there is second-guessing after this impeachment trial, cracks might start to emerge.\n\nBruce Castor, the supposed lead lawyer on Donald Trump's legal team, may put that old saying that \"there's no such thing as bad publicity\" to the test. He opened the defence of the former president with a long, rambling discourse that may have pushed one senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, into siding with the Democrats.\n\nAfter that - and amid reports that Trump himself was displeased - Castor receded into the background, replaced primarily by Michael van der Veen, a fellow Philadelphian who primary law practice involves personal injury and liability law cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVan der Veen did a much better job translating the former president's pugnacious attitude toward his political opposition into his legal presentations. He would frequently scrunch his nose into a wide sneer when referring to the House impeachment managers.\n\nAt one point, he prompted jeers from Democrats when he derided a question presented by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. And he flashed anger when Democrats laughed at his threat to hold hundreds of depositions at his office in Pennsylvania if the Senate chose to call witnesses in the trial.\n\nIn the end, he was able to navigate his way out of the prospect of an extended trial, however, and bring the proceedings to a speedy, satisfactory conclusion.\n\nLawyers are ultimately judged by their wins and losses, and van der Veen, Castor and fellow lawyer David Schoen got their client off the hook.", "Defending champion Novak Djokovic came through a stiff test of his fitness as he moved into the Australian Open quarter-finals, but third seed Dominic Thiem was stunned by Grigor Dimitrov.\n\nBulgarian Dimitrov, a semi-finalist in 2017, dismantled the US Open champion of Austria 6-4 6-4 6-0.\n\nWorld number one Djokovic, struggling with an abdominal injury picked up on Friday, beat Milos Raonic in four sets.\n\n\"In any other tournament than a Grand Slam I would have retired from the event, but because it's a Grand Slam I wanted to give my best,\" Djokovic, 33, said.\n\n\"I didn't know if I was going to play or not. During the match it [the injury] was on and off, it's still not ideal but I can't complain and won against a great player. Hopefully it will be even better in two days.\n\n\"There was no preparation for this match, I used every single hour I had to recover and put myself in a position where I could compete. My physio has done a great job and I want to thank my team and the ATP physios for being here for me.\n\n\"I've definitely been fitter but I'm taking each day at a time and for me training is just recovery.\"\n\nHe will play sixth seed Alexander Zverev after the German beat Djokovic's compatriot Dusan Lajovic 6-4 7-6 (7-5) 6-3.\n\nDimitrov, the 18th seed, will face Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev, who stunned Felix Auger-Aliassime as his dream Grand Slam debut continued.\n\nTop seed Djokovic had expressed doubt over whether he would be fit in time to face Raonic, saying he thought he had torn a muscle when he slipped during his five-set third-round win over American Taylor Fritz.\n\nBut, with the right side of his chest strapped up, he was able to move more freely on Sunday than he had done two days earlier when he had been repeatedly limping and needed courtside medical treatment.\n\nThis victory continued Djokovic's perfect record against Canadian Raonic, who has now lost all 12 of his matches against the Serb and been eliminated by him from the Australian Open for the third time after losses in 2020 and 2015.\n\nDjokovic took the opening set on a tie-break but the 14th seed, who himself needed a medical timeout to have his ankle strapped up, broke in the fifth game of the second set after failing to have a single break-point chance in the first set.\n\nBut it did not take long for the 17-time Grand Slam champion to regain control of the match as he broke in the fourth game of the third set, before dominating the rest of that set.\n\nHe then broke late on in the fourth set to clinch the victory as he stays on course for a third successive Melbourne success.\n\nThiem, last year's runner-up, said he had \"physical issues\" in his shock loss to Dimitrov, but also added that he did not \"want to find any excuses\".\n\n\"I'm not a machine. I mean, sometimes I would like to be, but there are really, really bad days,\" the third seed said.\n\n\"I think a combination of some things, some little physical issues, plus a real bad day, plus the fact that he's a great player. So a combination of those three things, and a result like that can happen.\"\n\nThiem came through a gruelling five-setter against Nick Kyrgios on Friday to reach this stage, fighting back from two sets down, but there was no such reprieve against Dimitrov on Sunday.\n\nThe Austrian looked to have taken the momentum with a break in the opening set, but Dimitrov immediately broke back and won four successive games on his way to taking the first set.\n\nIt was the same pattern in the second set, a Thiem break followed by a revival from the 29-year-old, before he motored to victory in the final set to win in just over two hours on Rod Laver Arena.\n\n\"I was entirely trying to focus on what I was doing,\" said Dimitrov, a former world number three. \"He might have struggled with something, I don't know, but I give myself credit for staying focused.\n\n\"Throughout every season you have one of those matches, you just keep the ball rolling, and today was one of those.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nRussian qualifier Karatsev came from two sets down to pull off yet another stunning victory to reach the quarter-finals.\n\nWith victory over eighth seed Diego Schwartzman in the previous round, Karatsev has been the surprise package at this year's event at Melbourne Park.\n\nHe is the first man to reach a major quarter-final on debut for 25 years.\n\nDogged by injury during his career, Karatsev had failed in nine previous attempts to reach a Grand Slam main draw, but at the ATP Cup earlier this month he was described by world number four Daniil Medvedev as Russia's \"secret weapon\".\n\nHe has more than proved this, having reached the fourth round without dropping a set before mounting an incredible comeback against Auger-Aliassime in the first five-setter of his career to set up a last-eight meeting with Dimitrov.\n\n\"I'll be ready for everyone,\" said Karatsev, who is the first man since Alex Radulescu in 1996 to make it to the last eight on their Grand Slam debut.\n\nMeanwhile, British interest in the singles might have ended with Cameron Norrie's exit to Rafael Nadal on Saturday, but there was a mixed doubles win on Sunday in Melbourne.\n\nNeal Skupski teamed up with Slovenia's Andreja Klepac to beat Australian pair John Peers and Belinda Woolcock 6-2 5-7 (12-10) in a match tie-break in the first round.\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "Plaid leader says demand for independence has risen, but Lord Elis-Thomas urges caution\n\nThe level of support for independence in Wales is similar to that in Scotland's a decade ago, Plaid Cymru's leader has claimed.\n\nAdam Price told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show \"more and more\" people were supporting the idea because of the state of the economy and the level of inequality in Welsh society.\n\nMr Price said independence would put Wales \"on a better path\".\n\nBut Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas said a referendum now would not be \"wise\".\n\nMr Price said: \"We are not going to be able to put Wales on a better path, on a better trajectory, without independence.\n\n\"The level of support for independence now in Wales is where it was in Scotland 10 years ago.\n\n\"A few short years after that, Scotland came within touching distance of voting yes in the independence referendum.\"\n\nWith the prospect of Scotland holding another independence referendum \"in the near future\" and \"Northern Ireland cooperating more with the Republic\", Wales' Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism Lord Elis-Thomas said he did not think it would be \"wise\" to hold a referendum in Wales \"at the moment\".\n\nBut he added there was a \"great need\" to \"strengthen\" devolution in Wales.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Cymru's Dewi Llwyd ar Fore Sul, Lord Elis-Thomas said the pandemic had made it obvious that \"the United Kingdom is a country of four nations\" and there was a need to \"intensify\" those arrangements.\n\n\"I don't know if it is wise to hold a referendum on independence here in Wales at the moment but it's obvious that the discussion on devolution for Wales is not going to subside,\" he said.\n\n\"Co-dependency, co-operation and self-governance, those are the things that are important to me\".", "People travelling to England from 33 high-risk countries may face suspended flights and long queues at the border, Heathrow Airport has said.\n\nThe airport said \"good progress\" had been made on a \"number of issues\" with the government's hotel quarantine plan, which comes into force on Monday.\n\nBut it said it was concerned about whether UK Border Force could \"cope\".\n\nThe government said it was working closely with airports and hotels to manage any issues that arose.\n\nFrom Monday, British and Irish citizens and UK residents arriving in England from a \"red list\" country will have to quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels for 10 days to try to stop new coronavirus variants entering the country.\n\nThey will have to pay £1,750 for their stay, which covers the cost of the hotel, transport and testing, and book it in advance using a government portal.\n\nThose who fail to quarantine in such hotels face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nThe \"red list\" mainly consists of countries in South America and Africa, as well as Portugal.\n\nHeathrow Airport said it had been \"working hard\" with the government to make sure the plan works.\n\nHowever, in a statement it said \"queues at the border in recent days of almost five hours are totally unacceptable\".\n\n\"Ministers need to ensure there is adequate resource and effective processes at the border to avoid compromising the safety of passengers and those working at the airport, which could necessitate the suspension of some arriving flights,\" it added.\n\nThe airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK and is expected to receive the largest number of passengers.\n\nThe other four are Gatwick, London City, Birmingham and Farnborough Airfield.\n\nRegulations for the hotel quarantine measures, which come into force from 04:00 GMT on Monday, have been published.\n\nBut on Friday the Immigration Services Union said its officials had yet to receive guidance on how the system would work.\n\nThe union said officials still did not know what levels of checks they should be conducting on travellers.\n\nIt also raised concerns about the safety of security halls.\n\nAnd the GMB union has warned that \"rushed\" government plans are not thorough enough to make sure workers on the front line in quarantine hotels are protected.\n\nThe union said security guards were one of the occupations worst hit by Covid deaths, adding that it wanted to meet employers to develop a strategy to better protect workers.\n\nBeckie Morris said travellers should not be used as \"guinea pigs\"\n\nMeanwhile, a family returning to the UK after four years living in Abu Dhabi said travellers should not be used as \"guinea pigs\", amid confusion over hotel quarantine rules.\n\nBeckie Morris, 30, planned to repatriate to the UK with husband Matthew and their five-week-old daughter, but they now face a quarantine bill of thousands of pounds if they do.\n\nThe new mother said there was \"no information\" on the government website about what to do with young children.\n\nShe said: \"We'd have to arrange all the formula. I don't know what we do about sterilising bottles, or nappies or washing their clothes - there's all this unknown. I tried to reach out, and I know it's still really early days, but there's just no information.\n\n\"They haven't really laid out what actually happens when you get to that hotel and I don't think that's going to be known until the first person goes in there.\n\n\"People shouldn't be used as guinea pigs - especially not paying that amount, that is an extortionate amount of money.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every essential check - from pre-departure testing to the passenger locator form - will help prevent the importing of new coronavirus variants into the UK.\n\n\"We are working closely with airports and hotels to manage any issues that arise and ensure the new process runs as smoothly as possible, and we are clear the safety of all staff and passengers is a priority.\"\n\nAre you due to arrive in the UK from a \"red list\" country? 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 has insisted US democracy remains \"strong\", despite the \"kerfuffle\" over former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.\n\nThe Senate acquitted Mr Trump of incitement to insurrection following the storming of Congress on 6 January.\n\nMr Johnson told US broadcaster CBS his relationship with new President Joe Biden was \"excellent\".\n\nAnd he promised the American and UK governments would work well together on issues like climate change and defence.\n\nMr Biden, who was inaugurated on 20 January, has never met the prime minister in person, but this is set to change later this year, with the UK hosting the G7 summit in the summer and the COP26 climate change gathering in the autumn.\n\nDuring his interview for CBS's Face the Nation show, Mr Johnson was keen to stress that their two countries were \"coming together\" on the environment, ways of dealing with Iran and the future of Nato.\n\nThese were all issues on which Mr Trump took a different line to the UK government, but the prime minister called recent statements by Mr Biden \"incredibly encouraging\".\n\nHaving previously condemned the violence inside Washington's Capitol building last month, he was asked about the impeachment trial of Mr Trump, in which prosecutors failed to get the two-thirds majority in the Senate needed to convict the ex-president.\n\n\"I think the clear message that we get from the proceedings in America is that, after all the toings and froings and all the kerfuffle, American democracy is strong,\" he said.\n\n\"And the American constitution is strong and robust. And we're delighted now, I'm very delighted, to have a good relationship with the White House, which is an important part of any UK prime minister's mission.\n\n\"I've had some good conversations already with President Biden, fantastic conversations about the way he sees things.\"\n\nJoe Biden said the substance of the charge against Donald Trump was not in dispute\n\nFive people died in the violence in Washington on 6 January.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Mr Biden described democracy - in contrast to Mr Johnson - as \"fragile\" in the face of \"violence and extremism\".\n\nHe said of Mr Trump's trial: \"While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.\"\n\nBut Mr Trump welcomed his acquittal, calling his impeachment a \"witch hunt\".\n\nIn his first telephone call to the prime minister last month, Mr Biden said he wanted to \"strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The debate that led to Donald Trump’s acquittal\n\nUS President Joe Biden has said his predecessor Donald Trump's acquittal for inciting mob violence is a reminder that \"democracy is fragile\".\n\nSeven Republicans joined Democrats in voting to convict, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to do so.\n\nMr Biden said the charge, relating to Mr Trump's role in the Capitol riot last month, was \"not in dispute\", while seeking to move on from the process.\n\nMr Trump has welcomed his acquittal, calling his impeachment a \"witch hunt\".\n\nIn the Senate on Saturday, the trial ended with a 57-43 vote in favour of conviction.\n\nThe vote split largely along party lines, with the seven Republicans joining the Senate's 48 Democrats and two independents in voting to convict.\n\nMr Trump faced a single charge of incitement to insurrection after pro-Trump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January. Five people died.\n\nDemocratic prosecutors argued he stoked the mob with false claims the election was stolen. Mr Trump's lawyers denied his words amounted to incitement, and said the Senate should not try a former president.\n\nImpeachments of US presidents are rare. Only two other presidents have been impeached, while Trump is the only man to face the process twice.\n\nResponding to the acquittal, President Biden said: \"While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.\n\n\"This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile. That it must always be defended. That we must be ever vigilant. That violence and extremism has no place in America. And that each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.\"\n\nMr Biden has kept his distance from the impeachment process, not watching the trial live. Aides were reportedly worried that it would distract from his early plans for office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his reaction, Mr Trump called the trial \"yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our nation\".\n\nA conviction could have seen him barred from elected office. Mr Trump's statement hinted he would continue to play a role in US politics.\n\n\"Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun,\" he said.\n\nAfter the vote, the senior Republican in Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell, said Mr Trump had been \"responsible\" for the assault on the Capitol.\n\nThis was despite him voting against conviction, arguing it was unconstitutional now that Mr Trump was no longer president. Mr McConnell was instrumental in delaying Mr Trump's trial until after he left office, on 20 January.\n\nOne of the seven Republicans to break ranks was Susan Collins, who argued by \"subordinating the interests of the country to his own selfish interests, [Trump] bears significant responsibility for the invasion of the Capitol.\n\n\"The abuse of power and betrayal of his oath by President Trump meet the constitutional standard of 'high crimes and misdemeanours' and for those reasons I voted to convict Donald J Trump.\"\n\nThe Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, called Republicans who did not support conviction \"cowardly\".\n\nThat the bulk of Republicans backed the former president suggests his enduring influence over the party and its voters.\n\nRepublican Senator Ted Cruz said the trial \"merely satisfied Democrats' desire to once again vent their hatred of Donald Trump and their contempt for the tens of millions of Americans who voted for him\".\n\nAt its most basic level, this is a win for the former president. He is still eligible to run for president again in 2024, if he so chooses. His base, by all indications, is still largely intact. Both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, most Republican officeholders opposed the impeachment proceedings. Those who broke ranks are already facing ferocious criticism and, in some cases, formal reprimands from their Republican constituents.\n\nTrump did not emerge from this impeachment trial unscathed, however. One of the most memorable portions of the prosecution case by the impeachment managers were the new videos of Trump's supporters, wearing Make America Great Again hats and waving Trump flags, ransacking the Capitol.\n\nThose images will forever be associated with the Trump brand. Every rally he holds from here on will evoke memories of that riot. It may not cost him among the Republican rank and file, but independent voters - and moderates - are unlikely to forget.\n\nRead more from Anthony here.", "The pandemic means that Valentine's Day is very different from last year, when coronavirus had only just reached the UK.\n\nFollowing nearly a year of social distancing, lockdowns and limited opportunities to socialise in person, some couples have been thinking about how to make the day special even though they are apart. Others will be trying to find some time for romance while cooped up at home with young children.\n\nThe BBC has been asking people how they are celebrating this year, including Londoners Deep Bajwa, 37 and Bhavin Bhagalia, 39, who say this Valentine's will be a day for the family and their children are in charge of planning the festivities.\n\nDeep Bajwa says her children have planned their day Image caption: Deep Bajwa says her children have planned their day\n\nWe've also been looking at how restaurants - usually booked up with Valentine's dates - have adapted their offerings this year.\n\nEateries from local cafes to Michelin-starred restaurants are packaging up special dinners as a treat, in a bid to keep customers coming back when the pandemic is over.\n\nFor Ruth Smith, who lives in East Molesey, near London, it's an opportunity for a fancy meal on Valentine's Day without being surrounded by loved-up couples.\n\nShe will be getting a three-course meal kit from her local cafe, choosing from twice-baked cheese souffle with fennel and apple salad, individual beef Wellington, vanilla panna cotta with cardamom, and rose infused streusel.\n\n\"It means I'm really looking forward to Valentine's Day rather than kind of thinking, oh I'm going to be on my own and really not concerned at all this year,\" she says.", "Amanda Holden appeared in photos to mark her 50th birthday on the morning before visiting her parents\n\nBritain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has said she is \"devastated\" at breaking lockdown rules by travelling to see her parents in Cornwall.\n\nShe made the trip of more than 200 miles after receiving a \"distressing\" phone call from her father, her agent said in a statement.\n\nTravel is banned except for essential journeys under coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Sun, which first reported the story, said neighbours in Cornwall complained to police.\n\nHolden's agent said \"on balance\" the TV star and radio host felt the round-trip from London to Cornwall was necessary to deal with an issue at her parents' home.\n\n\"Amanda is aware that all families are going through difficulty during these turbulent times but received a distressing telephone call from her elderly father on Friday afternoon,\" the statement said.\n\nIt said she did not \"act on a whim\" and has followed coronavirus regulations \"every step of the way\" in England's three lockdowns.\n\n\"Amanda is aware of the travel rules and is devastated she had to break them on this one occasion,\" her agent said. She is now back in London.\n\nUnder the rules of the current lockdown, travel outside your local area is banned unless it is essential and people may only meet others in their household, support bubble or childcare bubble.\n\nHowever, there are exceptions for providing care for disabled or vulnerable people or to provide emergency assistance.\n\nHolden's parents have both received vaccines and she is being tested weekly, so she felt she was not putting her parents at risk, the statement said.\n\nThe presenter had been working on her Heart Radio show earlier on Friday, where she was presented with gifts to mark her 50th birthday, which is on Tuesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachael Prigmore has two sons, who were both born prematurely and spent time in neonatal units.\n\nRachael Prigmore has twice faced the experience of giving birth to a baby prematurely and having to watch, with hope and fear, as her children spent weeks in neonatal care.\n\nThe 35-year-old from Bexleyheath, south-east London, said the time was \"heart-breaking\" for her and her partner - but they were also faced with the additional financial pressures brought on by a child coming early.\n\nShe has joined with charities and MPs calling for the government to bring in pay and leave for parents who have babies in neonatal care, to stop future parents feeling \"cheated out of time\" with their new arrival.\n\nOver 100,000 babies are cared for in neonatal units in the UK every year, either because they are born prematurely - before 37 weeks - or because they are born at full term but sick.\n\nThis means around one in seven babies born in the UK are admitted to a neonatal unit each year.\n\nCharities such as Bliss, which supports families of babies born prematurely or sick, have been campaigning for the government to provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave for parents of babies who need that neonatal care, amounting to around £160 a week.\n\nThey say the support would stop families' parental leave being eaten into when their children are in hospital and make sure they can afford to be with them when they are needed most.\n\nCampaigners celebrated when, in March 2020, the chancellor included the pledge in his Budget.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak's red book doesn't allocate the annual £15m spend on the policy until 2023 at the earliest, and legislation to bring it in has not emerged.\n\nSo, almost a year after the promise was made - with new parents facing the added extra pressures of the pandemic - there is no start date in sight.\n\nIn 2016, Rachael had her first child, Jack, at 31 weeks, weighing just 3lb 14oz, and she said it was \"a complete shock to the system\".\n\nShe added: \"I wasn't even aware of what neonatal care was, and although I got a chance to look around the unit, it was a very frightening time.\"\n\nJack was in the unit for five weeks and Rachael had to start her maternity leave early, seeing her normal pay significantly cut. Her partner carried on working while their baby boy was getting treatment.\n\n\"We knew we were having a baby so had been saving, but when my maternity pay kicked in so early, it had a massive impact financially, while at the same time as you are trying to juggle everything else that is going on,\" said Rachael.\n\n\"My partner was entitled to two weeks paternity leave, but we didn't want to use it straight away so we could wait until Jack came home. But that meant he was having to get the train every morning, come straight to hospital at night, and then start all over.\"\n\nWhen their second son, Joshua, arrived in June 2020, Rachael had only reached 28 weeks, and was facing another stressful time with her tiny 2lb 10oz on the neonatal unit - and with the addition of coronavirus restrictions to contend with.\n\nJoshua was born at just 28 weeks\n\n\"The hospital was 45 minutes away, we couldn't have visitors, we were having to travel back and forth, and it was an absolute nightmare,\" said Rachael.\n\n\"Again, we were trying to keep my partner's paternity leave on hold, but he was also trying to work, look after my other son, keep the house running... it was absolutely crazy times.\"\n\nThe costs were adding up, from hospital parking charges upwards of £60 a week through to just being able to grab a quick coffee to keep going.\n\nBut what also worried Rachael was the knowledge she was using up maternity leave, and would have to return to work sooner than she wanted to.\n\nRachael said: \"You are worrying about your child as it is when they are in the neonatal unit, but also at the back of your head you are thinking it is eating into your time and all these plans you had.\n\n\"You know you are going to go back to work at some point but you feel you haven't had time to enjoy your child.\"\n\nBoth of Rachael's boys are now at home, happy and healthy - but she still feels the effect.\n\n\"I felt rushed both times,\" she said. \"I felt I had only just got them home when I went back to work and they still looked like new-born babies. I feel we were cheated out of our time.\"\n\nBoth Jack and Joshua (pictured with Rachael) are doing well at home\n\nLabour MP Alex Davies-Jones has been campaigning in Parliament for the extra support of neonatal leave and pay to be brought forward.\n\nNot only is she the vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Premature and Sick Babies, but she went through the experience herself when her son Sullivan spent five days in neonatal care after being born in 2019.\n\n\"It was so challenging for us and for me to go through as a first time mother, but we had a really good support network and my husband's employer was really good,\" she said.\n\n\"Unfortunately many, many families aren't as lucky.\n\n\"I have heard from friends and others who didn't have that support, who had to go back to work immediately with all their parental leave swallowed up.\"\n\nMs Davis-Jones said she had met Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss the issue, as well as business ministers, but while there have been positive noises, action is not coming fast enough.\n\n\"Coronavirus has shown when there is political will, things can happen quickly,\" said the MP.\n\nShe made a direct appeal to Boris Johnson, who is a new father himself, adding: \"This is time these families will never get back. Some babies never even make it home and this is the only time they will have with them. It is a lifeline.\"\n\nHead of policy and campaigns for Bliss, Josie Anderson, also appealed to the government \"not to lose sight\" of their promise and to bring in the measures as soon as possible.\n\nResearch from the charity found two-fifths of mothers wanted to take more time away from work because of neonatal care, but couldn't afford to, while two-thirds of fathers and partners had to return to work before their baby had even left hospital.\n\nMs Anderson said: \"For families it is an enormous issue. It stops hands-on care, which leads to best outcomes for babies, and there is a financial element to that is impacting how involved families are able to be, making them lose out on valuable time bonding with their baby.\"\n\nA spokeswoman from the government's business department, said: \"Having a premature or sick baby can be an incredibly difficult time for parents, especially when juggling work commitments.\n\n\"As part of our manifesto commitment to make workplaces fairer, we will be legislating to introduce neonatal leave and pay as soon as parliamentary time allows.\"\n\nYou can listen to Alex Davies-Jones talk about her experience and the campaign on BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour on Sunday 14 February at 22:00 GMT", "Josh Warrington fell to one of the biggest shock defeats in a British ring in recent years as Mauricio Lara landed a stunning knockout at Wembley Arena.\n\nMexico's Lara, 22, landed a heavy knockdown in the fourth round and Warrington struggled to make the bell, his legs barely able to support him.\n\nDespite showing grit and trying to find poise, Warrington - a 1-25 betting favourite - was never able to recover.\n\nIn the ninth, a barrage of left hooks and a hard left hand wiped him out.\n\nThe former IBF world featherweight champion - who had not fought in 16 months and gave up the belt in January to pursue other titles - was left flat on his back and was later taken to hospital for checks after a first career defeat.\n\n\"A young man, 22, comes in, no one gave him a chance,\" said promoter Eddie Hearn, who said Warrington had a rematch option. \"I've not seen bravery like I saw from Warrington for a long time.\n\n\"He came out, he was erratic, the ring rust showed. He got caught and never recovered. How he got through the fourth I'll never know but he was on empty. The bravery was incredible.\n\n\"You have to give Lara tremendous credit. For Warrington it's a crushing blow.\"\n\nAfter a reckless opening during which both fighters looked leaky in their defence, it was Warrington who wilted when a left hand dropped him. Though he fought until the bell, had referee Howard Foster stepped in, the former champion could have had no complaints.\n\n\"If Josh survives this it's one of the greatest comebacks I've ever seen in a British ring,\" tweeted former world cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew after round four.\n\nWarrington spent the early part of the fifth in survival mode but seemed fully aware his legs were shaky underneath him and was heard telling his corner his shoulder was in pain when the three minutes were up.\n\nLara, cut but on the brink of the win of his life, grew in confidence. He was rugged in his approach rather than polished and while he was taking punches himself, he could not miss with the left hook when up close.\n\nHe had two defeats in his 23 previous outings but when he took two hard blows in the eighth and yet instantly backed Warrington up with a punch of his own, the greater power he carried and the vulnerability of his opponent was obvious.\n\nA round later it was all over, a right to the body and left to the face sealing a knockout win that will be felt the world over, none more so than in the Lara's boxing-crazed homeland.\n\n\"We worked really hard and it worked out how we planned,\" said Mexico City's Lara. \"Our confidence was because we believed we could do it.\"\n\nSome will ask if Warrington's 16-month spell of inactivity was key, others may question if a fighter who typically enjoys passionate support lost his edge in fan-free surroundings, and there may also be questions as to whether he was looking past his opponent.\n\nWhatever his reasoning, he must pick the bones out of a first defeat in 12 years and 31 professional outings, a loss no-one saw coming.\n\n'He fought his heart out' - analysis\n\nWe have seen one of the biggest upsets in a British ring in recent years. There's an aura of gloom in this very dark arena. We shouldn't forget this was some contest. A first defeat of Warrington's career, but there was a lot there that was inclusive of everything we love about this sport and everything we are so troubled by.\n\nYou have to commend how tough and resilient Warrington is. In the end, it was more than the shots, fatigue played its part. That's upset of the year, already, forget about the rest of the months.\n\nWhat guts Warrington showed in the fifth, sixth and seventh when he didn't know where he was. He was fighting on instinct. He was doing what he knew he had to do, but he had no idea he was doing it.\n\nLara was phenomenal, he's gone to the home country of the number one featherweight and he's gone to that ring fearless. He fought his heart out.\n\nJosh will be back. He will go through a torrid few days, maybe even a torrid few weeks, but he will come back more determined. One thing he will not do is give one excuse. It is what happens in boxing and it is what happens in big-time boxing.\n\nWhat they said - was complacency to blame?", "A senior member of the World Health Organization's team investigating the origins of Covid-19, has described his trip to Wuhan, China, as the start of a long process.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Professor John Watson said there were a number of hypotheses about the origins of the virus, the most likely being that it moved from one animal to an intermediate animal host, and from there to humans.", "People aged 65 to 69 in England are among those being invited to book their Covid-19 jab as the vaccination programme enters a new phase on Monday.\n\nThe clinically vulnerable are also being offered the jab as the vaccine rollout is officially expanded beyond the top four priority groups.\n\nThe UK is on track to offer the jab to all of the most vulnerable people by Monday, ministers have said.\n\nSo far, more than 14.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose .\n\nAlmost 1.2 million letters were due to have landed on the doorsteps of over-65s and the clinically vulnerable by Saturday asking people to log on to the national booking service, NHS England said.\n\nA further 1.2 million are due to arrive this week.\n\nThose who receive a letter can choose from more than 100 vaccination centres or almost 200 pharmacy services.\n\nGP-led vaccination sites will focus initially on the clinically vulnerable because of the relationship between general practice and those with long-term conditions.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation defines clinically vulnerable people as those with conditions including chronic respiratory disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, and severe asthma.\n\nUntil now, the vaccination programme has been aimed at NHS frontline staff, care home residents and workers, along with over-70s and people deemed clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHowever, some regions have already started vaccinating people aged 65 to 69, with NHS England having previously said that people in this age group could get a vaccine if GPs have supplies.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said the vaccination programme has already protected more than 12 million of the most vulnerable people against Covid.\n\n\"This is an exciting moment as we now move on to those aged 65 and over and the clinically vulnerable as part of our plan to vaccinate as many people as possible who can benefit from it,\" he said.\n\n\"However, if you have already been offered a jab but have not taken it up it is not too late. Please come forward and help us to help.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The vaccination programme is continuing at an unprecedented speed and, as we're on target to offer vaccines to all those in the first four priority groups by Monday, we are determined to keep up the momentum by expanding it even further.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at a vaccination bus in Greenwich, south-east London, Prof Stephen Powis, the national medical director of NHS England, urged everyone who receives a letter to get the vaccine without hesitation.\n\nHe said officials had been working with faith groups and local community leaders to encourage everybody to come forward.\n\n\"Don't hesitate at all. These vaccines are safe, they're effective against Covid, they'll protect you, they'll protect your loved ones, and of course they'll help get society back to normal again,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said his country had begun contacting some over-50s, while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she expects many in the 65-69 age group to have had their first jab by the middle of this month after the vast majority of older people were vaccinated.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Department of Health is offering everyone over 65 a vaccine by the end of February as it works its way through priority groups four and five, although it is expected to help the UK meet its overall target.\n\nOn Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the \"huge progress\" made with the vaccine rollout, saying he was \"optimistic\" about being able to set out plans later this month for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown.\n\nHe said ministers were hopeful schools can reopen from 8 March, with the government looking to open non-essential shops after this and then the hospitality sector.\n\nHowever, scientists have warned against easing restrictions too quickly when the PM sets out his \"road map\" out of lockdown on 22 February.\n\nThe UK's vaccination programme began on 8 December 2020 with people receiving the vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.\n\nBoth vaccines, which require two doses for full protection, were approved by the UK's medicines regulator.\n\nA decision was taken by health officials to offer a first dose to as many vulnerable people as possible by extending the gap between doses from three to four weeks to closer to 12 weeks.", "New Zealand has kept cases and deaths from Covid-19 low\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland to go into lockdown after the discovery of three new local cases of Covid-19.\n\nThe measures will last three days and require residents to stay at home.\n\nMs Ardern said the country was going \"hard and early\" after the cases were identified.\n\nNew Zealand has won widespread praise for its handling of the pandemic, going months without community transmission.\n\nThe country closed its borders entirely to almost all non-citizens or residents early on in the pandemic, aiming to eliminate the virus.\n\nNew Zealand, with a population of five million, has recorded just over 2,300 cases of Covid and 25 deaths.\n\nThe measures in Auckland require its 1.7 million residents to stay at home except for essential shopping and work. Schools and non-essential shops will close, and entry in and out of the city restricted.\n\nMs Ardern said three days should allow the government to get more information and get more testing done, and would also help determine if there was any community transmission.\n\n\"New cases of Covid-19 in the community was something none of us wanted to happen,\" Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said, adding the restrictions were the \"best way to stamp out the virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand band Six60 are playing to up to 30,000 fans: \"People are shoulder to shoulder, singing along\"\n\nThe rest of the country moves to a higher level of alert, with schools and businesses remaining open but people encouraged to find alternative ways of working if possible.\n\nThe lockdown forced the postponement of two races in sailing's America's Cup, one of the few major sporting events with no restrictions on spectators.\n\nThe three community cases were announced earlier on Sunday - a mother, father and daughter from South Auckland.\n\nIt is unclear how the three contracted Covid. The mother works in the laundry department for an airline catering facility, while New Zealand media said the father was a self-employed tradesman.\n\nNew Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said his team was \"working under the assumption that it is one of the new variants\".\n\nHe added that the initial focus on investigations was the mother's workplace \"because of its obvious connections to the border\".\n\nOpposition leader Judith Collins urged New Zealanders to follow the advice of health officials.\n\nBut she called for border workers to be vaccinated, saying: \"If this proves to be another border failure that is unacceptable. Our border should be rock-solid by now.\"\n• None Band playing to crowds of up to 30,000 fans. Video, 00:02:44Band playing to crowds of up to 30,000 fans", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Salmond inquiry: 'They have turned this into a political fight'\n\nA woman who made sexual assault allegations against Alex Salmond has claimed the Holyrood inquiry into the saga has been more traumatic for her in many ways than the trial was.\n\nThe woman was one of nine who gave evidence against the former first minister at the High Court last year.\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of all 13 of the sexual assault charges against him.\n\nA committee is now investigating the Scottish government's handling of the original complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe inquiry was intended to ensure that similar mistakes were not made in the future and that women could feel confident in coming forward with complaints about alleged sexual misconduct.\n\nBut the woman told BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell that she believed it had descended into a \"political fight\" that made it less likely that other women would report any concerns.\n\nShe said the row had \"effectively allowed the government to get away with not being properly scrutinised on its procedures\".\n\nAnd she claimed that the inquiry had been \"in many ways more traumatic than the experience of the High Court trial\".\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of all the allegations against him after a High Court trial last year\n\nSNP MSP Linda Fabiani, who heads the committee, said she was \"really sorry\" that the woman felt that way, and that she would like to issue a personal apology for anything that had made any complainant feel like they had been exploited.\n\nMs Fabiani said social media had been \"pretty horrible\", and that she hoped people would reflect on their own behaviour.\n\nShe added: \"The reality is that the parliament tasked this committee with an important job to do and we have to do that job.\n\n\"We have to get this task finished and do it in the best way that we can, because what we want to do is to make sure that women aren't afraid to come forward in the future.\n\n\"Things have obviously gone wrong, we have to find out what they were, and I hope we can make some recommendations that will be taken on board to protect women in the future\".\n\nThe woman said she believed other women would now feel less confident about coming forward with concerns about alleged sexual misconduct\n\nThe committee of nine MSPs has been split along party lines over key issues, and has been badly delayed with members accusing both the government and Mr Salmond of being uncooperative and attempting to frustrate its work.\n\nMr Salmond declined to appear before the committee last Tuesday over its refusal to publish some of the evidence that he wants it to.\n\nAnd First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - whose own appearance next week has also been postponed - has accused some opposition committee members of having already drawn their own conclusions before hearing her evidence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The inquiry has to get job finished'\n\nIn an interview broadcast on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, the woman said she had hoped the committee would be impartial and would properly investigate the government and contribute towards ensuring the sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace were no longer an issue.\n\nShe said: \"Instead what has happened is they have taken your very personal experiences and exploited them for their own self-serving political interests, and that is something in itself that is really traumatic.\"\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also claimed that the committee had \"strayed so far from its own remit that it has made any of its findings completely useless\".\n\nShe added: \"I think that they really had an opportunity to ensure they could investigate the creation of procedures that would make it safe and easy for women to come forward, and they have made it significantly harder.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon had been due to appear at the inquiry next week, but the session has been postponed\n\nThe committee was set up to examine what went wrong with the government's investigation into internal complaints about Mr Salmond's alleged behaviour, which were made by two female civil servants in 2018.\n\nThe government admitted it had acted unlawfully during the investigation, and had to pay Mr Salmond's legal fees of more than £500,000.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 sexual assault charges, including one of attempted rape, which were alleged to have happened while he was serving as first minister.\n\nThe nine women who made the allegations included an SNP politician, a party worker and several current and former Scottish government civil servants and officials.\n\nIn court, Mr Salmond said the claims made about his alleged conduct were \"deliberate fabrications for a political purpose\", or \"exaggerations\".\n\nHe has also accused Ms Sturgeon, who succeeded him as both first minister and SNP leader, of breaching the ministerial code by lying to parliament - which she denies.\n\nThe woman said it was \"absurd\" to suggest the nine complainers had been persuaded to lie to the police\n\nLast month the committee used its legal powers to demand the release of documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThese included text or WhatsApp communications between SNP officials and government staff, which were uncovered as part of the police investigation into Mr Salmond.\n\nThere have been claims by supporters of Mr Salmond that the messages were evidence of a conspiracy against him.\n\nBut the committee said the messages were between women seeking \"confidential support\" which were not relevant to its inquiry, and would not be published to avoid causing further distress.\n\nThe woman spoken to by BBC Scotland said she believed it was \"natural to discuss issues of sexual assault, sexual harassment, with women you worked with at the time\".\n\nAnd she said it was \"utterly absurd\" to suggest that nine women \"could be persuaded to lie to the police, to perjure themselves in court\".\n\n\"The truth is that we individually had experiences of Alex Salmond's behaviour,\" she said.\n\nThe woman added: \"It takes a lot of courage to report sexual harassment, particularly against a very powerful person.\n\n\"I think the fact the government were willing to investigate those complaints is positive, but clearly they let down those women and they have a responsibility to fix that for anybody else in the future.\"", "While some shoes may not be able to be resold, Lance Birchall said they could still be useful to others\n\nA man is giving unwanted trainers a new lease of life and donating them to people in need.\n\nLance Birchall, from Stoke-on-Trent, restores unloved trainers but said some were still being needlessly binned.\n\nHe decided to take on pairs for free rather than seeing them thrown away and will donate them to homeless people in the city.\n\n\"I can do absolutely any trainer,\" he said. \"It will help people who don't have anything.\"\n\nThe 25-year-old said he had always collected trainers and set up a business restoring older shoes to their original condition.\n\nMr Birchall started the scheme in January after seeing trainers go to waste needlessly\n\n\"I start off with a dry clean, going over them with a brush, followed by a deep clean and a steam,\" he said, adding the process is repeated until they look \"as good as new\".\n\nAfter setting up his business, he said he got messages from people saying they were just going to throw their shoes away if nothing could be done to repair them.\n\n\"There are some pairs you can't get up to a sellable standard,\" Mr Birchall said. \"So I thought, if people are chucking all these trainers in the bin, I can take them in, do the best job I can and then give them to the hostels around Stoke.\n\n\"I want to use my skills to help people that are less fortunate and give something back to the people.\"\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\n\nHe set up a GoFundMe page for donations to pay for the restorations with any additional money going towards other essentials for Stoke-on-Trent's homeless community, such as meals and sleeping bags.\n\nSince setting up the scheme, which he called Soles of Stoke, at the start of the year, Mr Birchall has been sent about 50 pairs of shoes that would otherwise be destined for landfill.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Why are some trainers so expensive? Video, 00:05:28Why are some trainers so expensive?", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple has said.\n\nHarry and Meghan are preparing to welcome a brother or sister for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who turned one last May.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple said they were \"overjoyed\".\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family \"are delighted and wish them well\".\n\nHarry and Meghan shared a black and white picture of themselves under a tree, with Harry resting his hand on Meghan's head as she cradles her bump.\n\nTheir child will be eighth in line to the throne.\n\nMeghan's due date has not been revealed, but her bump appeared prominent in the photograph.\n\nThe news comes after the duchess said in November that she had suffered a miscarriage last July, writing in an article of feeling \"an almost unbearable grief\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said: \"We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child.\"\n\nMisan Harriman, a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the photographer who took the photo that accompanied their pregnancy announcement, tweeted: \"Meg, I was there at your wedding to witness this love story begin, and my friend, I am honoured to capture it grow.\n\n\"Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on this joyous news!\"\n\nHarry and Meghan married at Windsor Castle in May 2018\n\nArchie was born on 6 May, 2019\n\nThe Valentine's Day announcement comes just five days after the royal family celebrated the arrival of Princess Eugenie's first child - a baby boy.\n\nHarry and Meghan's second child will be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's 10th or 11th great-grandchild depending on whether he or she arrives before or after Zara Tindall's baby, which is also due in 2021.\n\nThey will follow the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Harry, and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor in the line of succession.\n\nBut they will not be entitled, at this stage, to be an HRH nor a prince or a princess due to rules set out more than 100 years ago by George V.\n\nThe baby is entitled to be a Lord or a Lady.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nHarry and Meghan met on a blind date, arranged by a mutual friend, and got engaged 16 months later.\n\nThe duchess had first found fame as an actress, playing Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, but gave up her career when she got married.\n\nThe Sussexes married in May 2018 in a ceremony at Windsor Castle and then a year later welcomed their first child, Archie, who was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nMeghan and Harry quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nThis week, Meghan won a privacy case against Associated Newspapers (ANL), saying the damage the publisher had done \"runs deep\". She had brought a claim against ANL, publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, over the publication of extracts from a letter to her father.", "More than 15 million people in the UK have now had their first coronavirus vaccine, in what Boris Johnson described as a \"significant milestone\".\n\nThe PM hailed the \"extraordinary feat\", reached just over two months after the first jab was given on 8 December.\n\nIt comes as the government is expected to announce on Monday it has met its pledge to offer a jab to everyone in the top four priority groups in the UK.\n\nThe rollout is now being expanded to over-65s and the clinically vulnerable.\n\nIn a video, Mr Johnson praised a \"truly national, UK-wide effort\", adding that in England the jab had been offered to all those in the top four priority groups.\n\nWales has also met the target.\n\nBut \"no-one is resting on their laurels,\" Mr Johnson said. \"We've still got a long way to go to. And there will undoubtedly be bumps in the road. But after all we've achieved, I know we can go forward with great confidence.\"\n\nSunday's daily coronavirus figures show 15,062,189 people have now received an initial vaccine dose - after 505,362 first jabs were given out on Saturday.\n\nA further 258 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, taking the death toll by that measure to 117,166. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThere were 10,972 new cases reported, bringing the total number of recorded infections to 4,038,078.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said the 15 million milestone was a \"remarkable shared achievement\" - reached 10 weeks after the first vaccine was administered in the UK.\n\n\"The NHS vaccination programme is the biggest and fastest in Europe - and in the health service's history - and that is down to the skill, care, and downright hard work of our fantastic staff, supported by local communities, volunteers and the armed forces,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it meant one in every four adults was now \"starting to receive protection from this dreadful disease\".\n\nBut he cautioned: \"There is so much more to do and I urge anyone eligible to step forward and take up their appointment. The vaccine is our route to freedom - we will beat this virus jab by jab.\"\n\nSo far the vaccination programme has been aimed at the top four priority groups, including NHS frontline staff, care home residents and workers, over-70s, and people deemed clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThese groups have accounted for 88% of the UK's Covid-19 deaths so far, according to the Department of Health and Social Care and are estimated by the JCVI to be some 15 million people.\n\nA small number of the 15 million to receive a jab will have been outside these priority groups.\n\nRuth Rankine, director of the NHS Confederation's PCN Network of GP practices, paid tribute to the \"incredible accomplishment\" but added that \"until everyone is protected, no one is protected\".\n\n\"There is still work to do to administer first doses to all the remaining people from the first four cohorts, as well as moving down the cohorts until everyone has at least been offered a jab, not to mention beginning the work of administering second doses,\" she said.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said ministers needed to \"lock in the gains of vaccination\" and introduce further measures to reduce the spread of the disease.\n\nThis included increased financial support for those who have to self-isolate, updated guidance on masks and help to make workplaces Covid secure.\n\nIt is undeniable the vaccine programme has overall been a success - only Israel and the United Arab Emirates have done more jabs per head.\n\nBut as well as pushing ahead with the under-70s, efforts need to continue to reach out to those not yet vaccinated in these first groups.\n\nThere have been reports of housebound patients still waiting, while some have questioned whether enough has been done to reach out to those who have concerns and have not taken up the offer.\n\nThe fear is uptake may be lowest in some of the most vulnerable communities and that risks widening health inequalities.\n\nPeople will also ask what this means for unlocking. Those offered the jab account for around five in six deaths but just over half of hospitalisations.\n\nThat leaves a lot of vulnerable at risk - and with the numbers in hospital still above the peak in the first wave, the NHS isn't yet out of the woods.\n\nFrom Monday, the vaccination programme enters a new phase, with over-65s and the clinically vulnerable being invited to book a jab.\n\nThe JCVI defines clinically vulnerable people as those with conditions including chronic respiratory disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, and severe asthma.\n\nSome regions have already started vaccinating people aged 65 to 69, with NHS England having previously said that people in this age group could get a vaccine if GPs had supplies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: \"You can't get ahead of the evidence\"\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab rejected calls from MPs in his party to put a date on when England's lockdown measures will be eased, saying the government will be \"cautious\".\n\nOn Saturday, the prime minister said he was \"optimistic\" he will be able to set out plans later this month for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown, citing \"huge progress\" made with the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe UK is currently administering doses of two vaccines approved by the medicine regulator - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and the one developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine, made by US company Moderna, has been approved but supplies are not expected to be available until spring.\n\nThe UK is also lined up to receive at least three other vaccines if they are approved for use.\n\nIts vaccination rate is the third highest in the world, behind only Israel and the UAE.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe ban on evictions in England is to be extended until the end of March, the government has announced.\n\nIt means eviction notices - which could have started again on 22 February - cannot be served for another six weeks.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said it would ensure renters remained protected \"during this difficult time\".\n\nThe eviction ban had already been extended from 11 January when it was originally due to expire.\n\nMr Jenrick said the ban on the enforcement of evictions by bailiffs would continue \"in all but the most serious cases\".\n\nHe added that the government had taken unprecedented action to support renters during the Covid pandemic, and that measures had struck \"the right balance between protecting tenants and enabling landlords to exercise their right to justice\".\n\nBut Labour, charities and landlords groups said the measures did not go far enough.\n\nShadow housing secretary Thangam Debbonaire said: \"Last minute decisions and half-measures from the government are putting people's homes at risk.\n\n\"Ministers promised nobody would lose their home because of coronavirus, but the current ban isn't working.\n\n\"The government should give people security in their homes, by strengthening and extending the ban for the period [virus] restrictions are in place.\"\n\nHuge sums of money have been pumped into the economy to stop mass unemployment and keep the economy afloat.\n\nBut the government has stopped short of direct financial support for tenants in rent arrears, and landlords losing income.\n\nWhile I'm told some within Whitehall are receptive to the idea of emergency grants or loans, the policy has met significant resistance - and there's little sign Westminster will follow Wales and Scotland's lead.\n\nBut there is concern from groups representing tenants and landlords that a rent debt crisis is mounting - which will, in the end, see many people forced from their homes.\n\nMortgage holidays and mediation have helped many get by for the time being - but some argue that a longer-term policy is needed.\n\nBanning evictions for another six weeks may bring some temporary relief, but as one frustrated Conservative MP put it to me: \"This can't go on forever.\"\n\nShelter said its research showed almost 445,000 private renting adults in England had fallen behind on their rent or been served with some kind of eviction notice in the last month.\n\nThe housing and homelessness charity's chief executive Polly Neate said the extension would \"keep people safe for now\", but warned it was \"not an answer to the evictions crisis\".\n\n\"Renters are still are being served with eviction notices every day and our helpline is flooded with calls from those desperately worried about paying their rent,\" she said.\n\n\"Before the ban is lifted, the government must give renters a real way out of debt. That means a lifeline of emergency grants to help pay off 'Covid arrears' so people can avoid the terrifying risk of eviction altogether.\"\n\nMeanwhile, National Residential Landlords Association chief executive Ben Beadle warned the announcement was storing up future problems.\n\nHe said 800,000 private renters had built up arrears since the ban came into force, which they would struggle to ever pay off.\n\n\"It will lead eventually to them having to leave their home and face serious damage to their credit scores,\" he said, as he called for further financial support to combat \"the debt crisis renters and landlords are now facing\".\n\nHousing is a devolved issue, and Wales and Scotland have already extended their bans to the end of March.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, landlords are required to give tenants 12 weeks' notice to quit, before moving to eviction proceedings. The rules were extended to March in anticipation of the second wave of the Covid pandemic.\n\nEvictions were first banned at the start of the first lockdown in March, with ministers also extending the notice period landlords must give tenants to end their tenancy from three to six months.\n\nCourts began to clear the backlog of repossession cases in September, starting with the most serious cases, such as those involving domestic violence or anti-social behaviour.\n\nBut the housing secretary then called a so-called \"Christmas truce\", meaning bailiffs were not allowed to enforce possession orders between 11 December and 11 January.", "Paula Reynolds with Roberto Fiorillo took this photo the day before she flew back to the UK in March 2020\n\n\"It was heart-breaking. All our hopes and dreams seemed over.\"\n\nWhen Paula Reynolds landed back in Wales from Australia in March 2020, after meeting by chance the man she hopes to marry, the world still seemed normal.\n\nThe grandmother-of-three had met Roberto Fiorillo online while visiting her daughter in Perth - and planned to return as soon as she could renew her visa.\n\nBut just weeks after touching down, the coronavirus pandemic struck and Paula and Roberto were plunged into the travails of a love affair separated by 10,000 miles.\n\n\"We were planning a joint 50th party, an engagement party and he was going to meet my family in Wales,\" Paula, who lives in Caerphilly, continued.\n\n\"It was just crushing. It was hard to have a conversation some days because I'd get upset. It took us a while to pull ourselves together and refocus and do what we're going to do.\"\n\nPaula had thought getting the visa sorted out would be her biggest problem, along with making sure she had the cash to buy the return flight.\n\nBut travelling on a tourist visa was banned when Australia tightened its borders to try and control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThis scuppered her original plan of getting a family tourist visa and then applying for an onshore partner visa last June - which was when she initially anticipated she would be able to return to Australia.\n\nBut lockdown forced her to apply for an offshore partner visa - which can take up to two years to be granted.\n\nPaula applied and held her breath, not expecting to get approval for at least a year.\n\nBut she was amazed to discover that one had been granted on 1 December. This was a permanent visa which would allow her to claim citizenship after two years.\n\nPaula Reynolds face timing Roberto Fiorillo from her home in Caerphilly\n\nOver the moon, Paula booked a one-way flight to Melbourne from Heathrow leaving on 23 January, for £1,895, the next day.\n\nShe handed in her notice at B&M Bargains where she had been working in Blackwood, packed her bags and was isolating when Australia's travel restrictions were tightened after Christmas.\n\nThe country had now reduced the cap on the number of people it was letting in.\n\nSingapore Airlines reduced the number of tickets for the flight the mother-of-two was was due to travel on and Paula was devastated to discovered that her ticket had been cancelled \"without explanation\".\n\nShe was able to get her money back but, with fewer people able to travel, the price of flights surged.\n\nPaula said that before the pandemic she had no issue sourcing return flights to Australia for £700.\n\nBut suddenly, the only flight she could find in February cost £5,000, she said.\n\nA flight on 14 March cost marginally less at £3,720. And knowing how quickly they were selling, Paula immediately maxed out her credit card to book it.\n\nShe will also have to pay $3,000AUS (£1,717) to quarantine for 14 days when she arrives.\n\nKnowing how much she was struggling, her colleagues at B&M created a GoFundMe page. It has already raised £1,000 meaning that Paula can leave the country \"debt free\".\n\nShe will also be able to pay her quarantine fee in instalments and get a job with her visa - which she plans to do \"straight away\".\n\nDespite now having her ticket and visa, Paula knows her ticket could be removed \"at any moment\" if Covid restrictions lead to a reduction in the number of people Australia is letting in.\n\n\"I am absolutely overwhelmed with the response of human beings across south Wales who have given money to a stranger. Through all of this there is still humanity,\" she said.\n\n\"My boss Chanice Lack has been amazing. I've got two pay cheques before I leave and, with the money raised, I'll definitely leave the country debt free.\n\n\"My partner and I can pay the $3,000 off in instalments. Hopefully I'll have a job in Australia within a month so I can pay it off.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Singapore Airlines apologised for \"any distress that the cancellation will have caused\".\n\nShe said it was \"beyond Singapore Airlines' control\" when Paula's seat was cancelled due to restrictions preventing UK residents \"transiting through Singapore unless they are booked on a same-plane service (where transit customers do not disembark during the stop in Singapore)\".\n\nA voicemail was left for Paula when airline staff called to advise her of the situation and support is being offered to her, the spokeswoman added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: \"You can't get ahead of the evidence\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has rejected calls from Conservative MPs to put a date on when England's lockdown measures will be eased, saying the government will be \"cautious\".\n\nThe lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group (CRG) said all restrictions must be lifted by the end of April.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he was \"confident\" in the vaccine rollout, but added: \"You can't get ahead of the evidence.\"\n\nSo far 14.5 million people have had at least one dose of the vaccine.\n\nMr Raab said that the government was \"on track\" to hit its target of offering the vaccine to 15 million people from the top four priority groups by Monday.\n\nThe CRG has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to say there will be no justification for Covid laws once the top nine priority groups have been vaccinated - which the government is planning to have done by May.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"We share all of the ambition and the desire to get out of this lockdown. We want to do it responsibly and safely and therefore it's got to be based on the evidence,\" adding, \"You can't get ahead of the evidence of the impact of the vaccine on the transmission.\"\n\nHe said the R-rate was between 0.7 and 1 and, as of Friday, the seven-day totals for admissions, cases and fatalities were down by between a fifth and a quarter respectively.\n\nBut developments needed to be monitored \"in real time\", making it difficult to give guarantees or be precise about an end of April or beginning of May date for easing, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Harper: \"It's not arbitrary at all, it's completely tied to the rollout of the vaccination programme\"\n\nMr Johnson said on Saturday he planned a \"cautious\" reopening - the road map for which will be unveiled on 22 February, with restrictions on outdoor recreation expected to be among the first to be relaxed.\n\nThe CRG - which was formed in November to oppose a third lockdown and says it has the backing of 63 MPs for its letter - said the prime minister should set out a plan for \"a return to normal life\" from 8 March.\n\nThat is three weeks after Monday's target date for vaccinating 15 million of the most vulnerable - the same length of time the vaccine is believed to need to start taking effect - and the date pencilled in by the government for schools reopening.\n\nThe top four priority groups, targeted for vaccination by 15 February include:\n\nThe vaccine rollout has already been officially extended to people outside these groups, with invitations going out in England to people aged 65 to 69 and younger people who are in an at-risk group.\n\nBoris Johnson will spend the next few days looking at data on the spread of coronavirus and the success of the vaccine rollout, before deciding how quickly to reopen society.\n\nWe know roughly what the order will be: schools, followed by outdoor mixing, non-essential shops then hospitality.\n\nSome Conservative MPs - who have been close to the prime minister in recent years - are urging Mr Johnson to move fairly quickly and lift all restrictions by May, when the government plans to have give a first dose to everyone over 50.\n\nBut Downing Street has been stung in the past after moving too quickly and having to re-impose restrictions in a matter of weeks.\n\nThat's why ministers are being cautious at the moment - and why the foreign secretary said it would be wrong to set an arbitrary date.\n\nThe CRG called for pubs and restaurants to open by Easter in a \"Covid-secure\" and \"commercially viable\" way, saying two-thirds of the people in the top nine priority groups should have had a first vaccine dose by then.\n\nAnd by the end of the April, when all the priority groups should have had one jab of vaccine, they say all lockdown laws should be removed.\n\nThe group says the burden of proof should be on ministers to show restrictions are necessary.\n\nScientists and medics have urged caution, saying there is still potential for another surge in cases.\n\nDr Shondipon Laha, a member of the Intensive Care Society, dismissed the idea that Covid-19 could end up being seen on the same level as the flu - something that has been suggested by Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Mr Johnson.\n\n\"It's not just deadlier, it's more debilitating. So we're expecting to see significant numbers of patients who have had Covid who need intense rehabilitation.\"\n\n\"We know that every patient that comes to an intensive care unit that needs ventilation loses muscle mass at 2-3% per day,\" Dr Laha said, adding that many such patients cannot stand and have problems with their long-term memories.\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, a virologist at the University of Brighton, said the variations of coronavirus were becoming more infectious and more dangerous, also dismissing suggestions it could be treated the same as flu.\n\nShe said restrictions should be lifted \"very gently\", and that, in the future, \"short, sharp\" lockdowns should be introduced for a few days to target smaller, localised outbreaks - similar to those being used in Australia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It feels like we're part of history'\n\nUp to 80,000 NI people who received a shielding letter as they are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to Covid-19 can now book a vaccination appointment.\n\nAppointments can be made online for vaccinations at seven centres.\n\nOnline appointments are available for this weekend, with telephone booking available from next week.\n\nThe news comes as the Department of Health reported another nine coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, bringing its death total to 1,975.\n\nThere were 407 new cases recorded.\n\nThere are 488 people being treated in hospital for the virus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the number of Covid-19-related deaths registered fell for a second week, according to Northern Ireland's statistics agency.\n\nThe virus was listed on the death certificates of 126 people in the week to 5 February.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the vaccination appointment announcement would be \"very welcome to all those who are clinically extremely vulnerable and have been looking forward to getting vaccinated\".\n\n\"A start has already been made on the CEV category and offering booked appointments will help to accelerate this,\" he added.\n\n\"I would again appeal to everyone to be patient - whether that's waiting on the line to book your vaccination appointment by telephone or waiting your turn in the vaccination programme.\"\n\nThe system will be open to all those who received a shielding letter.\n\nThey will have to bring that letter with them to the vaccination centre to prove their eligibility and will receive the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who heads up NI's vaccine programme, said people should not panic if they cannot find their shielding letter.\n\n\"This is going to be open for a while, there's plenty of appointments.\n\n\"For some individuals, they will be called by their GPs, so they may in fact find that their GP is calling them forward - but we're going to issue further advice on this next week.\"\n\nEarlier, referring to vaccinations, NI's chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show he was \"confident that we will have completed over-70s and clinically extremely vulnerable through February and perhaps into early March\".\n\nAbout 401,966 vaccines have been administered to date, with 373,414 of them being first doses and the remaining 28,552 being second doses, according to the Department of Health.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) has recorded a fall of 11 Covid-19-related deaths on the previous week's toll of 137.\n\nIt is also the second time the number has fallen since the record high of 182 reported on 22 January.\n\nIt brings the agency's total of coronavirus-related registered deaths to 2,574.\n\nThe Department of Health's total for the same date, based on a positive test result being recorded, was 1,923.\n\nNisra's figures are higher than that recorded by the department because it records all mentions of the virus on death certificates, even though it may or may not have been confirmed by way of a test.\n\nOn the agency's measure, there have been 1,676 Covid-19-related deaths in hospital, including the deaths of 224 care home residents.\n\nTaking that figure, and the 737 who died in care homes, it means care home residents now account for fewer than two-fifths (36.8%) of all virus-related deaths.\n\nVirus-related deaths were also recorded in hospices (0.5%) and other residential locations (7.2%).\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for more than three-quarters of all Covid-19-related registered deaths (77.2%) between 19 March 2020 and 5 February 2021.\n\nThe Antrim and Newtownabbey (9.9%), and Mid-Ulster (7.7%) local government districts have now recorded higher proportions of all coronavirus-related deaths, compared with their share of all deaths in Northern Ireland (8.3% and 6.4% respectively).\n\nThe provisional number of deaths from all causes for the week ending 5 February was 462.\n\nThat is 25 more than the previous week, and 125 more than the five-year average for the time of year, which is 337.\n\nOn Friday, the Republic of Ireland recorded a further 21 deaths linked to Covid-19, bringing its total to 3,865.\n\nThere have been 207,720 cases of the virus after the Irish department of health was notified of an additional 921 cases.\n\nThere are 959 Covid-19 inpatients in the Republic, with 173 in intensive care.", "Emergency services have been searching the area for almost two weeks\n\nThe bodies of a man and woman have been recovered from a car that has been in the River Trent for almost two weeks.\n\nSearches had been ongoing since witnesses saw a car floating in the river near Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, on 1 February.\n\nEmergency services had located the car days later but struggled to reach it because of the fast flow of water caused by flooding.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said relatives of the deceased had been informed.\n\nThe force said specialist divers discovered the two bodies inside the vehicle after 10:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\n\"Underwater recoveries of this nature are always very challenging, but our divers' work has been further complicated by the very fast flowing water at the site,\" he added.\n\n\"It was simply not safe to attempt this work before today.\"\n\nPolice said low visibility and flooding caused problems in searching the river\n\nThe car had been located using sonar technology days after the report but \"treacherous conditions\" prevented its recovery, police had said.\n\nWitnesses had reported seeing two occupants inside a car floating along the river after it left Hoveringham Road and entered the water.\n\nEyewitness Pauline Bulpitt said at the time: \"It was quite shocking. My husband rushed to get his Wellington boots, hoping the car would come into the bank further up and we might be able to do something to help.\n\n\"There was another gentleman running down the field to see if he could do something to help but the car carried on down.\"\n\nAlthough the bodies had not been recovered sooner, police said they believed they knew who the people were and their relatives had been supported by officers.\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.", "Takeaway firm Deliveroo and 300 restaurant groups are urging the government to run Eat Out to Help Out again when restaurants finally reopen.\n\nThey said the discount scheme, which gave 50% off meals in August, would boost demand for ailing restaurants.\n\nThey also said other urgent support was needed to stop \"viable\" hospitality firms failing despite optimism about the vaccination programme.\n\nIt came as one worried pub boss called for pubs to be reopened by April.\n\nYoung & Co's Patrick Dardis accused the government of a \"lack of respect\" for the sector and of basing the decision to close pubs on \"unproven\" science - a claim which experts dispute.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Deliveroo and partners including Itsu and Pizza Hut said that with all restaurant businesses closed, many were \"under immense financial pressure\".\n\n\"Even when they are able to reopen to customers, restrictions around mixing of households and social distancing measures mean that a return to trading at full capacity will remain dependent on the successful vaccine rollout,\" they wrote.\n\nThey said continued government support was \"critical\" to protect jobs, adding: \"The withdrawal of support too early or too suddenly risks viable businesses failing just as the light at the end of the tunnel is becoming clearer.\"\n\nThey said the Eat Out to Help Out scheme had helped restaurants \"survive\" in 2020 and should be run again \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nThe scheme - which gave discounts of up to £10 per diner on food and soft drinks from Mondays to Wednesdays - was used 100 million times in August. The impact was felt after the scheme ended too.\n\n\"The boost the scheme provided not only helped protect restaurants from closure but also showed customers the work we have done to make sure they are safe and can get back to enjoying great food,\" the letter said.\n\nIt also called for support measures including:\n\nIn a separate letter to the prime minister, Young's & Co's Mr Dardis accused the government of a \"lack of interest and respect\" regarding the plight of pubs.\n\nHe said major pub chief executives, including himself, were quitting an industry forum set up by small business minister Paul Scully. He declined to name the executives.\n\nHe added that the industry needed a \"road map\" to reopening with social distancing restrictions in place, but that these should only be in place for a few months.\n\nQuestioning the science behind the current pub restrictions, he said: \"We are shocked and appalled that the government is basing its decisions to keep the great British pub closed on unproven and unfounded statistics.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We are deeply disappointed that some pub leaders have decided to step back from meetings with ministers.\n\n\"As we plan our way out of restrictions, we will continue to engage relentlessly with the hospitality sector, as we have done throughout this pandemic, and our door remains firmly open,\" he said.\n\nDr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter medical school, said talk of reopening pubs by April was premature.\n\n\"What the executives of pubs need to know is that failure to get it right equals back to square one. And back to square one equals much more pain economically, much more hardship.\"\n\nHe added: \"Whichever way you want to cut it, you drink alcohol to relax and have a bonhomie with your friends.\n\n\"One of the consequences of relaxing is that you drop your guard,\" he said.\n\nDr Julian Tang, honorary associate professor at the University of Leicester, agreed.\n\nThe consultant virologist said: \"Opening pubs will bring more people into closer contact with each other - this will allow the virus to spread - we already know and understand this concept.\"", "South Wales Police said it wanted to speak to this man about the incidents\n\nNine sex attacks took place in a city park in the space of just five hours, police say.\n\nThe assaults happened in and around Singleton Park, Swansea between 08:00 GMT and 13:00 on Friday, South Wales Police said.\n\nA 24-year-old man, who was arrested on Friday, has been released with no further action.\n\nA cyclist who was captured on CCTV has been urged by the force to come forward.\n\n\"We appreciate these incidents are concerning to local residents who are regularly using the park during lockdown,\" Det Insp Peter Collins said.\n\n\"We are taking this very seriously and our investigation is ongoing. We also have extra patrols in and around the park.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with any information to contact the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nottinghamshire Police filmed the rescue on its drone\n\nTwo 11-year-old girls were \"extremely lucky to be unharmed\" after becoming trapped on a frozen section of the River Trent, police said.\n\nThe girls were rescued in Clifton on Saturday afternoon after a passer-by raised the alarm.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the friends were \"extremely cold\" and treated by the ambulance service.\n\nIt captured the rescue on a drone and reminded people not to enter the river, especially when icy.\n\nThe force said one of the girls had fallen through ice into the water while the other had made it onto an island surrounded by frozen water but had become stranded.\n\nThey were brought to safety with the help of police and firefighters at about 16:45 GMT using an inflatable piece of equipment called a pathway to help them back across the frozen water.\n\nThe girls were rescued from an area close to Clifton Grove Nature Reserve\n\nCh Insp Duncan Southall said: \"The girls are extremely lucky to have been unharmed.\n\n\"If it hadn't been for the person raising the alarm there could have been tragic consequences. It was getting dark at the time and was freezing cold.\n\n\"I hope this serves as a stark reminder to others that it is not safe to play on the ice as it can easily crack and put people in great danger.\"\n\nDavid Stevenson, from Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, reiterated the dangers, adding: \"Luckily for us, the girls were rescued and are OK, however this will not be the case for everyone.\n\n\"You can very quickly develop hypothermia from cold weather conditions. We cannot emphasise enough that cold water shock can turn into tragedy very quickly.\"\n\nThe girls were rescued close to Beeston Weir where 12-year-old Owen Jenkins died in July 2017 trying to rescue two friends from the water.\n\nHis mother Nicola Jenkins founded the Open Water Education Network safety programme in his memory and urged parents to talk to their children about the dangers of playing near water and ice.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A fire destroyed dozens of shacks, home to hundreds of undocumented workers, in southern Spain last night.\n\nIncidents like this are not rare in the area, last December 200 people were made homeless after a fire devastated shacks in Nijar.\n\nUndocumented migrants from Africa often find work in the greenhouses of Almeria, a region where a large proportion of the UK's fruits and vegetables come from in the winter months.\n\nWorkers often live in poor conditions with no access to water or electricity, creating shelters out of the same plastic used for the greenhouses and discarded wood pallets.", "The attacks happened on Friday in and around Swansea's Singleton Park area\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating nine sex attacks which took place in a city park in the space of five hours.\n\nThe assaults happened in and around Singleton Park, Swansea, between 08:00 GMT and 13:00 on Friday.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted to say the arrested man was being held in custody on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, the force had appealed for a cyclist who was captured on CCTV to come forward.\n\nDet Insp Peter Collins said: \"We are thankful for the support we have received from the local community so far and I would appeal if anyone has any information that they have not yet shared with us please do so now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales' top nine priority groups will have received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of April, the first minister has said.\n\nThe over-70s, care home residents and staff, health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable have already been offered the jab.\n\nMark Drakeford is \"confident\" on vaccinating the next five groups \"provided nothing gets in the way\".\n\nAn updated roadmap out of lockdown will be published on Friday.\n\nAt the next lockdown review on 19 February, the government will prioritise the return of three-to-seven year olds to school, along with some older children on vocational courses, said Mr Drakeford.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, the first minister said other changes would be \"very marginal\", including the possibility of allowing \"the outdoors to be used a little more\" and more flexibility for families.\n\n\"But the cabinet will not make those decisions until Thursday when we have the very latest information,\" he added.\n\nMr Drakeford said he hoped on Friday to be able to indicate \"how we will plan\" to get more children back to the classroom, possibly from the following review on 12 March.\n\nMinisters have started \"cautious\" talks about Wales' tourist industry reopening in time for Easter.\n\nThree-to-seven year olds will return to school on 22 February\n\nThe reopening of self-contained holiday accommodation is likely to be prioritised in the first instance.\n\nAlthough he has not ruled it out, Mr Drakeford has suggested it is unlikely pubs and restaurants would be open at the start of April.\n\nFrom Monday, UK residents and Irish nationals arriving in England from 33 red-list countries will have to quarantine for 10 days in hotels selected by the government.\n\nPeople entering Scotland from any country by air will have to isolate in hotels.\n\nFrom 04:00 GMT on Monday, people arriving in England and Scotland from red-list countries will be fined if they break their 10-day quarantine and enter Wales.\n\nAsked whether people arriving at Cardiff Airport once commercial flights restart will have to quarantine regardless of which country they have flown from, Mr Drakeford said: \"It may be that later on in March, if and when flights resume, that we will need to put those things in place.\n\n\"We will learn from the next few weeks, see what is necessary, see how the regimes are being put in place in the seven entry ports in Scotland and England, and then make a decision about what's needed here in Wales,\" he added.\n\nPeople aged five and over arriving into Wales from abroad are already required to isolate for 10 days.\n\nThey will now also be required to undertake a Covid-19 test on the second and eighth day of their 10-day isolation period.\n\nFailure to do so will be a criminal offence, liable to a fine, and failure to undertake both tests will also mean that the isolation period is extended to 14 days.", "Pauline Vincent (left) said she did not like being left alone\n\nTwin sisters are celebrating their 90th birthdays by moving in together for the first time in decades.\n\nPauline Vincent and Jacqueline Hetherington had been living in separate sheltered accommodation in Ashburton, Devon, when they decided it was time to become flatmates.\n\nMrs Hetherington's daughter Jaine Swift said they were inseparable.\n\n\"They really need each other and get very anxious when they are apart,\" she said.\n\n\"At this stage of their lives it seems perfect that they move in together.\"\n\nMrs Swift and other family members helped the sisters move on Friday and made them a birthday breakfast of smoked salmon and champagne on Saturday.\n\nPauline Vincent said they had a good childhood and were \"very spoilt\"\n\nThe sisters, who were born in Halifax, west Yorkshire, in 1931, came to Devon in the 1960s, with Mrs Vincent working as a secretary and Mrs Hetherington raising a family of four children.\n\nMrs Swift said the twins had not lived together since their 20s when her mother married but remained close throughout their adult lives.\n\nAsked if the siblings ever fought, Mrs Vincent said they were \"harmonious together\" but Mrs Swift pointed out that her aunt was the tidier - and more bossy - of the pair.\n\n\"I don't like to be left alone,\" Mrs Vincent added.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "A screengrab from a video called Ask the Experts\n\nActivists have been targeting people with fears about vaccines in a social media blitz. In an experiment, BBC Panorama showed a panel one video filled with falsehoods to see how it affected their willingness to get a jab.\n\nIn a sleepy suburb of Norwich, 83-year-old Rosemary opens a WhatsApp message from a relative.\n\nIt contains a video called Ask the Experts.\n\nThe clip features people with impressive medical and scientific titles based in the UK, US, Spain and Sweden.\n\nSome allege, contrary to the evidence, that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe, that they can alter a person's DNA - and even that the pandemic is somehow not real.\n\nRosemary is frightened - and suddenly unsure about whether she'll get vaccinated.\n\n\"It sounded so real and the people were so plausible and they were named as clinicians and doctors,\" she says.\n\nWith the majority of the elderly and at-risk groups having had their jabs, the next big challenge for the government is to vaccinate everyone else in the UK.\n\nMost people say they want a jab, but the latest anti-vaccine tactics deployed by a committed minority seek to exploit people's nervousness.\n\nRosemary and her husband Donald were concerned about the video they received via WhatsApp\n\nRosemary is just one of millions exposed to tactics used by anti-vaccine activists - a loose collection of people who make a variety of claims about vaccines, including suggesting they are dangerous and a form of state control.\n\nOver the course of 27 minutes, the Ask the Experts video relentlessly introduces 33 people, many brandishing their credentials, often sitting in what look like medical consultation rooms.\n\nThey confidently and calmly repeat similar messages - although many of the claims are misleading or just plain untrue.\n\nRosemary was left shocked as these people - who looked similar to the doctors she would usually turn to for sound advice - said that Covid-19 was \"not a real medical pandemic\", that vaccines alter your DNA, that they cause infertility and that they're part of a deliberate global plan to hurt people.\n\nShe's not alone in being scared by the video.\n\nOne London council has issued a warning after the Ask The Experts video started circulating in Asian and black communities.\n\nThese groups have been disproportionately affected by coronavirus - and there are indications that some ethnic minority groups have a higher level of reluctance when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that they are targeting it at those communities will mean that there will be people who die as a result of not having the vaccine,\" says Westminster council leader Rachael Robathan.\n\nDespite being removed from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, it's been claimed that Ask the Experts has been seen more than 250,000 times.\n\nIt's gone viral on WhatsApp and its producers have been asking for donations via PayPal.\n\nThe video is just one part of an online anti-vaccine blitz.\n\nExclusive research by BBC Monitoring has found a huge increase in followers of social media accounts promoting anti-vaccine material during the pandemic.\n\nThese aren't accounts asking legitimate medical questions - but people and organisations who've already made up their minds against vaccinations, and are manufacturing evidence or twisting facts to support their conclusions.\n\nOn Instagram, the number of followers of major anti-vaccination accounts increased nearly five-fold in 2020, to more than four million.\n\nOn Facebook, the top anti-vaccination pages grew by 19% in the last year and followers of Twitter accounts sharing anti-vaccine claims almost trebled.\n\nThe increases came alongside a huge overall surge in people seeking out health information online due to the pandemic. But the raw numbers still mean false anti-vaccine claims are reaching millions more than ever before.\n\nHow do the misinformation and conspiracy theories pushed by the video affect the views of people who have legitimate questions about vaccines?\n\nI ran a test for BBC Panorama. Our team assembled a panel of eight people from across the country who were unsure about having a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nLogging on to a Zoom call on a January evening, they view the Ask the Experts video as we observe their reactions.\n\nSix of the eight people who volunteered to watch the anti-vaccine film\n\nOur experiment happens under the watchful eye of Dr Liam Smeeth, a professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who's also a GP.\n\nRob - a 27-year-old volunteer radio DJ in Norfolk who's spending the latest lockdown trying to raise people's spirits with music - questions the speed of vaccine trials.\n\nIt's a concern shared by 20-year-old law student Phoebe, who has other worries.\n\n\"Every time I search about the Covid vaccine and fertility, it literally changes, so often it's quite overwhelming,\" she says.\n\nExperts say that the coronavirus vaccines have gone through the same rigorous process as other vaccines - and there's no biological mechanism by which it could affect fertility.\n\nAfter expressing their concerns, the panel begins watching Ask the Experts. I didn't tell them what the video was about - and reactions vary.\n\nEddie, a 76-year-old from Northumberland, furrows his brow in front of a backdrop of watercolours he's painted during lockdown.\n\n\"I thought at first 'Are these actors? Is this just a sham?'\" he says. \"And as I went on, I realised that they were real.\"\n\nAnother person in the video appears wearing a white lab coat, pictured in what looks like a hospital.\n\nMatt - a 31-year-old who works in IT - nods along, listening attentively.\n\n\"I feel I could trust some of them,\" he says, eyes glued to the screen.\n\nBut the footage turns off others.\n\nAs one of the people in the video argues, with an air of authority, that this is \"not a real medical pandemic\", Russell from Norwich puts his head in his hands. He was ill with coronavirus last year.\n\n\"Blimey! It's like being hit over the head a number of times. For half-an-hour,\" he says. \"I feel like I'm being brainwashed.\"\n\nPhoebe, the law student, also senses she's being fed misinformation. She crumples her face in disgust.\n\n\"If these people are saying the virus isn't real, I'm less inclined to believe what they say about the vaccine being dangerous,\" she says.\n\nHowever, after watching the video half of the group says they are more worried about having a Covid-19 vaccine than before.\n\n\"It's being rushed, and there hasn't been too much information,\" says decorator Steven from Inverness, who has had cancer. \"I do agree with all that part of it.\"\n\n\"The video says what I've had in the back of my mind,\" he says, running his hand through his hair as he tries to make sense of what he has just watched.\n\nDr Smeeth's main fear, that the video would amplify people's pre-existing fears, has materialised.\n\nHe wants any doctor or professional promoting false claims to face disciplinary action.\n\n\"I would certainly be very pro them being investigated and any evidence of harm being looked at,\" he says, \"and them being stopped from using their title.\"\n\nWe have one more question - in the face of bad health information, can accurate advice from a respected expert increase trust in science?\n\nOne by one, Dr Smeeth tackles the concerns raised by the panel. The vaccine doesn't change your DNA, he explains. It has been through animal trials, and there's no biological mechanism by which it would affect your fertility, he adds.\n\nAfter the discussion, all our volunteers say they're leaning towards having the vaccine. And some are even enthusiastic.\n\n\"I will definitely have it now,\" says Eddie, the painter from Northumberland, chuckling as he logs off.\n\nBack in Norwich, once Rosemary also realised that many of the claims made in the video were false, she made her decision.\n\nRosemary and Donald met 60 years ago out dancing. During the pandemic they have made do, dancing the cha cha cha in their garage\n\n\"I'm so relieved to be getting the vaccine,\" she told me as her husband Donald prepared to visit their local GP.\n\nPanorama contacted all 33 people in the video. Eleven responded - four defended the video's contents, five said if we referred to them as anti-vaccine they'd take legal action, and one made no comment. Another acknowledged the virus is real and causes diseases and deaths, but said the measures to manage the pandemic are disproportionate.\n\nPanorama invited Oracle Films, which produced the video, to comment. The filmmakers chose not to.\n\nAfter Panorama contacted PayPal about the request for donations, its account was taken down.\n\nFacebook - which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram - removed a number of the pages and posts flagged by Panorama. The company says it continues to step up its enforcement policies about harmful misinformation and actively points people towards credible information.\n\nTwitter gave us a similar statement and said it's prioritising the removal of Covid-19 content that could potentially cause harm.\n\nBut the Ask the Experts video is still in circulation on WhatsApp - one of thousands of videos and posts by anti-vaccine activists, who are still fighting to scare people away with false claims.\n\nWatch Panorama, Vaccines: The Disinformation War in the UK only, on BBC One, Monday 15 February at 19:30 GMT or later after broadcast on BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have marked their son's first birthday by releasing a video of Meghan reading to a beaming Archie.\n\nThe clip, filmed by Prince Harry, shows the duchess reading Duck! Rabbit! - one of Archie's favourite books.\n\nIt was posted on Instagram as part of a Save the Children fundraising campaign for children and families struggling due to coronavirus.\n\nArchie, sitting on his mother's lap, smiles and grips the book throughout.\n\nThe couple are believed to have filmed the clip in the US, where they are living.\n\nArchie can be seen grabbing at the pages and at one point appears on the verge of tears before breaking into a smile.\n\nPrince Harry can be heard laughing in the background at various moments throughout the clip.\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 savechildrenuk 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 the video, Archie - who Meghan calls \"Arch\" - is seen wriggling around and reaching for another book midway through the story.\n\nHe later drops the second book on the floor. When the duchess tucks it down the side of the chair out of sight, he reaches for it once more and again drops it on the floor - prompting a laugh from Prince Harry.\n\nAt the end of the story, the duchess cuddles her son and says \"good job\", while Prince Harry cheers \"bravo\".\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lb 3oz. His parents introduced Archie to cameras at Windsor Castle a few days after his birth.\n\nOn Wednesday, he received birthday wishes from the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuck! Rabbit!, written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld, asks children to work out whether pictures on the pages are of ducks or rabbits.\n\nA caption for the video, shared on Save the Children's UK account, reads: \"'Duck! Rabbit!' with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex (and Harry, the Duke of Sussex behind the camera)... Happy Birthday, Archie!\"\n\nIt added: \"Thank you Duchess Meghan for helping us to raise urgent funds for our coronavirus appeal.\"\n\nThe video is part of the charity's Save with Stories campaign to support children who have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nFunds raised in the UK will go towards Save the Children UK's emergency grants programme to help vulnerable families purchase basic items and food, according to the charity.", "England's batting crumbled in the Chennai dust as India moved on course for an emphatic win in the second Test.\n\nWith the ball biting, fizzing and spitting off a rapidly deteriorating pitch, England had few answers against India's skilful spinners, slipping to 52-5 in response to the hosts' 329.\n\nBen Foakes provided admirable resistance with an unbeaten 42, saving a follow-on that probably would not have been enforced, before England were bowled out for 134.\n\nOff-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin ended with 5-43, while debutant left-arm spinner Axar Patel and pace bowler Ishant Sharma claimed two wickets apiece.\n\nRohit Sharma, who made a sparkling 161 on day one, survived a stumping chance on 20 and overturned an lbw decision on 22 to end the second day 25 not out, taking India to 54-1 and a lead of 249.\n\nFor all of the debate over the suitability of the pitch, India have now scored 383 runs in 113.5 overs for the loss of 11 wickets.\n• None You might as well play on a beach - Aggers on the Chennai pitch\n• None TMS podcast: India tighten grip after 15 wickets fall on day two\n\nMuch will be made of the pitch and the question of when the exploitation of home advantage is taken to such a degree that it compromises the integrity of the contest.\n\nOn one hand, extreme conditions are part of the rich tapestry of Test cricket and overcoming them is the challenge of playing away from home. Is it any more difficult for England in Chennai than it was for India when they were dismantled in English conditions at Lord's in 2018?\n\nOn the other, should the surface - and therefore the toss - dictate the outcome to this extent? This pitch has offered excessive encouragement for the spinners, even for the subcontinent.\n\nWhatever the rights and wrongs, the conditions provide context for the state of the match and it would be harsh to view this as another instalment in England's historical struggles in Asia.\n\nIn this extreme environment, India's batsmen are more adept at scoring runs, their bowlers more relentless in exploiting the assistance.\n\nYes, India won the toss, but they have also had Rohit's beautiful batting and Ashwin's mesmeric bowling, which England have not come close to matching.\n\nEven if India tailored the conditions following their chastening 227-run defeat in the first Test, they have still outplayed England for two days in the Chennai sun.\n\nFrom 300-6 overnight, Rishabh Pant belted two straight sixes before running out of partners on 58 not out.\n\nAfter Rory Burns was lbw to the third ball of the England innings, playing all around a straight one from Ishant, the spinners got to work.\n\nAshwin, with his subtle variations, had a sweeping Dom Sibley caught off the back of the bat, a tortured Dan Lawrence held a short leg and bowled Ben Stokes with a near-unplayable dipper that turned sharply to take off stump.\n\nIn between, the accurate Axar struck the biggest blow by having captain Joe Root top-edge one of his trademark sweeps.\n\nIt was only Foakes who delayed the India march and, when the tail was mopped up, Rohit picked up where he left off on Saturday to swiftly extend the lead.\n\nWhile this might seem like a brutal reality check for England after a superb performance in the first Test, they can still take heart from the performances of two of their most inexperienced players.\n\nDespite doing little wrong in his previous five Tests, Foakes is only playing because Jos Buttler has been rested, yet once again showed his class behind the stumps and his composure with the bat.\n\nFaultless with the gloves on day one, he began day two with a lightning stumping to remove Axar, then would later arrive at the crease with England floundering.\n\nWith precise footwork and a solid defence, he was rarely troubled, steadying with Ollie Pope, who was equally unflustered for 22.\n\nAfter Pope was caught down the leg side off fast bowler Mohammed Siraj's first ball in a Test in India, Foakes marshalled the lower order to end undefeated. A rare blemish came when he missed the clear stumping chance as Rohit charged at Moeen Ali.\n\nStone, in his second Test, impressed with his pace on day one. When England wanted to wrap up the India tail on Sunday morning, he was asked to rough up Kuldeep Yadav and Siraj, both of whom were both caught behind in the space of three balls to leave Stone with 3-47.\n\n'England have just got to fight'\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on The Cricket Social: \"England have got to just fight. You never know, someone could do something remarkable.\n\n\"It looks like England will lose this game but try and take something into the next Test. Don't get too demoralised.\"\n\nEngland assistant coach Graham Thorpe: \"It's incredibly challenging on that surface for us. They have a skilled spin attack and it was a very good toss to win.\n\n\"There are some balls in the pitch that you might not be able to do too much about. In terms of commenting on the suitability of the pitch for a Test, that's for someone above me to say.\n\n\"We need something very, very special to happen tomorrow and somebody do something amazing with the bat. We knew we were going to have some tough times and the important thing is the dressing room doesn't get too affected by today.\"\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Ben Foakes on Channel 4: \"It was an incredibly tough day. The pitch was playing a few tricks. I just tried to stick to my game plan.\n\n\"We have to apply ourselves in the second innings, back our defence and try to put pressure on the bowlers.\"\n\nIndia spinner Ravichandran Ashwin: \"In the seven days of Test cricket we have played so far England have competed really well. I haven't seen them complaining about the conditions.\n\n\"There are conditions that will challenge you, whether it's with spin or with seam. If the ball is moving around at 145-150km/h off the deck, that has to be more challenging than someone bowling at 85-90km/h when the ball is spinning.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"There will be questions asked, in the wider game, about the suitability of this pitch for Test cricket.\n\n\"If cricket was played on this pitch all the time then there would be no need for five days.\"\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "Scenes such as this one - in Odessa, Texas - are unusual for the state\n\nTexas is known for its sprawling deserts and excruciating heatwaves - but right now, it's blanketed in a thick layer of ice.\n\nThe state is seeing some of its coldest temperatures in more than 30 years, with some areas breaking records that are more than a century old.\n\nParts of Texas hit 0F (-18C) on Sunday, and weather warnings are going to stay in place through the week.\n\nSo why is this normally boiling state suddenly freezing over?\n\nAccording to the US National Weather Service (NWS), this is down to an \"Arctic outbreak\" that originated just above the US-Canada border, bringing a winter snow storm as well as plummeting temperatures.\n\nCold air outbreaks such as these are normally kept in the Arctic by a series of low-pressure systems, the NWS said. However, this one moved through Canada and spilled out into the US last week.\n\nTemperatures in the city of Dallas for example will reach a high of 14F (-10C) on Monday when it should be more like 59F (15C) at this time of year.\n\nFor the first time in the US state, all 254 counties are under a winter storm warning, US media report. The temperature in Dallas is already colder than in Anchorage, Alaska, CBS News reports.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday night, President Joe Biden declared an emergency in Texas, which authorises US agencies to co-ordinate disaster relief in the state.\n\nRotating power outages have been initiated by the state's power grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot), early on Monday, to reduce demand on the electricity system.\n\n\"Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power,\" it added in a tweet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt has also issued a level-three energy emergency alert, urging consumers to reduce electricity use.\n\nNearly 120 car accidents were reported on Sunday, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña tweeted.\n\nHundreds of flights in and out of the state have also been cancelled.\n\nThe weather has already proved deadly. On Thursday, icy roads led to a massive crash involving more than 100 vehicles in Fort Worth, killing six people and leaving dozens more needing hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a deadly crash with over 100 cars began on an icy Texas highway\n\n\"The expansive dome of sub-freezing temperatures across the northern tier of the country has laid the foundation for winter storms to wreak havoc from coast to coast, not only going into this weekend, but also into next week,\" the NWS said in a statement released on Friday.\n\nWeather warnings for severe winter conditions are going to remain in place until at least Tuesday, when the weather system will begin to move north.\n\nAmarillo will see a high temperature of just 2F (-17C), breaking the city's previous record of 12F (-11C) that was set in 1895, a forecaster from the service's Weather Prediction Centre, Marc Chenard, told Reuters news agency.\n\nThese are some of the state's coldest temperatures for more than 30 years\n\nSimilarly, Lubbock will only reach a high of 9F (-13C). These temperatures are \"40 to 50 degrees [Fahrenheit] below average\", Mr Chenard said.\n\nParts of Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle are predicted to see as much as a foot of snow this week, while Dallas will have four inches.\n\nMr Chenard warns of more dangerous road conditions in Houston, caused by sleet and freezing rain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople in Myanmar are reacting with defiance as authorities use night-time raids to arrest opponents of the military coup.\n\nVideo footage showed people banging pots and pans to warn their neighbours of approaching security forces.\n\nMass protests have taken place since the military seized control of the South East Asian country on 1 February.\n\nThe army announced on Saturday that arrest warrants had been issued for seven prominent opposition campaigners.\n\nThey are wanted under the rarely used charge of \"disturbing tranquillity\". One of them, Min Ko Naing, was one of the student leaders involved in the failed 1988 uprising against the then-military dictator. He has appeared in a social media video denouncing the use of night-time raids to make arrests.\n\nThe United Nations human rights office said on Friday that more than 350 people had been arrested since the coup.\n\nThe country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Myanmar coup: How did we get here?\n\nThe military on Saturday also suspended laws requiring court orders for detaining people longer than 24 hours and for searching private property.\n\nBBC Burmese journalist Nyein Chan Aye said people in Myanmar were feeling \"extremely insecure, anxious and uncertain about what will happen next\".\n\n\"Sleepless nights are becoming common here in Myanmar. Security forces are raiding people's residences in many places across the country and trying to arrest those who are against the military junta. People are protecting each other, staying up late at night,\" he said.\n\nIn the country's biggest city, Yangon, footage showed people chanting and alerting neighbours as security vehicles approached. In a video shared with Reuters news agency, crowds could be seen surrounding and marching alongside police vehicles.\n\nThe videographer told the news agency the crowd had at least once made the police turn back from driving in the direction of West Yangon Hospital.\n\nOther footage showed people gathering in Yangon to demand the release of a teacher who had reportedly been detained, and banging pots and pans when they thought police units were conducting raids to arrest people.\n\nAs people took to the streets for the eighth consecutive day on Saturday, protesters chanted: \"Stop arresting people at night-time.\"\n\nMass protests in Myanmar entered their second week on Saturday\n\nInternet memes captioned \"Our nights aren't safe anymore\" have been circulating on social media.\n\nPhil Robertson, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, told the BBC there were \"more and more night-time raids\" taking place in Myanmar, in which people were dragged from their homes in the middle of the night.\n\n\"We have neighbourhoods now who are trying to organise. They're using pot banging when it looks like the police or military are coming into the area. It really has become a situation where the crackdown is now going after anybody that the military identifies as leaders of these protests,\" he said.\n\nMyanmar group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has also voiced concern about overnight arrests.\n\n\"Family members are left with no knowledge of the charges, location, or condition of their loved ones. These are not isolated incidents, and night-time raids are targeting dissenting voices,\" it said in a statement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he will set out \"as much detail\" as he can give in his lockdown road map on 22 February\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"optimistic\" he will be able to set out plans later this month for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister said \"huge progress\" had been made with the rollout of vaccines, with ministers hopeful that schools can reopen from 8 March.\n\nAfter this, the government would look to open non-essential shops and then later the hospitality sector, he said.\n\nIt comes as scientists warned against easing lockdown measures too quickly.\n\nMr Johnson will set out his \"road map\" out of lockdown on 22 February.\n\nSo far, more than 14.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, according to Saturday's government figures.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first jab to everyone in the top four priority groups - about 15 million people - by Monday.\n\nThe figures also show a further 612 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 116,908.\n\nSpeaking at a visit to the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies plant in Billingham, Teesside, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm optimistic, I won't hide it from you. I'm optimistic but we have to be cautious.\"\n\nSetting out the government's priorities, he said: \"Our children's education is our number one priority, but then working forward, getting non-essential retail open as well and then, in due course, as and when we can prudently and cautiously, of course we want to be opening hospitality as well.\n\n\"I will be trying to set out as much as I possibly can in as much detail as I can, always understanding that we have to be wary of the pattern of disease.\n\n\"We don't want to be forced into any kind of retreat or reverse ferret,\" the PM added.\n\nHe also echoed comments made earlier by Health Secretary Matt Hancock that Covid-19 could become an illness that we live with - like the flu - by the end of the year.\n\n\"A nasty disease like this will roll through. A new disease like this will take time for humanity to adapt to, but we are,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"I do think that in due time it will become something that we simply live with. Some people will be more vulnerable than others - that's inevitable.\"\n\nMr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that he hoped new drugs by the end of 2021 could make Covid a \"treatable disease\", and one that we live with \"like we do the flu\".\n\nThis suggested that he was ruling out a \"zero Covid\" strategy, aimed at eliminating the virus entirely from the UK.\n\nHowever, scientists said coronavirus mutations were getting \"more dangerous\" and \"more infectious\" and warned against treating it like the flu.\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, a virologist at the University of Brighton, told the BBC: \"It's not a type of flu. It's not the same sort of virus. It doesn't cause the same sort of disease, it's very, very nasty.\"\n\nShe added: \"The mutations, the variations, that we're seeing are becoming more infectious, not less infectious and a bit more dangerous, not less dangerous.\"\n\nProf Steven Riley, a member of the SPI-M modelling group, told BBC Radio 4 Today: \"If for some reason we were to choose to just pretend it (coronavirus) wasn't here anymore, then there is the potential to go back to a wave that is a similar size to the one that we are in now.\"\n\nAdam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said vaccines were \"doing what we wanted them to do\", particularly among the very elderly and vulnerable, who were among the first to receive the jab.\n\nAlthough acknowledging that it was \"desperately important\" for schools to return and society to reopen, he cautioned against getting into a cycle \"where we are constantly opening up and then closing down again and everything is very unstable\".\n\n\"It's worse to open up, have another wave of pandemic, another bunch of hospitalisations and have to close down again than to be able to progressively normalise things,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nNHS Confederation chairman Lord Victor Adebowale said 8 March for schools could still be too soon, adding that the NHS workforce was \"on its knees\".\n\n\"I understand the pressure to open schools. We need to do so very safely. I think mid or late March is when we should be reassessing.\n\n\"We have had a number of false dawns when we have set dates, taken the action, then find ourselves having to row back very quickly,\" Lord Adebowale told Today.\n\nBut the prime minister is facing calls from some MPs in his party to ease restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Hospitality said for every week the hospitality sector remains shut down more companies are being placed in jeopardy and millions of jobs across hospitality and the supply chain are being put at risk.\n\nThe trade association's chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"That is why we urge the prime minister to work with us on delivering a safe, swift and sustainable exit from lockdown for hospitality.\"", "Police broke up the party on the canal boat on the River Lea in the early hours of the morning\n\nA man has been arrested and 26 people reported for £800 fines after police broke up a party on a canal boat.\n\nSome 30 people were discovered on the vessel on the River Lea in east London at about 04:20 GMT.\n\nThe Met said a 31-year-old held on suspicion of breaching Covid health protection regulations had previously been reported for a £10,000 fine over another boat party.\n\nThe partygoers were dispersed and the boat has been seized.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said it was \"incredibly disappointing that incidents of this nature continue\".\n\n\"To have an individual who has repeatedly ignored these regulations and who appears to have organised multiple events is dangerous and indicates a complete disregard for the safety of all involved,\" he said.\n\nMet Police officers also shut down another large party in a house in Wandsworth, south-west London, on Thursday night.\n\nAbout 30 to 40 people were found at the gathering shortly before 23:40.\n\nOne woman was arrested for breaching Covid regulations while a man was held for an unrelated offence.\n\nFixed-penalty notices were issued to the other attendees found there.\n\nInsp Matt Ebbs said: \"These are challenging times but we must all play our part, and I urge everyone to follow the rules to protect themselves and their community.\"\n• None What powers do police have?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chris Harrison has been the host of The Bachelor since 2002\n\nThe long-time host of hit US dating show The Bachelor has said he is stepping aside after widespread criticism of his comments on race.\n\nChris Harrison drew ire after he excused behaviour of a current cast member that some said was racist, saying he was not the \"woke police\".\n\n\"By excusing historical racism, I defended it,\" the 49-year-old host said in an Instagram post announcement.\n\nThis current season is the first to feature a black lead.\n\nThe show revolves around a single bachelor selecting a potential spouse from a pool of hopefuls.\n\nIn June 2020, fans of the ABC show petitioned for it to address the unequal treatment of cast members of colour.\n\nAt the forefront of that initiative was Rachel Lindsay, who at the time was the only black lead to have ever served on The Bachelor's sister show, The Bachelorette.\n\nThe show responded with a promise to address their race issues by casting more people of colour. They announced the first black lead, Matt James, as the next Bachelor on 12 June 2020, following the protests over George Floyd's death.\n\nWhen pictures surfaced of current contestant Rachael Kirkonnell at an Old South fraternity formal at a former slave plantation in 2018, she drew immediate criticism from fans. Ms Kirkonnell has since apologised.\n\nIn an interview with Mrs Lindsey on Extra TV, Mr Harrison defended Ms Kirkonnell, a current front-runner who has yet to be eliminated from the show.\n\n\"I saw a picture of her at a sorority party five years ago and that's it,\" said Mr Harrison. Ms Lindsay reminded him the photo had been taken in 2018, which \"wasn't a good look\".\n\n\"Well, Rachel, is it a good look in 2018? Or, is it not a good look in 2021? Because there's a big difference,\" said Mr Harrison.\n\nTo this, Mrs Lindsay pushed back and said: \"It's not a good look ever.\"\n\n\"I am not the woke police,\" he replied, a phrase he reiterated several times throughout the interview.\n\nAfter the interview went live on Tuesday, a petition for the network to fire him went viral. By Saturday morning, it had amassed 38,000 signatures.\n\nMrs Lindsay, who met her now-husband on the show, addressed her 13-minute interview with Mr Harrison on a podcast she hosts on Friday.\n\n\"During that conversation, he talked over me and at me, during that conversation,\" she said.\n\n\"He never gave me room to talk. And he never gave me room to share my perspective. He wasn't trying to hear it. He was just trying to be heard.\"\n\nOver the next few days, fans pressured former cast members to speak out.\n\nBen Higgins and Joelle Fletcher, both good friends of Mr Harrison and considered frontrunners to succeed him should he eventually retire, condemned his words.\n\n\"Chris' statements were harmful. They were not helpful,\" Mr Higgins wrote on Instagram.\n\nThe momentum snowballed as the entire cast from this season posted a joint statement standing by Mrs Lindsey.\n\nAlthough Mr Harrison issued an initial apology on Thursday it was not satisfactory for many members of Bachelor Nation, the self-proclaimed name given to fans of the show, and the number of people petitioning for his firing grew.\n\nAfter two days of silence, he announced on Saturday he would be taking a step back \"for a period of time\".\n\n\"To the Black community, to the BIPOC community: I am so sorry. My words were harmful,\" he said on Instagram.\n\nMr James' season is just over halfway and has already been filmed, so Mr Harrison will not be absent from viewers' screens just yet.", "Mass tests are being carried out in Middlesbrough after a case of the South African variant was found\n\nA case of the South African variant of Covid-19 has been identified in a village in Hampshire.\n\nAnyone aged 16 or over in Bramley, near Basingstoke, will be subjected to surge testing from next week.\n\nAdditional tests will also be held in Middlesbrough and Walsall following recent discoveries of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the mutation can spread faster and vaccines may not be as effective.\n\nMass testing - or surge testing - is already taking place in parts of England to help stop the spread of new, more infectious strains of Covid-19.\n\nIt will now be deployed to targeted areas of Middlesbrough in the TS7 postcode, areas in Walsall and areas in the RG26 postcode in Hampshire.\n\nSimon Bryant, Hampshire County Council's director of public health, said: \"I appreciate that this news may be worrying but it's really important to understand that the risk of transmission from this single case is considered to be very low.\"\n\nHe added that the rapid local testing programme was \"primarily a precautionary measure\" to help the government understand and prevent the spread of new variants.\n\nDetails of how the programme will work will be published on the authority's website early next week.\n\nA test centre has been set up in Middlesbrough and anyone over 16 from Marton and Coulby Newham is being urged to get a test.\n\nThe Teesside town has the fifth highest infection rate in England.\n\nPublic Health England said as of 8 February, the rate per 100,000 people in Middlesbrough was 357.5 - down slightly from 359.6 the week before.\n\nConsultant in public health Esther Mireku said: \"While the overall Covid infection rate in Middlesbrough has now halved from its peak in early January, it has still not decreased as much as we would have liked.\n\n\"The high prevalence of Covid in the town, combined with the reporting of this variant, are a reminder to everyone of the importance of staying at home as much as possible and following hands-face-space when out for an essential reason.\"\n\nMobile testing units had already been set up in Walsall earlier this month following the discovery of the South African variant in the town.\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.", "Cars were buried in muddy snow on the A98\n\nCars have been buried overnight under huge banks of drifting snow blown from fields next to the A98 in Moray.\n\nThe vehicles were trapped as gale-force winds carried mud-coloured waves of snow onto the road near Buckie.\n\nSnow ploughs were used to try and clear the stretch, close to its junction with the B9016, but were unable to make it through and the road remains closed.\n\nElsewhere in the north east, stretches of the A90, A95 and A96 were also closed overnight due to drifting snow.\n\nThe clearing operation went on through the night on the A95\n\nThe A9 has also been affected, with the snow gates being closed between Dalwhinnie and Trinafour.\n\nAll major roads were at least partially cleared on Sunday morning but road management firm Bear Scotland said its teams were still working to keep them passable.\n\nDrivers have been urged only to travel in the area if absolutely essential.\n\nBear Scotland tweeted: \"All early morning treatments are now complete. We are still dealing with drifting snow on the A9 at Drumochter.\n\n\"Our teams have been working tirelessly overnight and will continue to keep working hard to keep the carriageway clear.\n\n\"If you are out an about please #DriveSafe.\"\n\nA police vehicle edges its way along the A9 near Dalwhinnie", "The image shows three shield volcanoes in a line, as well as Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System\n\nThe United Arab Emirates' Hope mission has returned its first picture of Mars.\n\nThe spacecraft entered into an orbit around the Red Planet on Tuesday, making the UAE the first Arab nation in history to have a scientific presence at Earth's near neighbour.\n\nThis first image will be followed by many similar such views of Mars.\n\nHope was put in a wide orbit so it could study the planet's weather and climate systems, which means it also will see the planet's full disk.\n\nIt's a type of view that's familiar fare from Earth-based telescopes, but less so from satellites actually positioned at Mars.\n\nThey traditionally have been kept close in to the planet so they can get high-resolution pictures of the surface and act as telecommunications relay stations for landed robots in contact with Earth.\n\nArtwork: The UAE is the first Arab nation in history to send a probe to Mars\n\nThe picture at the top of this page was captured by Hope's EXI instrument from an altitude of 24,700 km (15,350 miles) above the Martian surface at 20:36 GMT on Wednesday - so, one day after arriving at the Red Planet.\n\nThe north pole of Mars is in the upper left of the image. At centre, just emerging into the early morning sunlight, is Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System. Look right on the boundary between night and day, the so-called terminator.\n\nThe three shield volcanoes in a line are Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons. Look east, to the limb of the planet, and you can see the mighty canyon system, Valles Marineris. It's part covered by cloud.\n\n\"The transmission of the Hope Probe's first image of Mars is a defining moment in our history and marks the UAE joining advanced nations involved in space exploration,\" the mission's twitter account stated. \"We hope this mission will lead to new discoveries about Mars which will benefit humanity.\"\n\nHope is now running in an initial ellipse around Mars that comes as close as 1,000km from the planet and goes out to almost 50,000km. Over the course of the next few weeks, this will be trimmed to a 55-hour, 22,000km-by-43,000km orbit that is inclined to the equator by about 25 degrees.\n\nIt's from this high perch that Hope plans to carry out some novel research. It's going to trace how energy moves through the atmosphere from the very bottom to the very top.\n\nOne of its quests is to study the leakage into space of neutral atoms of hydrogen and oxygen - remnants from Mars' once abundant water. This will add to our understanding of precisely how a previously warm and wet planet became the cold, dusty, desiccated world it is today.\n\nOn the day the UAE Hope probe took this first image, the Chinese Tianwen-1 orbiter arrived at Mars.\n\nLike Hope, it had to execute a braking manoeuvre to be sure of being captured by the planet's gravity.\n\nThe Tianwen-1 mission carriers a rover which will be despatched to the surface in May or June.\n\nChina's space agency has released early imagery of what its satellite saw during its orbit insertion.\n\nThese pictures come not from a science camera like Hope's EXI instrument, but from low-resolution cameras used by engineers to inspect the spacecraft.\n\nIn the movie below, the view is dominated by Tianwen-1's solar panel, but the Martian atmosphere and surface topography are clearly visible.\n\nThis coming week, it is the turn of the Americans. Their Perseverance rover reaches Mars on Thursday and will try immediately to land in a near equatorial crater called Jezero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tianwen-1 looks down on Mars during its arrival at the planet", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens: \"This has been a very encouraging start, and obviously there is much more to do\".\n\nThe NHS is \"firmly on track\" to offer everyone in the top four priority groups in England a Covid vaccine by Monday, says the head of NHS England.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said it had been \"the fastest and largest vaccination campaign in history\".\n\nThe UK government's aim is to reach 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February - and 14 million have been vaccinated so far.\n\nWales said on Friday it was the first UK nation to meet its target.\n\nSpeaking at the Coventry hospital where the first person in the UK to be vaccinated - 91-year-old Maggie Keenan - received her first dose, Sir Simon said it had been an \"incredible achievement\" by staff and volunteers.\n\n\"The uptake has been fantastic - we thought three-quarters would say yes to the vaccine but more than nine out of 10 have done so,\" he said.\n\nAnyone aged over 70 in England who hasn't been vaccinated can go online or call 119 to book an appointment.\n\nFrom next week, details of who will be vaccinated in the next phase of the programme involving the over 50s and people with underlying health conditions will be set out. They are due to be vaccinated by May.\n\nSome regions of the UK have already begun inviting the over-60s, who are part of the next phase.\n\nIn the meantime, Sir Simon said it was important that people come forward for their second dose when invited because it \"gives extra protection and immunity\".\n\nIn the 10 weeks since vaccinations against coronavirus began in the UK, a first dose has been given to:\n\nIncluded in the first four priority groups, which covers 88% of those most at risk of dying from Covid-19, are people aged 70 and over, frontline health and social care workers, care homes residents and those at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus.\n\nAcross the UK, a quarter of adults have already received one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nIn Wales, the percentage of over-16s vaccinated is higher - at 28% - than in the other UK nations.\n\nNine out of 10 people aged 70 and over have taken up the offer to be vaccinated in England, the NHS says.\n\nLatest figures for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland suggest their uptake numbers for the over-70s are lower, but these are not directly comparable with England.\n\nThe latest data on other age groups in England, up to Sunday 7 February, suggests:\n\nBy Wednesday, in England, more than two million people had been vaccinated in the Midlands, 1.8 million in the South East, 1.7 million in the North East and more than a million in all other regions.\n\nThe smallest number of doses, nearly 1.3 million, had been given to people living in London.\n\nThe UK's vaccination programme began on 8 December 2020 with people receiving the vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.\n\nBoth vaccines, which require two doses for full protection, were approved by the UK's medicines regulator.\n\nA decision was taken by health officials to offer a first dose to as many vulnerable people as possible by extending the gap between doses to from three to four weeks to closer to 12 weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100 people have been injured after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in Japan.\n\nSaturday's 7.3-magnitude quake was felt strongly in Tokyo, but no tsunami warning was issued.\n\nThe quake came nearly a decade after an earthquake and tsunami killed over 18,000 people.\n\nThat tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - the worst such incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.\n\nJapan's meteorological agency (JMA) said Saturday's earthquake was believed to be an aftershock of the massive 2011 quake. Aftershocks after a large earthquake can continue over a period of many years.\n\nAn aerial shot showed the damage at the Ebisu circuit in Fukushima prefacture\n\nSaturday's quake hit at 23:08 local time (14:08 GMT) at a depth of 60km (37 miles) in the Pacific, off Japan's eastern coast, JMA said. Aftershocks have continued to hit the region since.\n\nThe quake caused nearly one million homes to lose power while a smaller number lost water. Train services have been halted.\n\nIt also triggered landslides, with one burying a motorsport complex.\n\nBut there were no reports of irregularities at nuclear plants.\n\n\"Surveys are being done at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear pant... We have received reports that Onagawa nuclear plant and Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant are not showing any abnormality,\" Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said.\n\nA store owner tries to clean up smashed bottles in his shop in Fukushima\n\nDespite reassurances from officials, many residents on the coast evacuated their homes and headed for higher ground, Japanese news agency Kyodo reports.\n\n\"Even if people say we don't need to worry about a tsunami, I won't buy it,\" one 50-year-old man told the publication. \"I learned from my bitter experience 10 years ago, and that's why I evacuated.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City extended their winning run to 16 games and their lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points as they easily defeated Tottenham at Etihad Stadium.\n\nIlkay Gundogan scored twice after Rodri had put City ahead from the penalty spot midway through the opening period.\n\nRaheem Sterling might have had another late on as City strengthened their grip at the summit, where they also have a game in hand over second-placed Leicester.\n\nIt was a chastening night for Tottenham and their manager Jose Mourinho.\n\nWhen they won the first meeting between these sides in November, Tottenham were top of the table.\n\nSince then, City have taken 41 points from a possible 45 to take a decisive advantage in the title race.\n\nIn contrast, Spurs have now collected 16 points in 14 games and lost four games out of five in all competitions and remain in eighth.\n\nOn this evidence, few will give Mourinho any chance of overcoming Pep Guardiola at Wembley when these sides meet in the Carabao Cup final on 25 April.\n• None Is Gundogan on track to be player of the season?\n\nAfter last week's win at Liverpool, when Gundogan became the third City player to miss from the spot, Guardiola suggested goalkeeper Ederson might be next in line.\n\nIt was not entirely clear whether the City boss was joking.\n\nCertainly Ederson did not think so judging by the way the Brazilian strode purposefully forward after the foul on Gundogan by Pierre-Emile Hojberg had been confirmed by the video assistant referee.\n\nIt took a firm hand from Bernardo Silva to stop him and there was an element of disgruntlement at the way Ederson went back to his position as Rodri found the net.\n\nIt was easy to have sympathy for the City keeper.\n\nAside from the Harry Kane free-kick that hit the post in the opening minutes, Ederson had virtually nothing to do until Erik Lamela fired straight at him just before the hour.\n\nHis disappointment did not last, though.\n\nWhen he dropped a superb long ball from the edge of his own area over the visitors' defence for Gundogan, the German ensured Ederson could claim the assist to a quite brilliant goal as he got the better of Davinson Sanchez before finishing superbly.\n\nFrom 70 yards away, Ederson celebrated with a wide smile and a thumbs up.\n\nIt took Gundogan's tally to 11 goals in 12 games, having already benefited from Raheem Sterling's excellent close control and pass to double the hosts' advantage five minutes after the break.\n\nThere was concern at how Gundogan's night ended as he was substituted with what appeared to be a groin injury.\n\nCity will hope the problem will not keep the Premier League's player of the month out for too long.\n\nIt was another frustrating night for Gareth Bale.\n\nRestored to the Spurs squad after a rather odd week, in which Mourinho said the Welshman had asked to be left out of the FA Cup defeat by Everton in midweek because he did not feel right, then rejected the insinuation of a social media post that he was training well, Bale was not introduced until the 71st minute.\n\nBy then, Tottenham were three down and Mourinho had already used two substitutes, which further underlines the gap between manager and player.\n\nBale was responsible for the only moment of inspiration for the visitors in open play, when he took possession from Rodri, then beat three men before shooting too close to Ederson from the edge of the box, allowing the City keeper to save.\n\nWithout a swift change of fortune, a season that promised so much for both parties is in danger of turning into damp squib, with the plea from those close to Bale that he just needs a run of games to find his form unlikely to be heeded.\n\n'Patient, patient, calm' - what they said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"It was well deserved, they hit the post and that can turn the game but the way we wanted to play was there. Tottenham have special quality, we have played well against them in the past and lost 2-0.\n\n\"They don't need anything to create chances. It is the quality and the approach of their manager. We have a special way to play and we will continue, you have to be patient, patient. Calm.\n\n\"The penalty is clear and then the first time we attack in the second half we score, that can happen.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"Having the biggest chance of the game to open 1-0 and then we were punished by what I call the modern penalty.\n\n\"The penalty you cannot deny there was a contact but now in modern football every contact is a penalty. Always against us.\n\n\"I am not saying it is not a penalty, I am calling it a penalty of modern football.\"\n• None Ilkay Gundogan has scored more goals than any other player across Europe's top five leagues since the turn of the calendar year, netting nine goals in nine Premier League games in 2021.\n• None Manchester City have not trailed for a single minute in any of their last 15 Premier League games, since a 2-0 loss to Tottenham in November.\n• None Tottenham have lost four of their last five Premier League games, as many defeats as in their previous 28 league matches.\n• None City are the first side to keep 14 clean sheets from their opening 23 Premier League games in a season since Manchester United (17) and Chelsea (14) in 2008-09.\n• None Spurs have conceded a combined eight goals in their past two games (5 v Everton, 3 v Man City) - the most Jose Mourinho has conceded across a two-game period in all competitions in his managerial career.\n• None Ederson's assist for City's third goal was the third assist he has registered for the club in all competitions, also doing so against Huddersfield in August 2018 and Schalke in February 2019.\n\nManchester City are next in action in a re-arranged Premier League game at Everton on Wednesday (20:15 GMT). Tottenham resume their Europa League campaign on Thursday against Austrian side Wolfsberger in a last-32 first-leg tie that has been switched to Budapest (17:55).\n• None Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Rhod Gilbert with a frank, funny and personally revealing look at the condition\n• None Scarlett Moffatt Wants To Believe: What is the theory behind ghost sightings and does it prove anything?", "The coronavirus variant first found in Kent could become the world's dominant strain, the head of the UK's genetic surveillance programme has predicted.\n\nProf Sharon Peacock told the BBC's Newscast podcast the new variant has \"swept the country\" and \"it's going to sweep the world, in all probability\".\n\nShe said her team's work sequencing variants of the virus could be required for at least 10 years.\n\nThe Kent variant has already been detected in more than 50 countries.\n\nIt was first detected in September 2020 in south-east England and its rapid spread over the following months was cited as the reason for the introduction of new lockdown rules across the UK in January.\n\nProf Peacock, director of the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium, said: \"What's really affected us at the moment is transmissibility.\"\n\nShe added: \"Once we get on top of [the virus] or it mutates itself out of being virulent - causing disease - then we can stop worrying about it. But I think, looking in the future, we're going to be doing this for years. We're still going to be doing this 10 years down the line, in my view.\"\n\nShe explained this was not because she thought the pandemic would go on for 10 years, but she believed they would be sequencing new variants for that length of time.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier versions of coronavirus, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well.\n\nProf Peacock said the vaccines approved for use in the UK appeared to work well against the existing variants of the virus in the country.\n\nSharon Peacock is also Professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Cambridge University\n\nThe Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium is a network of public health bodies and labs and currently analyses more than 20,000 positive tests a week.\n\nIn recent weeks, it has been explained that about 5-10% of positive tests are selected randomly to be sent on for further genome analysis but the consortium says, as the number of cases falls below its capacity, its aim is to genetically screen every positive coronavirus test.\n\nProf Peacock told Newscast that while it is normal to see variants, only a very small number have \"special features\". These can make them more transmissible, avoid the immune response and affect vaccination, or have the potential to cause more severe disease.\n\n\"These are the things we are looking out for. I'd say it happens vanishingly rarely but we have to be on the look out for it,\" the expert, who was previously director of the government's National Infection Service, said.\n\nIt comes as the World Health Organization is recommending using the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine even in countries tackling new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Oxford jab has attracted controversy about its effectiveness against new variants, whether it should be used in the elderly and how far apart the doses should be given, due to a lack of data.\n\nEarly data from trials in South Africa - where a variant has acquired mutations that seem to help it evade immunity from vaccines and from previous infections - showed the vaccine was offering \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease in young people.\n\nBut the WHO's director of immunisation, Dr Katherine O'Brien, said the South African study was \"inconclusive\" and it was \"plausible\" the vaccine would still prevent severe disease.\n\nOxford scientists still expect their vaccine to prevent people from becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 and needing hospital treatment.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the two million people yet to take up their offer of a Covid jab to \"come forward\" this week.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first dose of a vaccine to 15 million people - those aged 70 and over, healthcare workers and people required to shield - by 15 February.\n\nAs of Tuesday 13,058,298 had received a first vaccine dose, a daily rise of 411,812.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nA grandmother died in agony after suffering huge pressure sores at a nursing home, an inquest has heard.\n\nDementia sufferer Evelyn Jones, 87, developed a 50cm sore across her lower back, described by hospital staff as \"the worst they had seen\" and by care workers as smelling like a \"dead cat\".\n\nShe died in hospital in November 2005 after staying at the Brithdir home near Bargoed, Caerphilly county.\n\nThe Newport inquest is looking into the deaths of seven residents at the home.\n\nThey died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThe hearing was told Mrs Jones was admitted to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil with a urinary tract infection, and medical staff discovered the extent of her wounds.\n\nMrs Jones' daughter Marina Walters said she was unaware of the pressure sores until her mother went into hospital.\n\n\"The day following my mother's admission to the Prince Charles Hospital my daughter Ruth attended the hospital to see her grandmother,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Upon arrival she was informed by staff on the ward that my mother had very bad bed sores - the worst they had ever seen.\n\n\"They had taken photographs and as a result of them being so bad the hospital had contacted social services and the police.\"\n\nMrs Walters said she never saw any dressings or creams in her mother's bedroom at Brithdir and she had an \"ordinary\" mattress on her bed.\n\nWhen she confronted staff about it afterwards, they said they were aware of \"two little marks\" on her mother.\n\n\"When visiting I would see her sitting in the lounge and she would be sat in an uncomfortable position, propped up with cushions,\" she said.\n\n\"She always looked uncomfortable within her chair and when I tried to sit her up in the chair she would cry out, saying, 'No, no, no, no'.\n\n\"Her eyes were open wide as if she was in fear and her legs would tremble uncontrollably.\n\nThe inquest into deaths at the care home comes after a major police investigation\n\n\"Even 15 years later the memories of her still bring laughter to us, yet bring tears to our eyes when we think of the way she spent her last hours on Earth alone in a room by herself.\n\n\"She was suffering from great pain due to two huge individual pressure sores on her back with an infection ducting deep into her bowel.\"\n\nMrs Jones' granddaughter, Ruth Phillips, said she was shocked by the pressure sores.\n\nShe said: \"Under the dressing was two sores. The worse one being at the base of the spine.\n\n\"This sore had an open wound about the size of a five pence piece. Within this wound I could see what I thought was bone with yellow fluid around it.\"\n\nMedical records showed when Mrs Jones was admitted to hospital the pressure sores covered an area 18cm by 14cm, but shortly before her death had increased to 50cm by 20cm.\n\nA pathologist found she died from sepsis due to infected pressure sores, as well as from immobility and dehydration.\n\nThe inquest also heard evidence from Brithdir care staff who looked after Mrs Jones after she moved to the nursing home in August 2005.\n\nSandra Rutter said she did not see Mrs Jones's pressure sores when she washed and changed her because they were covered by dressings.\n\nShe described walking into the room shortly before she was admitted to hospital and noticing the smell.\n\n\"In entering the room the first thing I noticed was the terrible smell. I can only describe it being a rotting smell or a dead cat,\" she said.\n\n\"I then saw the pressure sore was the size of a 50p coin and looked to be as deep as the length of my thumb.\n\n\"It was black and green in colour and looked absolutely terrible.\n\n\"I asked the nurse how it got to be like that and all I was told it was being treated by someone called Godfrey who was someone who dealt with bed sores.\"\n\nThe inquest is also looking at the deaths of Stanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, and William Hickman, 71.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of the other six.\n\nThe hearings are expected to last until March.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nEverton reached the FA Cup quarter-finals after edging out Tottenham Hotspur in a nine-goal classic at Goodison Park.\n\nA magnificent contest swung in both teams' favour before Carlo Ancelotti's hosts - showing huge reserves of resolve and fitness - finally struck the decisive blow when substitute Bernard fired home in the seventh minute of extra time.\n\nSpurs dominated the early exchanges and were rewarded when Davinson Sanchez headed in from a corner in the third minute before Everton sprang to life with a three-goal burst inside eight minutes before half-time.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin, who later went off with what looked like a groin injury, levelled nine minutes before the break with a shot Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris should have saved, before Richarlison's fine low drive and Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty looked to have put Everton in command.\n\nBut Erik Lamela scored in the closing seconds of the first half to put Spurs back in contention and Sanchez pounced again after more chaos at a corner to drag Jose Mourinho's side level just before the hour.\n\nMourinho had introduced Harry Kane as a substitute just before that equaliser but it was Everton who edged ahead again as more brilliant individual work by Richarlison restored their advantage after 68 minutes - but it was inevitable Spurs' main man would have a say.\n\nIt came with seven minutes of normal time left as Everton were undone by the old firm, Son Heung-min's cross the perfect invitation for Kane to score with a far-post header.\n\nAll the momentum appeared to be with Spurs but Everton are now a side to be reckoned with under Ancelotti and Bernard cashed in after more good work by Sigurdsson - who claimed three assists - to beat Lloris with an angled finish.\n\nThere was still time for Spurs to respond but Everton saw out an outstanding victory in relative comfort, certainly given what had gone before, to secure a place in the last eight.\n• None Everything you need to know about FA Cup quarter-final draw\n• None Reaction and analysis from all of Wednesday's FA Cup fifth-round ties\n\nAncelotti, the manager who has seen it all, was the calmest man amid the mayhem inside Goodison Park - celebrating what turned out to be the winner from Bernard by simply blowing on his cup of coffee while his backroom staff reacted wildly.\n\nThis was perhaps the Italian's finest moment since coming to Everton, his side - without the injured James Rodriguez, Andre Gomes and Jordan Pickford - showing remarkable energy, spirit and a capacity to recover from adversity to outlast their visitors.\n\nAncelotti will be concerned about some of Everton's questionable defending - especially from corners - and the injury to Calvert-Lewin, but he will also be justifiably proud of how they fought back to win when, at several stages, the tide seemed to be turning against them.\n\nThe sight of Calvert-Lewin going off, Spurs danger man Kane having just come on and losing a two-goal lead as the hour mark approached could have undermined Everton but they carried a threat throughout, with Richarlison back to his menacing best after a season where he has not been in peak form.\n\nIn midfield, both Tom Davies and Abdoulaye Doucoure were outstanding, the latter demonstrating remarkable fitness and still running non-stop until the final seconds, while his young team-mate continues to flourish under the sympathetic guidance of Ancelotti.\n\nSigurdsson, who scored calmly from the spot after Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg tripped Calvert-Lewin, was also a huge creative force and contributed hugely to Everton's attacking threat.\n\nEverton are seeking their first trophy since they won the FA Cup in 1995 - they beat Spurs in the semi-finals on that occasion - and this victory will raise hopes not just of further progress in the competition, but for their long-term development under of one of Europe's most decorated managers.\n\nThe scenes of elation at the final whistle were understandable and fully deserved. Everton gave everything and were rewarded.\n\nMourinho would have hoped to build on Sunday's Premier League win against West Bromwich Albion after three successive defeats - but he was left to survey the end of Spurs' FA Cup ambitions after a dramatic night on freezing Merseyside.\n\nIt all looked good for Spurs for the first half-hour as they had a deserved lead, but the manner in which they capitulated for those crucial minutes to concede three goals just before the break, and then continued to look vulnerable, meant this was a very damaging night.\n\nSpurs, after criticism of Mourinho's perceived conservative approach in recent weeks, were positive and played with attacking intent throughout with some sparkling passing but were let down by dreadful defending and another expensive error from Lloris, who should have saved Calvert-Lewin's equaliser but only helped a powerful drive that was straight at him into the net.\n\nMourinho did not risk Kane from the start after his return from an ankle injury at the weekend, but when he was introduced it was with Spurs looking the more likely winners.\n\nHe will be particularly frustrated with his porous defence, given his stock-in-trade is meant to be a rearguard that gives nothing away.\n\nThis looked nothing like a Mourinho team in a defensive context.\n\nThis was the first time a team managed by Mourinho has conceded five goals since his Chelsea side lost 5-3 to his predecessor Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham in January 2015.\n\nAnd another sub-plot to this FA Cup exit was the absence of Gareth Bale, who Mourinho said had complained of a muscular issue so was not even on the bench.\n\nBale's return to Spurs on loan from Real Madrid, hailed as a coup when he arrived, has turned into a huge anti-climax. It will continue to be a distraction if results do not improve.\n\nThis was a night where there was very little in the way of good news for Mourinho and Spurs - and next they face a visit to rampant Manchester City on Saturday.\n\n'The FA Cup is the one we want' - what they said\n\nEverton assistant boss Duncan Ferguson to BBC Sport: \"It was an exciting game. Tottenham started better than us and got the lead but we got ourselves back into the game.\n\n\"At 3-1 you're thinking 'get to half-time at 3-1' and then they score to put us on the back foot. Exciting game, fantastic.\n\n\"It's 25 years since we won the FA Cup. It would be great to get to the final. It keeps your season going. We want to do well in the Premier League but the FA Cup is the one we want.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"If you say it was fantastic, it was fantastic. I'm not a neutral.\n\n\"When you score four goals, you have to win. The way we played, we should win comfortably. Attacking football and defensive mistakes.\n\n\"The players gave everything. I have to admit for some of them it was not easy because you play so well and one, two, three mistakes and you're losing 3-1.\n\n\"OK, I take positives. Amazing to watch.\"\n\nKane closes in on Greaves - the stats\n• None This was the highest scoring FA Cup game between two top-flight teams since February 1961 when Sheffield Wednesday won 7-2 against Man Utd.\n• None In what is the 981st match of his managerial career, this is the first time a Jose Mourinho side has both scored and conceded at least four goals in a single game.\n• None Mourinho has seen his team concede five goals in a game for the first time since January 2015, when his Chelsea side were beaten 5-3 by Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs in the Premier League.\n• None There were just seven minutes and 26 seconds between Everton's first and third goals against Tottenham. While it was the first time a Mourinho led side conceded three first-half goals since Man Utd away at Brighton in August 2018.\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored his 50th goal in all competitions for Everton (159th app), with 26 of his goals for the Toffees coming under Carlo Ancelotti.\n• None Gylfi Sigurdsson became the first Everton player to assist three goals in a single match since Steven Pienaar against Fulham in a Premier League tie in April 2012.\n• None Nine of the 12 goals in all competitions scored by Colombian players for Premier League sides this season have come at Goodison Park (James Rodriguez - four, Yerry Mina - three, Davinson Sanchez - three).\n• None Harry Kane has now scored 209 goals in 318 appearances in all competitions for Tottenham, making him the second highest scorer in the club's history behind only Jimmy Greaves (266 goals in 379 apps).\n• None Son Heung-min has provided 12 assists in all competitions this season - his most in a single campaign for Spurs.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Harry Winks with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Michael Keane (Everton) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Substitution, Everton. Mason Holgate replaces Lucas Digne because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Abdoulaye Doucouré.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The Six Nations is back:\n• None Greg James and Bella Mackie ask what we might have missed in school", "The supermarket price-war has edged up a notch after Sainsbury's followed Tesco's Aldi price-match scheme.\n\nThe major supermarkets are fighting the German discount chains for business and price is their chosen battleground.\n\nTesco launched its Aldi price-match in March 2020 and extended it to around 500 products in September.\n\nSainsbury's - the UK's second-largest supermarket - has now joined the fray, saying: \"It will help shoppers who are working hard to balance budgets\".\n\nIt has promised to slash the cost of hundreds of essential groceries to match Aldi.\n\nPrices will be cut on 250 popular items including meat, chicken, fresh fruit and vegetables and dairy.\n\nThe price match is the first part of chief executive Simon Roberts' plan announced in November to put food back at the heart of the business.\n\n\"We are making great progress delivering our Food First plan and I'm determined that in these tough times, we do even more to help our customers save money,\" he said.\n\nThe grocery chains are under political pressure with rumours circulating that Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering a levy on them for making \"excess profits\" during the pandemic.\n\nBut while people are buying more food to eat at home, the supermarkets say they are making less money.\n\nMr Roberts has said that that the pandemic has led to customers switching from its most profitable channel - convenience stores - to its least profitable - online shopping.\n\nSupermarkets make less money out of online shopping because of delivery and higher staffing costs.\n\nThe latest price-war will hit profit margins already squeezed to between 2-4%.\n\nBut on the other hand, the move to online has benefited the traditional supermarkets as Aldi's smaller online offering has left it unable to take advantage of the booming demand for home deliveries.\n\nIn fact Aldi has seen its sales growth fall behind some of its rivals during the pandemic.\n\nFigures from retail analysts Kantar for the 12 weeks to 24 January 24 revealed that Aldi sales grew by just 5.7% compared with 12.2% growth across the UK grocery market as a whole.\n\nThe price war has seen rival supermarkets set up their own discounts and deals to try and attract customers through their doors or onto their online sites.\n\nAs well as its Aldi Price Match, Tesco offers savings through its Club Card Prices and said: \"We know that our customers want competitive prices for the products and brands they buy regularly.\"\n\nAldi pointed out that \"Consumer group Which? recently found that Sainsbury's were over 31% more expensive than Aldi\". An Aldi spokesperson said: \"Shoppers know that the only place you can get Aldi prices is at Aldi.\"\n\nLidl, contrarily, avoids price drop campaigns in favour of low prices, although it does have a Pick of the Week special offer. It was awarded the title of cheapest supermarket in 2020 by Which?", "The romantic gesture - overlaid with neon lights in 2008 - had formed part of the city's skyline since 2001\n\nMusicians have reacted angrily to the removal of a graffiti marriage proposal painted almost 20 years ago.\n\nThe 'I Love You Will U Marry Me' message had remained on Sheffield's Park Hill flats since 2001.\n\nSinger Richard Hawley, a well-known son of the Steel City, said he was \"really angry\" and called for the symbol of his hometown to be reinstated.\n\nPulp drummer Nick Banks and singer Yungblud also said they were \"dismayed\" and \"heartbroken\".\n\nThe graffiti was painted by Jason Lowe in a bid to woo his then-girlfriend and was later immortalised in neon lights as part of a marketing campaign.\n\nDevelopers Urban Splash said the message - on a bridge linking two blocks of flats - had been removed to allow for \"essential repair work\".\n\nHawley told BBC Radio 4: \"Like all graffiti, it's sometimes just some kind of nuisance, but it symbolises a state of mind in Sheffield.\n\n\"When I first found out about this I was, probably like a lot of Sheffielders, really, really angry.\"\n\nL-to-R: Yungblud, Richard Hawley and Nick Banks have all spoken out about the graffiti removal\n\nHawley, who wrote songs for a 2019 musical about the Park Hill estate, added: \"I just hope and would urge Urban Splash to put at least the fluorescent signs back.\n\n\"The people of Sheffield love it and that's the bottom line really.\"\n\nBanks said the graffiti had become \"almost a message to Sheffield itself, overlooking the city\".\n\n\"Put the neon sign back, yes, but it kind of loses something without the graffiti underneath.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, from Doncaster, tweeted to say he was \"heartbroken\".\n\nHe described the graffiti as \"a quirky act of romance\" in his song I Love You, Will You Marry Me.\n\nSurriya Falconer, speaking on behalf of the developers, said there were \"some structural issues\" which meant the words had to be removed but there were plans to replace them.\n\nAlex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys sported a t-shirt bearing an image of the graffiti during gigs\n\nAlthough Mr Lowe and his girlfriend never married, his romantic gesture has formed part of the city's skyline since, with many considering it an \"iconic\" piece of history.\n\nIn a BBC radio documentary, Mr Lowe explained how he braved his fear of heights to make a public show of proposing to Ms Middleton, who he had had been dating for a year.\n\nHe said: \"You used to be able to see it from the Odeon cinema.\n\n\"I took her there, she thought she was going to see a film and I said: 'I've got something to show you'. I told her to look up and she read it.\n\n\"She said 'yeah'. She thought I was mad.\"\n\nThe pair split up three months later and Ms Middleton died in 2007 from cancer.\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.", "More than 2.3 million people across Britain used dating apps during the initial coronavirus lockdown according to the Online Dating Association\n\nRomance fraud - scamming someone out of money by pretending to want a relationship - has been on the rise during lockdown.\n\nAccording to UK Finance, there was a 20% increase in bank transfer fraud linked to romance scams in 2020 compared to 2019.\n\nAnd £68m was lost to such scams in 2020, said the UK's Action Fraud - another increase on the previous year.\n\nOrganisations warned people to be vigilant ahead of Valentine's Day.\n\nIn both 2019 and 2020, the amount of money lost to romance fraud outstripped that stolen by online shopping fraud, according to Action Fraud, which is the main reporting body in the UK.\n\nIn 2020, online shopping and auction fraud accounted for £63m compared to £68m for dating scams.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has added to the problem.\n\n\"The national lockdowns, and other restrictions on our social lives, implemented because of the coronavirus outbreak, have meant more people have been seeking companionship online and this has undoubtedly affected the number of reports we have seen,\" said Pauline Smith, head of Action Fraud.\n\n\"Romance scams can leave customers out of love and out of pocket,\" added Katy Worobec, managing director of economic crime at trade association UK Finance.\n\nA widow lost her life savings after being used as a \"money mule\" by a man she fell in love with\n\nVictims of romance scams lose money via money transfers, and sending fraudsters gift cards and vouchers or presents such as phones and laptops. Some even provide access to their bank account or bank card.\n\nFraudsters can be very convincing, using emotive language and stories to manipulate people, for instance saying they need money for medical bills.\n\nAnd increasingly, victims are at risk of prosecution as well as having their bank account emptied - as it is revealed that some scammers are now asking them to unwittingly launder money for criminal gangs.\n\nABC News reported on an Australian woman who thought she was falling in love with a US army officer but ended up laundering A$150,000 (£83,000) for such a gang.\n\nAccording to data from Lloyds Bank, people aged 55 to 64 are particularly at risk.\n\nLike Anna (not her real name) who is in her 50s and a widow: she became prey to her scammer – who called himself Tim – after meeting him on a dating website, initially using its chat facility before switching to WhatsApp.\n\nAfter a few weeks, Tim told Anna he was travelling to Romania to work on a transport project, and asked her to send money. First he asked for small amounts, and then larger ones, eventually defrauding her of £320,000.\n\nRomance fraud often starts on online dating websites but quickly switches to social media or old-fashioned texting, so there is no evidence of the scam.\n\nSometimes the scammer is more subtle than just asking for money, seeking instead to garner personal information, which can later be used to commit identity fraud.\n\nMany victims do not report romance scams because they are embarrassed or ashamed. But for those who do, there is some recourse. In 2019 banks agreed to a voluntary code which said that if someone \"has taken reasonable care and has any element of vulnerability\" they are more likely to receive a refund.\n\nIn Anna's case for example, she was able to recover half of what she lost.", "The F-35 Lightning caused the sonic boom heard in Cornwall and Devon\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across north Cornwall and neighbouring Devon.\n\nResidents in the Bude area in Cornwall started saying on social media at about 12:15 GMT that they heard \"a big bang\", an \"explosion\" or \"rumblings\".\n\nThe noise was heard more than 14 miles (23km) away in Bradworthy, Devon, with people saying buildings shook and one thinking \"it was an earthquake\".\n\nThe RAF said it was caused by F-35 Lightning aircraft training about 25 miles (40km) offshore.\n\nPeople in Bude and other areas which heard the bang said buildings shook\n\nHelen Wilkins, from Bude, told the BBC: \"We thought a large bird had hit the window, as all the birds in the garden took off.\"\n\nShe added that there was \"lots of noise from a jet in the area for half an hour afterwards\".\n\nAnother commentator on Twitter, Bert Littleman, from Holsworthy, said that \"planes seemed to be going around in large loops after the bang\" and he saw them \"heading Bude way at very high speed a while after\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe RAF said the aircraft were \"completing operational training\" inside a \"supersonic offshore range area\".\n\nIt said such events were usually \"sufficiently far out to sea to not cause sonic booms to be heard... under normal environmental conditions\".\n\nHowever, it added that \"climatic conditions... may have been a factor\" in it being heard so far inland.\n\nIt said \"any inconvenience caused to local residents is regretted\".\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\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. Nicola Sturgeon was asked if she would resign by Labour's Jackie Baillie\n\nNicola Sturgeon has denied breaching the ministerial code by meeting Alex Salmond while claims against him were being investigated by her government.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said there was a \"cover up at the heart of government\" over the row.\n\nBut the first minister said she would rebut \"ridiculous conspiracy theories\" when she faces a Holyrood inquiry.\n\nAnd she hinted that the committee should use its powers to compel her predecessor, Mr Salmond, to appear too.\n\nThe former first minister is now not expected to give oral evidence after the committee said he had set conditions they \"simply could never meet\".\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry was set up after the government admitted its investigation of two internal harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been \"unlawful\", and agreed to pay him £500,000 in legal expenses.\n\nMs Sturgeon also commissioned an independent review of whether or not she broke the ministerial code in her dealings with her former mentor during the process, with both probes expected to report back in the coming months.\n\nMs Davidson said the first minister had \"chosen not to tell officials in advance and not keep a record\" of the meetings with Mr Salmond, and said she had told MSPs \"things that are utterly contradicted by her own evidence and testimony\".\n\nShe added: \"We have failed women, taxpayers money and a cover up at the heart of government - this whole affair stinks to high heaven.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is expected to finally give evidence to the committee next week after the session was repeatedly postponed, said she was \"relishing\" the prospect.\n\nShe said: \"I certainly hope to be sitting in front of the committee answering all of these questions on oath next Tuesday morning, and people can listen to that and make up their own minds.\n\n\"I believe it is important to subject myself to scrutiny, but also to have the opportunity to take head on some of the ridiculous conspiracy theories that people like Ruth Davidson have been all too quick to want to indulge.\"\n\nAlex Salmond had been due to give evidence on Tuesday, but the session was called off and looks unlikely to be rearranged\n\nMs Sturgeon was also pressed by Scottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie, who said ministers who knowingly mislead parliament are expected to resign.\n\nShe asked Ms Sturgeon whether she would quit if she was found to have breached the code - but the first minister said she would not engage with the \"hypothetical\" question.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I do not consider that I breached the ministerial code - I will make that case very, very robustly.\n\n\"I know why the opposition are desperate to get rid of me, I'm under no illusions about that. But I like everyone else am entitled to due process.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also hinted that the inquiry committee should use Holyrood's powers to compel Mr Salmond to appear, saying it should not \"indulge conspiracy theories without insisting people come before the committee to substantiate those theories\".\n\nShe said: \"I still hope the committee will perhaps use the powers that are available to it to make sure everybody relevant sits before it and gives evidence.\"\n\nParliamentary committees do have the power to compel witnesses to attend, although there is an exemption if they can provide a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nMr Salmond had said he would only appear if MSPs agreed to publish his written submissions in full, and to give certain guarantees about what he could speak about.\n\nThe committee was split over whether to publish one submission - which included detailed claims about Ms Sturgeon breaching the ministerial code - but narrowly voted down the proposal along party lines.\n\nMs Sturgeon also defended her husband, Peter Murrell, against opposition claims that he had contradicted himself\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry committee questioned SNP chief executive Peter Murrell - Ms Sturgeon's husband - amid a dispute over whether he had given contradictory evidence about his wife's meetings with Mr Salmond.\n\nHe told members that his previous evidence about the meetings being a government matter - rather than SNP business, as Ms Sturgeon has claimed - was \"speculation on my part\".\n\nHe said he would \"absolutely refute\" claims that he had given \"false information\", adding: \"It's pretty simple, I think you're trying to suggest things or knowledge that I just don't have about these things.\"\n\nDuring Thursday's Holyrood questions, Ms Davidson said that Mr Murrell \"may have committed perjury by changing his story under oath\".\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that her husband \"did tell the truth\", adding that he \"is perfectly capable of standing up for himself\".\n\nShe added: \"It's clear to everyone why the opposition parties are so keen to drag Peter Murrell into a process he had no part in and try to damage him. Perhaps they know how integral he's been to the electoral success of the SNP, and conversely the electoral defeat of their parties.\"\n\nMs Davidson later said Ms Sturgeon had \"backed herself into a corner\" by supporting Mr Murrell's account, saying she was \"dismantling her own evidence\".\n\nShe said: \"If the SNP chief executive told the truth under oath, as Nicola Sturgeon insisted today, then the first minister misled parliament and broke the Ministerial Code.\n\n\"Peter Murrell said the Sturgeon-Salmond meetings were government business. The first minister has told the Parliament that they were not.\n\n\"That is a glaring contradiction. Both accounts cannot be correct.\"", "The UK boss of KPMG will step aside while the accountancy giant investigates offensive comments he allegedly made at a meeting on Monday.\n\nBill Michael reportedly told consultants to \"stop moaning\" about the impact of the pandemic and lockdown on people's lives, and to stop \"playing the victim card\".\n\nHe later apologised, saying the comments did not reflect his beliefs.\n\nBut KPMG said an \"independent investigation\" had begun.\n\n\"Mr Michael has decided to step aside from his duties as chair while the investigation is underway,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We take this matter very seriously and will not comment further while the investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, about 500 KPMG staff attended the virtual meeting on 8 February.\n\nAfter Mr Michael's alleged comments, staff reportedly complained on an app used to post comments anonymously during the meeting.\n\nSome said they were disappointed by Mr Michael's suggestion that staff needed to stop complaining and work harder, the FT reported.\n\nOthers were allegedly angry that he had dismissed concerns about potential cuts to staff bonuses, pay and pensions.\n\nMr Michael's comments were particularly badly received after a staff poll at the beginning of the meeting, which showed a high percentage of consultants were struggling to cope during the pandemic, the FT said.\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Michael said: \"I am sorry for the words I used, which did not reflect what I believe in, and I have apologised to my colleagues.\n\n\"Looking after the wellbeing of our people and creating a culture where everyone can thrive is of critical importance to me and is at the heart of everything we do as a firm.\"\n\nMr Michael, who was hospitalised with Covid-19 last year, has presided over a rocky period at KPMG.\n\nThe firm has faced scrutiny over its audit of Carillion, the government contractor that collapsed under £1bn of debt in 2018. There have also been claims from some staff of a toxic work culture.\n\nLast week the company's UK business revealed that Mr Michael was paid £1.7m in 2020, down from £1.98m in 2019.\n\nSales for the year slumped 4% to £2.3bn as the company's clients cut back expenses amid the pandemic.", "The very real threat to Speaker Pelosi and her staff\n\nStacey Plaskett shows the chamber new footage that details how rioters searched high and low for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and \"terrorised\" her staff. \"You can hear the terror in their voices as they describe what's happening as they are barricaded inside,\" she says, over audio of staff members whispering frantically to each other. \"You can hear the pounding in the background,\" she notes, interspersing the sounds with new security footage of insurrectionists trying to break into the office where staff members are hiding. The rioters can be heard chanting \"Where are you Nancy?\" as they spread out across the office complex. \"The mob pillaged and vandalised the speaker's office, documenting their crimes on social media,\" says Plaskett. She then calls attention to one man in particular - Richard Barnett - the man pictured with his feet up on Pelosi's desk and who is accused of stealing documents from her office. She points out he was carrying a stun gun tucked into his waistband. It is a weapon, Plaskett says, that \"could have incapacitated anyone he used it on\".", "The strategy warned that lots of online safety features to protect children were outdated\n\nNot enough is known about how much children and young people are at risk online in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat is according to a new online safety strategy for young people published by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nIt said more research and data collection was needed to understand the scale of the problem.\n\nThe strategy also said that a lot of restrictions on online access for children were \"outdated\".\n\nIn 2018, BBC News NI revealed that publication of the strategy had been delayed due to the collapse of the executive for three years and the lack of a health minister.\n\nThe National Children's Bureau had expressed concerns that children's online safety was being put at risk by the delay.\n\nAccording to the just published document, the strategy aims to support and empower \"children and young people to engage in online activities in an educated, safe, responsible and respectful way\".\n\nIt said that while the online world had \"opened up a new level of opportunity for children and young people\", there were a number of risks to their safety.\n\nThese included exposure to pornography, abuse or information encouraging suicide or self-harm.\n\nThey were also at risk of things like grooming, harassment, sexting or cyberbullying.\n\nSome young people who took part in a consultation for the strategy, however, felt their parents \"over-exaggerated\" the dangers.\n\n\"Parents are nervous as they don't know too much about [the internet] and because there has been a lot of stories like cyber-bullying,\" one said.\n\nHowever, young people said that if they had concerns, they wanted them to be taken seriously.\n\nBut some teachers quoted in the document said there was \"pretty much nothing in place\" in their school to help children online.\n\n\"It is just a box-ticking exercise, it is just paperwork,\" one said.\n\n\"We tend to be reactive to specific issues so at the moment there would be huge things in our school around Snapchat,\" another said.\n\n\"But we are never prepared for it - it is always after the event, unfortunately.\"\n\nThe strategy document said there were a number of gaps in current information about online safety.\n\n\"Outside of official crime statistics, there is little regular data collected on either the scale of online-safety related incidents happening across NI, nor of the particular issues and concerns facing children, young people and parents or carers on a regular basis,\" it said.\n\n\"It is important to remember that the incidents which make the headlines, or appear as crime statistics are the exception; we know little about the everyday online safety needs of children and young people.\"\n\nIt said more research and data collection was needed.\n\nParents and young people also said while there were some excellent resources, a single website on online safety and a more \"joined-up\" approach were needed.\n\n\"A central repository of online safety information, support and guidance is needed to support dissemination of consistent messaging to children and young people, parents/carers, practitioners, policy makers and the wider public,\" the document said.\n\nIt said that not all schools took a consistent approach to the risks to pupils online.\n\nSome had, for instance, installed additional wifi which could enable pupils to access websites which could put them at risk.\n\nThe strategy said a common approach to educating children and their parents and carers was needed, as well as more accredited training in online safety.\n\nIt also made a number of other commitments to lower the online risks to children and young people.\n\nAn action plan has been developed to support the strategy, which will be co-ordinated by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland.", "China sends message to not eat wild animals during Lunar New Year\n\nIt is now just under 24 hours until the Lunar New Year for people in China (12 February) and during this period it is common for people in the country to gather for family meals, or large banquet gatherings. This year, China’s official People’s Daily newspaper is urging people not to eat wild animals during the holidays. It is sharing posters that show the silhouette of animals including snakes, hedgehogs and turtles, and telling people to avoid contact with them. “Do not illegally hunt, trade or eat wild animals,” it says. The campaign, which uses the hashtag #DontEatWildAnimalsDuringSpringFestival, has so far been seen by more than 9.5 million people. The posters have echoes of ones that circulated nationally last year at this time , back when the first coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan drew international attention. At the time, there was evident nervousness in the country about animal consumption being a possible reason for Covid-19. In May, the original epicentre of the coronavirus, Wuhan, banned eating and hunting wild animals amid these fears. And over the last year, other regions have stepped up regulations to ban the consumption of animals. In recent weeks, Chinese officials have also been updating “China’s law on animal epidemic prevention” to limit contact between animals and humans that could lead to disease. In late January, it became a requirement that pet owners keep their dogs on leads, to prevent potential diseases such as rabies.", "Springsteen was arrested in New Jersey on 14 November\n\nBruce Springsteen was arrested in New Jersey three months ago and charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, officials have said.\n\nThe rock veteran was also cited for consuming alcohol in a closed area of a national park on the same day, 14 November.\n\nHe is due to appear in court \"in the next few weeks\", TMZ reported.\n\nA National Park Service spokeswoman said Springsteen, 71, was \"cooperative throughout the process\".\n\nThe Gateway National Recreation Area is a park that connects Sandy Hook, a New Jersey strip of beach just south of New York City, with part of the oceanfront section of New York's Staten Island and Jamaica Bay.\n\nSpringsteen, often called \"The Boss\", has had a career spanning more than five decades, with many of his songs describing his home state of New Jersey.\n\nSpringsteen's career has spanned more than 50 years so far\n\nHis arrest came a few weeks after the release of his 20th studio album, \"Letter to You\".\n\nSpringsteen also made a recent appearance in an advert for Jeep played during the Super Bowl, the annual championship American football game. In the video, titled \"The Middle\", he spoke about reuniting a divided US.\n\nThe video, which is still available on the singer's Instagram page, has now been removed from Jeep's YouTube channel.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of a matter we have only read about and we cannot substantiate,\" a Jeep spokesman said in a statement.\n\n\"But it's also right that we pause our big game commercial until the actual facts can be established. Its message of community and unity is as relevant as ever. As is the message that drinking and driving can never be condoned.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016, Bruce Springsteen spoke to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz about his music, depression and then-president Donald Trump", "Home Secretary Priti Patel could face a charge of contempt of court after failing to follow an order to house an Iranian sex offender.\n\nThe High Court said it wants to know why the Home Office had failed to comply with the mandatory injunction.\n\nIt is exceptionally rare for judges to threaten ministers and their officials with contempt of court over a failure to follow a court instruction.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the department had already apologised.\n\nThe row with the court emerged in a judgment published on Tuesday about a failure to provide emergency housing to Kharajan Arshad Fathula Mohammad in the north west of England.\n\nThe Iranian national was jailed in 2016 for 20 months for a sexual offence involving a child.\n\nForeign national offenders jailed for more than 12 months typically face deportation from the UK - but Mohammad was bailed from immigration detention in May 2018.\n\nLast October he asked the Home Office for basic emergency housing under a law for destitute people whose claims to stay in the UK have been rejected, but who are also not likely to be removed from the country in the near future.\n\nA week later Home Office officials told him he would be found a bed.\n\nBut, according to a High Court judgment, that did not happen.\n\nA fortnight before Christmas, officials said they were still struggling to find suitable accommodation because of both the applicant's criminal conviction and the enormous pressures that the pandemic had placed on the Home Office-managed accommodation system.\n\nOn 29 January, a High Court judge ordered the home secretary to act because Mohammad was still sleeping rough and support workers said he was at risk of killing himself or contracting coronavirus.\n\nAfter five days, still nothing had changed.\n\nThat lack of action triggered a new court order, from a second senior judge, demanding the home secretary explain what was going on.\n\nA senior government lawyer then confirmed there had been a failure to comply.\n\n\"The delay in providing accommodation to the claimant was due to difficulties the [home secretary] has faced with compliance in the light of the current demand on the asylum support system,\" said the lawyer in a letter.\n\nHigh Court: Two senior judges had to intervene in the case\n\n\"I accept that... [the home secretary] should have made the appropriate application to the court for an extension of time once it became clear that she could not comply with the previous order.\"\n\nImmigration officials then proposed putting Mohammad in a London hotel. That plan required an unrealistic late night round-trip by taxi from Manchester, at their expense. As a result, he slept on the streets again.\n\nOfficials have now told the court that suitable accommodation has been found in north-west England.\n\nBut Mr Justice Chamberlain, the second of the two judges to intervene in the case, said the home secretary must now provide a full account of what happened - and the court would consider whether the failure should lead to a full contempt of court hearing.\n\nThis is the ancient offence of disobeying or ignoring a court and its orders. The government's own guidance says anyone found to be in contempt \"could go to prison for up to two years, get a fine, or both.\"\n\nIn practice, warnings of contempt of court are sometimes a means to publicly force an individual or organisation into properly complying with an instruction.\n\nIn his highly critical ruling, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"Breach of an injunction is a matter which can result in proceedings for contempt. This is so even where the breach is by a minister.\n\n\"If the evidence provides sufficient reassurance that the breach was not intentional and that measures have been put in place to avoid any recurrence, further proceedings may be unnecessary.\"\n\nThe home secretary has until 16:00 GMT on 22 February to respond.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We have apologised to the court for failure to comply with the order in time and will be submitting a full statement, which explains the reasons for this delay.\n\n\"Sourcing accommodation for individuals with convictions of this nature can be particularly challenging and we have also seen increased pressure on the asylum system due to the pandemic. It is standard practice for Secretaries of State to be named in court documents for legal actions brought against their departments.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Mohammad's lawyer for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spot the difference: Texas lawyer Rod Ponton with and without the cat filter on\n\nA Texas lawyer whose mishap with a cat filter on Zoom has made him an internet sensation says he is surprised at the global reaction.\n\nA video of Rod Ponton appearing as a cat during a virtual court session has been viewed millions of times online.\n\n\"I did not know that Zoom could turn me into a cat. I did not know that cat Zoom could turn me into an internet celebrity, but it all happened in just a matter of hours,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he is trying to \"roll with it\".\n\nMr Ponton said he was using his secretary's computer when the filter popped up, replacing his face with that of a white kitten with large, concerned eyes.\n\nAs his assistant tries to rectify the issue, he can be heard saying: \"I'm here live, I'm not a cat.\"\n\n\"When I got on Zoom everything seemed fine - my picture popped up, I was in the waiting room with the judge. But when the judge called the case, I disappeared and a cat appeared instead of me to my great surprise of course,\" he told the BBC's Today programme on Wednesday.\n\nJudge Roy Ferguson shared the video on social media, advising people to ensure that filters are switched off before joining virtual hearings.\n\nMr Ponton said the judge took it in good humour. \"I think anybody who has ever struggled with a computer or Zoom can recognise that those kinds of things can happen,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was initially concerned to receive a \"deluge\" of emails and phone calls following the viral video.\n\nBut he added: \"In Texas we have a phrase that you can't put toothpaste back in the tube. If this was going to become an internet sensation I just had to laugh at myself along with everybody else doing so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From pet and child interruptions to catching fire, here's a look at the times online meetings went wrong", "David Wilson posed as girls on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat and then persuaded boys to send him sexual images of themselves\n\nA man who posed as teenage girls online and blackmailed 51 boys into sending him indecent images of themselves has been jailed for 25 years.\n\nDavid Wilson, 36, of Kirstead, King's Lynn, Norfolk, admitted 96 offences in November at Ipswich Crown Court.\n\nIn some cases he threatened to share indecent images of the boys online unless they sent him footage of them abusing younger siblings or friends.\n\nThe judge described Wilson as \"extremely dangerous\" and \"sadistic\".\n\nThe court heard some of the children who were groomed to abuse others had been arrested and one was now in a children's home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Wilson (pictured being arrested) blackmailed 51 boys into sending him indecent images\n\nWilson's victims were aged between four and 14 and his crimes took place between 2016 and 2020, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nHe won their trust by sending sexual images of young women in exchange for photographs and videos of the victims themselves.\n\nWilson then used these images to blackmail his victims into sending more extreme content.\n\nThe NCA said he distributed images to some of his victims' friends, despite them begging him to stop, and some children spoke of wanting to end their lives as a result.\n\nWilson, a roofer, contacted boys from social media accounts set up from his bedroom at his mother's Norfolk home\n\nSentencing, Judge Rupert Overbury described Wilson as a \"serial paedophile\" and \"an extremely dangerous individual\".\n\n\"You carried out a lengthy and premeditated campaign of sadistic and manipulative abuse of young boys using social media,\" he said.\n\n\"Any decent human being will be astonished at the level of depravity involved.\"\n\nOne child was groomed while struggling with the effects of his father dying from cancer, the judge said.\n\nAnother pleaded for Wilson to stop as his grandfather was about to die but this had no effect on his abuser, he added.\n\nWilson pleaded guilty to 54 counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, 25 counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, 10 counts of causing a child to watch a sexual act, three counts of blackmail and four counts of arranging or facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child.\n\nHe was ordered to serve a further eight years of extended licence once he is released from prison.\n\nWilson threw a phone he used to contact his victims down a toilet when police arrested him\n\nOfficers began compiling intelligence on Wilson after Facebook identified 20 accounts of boys ranging from 12 to 15 years old, who had sent images of themselves to an account seemingly belonging to a 13-year-old girl.\n\nThe mother of one of Wilson's victims spoke of her concern over Facebook's plan to bring in end-to-end encryption of messages on the platform.\n\n\"I'm eternally grateful that David Wilson was caught,\" she said.\n\n\"I think that if it becomes too difficult for law enforcement agencies to track these people then we won't be able to protect our children and people like him will be able to get away with it.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Facebook said: \"Child exploitation and grooming have no place on our platform.\n\n\"Facebook has led the industry in developing new ways to prevent, detect, and respond to abuse and we will continue to work with law enforcement to combat criminal activity.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"This sickening case is a chilling reminder of how crucial it is that tech companies play their part in combating child sexual abuse.\n\n\"It is vital that Facebook do not press ahead without amending their current end-to-end-encryption plans, otherwise sick criminals like David Wilson could still be abusing children with impunity.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed Wilson buying a top-up voucher for a mobile phone linked to his offending\n\nTony Cook, head of child sexual abuse operations at the NCA, said Wilson \"preyed\" on his victims' \"vulnerability\".\n\n\"He groomed, bullied and blackmailed young boys into sending him indecent images and in some instances performing horrific abuse on themselves and others,\" he said.\n\n\"Despite knowing their utter anguish and despair he ignored their pleas from him to stop.\"\n\nMr Cook urged parents to speak to their children about who they communicate with online and understand \"this can happen to anyone\".\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. The college has had a number of high-profile students\n\nThe heir to the Spanish throne is to study in Wales from this summer, it has been announced.\n\nPrincess Leonor de Borbon, 15, the elder of two daughters of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, will attend Atlantic College, based at St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThe princess, who turns 16 in October, will begin her £67,000 two-year course at the boarding school this summer.\n\nKing Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will personally meet the cost of the course.\n\nShe applied for a place through the United World Colleges (UWC)'s Spanish committee.\n\nPrincess Leonor went through the entire selection process, part of which is conducted anonymously, along with all other candidates.\n\n\"We are looking forward to welcoming HRH Princess Leonor of Asturias as one of the Spanish nominees to attend UWC Atlantic in 2021,\" said Peter T. Howe, principal of the college.\n\n\"We hope very much she enjoys her time in Wales and have little doubt she will thrive as a member of our amazing community.\"\n\nPrincess Leonor is the elder of the two daughters of the King of Spain\n\nJens Waltermann, executive director of UWC International, added: \"The princess will join 4,500 other students from 155 countries, and from a diverse range of backgrounds, who will be studying at one of our 18 schools.\n\n\"It doesn't matter where a student comes from to access a UWC education, with over 75% of all students receiving partial or full scholarships.\n\n\"What matters is their potential to contribute towards building a better and more just future for all.\"\n\nAtlantic College is located at St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nAtlantic College is a residential sixth form college which brings together students aged 15-19 from around the world.\n\nFounded in 1962, the estate near Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan includes the 12th Century St Donat's Castle and was once the former home of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.\n\nAtlantic College has a history of attracting foreign royals. Its president is Queen Noor of Jordan and one of her daughters graduated from the institution.\n\nWillem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, was also once a student at the college.\n\nAtlantic College is a boarding school for pupils from all over the world\n\nThe college has also welcomed famous visitors in the past, including the Queen, Prince Charles and the Emperor of Japan.\n\nIn 2013, the college once again gained the world's attention when two Pakistani teenagers shot by the Taliban while travelling with their friend Malala Yousafzai - now a Nobel Prize laureate - were given scholarships to study there.\n\nThe 350 students at the college study towards the International Baccalaureate, which is combined with a co-curricular community service activities.", "The three men were questioned by officers in Little Stretton, south Shropshire\n\nThree men have been fined for making a 300-mile (483km) round trip from London to a Shropshire beauty spot to \"take a photograph of the view\".\n\nWest Mercia Police said the trio had not even managed to snap a picture as their phone batteries had died.\n\nThey were stopped and questioned in Little Stretton, south Shropshire, having driven from Kensington.\n\nThe trio were given Covid fixed penalty notices with police saying it would be the \"only souvenir\" of the trip.\n\nPolice have a legal duty to make sure national lockdown rules are enforced, alongside council, environmental health and trading standards officers.\n\nThose breaking coronavirus regulations could get a fixed penalty notice, which in England and Northern Ireland start at £200.\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 Royal College of Physicians is urging people not to share and \"copycat\" \"dangerous\" videos claiming steam inhalation can prevent Covid-19. The BBC has found that alternative coronavirus treatments are being sent on chat apps like WhatsApp, as well as being widely available on social media.\n\nBBC reporter Sima Kotecha has tracked the origins of one of these false videos to the state of Gujarat in India.", "Lord Brittan died before the Met dropped its investigation into him\n\nThe widow of former home secretary Lord Brittan has accused the Metropolitan Police of having \"a culture of cover up and flick away\".\n\nLord Brittan died in January 2015, after being falsely accused of sexual abuse, and Lady Brittan's homes were searched while she was still grieving.\n\nNo police officer has been disciplined for the way the case was conducted.\n\nLady Brittan told the Daily Mail that public bodies had to show a \"strong moral compass\".\n\nFrom 2014, her husband, who had been home secretary from 1983 to 1985, was caught up in a Met investigation - Operation Midland - into false claims of sexual abuse in Westminster.\n\nThe Brittans' homes in London and North Yorkshire were later raided, along with those of former armed forces chief Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nIt later emerged that all the claims were based on lies by fantasist Carl Beech, who has since been jailed for perverting the course of justice, but Lord Brittan died before that was established.\n\nAn independent review of the case by former High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques criticised the Metropolitan Police, but the Independent Office for Police Conduct found no evidence of misconduct or criminality by officers.\n\nLady Brittan told the Daily Mail: \"In the end, it's the leadership of any police force: that's where the buck stops.\n\n\"But I think a lot of this comes down to culture. And one of the things that interests me is, as an outcome, is the police appear to have a culture which is cover up and flick away.\"\n\nLady Brittan criticised former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson for an article he wrote\n\nLady Brittan also accused Tom Watson, former deputy leader of the Labour Party, of doing an \"awful and terrible thing\" in writing a newspaper column highlighting the claims made by Beech, published three days after her husband's death.\n\nShe called this \"about the most despicable thing I think a human being could do to another\".\n\nMr Watson has previously said he felt \"very, very sorry\" about the way events turned out, adding: \"I genuinely feel very deeply for the people who have had injustices done to them as a result of the failed police inquires - I really do.\"\n\nFollowing Sir Richard Henriques, the Met apologised for its handling of the case and later paid compensation to Lord Brittan's family.\n\nIn March last year, Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said: \"Operation Midland had a terrible impact on those who were falsely accused by Carl Beech.\n\n\"The previous commissioner and I have apologised to them and I repeat that apology again today.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached the Met for a response to Lady Brittan's comments.", "Care home staff were without personal protective equipment (PPE) early in the pandemic because the government prioritised the NHS, MPs have said.\n\nThe Commons Public Accounts Committee said care homes received only a fraction of the PPE needed compared with the health service.\n\nIt said social care \"was only taken seriously after the high mortality rate in care homes became apparent\".\n\nThe government said it worked \"tirelessly\" to provide PPE.\n\nThe report from the Public Accounts Committee said many healthcare workers were put in an \"appalling situation\" where they had to care for people with Covid-19 or suspected Covid-19 \"without sufficient PPE to protect themselves from infection\".\n\nIt said the social care sector did not receive \"anywhere near enough\" to meet its needs.\n\nHealth and social care staff suffered PPE shortages, it said, with some forced to reuse single-use items as stocks ran \"perilously low\".\n\nBetween March and July 2020, the Department of Health and Social Care provided NHS trusts with 1.9 billion items of PPE, the equivalent to 80% of their estimated need.\n\nThe adult social care sector was given 331 million items, accounting for 10% of its requirements.\n\nAt the same time, about 25,000 patients were discharged to care homes from hospitals without being tested for Covid-19.\n\n\"This contributed significantly to the deaths in care homes during the first wave,\" the committee said.\n\nIts report said the government had believed it was well placed to cope at the start of the outbreak, as it had a stockpile of PPE.\n\nBut this was only intended for a flu pandemic and was \"inadequate\" for the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMore than £12bn was spent by the Department of Health and Social Care between February and July 2020 on 32 billion items of PPE.\n\nHowever, the committee said hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money was \"wasted\" on unusable kit.\n\nStaff reported receiving face masks with rotten elastic and, in one case, a box of surgical gowns which was infested with insects.\n\nCommittee chairman Meg Hillier said frontline workers were left \"without adequate supplies, risking their own and their families' lives to provide treatment and care\".\n\n\"The government needs to acknowledge the errors and be better prepared,\" she said.\n\nThe report came after two highly critical reports published by the National Audit Office in November last year.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said it worked \"tirelessly to procure, produce and deliver PPE\" to frontline workers.", "Beer and pub sector leaders are pressing the government to give them a reopening date.\n\nThe industry is desperate to get back to business after repeated warnings many pubs will not survive.\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) is asking the government for a clear timeline and a \"roadmap to recovery\".\n\nThe government insists that it has a plan for re-opening the economy which it will reveal after 22 February.\n\nThe BBPA said trading restrictions and lockdowns knocked sales by 56% - worth £7.8bn - last year.\n\nIn the first lockdown in the second quarter of the year, beer sales plummeted by 96%, it said. Even during the summer, which saw the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and a temporary VAT cut on food and soft drinks, pub beer sales fell 27%.\n\nThe BBPA said that unless pubs received more assistance, even once they were allowed to reopen with far fewer restrictions, thousands would fail and be lost for good as many had built up substantial debts during the pandemic.\n\nIts proposed roadmap states that, post-vaccination of the most vulnerable, pubs must reopen in unison with non-essential retail and other parts of the hospitality sector.\n\nIt also says mandatory trading restrictions - such as alcoholic drinks served only with a substantial meal, no mixed households and the 10pm curfew - should be removed when pubs reopen in a timely way.\n\nFinancially, it is pressing for an extension to the VAT cut and business rates holiday, as well as a significant beer duty cut.\n\n\"There's been a real lack of clarity,\" said Dianne Irving, who manages three pubs in Carlisle. \"It's just really, really difficult to know where we are and where we are going.\"\n\n\"It's very difficult to plan.\" Beyond March, things will be \"very difficult, financially,\" she said.\n\nAny kind of restrictions make her pubs expensive to run, she said.\n\nUnder Tier 1 - the mildest of restrictions - two of her pubs were only breaking even, with her city-centre venue making a loss, she said.\n\nPhilip Whitehead, chairman of the British Beer & Pub Association, urged the government \"to provide clarity to our sector on when it can expect to fully reopen\".\n\nHe added: \"After nearly a whole year under forced closure, or open but under severe restrictions, pub trade has been decimated and sales of beer in pubs have plummeted . Furthermore, due to their revenue falling off a cliff in 2020, pubs are holding debt and have little to no cash left.\n\n\"We need the government to continue to provide financial support for pubs when they reopen to bridge the gap to full recovery.\n\nNick Mackenzie, boss of brewer and pub giant Greene King, said the industry needed \"a clear plan for reopening. without complex and unjustified restrictions which would make it unviable to open\".\n\nHe added that without additional support, \"there is a real risk of more viable businesses closing their doors in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nMark Davies, boss of Hawthorn, the Community Pub Company with over 700 pubs said: \"I cannot emphasise enough how important it is that the government recognises the role that pubs play in so many communities around the UK and that pubs are part of the fabric of our society.\n\n\"It is therefore crucial that immediate financial support is secured for the pub sector with business rates and VAT an urgent priority.\"\n\nA Government spokesperson said: \"We will set out our plan for reopening schools and, gradually, the economy in the week of 22 February. Ministers regularly engage with the sector to understand their concerns and discuss how the sector can restart when it is safe to do so.\n\n\"We have put in place one of the most comprehensive and generous packages of business support in the world worth £280 billion. This includes a new one-off grant worth up to £9,000, VAT relief, various loan schemes, a business rates holiday as well as the extended furlough scheme.\"", "The risk of coronavirus transmission from sharing sports equipment is \"lower than once thought\", a study suggests.\n\nResearchers, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, applied live virus particles to nine types of sports equipment and a control material.\n\nThey concluded it \"seems unlikely\" that sports balls and accessories are a major cause for transmission.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said last June that cricket balls are a \"natural vector\" of coronavirus.\n\nThe Strike study found the virus was least transferrable on absorbent materials like cricket gloves and tennis balls, compared with non-porous equipment like racing saddles and rugby balls.\n\nThe researchers found that there was \"rapid decay\" of viral particles across several types of equipment, and it was \"very difficult\" to transfer live virus back off it.\n\n\"Close contact\" between players is likely to be a more important mode of spreading the virus than sharing equipment, researchers concluded.\n\nJames Calder, from Imperial College and Fortius Clinic, said: \"The findings in this study are important not only for elite athletes, but also for community sports and our schools.\n\n\"It shows that the risk of transmission when sharing sports equipment is lower than was once thought and it highlights the importance of promoting other infection control measures in sports, whilst urging equipment manufacturers to identify surfaces that may be less likely to retain viable virus.\"\n\nDuring the study a low dose and a high dose of live coronavirus was applied to a cricket glove, a football, a golf ball, a piece of gym pit foam, a horse saddle, both red and white cricket balls, a rugby ball and a tennis ball, as well as a piece of stainless steel as a control material.\n\nEach was tested after one minute, five minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes and 90 minutes, to see whether live virus could be transferred off the equipment at time points that were relevant to sports events.\n\nWhen the low dose was applied, virus was recoverable on seven of the 10 items tested after one minute, one of the 10 after five minutes - the horse saddle - and none of the 10 after 15 minutes.\n\nWhen the high dose was applied, virus was recoverable on nine out of the 10 items after one and five minutes - all except the cricket glove - six out of 10 after 30 minutes, and two out of 10 after 90 minutes (the rugby ball and horse saddle).\n\nHowever, the study - which is awaiting peer review - found that the \"mean recovery of the virus fell across all materials to 0.74% at one minute, 0.39% at 15 minutes and 0.003% at 90 minutes\".\n\nDr Emily Adams, a senior lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, said: \"Anything that is slightly absorbent like a tennis ball or some of the leathery cricket balls, it's very difficult to transfer any live virus off those. So we think that transmission from sports equipment is probably very low in these cases.\n\n\"Basically in many sports, like tennis, really the public health intervention should be focused on players and how players interact before a game, during a game and after a game and in transport rather than the sports equipment itself.\"\n\nThe study found there was a \"noticeable\" difference in the viral recovery of red and white cricket balls.\n\n\"Despite the white and red cricket ball surfaces both being composed of bovine leather, the different coatings used to finish the surfaces (synthetic grease on the red ball, nitrocellulose on the white ball) had a noticeable effect on viral recovery, with the red ball having a lower level\", it says.\n\nThe study concludes that, given the differences in virus transfer between the types of sports equipment, the findings could \"direct the engineering of materials that retain and absorb virus\" as opposed to water-repellent materials, where the ability to transfer virus particles back off a surface is greater.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister urged people to get the vaccine, saying 'now is the moment to do it'\n\nBoris Johnson has urged the two million people yet to take up their offer of a Covid jab to \"come forward\" this week.\n\nThe UK was closing in on Monday's target for vaccinating almost 15 million of its most vulnerable people, the PM told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nBut he said some people \"for one reason or another\" had not been vaccinated.\n\nMr Johnson said the aim was not to \"hit some numerical target, but to save lives... another step on the long and hard road back to normality\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first dose of a vaccine to 15 million people - those aged 70 and over, healthcare workers and people required to shield - by 15 February.\n\nAfter the first four priority groups receive their jabs, ministers hope that people aged 50 and over, as well as those with underlying health conditions will be vaccinated by the end of April.\n\nAs of Tuesday 13,058,298 had received a first vaccine dose, a daily rise of 411,812.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"With less than a week to go until the target date... there's no doubt we've made great strides, with just over 13 million people now vaccinated in our United Kingdom, including one in four adults in England, over 90% of everyone over 75 and over 90% of eligible residents of care homes for the elderly.\n\n\"But that still leaves nearly two million people, a population roughly twice the size of Birmingham, that we still hope to reach.\n\n\"And there are people across the country who for one reason or another haven't yet taken up their offer. So now is the moment to do it.\"\n\nMr Johnson appealed to care workers who still have not been vaccinated to contact their employer to \"fix it up\". His comments came after a survey suggested more than 30% of staff in nearly half of all care homes for older people have not been vaccinated.\n\nThe government is on track to meet its target to offer vaccines to 15 million people by Monday.\n\nBut the question now on everyone's lips is what difference is it making?\n\nGiven it takes two to three weeks for immunity to develop and then another few weeks for the impact of that to be seen in infection levels and hospitalisations, it is too early to tell for sure from the published data.\n\nThe government has been collecting data behind the scenes by monitoring cases in people who have been vaccinated.\n\nIt is expected to unveil that next week.\n\nEarly reports suggest it is having a significant difference - and if that is the case it will shift the dynamics of the pandemic significantly.\n\nThe latest official figures on Covid also show there have been a further 1,001 deaths reported within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the UK, and another 13,013 positive tests.\n\nThis compares to 1,322 deaths and 19,202 cases reported a week ago.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged that the figures showing a reduction in Covid-19 cases were not necessarily down to the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I've looked at the data and scrutinised it with my layman's eye and so far, yes we are getting the numbers down, but can I see results that I think are directly attributable to the vaccine? Although I'm assured that will happen soon, I can't say that I can see them yet.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the briefing there were still a \"significant number of people in high-risk groups\" who had not been vaccinated and the lifting of restrictions in England needed to take place with \"caution.\"\n\nSir Patrick said: \"Those people remain at risk and so it's important we go cautiously in opening up, in order to be able to measure the effects.\"\n\nSir Patrick was asked about Covid lateral flow tests (LFTs) as they began to be rolled out to more workplaces.\n\nHe said they were a \"really important part of our toolkit\", and while not as \"sensitive\" as a PCR lab test, were \"good with picking up people with high viral load, who are most infectious\", and who are asymptomatic.\n\nMr Johnson says LFTs will \"come into their own\" once the economy is starting to \"unlock\".\n\n\"They do have a very clear use case but it's in conjunction with everything we are doing and the priority is obviously vaccination.\"", "People in the UK should not be booking holidays at home or abroad yet due to coronavirus, the transport secretary has told the BBC.\n\nGrant Shapps admitted he did not know \"where we'll be\" by the summer.\n\nBoris Johnson said he hoped to provide \"clarity\" on possible lockdown easing later this month, but the public would need to be \"a \"little more patient\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of sending \"mixed messages\" on whether holidays can happen.\n\nAnd, in an impassioned attack on the government's position, senior Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker implored the prime minister to give people \"something to look forward to\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"We had summer holidays last year when we didn't have a vaccine. Now we've got vaccines coming out of our ears, we are told, 'Don't book a summer holiday,' for crying out loud.\"\n\nUnder lockdown rules, holiday travel is banned in the UK, but a fall in coronavirus cases has fuelled hopes of a return to relative normality by spring or summer.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said: \"Please don't go ahead and book holidays. I simply don't know the answer to the question of where we'll be up to this summer.\n\n\"It's too early to give that information. The best advice to people is: do nothing at this stage.\"\n\nWho should people believe? Ministers promising a great British summer or those telling them not to book their place by a pool quite yet?\n\nI imagine most people have more pressing questions - such as when they might see their grandchildren again or get to have a cup of tea with their mum.\n\nBut it's a question that tests how the people running the country see the coming weeks and months.\n\nAt the moment, caution is the watchword in government.\n\nBoris Johnson is desperate to ensure that this lockdown is the last but uncertainty runs through their calculations.\n\nRight now, ministers can't offer simple answers to questions that this time last year would have sounded absurd.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street coronavirus press conference, the prime minister said there was \"not an awful long\" time between now and his Covid-recovery \"road map\" being delivered on 22 February.\n\n\"I hope we will be able to get some more clarity by then.\n\n\"I understand why people want to make plans now, but we are just going to have to be a little more patient.\"\n\nHolidays abroad and in the UK restarted last summer, after the first lockdown ended.\n\nFor Labour, Sir Keir told the BBC it was \"very difficult to predict\" the situation the summer, but the government should \"stop putting out mixed messages\".\n\n\"The prime minister was saying one week that he's 'optimistic' about holidays, then he's got the transport secretary saying, 'Don't book a holiday.'\n\n\"That isn't helping businesses. It's not helping families.\"\n\nThe data organisation Statista found that in 2019 - before the pandemic struck - UK spending on trips abroad totalled £62.3bn.\n\nAnd Visit Britain estimates that UK people who holidayed in England during that period spent £19.5bn.\n\nThe travel industry, which has been severely hit by coronavirus, reacted with dismay to Mr Shapps's comments.\n\nBrian Strutton, general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"Airlines are drowning but, rather than throwing us a life raft, the transport secretary has just thrown a bucket of cold water at us.\"\n\nAnd EasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said airlines would be monitoring the effectiveness of vaccines against new variants of the virus.\n\n\"Most important now is that the government comes out with a plan on how they're going to unwind these restrictions,\" he told an online aviation conference.", "A TikTok post by Love Island's Luke Mabbott breached the advertising code, according to a watchdog.\n\nThe video showed him wearing two outfits with the captions \"Which look do you prefer\" and \"Outfit from boohooman #boohooman\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority says there was nothing that \"made clear to those viewing it that it was an ad\".\n\nIt has told Boohoo and Luke Mabbott to make sure future adverts are \"obviously identifiable\".\n\nThe TikTok post was from September 2020\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says that after getting a complaint about the post, Boohoo contacted the reality star's team to remind him of the rules.\n\nThe complaint was made in November about the post which went up in September 2020.\n\nMabbott changed the caption to properly disclose that it was a paid post, and that it was an \"oversight\". He added that he wouldn't breach the code in future.\n\nThe ASA had suggested using a caption clearly stating \"ad\".\n\nThe reality star has previously has a complaint about one of his posts to the ASA, when he advertised alcoholic drink VK.\n\nVK told the ASA that Mabbott had been \"chosen carefully\" to promote their product and was over the age of 25 when the advert was published.\n\nThe watchdog ruled that that advert had not \"inappropriately targeted children\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "Facebook says it is \"horrified\" at the continued online abuse of footballers and has announced what it says are tougher measures to tackle the issue.\n\nThe social media platform is changing the rules governing direct messaging on Instagram, a platform it also owns.\n\nIt will disable the accounts of those found to have repeatedly sent abusive private messages on Instagram.\n\nUK head of content policy Fadzai Madzingira said it was \"saddening\" to see continued abuse on the platforms.\n\nMadzingira told BBC Sport: \"I'm horrified at the type of abuse that people, especially these footballers, have to deal with on the basis of who they are, whether it's their race or their religion or their gender, and as a company, we're disappointed to see that sort of behaviour that plays out offline also playing out on our platform.\n\n\"It's why we're making the announcements today about taking tougher measures to go after accounts that are violating our community standards and our goals within Instagram direct messages.\"\n\nA number of Premier League footballers - including Manchester United's Marcus Rashford and Axel Tuanzebe, West Brom's Romaine Sawyers, Chelsea full-back Reece James and his sister, Manchester United forward Lauren James - have been subjected to abusive online messages in recent weeks.\n\nThe Football Association has called for action from the government, which has since stated social media companies could face \"large fines\" potentially amounting to \"billions of pounds\" if they fail to tackle abuse on their platforms.\n\nAsked by BBC sports editor Dan Roan whether Facebook was enabling such abuse, Madzingira said: \"No, to imply that it's about enabling I think would be inaccurate.\n\n\"I think that platforms like ours allow communities of people to connect on the things that they love. If we need to have a conversation about hate, it really needs to be not what is just happening on the platform.\"\n\nWhat will change on Instagram?\n\nFootballers past and present have called for users of social media platforms to be required to provide verification documents when creating accounts so that they can be traced more effectively if they breach rules.\n\nFacebook says this measure would prove challenging in communities where such documents would not be readily available.\n\n\"If we were to insist on using government ID or passport details we would be barring access to the very people who use our platforms to build communities, so we are very conscious we allow for that access,\" added Madzingira.\n\nThe company claims it \"took action\" on 6.5 million pieces of hate speech on Instagram between July and September last year, including within direct messages which are harder to police because of privacy rules.\n\n\"To date, if someone violated the rules in Instagram direct messages, we would set a specific ban or a block for a certain amount of time and extend that period, should they continue to violate,\" Madzingira explained.\n\n\"Today we're announcing that we will now be removing those accounts, should they continue to violate within Instagram direct messaging.\"\n\nFacebook said it would not spell out how many offences would trigger removal as offenders could use the information to \"game the system\".\n\n'We are a small part in fixing this'\n\nFacebook said it was \"doing everything we can to fight hate and racism on our platform\" but added the \"problems are bigger than us\".\n\nSome users have sought a ban on specific emojis commonly used in racist messages but Madzingira argued against banning symbols that could be used innocently in other contexts.\n\nShe also said filters could be used to prevent others from leaving offensive comments on posts, and that work was also being done to prevent banned users from opening new accounts.\n\nAsked whether Facebook has prioritised profits over clamping down on abuse, Madzingira said: \"I think that would be an inaccurate assessment.\n\n\"Because if people didn't feel safe on the platform they wouldn't be able to be there.\n\n\"We accept that being able to deal with this issue is everyone's responsibility and we want to play our part. The frustration that these players have is right - it is horrifying the abuse they are receiving.\"\n\n'The police need more help from social media platforms'\n\nBristol Rovers full-back Mark Little - the target of a racist message on social media that is being investigated by police - said he was surprised that those in charge of the platforms were only reacting now.\n\nHe said: \"I welcome that they're making a change but it's quite confusing for me, as what they have announced is what I assumed was happening before.\n\n\"They've jumped to a standard rather than getting anywhere near what I would think would be acceptable for what is going on.\"\n\nLittle, 32, added that \"a big corporation like Facebook should be able to set the precedent for what is going on in wider society\" and that \"the police need more help from the social media platforms\".\n\nHe added: \"I don't think it would be that difficult to identify the people who are doing this.\n\n\"Everyone should have some form of identification to use these platforms and I think that would eradicate a very large portion of the abuse.\"\n\n'More has to be done to stamp out abuse'\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden welcomed the tougher measures but insisted \"racist abuse is still a fact of life for too many people and more has to be done across the board to stamp it out\".\n\nHe added: \"For too long, the world's most popular and powerful social media companies have failed to tackle the stream of horrific racist attacks on their platforms.\n\n\"We're introducing a new age of accountability for these companies through our upcoming Online Safety Bill and this could see huge fines for firms which fail to clearly and transparently protect their users.\"\n• None The Six Nations is back:\n• None Greg James and Bella Mackie ask what we might have missed in school", "Scotland's transport secretary says he is pressing the UK government to close a loophole which could allow travellers to avoid new Covid quarantine rules.\n\nMichael Matheson told BBC Scotland the current UK arrangements for enforced isolation in hotels were \"inadequate\".\n\nNew UK quarantine rules only apply to people arriving from 33 countries deemed \"high risk\", but Scotland's apply to all international travellers.\n\nThere are fears traveller could avoid the rules by flying into England first.\n\nEveryone arriving in Scotland on an international flight from next Monday will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days at a cost of £1,750.\n\nThe Scottish government has block-booked rooms at six hotels near Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.\n\nMr Matheson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme he believed there should be a \"comprehensive system\" across the UK on managed isolation to reduce the risk of importing variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our preferred option would be for individuals to be required to self-isolate at the point of entry into the UK, rather than travelling from one part of the UK to self-isolate when they get into Scotland or Northern Ireland or any other part of the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"[The UK government] want to continue to take a targeted approach on the way in which individuals enter into ports of entry in England.\n\n\"Our view is that remains inadequate in order to prevent the risk of new variants entering into the country and that is why we we're continuing to pursue and press the UK government to listen to the clinical advice and expert opinion from the Joint Biosecurity Centre that the existing system operating isn't adequate.\"\n\nAsked if Scotland would introduce controls on the border with England to ensure people travelling to Scotland via an English airport were complying, Mr Matheson said the Scottish government was looking at a \"range of measures\".\n\nMichael Matheson said the Scottish government believed people should isolate at their \"point of entry\" into the UK\n\nThe £1,750 cost of the stay in managed quarantine will have to be paid for by the passengers themselves.\n\nThe charge includes mandatory Covid tests on day two and day eight following arrival for one person - any additional travellers will incur supplemental costs.\n\nAnyone who breaches the measures could face criminal charges including culpable and reckless conduct.\n\nMr Matheson told the BBC that about 1,600 people travelled to Scotland from abroad last week.\n\n\"If you take out those who would be subject to an exemption, we estimate there would be the need for potentially around 1,200 individuals to self-isolate in a managed quarantine facility,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the things that may happen as a result of the policy we have taken forward, is that some of the airlines may choose to draw back on their international flights into Scotland.\n\n\"And there is some indication that the airlines may choose to cancel their flights coming into Scotland next week as a result of the managed isolation provision we have put in place, on the basis that they believe the demand for those flights is going to drop off dramatically as a result.\"\n\nThe oil and gas industry has said the 10-day quarantines could have a massive impact on business.\n\nTrevor Stapleton, from industry body Oil and Gas UK said: \"Given that they are doing critical roles and that the rotas have been planned a good year in advance, to suddenly say that that individual cannot go offshore - and therefore they have to quarantine for 10 days - would have a couple of outcomes.\n\n\"If they are doing a critical role then either they... have to stay on the installation for a further 10 days, and if that's not possible, if the person has to come back, then you are looking quite seriously at whether you can continue to operate that installation.\"\n\nMr Matheson said that there would be \"some level of exemptions\" provided for some passengers.\n\n\"We're looking at particular aspects around the oil and gas sector and also around areas such as defence and areas of critical infrastructure as well,\" he added.\n\nUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs on Tuesday that new UK border measures built on \"touch actions\" already taken to prevent news variants of Covid-19 entering the country.\n\nHe also said that the UK government was working on \"similarly tough schemes with the devolved administrations\".", "A vote of no confidence in a mayor who took part in a chaotic parish council Zoom meeting that went viral is set to be held next week.\n\nMillions watched clips of the Handforth Parish Council meeting, which featured insults and members being kicked out.\n\nHost Jackie Weaver was later trending on Twitter and gave interviews around the world.\n\nA motion claims mayor Barry Burkhill \"brought the council into disrepute\" for not \"intervening in bullying\".\n\nMr Burkhill, who is the Independent councillor for Handforth on Cheshire East Council as well as being a parish councillor for the area, declined to comment.\n\nA cut-down version of the planning and environment meeting on 10 December emerged on Twitter on Thursday and soon became a \"must see\", piquing the interest of millions by Friday morning.\n\nDuring the heated encounter, Ms Weaver, who lives near Whitchurch in Shropshire, kept her cool amid some members being abusive and muttering under their breath as others tried to speak, hysterical laughter and participants answering phone calls.\n\nThe parish council Zoom meeting was hosted by Jackie Weaver, who became an online hit\n\nParish council chairman Brian Tolver, who refused to recognise the legitimacy of the meeting, was removed from the meeting and placed in a virtual waiting room after saying: \"You have no authority here Jackie Weaver.\"\n\nMr Burkhill was then recorded asking where Mr Tolver had gone.\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service said a motion was proposed by Conservative councillor Liz Wardlaw, who called on the mayor to \"consider his position\".\n\nThe motion said: \"The mayor's participation in that meeting has led us to believe he has brought this council and his role within this council into disrepute.\n\n\"He made no attempt to intervene as it became clear participants in that meeting were being bullied.\n\n\"The inaction of the mayor could be seen as a demonstration of his complicity in the bullying that occurred and this cannot be ignored.\n\n\"In light of the above [we propose] this council resolves it has no confidence in the mayor and his term of office as mayor and chairman of the council will cease immediately.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the meeting was widely shared on social media\n\nCraig Browne, deputy leader of Cheshire East Council and the leader of the council's Independent group, said a council investigation was under way and declined to comment further.\n\n\"Saying anything could be prejudicial to getting a fair hearing,\" he added.\n\nThe motion calling for a vote of no confidence will be discussed by the council on 17 February.\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 rule of thumb in the cinema is that the original is invariably better than the sequel.\n\nBut then you get The Dark Knight getting far more acclaim than Batman Begins. Or Godfather 2 being better than the first movie - and personally I thought Toy Story 3 was the best. And don't get me started on Star Wars.\n\nSo, what should we expect from Impeachment II, Incitement of Insurrection, coming to a TV screen near you this week?\n\nSome very general and obvious observations.\n\nThe plotlines in this second impeachment will be much easier to follow than the original.\n\nA presidential call to his Ukrainian counterpart asking questions about an obscure energy company on which Joe Biden's son had served as a director, does not have the immediacy of the events of 6 January when a Trump supporting mob stormed Congress after listening to a speech delivered by the president.\n\nWhat is not in question is that the MAGA-mob tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Five people died following the mayhem. There will not be an American who doesn't have a view on what unfolded.\n\nThe other quick observation I would make is this - the chamber where the Senate trial will unfold is also the crime-scene; the epicentre of this assault on America's most sacred democratic sanctum. And the corollary of that is that some of the people who will be 'trying' the former president will have felt themselves to be victims of the crime that unfolded.\n\nSo what chance is there that Donald Trump will get a fair trial?\n\nWell, the first thing I would say about that is though the language of impeachment is replete with quasi-judicial terminology, the jurors are the 100 Senators - Republican and Democrat. This is political.\n\nHow many of those who will weigh the evidence for and against Donald Trump will be swayed by the evidence presented? I find it hard to imagine there will be a single one.\n\nDemocrats, I would guess, will vote as a block to convict. Republicans are split three ways - and this is a political split, not a schism based on the evidence.\n\nThere are those Republicans who remain firmly behind Donald Trump, and will not now, not ever, vote to find him guilty of \"incitement of insurrection\", the three words on the article of impeachment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The policeman in a MAGA hat during the Capitol riots. What’s the real story?\n\nThere are those who would love nothing more to see the former president slip away from the national consciousness, and feel that he has been a corrosive force on the democratic norms and values of US democracy - but don't want to pick a fight with him for fear of the consequences. Their worst nightmare is Trump rallying support behind a Republican rival the next time they're up for election.\n\nAnd there is a smaller number of Republicans who are ready to very publicly say they believe that the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan needs to be rid of the Trump legacy, that it is a cancer that needs to be cut out.\n\nIn other words, this will all be about political calculation. And the second order calculation will be how these senators will explain the decision to their voters.\n\nWhich brings us to this next question, how will this play itself out?\n\nDemocrats will make a case that evokes the drama of the day and the fears some of them had - they thought their lives were in danger as they cowered in offices while the mob went room to room. The blame for that will be laid squarely at the defendant's door.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The terror of being trapped in the US Capitol - three eyewitness accounts of politicians\n\nThe Trump defence will take two forms.\n\nOn the substance of the \"incitement of insurrection\" charge, his lawyers will argue that he was exercising his free speech, First Amendment rights - and they will point out that in that address on 6 January, the president told his supporters to march on Congress \"peacefully and patriotically\".\n\nBut the speech was notable for all its \"We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\" And telling his supporters that they have to be tough and not weak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday - but what's it all about?\n\nAnd his case is not helped by the tweets and messaging around this time - urging his supporters to come to Washington on 6 January because it was \"going to be wild\".\n\nIn a video released on the night of the riots, Donald Trump told the mob that had descended on Congress that he loved them and they were special people. He tweeted that evening - seemingly to justify the actions of the insurgents - that this is what happens when you steal the result of the election.\n\nHe repeatedly claimed he had won the election by a landslide. There is no evidence for that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lies in honour at US Capitol\n\nHe repeatedly claimed that the election had been stolen. Judge after judge - many appointed by Donald Trump - rejected those legal arguments put by his campaign lawyers.\n\nAnd the charges of fraud - again promoted by Mr Trump - were dismissed by the president's own Attorney General William Barr; the head of election security - another Trump appointee - also said the election had been fair.\n\nSo don't expect the president's words to be the backbone of the defence.\n\nInstead it will focus on the constitutionality of impeaching a president once he's left office. The lawyers will argue that the weapon of impeachment is only to be used for a serving politician, not a private citizen (as Donald Trump now is).\n\nHow can you use the sanction of removing someone from office when they've already left office? And this is I suspect the justification (fig-leaf, I feel sure Democrats will insist) that Republicans will reach for as their justification for acquitting Donald Trump.\n\nOf course, Democrats will point out the offence took place while he was president, and you don't get a free pass just because you've left office. Or as James Corden put it on his Late, Late Show, it's like being pulled over by a traffic cop for speeding, and saying to the officer \"I might well have been going at 50mph back then, but now as I speak to you I am stationary, so you can't charge me now…\"\n\nImpeachment II will get big, big TV audiences - though they'd have been far greater if the president had testified, as Democrat impeachment managers had wanted.\n\nBut the outcome - and here I feel the need to issue a spoiler alert - is almost certainly going to be the same as Impeachment I.", "The company that made Grenfell Tower's cladding would \"by default\" sell flammable materials to construction projects, including high-rise buildings, a sales manager has said.\n\nDeborah French told the public inquiry into the June 2017 west London blaze that Arconic could have sold a fire-retardant product.\n\nBut she said it saw the UK market as preferring a slightly cheaper version, albeit with a greater fire risk.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell Inquiry concluded that cladding put on the tower block during refurbishment fuelled the fire.\n\nStatements from a series of Arconic managers shown to the inquiry on Tuesday said the \"UK was generally a 'PE market'\" - PE referring to polyethylene, which is used as the core material of the panel and is highly flammable.\n\nCombustible cladding is the major cause of the building safety crisis now affecting millions of flat owners.\n\nGiving evidence, Ms French, the company's UK sales manager, said a type of product called Reynobond PE panels were 4 to 5 euros cheaper per square metre than the fire-retardant version.\n\nIn June 2014, she sent an email listing large construction projects to which she was hoping to sell cladding sheets.\n\nThey include a major development, Pendletons in Salford, Greater Manchester, on which Reynobond PE was used, as well as towers in Swansea and London.\n\nSmaller projects listed by Ms French included Grenfell Tower, which was listed as awaiting an order for cladding, with just the colour to choose.\n\nShe told the inquiry \"the discussions never came up about requiring anything other than a PE core\".\n\nWhen asked by inquiry lead barrister Richard Millett QC if Arconic would \"by default sell them PE\", she replied: \"That's right, yes.\"\n\nMs French said it was \"very, very, very rare\" for customers to ask about fire safety.\n\n\"It was not something that was discussed,\" she said. \"The majority of what I dealt with was colours, availabilities and those types of things.\"\n\nSales of Reynobond PE cladding were encouraged by a certificate issued by the independent British Board of Agrement.\n\nIt said that the flammable panels \"may be regarded\" as meeting a British fire performance standard known as Class 0.\n\nHowever the cladding had not passed the relevant British laboratory test, and had failed several of the European tests on which the certificate was based.\n\nMr Millett asked Ms French: \"If you were selling that product based on claims made about its fire performance [...] do you agree that you would be tending to mislead buyers?\"\n\n\"Yes, I wouldn't knowingly have done that, but inadvertently I would have been,\" she said.\n\nMs French insisted throughout her evidence that she was not a technical expert and passed detailed questions on to a technical manager, Claude Wehrle, based in France.\n\nMr Wehrle is one of three potential witnesses to the inquiry who have refused to give evidence on legal advice that, if they did so, they could incriminate themselves under a law in France.\n\nThe so-called French Blocking Statute prevents its citizens taking part in some foreign legal cases.\n\nAll three worked for Arconic. Mr Wehrle and fellow potential witness Gwenaelle Derrendinger live in France, while the third, Peter Froehlich, is based in Germany.\n\nMr Millett said \"the refusal of these witnesses to come and give evidence is unreasonable\".\n\nThe inquiry was also told that Arconic refused to disclose documents to the inquiry and only did so following a criminal European Investigation Order requested by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe police force is investigating potential corporate manslaughter, fraud, and breaches of health and safety law.", "A budget amendment would have seen free school meals extended to families receiving Universal Credit\n\nMore children in Wales should get free school meals, backbench Labour Senedd members have said.\n\nA Plaid Cymru amendment to next year's draft budget was voted down in a debate in the Senedd on Tuesday.\n\nIt would have seen free school meals extended to all pupils whose families receive Universal Credit, which First Minister Mark Drakeford has resisted.\n\nBut Labour Member of the Senedd (MS) Alun Davies said the Welsh Government was on the \"wrong side\" of the debate.\n\nMinisters should \"commit to looking at\" the proposal \"and looking at how much it's going to cost and where the money is going to come from\", Labour MS Mike Hedges added.\n\nThe amendment said the extra costs could be paid for out of funds the Welsh Government has set aside to combat coronavirus.\n\nMr Davies said the amendment was \"broadly right\", adding: \"The government is on the wrong side of this argument and I hope that the government will recognise that and I hope that the government will, in returning to the chamber, recognise its position is neither sustainable nor credible on that particular matter.\"\n\nRebecca Evans says any proposal should be within current \"budgetary constraints\"\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans said: \"I hope those colleagues who have talked on this issue today will be supporting our budget when we come to the final budget.\n\n\"I will say it's important that we continue to explore all the options available to us and seek to build on the actions that we've already taken.\n\n\"But I do recognise also that it has to be within the context of the budgetary constraints that we are under.\"\n\nUsing money earmarked for fighting the pandemic involved \"trade-offs\" that could leave less for the NHS or local councils, Ms Evans argued.\n\n\"These are the serious decisions and serious choices we have to make when we are calling for additional funding for parts of the budget,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh Government has extended free school meals during the holidays until Easter 2022.\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford welcomed it as \"a great move\" when it was announced in December.", "Loujain al-Hathloul's sister, Lina, posted a photograph of the activist following her release on Wednesday\n\nThe prominent Saudi women's right activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been released from prison, her family says.\n\nMs Hathloul, 31, was instrumental in the movement to allow women to drive in the kingdom. She was detained in 2018, just weeks before the ban was lifted.\n\nIn December a court found her guilty of seeking to change the political system and damage public order.\n\nShe was sentenced to nearly six years in a maximum security prison, but two years and 10 months were suspended.\n\nHer family have warned that she is \"not free\" and will face numerous restrictions while on probation, including a five-year travel ban.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lina Alhathloul لينا الهذلول This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Loujain is at home!!!!!!\" Ms Hathloul's sister Lina tweeted on Wednesday, breaking the news that she had been released after 1,001 days in prison.\n\nAnother sister, Alia, wrote that \"this is the best day of my life\".\n\nMs Hathloul became a symbol of the suppression of dissent in Saudi Arabia following her detention in May 2018 along with about a dozen other female activists who had also campaigned for women to be allowed to drive.\n\nHer family said she was initially held incommunicado for three months, and that she was subjected to electric shocks, whippings, and sexual harassment. They also alleged that that she was offered freedom if she agreed to say she was not tortured.\n\nThe Saudi government denied the allegations of torture, which her family said were recently dismissed by an appeals court.\n\nOfficials also insisted that she was not detained because of her activism, but rather her contacts with foreign diplomats, media and other organisations.\n\nPresident Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan welcomed Ms Hathlouo's release from prison, describing it as \"a good thing\".\n\nLoujain Al-Hathloul has become the face of dissent in the kingdom - a symbol of Saudi Arabia's crackdown on any form of protest.\n\nMore than any other female activist languishing in prison, her case has gained global prominence. Her outspoken family and a persistent campaign by human rights groups have kept the spotlight on her.\n\nThat's thrown a long dark shadow on the kingdom's efforts to publicise its new economic and social reforms.\n\nSaudi officials say they aren't bowing to outside pressure. But it's also clear they want this issue off the agenda now that there's a new team in the White House emphasising human rights.\n\nThis week also saw the announcement of reforms to the Saudi legal system. But there are other issues in this file, including the even longer shadow of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi officials insist their strategic importance in the region will outweigh all other issues.\n\nMs Hathloul and 10 other women were put on trial at a criminal court in Riyadh in March 2019. However, the case was adjourned several times.\n\nAt the end of October 2020, Ms Hathloul started a hunger strike to protest against the conditions of her detention, including not being allowed regular contact with her family.\n\nThe following month, her charge sheet was amended and her trial was transferred to a court specialising in handling terrorism cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 28 December, the Specialised Criminal Court found Ms Hathloul guilty of \"acts criminalised according to article 43 of the counterterrorism and terror finance law\", Saudi media reported.\n\nThe acts allegedly included \"inciting change to the basic ruling regime; serving a foreign agenda inside the kingdom by using the internet with the objective of damaging public order; and collaborating with a number of individuals and entities who have committed criminalised acts\".\n\nMs Hathloul denied the charges, but the judge ruled that she had \"confessed willingly without being under duress\".\n\nAnd while the judge suspended part of her sentence of five years and eight months, paving the way for her early release, he warned that \"if she commits any crimes within the next three years, the suspension will be annulled\". He also banned her from leaving Saudi Arabia for five years.\n\nUN experts described the charges as \"spurious\" and said Ms Hathloul had merely been exercising her fundamental rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.\n\n\"Loujain al-Hathloul's release after a harrowing ordeal in prison in Saudi Arabia - lasting nearly three years - is an incredible relief, but long overdue,\" said Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's deputy Middle East director.\n\n\"Nothing can make up for the cruel treatment she has suffered, nor the injustice of her imprisonment.\"\n\nLina al-Hathloul stressed that \"the fight is not over\".\n\n\"I am not fully happy without the release of all political prisoners,\" she added.", "Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday, almost a year after his first.\n\nHe’s accused of inciting the 6 Jan attack on the Capitol by a crowd of his supporters. But members of his Republican party are mostly standing by him.\n\nWhat’s the case against him and what are the chances of a conviction?", "Twenty-two people were killed in the Manchester Arena blast\n\nA counter-terrorism training drill a year before the Manchester Arena bomb was \"quite a disaster\", the head of the inquiry into the attack has suggested.\n\nThe inquiry into the May 2017 bombing heard a mock terrorist attack highlighted major communication issues between emergency services.\n\nCommunication \"did not run smoothly\" in the drill, a senior fire officer said.\n\nTwenty two people died in the terror attack by Salman Abedi at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe public inquiry heard of failings in communication in an exercise a year before the arena bomb\n\nGiving evidence to the public inquiry, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) station manager Michael Lawlor said 2016's Exercise Winchester Accord \"did not run smoothly from the perspective of GMFRS and [North West Ambulance Service] NWAS\".\n\nBoth were expecting a call from the Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) force duty officer or a tactical firearms commander to attend a pre-agreed forward control point and have an \"over the bonnet\" conversation about the risks involved in sending resources into the various zones.\n\nMr Lawlor said: \"In the end the tactical firearms commander had to be directed to make contact with other agencies by the police exercise co-ordinator.\"\n\nHe said it resulted in a delay of an hour and a half in fire and ambulance deploying into the Trafford Centre.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said: \"It was a bit of a disaster. You arrived an hour and a half late, so that's quite a disaster.\"\n\nThe fire officer replied: \"It didn't unfold as we expected.\"\n\nMr Lawlor, a senior national interagency liaison officer who was based at GMP headquarters, said he and a colleague decided multi-agency briefing awareness sessions were needed so \"all emergency responders are on the same page\".\n\nSessions took place in January and February 2017, the inquiry heard.\n\nSir John said: \"That seems a long time to be trying to sort out what were fundamental problems with Winchester Accord.\"\n\nMr Lawlor replied \"co-ordinating diaries\" of senior officers and developing and delivering training \"takes some time... so in reality it doesn't happen quickly\".\n\nSir John asked: \"At a time when the terrorist threat was severe?\"\n\nMr Lawlor said that \"was the reality at that time\".\n\nThe inquiry also heard communications between the three services was still a concern following a \"table-top exercise\", Exercise Hawk River, in March 2017, again involving a scenario with an armed terrorist.\n\nA force duty officer on that exercise said they would not have time to \"open up a tri-service call... giving a running commentary\" during an incident because of their workload and the number of tasks they had to undertake.\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 prime minister misspoke when he claimed Bridgend would become a great centre of battery manufacturing, the UK government has confirmed.\n\nBoris Johnson has been asked to apologise for his comments in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nLabour's Nia Griffith said they were \"deeply unfair\" when the town was \"reeling from the closure of Ford\".\n\nThe UK government said it is working with investors on battery manufacturing plans across the United Kingdom.\n\nPlaid Cymru called for a retraction for the comments, made in response to a question from Plaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts.\n\nNo plans have been announced for a battery factory in Bridgend.\n\nIn December, it was announced that a Britishvolt electric car battery factory that would create 3,000 jobs was going to be built near Blyth, Northumberland, rather than St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan as had been previously planned.\n\nThat announcement came days after a decision from another company, Ineos, to build its 4x4 vehicle in France rather than Bridgend - just 13 miles away from St Athan.\n\nBritishvolt had previously signed a memorandum of understanding with the Welsh Government in July 2020 to build the plant in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson had said Bridgend was \"going to be the one of the great centres of battery manufacturing in this country if not the world\".\n\nA video of Mr Johnson's comments was later tweeted by the Welsh Secretary Simon Hart.\n\nThe UK government later confirmed to BBC Wales that Mr Johnson had misspoken when he made the comments.\n\nSpeaking later, Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Whether intentional or negligent, the Prime Minister's answer misled the people of Wales, while the Secretary of State for Wales threw his support behind him.\"\n\n\"We are inured to his abuse of facts. But for Mr Hart to broadcast false information about investment in his own country - the interests of which he has a duty to defend - is reprehensible. I expect a retraction and apology.\"\n\nShadow Welsh Secretary Ms Griffiths said: \"It is deeply unfair for the prime minister to be so loose with his words when Bridgend has faced so many set backs on his watch. The community is still reeling from the closure of Ford and the loss of the Ineos project to France.\"\n\nPeter Hughes, Unite Wales Regional Secretary said: \"The prime minister's comments today regarding Bridgend are news to everyone in Wales.\"\n\nA UK government spokeswoman said they would \"continue to work with investors\" to progress plans for UK battery manufacturing.\n\n\"We are investing heavily to expand the UK's supply chain for cleaner vehicles, while working with our auto industry to ensure it remains competitive for years to come.\n\n\"As part of the prime minister's Ten Point Plan, we recently announced nearly £500m funding - as part of a wider commitment of up to £1 billion - to support the electrification of vehicles and their supply chains, including developing Gigafactories across all parts of the UK.\n\n\"We will continue to work with investors to progress plans to mass manufacture the batteries needed for the next generation of electric vehicles.\"", "Trustpilot opposes the legal action and says the firm should have \"engaged with\" its client or flagged up its concerns\n\nTrustpilot has warned users after a business sued a man for leaving a negative review on the platform.\n\n“We strongly oppose the use of legal action to silence consumers' freedom of speech,” says a message on the website.\n\nThe warning comes after a man was ordered to pay £25,000 in libel damages to solicitors who sued, on the basis the review was false and defamatory.\n\nLondon-based Summerfield Browne said the decision to sue gave it \"no pleasure\" and was not taken lightly.\n\nNew reviews have been temporarily suspended on the law firm's business page on Trustpilot after publicity about the case led to more reviews.\n\nAfter seeking legal advice through the company online, Philip James Waymouth left a review on the website accusing the firm of being “another scam solicitor”, court documents said.\n\nA banner at the top of Summerfield Browne's profile on Trustpilot reads: “Please be aware that this business has taken legal action against a consumer for a review left on this profile.\n\n“We strongly oppose the use of legal action to silence consumers' freedom of speech. As a public, open, review platform we believe strongly in consumers having the ability to leave feedback - good or bad - about a business at any time, without interference.\n\n“This is the first time we’ve seen a business taking such extreme measures against a consumer voicing their genuine opinion. The vast majority of businesses on Trustpilot engage with their consumers or use our flagging tools to report content and resolve their issues.\"\n\nFollowing the court decision, several reviews were left on Trustpilot referencing the case and writing in support of Mr Waymouth.\n\nThe Trustpilot warning continues: “The business’s actions have resulted in media attention and this profile has seen a significant increase in reviews that don’t reflect an experience with the business.\n\n“Due to this, this profile has been temporarily closed for new reviews.”\n\nTrustpilot told the BBC it was never contacted by Summerfield Browne, nor was the review flagged to the website.\n\nIt said it was not party to the case but “in the event that we are served with an order, we intend to challenge it”.\n\nThe platform added: “We believe there are a number of errors within the judgement and it raises significant concerns around freedom of speech.\n\n“If consumers are left fearful of leaving negative reviews, this could result in consumers being misled about the quality of a business and businesses being deprived of the valuable feedback from which they can learn, improve and grow.\n\n“It is much better for businesses to engage, respond and improve upon the feedback they receive, rather than using legal action to silence consumers.\"\n\nSummerfield Browne said in a statement: \"As a family firm, the decision to pursue legal action was not one we took lightly and doing so gave us no pleasure.\"", "A ScotRail train at the Yoker depot in Glasgow after a treacherous journey\n\nScotland has faced a second day of travel disruption after temperatures continued to plummet overnight.\n\nAltnaharra in the Highlands saw a reading of -17.1C, which was the lowest recorded in the UK since Boxing Day 2010.\n\nFurther heavy snowfall and freezing conditions have caused problems on the roads and across the rail network.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for snow is in place for most of central and eastern Scotland.\n\nForecasters warned that Wednesday night could be even colder and the cold spell is set to last until the weekend.\n\nThe temperature had already dropped to-13.8C in Kinbrace in Sutherland by 18:00.\n\nUnder Covid rules, people should only be travelling for essential purposes, such as work, education, essential shopping and exercise.\n\nIn a tweet, Road Policing Scotland described driving conditions as \"terrible\" after dealing with stranded vehicles on the A720 Edinburgh bypass.\n\n\"Before jumping in the car, ask 'is my journey essential?' If it is, drive safe. Slow and steady wins the day,\" they added.\n\nAn HGV stuck in the snow on the A720 Edinburgh City Bypass caused huge tailbacks on Wednesday\n\nSatellite images of the UK at about 10:48 show large areas of snow cover\n\nMore than 10cm (4in) of snow fell in parts of the Borders overnight, according to Jim Fraser, Scottish Borders Council's emergency planning officer.\n\nHe urged people to only travel if their journey is essential and added: \"The Met Office is continuing to forecast more persistent snow showers across some areas today.\n\n\"Our snowploughs and gritters are out clearing our primary road network and will move on to the secondary routes as and when conditions and resources allow.\"\n\nPolice urged people travelling to Edinburgh airport or nearby vaccine or testing sites to extra care\n\nIn Edinburgh, waste collections have been suspended so staff can help with the snow-clearing effort.\n\n\"We had our full fleet of gritters and mini-tractors out yesterday and throughout the night, treating roads, pavements and cycle lanes and clearing priority routes of snow,\" transport and environment convener councillor Lesley Macinnes said.\n\n\"The team have been focusing on Covid vaccination centres and key arterial routes to make sure anyone needing to make an essential journey or to receive a Covid vaccination is able to.\"\n\nMeanwhile a snow blower, tractor fitted with a snow plough and an excavator had to be used to reopen a road blocked by snow in the Cairngorms.\n\nHighland Council workers started the job last Friday and had the A939 Grantown on Spey to Bridge of Brown road cleared of tonnes of snow by Monday this week.\n\nWorkers spent several days clearing the A939 Grantown on Spey to Bridge of Brown road\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC North East Scot This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Clare Nasir said \"temperatures will plummet wherever you are\" on Wednesday, and strong winds and snow will be \"disruptive across many areas\".\n\nTemperatures will struggle to get above zero during the day with overnight temperatures expected to drop to -6C and below in exposed areas.\n\nAn amber weather warning expired at 21:00 after up to 20cm (8in) of snow fell in parts of central Scotland.", "A maximum 10-year jail term for lying about recent travel history has been defended by the government.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the British public \"would expect pretty strong action\" and the maximum sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime.\n\nIt was criticised by former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption who said lower tariffs exist for sex offences.\n\nFrom Monday, people arriving in England from \"red list\" countries must isolate for 10 days in hotels, costing £1,750.\n\nIt follows concerns that existing vaccines being rolled out in the UK may struggle to control new virus variants identified around the world.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Shapps said people should not be booking holidays either in the UK or abroad, and that it was \"too soon\" for sun-seekers to plan getaways.\n\n\"People shouldn't be booking holidays right now - not domestically or internationally,\" he told the Today programme, prompting the travel industry to warn of another lost summer.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs the public would need to \"get used to the idea of vaccinating and then re-vaccinating in the autumn\" due to new variants.\n\nAnd, speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he said the hotel quarantine plan was \"measured\" and \"proportionate\".\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Sumption accused Health Secretary Matt Hancock - who announced the latest measures - of losing his connection with reality.\n\n\"Ten years is the maximum sentence for threats to kill, non-fatal poisoning or indecent assault,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Does Mr Hancock really think that non-disclosure of a visit to Portugal is worse than the large number of violent firearms offences or sexual offences involving minors, for which the maximum is seven years?\"\n\nFormer Tory MP and ex-attorney general Dominic Grieve said the 10-year penalty was \"a mistake\", \"exaggerated\" and \"entirely disproportionate\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The reality is that nobody would get such a sentence anyway, the courts are simply not going to impose it.\n\n\"Now I recognise that the government has to put down strict rules and needs to have penalties to enforce them.\n\n\"But to suggest that a 10-year sentence is going to result from a false declaration on a form on landing at Heathrow Airport is, I think, a mistake because it is exaggerated, it is not going to happen.\"\n\nFailing to quarantine in a designated hotel after arriving from a \"red list\" country will carry a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nThe 10-year jail term would be the maximum penalty for anyone found to have falsified their travel history on the mandatory passenger locator form filled in by travellers when they arrive in the UK.\n\nNew border measures also require international arrivals to pay for additional tests during their quarantine period.\n\nDowning Street said MPs will not be asked to vote on the plans as the government will be including the restrictions under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981.\n\nAsked about harsh penalties attached to the new measures, Mr Shapps told BBC Breakfast those who are fined as much as £10,000 would have to \"go out of their way to lie and cheat\" the new system.\n\nMr Shapps said the 10-year maximum jail term reflected the \"serious\" nature of the offence.\n\n\"I think the British public would expect pretty strong action\" for those who seek to evade hotel quarantine, he said.\n\nAround 1,300 people a week are arriving into the UK from the 33 red list countries - including Portugal, Brazil and South Africa - at the moment, Mr Shapps said.\n\nInternational travel is currently banned, other than for a small number of permitted reasons, including for essential work, medical appointments and education. Holidays are not allowed.\n\nMr Shapps confirmed ministers were speaking to other governments about a potential \"international system\" to check whether travellers have been vaccinated - or tested for - coronavirus.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson will outline a \"roadmap\" for easing the current national restrictions in the week of 22 February.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam told a BBC News Your Questions special it was \"certainly plausible\" other countries may insist visitors are vaccinated.\n\nBut he stressed mandatory vaccination has never been a policy in the UK before and described confidence in jabs among the public as \"super high\".\n\nAirlines and travel companies will be legally required to make sure travellers have signed up for the new measures before they depart, with fines for companies and passengers if they fail to comply, he said.\n\nThe penalties also include a £1,000 fine for travellers who fail to take the new mandatory tests and a £2,000 fine for failing to take the second mandatory test - along with a 14-day extension to quarantine.\n\nAsked when the travel rules would be relaxed, Mr Hancock said: \"We want to exit from this into a system of safe international travel as soon as practicable and as soon as is safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains how to fly safely during a global pandemic\n\nThe Scottish government said it would go further than England's measures and require everyone arriving by air to isolate in hotels for 10 days.\n\nThe Institute for Government think tank said different hotel quarantine rules across the UK add \"another layer of complexity\" as it warned of \"big gaps\" in the policy.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the delay in introducing hotel quarantine and said research showed the UK was lagging behind other nations when it came to border security.\n\nAll travellers arriving in the UK are already required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test and must self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThis negative test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling, and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500, with Border Force officials carrying out spot checks.\n\nThey must also provide contact details and their UK address. They can then travel - by public transport if necessary - to the place where they plan to self-isolate.\n\nA \"test to release scheme\" - where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five - remains under the new testing rules.\n\nPassengers will be expected to use the gold-standard, and more expensive, PCR tests.\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to declare their reasons for travel prior to departure.\n\nHave you recently travelled into the UK? What was your experience at the UK border?", "Ritu Saha and fellow residents in Bromley organised their own fire patrols but still had to pay £500,000 between them\n\nThree years after the Grenfell fire, many buildings with dangerous cladding still have 24-hour fire safety patrols - introduced originally as a temporary measure. Now, thousands more homeowners are being forced to pay for \"waking watches\" with no end in sight.\n\nIn November 2017, when people in high-vis jackets arrived at Ritu Saha's block in Bromley, south-east London, she was told not to worry: they'd be gone by January.\n\nThree years and about £500,000 of charges to flat owners in the block later, they are still there.\n\nMost of the cladding - the type that caused the Grenfell fire to spread so fast, killing 72 people - has been removed from Ritu's flat.\n\nBut entire walls would need to be demolished to clear it away entirely, Ritu says.\n\nThe contractors suggest the task is too difficult, and the remaining cladding may have to stay, along with other safety measures to prevent a deadly fire. The fire brigade says that could mean the waking watch has to stay.\n\n\"Will we have these fire wardens for the rest of our lives?\" Ritu asks. The patrols have already cost her, on average, more than £300 a month for the last three years, totalling £11,700.\n• None £14average hourly rate earned by fire warden - though some earn up to £30p/h\n\nA university administrator and one of the founders of the UK Cladding Action Group, she says she cannot bear the cost much longer - \"I will be ruined, basically, if that happens.\"\n\nCosts for the fire patrols vary hugely, with flat owners often saying they are imposed with little notice or consultation.\n\nGovernment research suggests the typical flat owner pays £137 a month, or £256 in London - about £11,000 to £15,000 per block each month. Fire wardens are mostly paid around £14 an hour - but some earn up to £30 an hour, the government says.\n\nAnd the number of affected buildings continues to rise: in London, 573 blocks now have the patrols, up from 286 in March.\n\nOne flat owner in east London tells the BBC the waking watch introduced at his block in July costs the equivalent of £1,300 per flat every month. At the moment, the bill is being paid by the housing association, but he says if the costs cannot be recovered from the original developer or through the building warranty, leaseholders will be charged.\n\nThe leasehold system in England and Wales means many flat owners do not own their property outright, but instead buy the right to use it for a fixed period of time - often between 99 and 125 years.\n\nTheir buildings are owned by a freeholder, who charges them a small annual rent, plus money for repairs - which can mean huge bills for issues such as cladding.\n\nAfter three years, contractors say some of the flammable material on this building may be to difficult to remove\n\n\"The buck keeps being passed between each body,\" the flat owner says. \"What are they trying to do to leaseholders? Are they really trying to bankrupt us?\"\n\nSome residents have organised their own waking watch to reduce the cost, with volunteers covering many of the shifts, sometimes in the face of opposition from insurers.\n\nRitu says she would rush home from work to start her 19:00 to midnight shift. A retired woman in her block would take some of the night shifts, staying up from midnight to 07:00 three nights a week to watch for signs of a blaze.\n\nA fire alarm can be fitted for the same average cost as just seven weeks of waking watch, government research suggests. But in practice it rarely works out that way: many leaseholders are required by the National Fire Chiefs Council to maintain patrols so they can help evacuate the building in the event of a fire.\n\nRitu now has eight highly sensitive smoke and heat detectors scattered around her one-and-a-half bedroom flat, frequently setting off false alarms.\n\nBut fitting the system - which cost leaseholders £120,000 - only allowed residents to reduce their waking watch from two people to one, still leaving them a £12,000 monthly bill between them.\n\nMatt Browne and Lizzie Bennett are among thousands of flat owners who discovered in the last year they lived in a dangerous block that would require 24-hour fire patrols when they tried to sell.\n\nTheir estate agent told them their building, in Birmingham city centre, had failed its external wall fire review, known as EWS1.\n\nBirmingham flat owners Lizzie Bennett and Matt Browne say the costs are \"unfathomable\"\n\nThe review process - demanded by lenders - was extended to many more buildings in January this year with a change of government guidance. Blocks that fail because of dangerous cladding, like Matt and Lizzie's, are valued at £0, cannot be mortgaged and are almost impossible to sell.\n\nSince then, their building's service charge has risen from £950 every six months to £4,629 to pay for a £17,000-a-month waking watch, a £150,000 alarm system (not yet installed) and a 300% increase in insurance bills.\n\n\"It's unfathomable, you can't really wrap your head around the idea that it costs this much to live in a one-bedroom flat,\" says Lizzie, a primary school teacher.\n\nShe has suffered anxiety and sleeplessness over the mounting costs, but says: \"It's been a constant battle of trying to keep it together because I can't show emotion at work, I have to be there for the children.\"\n\nLike many leaseholders, they hope their building wins some of the £1.6bn of government funding to remove dangerous cladding when applications close this month. But Matt says the Building Safety Fund is \"nowhere near big enough\" to meet demand.\n\nThe 26-year-old video producer has been exhausted by the process after six months. \"I know people have been fighting this for years already,\" he says. \"We are at a stage now where in the next year you will start seeing people go bankrupt and people will start losing their homes.\"\n\nIn 2019, solicitor Peter Tolson signed up to help run his block's management company in order to push forward some minor repairs.\n\nHe's seen the impact the charges have had on fellow residents - some have lost their jobs in the pandemic - since the flats in east London failed their EWS1 earlier this year.\n\n\"We had people literally banging on our doors, crying, banging the door down at this thought of paying a grand or two grand a month to pay for waking watch on top of insurance costs,\" he says.\n\nThey have since reduced the costs by arguing they did not need such extensive patrol coverage. But residents have nicknamed the waking watch \"the Wombles\" and don't regard them as a serious safety measure.\n\nResidents complain the wardens just sit around, Peter says. He questions the likelihood of them being in just in the right spot at the right time when a fire is visible behind a flat door with time still to evacuate.\n\nPeter Tolson said residents who lost their jobs in the pandemic have been in tears at the bills\n\nMeanwhile, each week more flat owners discover they are in the same situation. Olivia Hill, a PhD student, helped form the Sheffield Cladding Action Group after discovering her block had failed its assessment last month.\n\nShe says residents face an uncomfortable choice between protection from the dangers of fire and letting strangers into their building. \"I live on my own, I'm a young woman, it's easy to feel unsafe,\" Olivia says.\n\nHaving done all the due diligence when she purchased it last year, she was shocked to discover potentially deadly faults are still being discovered in buildings more than three years after Grenfell.\n\n\"It's been going on so long and potentially there's no end in sight,\" Olivia says. \"It could keep going on that long for us.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said waking watches should only be used \"as an interim measure\", adding: \"They are not a substitute for the swift removal of unsafe cladding.\n\n\"Where leaseholders have concerns about waking watch costs they should speak to their building owner, who is responsible for putting safety measures in place. Leaseholders can also challenge excessive costs at the First Tier Tribunal.\"\n\nThe government on Thursday announced a £30m fund to help pay for the installation of common fire alarms in affected buildings, to end what it called the \"scandal\" of excessive waking watch costs.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' call for people to stop making summer holiday plans has been branded \"puerile and nonsensical\" by a senior travel industry professional.\n\n\"We're talking about the end of May or June, which is a long way off,\" said Sue Ockwell of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO).\n\nMr Shapps said there was too much uncertainty because of Covid.\n\nBut Ms Ockwell said booking breaks gave hope to holidaymakers and the industry.\n\n\"It's something for people to look forward to and to keep travel companies going,\" she told the BBC.\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Please don't go ahead and book holidays. I simply don't know the answer to the question of where we'll be up to this summer.\n\n\"It's too early to give that information. The best advice to people is: do nothing at this stage.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later said it was \"just too early for people to be certain about what we'll be able to do this summer\".\n\nHe added that he understood \"why people want to make plans now, but we're just going to have to be a little bit more patient\".\n\nMr Shapps' comments have been seen by many in the travel sector as dealing a blow to hopes of a swift recovery for tourism.\n\nFor Ms Ockwell, they are symptomatic of a government that has failed to listen to her and her colleagues.\n\n\"It's highly frustrating. The government doesn't compare notes with anyone in the travel industry,\" she said. \"They could save getting a lot of egg on their faces if they did.\"\n\nAITO represents about 120 specialist and independent tour operators in the UK.\n\nMs Ockwell said the industry understood \"the scale of the challenges\" facing the government over coronavirus, but added that tourism brought great benefits to the UK economy and was in need of sector-specific help.\n\n\"Holidays bring in a lot of money, holidays employ a lot of people and they're good for us,\" she said.\n\n\"We just want to be allowed to trade. That's all we're asking,\" she added.\n\n\"We're not forcing people to make bookings. We want people to be allowed to make their own common-sense judgements.\"\n\nRyanair's Michael O'Leary is \"optimistic\" British people will be allowed to travel from May onwards\n\nBrian Strutton, general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"Airlines are drowning but, rather than throwing us a life raft, the transport secretary has just thrown a bucket of cold water at us.\"\n\nAnd trade organisation Abta said waiting until the UK's vaccination programme was completed before allowing people to travel abroad meant \"we'll lose another summer season to the pandemic\".\n\nSeveral big travel companies, including Tui and Ryanair, have said they expect to see a strong rebound in bookings this summer.\n\nRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC he remained \"optimistic\" that British people would be allowed to travel from May onwards.\n\n\"Many companies will not see their way through next winter if we go through a second summer of no bookings,\" he added.\n• None UK holidays: What are the rules?", "Princess Eugenie, the Queen's grand-daughter, has given birth to a baby boy, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nThe royal baby, who is the Queen's ninth great-grandchild and 11th in line to the throne, was born at 08:55 GMT on Tuesday at the Portland Hospital in central London, weighing 8lbs 1oz.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said the Queen and Eugenie's parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, were \"delighted\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said Jack Brooksbank was at his wife's side for the birth.\n\nThe baby's name has not yet been announced.\n\nThe palace said in its statement: \"The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Mr and Mrs George Brooksbank have been informed and are delighted with the news.\"\n\nIt added: \"Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall tweeted their congratulations beside a picture of the new parents' wedding day.\n\nPrincess Eugenie posted a picture on Instagram following the birth\n\nPrince Andrew, the Duke of York, and his ex-wife Sarah became step-grandparents last year when their eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice married.\n\nAs 11th in line to the throne, the newborn takes the place of the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward - the Queen's youngest son - who has moved down to 12th place.\n\nEven though his mother is a princess, Master Brooksbank will not be an HRH nor hold a title, unless the Queen decides otherwise. This is because he was born down the female line of the Royal Family.\n\nThe new line of succession to the throne is:\n\nThe couple got married in 2018\n\nEugenie, 30, and Jack Brooksbank, 34, married in October 2018 at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nRoyal Family members, including the Queen and Prince Philip, were joined at the ceremony by 850 guests, including singer Robbie Williams and model Cara Delevingne.", "Tianwen-1 took a selfie after launch using a free-flying camera\n\nChina says it has successfully put its Tianwen-1 mission in orbit around Mars.\n\nIt's the first time the country has managed to get a spacecraft to the Red Planet and comes a day after the United Arab Emirates accomplished the same feat.\n\nTianwen-1, or \"Questions to Heaven\", comprises an orbiter and a rover.\n\nEngineers will bide their time before despatching the wheeled robot to the surface but the expectation is that this will happen in May or June.\n\nWednesday's orbit insertion underlines again the rapid progress China's space programme is making.\n\nIt follows December's impressive mission to retrieve rock and soil samples from Earth's Moon - by any measure a very complex undertaking.\n\nTianwen-1's mission, particularly the surface element, will be no less challenging.\n\nIts five-tonne spacecraft stack, made up of orbiter and rover, was launched from Wenchang spaceport in July, and travelled nearly half a billion km to rendezvous with the Red Planet.\n\nEngineers had planned a 14-minute braking burn on the orbiter's 3,000-newton thruster, with the expectation that this would reduce its 23km/s velocity sufficiently to allow capture by Mars' gravity.\n\nThe manoeuvre was automated; it had to be. Radio commands currently take 11 minutes to traverse the 190 million km now separating Earth from Mars.\n\nIt should have put Tianwen-1 in an initial large ellipse that comes in as close as 400km from the surface and out as far as 180,000km.\n\nThis will be trimmed over time to become tighter and more circularised.\n\nArtwork: The Tianwen-1 rover looks a lot like the US robots of the 2000s\n\nIn contrast to the Emiratis' live TV coverage on Tuesday, China chose to report the orbit insertion at Mars only after it had occurred.\n\nIt was clear early on, however, that events were proceeding as they should because amateur radio enthusiasts could listen across Tianwen-1's signals, and they could see each milestone in the manoeuvre was being achieved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How long does it take to get to Mars and why is it so difficult?\n\nChina is following the strategy employed by the Americans for their successful Viking landers in the mid-1970s. The idea then was to make orbit first and only later send a robot to the surface.\n\nA period of reconnaissance will now follow but Tianwen-1's primary choice for a touchdown is a flat plain within the Utopia impact basin just north of Mars' equator.\n\nThe rover, which has yet to be named, looks a lot like the US space agency's (Nasa) Spirit and Opportunity rovers from the 2000s. It weighs some 240kg and is powered by fold-out solar panels.\n\nA tall mast carries cameras to take pictures and aid navigation; five additional instruments will help assess the mineralogy of local rocks and look for any water-ice.\n\nA key experiment will be the ground-penetrating radar, which should be able to sense geological layers at depths of many metres.\n\nTianwen-1 took this image of Mars from a distance of 2 million km\n\nThis surface investigation is really only half the mission, however, because the orbiter that has been shepherding the rover will also study the planet, using a suite of seven remote-sensing instruments.\n\nLike previous satellites, this spacecraft will observe characteristics of the high atmosphere and examine the structures and composition of the surface. High- and medium-resolution cameras should return some impressive pictures.\n\nTinawen-1 is one of three missions arriving at Mars this February.\n\nThe UAE's Hope probe made it safely into orbit on Tuesday. Next week, Nasa will attempt to put another of its big rovers on the surface.\n\nChina impressed with its Moon sample return mission in December", "That's your lot from Prime Minister's Questions for another week.\n\nThere is no PMQs next week, as MPs are in recess.\n\nHere is a quick recap of what happened today, to tide you over:\n\nSir Keir Starmer asked whether various Covid business support schemes will be extended - but the PM said we'll have to wait a bit longer to find out.\n\nThe Labour leader also pressed the PM on borders policy, again urging hotel quarantine in England to be extended to arrivals from all countries.\n\nBut Boris Johnson defended his current policy, calling it \"amongst the toughest in the world”.\n\nIn answer to backbench MP questions, the prime minister said the government is doing \"everything we can\" to get England's schoolchildren back after 8 March.\n\nAnd he said people \"will have to get used to the idea\" of re-vaccination in the autumn to protect against new coronavirus variants.\n\nYou can keep abreast of all of the developments at Westminster and beyond on our politics page.", "The World Health Organization recommends using the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca even in countries tackling new variants of coronavirus.\n\nSome new forms of the virus appear to make vaccines less effective.\n\nThe WHO also says the vaccine can be used in people aged over 65, which some countries have advised against.\n\nSpacing out the two doses, as is happening in the UK, makes the vaccine more effective, it advises.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is seen as the \"vaccine for the world\" as it is cheap, can be mass produced and is stored in a standard fridge.\n\nHowever, it has attracted controversy about its effectiveness against new variants, whether it should be used in the elderly and how far apart the doses should be given, due to a lack of data.\n\nThe WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, known as Sage, has been scrutinising evidence from vaccine trials.\n\nIts interim recommendations say the vaccine is 63% effective overall.\n\nHowever, early data from trials in South Africa showed the vaccine was offering \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease in young people.\n\nThe WHO's director of immunisation, Dr Katherine O'Brien, said the South African study was \"inconclusive\" and it was \"plausible\" the vaccine would still prevent severe disease.\n\nA variant in the country has acquired mutations that seem to help it evade immunity from vaccines and from previous infections.\n\nHowever Oxford scientists still expect their vaccine to prevent people from becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 and needing hospital treatment.\n\n\"There is no reason not to recommend its use even in countries that have circulation of the variant,\" said Dr Alejandro Cravioto, the chairman of WHO's Sage.\n\nThere has been criticism about a lack of data on the effectiveness of the vaccine in the elderly with some countries, including France and Germany, advising against using it in the over 65s.\n\nThe WHO said even though there was a small number of over 65s in the trials, other studies showed older people had a nearly identical immune response to younger adults so the vaccine should be used.\n\nThe scientific advisers also said giving two doses eight-12 weeks apart increased the vaccine's effectiveness and provided greater protection.\n\nInitially, the WHO had recommended a gap of up to six weeks between doses, only in exceptional circumstances.\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert, the chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, said: \"It is excellent news that the WHO has recommended use of the Sars CoV-2 vaccine first produced in Oxford.\n\n\"This decision paves the way to more widespread use of the vaccine to protect people against Covid-19 and gain control of the pandemic.\"\n\nBoris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, said he welcomed the WHO's support for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, and for the longer interval between doses.\n\nIn the UK, more than 13 million people have now received a vaccine to protect against Covid-19. On Wednesday, another 1,001 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test for coronavirus.\n\nGlobally, there have been more than 2.3 million deaths with the disease during the pandemic", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff at the DVLA headquarters, which has seen more than 500 Covid cases since September, are to be balloted for strike action.\n\nThe PCS union said the DVLA had been \"forcing\" staff to go into the Swansea office despite the infections.\n\nIt comes after MP Geraint Davies called for the UK government to reduce the number of workers at the centre.\n\nBoris Johnson said at Prime Minister's Questions all staff who can work from home, were working from home.\n\nThe DVLA rejected claims it is \"an unsafe place to work\".\n\nThe ballot will be open from 18 February until 11 March, the union said.\n\nBoth Mr Davies and the PCS Union said 250 people were working on the site last March, but that number is now in the thousands.\n\nIt was announced last month that one member of staff had died with coronavirus.\n\nPCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA have insisted over 2,000 staff members come into work every day, despite having the biggest outbreak of Covid in an office workplace within the UK.\"\n\nHe added management had shown a \"cruel indifference\" to staff's concerns.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak was declared at the offices in the Llansamlet area of Swansea in December after 352 cases in the space of four months. The total number of Covid cases at the site now stands at 526, according to Mr Davies.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's questions, Labour MP for Swansea West, Mr Davies, said thousands were now working at the site \"facing a more infectious and widespread disease\".\n\n\"Yesterday 90 people were sent home following the latest outbreak of coronavirus just before the weekend,\" he told the Commons.\n\n\"Given that BT are on standby to install home secure technology to allow home working, will the prime minister meet with me and the union ahead of the strike ballot next week so that workplace numbers can be reduced until the vaccine is rolled out to keep people safe and avoid an unnecessary strike?\"\n\nThe DVLA later said only 37 staff had been sent home on Tuesday after one staff member had tested positive.\n\nIt added this had not been declared an outbreak by Public Health Wales.\n\nThe prime minister responded that \"to the best of my knowledge\" out of the workforce of 6,000 there were \"thankfully\" only nine cases of Covid now and three of those individuals were currently working from home.\n\nMr Johnson said that the DVLA was pursuing a working from home strategy.\n\nHe added the UK government was \"rolling out lateral flow tests\" but said the \"long term solution\" was vaccinating people.\n\nA DVLA spokesperson said: \"We care deeply about the safety of DVLA staff and we fully reject the claims made that DVLA is an unsafe place to work. Rigorous protocols are in place to ensure a Covid-secure workplace.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the trade union feel that industrial action is justified, not only because of the current low rate of positive cases among DVLA staff, but also because we are actively working with PCS on further steps that can be taken to keep staff safe on site.\"", "Twitter has posted record revenues for the last quarter of 2020, capping off what its chief executive said was \"an extraordinary year\" for the platform.\n\nThe social messaging platform said revenue grew 28% to $1.29bn (£930m) compared to the last quarter of 2019.\n\nIn January, Twitter banned Donald Trump from the platform which analysts felt could have an impact this quarter.\n\n\"We're a platform that is obviously much larger than any one topic or any one account,\" boss Jack Dorsey said.\n\nTwitter's fourth-quarter results beat analysts' expectations for earnings and revenue, but failed to meet them for user growth.\n\nOn 8 January, Twitter decided to permanently suspend the account of former President Donald Trump after the riots in Washington DC.\n\nThe removal of the avid Twitter user has prompted fears that it could affect the platform's popularity for the current quarter.\n\nIn response, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said users are able to follow more than 6,000 different topics, explaining that those topics drive growth.\n\nHe added that 80% of Twitter's audience is outside the US.\n\n\"We have a global service. We are also not just dependent upon just news and politics being what drives Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nTwitter's total \"monetisable\" daily active users grew by 5 million from the third quarter to 192 million. While this was up 26% compared to a year ago, it fell below analysts' expectations of 193.5 million.\n\nThe company warned that its total costs and expenses would rise at least 25% this year as it plans to raise headcount by 20%. It ended 2020 with more than 5,500 employees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones looks at the big tech questions for 2021", "Sister Andre said she wasn't afraid of having Covid\n\nA French nun who is Europe's oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday.\n\nLucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus on 16 January but didn't develop any symptoms.\n\nShe told local media she \"didn't even realise I had it\".\n\nShe isolated separately from other residents in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, but is now considered fully recovered.\n\nSister Andre, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, is now looking forward to celebrating her birthday on Thursday - although she is going to mark the occasion with a smaller group of residents than usual.\n\n\"She has been very lucky,\" David Tavella, spokesman for the Sainte Catherine Labouré retirement home, said.\n\nHe told Var Matin newspaper: \"She didn't ask me about her health, but about her habits. For example, she wanted to know if meal or bedtime schedules would change.\n\n\"She showed no fear of the disease. On the other hand, she was very concerned about the other residents.\"\n\nSister Andre was born on 11 February 1904. As well as being Europe's oldest person, she is also the second-oldest living person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group's (GRG) World Supercentenarian Rankings List.\n\nWhen asked by French broadcaster BFM if she was scared of having Covid, Sister Andre said: \"No, I wasn't scared, because I wasn't scared to die.\n\n\"I'm happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else - to join my big brother, and my grandfather and my grandmother.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A group of investors is trying to pressure Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, into selling healthier food and drink amid a growing obesity problem.\n\nInvestors led by pressure group ShareAction will ask shareholders to vote for their plan.\n\nTesco is due to hold its annual meeting in the summer.\n\nThe company insists that it already has a plan to make healthy and sustainable food available.\n\nThe UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world and obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death from a coronavirus infection, according to Public Health England.\n\nIf the investor group is successful, it will force Tesco to reveal more about the share of sales it makes on healthier food, and publish annual updates on how well it is improving that share.\n\nThe investors says rivals Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer have made similar commitments to selling healthier food and that Tesco, with a UK market share of just under 27%, should follow suit.\n\nIgnacio Vazquez, senior manager at ShareAction, said: \"As the UK's largest food retailer, Tesco's actions are of systemic importance in tackling obesity. But its prime market position has not yet translated into leadership on this critical issue.\n\n\"We hope that Tesco's board will endorse the resolution and grasp the opportunity to help build a healthier UK post-Covid, while also improving its financial sustainability in the long-term.\"\n\nShareAction praised recent Tesco initiatives, which showed that price cuts on fruit and vegetables raised sales, and that removing chocolate from prominent promotion spaces cut consumption.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said: \"We are working hard to make it easy for our customers to make healthy choices, and we have set very clear targets on health and sustainability, published in our Little Helps Plan.\n\n\"Our reformulation programme has already removed more than 50 billion calories from our products since 2018; our 'helpful little swaps' events offer healthier alternatives to family favourites at the same price; and we have given away more than 100 million pieces of free fruit to children.\n\n\"We have also announced a target to increase sales of plant-based meat alternatives by 300% by 2025, and were the first retailer to set a target of this kind.\"\n\nBackers of the move include Robeco Institutional Asset Management, JO Hambro Capital Management's UK Dynamic Fund and Epworth Investment Management, owned by the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church. Together, the backers manage £140bn of funds.", "No 10 has defended spending taxpayers' money on photographers after snaps of Boris Johnson's dog playing in the snow were uploaded onto Flickr.\n\nThe shots of Dilyn in the No 10 garden are among the most recent images on the photo-sharing site, alongside one of another famous resident Larry the cat.\n\nThe gallery also features pictures of the PM hosting meetings and ministers such as Matt Hancock and Priti Patel.\n\nNo 10 said the photos \"documented the work\" of government and its ministers.\n\nBut Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner criticised the expenditure at a time when thousands of people were losing their jobs and facing hardship due to the pandemic.\n\n\"Millions of hard-pressed families face a £1,000 Universal Credit cut and the government is refusing to extend free school meals during half term next week, but there is apparently no limit on the budget for a coterie of vanity photographers for Boris Johnson,\" she tweeted.\n\nA No 10 spokesman confirmed there were three photographers on the government payroll, who are being paid for by the taxpayer. Two of these are civil servants and the other a special adviser.\n\nHe said the snappers were \"a government resource\" and the most recent recruit was working across a range of departments, taking photos of cabinet ministers undertaking official government business.\n\nA recent image of Larry the No 10 cat also features in the album\n\nAlong with more traditional images of ministers in their offices\n\n\"They document the work not just of the prime minister but of the whole cabinet,\" he said, adding that their pictures were made available to the media free of charge.\n\nNo 10's flickr album includes recent images of the PM working in the Cabinet Room in No 10, Home Secretary Priti Patel visiting a vaccination centre and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab meeting an Israeli minister.\n\nAmong this rather dry pictorial record of day-to-day government activities, there were four more unusual images of Dilyn frolicking in a snowy No 10 garden whilst chewing a stick.\n\nNo 10 later removed one of the photos after being told the contact details for Carrie Symonds, the PM's fiancee, could be seen on Dilyn's collar.\n\nDilyn arrived in Downing Street shortly after the couple took up residence in July 2019. The Jack Russell-cross, now nearly two years old, was rescued after being abandoned by puppy farmers.\n\nHe became a regular feature on the 2019 election campaign trail when Ms Symonds took him canvassing.\n\nNo 10's Flickr album contains more than 10,000 images dating back to May 2010, when David Cameron became prime minister and hosted the famous \"Rose Garden\" press conference with then deputy Nick Clegg.", "The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Clarence House has said.\n\nIt comes a month after the Queen and Prince Philip received their coronavirus jabs.\n\nPrince Charles, 72, and Camilla, 73, are in the 70 and over age bracket who are being urged to come forward if they have not yet received the vaccine.\n\nThe royals are among 12.6 million people in the UK to have received a least one dose of a vaccine so far.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine Prince Charles and Camilla received or whether they were vaccinated together.\n\nThree generations of royals were last seen together at a festive carol service in December\n\nPrince Charles tested positive for coronavirus in March last year after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall was also tested at the time but did not have the virus.\n\nIn June, the Prince of Wales revealed to NHS staff that he had not fully regained his sense of smell and taste two months after having the disease.\n\nIt is not fully known what level of protection is offered from a previous coronavirus infection or how long this lasts for.\n\nOver-70s are among the 15 million people being vaccinated in the first phase of the UK's immunisation programme.\n\nThe government has set the target of vaccinating all of these people by 15 February.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by NHS England and NHS Improvement\n\nSeveral high-profile figures have also publicly revealed they have received the coronavirus jab.\n\nSir Elton John, 73, and Sir Michael Caine, 87, appear in a NHS advert - released on Wednesday - which urges the public to get vaccinated.\n\nThe video aims to \"show others that getting the life-saving jab is easy and safe\", according to a statement.\n\nIt shows the pair - who have both had their vaccines - appearing to audition for a part in an advert promoting the jab.", "Black people in England have been no more likely than white people to die of Covid-19 in the second wave of the pandemic, official data shows.\n\nDuring the first wave, people belonging to ethnic minorities experienced higher death rates than white people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that, for black people, this gap had closed.\n\nBut Bangladeshi and Pakistani people still experienced three times the risk.\n\nResearchers from the ONS, University of Oxford, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and University of Leicester said widespread reports that people belonging to ethnic minorities were disproportionately affected by Covid-19 may have raised awareness.\n\nBut for South Asian people, particularly from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds, the raised mortality rate remained \"alarming\".\n\nThe study used official data on 28.9 million people aged between 30 and 100 living in private households in England between the first wave (from January until the end of August 2020) and the second wave (from September to the end of December 2020).\n\nIn the first wave, people from a black African background had the highest age-standardised Covid-19 mortality rates - with the rate for black African men almost five times higher than the rate for white British men.\n\nBut in the second wave, black people were not at higher risk of dying than white people, as they had been during the first wave.\n\nThe researchers said this showed \"ethnic inequalities in Covid-19 mortality can be addressed\".\n\nHowever, South Asian people had up to about a five-times greater risk of death with coronavirus compared with white British people - ranging from a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of dying for Pakistani men to 1.6 times higher for Indian women.\n\nThe findings were presented in a preprint but have not been formally published yet.\n\nA number of different factors have been suggested for why some ethnic groups have been hit harder than others by the pandemic:\n\nThese factors will be different for different groups - but they also appeared to change during the pandemic.\n\nDuring the first wave, \"geographical factors explained a large proportion of the differences in Covid-19 mortality,\" said the team, lead by Vahé Nafilyan at the ONS and Nazrul Islam at the University of Oxford.\n\nIn other words, people from minority ethnic groups were more likely to live in areas harder hit by the virus.\n\nBut this was not the case in the second wave - and even after they adjusted for factors like health status, income and deprivation, the risk of dying of Covid remained \"substantially higher\" for people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds.\n\nThis suggested, the paper said, that \"focusing on treating underlying conditions, although important, may not be enough in reducing the inequalities in Covid-19 mortality.\"\n\nIt said \"a focused public health policy as well as community mobilisation and a participatory public health campaign involving community leaders may help reduce the existing and widening inequalities.\"", "Trump wants to live at Mar-a-Lago, as an employee\n\nTrump is facing legal troubles in Washington, and at home in Palm Beach, Florida, too. He bought his ocean-side property, an estate called Mar-a-Lago, in 1985, and spent part of his winters there. Then, after leaving the White House, he moved in. Some of his neighbours want him out, saying he will bring down property values, and have talked about evicting him. They say an agreement that was reached nearly 30 years ago, one that turned the estate into a private club, does not allow anyone to live there on a permanent basis unless they work on the premises. Trump, through a lawyer, has argued that he should be allowed to stay, as an employee. The issue is being discussed at a Palm Beach Town Council meeting on Tuesday. One of his former employees, Wes Blackman, a former project director at Mar-a-Lago, says that Trump will see the designation as an employee not as a demotion, but as an opportunity, a loophole that will allow him to stay where he is. The designation as an employee is \"convenient and expedient\", says Blackman. \"It gets him out of a tight situation.\" Besides, says Blackman, the fight with his neighbours in Florida is not the biggest problem Trump is facing today. Over the course of the day, Blackman has been watching the impeachment trial in Washington, wondering how his old boss will fare.", "Last updated on .From the section Wrexham\n\nHollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have completed their takeover of Wrexham.\n\nDeadpool actor Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator McElhenney have invested an immediate £2m into the National League club.\n\nBoosting women's football is also among their plans for the Wrexham area.\n\n\"It is a special day for the two of us to become the latest stewards in the long and storied history of Wrexham AFC,\" said Reynolds and McElhenney.\n\n\"Together with the players, the staff, the fans and the local community, we can now pursue our goal to grow the team and return it to the EFL in front of increased attendances, and in an improved stadium, while making a positive difference to the wider community in Wrexham.\n\n\"Wrexham AFC is only in a position to thrive because of the incredible efforts of the Wrexham Supporters Trust. Their members are a fitting reflection of the integrity and spirit of the town and they will always have an important role at the club.\"\n\nThe pair signalled the announcement in advance by adding the letter W to the start of their names on social media accounts. Reynolds, who has over 17 million followers on Twitter, and McElhenny also used the platform to add their own brand of humour to the completed takeover.\n\nIn November Wrexham Supporters Trust voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal, which has since gained approval from football authorities and the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nReynolds and McElhenney have pledged four guiding principles to protect the club's heritage, reinforce community values, help promote the club at home and abroad and create a winning culture.\n\n\"The work has already begun with Gemma Owen and Steve Dale in the community team on a new women's football initiative,\" they added.\n\n\"We are also committed to investing in current and identifying future members of the first-team squad as we build towards a promotion challenge.\n\n\"In addition, we are in the process of developing an outstanding team off the field by combining the know-how of the committed club staff and volunteers with new hires and experienced advisors. Our CEO search is progressing and we expect to have someone in place before the end of the season.\n\n\"All of these people will help us create the kind of commercial opportunities that the third oldest club in the world deserves, and we will reinvest that revenue back into Wrexham AFC and the community.\n\n\"2020 was a difficult year and there are likely to be further public health challenges in the months ahead, but we hope to be cheering the team on from the stands as soon as it's safe to do so in 2021.\"\n\nThe takeover was completed on the night the club won 2-1 at Altrincham to climb into the play-off zone.\n\nContracts were exchanged in January but McElhenney and Reynolds donated money to the club to strengthen the squad before the transfer deadline while waiting for the takeover to be approved by the FCA.\n\nFormer Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore, who has taken on an informal role advising the actors, said that they are \"in it for the long term\".\n\nMoore said he received assurances about the \"authentic and genuine\" intentions behind the deal during conversations with the screen stars.\n\nThe completion of the takeover has received an overwhelmingly positive reaction from supporters.\n\nOne fan, based in America, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he believes the investment will improve the team and raise the profile of his home town.\n\nDyfed Avalon-Thomas, originally from Wrexham but now living in Pullman, Washington State told the programme:\n\n\"I think they'll attract the higher calibre of player, people who maybe wouldn't have wanted to come up to Wrexham are going to be tempted now.\n\n\"This is literally putting Wrexham on the map, I no longer have to say I'm from North Wales slash near Liverpool, I can just say I'm from Wrexham.\"\n\nEarly 2020: Wrexham director Spencer Harris is approached by an intermediary about a potential change in ownership of the club.\n\nSummer 2020: Harris and his fellow directors agree to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the interested parties, not realising the need for secrecy was due to the prospective investors being Hollywood stars.\n\n23 September 2020: Members of the Wrexham Supporters Trust (WST) vote overwhelmingly to allow talks that could lead to an entire takeover of the club to go ahead at a special general meeting.\n\n24 September 2020: Reynolds and McElhenney are announced by Wrexham as the potential investors.\n\n8 November 2020: Reynolds and McElhenney present their vision for the club to the Wrexham Supporters Trust over Zoom, saying they want to turn the club into \"a global force\".\n\n16 November 2020: Over 98% of supporters vote in favour of the takeover.\n\n22 November 2020: Wrexham boss Dean Keates reveals he has spoken to Reynolds and McElhenney and predicts they will \"take the club to the next level\".\n\n30 November 2020: Former Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore says he is to work as an adviser at Wrexham.\n\n15 December 2020: Moore tells BBC Sport Wales that Reynolds and McElhenney are \"in it for the long haul\".\n\n19 January 2021: Wrexham announce that the board have concluded negotiation of the Share Purchase Agreement and have exchanged contracts.\n\n27 January 2021: Reynolds and McElhenney donate money to strengthen the Wrexham squad despite the takeover not being complete.\n\n5 February 2021:The Financial Conduct Authority approves the proposed takeover of Wrexham by McElhenney and Reynolds.", "Spider crab is to be sold as Cornish King crab\n\nFishermen are to rename two of their biggest exports in a bid to attract British consumers after post-Brexit difficulties selling to the EU.\n\nMegrim sole is to be sold as Cornish sole, with spider crab being rebranded as Cornish King crab.\n\nIt is being driven by the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation (CFPO) after research with chefs and consumers.\n\nPaul Trebilcock from the CFPO said: \"There is something about the names that has negative connotations.\"\n\nBoth species primarily rely on exports to Europe, which he explained that \"in the current climate is not a pleasant experience\".\n\n\"The two species are particularly under-loved in this country but really popular with some of our export markets.\"\n\nPadstow is one fishing town that could benefit from the name changes\n\nEach year about 1,000 tonnes of megrim sole is brought into Newlyn, Cornwall's biggest fish market, with 98% exported.\n\nAbout 85% of spider crab is exported, mainly to Spain.\n\nTrade has been disrupted this year by the extra paperwork and border checks required after Brexit.\n\nChef Jack Stein said megrim sole had a taste similar to plaice\n\nMr Trebilcock said: \"Our investigation revealed that simply by calling it Cornish sole, straight away more people were willing to to try it and were more interested in finding out where it came from.\"\n\nJohnny Murt, a shell fisherman off Padstow, said: \"It can only be a good thing.\"\n\n\"It is a hard sell but if the rebranding can just get people to taste it, they will immediately realise just how good spider crab is,\" he said.\n\nStein's chef director Jack Stein is the son of restaurateur Rick Stein\n\nChef Jack Stein agreed and said spider crab and megrim sole were both \"good value and delicious\".\n\nHe said spider crab was very sustainable with \"amazing quality meat and there is just so much of it in the summer\" but lots of it was sold in the EU.\n\nSimilarly megrim sole had a \"lovely taste\" similar to plaice, he said.\n\n\"With a bit of a rebrand and a bit of a publicity drive we might be able to eat more of it in this country,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pippa Hamshaw says the costs and worry of fire-safety regulations have left her in tears\n\nThousands of flat owners are facing large bills for fire-safety improvements demanded following the Grenfell disaster. Labour says they're not getting enough help, but the government insists it's taking appropriate action.\n\n\"The building should never have been signed off in the first place,\" says Pippa Hamshaw. \"The flats are all valued at nothing. Mortgage companies won't offer mortgages on any of them.\"\n\nPippa, 31, is also expecting a £70,000 bill for her share of renovations on her block of flats in Leeds.\n\n\"I go from being really angry with the situation to being in tears,\" she tells BBC 5 live's Naga Munchetty. \"It's taken over my life.\"\n\nPippa is one of thousands of people facing large payments for safety renovations required following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, in west London, in which 72 people died when flames spread via combustible exterior cladding.\n\nMany fire-safety concerns have come up in inspections since then, but those not relating to cladding - such as missing fire breaks and flammable balconies - are not covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nAnd a report by MPs has said that the £1.6bn the government has allocated for removing dangerous cladding is insufficient - with the real cost nearer £15bn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"Three and a half years after Grenfell, most people would not believe this is the situation we are in\"\n\nFixing safety faults has seen costs surge for leaseholders like Pippa, whose monthly service charge has risen from £240 to £630.\n\n\"I just feel totally let down by the whole system,\" she says. \"The government could do something right now... I feel like everyone's winning bar the leaseholder.\"\n\nAfter Grenfell, round-the-clock fire patrols known as \"waking watches\" were put in place in hundreds of buildings, costing groups of leaseholders tens of thousands of pounds every month.\n\n\"I don't feel any safer,\" says Pippa. \"I don't see how they are going to be much use. They literally have to go and knock on every door of the flats to tell you that the building is on fire. We've got 10 floors in my property. Are they really going to be able to knock on every door?\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is accusing ministers of offering \"half-baked solutions\" to the problems exposed by Grenfell and has called for a national cladding taskforce, modelled on a similar body set up in Australia.\n\nHe argues this would \"drive forward\" work on funding the removal of dangerous cladding, while pursuing \"those responsible for the cladding scandal\", protecting residents from costs and ensuring they can sell their properties.\n\nJenny Garrett, who bought her flat in Sheffield in 2019, says that, when the survey was carried out, \"absolutely nothing\" wrong was found. Only later did she find out the building's cladding was flammable.\n\n\"The whole situation is quite overwhelming because there's the issue of feeling unsafe,\" she says. \"On top of that, there's the issue about the financial pressure and worrying about what's coming down the road.\"\n\nResidents have seen insurance costs on buildings with fire safety problems rocket.\n\nFlat owners in one Cheshire development had their combined premiums rise from £34,000 in 2018 to more than £500,000. Some are now paying almost £2,000 a year for building insurance.\n\nMeanwhile, data released last month shows that cladding removal and repair work has been completed on only 58% of social housing blocks and 30% of private sector buildings.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers says the slow pace of getting buildings fixed means means high policy prices reflect risks accurately.\n\n\"For the last two or three years, a lot of our lives have been completely ruined,\" says Giles, a flat owner from Manchester. \"We're living in fear and limbo. All we've been told so far is the government wants us to pay sums running into the tens of thousands of pounds, simply to make our homes safe.\n\n\"It's all got even worse over the last year, because we're trapped in our homes for 23 hours a day during the pandemic. We almost feel safer outside than inside.\"\n\nPeople attended a commemoration to mark the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2020\n\n\"We all want to see homes made safer, as quickly as possible... we are making good progress on remediating unsafe homes,\" a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman says.\n\n\"Leaseholders shouldn't have to worry about the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects in high-rise buildings that they didn't cause - and should be protected from large-scale remediation costs wherever possible,\" he adds.\n\n\"The Building Safety Bill is the appropriate legislative mechanism for addressing these issues and will be brought forward in due course.\"\n\nThe House of Commons backed a Labour motion calling for further action on cladding on Monday by 263 votes to none.\n\nThe Conservative leadership asked its MPs to abstain and the result is not binding on the government.", "The accusations were made as part of an employment tribunal claim\n\nThe head of influential dance label R&S Records discriminated against black and female artists, according to a former employee.\n\nLabel founder Renaat Vandepapeliere dismissed music by some ethnic minority artists as \"meaningless\" and claimed the history of techno was \"very white\", said former talent scout Raj Chaudhuri.\n\nThe label said there was \"no truth\" to his \"spurious\" and \"damaging\" claims.\n\n\"Mr Renaat Vandepapeliere is certainly not racist and everyone at R&S Records embraces equality,\" said R&S co-founder Sabine Maes, who is also Mr Vandepapeliere's wife, in a statement.\n\nThe statement characterised Mr Chaudhuri as a \"freelancer who became disgruntled\", and accused him of trying to \"blackmail\" the label for £10,000.\n\n\"There is simply no truth in anything he says,\" it added.\n\nLaunched in Belgium in 1984, R&S Records has released some of the most seminal tracks in electronic music, from Joey Beltram's Energy Flash to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92.\n\nIn employment tribunal papers he has filed in London, Mr Chaudhuri said he had repeatedly attempted to \"diversify the label and the artists it worked with\", but found his efforts frustrated or criticised.\n\nSome of the BAME artists he championed were dismissed as \"terrible\" and \"crap\", according to text messages included in his claim.\n\nMr Chaudhuri also alleged that Mr Vandepapeliere refused to sever ties with a recording artist who had placed anti-Semitic messages on Facebook.\n\nOne post contained a photograph of Hitler captioned: \"You should have listened\".\n\n\"Remove his track? No way\", wrote Mr Vandepapeliere, after being made aware of the messages. \"Inform him of the danger - yes\".\n\nWhen Mr Chaudhuri continued to express his unease over being associated with the artist, he was told to \"relax a bit\".\n\nMr Chaudhuri also alleged that R&S tried to suppress an NHS charity album he had put together because - in his opinion - Mr Vandepapeliere was uncomfortable with the Black and non-binary musicians featured on the compilation.\n\nHis tribunal papers included an email from Mr Vandepapeliere, in which he said: \"Time to delete the NHS comp... and time for quality\".\n\n\"I know, Raj, you love all this - etc - but I hate it. No talent, no quality.\"\n\nMr Chaudhuri said his year-long tenure at the label, where he was paid £1,000 a month, ended \"with no warning\" last September.\n\nHis dismissal came after Mr Vandepapeliere engaged in a public spat with former R&S recording artist Eddington Again.\n\nLast September, the LA-based musician published an email exchange with the label boss, in which he questioned why R&S had signed so few black and female artists.\n\nIn response Mr Vandepapeliere wrote: \"We are not a political party\" and \"I sign music I can find - I don't sign color mate\".\n\nHe also referenced a new artist the label was planning to work with, writing: \"I hope that I have now found a full pure breed black artist that I can spend my life with in full focus\".\n\nThe messages provoked widespread condemnation from the dance music industry, and two of R&S's biggest artists, Lone and Paul Woolford (aka Special Request) posted messages saying they were ending their relationship with the label.\n\nIn his tribunal claim, Mr Chaudhuri said he had confronted Mr Vandepapeliere over the controversy, conveying some people's opinion that he should step down from the label.\n\n\"How dare you, mate,\" wrote Mr Vandepapeliere in a text message. \"Don't need your advice at all... R&S goes my way\".\n\nR&S terminated its contract with Eddington Again after the artist published emails from Mr Vandepapeliere\n\nMr Chaudhuri claims he was dismissed the following day, with Mr Vandepapeliere saying he wanted \"a strong team\" who stood behind the company.\n\nText messages from that day, which also appear in the tribunal papers, show that the label boss called Mr Chaudhuri a \"superstar\" who should \"start ur own label\".\n\nMr Vandepapeliere subsequently apologised for the content of his leaked emails.\n\n\"R&S is by no means an organisation where bigotry has a place,\" he wrote in a statement. \"We are deeply convinced of the urgency of racial equality, non-discrimination and a sensitive and respectful discourse\".\n\nFollowing his dismissal, Mr Chaudhuri demanded payment for the remainder of his contract, totalling £10,000. He also threatened to reveal what he called Mr Vandepapeliere's \"discriminatory conduct\" in a public letter, if the money was withheld.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, R&S said this amounted to an attempt at \"extortion or blackmail\". It added that it was considering launching a defamation case over Mr Chaudhuri's allegations.\n\nThe employment tribunal claim has only recently been filed in London, and the papers have not been served on R&S yet, and a date for the tribunal hearing is some way off.\n\nR&S said the initiation of proceedings \"proves nothing\", adding: \"We have no intention of litigating this in the press and have every confidence that justice will prevail.\"\n\n\"We believe Mr Chaudhuri has done this in order to attack Mr Renaat Vandepapeliere in an attempt to sway him away from other legal proceedings and cause the malicious damage that he threatened unless Mr Renaat Vandepapeliere gave into his monetary demands,\" it added.\n\nMr Chaudhuri said he had filed the case to draw attention to racial inequality in the music industry.\n\n\"The music industry must become free of racial and gender discrimination and the fight back starts with those in the music community supporting and working towards equality,\" he told the BBC.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The romantic gesture - overlaid with neon lights in 2008 - had formed part of the city's skyline since 2001\n\nA graffiti marriage proposal which became a symbol of a city has been removed by developers.\n\nJason Lowe's public display of affection was spray-painted on a bridge at Park Hill, Sheffield, in 2001.\n\nHis bid to woo girlfriend Clare Middleton formed part of the city skyline, inspired a track by singer Yungblud and appeared on a t-shirt worn by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner.\n\nUrban Splash said the graffiti was removed for \"essential repair work\".\n\nSam Feeley, who lives in one of the renovated flats, said he noticed the writing - I Love You Will U Marry Me - had been removed on Sunday.\n\nDescribing it as \"a piece of Sheffield history\", he said: \"It means a lot to the people of the city, so I was quite surprised to see it had gone.\"\n\n\"I would class it as a piece of artwork and famous artwork fades over the years.\n\n\"[Leonardo] da Vinci paintings fade and people touch them up and restore them, I wouldn't see why this isn't any different really.\"\n\nAlex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys sported a t-shirt bearing an image of the graffiti during gigs\n\nAlthough Mr Lowe and his girlfriend never married, his romantic gesture has formed part of the city's skyline since, with many considering it an \"iconic\" piece of history.\n\nIn a BBC radio documentary, Mr Lowe explained how he braved his fear of heights to make a public show of proposing to Ms Middleton, who he had had been dating for a year.\n\nHe said: \"You used to be able to see it from the Odeon cinema.\n\n\"I took her there, she thought she was going to see a film and I said: 'I've got something to show you'. I told her to look up and she read it.\n\n\"She said 'yeah'. She thought I was mad.\"\n\nThe pair split up three months later and Ms Middleton died in 2007 from cancer.\n\nWhen Urban Splash started renovation of the flats in 2008, they decided to immortalise Mr Lowe's words.\n\nNeon lights were placed over the writing and it formed part of the developer's marketing campaign.\n\nYungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, from Doncaster, described the graffiti as \"a quirky act of romance\" in his song I Love You, Will You Marry Me.\n\nAlex Turner, lead singer of Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys, has also worn the slogan on a T-shirt during gigs.\n\nSurriya Falconer, speaking on behalf of the developers, said there were \"some structural issues\" which meant the words had to be removed so a coating could be put on the bridge.\n\nShe said Mr Lowe would be involved in deciding upon a replacement and the meaning would \"continue to be celebrated\".\n\n\"I understand people may feel a sense of loss but we're talking about new futures and celebrating a piece of history. It's still going to be there but it needs to be safe,\" she said.\n\nThe renovation of the flats was one of the six short-listed projects for the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers having to stay in quarantine hotels in England will be charged £1,750 for their stay, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.\n\nThe measures, which come into force on Monday, apply to UK and Irish residents returning from 33 red list countries.\n\nThose who fail to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel for 10 days face fines of up to £10,000.\n\nMeanwhile, all travellers arriving into Scotland from abroad by air will have to go into quarantine hotels.\n\nPeople travelling from red list countries to Wales and Northern Ireland will be required to book and pay for quarantine in England, as neither destination currently has any direct international flights.\n\nTravellers arriving into England who lie on their passenger locator forms about visiting a red list country face a fine of £10,000 or up to 10 years in jail.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 12,364 confirmed cases of coronavirus and a further 1,052 deaths within 28 days of a positive test - bringing that total to 113,850. More than 12.6 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nDelivering a statement in the Commons, Mr Hancock said 16 hotels have been contracted for the programme, with 4,600 rooms secured.\n\nThe health secretary also confirmed a new \"enhanced testing\" regime for all travellers arriving into the UK would begin on Monday, with two tests required during the quarantine process.\n\nThey will be required to get a test on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine period, whether they are isolating at home or in a hotel. The tests, conducted by NHS Test and Trace, will cost travellers £210.\n\n\"People who flout these rules are putting us all at risk,\" the health secretary told MPs.\n\nAirlines and travel companies will be legally required to make sure travellers have signed up for the new measures before they depart, with fines for companies and passengers if they fail to comply, he said.\n\nThe penalties include a £1,000 fine for travellers who fail to take mandatory tests and a £2,000 fine for failing to take the second mandatory test - along with a 14-day extension to quarantine.\n\nFailing to quarantine in a designated hotel carries a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nAsked when the travel rules would be relaxed, Mr Hancock said: \"We want to exit from this into a system of safe international travel as soon as practicable and as soon as is safe.\"\n\nPassengers required to stay in a quarantine hotel will need to reserve a room online in advance using a booking system that opens on Thursday.\n\nThe £1,750 fee for an individual includes the hotel, the cost of transport and testing. The additional rate for one extra adult or a child aged over 12 is £650, and for a child aged five to 12 it is £325.\n\nThese travellers will only be allowed to enter the UK through a \"small number of ports that currently account for the vast majority of passenger arrivals\", Mr Hancock added.\n\nResponding to Mr Hancock's statement, Labour's shadow health secretary said the public wanted the government to \"go further\" on border quarantine measures.\n\nJonathan Ashworth told the Commons: \"Our first line of defence is surely to do everything we can to stop (new variants) arising in the first place. That means securing our borders to isolate new variants as they come in.\n\n\"He's announced a detailed package today but he hasn't announced comprehensive quarantine controls at the borders.\"\n\nMr Hancock later said the red list was kept \"under review\".\n\nAnnouncing Scotland's tougher measures, which apply to arrivals from all countries, Scottish Transport Secretary Michael Matheson said the \"targeted, reactive approach\" of the UK government was \"no longer sufficient\" to deal with the threat from coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains how to fly safely during a global pandemic\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said he also wanted to see \"a stronger set of defences at our borders\" and said the UK government's measures were \"the bare minimum of what needs to be done\".\n\nEnforcement fines and prison sentences over quarantine breaches are still \"under review\" in Wales. A Welsh government spokesperson also said the country was working to determine when it will need its own quarantine hotels, if the red list expands or if international flights resume.\n\nAlthough the 4,600 rooms secured so far in England would only allow for around one Boeing 747's worth of passengers per day, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said discussions were under way to add more capacity.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's World at One that separate security teams contracted by the government would be responsible for enforcing the quarantine, while hotel staff focused on giving people the \"best possible experience in what are very difficult circumstances\".\n\nThe £1,750 fee includes three meals, tea, coffee and water, Ms Nicholls said, but other items will be available at an extra cost through room service.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK - whether by boat, train or plane - are already required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThis test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling, and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500, with Border Force officials carrying out spot checks.\n\nThey must also provide contact details and their UK address. They can then travel - by public transport if necessary - to the place where they plan to self-isolate.\n\nAll travellers - including British nationals - must self-isolate for 10 days when they get to the UK.\n\nThe \"test to release scheme\" - where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five - will remain under the new testing rules.\n\nPassengers will be expected to use the gold-standard and more expensive PCR tests.\n\nLockdown rules mean people must only travel abroad for essential reasons. These are the same as the \"reasonable excuses\" for domestic travel, including:\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to make a declaration on why they need to travel, which will be checked by carriers prior to departure.\n\nThe new measures come after England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was too soon to say to what extent people could begin to start planning summer holidays.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing, he said: \"The more elaborate your plans are for summer holidays, in terms of crossing borders, in terms of household mixing, given where we are now, I think we just have to say the more you are stepping into making guesses about the unknown at this point,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't give people a proper answer at this point because we don't yet have the data. It is just too early to say.\"\n\nAfter the announcement of the travel rules, aimed at preventing the spread of new variants of coronavirus, government advisers designated another \"variant of concern\" - a version of the virus which was revealed last week to have been found in Bristol.\n\nIt's not surprising that officials are adding this new version of coronavirus to their \"variants of concern\" list.\n\nTargeted testing is already under way to spot any new cases linked to the 21 that have already been found, mostly in the south west of England.\n\nThis new incarnation of the virus is the Kent variant \"plus\". It has the same N501Y mutation as the one that triggered lockdown - a genetic change that scientists say lets the virus spread more easily. But it also has an extra mutation called E484K.\n\nE484K is what experts are worried about for vaccine efficacy. It is also seen in the South Africa and Brazil variants of concern.\n\nA cluster of another variant in Liverpool is different again. It has got the E484K mutation but is an iteration of an earlier version of the pandemic virus rather than the Kent one.\n\nInevitably, more variants will continue to emerge. The challenge is to make sure vaccines are a good match to keep us ahead in this race against the virus.\n\nHave you recently travelled into the UK? What was your experience at the UK border?", "Alexandru Stan says he was evicted from his home in Harrow while he was in HMP Wormwood Scrubs\n\nA man cleared of being involved in £26m raids on the luxury homes of three celebrities in west London says he is now sleeping in a car.\n\nAlexandru Stan was acquitted of conspiring to burgle the homes following a high-profile trial.\n\nWatches and jewellery belonging to Frank Lampard and Tamara Ecclestone were among the items taken during a series of burglaries in December 2019.\n\nMr Stan says the case has left him homeless and he has \"lost everything\".\n\nA legal expert told the BBC that there was nothing in place to help people who are acquitted of a crime following a trial.\n\n\"This is the system working,\" said Dr Hannah Quirk, a reader in criminal law at King's College London.\n\n\"It is disgraceful and it has been dubbed the innocence tax.\"\n\nTamara Ecclestone, her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter Sophia had left for Lapland on the morning of the raid at their palatial home\n\nSpeaking to BBC London, Mr Stan said he had not even heard of Ms Ecclestone until he was arrested by police last year.\n\nMr Stan spent nearly six months in custody at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. While on remand he made friends with his co-accused Sorin Marcovici.\n\nBoth were released on 8 January following the not guilty verdicts.\n\n\"We were scared we would be convicted because we were Romanian,\" Mr Stan said. \"They [the prosecution] made out we were thieves and terrorised London.\n\n\"I knew I had done nothing and I thought I had been framed. If they found me guilty of the burglaries, I risked 14 years in prison.\"\n\nA Cartier bangle worth £80,000 was reportedly taken in the raid on Tamara Ecclestone's home\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard how the raids at the homes of Mr Lampard, Ms Ecclestone and the family home of duty-free tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha netted \"big money\" for a team of burglars. \"Fabulous jewellery\" was stolen, the majority of which has never been recovered.\n\nIn one burglary alone, a £25m haul of cash and jewellery was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home. This happened only hours after she left London for a holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter, on 13 December 2019.\n\nThree days before, burglars had ransacked the family home of the late Leicester City owner Mr Vichai.\n\nThe first in the series of raids was at the home of Mr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine. About £60,000 worth of jewellery was taken when they were out on 1 December.\n\nMr Stan, Mr Marcovici, Maria Mester and her son Emil Bogdan-Savastru were said to be the \"support cast\" to a team of burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nAll four were unanimously found not guilty by a jury of 11, much to the relief of Mr Stan.\n\n\"I thought I was dreaming,\" he said. \"I have been through hell and no-one can ever know what it is like to lose your home, lose your place at university and everything.\"\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she is said to be wearing Ms Ecclestone's necklace\n\nMr Stan first moved to London in June 2019 and worked as a porter and waiter.\n\nIn July 2020 he enrolled at the University of Suffolk to study for a business degree, but said he lost this place and was evicted from his home in Harrow while in prison on remand.\n\nThe 49-year-old says he is struggling to get his life back on track since being released from prison.\n\nSorin Marcovici says his life has been \"really bad\" since he was arrested\n\nHe added: \"Mr Marcovici took me in and we sleep a couple of nights with his friends or sleep in his car.\n\n\"It is hard to find a place in the pandemic, people are scared to put you in their home. We have nothing.\"\n\nMr Stan said Mr Marcovici was helping him with clothing and food and lets him sleep in his car at night.\n\nThe raids on the west London homes of the celebrities all happened in December 2019\n\nMr Marcovici, who has a room in a shared house, said his life was \"really bad\" and he could not find a job because of lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"No-one helps us. Every morning Mr Stan tries to do something for each of us, but no-one is helping.\n\n\"How they have left us on the streets in a pandemic - I have no words.\"\n\nNigel Evans said a trial over alleged sexual offences cost him £130,000 in legal fees\n\nDr Quirk, who used to work at the Criminal Case Review Commission, said that a high-profile victim of the so-called innocence tax was the Conservative MP Nigel Evans, who was cleared of all charges at a trial in 2014.\n\n\"He was charged with rape and sexual offences and ended up having to use his life savings.\"\n\nDr Quirk told the BBC that when convicted criminals finish a jail sentence, they deal with the Probation Service which helps them acclimatise to life on the outside.\n\nBut for those who are acquitted, \"there is no involvement with the criminal justice system any more\".\n\nShe added: \"It is a real problem.\"\n\nTwo men accused of burgling the three homes are due to go on trial at Isleworth Crown Court in August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has been hit by a backbench rebellion over plans to ensure Britain's future trade partners are not committing genocide.\n\nMPs backed a government proposal to give select committees a greater role in examining allegations of genocide.\n\nBut a number of Tory MPs rebelled and the government saw its working majority of about 80 slashed to just 15.\n\nThose pressing the UK to take a tougher stance on human rights abuses in China have vowed to carry on the fight.\n\nA total of 31 Conservative MPs voted against the government on Tuesday, several accusing ministers of playing \"appalling\" parliamentary games to avoid defeat.\n\nMPs were expecting to vote on a plan to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nBut the government, which opposed the plan, used a procedure to prevent a vote and instead backed a separate move giving Parliament greater say.\n\nThis passed by 318 votes to 303 but peers will seek to overturn this and re-insert a clause empowering British courts into the Trade Bill when it returns to the House of Lords later this month.\n\nThe government was heavily defeated on the issue in the Lords last month and independent peer Lord Alton has said he will resurrect his amendment in the hope MPs will get the chance to vote on it.\n\n\"Denying them that right makes a mockery of democracy,\" he said.\n\nMPs were prevented from having their say on it on Tuesday after ministers used a parliamentary procedure to lump it together with a Labour proposal which required ministers to determine whether a prospective trade partner has committed crimes against humanity.\n\nDowning Street argues it's \"common practice\" to package certain amendments together during parliamentary ping-pong but developments have undoubtedly provoked anger on the Conservative backbenches.\n\nSome MPs view what's happened as pure \"parliamentary chicanery\" on what is a very important and emotive issue.\n\nAnd, looking to the longer term, there are claims that the episode has \"hardened\" attitudes against the government, a government, it's said, that had been getting \"very twitchy\" on the numbers following a big whipping operation.\n\nAnother backbencher described that operation as \"heavy, full-on stuff\" and an exercise which had revealed the extent of a potentially \"stonking\" rebellion.\n\nWhat's more, it appeared that some newer MPs were gearing up to rebel for the first time. That is a habit any government doesn't want its backbenchers to get into.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs criticised the government's tactics, Nusrat Ghani saying \"she was appalled at the parliamentary games being played over such a grave issue\".\n\nThe UK, she said, should not be \"using its newfound post-Brexit freedoms to trade with states which commit and profit from genocide...Britain is better than that\".\n\nTrade Minister Greg Hands said a committee could trigger a Commons debate and vote if it decided there were \"credible reports\" that genocide had been committed by a state with which the UK was negotiating a trade deal.\n\n\"This approach rightly puts Parliament, not the courts, in the driving seat on the issue of who generates a debate in Parliament,\" he told MPs.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Sir Ian Duncan Smith said there was a reason why matters of huge public importance, such as public inquiries into tragedies and scandals, were overseen by judges.\n\n\"I have my own differences with judges but when we need an impartial taking of evidence and a judgement, we turn not to select committees but judges. Why do we do that?\n\n\"One, because we assume they are impartial. Two because they are trained to take evidence and deal with evidence. We are not here.\"\n\nAnd Labour's Emily Thornberry accused the government of \"shameful, shabby and shifty\" behaviour.\n\nCampaigners want British courts to hear genocide cases so that persecuted minorities, such as the Uighurs in Xinjiang, China, can have their situation considered by a court of law.\n\nA legal opinion by senior barristers at Essex Court Chambers has already concluded there was a \"very credible case\" that the Chinese government was committing genocide against the Uighurs.", "There is a worrying shortfall in the number of care staff to have had Covid vaccinations, a survey of almost 1,500 services in the UK suggests.\n\nNearly half of care homes for older people have more than 30% of staff who are as yet unvaccinated, according to the research from earlier this week.\n\nAnd uptake for staff supporting people in their own homes and those working with younger adults is even lower.\n\nA target of 15 February has been set to vaccinate all front-line care workers.\n\nBut only half the care homes for older people to respond to the survey by the National Care Forum, which represents not-for-profit care providers across the UK but mainly in England, had more than 70% of staff vaccinated.\n\nAnd this was the case in just:\n\nThe survey also confirms staff hesitancy is a significant factor in the slow uptake.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it was \"on track\" to meet its target of offering a first dose of a vaccine to all frontline social care workers in England by mid-February.\n\nA spokesman added: \"The Covid-19 vaccine rollout is the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history, and so far our heroic health and care staff have vaccinated more people than every country in Europe put together.\n\n\"Health and social care staff are playing crucial roles on the frontline of this pandemic and their employers are in the process of contacting them to make sure they get their vaccine as soon as possible.\"\n\nLow uptake among staff at his wife's care home is a source of major concern for Trevor Salomon, from London, particularly as he says almost a third of the home's residents died with the virus last year.\n\nTrevor Salomon hopes the vaccine will protect him and his wife, who has Alzheimer's disease, from the worst of the virus\n\nHe and his wife, Yvonne, who has Alzheimer's disease, have had the vaccine.\n\nAnd he hopes it will at least protect them from severe symptoms.\n\nBut only about half the staff have had the jab.\n\n\"What makes me sad... is that they have been influenced by what they've seen, read or heard on social media,\" he says.\n\n\"My anger is very much directed at those people who post misinformation and lies about the vaccine.\"\n\nThe situation is slowly improving, though, Mr Salomon says, as staff see colleagues being vaccinated without side-effects, \"so more are coming forward\".\n\nAt the Saffron House nursing home, in Bristol, housekeeper Monika Szwolko was nervous the vaccine was \"too new\" and about who would care for her children if she had side-effects.\n\nBut having been persuaded to have the vaccine and had no side-effects, she is keen to recommend it to colleagues.\n\n\"I feel like I've done something good,\" she tells BBC News.\n\n\"There is nothing to be scared of.\"\n\nVerona Thomas also decided to have the vaccine\n\nVerona Thomas, a unit manager at the home, was also deterred by the speed with which the vaccine was developed - and what she read on social media about potential side-effects.\n\nBut worrying about what would happen to loved ones if she caught the virus changed her mind.\n\nAlso, she says: \"I work with quite vulnerable adults.\n\n\"So it was a case of doing my best to protect them.\"\n\nNational Care Forum executive director Vic Rayner said the survey \"would appear to indicate that there are big groups of people who haven't been anywhere near vaccination yet.\n\n\"And to get them done within the next five days seems like a bit of a mountain to climb,\" she added.", "Preserving post-Brexit trading rules for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is \"the only way\" to avoid a hard border, warns the EU.\n\nEuropean Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has written to the UK's Michael Gove, saying \"teething problems\" needed to be resolved.\n\nIt comes after Mr Gove called for an urgent \"reset\" of the arrangements that came into force on 1 January.\n\nMr Sefcovic and Mr Gove will discuss the issues in London on Thursday.\n\nThe so-called Northern Ireland Protocol was designed to ensure an open border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic after Brexit.\n\nNorthern Ireland remained in the single market for goods, but the rest of the UK did not - meaning some checks for goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland were introduced.\n\nTensions have been high in recent weeks at ports in Northern Ireland, with disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries due to the new checks required.\n\nUnionists want the protocol to be scrapped because they say it damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK union.\n\nBut the EU has stood by this part of the post-Brexit trade agreement, finalised in December and coming into force on New Year's Day.\n\nMr Gove told MPs last week that, while the UK did not want to \"ditch\" it, it \"reserved the right\" to do what it must to protect Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Sefcovic said he welcomed \"the shared commitment\" between the UK and the EU to work together to solve the difficulties.\n\nBut he stressed that Brexit had caused problems, adding: \"The UK's withdrawal from the Union, its single market and customs union presents unique and significant challenges for the island of Ireland.\"\n\nHe said the UK and the EU had a shared objective to \"work tirelessly in order to make the protocol work\" because it was \"the only way\" to protect the Good Friday Agreement, and to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Sefcovic also said the EU and the UK had a \"common responsibility to diffuse tensions and to ensure the safety of staff on the ground\".\n\nChecks at some ports were temporarily suspended at the beginning of February over \"sinister\" threats made to some border staff who were carrying out checks on goods.\n\nThe Commission vice-president said it had come to his attention that border control posts were not yet fully operational and a number of consignments were entering Northern Ireland without being properly declared and without proper certificates.\n\nBut he said he hoped these were \"teething problems\" for which \"swift solutions\" could be found.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster, has raised concerns over the protocol\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster, accused Mr Sefcovic of \"putting his head in the sand and his fingers in his ears\" over concerns her party - the DUP - had raised.\n\nShe told ITV's Peston that the call to strengthen the protocol, despite the problems raised by unionists, was an \"incredible state of affairs\".\n\nMs Foster said the protocol was not only creating problems for businesses, but consumers too having problems with parcel deliveries, adding: \"You can't even get a pot plant from Great Britain.\"", "Emilie de Bruijn says increasing numbers of people are asking for help from her baby bank\n\nThe boot of the red car lifts up to reveal a sea of plastic bags. Inside each one are the essentials for bringing up young children: nappies, wipes, baby food and shampoo, as well as sanitary items for their mums - all free to those in need.\n\nWithin a minute or two, the first customer arrives. Soon followed by another, and another. Since the first lockdown, on every Thursday Emilie de Bruijn runs this \"baby bank\" out of the back of her car in Hartlepool.\n\nCovid has put paid to the indoor space she used in normal times. It's also increased demand amongst families now suffering real and deepening hardship.\n\nHer parking spot is beside a church which doubles up as a food bank. On the freezing Thursday we visited, almost 100 people queued in the cold for several hours for the food parcels on offer there. Among them were parents with pushchairs and young children, who stepped out of the queue to collect some baby basics before rejoining it as it crept towards the church door.\n\n\"It's just getting harder and harder,\" Emilie told me. \"We are increasingly finding people who have been furloughed or laid off work coming to us and saying, 'I'm so sorry. I never thought I'd see myself in this position. Can you help me?'\"\n\nEmilie says parents who have lost their jobs due to Covid are turning to the baby bank for help\n\nEmilie recalls how one mother got in touch to ask for help after being put on furlough since the end of her maternity leave.\n\n\"She cried on her doorstep because I gave her nappies, wipes and winter clothes for her child. I went away with a lump in my throat.\"\n\nA report from London-based baby bank charity Little Village and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, seen first by BBC Newsnight, outlines the scale, depth and persistence of poverty in families with children aged under five across the UK.\n\nIt finds one-third (34%) of these children live below the poverty line - meaning their family lives on less than 60% of the median household income in the UK.\n\nThat equates to 1.3 million under-fives, according to the analysis. Two in five of these families have seen a reduction in their earnings as a result of the ongoing Covid crisis.\n\nLondon has the worst rates of poverty in the UK for children in this age group. The North East of England runs the capital a close second, which doesn't surprise Kay - one of Emilie's regulars.\n\nMum of four Kay says she has had to go without food and clothes herself to provide for her children\n\nKay moved to Hartlepool from London in search of cheaper rents and a better life for her young children. She's worked in supermarkets but is now a single parent with four children, aged between seven months and seven years old. Struggling on benefits, and after housing costs, Kay's left with around £600 for the month.\n\n\"That's got to pay your gas, your electric, your water, your council tax and any other bills that may pop up,\" she says. \"And your food. So within a week my money's gone.\n\n\"I've gone without meals, without clothes. I have one meal a day providing my children have three. It's basic chicken nuggets and chips, fish fingers and chips. The diets are really poor because the money's not there to buy fresh food, to cook fresh meals.\"\n\nLittle Village founder Sophia Parker, who wrote the report, says Covid had made things \"much worse\" for families who were already struggling.\n\n\"People have used up savings. People have gone to their families and friends and borrowed what they can,\" she says. \"As a result, we're seeing families who are falling into rent arrears. We're seeing families who are having to rely on high-cost loans.\n\n\"We're just very worried about where this is going to land for families that are already in a difficult situation.\"\n\nOne mother says she is left with £10 a month after paying her bills\n\nRachel, not her real name, is a trained nursery practitioner who spent six months in a refuge after fleeing an abusive relationship.\n\nShe now lives in cramped temporary accommodation with her three-year-old son and nine-month-old daughter. She is employed for a few hours a week by Little Village, but relies for now on universal credit.\n\n\"When we came out of the refuge, I looked for full-time work but I couldn't make it pay because of childcare costs,\" she tells me. \"My rent is so high, after bills I'm left with £10 a month for us to live on. I don't drink, smoke or buy clothes.\n\n\"If my son is invited to a child's birthday party, I die, as I know I have to say no. I can't afford a present. It's very embarrassing to keep asking for help. Little Village did our Christmas. Otherwise there would have been nothing under the tree.\n\n\"The pandemic has made things more expensive. We're always home, so electric and gas costs more. Food shopping online costs more too. My children are my reason for everything. But I can't see a way out. I am stuck in a trap.\"\n\nThe government said it was committed to \"making sure every child gets the best start in life, and this is central to our steadfast determination to level up opportunity across the country\".\n\nA spokesman said it had targeted its support to families most in need by raising the living wage and spending hundreds of billions to safeguard jobs.\n\n\"Additionally, we have boosted welfare support by billions, introduced the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme to help children and families during the coldest months, and in April we will be increasing the value of our Healthy Start vouchers by over a third to help those in need with young children.\"", "Among 17-year-olds in the UK, one in 10 will have used hard drugs, such as ketamine and cocaine, a study suggests.\n\nThe University College London research also showed nearly a third of 17-year-olds had tried cannabis and more than half admitted to binge-drinking alcohol.\n\nAlmost 20,000 young people, born between 2000 and 2002, were surveyed as part of the Millennium Cohort Study.\n\nDrug-use rates were higher among white teens than black teens.\n\nA quarter of 17-year-olds also said they had assaulted someone, including shoving, slapping or punching another person over the previous 12 months.\n\nBut this figure had fallen by seven percentage points from when the tracking survey was last conducted, when participants were aged 14.\n\nA similar study, which surveyed Britons born in the late 1980s when they were teenagers, found similar rates of alcohol consumption, but slightly higher rates of cannabis use.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, overall drug use among 16-24 year olds in 2020 was much lower than it was in the late 1990s.\n\nThe latest wave of the Millennium Cohort Study, intended to record a \"detailed portrait of the children of the new century\", was undertaken between 2018 and 2019 when participants were 17-years-old.\n\nLevels of vandalism and weapon use were similar to when these young people were 14, but shoplifting rose from 4% in early adolescence to 7% a few years later.\n\nHard drug use was twice as prevalent among white teenagers than their BAME counterparts, while binge-drinking was almost three times higher.\n\nThis list of hard drugs included cocaine, acid, ecstasy, speed, ketamine and any other psychoactive substances.\n\nAmong white teenagers, 11% reported using harder drugs compared with 5% for their BAME counterparts, and 59% of white teenagers had engaged in binge-drinking alcohol, compared with 21% of BAME teenagers.\n\nCannabis use, hard drug taking and binge-drinking were also considerably higher among young men than women.\n\nAlmost a third of 17-year-olds admitted to trying cannabis\n\nEmla Fitzsimons from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, who co-authored the study, said: \"Experimental and risk-taking behaviours are an expected part of growing up.\"\n\n\"Nevertheless, behaviours in adolescence can be a cause for concern as they can have adverse long-term consequences for individuals' health and wellbeing, and their social and economic outcomes.\"\n\nYoung people with graduate parents were more likely to report alcohol use and binge drinking than those whose parents did not have degrees.\n\nBut rates of drug use remained similar regardless of parents' educational qualifications.\n\nThe study found that as these young people \"approached adulthood, reports of anti-social behaviours mostly remained stable or declined compared to rates at age 14\".\n\nUCL's Aase Villadsen said she was surprised how the findings showed \"the peak in anti-social behaviours in this generation has been reached earlier than usual and rates have already started to come down by age 17\".\n\n\"This is a positive and will potentially help to improve the future social and economic prospects of Generation Z,\" said Dr Villadsen.\n\nProf Fitzsimons added: \"It remains to be seen how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected engagement in these behaviours.\"\n\nBBC Action Line: Advice and support about alcohol or drug problems", "A fire destroyed Grenfell Tower in June 2017, with the loss of 72 lives\n\nThe firm that sold the cladding used at Grenfell Tower knew about the risk of fires in 2013, but continued to offer a flammable version of it.\n\nThe public inquiry has been shown an internal email sent by a sales manager at Arconic warning of the risk of high-rise fires in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nDeborah French also forwarded an email from a competitor company that was switching to sell only fire-resistant cladding as a result.\n\nOn Wednesday the inquiry has focused on what Arconic told its customers, who were fabricating cladding systems for high-rise blocks around the UK.\n\nOn 1 May 2013, the BBC reported on \"towering inferno\" fears following a series of fires involving cladding in the Gulf.\n\nDeborah French sent a link to the article and also forwarded an email from Richard Geater, a rival salesperson for another company, Alucobond, who was warning his customers of the risks.\n\nMr Geater wrote that using cladding known as aluminium composite material (ACM), made partly from plastic, created a situation like \"a chimney which transports the fire from bottom to top or vice versa within the shortest time.\n\n\"The perils of using cheap ACM alternatives have been exposed,\" he said.\n\nArconic did not follow its competitor's lead. Its most popular type of cladding in the UK was Reynobond PE, with its flammable plastic layer, used on dozens of buildings including Grenfell Tower.\n\nOn 13 May 2013, Deborah French wrote to her customers saying that by working closely with them, \"we are able to follow what type of project is being designed/developed and then offer the right... specification\".\n\nHowever, since the fire, Arconic has insisted it had no control over the type of materials it sold to customers, taking the position that it was for architects to decide whether they met fire safety regulations.\n\nIn a later witness statement, Ms French adopted this position, saying that in her email to customers she had simply meant the company's technical support department could offer advice if needed.\n\nRichard Millett, the inquiry's lead counsel, questioned her about why, if the email was false, she had sent it in the first place.\n\nHe suggested the email might have been correct and that she had changed her account since the fire, despite being content to say at the time that Arconic could control the types of cladding used.\n\nThe degree to which Arconic \"pushed\" flammable cladding for use on tall buildings is central to the question of who might be to blame for the fire.\n\nThe timing of Ms French's emails is relevant. She was negotiating with the Grenfell Tower project for the sale of 3,000 sq m of cladding.\n\nShe admitted to the inquiry that at the time she knew this was a high-rise residential housing project.\n\nBy this point, Arconic had already changed its marketing materials after receiving poor fire test results for the Reynobond cladding sheets.\n\nBut a technical manager at Arconic said customers would only be informed \"when asking about the fire performance\" of the product.\n\nThe change was made a year earlier, in 2012, as designers were starting to consider materials for Grenfell Tower.\n\nDespite \"bad behaviour\" in fires, the company believed the product could still be sold in countries with less restrictive regulations.\n\nThese included the UK where it was the standard type of cladding the company sold.\n\nThe UK sales manager involved in the discussions explained to the inquiry that she could not remember being told about the change to the specification, or it being discussed at meetings.\n\nArconic sold raw aluminium cladding sheets, which were formed into \"cassettes\" - rectangular folded panels - for fixing on the outside of buildings.\n\nIn 2010 Arconic published a specification for its cladding, which contained a fire classification of class B out of a possible A1 to F.\n\nBut in 2011 the \"cassette\" version of the product was put through a standard European fire test where it achieved a poor result, classified E out of a possible A1 to F.\n\nThe test went so badly it had to be stopped early, with the panel on fire.\n\nAs a result in 2012, the flammable version of the cladding was removed entirely from the specification sheet published by Arconic, despite the fact that it continued to be the main type sold in the UK.\n\nOnly a less common fire-retardant version was included in the information.\n\nThe BBC previously revealed that poor test results were withheld from the British Board of Agrément which issues independent safety certificates relied on by construction firms and architects.\n\nA witness statement provided by a French technical manager, Claude Wehrle, said: \"The intention was for customers to be informed of the position when asking about the fire performance of the cassette variant of the product.\"\n\nHowever, Arconic continued to sell the product to construction projects involving tall buildings.\n\nIn a meeting note, Mr Wehrle wrote that \"for the moment, even if we know the PE (polyethylene material) in cassette has a bad behaviour exposed to fire, we can still work with national regulations who are not as restrictive\".\n\nArconic's UK sales manager, Deborah French, was asked by the inquiry's lead counsel: \"Do we take it... that if the customers didn't ask, they didn't get told?\"\n\n\"Yes,\" she answered, adding that they would not have known unless they had been told.\n\nThe cassette version of the cladding, formed from flammable materials, has been shown to pose a particular risk in fires on tall buildings and was the type eventually used at Grenfell Tower.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Housing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it was \"clear that action is required now\"\n\nA new regulator will be established with powers to ban the use of dangerous building materials, following evidence at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that manufacturers covered up safety issues.\n\nIt will be able to prosecute companies that flout rules, the government said.\n\nMinisters have called revelations at the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire \"deeply disturbing\".\n\nThey have also ordered a review of product testing because of \"abuses\" in the testing system.\n\nThe findings of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, which led to the deaths of 72 people in June 2017, are not expected for at least another year.\n\nBut Housing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it was \"already clear that action is required now\".\n\nIn evidence given late last year, the behaviour of several companies was under close scrutiny - with damaging admissions about their activities in the years before the fire.\n\nKingspan, which makes insulation panels, revealed it sold a combustible product despite failed fire tests.\n\nThe Grenfell Inquiry heard that Celotex, another insulation maker, effectively \"rigged\" a test to keep its product on the market.\n\nThe BBC also revealed that cladding manufacturer Arconic failed to tell British standards bodies about poor results from tests it carried out on the aluminium panels used at Grenfell.\n\nAll three products have been found to have contributed to the fire.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the new regulator would be able to conduct its own tests.\n\nIt will operate within the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), which was set up by the government to help manage large-scale product recalls and identify risks to consumers.\n\nThe OPSS will be expanded and given £10m in funding to establish the new function.\n\nThe regulator will work with the newly created Building Safety Regulator and Trading Standards to \"encourage and enforce compliance\".\n\nMr Jenrick said: \"The Grenfell Inquiry has heard deeply disturbing allegations of malpractice by some construction product manufacturers and their employees, and of the weaknesses of the present product testing regime.\n\n\"We are establishing a national regulator to address these concerns and a review into testing to ensure our national approach is fit for purpose.\n\n\"We will continue to listen to the evidence emerging in the inquiry, and await the judge's ultimate recommendation - but it is already clear that action is required now and that is what we are doing.\"\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire revealed deep-seated problems with the building regulations and product testing.\n\nMinisters say they are pushing through a \"fundamental overhaul of regulatory systems\".\n\nBut thousands of people currently live in buildings constructed with materials which pose a risk. They have to pay for extra fire safety measures until cladding or insulation is stripped off.\n\nSeventy-two people died as a result of the fire\n\nGiles Grover, from the national campaigning coalition End Our Cladding Scandal said the announcement was not enough.\n\n\"It will help people in new homes but it doesn't help those of us with Kingspan K15 insulation wrapped around our flats. The only way that the government's going to make sure our buildings are safe is to put up the money now.\"\n\nThe government has made £1.6 billion available for the work, and there has been steady progress on public housing. But for private sector buildings it has barely begun. The overall cost of the crisis could to rise to £15 billion.\n\nKingspan and Celotex have both admitted failings in the testing of their products.\n\nCelotex said it discovered discrepancies in the tests and some staff had been disciplined.\n\nKingspan said \"these matters do not reflect the organisation that we are or aspire to be, and significant actions have been taken and are in progress, that further underpin our commitment to fire safety and to professional conduct.\"\n\nArconic previously told the BBC its products could be used safely provided those who \"design the cladding system—such as architects, fabricators, contractors, or building owners... conduct their own full systems testing or analysis of the entire cladding system.\"", "Artwork: Hope will study how energy moves through the atmosphere of Mars\n\nThe United Arab Emirates is celebrating its first mission at Mars.\n\nIt has put a probe called Hope in orbit around the planet, making it only the fifth spacefaring entity to do so after the US, the Soviet Union, Europe and India.\n\nThe spacecraft, which left Earth seven months ago, had to make a braking manoeuvre to be sure of being captured by Mars' gravity.\n\nUAE scientists can now look forward to studying the planet's atmosphere.\n\nTheir satellite carries three instruments that will observe, among other targets, how neutral atoms of hydrogen and oxygen - remnants from Mars' once abundant water - leak into space.\n\nIn the process, Hope will return spectacular, high-resolution, full-disk images of the planet.\n\nTuesday marked the most critical phase in the mission.\n\nHope had been approaching Mars at over 120,000km/h (relative to the Sun) and needed to execute a precise 27-minute burn on its braking engines to scrub some of that speed or risk skipping off into ever deeper space.\n\nThe manoeuvre, performed by six thrusters on the probe, commenced at about 19:30 GST (15:30 GMT), with confirmation received at Earth some 11 minutes later - the delay being the time it took for radio signals to traverse the 190-million-km separation between Mars and Earth.\n\nA socially distanced crowd had gathered in Dubai's Burj Park to follow events on a big screen\n\nThe official announcement on the burn's completion when it came was calm, and the applause relatively restrained. Perhaps it was the relief speaking after a nerve-shredding wait for the positive telemetry.\n\n\"Mars orbit insertion was the most critical and dangerous part of our journey to Mars, exposing the Hope probe to stresses and pressures it has never before faced,\" said Omran Sharaf, the Hope mission's project director at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre\n\n\"With this enormous milestone achieved, we are now preparing to transition to our science orbit and commence science data gathering.\"\n\nIlluminations on the Burj Khalifa had been counting down to orbit insertion\n\nThe past few days have witnessed tremendous enthusiasm for Hope and its mission, with public monuments, buildings and heritage sites across the federation all lit up in red.\n\nDubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest human-made structure on Earth, had been flashing a countdown to Tuesday's big moment.\n\nHope is regarded as a triumph for a small gulf nation that dared to think seven years ago that it could inspire the next generation by launching the first Arab interplanetary space mission.\n\n\"We wanted to arrive at Mars; (I'm) really grateful, and it's like a weight of seven years has been lifted from my shoulders,\" said Her Excellency Sarah Al Amiri, UAE minister of state for advanced technology and chair of the UAE Space Agency.\n\n\"On arriving at Mars. I'm now truly looking forward to the scientific discoveries. And I truly hope this mission will impact an entire generation to strive to do things that are even bigger,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe Hope probe weighed 1,350kg at launch, much of that fuel\n\nHope is now running in an initial ellipse around Mars that comes as close as 1,000km from the planet and goes out to almost 50,000km. Over the course of the next few weeks, this will be trimmed to a 55-hour, 22,000km-by-43,000km orbit that is inclined to the equator by about 25 degrees.\n\n\"It depends on what that initial orbit looks like but we would need around three manoeuvres to get into our science orbit,\" said propulsion engineer Ayesha Sharafi.\n\nThis path is very different to those of previous satellites which have tended to operate with greater proximity to Mars to facilitate high-resolution imagery of the surface and communications with landed robots.\n\nBut it's from this high perch that Hope plans to carry out some novel research. It's going to trace how energy moves through the atmosphere from the very bottom to the very top.\n\nOne of the slogans for the mission has been \"Impossible is possible\"\n\nA key influencer in this respect is dust which can on occasions blow up into storms that envelop the entire planet.\n\n\"Dust plays a hugely important role in the Martian atmosphere. There are a few places on Earth where the atmosphere can be that dusty, but they're localised and maybe for short times,\" explained Prof David Brain, a University of Colorado at Boulder planetary expert who is working with the UAE team.\n\n\"Dust absorbs a lot of energy; it can become very warm and radiate energy. And so when you're talking about energy transport, dust is a much larger part of the big picture at Mars.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How long does it take to get to Mars and why is it so difficult?\n\nHope is leading a wave of missions to Mars this February.\n\nOn Wednesday, it will be the turn of China with its Tianwen-1 orbiter. Like Hope, it must complete a braking manoeuvre to be captured by the planet's gravity.\n\nTianwen-1 is carrying a rover that will be despatched to the surface, most likely in May.\n\nNext week, on Thursday 18 February, the Americans will arrive at Mars with another of their big rovers. The Perseverance robot is being aimed at a crater that once held a giant lake. It will look for signs of fossilised life.", "A new virtual festival is being launched to bring music, laughter and culture into our homes almost a year on from the first lockdown.\n\nIt will bring together four of Wales' major arts, music and comedy festivals and be broadcast as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine initiative.\n\nDirector of BBC Wales Rhodri Talfan Davies said Gŵyl 2021 would provide a much needed \"blast of creativity\".\n\nIt will be online and on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru on 6-7 March.\n\nThe event will see the first-ever joining of forces by Wales' Festival of Voice, new music event FOCUS Wales, the Aberystwyth Comedy Festival and Other Voices Cardigan.\n\nIt has been filmed and recorded in line with Covid restrictions in recent months while the pandemic has kept the public away from arts venues and concerts in Wales.", "Covid restrictions have made this year much tougher for young people already dealing with a cancer diagnosis.\n\nSophie, like many other young cancer patients, has had to attend appointments and treatments alone, with no family or friends at her side.\n\n\"My mum was crying, I was crying and she had to leave me at the door and drive off,\" the 24-year-old says.\n\nLast year, she was told she would need hospital treatment for five weeks, 70 miles away from home.\n\n\"We had to travel to Manchester so my mum drove me,\" Sophie says.\n\n\"We got to the door and I had my suitcase - I was struggling alone with this suitcase.\n\n\"My mum was terrified leaving me, because she was probably thinking, 'I can't be there to comfort her,' and as well, if things go wrong, would she be walking back out of the hospital?\"\n\nRules on who can visit have varied at different hospitals throughout the pandemic but official NHS England advice is that young cancer patients should be able to have friends and family supporting them at appointments in a Covid-safe way.\n\nMikaela, 18, from Frome, needed treatment for cancer last March.\n\nShe had three weeks of radiotherapy, fertility treatment to freeze her eggs and a biopsy operation.\n\nMikaela's mother was able to go with her for a couple of chemotherapy sessions - but lockdown rules changed that.\n\nAnd Mikaela had to attend appointments - and have a stem-cell transplant - alone.\n\nKathryn, 22, from Gwernaffield, in Flintshire, who has Hodgkin lymphoma, says the prospect of being isolated in hospital for up to six weeks without any of her family being there is difficult to comprehend.\n\n\"It's going to be extremely difficult going from shielding at home with my mum, dad and my brother around to not having my family there in person,\" she says.\n\n\"I know from friends going through similar things that having family there is really important - and I won't have that at all.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said it was \"absolutely clear that young cancer patients should be able to have friends and family supporting them at appointments, which is why the national guidance is explicit that this should be offered, in a Covid-safe way.\"\n\n\"It is important that families know cancer treatment is continuing across the country, so that young people can come forward for the care they need, with the right support.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care in England said: \"This pandemic is a uniquely challenging time, and we know it is particularly difficult for people who are suffering with a critical illness.\n\n\"The health, safety and wellbeing of patients is our top priority and we are committed to supporting the needs of patients by taking a compassionate approach that makes hospital visits possible, whilst managing the risk of infection.\n\n\"To make sure patients are given the care and support they need, our current guidance recommends that patients can be accompanied where appropriate and necessary, providing it happens in a Covid-secure way. \"\n\nTwo cancer charities - Teenage Cancer Trust and Clic Sargent - have written a letter to cancer ministers in the UK's four nations to highlight the issue.\n\nDr Louise Soanes, from Teenage Cancer Trust, said: \"Having cancer treatment, receiving a diagnosis or learning or hearing how you're responding to treatment can be for many a scary and isolating experience.\n\n\"Young people then need to share often very complex information - some of which they might be still processing - with family members, friends or a partner.\n\n\"That's why we want to dispel the disparity so all young people, where safe and possible, have that crucial loved one with them and a hand to hold, particularly during some of the most difficult times of their life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany sent 26 medics, ventilators and field hospital beds to help Portugal on Wednesday\n\nThe sight of a German military plane touching down in Lisbon on Wednesday, carrying intensive care specialists and ventilators to help save lives in Portugal's embattled hospitals, recalls the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe.\n\nLast spring, when Italy was overwhelmed by the first wave of infections, it was helped out by several other European countries taking in patients - even if many Italians felt it was too little, too late.\n\nNow, almost a year on, it is Portugal's turn.\n\nThe country's national health service is overwhelmed. There's a shortage of beds and specialist nurses, and in one hospital last week, potentially life-threatening problems in an overburdened oxygen system.\n\nThe German medics will spend three weeks helping their Portuguese colleagues\n\nPortugal got off relatively lightly in that first wave, although it later caught up in terms of confirmed cases relative to population.\n\nNow, though, the situation here is dramatically worse, with a giant third wave in January that has seen the country top global rankings for new cases and deaths associated with Covid-19.\n\nDaily new cases have recently been around 10 times their peak of last spring, and January accounted for 45% of all coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe lockdown imposed in mainland Portugal on 15 January does now seem to be reducing the transmission rate, but there is still a huge number of active cases.\n\n\"However low the R [rate] is, if the number of cases is high it is very difficult to get them down,\" said Ricardo Mexia, president of the Portuguese Association of Public Health Doctors. \"That's the problem now.\"\n\nRicardo Mexia blamed the January surge mainly on the decision to ease coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, although he also noted the rapid spread of the UK variant that had brought significantly more younger patients into hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe government, for its part, cited that more contagious variant, which now predominates among new cases, as its main reason for imposing a full lockdown.\n\nIn a sign of how fluid the situation is, just days after that announcement, it backtracked on its pledge to keep schools open, instead suspending face-to-face classes. With no date for schools to reopen, remote learning is to start up from 8 February.\n\nAmbulance queues built up outside hospitals as Portugal's wave of infections increased\n\nMeanwhile, the number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 continues to set new records and is currently more than five times the peak of last spring.\n\nWith barely half a dozen intensive care beds free in Portugal, the issue is not so much a lack of beds as shortages of specialist staff and equipment.\n\nThe medical staff, 50 ventilators and 150 beds flown in from Germany will help, but it merely highlights the tens of thousands of Portuguese nurses - including many specialists - who have emigrated in recent years.\n\nEight beds may not sound like much, but it is a lot for a health system under significant pressure\n\nThe situation is most acute in the Lisbon region, which is seeing around half of new cases and where hospitals have been struggling.\n\nA hospital in Amadora, just north of the capital, last week had to hurriedly transfer dozens of patients to other units in the region because of its overloaded oxygen network.\n\nAcross the River Tagus, ambulances this past weekend queued for more than 12 hours outside the main hospital in Almada, as its emergency department struggled with the flood of patients. Civil defence forces have since set up triage tents to free up ambulances.\n\nPrime Minister António Costa visited a Lisbon health centre on Wednesday to mark the start of vaccinations for people aged 80 and over who are not living in care homes. But that was later overshadowed by the resignation by the head of the vaccination taskforce.\n\nAlthough Mr Costa has insisted that lockdown is now paying off, the minister of health, Marta Temido, has warned the public that the crisis is far from over.\n\n\"This will be another week with a lot of pressure in terms of admissions and the next two weeks will probably be very difficult where intensive care is concerned,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Portugal became the first country to decriminalise all drugs for personal use\n• None How are Covid rules changing in Europe?", "Chinese officials launched the international channel at the end of 2016\n\nChina's state-owned broadcaster has had its licence to broadcast in the UK revoked by media watchdog Ofcom.\n\nOfcom said the company that owns the UK licence for China Global Television Network (CGTN) doesn't have day-to-day control over the channel, which is against its rules.\n\nStar China Media Limited (SCML), which owns the licence, \"did not have editorial responsibility\" over the English-language satellite news channel, Ofcom said.\n\n\"As such, SCML does not meet the legal requirement of having control over the licensed service, and so is not a lawful broadcast licensee.\"\n\nIn the UK, broadcasting laws say licensees must have control over their service and its editorial policies.\n\nOfcom said an entity called China Global Television Network Corporation is \"the ultimate decision maker\" over programmes.\n\nBut the regulator said it was unable to transfer the licence to that company because it is \"ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, which is not permitted under UK broadcasting law\".\n\nSuch a transfer was also not possible because \"crucial information was missing from the application\", while CGTN had \"repeatedly failed to respond to important questions\" and had not carried out a restructure, according to Ofcom.\n\nThe regulator said it had given the satellite news channel \"significant time to come into compliance with the statutory rules\". It added: \"Those efforts have now been exhausted.\"\n\nThe action to revoke the licence comes seven months after Ofcom found CGTN in breach of broadcasting regulations for airing a UK citizen's allegedly forced confession.\n\nIn July, Ofcom ruled that CGTN had been \"unjust\" to show footage of investigator Peter Humphrey \"appearing to confess to a criminal offence\". The channel was named CCTV News at the time of the broadcasts in 2013 and 2014.\n\nAnd last May, CGTN was found to have breached the UK's broadcasting code by failing to preserve due impartiality in its coverage of the Hong Kong protests.\n\nBarely half an hour after the Ofcom announcement, China's foreign ministry repeated its demand for a public apology from the BBC over its coverage of the pandemic in China. Some well-informed souls say that the timing may well have been genuinely coincidental - rather than a retaliatory gesture.\n\nChina has separately complained about the BBC's coverage of the mass detention of Uighur Muslims - which has prompted an international outcry - and the BBC's coverage of Covid-19. I'm told the BBC is standing by its reporting.\n\nThe context to all this is that in recent years, state broadcasters have become central to the international media ecosystem, seen as tools of soft power and propaganda.\n\nAnd there is a broader tech Cold War between China and the West, and particularly the US, over how open the internet should be.\n\nOnce upon a time global conflicts were mostly about land and natural resources. Today, they're increasingly about information.\n\nShortly after the Ofcom decision was announced, China said it had lodged \"stern representations\" to the BBC over what it called \"fake news\" in its coverage of Covid-19 and urged the broadcaster to apologise.\n\nThe corporation should \"stop harbouring ideological bias, stop smearing China, uphold professional ethics, and do objective, fair reporting on China\", China's foreign ministry said.\n\nThe BBC said it stood by its \"accurate and fair reporting of events in China and totally rejects these unfounded accusations of fake news or ideological bias\".", "Canada says the Proud Boys are a \"neo-fascist organisation\"\n\nCanada has designated the far-right group Proud Boys as a terrorist entity.\n\nPublic Safety Minister Bill Blair said the decision was influenced by the group's \"pivotal role\" in the 6 January riots at the Capitol in Washington, DC.\n\nThe designation allows the Proud Boys' assets to be frozen, and members of the groups could be charged with terrorist offences if they commit violent acts.\n\nThe group is all-male and anti-immigrant, and has a history of violent political confrontations.\n\nIt was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, the Canadian co-founder of Vice Media. Vice has since worked to distance itself from Mr McInnes and the Proud Boys\n\nThe Proud Boys' platform includes ideas espoused by former US President Donald Trump, libertarianism and traditional gender roles.\n\nThe group was mentioned by Mr Trump during the first US presidential debate last October.\n\nResponding to a question about white supremacist and militia groups, he said, \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by\", which members of the group online took as a call to prepare for action. Mr Trump later distanced himself from them.\n\nThe announcement in Canada comes one week after the US Department of Homeland Security warned of a \"heightened threat\" of domestic terrorism from violent extremists unhappy with the outcome of the presidential election.\n\nAnd just hours after the announcement, the US Justice Department announced it had arrested and charged a top member of the group's Seattle chapter. Ethan Nordean, 30, who is also known as Rufio Panman, is at least the eighth group member to be charged in connection with the Capitol riots.\n\nIn Canada on Wednesday, Mr Blair described a \"growing threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism\". He did not specify how many Proud Boy chapters are currently in Canada.\n\nThe Canadian Proud Boy groups had previously been thought of as disparate and disorganised, but the new designation suggests their perceived threat has been elevated.\n\nThe decision was made based on \"a trove of new information\", Mr Blair said. \"Over the past several months, basically since 2018, we have seen an escalation towards violence for this group [the Proud Boys].\"\n\nThe escalation has continued since the US presidential election, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Then-President Donald Trump said last October: \"I don't know who the Proud Boys are\"\n\nIn his announcement, Mr Blair referenced \"several different occasions\" of attacks in Canada from those with far-right and extremist ideologies. Last week, the country marked the four-year anniversary of a mass shooting in a Quebec mosque that killed six people and injured 19.\n\nDespite strict travel restrictions between the US and Canada, at least two Canadians later identified in media reports made it to Washington for last month's storming of the Capitol. And images and video of the 6 January riots show at least one Canadian flag held by someone in the crowd.\n\nCanada is the first country to give the Proud Boys a terrorist designation.\n\nTwo other far-right US groups - Atomwaffen Division and the Base - have also been designated by Canada as terrorist entities, along with several affiliates of the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda.\n\nA total of six white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have been designated by terrorist entities in Canada. Prior to 2018, no such groups were listed as a terrorist threat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Then-President Donald Trump said last October: \"I don't know who the Proud Boys are\"", "The new rules could make it harder for British bands to play at European festivals like Spain's Benicassim\n\nThe barriers facing British musicians who want to tour in the EU are \"absurd and self-defeating\", UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said.\n\nSince Brexit, British musicians face costly bills to obtain visas if they wish to play in some EU countries.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Dowden said the situation \"could have been solved\" before 1 January, and laid the blame with the European Union.\n\nSeveral MPs urged the government to return to the negotiating table.\n\n\"I know that the EU walked away from our offer, but it must be brought back to the table,\" said Conservative MP Giles Watling.\n\n\"Touring performers will be left with a double whammy of an industry devastated by Covid and the loss of an entire continent as a venue. Will he please bang the table and get the EU back to talk on this?\"\n\nCulture minister Nigel Huddleston replied that the \"door always remains open\" for further talks.\n\n\"A working group has been set up by the secretary of state to look at any obstacles which might face British performers seeking to tour,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU has previously said the UK government turned down its standard proposal of a visa waiver for musicians during Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe UK has insisted this offer \"would not have worked for musicians\" and was incompatible with the government's \"commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nThe EU also rejected a counter-proposal from the UK, the details of which have not been revealed.\n\nA petition on the issue is also due to be debated in Parliament on Monday.\n\nBacked by musicians including Dua Lipa, Biffy Clyro and Laura Marling, it calls for the government to \"negotiate a free cultural work permit\" that would allow bands and their crews to travel freely in the EU's 27 member states.\n\nOn Thursday, in preparation for the debate, the House of Commons petitions committee heard evidence from artists and touring professionals about the impact of Brexit on their livelihoods.\n\nOpera singer Anna Patalong said that, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, working in other European countries accounted for \"50% of my income\" - earnings which are now at risk.\n\nShe said the lack of a visa waiver meant \"all the artists in the UK are now in a worse position than musicians in the Congo and Columbia\".\n\nDance musician Yousef said it was \"pretty standard\" for DJs like himself to play in two or three European countries in one weekend. Having to arrange permits for each gig would make his career \"near impossible and unbelievably expensive\", he said.\n\nHe felt musicians were \"just not taken seriously\" by the government, adding: \"We're treated as if we're children playing in the toy room, but that's not the case at all.\n\n\"It's a very serious business run by hard-working music enthusiasts who don't ask for any support under normal circumstances.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dozens of environmental groups have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for a public inquiry into plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nThey say it is \"mystifying\" that No 10 has not stopped the mine from going ahead, when the UK is hosting the COP26 climate summit later this year.\n\nA top climate scientist has warned the PM risks \"humiliation\" over the plans.\n\nNo 10 said the UK is a world leader in climate policy and it would not reverse the decision.\n\nThe letter, signed by groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, criticises the decision not to intervene in the approval of the mine, when the UK's credibility - as summit host - is \"at stake\".\n\nThe letter to Mr Johnson describes the summit, which takes place in Glasgow in November, as \"the largest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement\".\n\nThe signatories acknowledge that whilst \"new jobs need to be created\", the government should \"lead the way with low-carbon technologies, rather than looking to the polluting industries of the past\".\n\nThe £165m West Cumbria Mining plan in Whitehaven was approved by Cumbria County Council in October. It would be the UK's first deep coal mine in 30 years.\n\nThe council said the government could have \"called in\" the plans for a public inquiry, but had chosen not to do so.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the local mayor welcomed the proposals.\n\nMike Starkie, the Conservative mayor of Copeland Borough Council, said: \"I think the project is absolutely fantastic, it'll bring huge amounts of jobs and prosperity into the area.\n\n\"It's been broadly welcomed across Copeland. I've never known a project that has carried so much public support.\"\n\nBut the campaigners say \"time is of the essence\" for the government to act, before Cumbria County Council issues its final decision on the mine \"very soon\".\n\nIn the letter, they urge Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for Housing, Communities and Local Government, to refer the plans to a public inquiry.\n\nThe government's chief planning officer previously defended Robert Jenrick's decision not to overrule consent for the mine\n\nThey write: \"Reversing this decision would help restore confidence in the UK government's climate leadership both internationally and at home.\"\n\nStanley Johnson, the prime minister's father, told the BBC it was a \"massive mistake in public relations terms\".\n\nHe said: \"How can we ask other countries to bring in their climate change reduction programmes when we are now reopening the whole coal argument here in Britain?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as Dr James Hansen, formerly Nasa's leading global warming researcher, urged Mr Johnson in a letter to halt production of the mine - or risk being \"vilified\".\n\nDowning Street has previously defended the decision over the mine as a local planning matter and insisted the UK is cutting emissions faster than any major economy and would end the use of coal for electricity by 2025.\n\nJustin Rowlatt, the BBC's chief environment correspondent, says when it comes to decarbonisation, the UK is a world leader.\n\nOur correspondent says the UK's coal consumption has decreased by 90% in the last five years and just four power stations still burn coal.\n\nDr Hansen's letter follows earlier criticism from the government's advisory body on global warming, the Climate Change Committee (CCC).\n\nIt warned the mine would increase global emissions and compromise the UK's legally binding carbon budgets.\n\nThe CCC said: \"The decision to award planning permission [for the mine] to 2049 will commit the UK to emissions from coking coal.\" The body said coking coal will have to stop by 2035 if the country is to meet its climate change targets.\n\nCORRECTION 7 February 2021: An earlier version of this story wrongly stated that the Conservative Environment Network opposes the proposed mine. Stanley Johnson is an ambassador for the group but was not speaking on its behalf.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have been breaking up house parties and stopping people visiting beauty spots while dealing with increases in violent crime\n\nUnprecedented changes in lifestyle in the coronavirus pandemic led to an acceleration in shifts in criminal behaviour in Wales, a crime expert has said.\n\nLevels of reported crime fell across Wales from October 2019-2020, including in the first few months of the pandemic.\n\nBut figures show reports of cyber crime, stalking and harassment spiked.\n\nProfessor Martin Innes said challenges were \"unprecedented\" in modern times.\n\nThe Cardiff University professor said while it was hard to predict the future, an increase in digital crime during the pandemic, teamed with the economic impact and increases in social tension mixed for a \"worrying cocktail\" for post-lockdown crime.\n\nPolice forces across Wales have repeatedly warned of being under immense pressure during the pandemic as they try to enforce Covid laws while dealing with serious and violent crime.\n\nRecent figures, released by the Office of National Statistics, show 245,591 crimes were reported to Welsh police forces between October 2019 and September 2020, a 7% fall on the year before, although this does not include fraud figures.\n\nThe number of fraud offences increased by 8% to 14,845 during the same period.\n\nWhile the number of burglaries (-18%), thefts (-22%) and shoplifting offences fell between September 2019-2020, stalking and harassment reports increased by 11% in Wales, with 36,770 reports.\n\nDomestic abuse charities also reported marked increases in calls for help when schools returned in September after abuse was not reported during lockdown.\n\nProf Innes, director of the Crime and Security Research Institute at Cardiff University, said crime had been shifting for years, but lockdown had seemed to accelerated rates of personal and digital crime, as people were stuck at home and spending more time online.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police saw the largest increase in reports of stalking and harassment offences, with 5,229 reports a 34% increase compared to the year before.\n\nIn North Wales police reported an increase in stalking and harassment crimes, as well as a rise in disability and transphobic hate crime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile the coronavirus pandemic has seen many acts of kindness, police have warned some criminals have used Covid-19 to scam people out of their life savings.\n\nFigures, published by Action Fraud, show victims of cyber crime and fraud in Wales have reportedly lost £35.4m, with almost 13,000 crimes reported since the start of lockdown on 23 March.\n\nHealth officials and police have warned scammers claiming to work for the NHS are targeting vulnerable people online offering fake Covid vaccines in return for cash or personal details.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police also reported a significant increase in romance fraud, with victims in west Wales losing £1.3m between January and November last year, with officers saying criminals are targeting the lonely in lockdown.\n\nProf Innes said that empty shops could become hot spots for anti-social behaviour when lockdown was eased\n\nProf Innes said the shift to cyber, such as online hate crime, drug dealing over apps, and smear campaigns, was a huge challenge for forces and they would need to invest in expertise and technology to be able to recover evidence.\n\nHe said the impact of the pandemic on drug trade, and gang operations like County Lines, was concerning, as criminal operations would have changed.\n\n\"Just like everybody else has changed their behaviour in the pandemic, those involved in drug behaviour have probably done the same... and probably some of those innovations they've made will stick.\"\n\nAt a recent North Wales Police and Crime panel Chief Constable Carl Foulkes said that officers were predicting an increase in \"digital cyber criminality\" and it would be a \"complex and challenging\" area for the future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He would push, shove and kick me out of bed\"\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael warned \"increased levels of serious violence and domestic abuse were likely to continue\" following the pandemic.\n\nIn a report to the South Wales Police and Crime Panel, Mr Michael said: \"The scale of the economic downturn and subsequent rate of recovery will fundamentally shape the post pandemic crime and disorder landscape in the medium to long term.\"\n\nHe added: \"People are spending more time online - increasing the risk of phishing, grooming, cyber attacks and sextortion.\n\n\"Payment preferences are also shifting to increasingly be online which again opens up opportunities for online fraud.\"\n\nMeanwhile reports of public order offences also increased across all four forces by 8%, with Dyfed-Powys Police recording an increase of 29% during the year to September 2020.\n\nIn Dyfed-Powys and Gwent Police areas, documents show the forces said crime had increased after lockdown measures were first eased in summer 2020.\n\nIn Gwent reports of sexual offences increased by 29% (from 128 to 126), but remained significantly lower than normal with the force saying less people were reporting the crime, while bike thefts increased by 25%, due to \"cycling being encouraged...during lockdown\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the Dyfed-Powys area drug offences increased during the first lockdown in March, before decreasing significantly later in 2020.\n\nThe force warned that public tensions remained high due to Covid restrictions, and this had led to the number of reports of public order offences remaining high.\n\nThere had been \"exponential\" increases in anti-social behaviour reports due to breaches of lockdown rules, it said.\n\nIn July and August, when restrictions began to ease, there was a sharp rise in violent attacks, but the force said this was down to an \"increase in alcohol related\" incidents.\n\nIn North Wales, by the start of December, officers had issued 582 fines for Covid-19 restriction breaches, with two £10k fines issued for illegal music events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Innes said when lockdown measures were eased again, anti-social behaviour and low level public disorder could spike in communities, and with people struggling due to losing their jobs, crime levels would return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\n\"People have been cooped up and there won't be an awful lot of things for people to do as the weather gets nicer,\" he said.\n\n\"We can already see some of the social tensions kind of bubbling away when you look across Europe.\n\n\"Longer term we are going to see a lot of empty shops and town centres are going to be very different than they have been... what we know is when you've got empty stores they act as a magnet for trouble.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Piers says he does not want to go on holiday, he only wants to go to school\n\nAll Piers says he wants to do is go to school every day. He does not even want a holiday - just school, school and more school.\n\nBut Piers, who lives with a form of autism, has not been able to finish the final year of his maths GCSE full-time in the classroom with his friends and teachers because of lockdown.\n\n\"I really love school,\" said the 18-year-old. \"It's my favourite thing.\"\n\nBut Piers, like some of his friends, has only been in class one day a week.\n\nThe head teacher at his south Wales school, for children with special educational needs, says that while missing large parts of their education has the \"biggest impact\" on children with additional needs, school is a \"safety net\" for both pupils and their families.\n\nAnd how Piers, who also has learning difficulties and sensory issues, has missed being in the classroom and around familiar faces.\n\n\"I don't want a holiday at all this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I just wanted to go to school every day. I only get to do one day a week as it is my final year.\"\n\nHe has struggled with home-schooling because of his \"sleeping issues\" - and the strict lockdowns in Wales have not just affected Piers' education but his mood too.\n\nMaths GCSE students Piers and Amy join a digital lesson during their one day in school a week\n\n\"I'm not able to go out and my mental health is deteriorating,\" said Piers, who lives in Monmouth.\n\n\"I've been very upset and sobbing every day. I've a sweet tooth and wanting to eat lots of chocolate.\n\n\"I love going to school because it is learning - you are made to do work - because when I'm at home I want to sleep all of the time. I'd rather be kept on my toes and be busy.\"\n\nPiers' story is one of how a student with additional educational needs is dealing with the uncertain challenges of a global health emergency.\n\nJust 20% of Crownbridge's pupils are in school during lockdown\n\n\"School for some of our children is the safety net, not only for the children but for the families,\" said Bethan Moore, acting head of Crownbridge Special School in Cwmbran.\n\n\"Sometimes it's just a bit of respite for the children to come to school.\"\n\nAbout 20 of Crownbridge's 116 pupils have been going into school during lockdown while the rest remain at home and have been offered remote learning.\n\n\"It was kind of annoying at first, with the mask and because of Covid you can't do things,\" added Piers' school friend Amy, 19, who is also studying for a GCSE in maths.\n\nSchool \"brings out the best\" in final year student Amy\n\n\"But I haven't found it that bad as we've done some fun things.\"\n\nAmy's mum Caroline, from Monmouth, said her daughter, who has autism, \"thrived\" in school as it \"brings out the best in her\".\n\n\"Since lockdown it has been particularly difficult,\" she said.\n\n\"But the school has made great efforts to engage with Amy at home and in school which is really important because Amy needs that routine, the teachers have made it fun.\n\n\"The online learning experience is new but it has taught her some new skills so the blended-learning approach has been positive.\"\n\nCrownbridge, like all schools across the UK, has had to rapidly adapt to challenge of continuing education and mitigating the risks of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our teacher will send learning packs home each week with targets,\" said teaching assistant Megan Israel.\n\n\"The parents then send the work back and we put it in the children's folders to ensure the children are not missing out.\"\n\nThe \"blended learning approach\" is also applied to physio and exercise targets for pupils with more acute and physical needs.\n\nBut Ms Israel said it was important some pupils could attend school to use the specialist equipment \"to meet their needs\".\n\nTeachers have worked closely with physiotherapists and speech and language therapists to ensure support is provided to families at home.\n\n\"We are concerned about the dip in their progress,\" added Ms Moore.\n\n\"But as far as Crownbridge concerned, we've been really good at working as a tight team, providing support for pupils and families who are blended learning at home.\"\n\nCrownbridge Special School has 116 pupils aged between two and 19 on its roll\n\nWelsh Government guidance on Covid measures allows for \"a practical and flexible approach\" for children with special educational needs.\n\nThe school has established small contact groups and intensified cleaning on site and some facilities are shut, like their hydro pool or the hall where pupils would undergo physiotherapy.\n\nSocial distancing, masks and other coronavirus prevention measures can be more difficult to implement in schools like Crownbridge where many children have difficulty communicating and need physical interaction.\n\nStaff wear face coverings around the school but Ms Moore says it becomes more difficult when they interact with the children \"who rely on the mouth and the speech and language to communicate\".\n\nSome of Crownbridge's pupils need to use specialist equipment\n\nThe Welsh Government has pledged to vaccinate special school staff who provide intimate personal care for children - and Crownbridge's staff are waiting for their Covid jabs.\n\nWhile there are limited numbers of children coming into school, they also provide opportunities for their pupils to learn from home, whatever their needs.\n\nTeacher Bethan Stokes has teenagers Elliot and Shay in class doing some sensory maths by singing a song about numbers and asking them to use a fly swat to splat piles of cream with different amounts of cherries on the top.\n\nAfter the excitement of making a mess in the classroom, they go to the sensory room to let off some steam.\n\n\"We try to keep it as normal as possible,\" said Ms Stokes.\n\n\"It's really difficult because obviously the children know things aren't normal because of the circumstances. I'm so proud of how they're coping.\"", "Sales of Australian wine to the UK have surged almost 30% in the last year as producers try to overcome crippling taxes on exports to China.\n\nWine producers have ramped up exports to Europe to a 10-year high, with the UK now the number one destination.\n\nChina increased taxes by a massive 212% in November following a trade spat with Australia which has also affected goods including lobsters and coal.\n\nWine Australia said the UK sales surge was helped by lockdowns and Brexit.\n\nThe value of wine exports to Europe climbed 22% last year, while \"standout performer\" the UK saw shipments jump 29% according to government figures.\n\nWine Australia, a government organisation set up to promote and regulate the wine industry, said demand increased at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and was boosted in the months leading up to Brexit.\n\nThe sharp rise in sales to Europe helped offset a big slump in exports to China in the last two months of 2020.\n\nWine exports to China fell just 1% in value last year, given that the high tariffs imposed by Beijing were only imposed in November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor the first nine months of last year, China was the biggest destination for Australia's wine exports, accounting for 39%.\n\nThe UK is now the biggest destination for Australian wine exports by volume, with Brits buying up 266 million litres (29.6 million cases) in 2020.\n\nThe most popular varieties were shiraz/syrah which accounted for 29% of UK sales last year, followed by chardonnay (25%) and cabernet sauvignon (10%).\n\n\"Due to the Covid lockdown they are not drinking wines in restaurants and cafes… but instead buying retail. Australian wines have sold extremely well in UK retail for decades,\" a Wine Australia spokesman told the BBC.\n\nChina's tensions with Australia started out as a political spat that spilled over into trade.\n\nOfficials in China have argued that some Australian wine is being sold cheaper there (dumped) than in its home market through the use of subsidies. Australia has rejected this claim.\n\nChina's commerce ministry said the tariffs, ranging from 107% to 212%, were temporary anti-dumping measures while it carried out a year-long investigation.\n\n\"The Australian government categorically rejects any allegation that our wine producers are dumping product into China,\" Australia's agriculture minister David Littleproud said in November.\n\n\"Australian wine is hugely popular both in China and across the globe due to its high quality and we are confident that a full and thorough investigation will confirm this.\"\n\nWine merchants in the UK have warned that drinkers could pay more per bottle on many European wines while choosing from a reduced range as the burden of post-Brexit paperwork takes effect.", "A hospitality lounge in the main stand has been converted into a vaccination centre\n\nCrystal Palace fans missing their home ground in lockdown can now book a visit - but only if they are eligible for the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe Premier League ground Selhurst Park is one of 39 large vaccination sites that opened this week - including theatres and a fire station.\n\nThere are now 1,500 vaccine centres, including smaller sites, in England.\n\nMore than 10 million people had received a first dose by Wednesday, 57 days after vaccination began.\n\nThe NHS is using the Glaziers Lounge in Selhurst Park's main stand - used in the times before the pandemic for pre-match drinks and hired out for functions - to deliver vaccinations to people living in and around south-east London.\n\nAt a recent post-match news conference, veteran manager Roy Hodgson - himself in the age group currently eligible for vaccinations - said he was pleased the club had \"stepped forward and shown how much we care\" by offering up part of the stadium to the NHS.\n\nIt is not the only sports stadium to be included in the latest batch of vaccination centres, with jabs also being delivered at Colchester FC's Jobserve Community Stadium, the Twickenham Stoop stadium - home to the Harlequins rugby union team - and the John Smith's Stadium in Huddersfield.\n\nAt Basingstoke Fire Station, firefighters will also help out with the vaccination programme when they are not responding to emergencies.\n\nNHS England said it is now delivering vaccinations at 90 large-scale sites, 192 High Street pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP-led centres and more than 250 \"hospital hubs\".\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England's national medical director, said: \"I've seen first-hand what getting vaccinated means to those who are jabbed, their families and loved ones, and as more supply becomes available, we are able to expand the scale of this huge programme.\"\n\nTheatres such as the Cliffs Pavilion in Southend and the Corn Exchange Theatre in Kings Lynn are also among the new mass vaccination centres.\n\nThe UK has used a wide range of locations for its vaccine rollout, with people able to get immunised at such disparate venues as Salisbury Cathedral, Blackpool Winter Gardens and a disused Debenhams department store in Folkestone, Kent.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK is conducting a trial to see if giving different vaccines for the first and second dose could work as well - or even better - than two doses of the same type.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe woman accused of killing Harry Dunn was \"employed by an intelligence agency in the US\" at the time of the crash, a court has heard.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was in a crash with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.\n\nSuspect Anne Sacoolas returned to the US, claiming diplomatic immunity, and an extradition request was blocked.\n\nA court in Virginia has heard her work was \"especially a factor\" in her leaving the UK.\n\nHer barrister told the court she fled the UK for \"security issues\" and feared she would \"not get a fair trial\" if she returned.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nThe comments about her role were made at a court in the state, where an application to dismiss a civil claim for damages submitted by Mr Dunn's family is being heard.\n\nWhen asked by the judge why Mrs Sacoolas had \"fled\" the UK, her barrister John McGavin said he could not respond \"completely candidly\".\n\n\"I know the answer but I cannot disclose it,\" he said.\n\nThe statement in a US court that Anne Sacoolas was a US intelligence official is a potentially enormous and important twist in the family's fight for justice - and it raises further questions about what the Foreign Office knew about her status in the UK.\n\nThe US long ago signed an agreement that its staff at RAF Croughton could not claim diplomatic immunity for actions beyond their duties. In other words, they could be potentially prosecuted for a crime.\n\nBut the High Court ruled last year that Ms Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity because that deal - known as a waiver - did not include the dependants of US staff.\n\nIt was an extraordinary and unintended loophole that has now been closed under a revised agreement between the countries.\n\nIf Ms Sacoolas did indeed work for US intelligence, that could mean the US had no right to claim in 2019 that she had immunity in the first place. Her actions may have been covered under the Croughton waiver, or another US-UK agreement that we don't know about.\n\nAnd that's why the family now want the Foreign Office to clarify what her status was.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, family spokesman Radd Seiger called on the UK government to \"urgently reinvestigate\" whether Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity, given \"the admission in open court by Mrs Sacoolas's counsel that she was employed by US intelligence services at the time of the crash\".\n\nUnder the agreements at RAF Croughton dating back to 1995, anyone working at the base from the US as part of the \"administrative and technical staff\" would have their immunity pre-waived, meaning they would not be immune from criminal jurisdiction.\n\nThe Dunn's barrister Agnieszka Fryszman had earlier told the court the British government had endorsed the civil claim and called on the judge not to dismiss it.\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles want Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK\n\nMrs Sacoolas, whose husband was based at RAF Croughton, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after the crash.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by Donald Trump's secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January 2020 and last week the new Biden administration said the decision was final.\n\nThe judge said he would decide on the application ahead of a further hearing at the same court on 17 February.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Angela Wrightson was subjected to a seven-hour attack in her home\n\nTwo teenagers who tortured and murdered a vulnerable woman in her own home have been granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe girls were 13 and 14 when they subjected Angela Wrightson, 39, to a vicious attack in Hartlepool.\n\nBoth were jailed for a minimum of 15 years in April 2016.\n\nThey were not named then because of their age and an interim injunction extended that anonymity after they turned 18. On Thursday, the High Court upheld the ban on naming the pair.\n\nAt a hearing in London last year, their barrister argued both teenagers suffer from \"recognisable mental conditions\" and were \"extremely psychologically vulnerable\", adding they would be at \"a very significant risk\" of being attacked if their identities were revealed.\n\nIn her ruling, Mrs Justice Tipples was unconvinced by arguments based on the threat of attack by others, but upheld the anonymity orders on mental health grounds and the risk of self-harm.\n\nMiss Wrightson, pictured aged 34, had let her killers into her Hartlepool home\n\nMiss Wrightson died after being subjected to an attack lasting seven hours.\n\nShe was hit with a shovel, a TV, a coffee table and a stick studded with screws after she let the pair into her Stephen Street home in December 2014.\n\nThe girls posted a photograph on Snapchat showing them smiling with Miss Wrightson pictured in the background shortly before her death.\n\nIn her judgement, in which the teenagers were referred to as D and F, Mrs Justice Tipples said the killing had \"resulted in public outrage and revulsion, together with public concern about how these two young girls could commit such a brutal murder\".\n\nHowever, she went on to describe it as \"an exceptional case in which the balance is tipped very firmly in favour\" of protecting the pair's right to remain anonymous.\n\n\"The trial took place in public and was fully reported at the time it took place. All matters relating to this offence are in the public domain, except for the identities of D and F.\n\n\"I am clear on the evidence before me that revealing the claimants' identities is likely to cause each of them very serious harm.\n\n\"It is both necessary and proportionate to grant the injunctions sought so that both their identities are protected and not revealed.\"\n\nLifelong anonymity is so rare there are only nine convicted criminals who have this protection in England and Wales, plus a number of their descendants.\n\nThe individuals given this exceptional protection include the killers of James Bulger - the case that set the test for future orders - and, more recently, Britain's once-youngest teenager to be convicted of a terrorism plot.\n\nUnder the law, the state must take reasonable steps to protect everyone's right to life. In other words, the long-term personal safety of the offender outweighs the legal rights of the media and the public to identify them.\n\nIn the Wrightson case, there was another very important consideration. A member of court staff saved Child F from killing herself during the trial.\n\nThe compelling medical evidence for her anonymity application showed she would become suicidal again if she were named now she is an adult.\n\nAnd so, under the law, it's that right to life - and perhaps a chance for rehabilitation - that means the two young women will never be named.\n\nThe court was told D's mental health had \"deteriorated\" as she approached being moved to an adult prison, while F had an \"extensive history of mental health problems\".\n\nMrs Justice Tipples concluded: \"I will give judgment in favour of the claimants and grant permanent injunctions preventing them from being identified.\"\n\nThe ruling contains provision for a review \"in the event there is a material change of circumstances\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is \"risking lives\" by being too slow to implement a hotel quarantine plan, Labour has claimed.\n\nBoris Johnson confirmed in January UK residents returning from Covid hotspots would have to quarantine in hotels, but a timetable has not yet been set.\n\nLabour has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to urge her to end the delays and get on with it.\n\nBut ministers insist there is not a delay and they are working on the scheme \"at pace\".\n\nThe prime minister had said there would be an announcement on hotel quarantine on Thursday but Downing Street later said he was \"misinformed\".\n\nPriti Patel told MPs to expect a statement this week but a Downing Street spokesman said it will not now come until next week.\n\nIt comes as a further 915 people died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the UK, according to the government's daily figures.\n\nThis brings the total number of people to die within 28 days of a positive Covid test to 110,250.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the government of having \"lurched from one crisis to another\" in the absence of a \"clear strategy\" on Covid border security.\n\n\"The UK is in a race against time to secure our borders against emerging strains of the virus, yet not only are there no hotel quarantine arrangements in place, the plans for how they will work have not even been announced,\" he said in a letter to Priti Patel.\n\nHe raised concerns that discussions with major hotel chains had not begun and that the police did not have the extra capacity to take on extra enforcement work.\n\nHe claimed a lack of competence was \"putting lives at risk and could potentially undermine the vital progress being made by vaccine\".\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said Labour had \"spent the entire pandemic flip flopping on border control\".\n\nThey said the government had taken \"firm action\" including requiring everyone arriving in the UK to isolate.\n\nLabour has called on the government to extend hotel quarantining to those returning to the UK from all countries, not just the areas on the \"red list\".\n\nBut the Conservatives described the plan as \"implausible\" arguing it would mean putting around 20,000 people in hotels every day.\n\nThe government has yet to publish data for the number of people entering the country in December and January.\n\nBut on 21 January, Paul Lincoln, the director-general of UK Border Force, told MPs that on Monday 18 January, \"we had about 21,000 people coming into the country.\"\n\nFollowing the emergence of new coronavirus variants from other countries, there has been growing pressure on the government to toughen border restrictions.\n\nIn January, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that all international passengers would have to test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to the UK.\n\nAnd at the end of January, Mr Johnson said UK nationals and residents returning to the country from 30 \"red list\" Covid hotspots would have to quarantine in hotels for ten days.\n\nHowever, as of Thursday hotel industry leaders said they are \"yet to hear details\" of the government's plans.\n\nRob Paterson, head of the Best Western hotel chain in the UK, told the BBC that beyond \"very broad information\" about timings, hoteliers had not had \"any discussions at all\" with government.\n\nChief Executive of industry body UK Hospitality, Kate Nicholls, said hotels were \"ready to provide assistance\" but \"we are yet to hear any details on the scheme.\"\n\nThe Immigration Services Union - which represents workers for the UK Border Force - also claimed \"nothing has been communicated\" to them or staff.\n\nSome workers, such as pilots and seasonal agricultural workers are exempt from quarantine and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly from England's.\n\nHave you recently entered the UK from a hotspot such as South Africa? Are you planning to travel soon? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website 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.", "Omar Latif, from Cardiff, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange\n\nA convicted terrorist who was jailed for his role in an al Qaida-inspired terrorist group is suing the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).\n\nOmar Latif, from Cardiff, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange. He was released in 2016.\n\nThe MoJ imposed new conditions on Latif's licence after Usman Khan's murderous London Bridge attack while on licence following his early release.\n\nThe MoJ is defending itself against Latif's claim and argues the additional licence conditions imposed on him are lawful.\n\nThe nine men jailed in 2012, which included Khan, had also tried to raise funds to build a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and recruit British people to attend.\n\nLatif, now 36, was 28 when he was jailed for 10 years and four months for attending meetings with the intention of assisting others to prepare or commit acts of terrorism.\n\nUsman Khan, who was one of those jailed alongside Latif in 2012, went on to murder two people in the London Bridge terror attack\n\nLatif was automatically released from prison halfway through his sentence in February 2016, but was recalled to prison the following September over allegations he tampered with his electronic monitoring tag.\n\nLatif, who said the damage to his tag most likely occurred when he was playing football, was again released on licence in May 2018 on terms set by the Parole Board.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nOn 29 November 2019, Khan fatally stabbed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, during a prisoner rehabilitation event at Fishmongers' Hall, near London Bridge, in central London while out on licence.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, halfway through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nFive days later, Latif, who maintains he had \"no contact\" with Khan since they were in the same prison in 2016, was told that \"senior officials\" at the MoJ had imposed new conditions on his licence.\n\nHis lawyers say the additional conditions, which prevent him from attending \"any meetings or gatherings of more than 50 people\", or entering the City of London without prior permission, are unlawful.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Wednesday, Dan Squires QC said Justice Secretary Robert Buckland appeared to have \"personally\" requested additional licence conditions for all terrorist offenders following the London Bridge attack.\n\nFishmongers Hall, below London Bridge, which is where Khan murdered Mr Merritt and Ms Jones\n\nMr Squires argued the MoJ \"has no power unilaterally to add to or vary conditions on [Latif's] licence without the approval of the Parole Board,\" meaning the new conditions were unlawful.\n\nLatif \"had no involvement in, or prior knowledge of, the London Bridge attack\" and was \"horrified to hear of the attack and the role of Khan in it\", Mr Squires said.\n\nThe hearing before the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and Mr Justice Swift is expected to conclude on Thursday morning.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty: \"Vaccines are going to protect in three different ways\"\n\nThe UK is \"past the peak\" of the current wave of the pandemic but infection rates are still high, England's chief medical officer says.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths were on a \"downward slope\" but that did not mean there would not be another peak.\n\nBoris Johnson praised the \"colossal\" effort to vaccinate 10 million people, including 90% of those aged over 75.\n\nBut the NHS was still under \"huge pressure\", the prime minister said.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing, Prof Whitty said while the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 had reduced \"quite noticeably\", it was still above that of the first peak in April 2020.\n\n\"So this is still a very major problem, but it is one that is heading the right way,\" he said.\n\nProf Whitty said infection rates were \"coming down but they are still incredibly high\".\n\nIf the rate was to increase again \"from the very high levels we are at the moment the NHS will get back into trouble extraordinarily fast\", he added.\n\nHis comments were echoed by the prime minister, who warned the level of infection was still \"forbiddingly high\" and that it was too soon to relax current restrictions.\n\nOn Wednesday the UK recorded a further 1,322 deaths reported within 28 days of a positive test for coronavirus, bringing the total number of people who have died by this measure to 109,335, while a further 19,202 new cases were recorded.\n\nMr Johnson told the briefing: \"Though today there are some signs of hope - the numbers of Covid patients in hospital are beginning to fall for the first time since the onset of this new wave - the level of infection is still alarmingly high.\"\n\nThere are also about 32,000 Covid patients in hospital, he added.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped schools in England would be able to begin reopening from 8 March, as evidence showed the coronavirus vaccines reduced \"death and serious illness\" from the main strains of the disease.\n\nBut he insisted the government would not be opening schools any earlier than this date, despite First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying that schools in Scotland would begin a phased reopening from 22 February.\n\nElsewhere, the Welsh government is due to make a decision by the end of the week on whether to reopen its schools after the February half-term.\n\nProf Whitty said schools in England had been managing to \"hold the line\" and remain open up until the new, more transmissible variant of the virus hit.\n\nHe said it was up to ministers to decide the opening dates for schools but that he was confident the risk to children of getting Covid-19 was \"incredibly low\".\n\nMeanwhile, he warned that predictions that every adult could offered a first dose of a vaccine by May and a second by August were \"at the very optimistic end\" due to supply constraints.\n\nMr Johnson said at the news conference the government would be sticking with its \"cautious\" approach.\n\nHe said ministers would outline a \"route map\" out of lockdown on 22 February and that the country would be in \"a very different situation\" to last summer, when disease levels had been reduced but there was no vaccine.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first. A list of nine high-priority groups which covers about 32 million people - including 90-99% of those most at risk of dying - is being followed, with an aim to vaccinate the first four by 15 February.\n\nThere is a lot to be hopeful for. The vaccine rollout is going well. Infection levels and the numbers in hospital are coming down - and there are early signs the same is happening with deaths.\n\nProgress should continue in the coming weeks as the impact of vaccination starts to kick in - deaths could then start falling rapidly.\n\nBut the great unlocking will have to be slow.\n\nWhy? While the numbers in hospital are coming down, it's from an incredibly high base. There are still 50% more patients in hospital now than there were during the first peak.\n\nThe pressures are going to be severe for some time.\n\nWhat is more, come mid-February when all the over 70s will have been offered the jab, there will still be significant numbers at risk of hospitalisation if they are infected.\n\nMost deaths are in the over-70s, but close to half of hospital cases are in the under-70s. A delicate balance will have to be struck until the over-50s are protected.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the results of a study which showed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine might reduce the spread of coronavirus as \"absolutely superb\".\n\nThe researchers behind the jab have also said that a vaccine to tackle variants of the virus could be ready to deploy by the autumn should they be needed.\n\nA \"small number\" of cases of the coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa have been found in Birmingham as well as three cases without any travel history in Wales.\n\nIt comes after door-to-door testing has been launched to detect the mutation, which is thought to be more infectious but not necessarily more deadly.\n\nThe prime minister also led a clap for fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died with coronavirus in Bedford Hospital on Tuesday.", "A man has been charged in connection with alleged threats made against SNP politician Joanna Cherry.\n\nThe Edinburgh South West MP reported the incident to officers on Monday.\n\nThis was the same day Ms Cherry was dropped from her justice role on the SNP's frontbench team at Westminster.\n\nPolice Scotland said a 30-year-old man had been charged with a communications offence and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter praised his side's \"courage, quality and togetherness\" as they stunned Liverpool at Anfield to move 10 points clear of the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nSteven Alzate got a fortuitous but deserved winner for Brighton, who are now unbeaten in four league matches, while the Reds' recent struggles at home continued.\n\nLiverpool, who are seven points behind leaders Manchester City having played a game more, have not won at home since 16 December and have failed to score in three consecutive games at Anfield for the first time since October 1984.\n\nAfter going 68 games without a league defeat at their home ground, Jurgen Klopp's side have now also lost back-to-back games there.\n\nDan Burn should have put the visitors ahead in the first half, only to slice over the crossbar, but it was the defender's header across goal that set up the winner.\n\nNathaniel Phillips could only get a toe to it and the ball deflected off Alzate and beyond stand-in Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher.\n\n\"We fought when we had to - we had to block and defend as a team - but I thought we showed quality when we attacked and courage and bravery with the ball,\" said Potter.\n\n\"To come here and get the result we have, I think you have got to be close to perfect. I thought we were.\n\n\"Fantastic performance. I thought the players were amazing. Such courage, quality, togetherness.\"\n\nIt lifts Brighton to 15th in the table, while Liverpool slip to fourth after Leicester City's win at Fulham.\n• None Listen to reaction in the Football Daily podcast\n\nBrighton boss Potter said going to Anfield was \"as tough a test as you will get in football\", but it was one the Seagulls rose to superbly.\n\nThis was not a smash-and-grab in the style of Burnley's victory last month, but a controlled and disciplined performance from a side who have now kept four successive clean sheets.\n\nThey have also recorded back-to-back wins against so-called 'big six' sides - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - after seeing off Spurs on Sunday.\n\nWing-back Burn caused problems from the left and turned Neal Maupay's deflected effort over the crossbar in the first half, but showed more composure to nod across goal for Alzate's first Premier League goal.\n\nLiverpool added more urgency to their game in a bid to find a leveller, but in a game of few chances it was still the visitors who created the better of them.\n\nKelleher, in for Alisson who was suffering from illness, had to make a smart saves from Leandro Trossard and Pascal Gross to stop Brighton doubling their lead.\n\nAt the other end, Potter's side reduced the champions to just one shot on target as the Seagulls recorded their first league win at Anfield since 1982.\n\n\"We needed a little bit of luck, but at the same time I thought we earned that luck and it's an amazing performance and a fantastic result,\" he added. \"We contributed to the game, tried to attack, tried to play.\n\n\"The three points are really important. We need to carry on. We don't get too down when things don't go our way and shouldn't get too excited when they do go our way. It's the nature of the league - things turn around quickly.\"\n\nFor almost four years, Liverpool were unbeatable in the league at Anfield, but the Reds have now lost at home to both Burnley and Brighton in two weeks.\n\nKlopp's side looked to have reignited their title challenge between those defeats with wins at Tottenham and West Ham but, after Mohamed Salah lifted an early chance over the crossbar on Thursday, the recent struggles at home returned.\n\nThe Reds have found it hard to break down compact defences and went almost half an hour without even having a shot in the first half, before another long-range Salah effort was blocked outside the penalty area.\n\nThose were the only two attempts Liverpool could muster before the break, their fewest in the first half of any league game this season as they struggled to stretch Brighton.\n\nThere was more intent from the hosts after the interval but the closest they came was when Salah fired narrowly wide from Trent Alexander-Arnold's low, driven cross.\n\nKlopp's team have not won at home since beating Tottenham on 16 December.\n\nPerhaps more worryingly for the German, they have not scored at Anfield for 348 minutes - since Sadio Mane's goal 12 minutes into the 1-1 draw with West Brom on 27 December.\n\nIt is the first time Liverpool have gone three home leagues game without a goal in more than 36 years, while they become only the second reigning Premier League champion to do so after Manchester United in their final three home games of the 2001-02 season.\n\nKlopp needs to find an answer to his side's attacking lethargy at home before they welcome a Manchester City side who have kept six successive clean sheets on Sunday.\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Disappointed, nothing to smile about really. Tough one to take. A really tough week - two away games, two very intense games - and tonight we looked really like we weren't fresh enough mentally and physically.\n\n\"A lot of moments where we gave the ball away too easily, in moments the boys looked tired mentally. I know they can pass the ball from A to B but it didn't happen. We made it easy for Brighton but they also did really well.\n\n\"Brighton deserved to win, no doubt about it. For me, it's more important to find an explanation for why we lost this game and understand what happened here. We didn't look convincing.\"\n\nBrighton manager Potter: \"We showed courage when we had the ball and when we didn't. We defended with our lives. We limited a good team to not too many chances. We had a few ourselves.\n\n\"You have to be disciplined here. Huge credit to the players who worked so hard. I can't speak highly enough of the character of performance - sensational.\n\n\"It's not an easy place to get points. They're a top team. We're just trying our best in this league. Every game we face a huge task. It's one for the supporters and everyone involved in the club. It's not often a club like us come here and win.\"\n• None Liverpool have lost consecutive home league games for the first time since September 2012, having been unbeaten in 68 at Anfield before this.\n• None Brighton beat Liverpool for the first time in 13 meetings - the last time was a 2-0 FA Cup win in 1984.\n• None Brighton have won three of their past four Premier League games (one draw), as many as they had in their previous 23.\n• None This was the first time the Seagulls have won back-to-back league games since November 2019.\n• None Brighton have conceded just 10 goals in 11 Premier League games with Robert Sanchez in goal this season (five clean sheets).\n• None Alzate became the fourth player this season to score his first Premier League goal in a match against Liverpool at Anfield, the most to have done so in a single season since 1998-99.\n\nLiverpool host Manchester City in the league on Sunday (16:30 GMT), while Brighton visit Burnley on Saturday (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\n• None Attempt saved. Dan Burn (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Alzate with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Neal Maupay.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Neal Maupay tries a through ball, but Dan Burn is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How has Pep turned things round and can Micah get Timo Werner firing?\n• None How Kanye West challenged ideas about rap and religion", "The government has ruled all Huawei 5G kits must be removed from UK networks by 2027\n\nThe UK will be left vulnerable without a new government strategy on emerging technologies, a parliamentary committee is warning.\n\nA U-turn on using the Chinese company Huawei had left the government over-reliant on a small group of 5G technology suppliers, MPs said.\n\nIts subsequent strategy to deal with this had been too vague and too late.\n\nAnd the issue could be repeated in other areas such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI).\n\n5G mobile telecoms networks are being rolled out in the UK, with the hope they boost connectivity and economic growth.\n\nBut the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee found the process had been made more costly and delayed by the government's decision, last year, to remove Huawei equipment from the network because of concerns over security and US sanctions.\n\nAnd only two other companies could supply the crucial technology, leading to fresh concerns about security and resilience.\n\nThe government's 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy proposes using technology based around open standards.\n\nBut the committee warned this was not a \"silver bullet\" and other options should be considered.\n\nAnd it wants a more detailed plan in the next three months.\n\nBut 5G was not the only emerging technology of critical importance to the UK's future, the committee said.\n\nAnd the problems with it were not a \"one-off\".\n\nAI and quantum computing could also bring significant benefits and threats, especially with growing divergence from China.\n\nAnd this required more work to avoid another \"supplier squeeze\".\n\nThe committee called for a risk assessment and action plan in the next year.\n\nIt wants the government to do more to actively manage research and development, driving the effort of industry and academia to meet long-term objectives.\n\nAnd it said there was a need to co-operate more with like-minded countries, for instance on diversifying the telecoms market.\n\n\"A lack of strategic foresight in 5G has seen the UK become dependent on only two vendors for a crucial technology,\" Greg Clark, who chairs the committee, said.\n\n\"We must learn from this experience to avoid making our economy and security vulnerable from a lack of acceptable alternatives in emerging technologies.\"\n\n\"As technologies develop at an ever faster rate, more time must not be lost.\"", "Michaela Coel starred in, wrote and co-directed I May Destroy You\n\nFans of British TV drama I May Destroy You on both sides of the Atlantic have expressed \"rage\" over the show's snub in the Golden Globe award nominations.\n\nWritten by, starring and co-directed by Michaela Coel, the BBC drama was one of the most acclaimed series of last year.\n\nDeborah Copaken, a writer for Netflix's Emily in Paris, said her excitement at her own show's two nominations was \"tempered by my rage over Coel's snub\".\n\nCoel got some consolation in the Screen Actors Guild nominations on Thursday.\n\nShe was nominated for best female actor in a TV movie or limited series in the guild's awards, where she will go up against Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy and Kerry Washington.\n\n\"I May Destroy You was my whole jam,\" said Hamilton star Daveed Diggs after reading out Coel's SAG nomination.\n\nI May Destroy You charts the fallout from a sexual assault after protagonist Arabella's drink is spiked. Writing after the Golden Globe shortlists were announced on Wednesday, Copaken praised the series as \"sheer genius\".\n\nShe wrote in The Guardian: \"'That show,' I told everyone who would listen, 'deserves to win all the awards.' When it didn't, I was stunned. I May Destroy You was not only my favourite show of 2020. It's my favourite show ever.\n\n\"It takes the complicated issue of a rape - I'm a sexual assault survivor myself - and infuses it with heart, humour, pathos and a story constructed so well, I had to watch it twice, just to understand how Coel did 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 Deborah Copaken This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers showing their support included actress and director Alice Lowe, who said I May Destroy You \"dwarfed\" the other programmes on the Golden Globes shortlist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alice Lowe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriter Akilah Green, whose shows include A Black Lady Sketch Show and Black Monday, admitted the drama \"sent almost every writer I've talked to about it back to the lab\", while Coronation Street and Beautiful Thing writer Jonathan Harvey said: \"I May Destroy You was the standout TV drama of the year. Hopefully Bafta will appreciate how lucky we are to have this home-grown talent.\"\n\nShameless and The Phantom of the Opera star Emmy Rossum added: \"I May Destroy You is the best show of the year. It's not even debatable.\"\n\nUS actress Rachel Zegler, who will star in the forthcoming West Side Story film, also voiced her support, saying the drama was \"one of the greatest series I have ever seen and you all should go watch it immediately\".\n\nUS comic Kathy Griffin said the \"upside\" to the show being snubbed was that \"more people will discover Michaela Coel's masterpiece\", adding: \"Such a riveting series\".\n\nLily Collins was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in Emily in Paris\n\nI May Destroy You was also among former US President Barack Obama's favourite TV series of last year.\n\nIn the series, Coel's character goes through a range of emotions, including humour, to process what has happened to her, which the writer and actress said mirrors the experiences she went through herself.\n\nShe previously told the BBC she wanted to reflect this in the drama, saying: \"We respond to trauma and triggering situations in many different ways, it's not always a pity party.\"\n\nThe Golden Globes are voted for by 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, all international journalists based in California.\n\nNetflix's The Crown led this year's Golden Globe TV nominations with six, while Steve McQueen's landmark Small Axe series and Normal People were among other BBC programmes that received nominations.\n\nOther British nominees for the Screen Actors Guild awards included Hugh Grant for The Undoing; The Crown stars Olivia Colman, Emma Corrin and Josh O'Connor; and Bridgerton actor Rege-Jean Page.\n\nRiz Ahmed, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Vanessa Kirby and Carey Mulligan were recognised in the film categories.\n\nDaniel Kaluuya was recognised for Judas and the Black Messiah, while Sacha Baron Cohen was nominated for The Trial Of The Chicago 7.\n\nSacha Baron Cohen returned as Borat 14 years after the original film\n\nDespite being nominated by the Golden Globes for playing Borat, Baron Cohen won't be nominated for an acting award for portraying the Kazakh character at Britain's Bafta Awards, and his comedy sequel won't be in the running for the Bafta for best film.\n\nThey did not feature on the Baftas longlists, which were also revealed on Thursday. However, Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat's teenage daughter and who appeared in an infamous scene with US lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was on the longlist for best supporting actress.\n\nBaron Cohen was only longlisted for his role in film drama The Trial of the Chicago 7.\n\nDa 5 Bloods director Spike Lee was among the other big names missing from the longlists, which will be whittled down to the final shortlists when the Bafta nominations are announced on 9 March.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hound will be replaced by comedian Matt Richardson\n\nComedian Rufus Hound has withdrawn from Dancing On Ice after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe star had already been forced to sit out last week's show for coming into contact with someone with Covid-19.\n\nHe revealed his own diagnosis in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the rules on Dancing on Ice are completely cut and dry, very strict, because they need to keep everybody on that production as safe as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"So it seemed like when I was just quarantining, there might be a window of opportunity for me to be able to get back to the show, a window that I now know doesn't exist.\"\n\n\"And that sucks,\" he added, before paying tribute to his professional skating partner Robin Johnstone, whom he called \"human sunshine\" and a \"tremendous pal\".\n\nComedian Matt Richardson and professional skater Vicky Ogden will replace Hound and his partner Robin Johnstone.\n\nHound, who previously won a Christmas edition of Strictly Come Dancing, impressed judges with his first Dancing On Ice appearance three weeks ago.\n\nHis Super Mario-themed routine earned him a golden ticket from the show's judges, meaning he progressed straight to the third week of the competition without facing a public vote.\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 Dancing on Ice 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 Dancing on Ice\n\nAn ITV statement confirmed he had now left the show, saying: \"Although Rufus and his partner Robin's time on the ice has been all too brief, they can be truly proud of their achievements.\n\n\"We thank them for all their hard work and commitment to the show.\"\n\nHound is not the first contestant to leave this year's series - with actor and singer Denise Van Outen forced to withdraw after dislocating her shoulder in training.\n\nReality TV star Billie Shepherd also took time away from the competition after a family bereavement.\n\nInstant withdrawal from the competition for any contestant who tests positive for Covid has become a necessary requirement for many reality TV shows in recent months.\n\nBoxer Nicola Adams and her partner Katya Jones had to leave the most recent series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing after three weeks, when Jones tested positive during one of the show's routine checks.\n\nCampmates on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! were tested every three days, and ITV remains hopeful of screening a 2021 series of Love Island, with contestants subject to regular tests and instant replacement should they become infected with Covid.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police vehicles at Crosshouse in Kilmarnock on Thursday night\n\nAt least one person is reported to have been stabbed during three \"serious incidents\" in East Ayrshire.\n\nUniversity Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock was placed in lockdown on Thursday evening, with ambulances diverted to University Hospital Ayr as police dealt with the unfolding events.\n\nThe three-hour lockdown was lifted shortly before 23:00.\n\nThe PA news agency said it understood at least one person was stabbed.\n\nThere was no official confirmation from Police Scotland.\n\nOfficers were called to the first incident at the Crosshouse site at about 19:45 on Thursday.\n\nThey believe another in the centre of Kilmarnock about 20 minutes later and a serious crash on the A76 may be linked.\n\nThe incidents are not being treated as terror-related.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter Police Scotland said there was no cause for concern for the wider community.\n\nIt added that inquiries were at an early stage and that the areas involved have been cordoned off.\n\nThe second incident was on Portland Street, which is about two miles from the hospital, at about 20:05.\n\nOfficers were called to the crash on the A76, on the outskirts of the town, at about 20:30.\n\nA police cordon at West George Street in Kilmarnock on Friday morning\n\nA area under a rail bridge in the town was cordoned off\n\nOn Friday morning, the hospital's A&E department and main entrance were open and running as normal while two police vans full of officers remained outside with police tape around part of the car park.\n\nDr Crawford McGuffie, the medical director of NHS Ayrshire and Arran, said police had confirmed the risk to patients, staff and visitors to the hospital was minimal.\n\nHe added: \"There remains a large police presence on the grounds of the hospital.\n\n\"We would like to reassure anyone coming to the hospital, in particular to any patients or staff coming on shift, that Police Scotland have confirmed it is safe to do so.\n\n\"However, if you are worried, please speak to the onsite Police Scotland officers.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the incidents as very serious.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are with those involved in these very serious incidents... Please help police do their job by following the advice to stay away from the areas affected.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman, who is also an Ayrshire MSP, commented on BBC's Good Morning Scotland about the events of Thursday night.\n\nShe said: \"They are very worrying and as I said last night my thoughts are with the family and friends of all those affected and with our colleagues in the NHS and Police Scotland and I want to thank them again for responding to these incidents in the professional, swift and caring manner that I know they will have done.\"", "Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell sank to a net loss of $21.7bn (£16bn) last year after the coronavirus pandemic caused demand to slump.\n\nThe announcement comes after two of its rivals, BP and Exxon, posted similar big losses.\n\nLooking ahead, Shell said \"significant uncertainty\" would continue to have a negative impact on demand for oil and gas products.\n\nAs a result, it said it might need to take measures to cut production.\n\nIn September last year, Shell announced that up to 9,000 jobs would go worldwide as the company responded to the effects of the pandemic.\n\nLast month, it said it was cutting 330 jobs from its operations in the North Sea.\n\nEven before the virus struck, the oil industry was already having to rethink its future plans as part of the transition away from fossil fuels.\n\nThe Covid impact means companies such as Shell are accelerating that transition.\n\nSome doom-mongers were anticipating Royal Dutch Shell might unveil the largest-ever UK corporate loss, but in the end, the Anglo-Dutch oil group managed to get only halfway there. The £16bn deficit is dwarfed by the £30bn loss posted by Royal Bank of Scotland at the height of the 2008 banking crisis.\n\nThe Shell results will also quickly be forgotten. They are largely accounting rather than cash losses, the result of a giant write-down in the future value of the company's oil fields and prospects. Already investors are turning their attention to next week, when chief executive Ben van Beurden will present the company's long-awaited plans to shift the company towards greener forms of energy.\n\nPension funds and other big investors are pushing hard to get Shell to do more. The same pension funds, however, are reliant on the big stream of dividends that flows from the oil business. They will be hoping that Mr van Beurden will be able to pull off the trick of using that income to fund the investments in green energy that will - hopefully - yield a similar juicy dividend income in the future.\n\nOther big oil companies are also feeling the strain. On Tuesday, BP reported that it lost $18.1bn in 2020, marking its first annual loss in a decade.\n\nOn the same day, US giant Exxon Mobil posted annual losses of $22.4bn.\n\nTwo other big US firms, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, reported big losses as well.\n\nThere are also indications of a potential shake-up in the sector, after media reports emerged this week that Exxon and Chevron held preliminary talks last year on a possible merger.\n\nThe two firms declined to comment, but sources told Reuters that the discussions involved Exxon chief executive Darren Woods and his counterpart at Chevron, Mike Wirth.\n\n\"This week's huge losses by Shell, BP and Exxon reflect the challenges oil and gas companies face,\" said David Elmes, professor of practice and head of the Global Energy Research Network at Warwick Business School.\n\n\"They are skating on ever-thinning ice as the effects of climate change combine with other events like the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nProf Elmes said the slump in demand for oil and gas due to the pandemic had become more prolonged than initially hoped.\n\n\"There will be some ongoing need for oil and gas as a fuel for a while yet. There will also be demand for the petrochemicals and other products made from them. But that can't sustain the industry we've seen in the past as we look to address climate change.\"", "\"Obviously we will find a way to survive, because we have to, but it's a lot lot harder,\" said single mum, Rebecca\n\nFailing to extend a £20 lockdown benefit boost will harm the health of millions of people for decades, leading health organisations have told Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a letter.\n\nIntroduced last year, the £20-a-week uplift is due to end in April.\n\nClaimants say it has been a lifeline and dread losing it.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has hinted the government could be moving closer to extending the rise but says there is no decision yet.\n\nNow, groups representing doctors, nurses and social workers, say health inequalities laid bare by Covid will worsen if the uplift to universal credit is scrapped.\n\nTheir comments echo those of campaigners and claimants - such as single mother Rebecca, from the east of England, who told BBC News withdrawing the extra cash would be \"cruel\".\n\nRebecca, who asked the BBC not to use her full name, has an eight-year-old daughter and relies on universal credit to supplement her earnings from working 14 hours a week for a charity.\n\nShe has been receiving the benefit for two years, the first of which, before the extra payment was introduced, she describes as \"brutal\".\n\nAnd by October 2019, \"we had no money for food\".\n\n\"I put a post on Facebook, asking where I could go safely with a kid for free food,\" she said.\n\nIn the end, it was gifts from friends and food parcels from a local church that saw them through.\n\nThe introduction of the £20 boost had provided a buffer, said Rebecca.\n\n\"At least I had something coming in,\" she said.\n\n\"The £20 is mostly food for her - I eat whatever I can.\n\n\"Obviously we will find a way to survive, because we have to, but it's a lot lot harder.\"\n\nThe letter calls on the prime minister to make the temporary increase to universal credit and working tax credit permanent from April and provide the same uplift to other key benefits.\n\n\"As organisations working across health and care, we see the irrefutable evidence that poverty has significant negative impacts on individuals, their families and society more widely,\" it says.\n\nThe letter calls the extra £20 \"an investment in our nation's health, ensuring many of those on the lowest incomes have access to essentials like food or heating\".\n\n\"In a year marked by worry and uncertainty, the uplift has been a preventative lifeline keeping many afloat, protecting them from financial instability, debt and worsening mental health,\" it says.\n\nAnd if it is discontinued, \"overnight 6.2 million families will face a £1,040 cut to their incomes\".\n\n\"We cannot plan for the UK's economic recovery only to face another escalating health crisis for those on the lowest incomes,\" the letter says.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Coffey told MPs: \"We have the effects of this pandemic that are ongoing.\n\n\"And we recognise the need to continue to support people.\"\n\nShe rejected the idea the extra £20 \"reduces work incentives\", telling the Work and Pensions Committee this \"steady stream of money would be more beneficial to claimants\" than an alternative option of a one-off payment.\n\nThe £20 boost, which costs about £6bn, came after years of cuts to benefits.\n\nChanges since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, initially in coalition, mean spending on working-age benefits is about £32bn lower this year than it would have been, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has calculated.\n\nAnd even with the extra £20, a single person with no children who loses their job in the UK this year will receive just 17% of average earnings in benefit payments, the lowest figure among high-income economies.\n\nThe cuts to welfare have also been blamed by campaigners and charities for the increase in child poverty since 2010.\n\nAnother think tank, the Resolution Foundation, has calculated even if the £20 boost is made permanent, child poverty will continue to rise.\n\nAnd by 2024, one third of children will be living in poverty.\n\nRebecca said she knew how to budget but still struggled to make ends meet, even with the extra £20 a week.\n\nWithout it, \"every day is stress because you don't know how you're going to make it for the next month\".\n\n\"You're always living on your toes,\" she said.\n\n\"And you're always having to budget minute by minute and budget to the very penny.\"\n\n\"When already you are scraping for money, £20 is masses.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond to ensure that nobody is left behind.\"\n\nHe said support had been targeted at those most in need, including \"raising the living wage, spending hundreds of billions to safeguard jobs, boosting welfare support by billions and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme\".", "A \"suspicious incident\" took place at Queen Alexandra Hospital where someone attempted to video staff and patients\n\nA woman has been barred from several hospitals after filming inside them and posting footage online.\n\nHampshire Constabulary and Sussex Police have issued the 30-year-old from Fareham with a Community Protection Notice (CPN).\n\nIt means she cannot turn up at the hospitals in those counties without an appointment or medical emergency.\n\nThe woman had posted videos on social media of empty corridors in hospitals, claiming there was no pandemic.\n\nDorset Police said it was also carrying out an investigation after an incident at Royal Bournemouth Hospital on Sunday evening.\n\nIt said a woman was \"acting suspiciously\" and filming inside.\n\nCPNs are used by police as punishment for antisocial behaviour. Breaching them is a criminal offence.\n\nThe woman was previously issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice by Hampshire Constabulary following posts referring to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.\n\nIt said the posts on Facebook had caused \"angst in the community\".\n\nA spokesman from Hampshire police said: \"The CPN is designed to prevent unreasonable behaviour that is having a negative impact on the local community's quality of life.\"\n\nHe said it related to a \"suspicious incident where an individual attempted to video staff and patients\" at the same hospital on Sunday.\n\nOther videos relate to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex.\n\nCh Insp Jon Carter of Sussex Police said: \"There are a variety of tactics of dealing with this kind of unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"We are working together with Hampshire Constabulary to ensure the best avenues to deter this behaviour from continuing are taken.\"\n\nUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Trust said false information was causing \"upset and distress\" to staff, after a similar post was uploaded about Southampton General Hospital.\n\nNHS managers have pointed out that because of the way healthcare trusts have reorganised hospitals to separate Covid patients from others and cancelling non-urgent care to free up capacity, some parts of hospital buildings would look empty.\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.", "Lockdown restrictions should not be lifted too early, Sir Keir Starmer has said as he warned the government \"not to repeat the mistakes of last time\".\n\nThe Labour leader called on the government to ensure the current lockdown is the last lockdown.\n\nBoris Johnson has said that the earliest schools in England could start to reopen is the 8 March.\n\nBut he is coming under pressure from some of his own backbenchers to bring that date forward.\n\nChair of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, Mark Harper, argues that if Scotland and Wales are able to allow the return of some primary school children this month, then it should be possible to allow schools in England to re-open sooner than 8 March.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One programme, he also said he thought the government could \"get rid of restrictions completely\" by the end of May.\n\n\"Once you've done the top nine groups - that's 99% of deaths and over 80% of hospitalisations - that's the point at which you can get rid of restrictions completely,\" he said.\n\nHe expressed concern that other factors such as the rate of infection \"keep being thrown into the debate\" and that the \"goal posts\" for lifting lockdown rules were changing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory MP Mark Harper calls for England's schools to open to stop harm to children\n\nOn schools, Sir Keir said he wanted classrooms \"to be open as quickly as possible\" but added he would prefer the prime minister to \"stick to the date he's got\" to make sure the country opens fully without disruption.\n\nConcerning a wider easing of restrictions he warned the prime minister and the chancellor: \"Don't repeat the mistake of last time which was to come out of lockdown too quickly, too suddenly and to lift too many restrictions because that simply led to another lockdown.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier this month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock set out four factors that will impact the decision to ease lockdown rules - numbers of deaths, hospitalisations, the emergence of new variants and the progress of the vaccine roll out.\n\nBoris Johnson has also previously said that \"getting things open\" will also depend on \"us continuing to succeed in driving the level of infection down\".\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Wednesday he said: \"Though today there are some signs of hope... the level of infection is still alarmingly high.\"\n\nHe added that the government would be sticking to its \"cautious\" approach.\n\nCurrently, Scotland's lockdown will continue until at least the end of February and its youngest pupils are likely to return to school full time from 22 February\n\nIn England plans to ease lockdown will be announced around 22 February, with hopes schools will begin reopening from 8 March.\n\nWales's lockdown will last until at least 19 February, while in Northern Ireland the lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "Police should be given kits to test for corrosive substances during street searches to help tackle acid attack crimes, according to a study.\n\nThere should also be greater controls on the sale of corrosive substances, say researchers.\n\nThe findings come in a Home Office report looking into the motives of criminals who carry and use acid.\n\nIt found the substances are used in attacks because they are easy to obtain and can be concealed from police.\n\nResearchers from Leicester University interviewed 25 prisoners in England and Wales and looked at 600 crimes involving corrosive substances for the report.\n\nIt is the first study looking at the motives of those who carry out acid attacks and was commissioned by the Home Office following a spate of incidents - mainly in London - in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking to serving prisoners, researchers found that, unlike guns, \"most corrosives were considered easy to obtain. Indeed, many forms of corrosives that were used (such as low concentrate ammonia) were available online or from high street retailers\".\n\nOffenders, who tended to be young men, described acid as an adaptable weapon that can be used in many crimes.\n\nThey also told researchers they didn't fear detection by the police because it was much easier to conceal acid than a knife or a gun.\n\nThe report found that over half of the corrosive crimes analysed occurred in areas that are in the top 20% most deprived locations.\n\nHousehold products such as bleach were the most commonly used corrosive substance to commit crimes such as domestic violence, but ammonia often featured in robberies.\n\n\"It was noted that often using stop and search powers in such cases was problematic, and also there were particular issues with being able to accurately identify when a liquid in a bottle was a corrosive, given it was often a clear liquid,\" the study said.\n\nIt also found one of the big issues was the \"ease with which one can legitimately buy and carry corrosives\".\n\nThe report's authors also suggested there should be mandatory reporting to the police of corrosive attacks and better education around the dangers of acid.", "Business leaders have called on the government to work with them on a roadmap out of lockdown to unlock investment for a post-Covid recovery.\n\nIn a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, the Confederation of British Industry says the time to plan for re-opening the economy in England is now.\n\nFirms are \"in the dark\" about planning for the months ahead, the employers' group said.\n\nA government spokesperson said lockdown would be lifted as soon as possible.\n\nBut the CBI, which speaks on behalf of about 190,000 businesses, said there is an opportunity to \"use time wisely\" to prepare for a safe re-opening of the economy.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Kwarteng, CBI director-general Tony Danker, writes: \"With health teams rightly in crisis management mode, we in business along with the economic ministries can use this time to plan for a successful re-opening of the economy when the moment is right to do so.\n\n\"Businesses are currently completely in the dark when planning for the weeks and months ahead and this is hindering investment. We can provide more clarity and do the prep work now to enable them to plan for reopening and growth.\"\n\nMr Danker will also be writing to the devolved nations' governments next week.\n\nThe CBI calls for clarification on what will be considered low, medium or high-risk economic activity, so that businesses can understand what will open sooner or later.\n\nMr Danker also wants to know whether or not there will be a return to tiering, as part of a gradual re-opening.\n\nHe also wants the creation of bespoke, detailed plans for the harder-to-open sectors of the economy, such as testing regimes for international travel, or the conditions for activities such as hospitality and live events to return.\n\nThe CBI wrote to Mr Kwarteng on Monday, and will write to to the devolved nations' governments next week.\n\nMr Danker says in the letter: \"The Prime Minister has set out the initial parameters for reopening as a country, which was a big help for businesses. Clearly, the precise dates will be determined by data, so let's use this time wisely to get the roadmap right together for when lockdown ends.\n\n\"A common framework with devolved administrations must also be possible and help to minimise differences in approach.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is working on a recovery plan, expected to be published ahead of next month's Budget. That plan will, according to reports, focus on jobs and investment.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As the prime minister has made clear, we will lift restrictions as soon as we can, but by lifting them too soon we run the risk of placing our NHS under even greater pressure and having to re-impose restrictions at a later date.\"\n\nThe spokesperson pointed out that the government had invested more than £280bn during the pandemic to protect jobs and businesses, adding: \"By mid-February we will be in a better position to lay out the next steps for the economy without risking renewed pressure on our NHS.\"", "There are concerns the new variant can spread more easily and vaccines may not be quite so effective against it\n\nTwo cases of the South Africa coronavirus variant have been detected in Birmingham.\n\nThose 18 and over in the Frankley Great Park ward and part of south Northfield area are being asked to take tests, even if they do not show symptoms.\n\nHealth officials said the cases were from a family living in neighbouring homes and were not linked to international travel.\n\nThe discovery comes after the variant was detected in nearby Walsall.\n\nBirmingham City Council said the two people tested positive in early January, but it was not until Friday when random tests picked up the variant.\n\nThe local authority said testing would be significantly increased in the areas affected.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said the new variant presented a \"new risk\" and urged all adults to get tested \"to minimise the risk of spreading the virus\".\n\nHe called on people to follow the current lockdown rules and only leave the home if it was essential.\n\nThe South African variant, one of thousands since Covid-19 emerged, is not thought to be any more dangerous than others circulating in the UK.\n\nBut there are concerns it can spread more readily and vaccines may not work quite as well against it.\n\nA new mobile test site will be opened on Friday and several places for residents to collect home testing kits\n\nThe Conservative MP for Birmingham Northfield, Gary Sambrook, said he had been working closely with public health officials and that the group intended \"to hold an online public meeting in the coming days\".\n\nDrive-through tests will be available with no appointment for people without symptoms at the St Modwen site on Longbridge Business Park on Thursday.\n\nA further mobile test site will be opened on Friday.\n\nThe council said it would also open several designated sites for residents to collect home testing kits.\n\nBusinesses have been approached to make testing available to their staff.\n\nA roll-out of enhanced testing has already started in eight areas in England, including Walsall, using mobile sites to trace any further transmission.\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.", "UK scientists are planning trials to see if giving people two different types of Covid vaccine, one after the other, might give better protection than two doses of one jab.\n\nThis mix-and-match approach can go ahead only if another jab is approved by regulators, as has already happened with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe head of the UK's vaccine task force said trial designs were being prepared.\n\nThe news comes as the NHS starts its Covid mass vaccination programme.\n\nA 90-year-old woman, Margaret Keenan, has become the first person to be given the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as part of the rollout across the UK.\n\nMs Keenan, who is originally from Enniskillen, said: \"I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19. It's the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year.\"\n\nThat vaccine, given as two doses a few weeks apart, offers up to 95% protection against Covid-19 illness, according to data.\n\nAlthough that is a very impressive figure, experts want to explore whether the immune response can be strengthened further and made more durable with a mix-and-match \"heterologous boost\" approach.\n\nKate Bingham, who chairs the vaccine task force, said: \"It's an established process.\n\n\"It's not being done because of supplies.\"\n\nThere is another Covid jab that could soon be approved by regulators - the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis works in a slightly different way to the Pfizer jab which could make it a good companion for pairing, say scientists.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine uses a small amount of genetic code from the pandemic virus to teach the body how to fight off an infection, while the Oxford one is a genetically modified virus that has been altered so it won't cause infection but does carry information on how to beat Covid.\n\nThe idea is to give people a shot of the Pfizer vaccine followed by a dose of the Oxford one a few weeks later or vice versa, rather than two doses of the same vaccine.\n\nThe hope is that it will make the immune system produce two responses strongly - antibodies and T-cells - to combat Covid.", "The government is to update the law so that the attorney general can take six months' maternity leave.\n\nSuella Braverman, the government's chief law officer, announced in November she was expecting her second child \"early next year\".\n\nShe would be one of the most senior government ministers to give birth in office.\n\nUnder current laws, she would have to resign if she wanted to take time off following the birth.\n\nThe government has announced a new law to formalise the process for ministerial maternity leave, which until now has been at the discretion of the prime minister.\n\nThe Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill will allow cabinet ministers to receive up to six months' leave on full pay.\n\nAt the moment, legislation from the 1970s means the prime minister does not normally have the flexibility to pay a cabinet minister maternity leave alongside paying a salary to their temporary replacement.\n\nThe bill would allow Ms Braverman and other cabinet ministers to take six months' leave on full pay - similar to more junior government roles and the civil service.\n\nSeveral female politicians serving as junior ministers have taken maternity leave in the past, including Conservative MPs Tracey Crouch and Kemi Badenoch.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party would back the bill, adding the change \"should have been brought in a long time ago\".\n\nThe party's shadow cabinet office minister, Rachel Reeves, said the measures were a \"small but significant step forward\" but the government needed to go further and make provision for paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.\n\nIntroducing the new measures in a written statement, the prime minister said: \"The choice between taking leave to recover from childbirth and care for a new-born child or resigning from office is not acceptable in modern times.\"\n\nBoris Johnson acknowledged that provisions needed to be made for leave for adoption, sickness and other circumstances.\n\nMinisters aren't subject to normal employee rights because they're appointed, and fired, by the prime minister.\n\nMany will be surprised to learn that Suella Braverman will become the first cabinet minister to take paid maternity leave.\n\nIt's a generous scheme which will grant six months of full pay - under current rules, she would have had to resign or be demoted to qualify.\n\nThe bill is being rushed through Parliament because she's due to give birth soon, but Labour wants to revisit the issue later to include paternity leave.\n\nThe years of muddling through on an informal basis will end next Thursday.\n\nMs Braverman, the Conservative MP for Fareham, became the second-ever woman to be appointed attorney general for England and Wales in February 2020.\n\nShe had previously served as a junior Brexit minister under Theresa May, before resigning in November 2018 in protest at the former PM's Brexit plans.\n\nShe went on to take maternity leave whilst serving as a backbench MP after the birth of her first child in July 2019, with a \"proxy MP\" taking part in parliamentary debates and votes on her behalf.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq delayed a caesarean section to take part in a vote\n\nAll MPs are paid in full while on maternity, paternity or adoption leave. But not all their duties in Parliament are covered during their absence:\n\nResponding to the change, Ms Creasy said: \"In no other workplace would guaranteed paid maternity leave and cover be only the preserve of the management.\n\n\"The introduction of cover for ministers is long overdue, and this legislation reveals the lie I was told when I asked for maternity cover that MPs employment status made it impossible.\"\n\nMs Creasy added: \"What message does it send to the thousands of pregnant women facing redundancy and job insecurity in the pandemic or any of those considering entering public life at any level, if parliament treats maternity leave as a bonus like a company car to be given only to those at the top?\"", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "It is \"not practical\" to completely close the UK's borders given the amount of medicines and food imported into the country, the prime minister has said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions to prevent new coronavirus variants entering the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government had already tightened travel restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nHe said it would be going ahead with its plan for quarantine hotels for people arriving from Covid hotspots.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the scheme - announced a week ago - will start or when there will be further details.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said government scientists had recommended \"a complete pre-emptive closure of borders\".\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said: \"Actually, Sage (the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies) did not recommend a complete ban and they say travel bans should not be relied upon to stop the importation of new variants.\n\n\"But we do have one of the toughest regimes in the world.\"\n\nRules around international travel were tightened last month, meaning all travellers must self-isolate for 10 days when they return to the UK.\n\nThe government also announced plans to make people quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels when arriving in the UK from certain \"high risk\" countries, where new coronavirus variants have been identified.\n\nThe prime minister said at Wednesday evening's Downing Street briefing that Health Secretary Matt Hancock would make a statement on Thursday to give further details, although No 10 later clarified to say this was not happening.\n\nLabour chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Yvette Cooper tweeted in response: \"Oh for heaven's sake. Who is in charge of this borders policy? When will we get details? Does anyone have a grip?\"\n\nThe UK has placed 33 high-risk countries on a so-called \"red list\", including most of South America, southern Africa and Portugal.\n\nScotland has announced it will extend the measures to all travellers.\n\nSir Keir said the government's new border arrangements were \"still weeks away\" from being introduced and would only affect direct flights from some countries.\n\nHe asked whether the prime minister was saying that \"quarantining all arrivals would make no difference to fighting new variants of the virus\", or that it was \"too difficult to do it\".\n\nMr Johnson responded by saying that 75% of the UK's medicines come into the country from the European mainland, 45% of food, while 250,000 businesses rely on imports.\n\n\"It is not practical to completely close off this country as he seems to be suggesting,\" he said.\n\nThe government needs to make sure hotels are ready. That doesn't just mean securing enough rooms and making sure all the guests can have meals delivered, but also coming up with policies around things like security if a guest tries to leave early.\n\nThe government could use existing guidelines written up by countries such as New Zealand as a template.\n\nAirlines and airports also have questions about how this will work and some areas are complicated. For instance, the policy currently only applies to arrivals from 33 countries - all of whom will arrive on indirect flights.\n\nShould airlines separate passengers from low and high-risk countries onboard?\n\nBut the policy also requires compliance from passengers. If passengers split their tickets and don't declare they've been in one of the 33 high-risk countries, how will the government keep track?\n\nThere are plenty of questions from all quarters about how to make this policy effective.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps also defended the government's decision not to extend the hotel quarantine policy to arrivals from all countries.\n\nHe told the Commons Transport Committee: \"The idea that the UK could completely batten down its hatches and remain battened down for a year is mistaken. But also the evidence that that is the only thing you need to do, or primary thing you need to do, is pretty shaky.\"\n\nMr Shapps also said the hotel quarantine scheme would not affect many people.\n\n\"The 33 countries on the so-called red list do not have direct flights… so the numbers we would expect to see returning would be quite low,\" he said.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the event reflected Capt Sir Tom Moore's \"spirit of optimism\"\n\nPeople have been taking part in a national clap to honour Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson led the tributes to the 100-year-old fundraiser who died with coronavirus on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, where Capt Sir Tom lived, also joined in the applause.\n\nThe centenarian's family said they were \"incredibly touched\" by the event and \"taking part with huge love in their hearts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's family said they were \"incredibly touched\" by the event\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's affections by walking 100 laps of his garden last spring during the first coronavirus lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Army This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapt Sir Tom tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nHe had initially set out to raise £1,000, but he eventually raised £32,794,701 - which totalled £39m with Gift Aid - from more than 1.5 million supporters, and was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nJunior soldiers at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, took part in the nationwide clap\n\nNHS staff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital joined in the applause\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing shortly before the clap, Mr Johnson urged people to join in the event to reflect Capt Sir Tom's \"spirit of optimism\".\n\n\"Let's also clap for all those he campaigned for - our brilliant NHS staff and care workers - and let's do everything we can to carry on supporting them,\" he said.\n\n\"Because if we stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives then, in the words of Captain Tom, tomorrow will be a good day.\"\n\nPlayers from Burnley and Manchester City paid tribute to the army veteran before their Premier League match\n\nAt Bedford Hospital, nurses and doctors directly involved in the care of Capt Sir Tom joined the national clap to celebrate his life.\n\nHospital leaders said the centenarian was a \"source of huge inspiration and pride\" and announced plans to create a memorial for him at the site.\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\nWorkers at Bedford Hospital, where Capt Sir Tom died, also clapped for the fundraiser\n\nSimon Linnett, chairman of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"He raised millions of pounds which will give huge benefits to colleagues and patients.\n\n\"But more than that was the contribution he made to raising the morale of staff in the NHS and the public - he was a source of huge inspiration and pride.\"\n\nA BBC News special, Captain Tom: We Salute You, presented by Michael Ball, is being broadcast on Wednesday at 19:30 GMT on BBC One and will be available on the BBC iPlayer.", "The government is under growing pressure to announce details of its quarantine plans, after hotels revealed no discussions had taken place.\n\nBoris Johnson confirmed in January UK residents returning from Covid hotspots would have to quarantine in hotels.\n\nBut a timetable for the new measure has still not been confirmed, with Labour saying the plans are in \"chaos\".\n\nThe PM had said there would be an announcement on Thursday, but No 10 later said he had been \"misinformed\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel had also told the Commons that more detail would be provided to MPs this week.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's official spokesman confirmed the announcement would not come until next week.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock insisted there wasn't a delay to bringing in the hotel quarantine policy, adding that \"what there is, is work to make sure that the border is always as secure as it needs to be\".\n\nMr Hancock said the government was working \"at pace\" adding: \"It's important to get it right.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who wants everyone coming into the UK from any country to be quarantined, with exceptions for transporting food and medicines - said he was \"really worried about the chaos and confusion on the government's borders policy\".\n\nHe warned the risk was \"huge\" if the UK did not secure its borders, saying we could \"go back to square one\" if a new variant that was immune to the vaccine got through.\n\nSir Keir added: \"We're in a race now - virus against vaccination. Let's secure our borders.\"\n\nDemands to introduce tougher border restrictions in the UK have been growing since the emergence of new coronavirus variants from other countries, such as South Africa.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps introduced the requirement for travellers to have a negative test result before arriving in the UK last month, but critics continued to call for mandatory quarantine in hotels for all arrivals - echoing similar moves in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nAt the end of January, Mr Johnson confirmed this rule would be introduced, but only for UK nationals and residents returning from 30 \"red list\" Covid hotspots.\n\nHowever, hotel industry leaders said on Thursday they are \"yet to hear details\" of government plans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer asks Boris Johnson why UK's borders have not been closed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the boss of Best Western, which has 250 hotels in the UK, said beyond \"very broad information\" about timings, hoteliers had not had \"any discussions at all\" with government.\n\nRob Paterson added: \"In any normal company, if you went out and announced a programme nationally and you hadn't thought about how you were going to plan that, and you hadn't spoken to the people involved… I'm not sure I'd have a job if I did that in my company.\"\n\nHe said his industry \"needed some assurance of what demand levels are going to be\", as well as clarification on \"security protocols\".\n\nChief Executive of industry body UK Hospitality, Kate Nicholls, said: \"Hotels have offered their help to the government, but we are yet to hear any details on the scheme.\n\n\"We are ready to provide assistance as and when hotels will be needed.\"\n\nThe Immigration Services Union - which represents workers for the UK Border Force - also claimed \"nothing has been communicated\" to them or staff.\n\nHave you recently entered the UK from a hotspot such as South Africa? Are you planning to travel soon? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website 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.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nAn MP who travelled from London to Glasgow after testing positive for Covid has appeared in court charged with culpable and reckless conduct.\n\nMargaret Ferrier, who represents Rutherglen and Hamilton West, is accused of ignoring Covid regulations when she made the trip last September.\n\nThe 60-year-old made no plea during the two minute appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nIn September, she was suspended by the SNP and apologised after admitting she had taken a test after experiencing \"mild symptoms\".\n\nBut she said she had then decided to travel to Westminster from Scotland by train because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.", "The company behind the controversial free school meals that sparked an outcry in January has apologised again.\n\n\"The quality and quantity of some food parcels fell short of our usual high standards,\" said Compass, which owns Chartwells, the school meal supplier.\n\nThe meals led to a row when one mum posted a picture of them on Twitter.\n\nCompass investigated the meals and said it had now \"taken several corrective measures\".\n\nThey include improved supply chain processes, additional guidance and resources for workers, and stronger quality assurance checks.\n\nChartwells has also been providing breakfasts to all children currently receiving a lunch parcel from it since 25 January.\n\n\"We will also provide those same children with lunch and breakfast parcels through the February half term break,\" Compass said, with the firm promising to cover the costs of doing so.\n\nFood parcels are currently being sent to school children in England who would normally get free school meals.\n\nIn January, one mother calling herself Roadside Mum posted a photo on Twitter of the free school meal that had been supplied to her and was supposedly worth £30.\n\nIt consisted of two carrots, two potatoes and a tin of baked beans and a small range of other food items: she calculated the cost to be only about £5.\n\nThe outcry led to an urgent investigation by the government after footballer Marcus Rashford said the food parcels were \"just not good enough\" and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe accused the company of providing a \"poverty picnic\".\n\nIn a statement at the time it said: \"In our efforts to provide thousands of food parcels a week, at extremely short notice, we are very sorry the quantity has fallen short in this instance.\"\n\nIn its latest trading update, Compass said: \"We have apologised to everyone who has been affected.\"\n\nCompass reported improved figures for the last three months with its operating margin climbing to 2.7% to the end of December compared to 0.6% in the previous three months.\n\nIt put that down to \"a series of actions we have taken over the last year to adapt our operations and to manage our cost base more flexibly, including contract renegotiations and resizing of the business\".\n\nHowever, it said the group's organic revenue for the three months to 31 December 2020 was down 33.7%, which was \"in line with our expectations, given the protracted lockdown measures to contain the virus during the winter months\".\n\nIt warned that \"although the news around vaccinations is encouraging, the pace of volume recovery remains uncertain\".\n\nBut looking ahead it said it expected \"a return to organic revenue growth, continued margin improvement and returns to shareholders over time\".\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"From an investment perspective, this [school meals] chapter has been an unwelcome addition to what is a torrid time for Compass, and won't have done the company's reputation any favours.\"\n\nContract catering is an incredibly tough place to be when the world shuts down, she pointed out.\n\nVolumes are barely edging forwards, meaning the bottom line is being protected through cost cutting.\n\n\"That's prudent business sense, but isn't a long-term solution. If it takes too long for stadiums and schools to fill back up, Compass will struggle to pump margins up any time soon.\"", "Political rhetoric around the Irish Sea border has become \"increasingly febrile\" and needs to be \"de-escalated\", Chief Constable Simon Byrne has said.\n\nHe also said claims that loyalists were ready \"to fight\" were \"inflammatory\".\n\nSpeaking after a Policing Board meeting, Mr Byrne said there was no intelligence suggesting loyalist paramilitaries intended any protests or violence \"in the short term.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, David Campbell, the chairman of the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC), which has the backing of paramilitary groups, said it may be necessary \"to fight physically to maintain our freedoms within the UK.\"\n\n\"I think there is a lot of emotion, but we are not picking up intelligence anyone is planning to protest or do anything worse,\" said Mr Byrne.\n\n\"A feeling of normality has to be brought back to the country.\"\n\nThe UK government told BBC News NI it was \"clear that inciting violence is never acceptable - it harms our communities and puts people at risk\".\n\n\"There was no place for violence and intimidation in the past and there is no place for it today,\" it added, in a statement.\n\n\"Our focus remains on resolving the outstanding issues in relation to the practical operation of the Protocol to make sure it works in the best interests of people and businesses in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOn Monday checks on animal and food products at Larne and Belfast ports were suspended amid concerns for staff safety.\n\nGraffiti threatening staff working at the ports has appeared in some loyalist areas.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) later said there was no suggestion of involvement by loyalist paramilitary groups and no evidence to support claims that staff licence plate numbers had been recorded.\n\nOn a separate issue, the chief constable admitted a social media video of police dealing with a masked UVF mob in east Belfast \"has not done us any favours.\"\n\nBut he rejected criticism his officers should have made arrests on the spot.\n\nDozens of people linked to the UVF had mobilised at Pitt Park for an intended attack connected to an ongoing feud, but police turned up to prevent it.\n\nMr Byrne said his officers were outnumbered - six of them compared to about 50 suspected paramilitaries.\n\nPolice could be seen monitoring the scene as the masked men walked in the area\n\n\"The priority of the officers was to protect a small number of people who were under threat by a group of hooded men,\" Mr Byrne said.\n\n\"We are actively following up lines of inquiry to bring people to book.\n\n\"There is no place for thuggery and intimidation and we want to keep these people on the back foot.\"", "This hairdryer was among the items BBC Watchdog brought to the firm's attention\n\nProducts that could cause electric shock or fires remain for sale on Wish.com despite being highlighted in a BBC Watchdog investigation.\n\nHair clippers and a hair dryer were among items flagged on Wednesday. They are still available on Wish's site.\n\nThe US company's failure to remove them was \"extremely concerning\", the charity Electrical Safety First's chief executive Lesley Rudd said.\n\nWish said sellers on its platform were responsible for their goods' safety.\n\nBut it has not responded to a question about why it has not removed the listings now the matter has been brought to its attention.\n\nThe dangerous items highlighted in the BBC's Watchdog programme, on Tuesday evening on The One Show, included:\n\nIn response to the findings, Wish, which sells more than 150 million different products, told Watchdog it would \"take down any products if evidence was shown to prove they were unsafe\" and refund customers who had bought them.\n\nOne safety expert said the plug on this charger was undersized posing a risk of a serious electric shock\n\nBut it was up to individual sellers to check products conformed to safety regulations.\n\nMs Rudd said: \"These items pose a serious risk of harm to those who purchase them and are illegal for sale to UK consumers.\"\n\nShe urged the government to step in \"to protect online shoppers from the real threat substandard electrical goods pose\".\n\nThe Online Harms Bill, being considered by Parliament, could be a good place to include legislation about dangerous electrical goods, Ms Rudd suggested.\n\nPrevious investigations from Consumer group Which? have found unsafe goods on eBay and Amazon.\n\nAnd campaigners want the government to make online marketplaces legally responsible for goods sold on their platforms.\n\nWish has also been repeatedly reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority for inappropriately targeted advertising, including an \"overtly sexual\" ad, with a woman wearing nipple tassels, which featured on the BBC's Good Food Guide app.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Falkirk couple who had never been apart in more than 50 years have been reunited after being separated in hospital after contracting coronavirus.\n\nJim Tierney, 85, and his wife May, 83, ended up in separate rooms on a coronavirus ward at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert.\n\nThe Camelon couple, who celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in June, were admitted after Mr Tierney collapsed.\n\nMr Tierney was allowed home on Monday, several days after his wife.\n\nThe couple will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in June\n\nAfter two weeks in hospital, Mr Tierney told BBC Scotland he had been determined to return home to his family as soon as possible.\n\nHe said: \"That's all that was in the back of my mind - get well and get home.\n\n\"When you're lying in bed and it's just four walls and the ceiling, you say to yourself I've got to keep myself going.\"\n\nMr Tierney was so unwell he cannot remember much of his stay.\n\nHe said: \"I never knew an awful lot when I was in, but coming near the end I realised the nurses worked night and day on me to get my oxygen down.\"\n\nMr Tierney said he had been determined to \"get well and get home\"\n\nMrs Tierney said: \"Yes, I was worried about him, but the staff were great.\n\n\"You were in this ward with four beds and you weren't even allowed out into the corridor.\n\n\"I could phone him and they took me to his bed and they let me stay for about 10 or 15 minutes.\n\n\"I was glad to see him coming home on Monday because I knew how upset he was.\"", "Joelinton shared a picture of himself with Tom Baxter on Friday\n\nA footballer who broke lockdown restrictions to get a haircut has been fined £200.\n\nNewcastle United striker Joelinton, 24, the club's £40m record signing who joined in 2019, shared a picture of himself with barber Tom Baxter in the hairdresser's North Shields garage.\n\nThe football club has been approached for comment.\n\nMr Baxter had been warned before about possible breaches and has been given prohibition notices by two councils.\n\nHe said he \"holds his hands up\" for cutting the hair of several footballers during the current lockdown which he \"shouldn't have done\", but he was trying to \"make ends meet\".\n\n\"I have done them all, they have all had hair dos, they just did not put it on social media,\" he said.\n\nHe thought Joelinton's cut should be permitted because it was for a photo shoot and \"TV stars are allowed to get their hair and make up done\", he said.\n\nHair salons and barbers in England are currently closed under lockdown regulations.\n\nTom Baxter said he spent £20,000 making his Newcastle salon Covid secure\n\nNorthumbria Police would not identify individuals but said it had \"spoken to the 24-year-old man who will be issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice under the Coronavirus legislation\".\n\n\"The local authority, who are responsible for enforcement in relation to businesses, have served a 35-year-old man with a prohibition notice,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nNewcastle City Council said it had issued Mr Baxter with a warning in November and a prohibition notice in January for his Newcastle salon.\n\nNorth Tyneside Council also issued a prohibition notice after complaints Mr Baxter was working from his garage, which is in the borough.\n\nMr Baxter said his Newcastle salon was closed in November and reopened under tier three rules in December.\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.", "About one in three people recently given a Covid vaccine by the NHS report some side-effects.\n\nNone was serious - a common one was some soreness around the injection site, the UK researchers who gathered the feedback found.\n\nExperts say the findings, from about 40,000 people - mostly healthcare workers - are reassuring for the millions having the vaccines now.\n\nSome side-effects are to be expected and not a bad thing, they say.\n\nThis is not the disease itself, but the body's response to the vaccine.\n\nCovid vaccines do not contain the pandemic virus and cannot give people the disease.\n\nInstead, they use a harmless version or part of coronavirus to teach the body how to recognise and fight the real thing, should it need to.\n\nThe researchers asked for feedback, via an app, from people who had received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by early January.\n\nThese after-effects get better within a few days.\n\nAnd all of the medical trials and real-world experiences so far suggest the vaccines are safe and effective.\n\nDoctors do say people with a history of significant allergic reactions to ingredients in the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (or the similar Moderna vaccine) should not receive these. There have been a small number of allergic reactions needing treatment.\n\nSafety checks will continue around the globe.\n\nAnd in the UK, people can report concerns to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's Yellow Card scheme.\n\nDr Anna Goodman, at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, in London, who has been running trials with other coronavirus vaccines, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Novavax, said side effects may be unpleasant but are to be expected as the immune system responds to a vaccine.\n\nBut people still needed to follow social-distancing rules, because protection may not be 100%.\n\n\"Because you have more fever, that doesn't mean you are more immune,\" she said.\n\n\"You can't presume it to.\"\n\nAnd people could take paracetamol for mild after-effects, such as fever or headache, she said.\n\nLead Zoe app researcher Prof Tim Spector said: \"Generally, most people should be reassured by this data.\"\n\nHe said anyone who had a fever or other symptoms that could suggest coronavirus should get tested, even if they have been vaccinated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson visited the Valneva site in Livingston last Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson has said he was not aware of a Covid outbreak at a vaccine factory ahead of his visit last week.\n\nThe prime minister toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston as part of a trip to Scotland.\n\nThe company has now said that a number of coronavirus cases had been reported among staff at the site earlier in January.\n\nBut Valneva has insisted that Mr Johnson's tour of the factory last Thursday was \"Covid secure\".\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons that \"nobody raised that issue with me before or since\".\n\nBut Downing Street later admitted it had been told in advance of the visit.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"Valneva made us aware that some Covid cases had been reported and they had brought in some Covid secure procedures.\n\n\"The site director has said if there had been any risk they would not have allowed the visit to go ahead.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was his job to visit every part of the country and \"nothing or no one is going to stop me\".\n\nAnd he said there are \"few things more important\" than the vaccination programme and recognising the work of the scientists involved.\n\nHis visit to Scotland had already proved controversial, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon questioning at the time whether it was genuinely \"essential\" for the prime minister to travel during the current lockdown restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson also visited the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow, which is used for processing PCR samples\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions, the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the visit was \"utterly, utterly reckless\" and an \"absolutely shocking error of judgment\".\n\nHe also accused Mr Johnson of putting \"politics before public health\".\n\nMr Blackford added: \"What an absolute shambles, that he's gone to a plant where there was a Covid outbreak.\n\n\"The Daily Record story is very clear, the PM and his advisers knew there was a serious Covid outbreak at this plant, they knew the visit posed a risk but he made a deliberate choice, they made the irresponsible choice.\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I think what the people of Scotland want to see is the whole country pulling together and working to develop the vaccine as that fantastic plant in Scotland is doing.\n\n\"One of the advantages of the Valneva vaccine is that it may be able to combat all sorts of variants in a very comprehensive way. It's amazing, wonderful to see Scottish scientists working to do that. I had a fantastic time.\n\n\"Nobody, by the way, raised that issue with me before or since and it is my job to visit every part of this country, nothing and no-one is going to stop me and I am very, very proud of the record of the government in rolling out the vaccine.\"\n\nIn a statement, Valneva said \"a number of coronavirus cases were reported among staff\" at the Livingston site last month.\n\nIt said staff who may have been affected had been self-isolating and that the prime minister's visit was Covid-compliant.\n\nThe Daily Record quoted Valneva's chief financial officer, David Lawrence, as saying that Downing Street was informed of the outbreak ahead of the trip.\n\nMr Johnson also visited the Lighthouse Laboratory at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow, where coronavirus tests are processed, and met troops setting up a vaccination centre in Castlemilk.\n\nI was not aware of Covid cases among workers at Valneva when I visited the site to interview the prime minister on behalf of UK broadcasters last week.\n\nBoris Johnson made no reference to a Covid outbreak. Neither did anyone from his Downing Street team or from the company. It was simply not mentioned.\n\nHowever, Valneva appeared to be a highly Covid conscious company on the occasion of the prime minister's visit.\n\nI was required to fill out a form to confirm details of my health and travel history. I had to wear personal protective equipment including a lab coat, plastic shoe coverings and an industrial grade face covering. As did the PM.\n\nDowning Street has now confirmed it had been made aware of the cases before Mr Johnson's visit.\n\nRemarkably, it does not appear to have told the prime minister, having been advised by Valneva it had Covid-secure procedures in place.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said Scotland had vaccinated more people on Tuesday than any other day so far\n\nWith the Scottish government facing questions about the progress of the vaccine rollout north of the border, Mr Johnson has repeated the UK government's offer to \"help Scotland with the rollout of vaccines\".\n\nThe British Army is to start administering the coronavirus vaccine in Scotland for the first time, with 57 personnel deploying on Thursday to help health boards with the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe medics and management staff will make up a \"vaccine quick reaction force\" which will see five teams of 10 able to deploy across Scotland at short notice.\n\nThey will be in addition to the 98 members of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards who are already supporting the vaccine effort.\n\nScotland has been lagging behind the other three UK nations in the overall percentage of people it has vaccinated, with Scotland's health secretary and national clinical director admitting on Tuesday that it needed to speed up the rollout.\n\nBut at Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon said more than 38,000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine on Tuesday - the highest daily total so far.\n\nShe said the Scottish government had focused on getting the most vulnerable vaccinated first, and that the programme was now accelerating.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' Ruth Davidson called for the Scottish government to publish daily breakdowns of vaccination figures for each health board area.\n\nAnd Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie raised concern that there was a \"growing postcode lottery in vaccine rollout\", which Ms Sturgeon denied.\n\nAfter outlining cases brought to her attention of people not being told when they will receive their first dose, she told the first minister: \"These examples aren't a one-off but they are part of a growing postcode lottery in vaccine rollout, and it's slowing Scotland's recovery from Covid-19.\n\n\"The weekly Public Health Scotland figures show a huge variation across the country in the proportion of the population receiving the vaccine.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted: \"People are not being penalised because of where they live.\n\n\"There will be differences in speed because of geographies, because of how different health boards are organising this to take account of the differences between urban areas and rural areas, the different sizes of communities, but all health boards are making progress.\"\n• None 'Reckless' Boris Johnson visited Scots vaccine firm where there was coronavirus outbreak - Daily Record The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wallen was named best new artist at the 2020 Country Music Association Awards\n\nUS country star Morgan Wallen has been dropped by his record label, after a video emerged of him using a racial slur.\n\nNashville's Big Loud Records said it had \"made the decision to suspend Morgan Wallen's recording contract indefinitely\" in light of the video.\n\nIn the footage, reportedly filmed by a neighbour last weekend, the 27-year-old is seen saying goodbye to some friends and calling one of them the N-word.\n\nHe has apologised for the incident.\n\n\"I'm embarrassed and sorry,\" he told TMZ, which first published the footage.\n\n\"I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologise for using the word. I promise to do better.\"\n\nWallen, whose career began on the US version of TV talent show The Voice, is currently one of the biggest country stars in the US.\n\nHis latest record, Dangerous: The Double Album, has been number one on the Billboard chart for the last three weeks; and his last four singles have reached number one on the country airplay chart.\n\nHowever, the industry's response to his use of a racial slur has been swift and decisive.\n\nWithin 24 hours of TMZ publishing its video, Wallen's music was pulled from the airwaves by iHeartMedia, the largest radio station group in the US, which owns more than 850 stations, including 135 country music stations.\n\nOther major networks, including Cumulus Media and Entercom, have also removed his music from their playlists.\n\n\"In light of Morgan Wallen's recent actions involving the use of a racial slur, we have made the decision to remove his music and content from our stations effective immediately,\" said a spokesman for iHeart.\n\nBroadcaster Country Music Television also distanced itself from the star.\n\n\"After learning of Morgan Wallen's racial slur late last night, we are in the process of removing his appearances from all our platforms,\" said the company in a statement. \"We do not tolerate or condone words and actions that are in direct opposition to our core values that celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion.\"\n\nAnd the Academy of Country Music said it was revoking Wallen's \"potential involvement and eligibility\" for this year's ACM Awards.\n\n\"As a result of this unprecedented situation, the Academy will be reviewing our awards eligibility and submission process, ensuring our nominees consistently reflect the Academy's integrity,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWallen's songs also appear to have been removed from Spotify's Hot Country Songs playlist and Apple Music's equivalent, Today's Country.\n\nThose moves are particularly significant because, unusually for a country album, Dangerous has been a smash on streaming services. According to MRC Data, which compiles the US charts, 88% of its consumption has been online.\n\nBig Loud Records said its decision to drop the star had been supported by Republic Records, a division of Universal Music, with which it partners to release Wallen's records.\n\nThe singer is yet to comment on the situation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Big Loud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is not the first time Wallen has landed himself in trouble. Last May, he was arrested and charged with public intoxication after being kicked out of Kid Rock's bar in Nashville.\n\nIn October, he was dropped from an episode of Saturday Night Live after a video emerged of him breaking Covid-19 rules by partying with fans without wearing a mask or social distancing at an American football game.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency which started off as a joke, has jumped in value by 50% after inventor Elon Musk dubbed it \"the people's crypto\".\n\nCryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin and Bitcoin are generated by computers. Their supposed value comes from the finite number that can be computed.\n\nDogecoin uses a Shiba Inu dog as its mascot and is based on a meme featuring the animal.\n\nThe currency has risen more than 800% in the year so far.\n\nAfter reaching a high of $0.058 (4.2 pence), each dogecoin is currently changing hands for about $0.046, suggesting a total value for all 128bn coins of about $5.89bn.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was created in 2013 by a pair of software workers after one of them made a joke about the next big cryptocurrency, according to an interview with Vice.\n\nHowever, with no intrinsic value like gold or land, and no ability to generate an income like a company or bond, cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile and can crash as fast as they rise.\n\nThis makes them hard to value and makes their prices susceptible to tips from backers or sudden panics.\n\nCritics point out that while any given cryptocurrency may have a finite supply of units, the number of cryptocurrencies is ever-growing and potentially limitless.\n\nPeople have lost large amounts of money in steep drops in the value of cryptocurrencies and in hacks and corrupted or lost hard drives.\n\nBitcoin's value dropped by $5,000 on 4 January to about $29,000 before recovering the lost ground. On 11 Jan, it dropped $9,000 to $32,000.\n\nBecause the cryptocurrencies can pass international borders quickly and are not regulated like cash or regular investments, investigating thefts is hard.\n\nLast month, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a stark warning to investors in so-called cryptoassets.\n\nThe financial watchdog said investors should be \"prepared to lose all their money\" should their investment's value collapse.", "International travel had the biggest impact on Covid death rates for countries hit in the pandemic's first wave, a study has found.\n\nResearchers in Aberdeen focused on the world's worst affected 37 countries.\n\nThey examined factors including border arrivals, population density, the percentage of people living in urban areas, age, and health issues.\n\nThe team said early restrictions on international travel could have made a difference in the spread.\n\nThe study looked at counties including America, the UK, Spain, France, Italy and Brazil, and focused on the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nThey found an increase of one million international arrivals was associated with a 3.4% rise in the mean daily increase in Covid-19 deaths.\n\nThe researchers used international travel data for 2018 as a proxy for 2020 before international travel restrictions were imposed, to match travel trends with the pattern of the virus.\n\nTiberiu Pana, one of the authors of the study, said: \"We found that international travel was the strongest predictor of mortality increase.\n\n\"Our assessment of available data indicates that very early restrictions on international travel might have made a difference in the spread of the pandemic in western Europe, including the UK.\n\n\"These findings are particularly important as the world looks to control future waves and strains of the Covid-19 pandemic and prevent related deaths.\"\n\nThe medical student said the level of a country's BCG vaccination coverage also appears to have a played an important role.\n\nLead author, Prof Phyo Myint, director of the Aberdeen Clinical Academic Training Scheme said: \"This is important research, led by medical students, who have demonstrated robust use of publicly available data to inform future policies in preventing the spread of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe study comes as the discovery of the South Africa strain of coronavirus prompted the extension of tougher restrictions for all travellers arriving directly into Scotland,\n\nOn Wednesday First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said UK government plans to put people arriving from high risk countries on a \"red list\" and require them to quarantine in hotels \"does not go far enough\".\n\nThe Scottish government now plans to introduce a \"much more comprehensive\" approach to \"managed quarantine\".\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\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 the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The Cumbrian mine would extract coking coal from under the Irish Sea\n\nThe leading climate scientist James Hansen has warned Boris Johnson that he risks “humiliation“ over plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nThe UK government, which hosts a climate summit this year, has allowed the mine at Whitehaven to go ahead.\n\nDr Hansen, formerly Nasa's leading global warming researcher, urged the PM to halt production - or be \"vilified\".\n\nNo 10 said the UK was a world leader on climate change, but would not reverse the local council decision on the mine.\n\nIn his letter, Dr Hansen - whose testimony before the US Senate helped raise wider awareness of global warming back in 1988 - writes: \"In leading the [climate conference], you have a chance to change the course of our climate trajectory, earning the UK and yourself historic accolades.\n\n\"Or you can stick with business-almost-as-usual and be vilified around the world.\n\n“It would be easy to achieve this latter ignominy and humiliation - just continue with the plan to open a new coal mine in Cumbria in contemptuous disregard of the future of young people and nature.\n\n“The contrary path is not so easy, but, with your leadership, it is realistic.”\n\nMr Johnson has come under pressure over the decision\n\nDowning Street said the UK is cutting emissions faster than any major economy and would end the use of coal for electricity by 2025.\n\nMinisters have defended the decision over the coal mine as a local planning matter, but have stressed that industries such as steel production require coking coal - which would have to be imported if it was not produced in the UK.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said the prime minister would continue to urge countries to pursue \"clean economic recoveries\" as the UK hosts the COP26 summit in Glasgow this November - the climate meeting to which Mr Hansen refers.\n\nKeeping the global temperature rise to below 1.5C is considered crucial for avoiding the worst effects of global warming.\n\nLast week, US climate envoy John Kerry told the BBC that Glasgow will be the “last best chance“ the world has for tackling the climate crisis.\n\nDr Hansen's letter may prove uncomfortable for Mr Johnson, as it has been copied to Mr Kerry.\n\nThe letter continues: “Prime Minister Johnson, young people are fed up – and for good reason. They demand that political leaders follow the science and take the actions needed to preserve and restore a healthy climate.\n\nMr Hansen was Nasa's most senior climate scientist for more than a decade\n\n“If this [conference] is like the prior ones – with soothing words and worthless ambitions – they will be justifiably outraged.”\n\nThe new coal mine was agreed by Cumbria County Council.\n\nThe government said approval was a matter for the council, defending the decision by the Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick not to exercise his powers to overrule the local authority.\n\nThe mine will produce coking coal - a grade that is used in steel-making. Although 85% of it is destined for export to Europe, government sources hinted that a need for continuing domestic steel production was another reason for not opposing the mine.\n\nDr Hansen does acknowledge the UK’s previous climate leadership and its success in reducing emissions.\n\n“Your progress reflects well on your parliamentary democracy,” he says. “My wife and I were fortunate to witness the efforts of UK citizens and political leaders during the past two decades as that progress was achieved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It is our fervent hope that the UK will continue to provide leadership and affect the entire planet.”\n\nThe letter amplifies criticism at the weekend from the government’s advisory body on global warming, the Climate Change Committee (CCC).\n\nIt says the Cumbrian mine will increase global emissions and compromise the UK’s legally binding carbon budgets.\n\nThe CCC said: “The decision to award planning permission [for the mine] to 2049 will commit the UK to emissions from coking coal.“ The body said coking coal will have to stop by 2035 if the country is to meet its climate change targets.\n\nIn response to the CCC’s letter, a government statement said the decision to allow the coal mine would not be reversed.", "UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February, the government has confirmed.\n\nHotel owners will be asked to provide rooms for more than 1,000 new people every day, documents suggest.\n\nPassengers will have to stay in their rooms for 10 nights, with security guards accompanying if they go outside.\n\nLabour called the measures \"too little, too late\" to deal properly with new overseas strains of Covid.\n\n\"It is beyond comprehension that these measures won't even start until 15 February,\" said shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.\n\nQuarantine hotels are expected to be set up near airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.\n\nThe rules will apply to UK nationals and residents returning to the country from 33 \"red list\" Covid-19 hotspots - including several South American and African countries where new Covid variants have been detected in large numbers of people - and passengers will be expected to pay for the cost of the accommodation.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries already face UK travel bans.\n\nMinisters are also likely to increase the fines for people who break the rules. Home Office sources have said they expect fines will have a deterrent effect so traveller numbers are likely to fall from 1000 a day swiftly.\n\nAccording to documents seen by the BBC, the government wants quarantine hotels to be made available \"on an exclusive basis\".\n\nGuests will have three meals a day in their rooms, with tea, coffee, fruit and water being available.\n\nSecurity will \"accompany any of the arrived individuals to access outside space should they need to smoke or get fresh air\", one document says.\n\nOne hospitality industry source said the government estimated the cost at about £80 per night per person.\n\n\"If they are taking rooms for 1,425 passengers per night until 31 March, that is a bill of £55m,\" they added.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said it was working \"at pace\" to roll out managed quarantine facilities in the run-up to 15 February.\n\n\"In the face of new variants, it is important that the government continues to take the necessary steps to protect people and save lives,\" they said.\n\nThe department says it sent commercial specifications on Thursday evening to hotels near air and sea ports asking for proposals on delivering quarantine facilities ahead of formal contracts being awarded.\n\nThe government is expected to set out further details next week on how passengers will be able to book into the designated hotels.\n\nIt has also been announced that Mr Hancock will chair a new Cabinet sub-committee to oversee efforts to implement mandatory quarantine and enhanced testing aimed at preventing the spread of new Covid variants.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said: \"We are in a race against time to protect our borders against new Covid strains. Yet hotel quarantine will come in to force more than 50 days after the South African strain was discovered.\"\n\nLabour has called on the government to extend hotel quarantining to those returning to the UK from all countries, not just the areas on the \"red list\".\n\nBut the Conservatives described the plan as \"implausible\", arguing it would mean putting around 20,000 people in hotels every day.\n\nA further 915 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the UK, according to the government's daily figures.\n\nThis brings the total number of people to die within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test to 110,250.\n\nHave you recently entered the UK from a hotspot such as South Africa? Are you planning to travel soon? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website 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.", "The alert named the fictional doll Chucky as a suspect in a child abduction\n\nOfficials from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) have apologised after sending out an emergency message featuring the horror character Chucky.\n\nAn Amber Alert message, used to warn of missing children, was sent out featuring the Child's Play villain along with his fictional child, Glen.\n\nScreenshots of the message show the suspect was listed as a doll dressed in denim overalls wielding a large knife.\n\nThe alert was sent out during a test malfunction, DPS officials said.\n\n\"We apologise for the confusion this may have caused and are diligently working to ensure this does not happen again,\" they said in a statement to local news outlets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by KPRC 2 Houston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 unusual test message listed Glen, from 2004's Seed of Chucky, as the missing child.\n\nBoth Glen and Chucky were described as having red or auburn hair and blue eyes, with their height and weight reflecting their fictional size in the Child's Play horror franchise.\n\nFirst released in 1988, the film's plot centres around the soul of a serial killer possessing a toy doll. The film gained a cult following after its release and has spawned a handful of sequels and remakes.\n\nUS media reports suggest the fake warning message was sent out three times via email.\n\nThe Amber Alert system was first developed in the US in 1996 - seeking to send vital information out fast so that the public can help assist and identify children in immediate danger.\n\nThe warnings are sent out to local media outlets as well as directly to the public through social media and messaging systems.\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. Dancing to music, this aerobics instructor caught a moment of Myanmar's history on camera", "Graffiti has appeared in a number of areas showing opposition to the NI Protocol\n\nThere has been a \"coming together of unionism\" in recent days to oppose the NI Protocol, Arlene Foster has said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the DUP published a five-point plan aimed at scrapping the NI part of the Brexit deal.\n\nIt called for unity among unionist parties, who say the protocol damages trade and threatens the UK union.\n\nBut Sinn Féin has said the protocol must remain in place, insisting there would \"always be difficulties\" in implementing it.\n\nThe protocol was designed to ensure an open border between NI and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nInstead there are checks on some products travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, but unionists oppose this border up the Irish Sea.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Thursday, Mrs Foster said the \"disappointment\" for her was that the EU had not acknowledged the protocol was causing disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nUK and EU leaders met on Wednesday night, following a move by the EU to trigger an emergency mechanism, known as Article 16, to override the protocol amid a row on vaccine exports.\n\nThe EU later reversed the decision but faced widespread criticism for the move.\n\nMrs Foster demanded action be taken by the British government to overturn the current protocol arrangements, and issued a direct message to unionists.\n\n\"Part of the difficulty in unionism is that sometimes when confronted with difficult circumstances they turn in on themselves, and start to look for lundys [traitors] they can blame for that,\" she added.\n\n\"But since the actions of the EU last Friday I have seen a coming together of unionism.\n\n\"My plea is not to turn in on ourselves.\"\n\nShe said the government had \"sleepwalked\" into the protocol, and that it should be scrapped before then looking at the risks to the EU's single market.\n\nMrs Foster said her party wanted people to respond in a calm way, adding: \"It's important to focus on constitutional politics.\"\n\nArlene Foster told The View the UK government recognised \"action was needed\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's The View on Thursday evening, the first minister said she believed there had been \"a shift in emphasis\" from the UK government \"since the actions of the European Union last Friday\".\n\n\"Since then we have seen the government respond to the difficulties of the protocol in a more meaningful way,\" she said.\n\n\"No longer are we hearing from government talk about teething problems, we're now hearing them talk about significant problems between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMrs Foster added there was \"recognition in government\" that action is needed \"and it needs to be soon\".\n\nThe finance minister, Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy, said parties had a responsibility to provide \"calm leadership\" and ensure businesses could be given advantages through the protocol.\n\n\"You can't change trading arrangements without difficulties. Not just unionists are suffering, everyone will in some ways but it can't all be attributed to the protocol,\" he said.\n\nMr Murphy argued that some businesses had not prepared fully before the protocol took effect on 1 January, and criticised the British government for \"leaving it right to the wire\".\n\nConor Murphy and Arlene Foster take opposing views on Brexit and the NI Protocol\n\nEarlier, the Republic of Ireland's foreign minister insisted that the protocol was \"not going to be changed.\n\nSimon Coveney said there were problems with implementation, but that the protocol contained \"flexibilities\".\n\nThe UK government has asked the EU for temporary lighter enforcement of the rules to be extended until early 2023.\n\nBut the European Commission's chief spokesman said grace periods were always meant to be of a \"temporary nature\" and were \"subject to strict conditions of their application\".\n\nSpeaking at a daily press briefing, Eric Mamer said it was up to the joint committee involving the UK government and the EU to find a way forward.\n\nDiscussions between the UK and EU on managing the protocol are due to continue next week.\n\nIt follows the withdrawal of staff from NI ports after threats were issued.\n\nSimon Coveney said there were problems with implementation, but the protocol will not be changed\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Coveney told BBC News NI there were some \"genuine concerns\" with the protocol, although his government wanted to be helpful in ensuring its implementation.\n\n\"The flexibilities that are already there for Northern Ireland are grace periods for certain elements of the protocol that don't need to be implemented straight away in Northern Ireland, for example supermarkets don't have to have health certifications in order to import products from GB,\" he outlined.\n\n\"We want the protocol to function in a way that works for everybody, north and south on the island of Ireland.\n\n\"We talk to and listen to businesses in Northern Ireland as well as south of the border and we want to work with them.\"\n\nMr Coveney said the row on Friday over whether the EU would trigger Article 16, which allows an override of the protocol, created more tension.\n\nIt will take a few months, he added, \"to make sure it can be implemented in full\".\n\nMeanwhile, government minister Lord True said Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove had made it clear to EU Vice-President Maros Sefcovic that their \"focus must be on making the Protocol work in the interest of people and businesses in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe comments were made during a debate in the House of Lords following an urgent question from Conservative peer Lord Caine.\n\nDUP deputy leader Lord Dodds said the problems around the protocol could only be fixed through \"renegotiation or action by the government\".\n\nUlster Unionist peer Lord Empey accused the EU of using Northern Ireland as \"political football\" and asked what alternatives were being considered for negotiation by the government with the EU.\n\nLord Caine called on the government to take \"robust measures\" if both sides fail to agree a solution which protects the Belfast Agreement and respects the integrity of the UK.", "Analysis: Are deaths starting to come down in the UK?\n\nThe number of people who have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the UK has risen by another 915 today. It means the death toll by this measure is now in excess of 110,000. But after weeks of mounting deaths since mid-December, there are positive signs deaths are finally reducing. In the past week, daily recorded deaths have been lower than every corresponding day in the previous week. And the last time the daily deaths figure was below 1,000 (apart from on a Sunday and Monday when the numbers are usually much lower because of delayed reporting after a weekend) was on 5 January. That was just as lockdown restrictions were being introduced and children were told not to return to school for the new term. Much has changed since then: Hospitals have been under intense pressure because of Covid-19 and millions of people have been vaccinated against the disease. Confirmed cases and hospital admissions have been falling – usually an early indication that the numbers dying will also follow. However, there are clear warnings from health officials that there should be no complacency. Vaccinating the most vulnerable will reduce deaths initially, but it will take many millions more vaccinations for all the over-50s and those with underlying conditions to really reduce the pressure on the country’s hospitals.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe UK government was told the suspect in the death of Harry Dunn was a \"spouse with no official role\", the prime minister's spokesman said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.\n\nAnne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity, and a court has heard she was employed by an intelligence agency in the US at the time of the fatal crash.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, but the US denied an extradition request.\n\nOn Thursday, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman told reporters: \"We don't comment on intelligence matters.\"\n\nBut he added: \"She was notified to the UK Government by the US as a spouse with no official role.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nThe comments about Mrs Sacoolas' intelligence role were made at a court in Virginia, where an application to dismiss a civil claim for damages submitted by Mr Dunn's family is being heard.\n\nThe court heard her work was \"especially a factor\" in her leaving the UK and she feared she would \"not get a fair trial\" if she returned.\n\nWhen asked by the judge why Mrs Sacoolas had \"fled\" the UK, her barrister John McGavin said he could not respond \"completely candidly\".\n\n\"I know the answer but I cannot disclose it,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Mr Dunn's family's spokesman Radd Seiger called on the UK government to \"urgently reinvestigate\" whether Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity.\n\nUnder the agreements at RAF Croughton dating back to 1995, anyone working at the base from the US as part of the \"administrative and technical staff\" would have their immunity pre-waived, meaning they would not be immune from criminal jurisdiction.\n\nCommenting on the latest developments, the prime minister's spokesman said: \"I would emphasise that our position on this case remains unchanged, we have consistently called for her diplomatic immunity to be waived and believe that the US refusal to extradite her amounts to a denial of justice.\"\n\nUS State Department spokesman Ned Price said the department had been \"closely engaged with the UK government, and we have been transparent about our positions on legal and diplomatic matters\" concerning the crash.\n\nHe added that Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity because she was \"the spouse of an accredited staff member of the US Embassy office\" at the time of crash.\n\nHarry Dunn's mother has said \"there is still time\" for both governments to find a resolution to the case\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has urged Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to go before MPs on Friday to \"explain himself\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"Dominic Raab told MPs that [Mrs Sacoolas] she was entitled to protection as the spouse of an employee, but new information provided by her lawyer clearly indicates that she wasn't.\n\n\"Did the foreign secretary simply accept the US Embassy's account without asking any of the right questions on behalf of a UK citizen, or has he misled the House?\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: \"The UK High Court has found that Anne Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity while in the country under the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.\"\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.", "Teachers are not among those prioritised for the Covid vaccine in England, unless they also meet age or health-related criteria\n\nHundreds of teachers in London have been able to book Covid vaccine slots despite not being in the top priority groups, after they were forwarded messages intended for NHS workers.\n\nA booking link and passcode meant for staff at Barts Health NHS Trust were circulated via Whatsapp to staff at local schools, teachers told the BBC.\n\nSome have received a jab as a result.\n\nThe trust said it was investigating and will take steps to improve the security of its booking system.\n\nThe government told the BBC's Newscast podcast in a statement it was \"absolutely critical that vaccines are offered in the priority order\".\n\nTeachers at schools in north and east London - including in Hackney, Camden and Barnet - said the messages had been sent via school management and were spreading in WhatsApp groups with dozens of members.\n\nNewscast found that it was still possible to book an appointment using the information in the messages on Thursday evening.\n\nOne teacher who booked an appointment, and who asked to remain anonymous, said it was \"not a case of trying to jump the queue\".\n\n\"When the appointment was confirmed I was surprised, thinking that it would have been refused if teachers were not actually entitled to these vaccines,\" they said.\n\n\"The conflicting and changing guidance from the government made me feel like it was possible that this was a genuine offer for teachers that had just not been passed on.\"\n\nThey added: \"Obviously, teachers will only have the vaccine when it is made available to us.\"\n\nA message intended for NHS staff was circulated on teachers' WhatsApp groups\n\nAnother teacher said they, too, were surprised to find they could book an appointment.\n\n\"I thought this must be a local ad hoc way of avoiding wasting vaccines that hadn't been taken up. But I did some research and concluded this wasn't right,\" the teacher said.\n\n\"I think the problem is that people think this is genuine and don't think it's a loophole, but a local policy. It's not malicious or about queue-jumping.\"\n\nBarts Health NHS Trust confirmed that a booking link for its own employees was forwarded to local school staff and that this should not have happened.\n\nIt said it was investigating the source of the messages and measures were being put in place to make the booking system more secure.\n\nIt said anyone attending an appointment who is ineligible to do so would be turned away and that members of the public should not book an appointment until they have been contacted directly by the NHS.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said that it was vaccinating frontline staff and their relatives - where relevant - in line with national guidance.\n\n\"To avoid waste, any unfilled vaccination slots are offered to other staff working within our hospitals,\" it said.\n\nIt comes after reports that Rochdale Borough Council in Greater Manchester wrote to head teachers accusing some school staff of trying to get jabs via an \"inappropriately shared\" email.\n\nVaccination centres in Rochdale will now require people to show proof of employment in order to prevent people from being able to circumnavigate the system.\n\nThe leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese, warned that anyone who had received a vaccine under those circumstances would be investigated and appropriate action taken to ensure that vaccines are given to those in greatest need.\n\nDuring a press conference on Wednesday, Sir Richard said some people were \"fiddling the system, using other people's links to get access\".\n\n\"People should not go before they are called to go as you are taking a slot away from someone in greater need,\" he said.\n\n\"If people are gaming the system, if they are using other people's names, and they are not in priority groups, they are denying somebody at greater risk a vaccine and given the primary objective of this first half of the first phase is to save lives and take the pressure off our hospitals, they are also undermining our efforts to do that.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will eventually be able to identify anyone who has had a vaccine ahead of their eligibility criteria.\"\n\nThe NHS is currently only offering vaccines to people within England's first four priority groups, in line with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) guidelines.\n\nThis does not include teachers, unless they also meet age or health-related criteria.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said: \"It is absolutely critical that vaccines are offered in the priority order, as determined by the JCVI, and we expect everyone involved in vaccinations to follow this guidance closely.\"\n\n\"Vaccinating these groups first will save the most lives and provide the quickest and safest route out of the pandemic.\"\n\nAlmost 10.5 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard, and more than 500,000 have received their second dose.", "The singer's lawyers say \"there is no basis\" for the claim\n\nTaylor Swift is being sued by a US theme park called Evermore, which says the star's latest album has infringed its trademark by using the same name.\n\nThe theme park's owners said Swift's Evermore release had caused confusion about whether the two were linked.\n\nThe Utah venue said there was a \"dramatic departure from typical levels\" of traffic on its website in the week after the album's release.\n\nSwift's lawyers responded that \"there is no basis\" for the claim.\n\nThey wrote in a letter filed in court: \"Moreover, your client has suffered no damages whatsoever and, in fact, has openly stated that Ms Swift's album release creates a 'marketing opportunity' for your client's troubled theme park.\"\n\nThe letter added that the claim was \"frivolous and irresponsible\".\n\nBut the theme park owners, who are seeking millions of dollars in damages, have said the trademark for the name belongs to them, and that Swift violated it when she started selling album-related merchandise.\n\nIn the case, filed in a US District Court in Utah, the owners said they had spent millions of dollars on the attraction, which opened in 2018.\n\nIn December, the owners wrote to Swift's legal team to say they were \"open to discussing reasonable terms for your discontinuation\" of the trademark.\n\nEvermore, which was released on 10 December, was Swift's second surprise album of 2020 and was described as a \"sister album\" to Folklore, which came out in July.\n\nBoth albums were critical and commercial successes, topping charts around the world, including in the UK and the US.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Elton John has had \"very positive\" talks with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden about EU travel for UK musicians, but said visa-free touring is not currently \"on the cards\".\n\nLast month, the star signed a letter demanding action to cut red tape and fees for musicians after Brexit.\n\nThe matter was \"swept under the carpet\" before the UK left the EU, he said.\n\nHe said it was now his \"duty\" to try to help improve the post-Brexit conditions for younger stars and crews.\n\nUp-and-coming acts hoping to tour the continent when it is safe to do so will be \"up against a brick wall\" of fresh \"bureaucracy\", \"paperwork\" and added \"finances\", he said.\n\n\"It's much more difficult for young artists to get this together because of all the red tape,\" Sir Elton told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz. \"Every country has these different rules, there's so much procedure to go through.\n\n\"People like myself are not really affected by it, we have a foundation of people who can look after it, it still has to be done but it's much easier,\" the 73-year-old continued.\n\n\"[But] we find ourselves in the situation because of Brexit, this has arisen. How do we fix this? How can we fix this?\n\n\"I want the situation to be resolved, so that young people don't have the difficulties of trying to tour in Europe, because it will affect their careers, it will stunt their growth and their creativity.\"\n\nSir Elton has had hits with songs such as Rocket Man, I'm Still Standing and Candle in the Wind. He noted how music had always been one of \"Britain's biggest exports\", pointing to the likes of Dua Lipa and Lewis Capaldi as well as leading ballets and operas.\n\nHe said he and Mr Dowden spoke for about 20 minutes and discussed ideas like the potential creation of a permanent site, backed by record labels, that could \"help them with the logistics of touring in Europe\".\n\nHe explained: \"If they can be helped through this it will take away a lot of their fears, and make life easier. I'm sure we can establish this, and we have to basically, otherwise they're going to have not much of a future, and that is a crying shame, as there's so many great artists out there.\"\n\nMr Dowden tweeted to say he had \"a v positive call\" with Sir Elton and husband David Furnish, and that there was \"lots of work going on in Govt on this\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Dowden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A company backed by David Beckham, which uses compounds found in cannabis to make skincare and athletic products, plans to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).\n\nCellular Goods has sold a stake to DB Ventures, the former footballer's investment firm, Sky News reported.\n\nThe company makes its products in labs, rather than from plants.\n\nIt is part of a growing market for products which use chemicals found in cannabis for skin regimes.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Beckham and DB Ventures for comment.\n\nTwo of the main active chemicals found in cannabis plans are cannabidiol (CBD) - often used in skincare products - and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).\n\nWhile THC is a controlled substance, cannabidiol is not.\n\nCellular Goods aims to sell products from September 2021, according to its website, which will make it the first firm of its kind to debut on the LSE.\n\nCannabis companies can list on the LSE so long as they are medicinal, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) watchdog decided last year.\n\nWhile many recreational drug companies have sprung up in the US, where states in including California have legalised it, those companies can't raise money in London, as it is illegal in the UK.\n\n\"The last few years have seen massive growth and awareness of the importance of wellness and self-care and we believe cannabinoids will prove to be the king of wellness ingredients,\" said Cellular Goods chief executive Alexis Abraham.\n\n\"The appetite for cannabinoid products is huge and the biosynthetic cannabinoids we will be exclusively using are cleaner, greener, purer, and frankly the future.\"\n\nSome tests show that stronger forms of CBD can help reduce the number of epileptic seizures in some patients, by more than 40%.\n\nBut the CBD products you will find on sale right now in the UK all contain CBD at much lower doses.\n\nUK companies must be careful about what they say about the ability of CBD oils. Not much is known for sure about how effective they are.", "Scotland is set to have tougher restrictions than the rest of the UK\n\nAirport bosses say they have \"no idea\" how the Scottish government's tougher quarantine restrictions on travellers will work.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced on Monday that Scotland's rules would go further than the other UK countries.\n\nUnder UK plans, people arriving from high-risk countries on a \"red list\" will have to quarantine in hotels.\n\nThe first minister said that would be extended to all travellers \"regardless of which country they have come from\".\n\nThe chief executive of Glasgow and Aberdeen airports criticised the Scottish government for not involving the industry in its discussions.\n\nDerek Provan insisted there had been \"no engagement\" over policies which have now \"completely shut down our airports\".\n\nThe Scottish government said work was ongoing on the details, and it \"will obviously talk to the aviation sector\" before announcing its final plans.\n\nMr Provan, of the AGS Airports group, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the industry must be consulted if it is to help implement the measures.\n\nHe said: \"There is no engagement with the Scottish government. We are finding out the next restrictions as the first minister makes those announcements.\n\n\"There has been an announcement of the third set of further restrictions in the same number of weeks. But, as of this time, we have no idea how that will work.\n\n\"We don't know how people will be able to travel from the aircraft to the hotel.\n\n\"And we certainly don't understand what monitoring and measuring will take place between the Scottish and English borders.\"\n\nMr Provan said the new restrictions would mean airports having to go through a second summer period without any business.\n\nHe said the aviation business was now in a \"survival situation\" and must be involved in government talks on a recovery plan for the industry and the economy.\n\n\"We can help, but we need meaningful support,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Edinburgh Airport said: \"We still don't know how this is expected to work, when it is being enacted and what it means for airports and our industry, so yet again we ask the Scottish government to talk to us.\n\n\"Business-changing policy with no detail is damaging because we can't plan our response or our recovery, which will feed into Scotland's recovery. We understand restrictions are required but we're now coming up for a year of little to no passengers without direct industry support.\n\n\"We urgently need to agree a road map to recovery.\"\n\nThe first minister said on Tuesday the stricter rules were to \"guard against\" the importation of new variants.\"\n\nShe said the approach agreed across the UK only included countries where new variants had already been identified.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was \"too reactive\" because a new variant will often have spread across borders by the time it has been identified through genomic sequencing.\n\nWhile the Scottish government cannot \"unilaterally\" implement managed quarantine for people arriving in other parts of the UK before travelling to Scotland, it will urge the UK government to adopt the stricter approach.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney told Good Morning Scotland the Scottish government was \"very committed to ongoing dialogue with all sectors affected\" by the quarantine changes.\n\nHe said: \"We have to use every device available to us to interrupt the circulation of the virus, and the approaches that we're taking on quarantine arrangements are designed to do exactly that.\n\n\"There is work going on to develop the thinking that the government wants to put in place and we will obviously talk to the aviation sector as part of that process.\"\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove said the UK government's position was \"constantly under review\".\n\nHe said: \"It is already the case that before you come to any part of the United Kingdom you need to have had a negative Covid test.\n\n\"And it is also the case that before you get into the United Kingdom you have to acknowledge that you will isolate for a period, and there are strict penalties if you break that isolation.\n\n\"Managed isolation is an additional measure and we review all of the countries that people are coming from in order to make sure that we are vigilant against any new strain of the virus.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\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 the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Care and maintenance work continues at Cairngorm Mountain so the site remains ready to reopen - whenever the green light is given\n\nSome of Scotland's mountain ski centres are having their best winter conditions in years while closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCairngorm Mountain, near Aviemore, has reported \"high quality snow\" on its slopes.\n\nGlencoe Mountain said it was experiencing the best conditions it had ever seen for the time of year.\n\nIt follows weeks of frequent snowfalls and freezing temperatures, with more wintry weather expected this weekend.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland, along with the Western Isles, are in lockdown to supress the spread of Covid and to help prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.\n\nSki centres, like the vast majority of businesses, are closed in line with restrictions.\n\nThe operators of Glencoe Mountain said conditions were the best they had seen for the time of year\n\nCairngorm Mountain has a \"skeleton\" technical operations team still working to keep lifts and other facilities maintained and protected, ready for when the site can reopen.\n\nSusan Smith, interim chief executive of Cairngorm Mountain, said: \"For the whole team here, it is hugely frustrating that we are unable to welcome snowsports enthusiasts to enjoy the high-quality snow cover, which is the best we have seen in recent years.\n\n\"We await guidance from the Scottish government on the potential opportunity to reopen the ski area and hope that this winter weather continues.\"\n\nScotland's snowsports sites are shut in line with lockdown measures\n\nAndy Meldrum, of Glencoe Mountain, said his business was also working towards a date when they could welcome back skiers and snowboarders.\n\nHe said: \"There is lots of snow - the best we have seen at this time of year - and the weather has been really good as well with less wind than normal.\n\n\"We remain ever hopeful that we will be able to open soon, even if it's only for locals.\n\n\"We successfully ran throughout most of December without any issues and believe we could do so again.\"\n\nThere are strict limits on non-essential travel and Scotland's mountains are out of bounds to most people. Those who flout the rules risk fines.\n\nPeople who live within easy reach of the hills have also been urged to adhere closely to guidance on how to enjoy the outdoors safely.\n\nRecent years have seen Scotland's mountain snowsports centres invest heavily in artificial snow-making equipment because there was not enough of the natural white stuff.\n\nThis year there is more than enough snow, but few can enjoy it.\n\nA \"skeleton\" crew has been working at Cairngorm Mountain\n\nLast year resorts also missed out on \"one of the best springs in years\" due to the pandemic, having to shutdown just as lots of snow and a spell of calm, cold weather arrived.\n\nIain Cameron, who researches snow in Scotland, said this winter had been unusual.\n\nHe said: \"The snow cover that is present, especially over the north east Highlands, is more extensive for the time of year than any since 2010.\n\n\"The Cairngorms have almost unbroken cover above 500m and lying snow has been present at a partially-frozen Loch Morlich for over a month.\n\n\"In the context of the last 20 years, this is very unusual.\"", "The UK's coronavirus alert level has been lowered from level five to four in all four nations as the risk that the NHS could be overwhelmed \"has receded\".\n\nThe four UK chief medical officers and NHS England's national medical director agreed the change following advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre.\n\nThe alert level had moved to level five on 4 January, shortly before England and Scotland began fresh lockdowns.\n\nThe top medics urged people to \"remain vigilant\" by following lockdown rules.\n\nA change in the alert level does not automatically mean restrictions can ease, but it helps to inform government decisions on the rules.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have this week set out their separate plans to lift lockdown restrictions. Northern Ireland and Wales will outline their plans in the coming weeks.\n\nEngland's Prof Chris Whitty, Northern Ireland's Dr Michael McBride, Scotland's Dr Gregor Smith, Wales's Dr Frank Atherton and NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said their decision to reduce the alert level was made because the number of cases in hospital was \"consistently declining\".\n\nHowever, they warned: \"We should be under no illusions - transmission rates, hospital pressures and deaths are still very high.\"\n\nThey said the vaccine rollout would eventually have \"a major impact\" but for the time being \"it is really important that we all - vaccinated or not - remain vigilant and continue to follow the guidelines\".\n\nProf Whitty added in a tweet: \"If we continue to follow the guidance, cases will continue to fall.\"\n\nA further 9,985 new coronavirus cases were reported in the UK in Thursday's daily figures, as well as 323 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nThe coronavirus alert level, unveiled by the UK government in May 2020, is measured by a five-level, colour-coded system.\n\nLevel five (red), the highest level, is when there is a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" within 21 days, and extremely strict social distancing is enforced.\n\nLevel four indicates a high or rising level of transmission, with social distancing still enforced.\n\nThe UK's alert level dropped down to level three in June 2020. During the summer, restrictions were gradually relaxed to allow people to socialise in groups indoors, and much of society reopened, including pubs and restaurants.\n\nHowever, the alert level was moved back up to level four in September as case numbers began to climb again. The same month a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus was detected in Kent.\n\nAs cases spiralled across the UK, the country moved to the highest level, level five, on 4 January.\n\nThe move to alert level five was made because the chief medical officers were worried the NHS was at risk of being overwhelmed.\n\nIt was an announcement that essentially forced England's third national lockdown.\n\nBut since the number of cases peaked at over 39,000 in mid-January, cases have fallen rapidly.\n\nIn fact, the numbers of new admissions coming in each day are not far off what you would normally get for respiratory illnesses in winter.\n\nBut while the immediate threat is over, hospitals are still incredibly busy. There are over 16,000 patients with Covid in hospital - that's only around 25% lower than the total in the peak of the first wave.\n\nOperating theatres continue to be used as temporary critical care areas and non-urgent care is being cancelled in some places.\n\nBut with infection levels still coming down, we know this will ease further, hence the move to level four.\n\nThe Joint Biosecurity Centre, set up by the government in spring last year, has the task of recommending what the alert level should be, based on:\n\nThe centre's scientists identify changes in infection rates using testing, environmental and workplace data.\n\nNHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said despite the UK's alert level dropping, there was a \"long way to go yet\" and that no-one from the health service was \"anywhere near declaring this phase of battle won\".\n\nMeanwhile, new NHS England figures suggest one in five adults in England under the age of 70 have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nAn estimated 20.3% of people between the ages of 16 and 69 had been given their first jab as of 21 February, the figures say.\n\nHowever, the figures highlight some regional variations, with at least one in four over-70s yet to receive their first dose in several parts of London.\n\nMore than 18 million people have had a first vaccine dose - equivalent to one in three adults in the UK.\n\nThe vaccine rollout has entered its next phase, after everyone in the top four priority groups was offered a jab.\n\nMany areas are now offering vaccine appointments to over-60s, adult carers of disabled people and younger adults in care homes.", "Around 10% fewer train services should run once the country opens up again, compared to the pre-pandemic timetable, the chairman of Network Rail has said.\n\nThe old pattern of five days of peak commuter travel may not return, Sir Peter Hendy warned the National Rail Recovery conference.\n\nInstead, leisure travel might boost weekend traffic, especially if limits on international travel continue.\n\nCommuter traffic could return to 80% of pre-pandemic levels, he suggested.\n\n\"The service doesn't run better if you put too many trains on the track. We've proved that,\" said Sir Peter.\n\n\"You shouldn't try to get more out of the infrastructure than it can give you. All of my experience is that people prefer reliability to journey time.\"\n\nPassenger numbers fell precipitously in March when the pandemic struck and have only partially recovered since. Many commuters are working from home and some businesses remain closed.\n\nThe government's timetable foresees a gradual opening up of the economy over the coming months. However, some firms have already signalled some workers may continue to work from home for some of their working week.\n\nSir Peter said commuter traffic on the railways could remain at around 80% for the next one to three years, although he said that Network Rail, which manages the UK's rail infrastructure, were also looking at a range of possibilities between 60% and100%.\n\nHe warned that the working week could change so dramatically that commuter routes may only see one peak day a week and that ticketing options should be looked at to even out the service.\n\nLeisure visits to family or for recreation could boost passenger numbers on summer weekends, he suggested.\n\n\"I used to watch the trains to the Cornish Riviera from Paddington and it was packed and we might need to get used to that again,' he told the conference.\n\n\"If Saturday and Sunday get busy in the summer we need to do engineering work at other times.\"\n\nThe rail network may rely more on leisure travellers in future\n\nRail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris also acknowledged that commuting was not going to return to previous levels quickly.\n\n\"We are not going back to before - this is the new normal. We now need to fundamentally change,\" he said. Without a concerted cross-industry effort passengers might not return, he added.\n\nIn December, the government said it was \"committed to providing a more flexible, modern ticketing system for passengers\" and asked rail operators to develop flexible season tickets.\n\nWhen many commuters travelled to work four or five days a week, a season ticket provided value for money. Part-time commuters currently face a much higher price per journey.\n\nThe Department for Transport expects flexible season tickets to be introduced across England later this year, which could save commuters \"hundreds of pounds\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said during the pandemic passenger numbers fell to levels \"not seen since the 19th Century\" but everyone would work hard to restore business, and ensure a safe and clean network. He said this would require a \"coherent approach, [where] innovation is needed more than ever\".\n\nKeith Williams, whose much anticipated rail review is expected to be published soon, described the pandemic as a \"Black Swan\" event for the rail industry. The review had been due for release shortly before the pandemic began and has now been updated.", "A judge told Benjamin Fort he would have jailed him for longer had he been able to\n\nA man who shone a laser into the eyes of a police helicopter pilot has been described as an \"idiot\" and a \"liar\" by a judge.\n\nBenjamin Fort told police he thought the aircraft above Keighley in West Yorkshire was a UFO in an attempt to explain his actions.\n\nThe helicopter was taking part in a search for a missing woman at the time.\n\nJudge Jonathan Rose jailed Fort for six months and told him he would have sent him to prison for longer if he could.\n\nProsecutor Paul Canfield told Bradford Crown Court how the pilot had closed his eyes as a reflex to the light and then manoeuvred the aircraft to protect himself and his colleague.\n\nA police officer in the helicopter, which had flown from Manchester to Keighley in August 2020, was able to direct colleagues to the location of the device resulting in Fort's arrest.\n\nFort, 39, of Parkwood Rise in Keighley, had apologised and initially claimed he had been looking for rabbits.\n\nHe then said he thought the helicopter was a UFO before eventually admitting he had shone the laser at the aircraft crew.\n\nThe judge said Fort's explanation of \"hunting rabbits\" was a complete and utter lie .\n\n\"You changed it on the last occasion to you thought that what was flying overhead was a UFO,\" he said.\n\n\"That was a lie too and the reality is there was no, and never could be, any justification for what you did.\"\n\nJudge Rose noted that the witnesses reported repeated \"strikes\" from the laser and it had not been a case of Fort just doing it once.\n\n\"It isn't only those who are in the aircraft. It is those in the houses below peaceably living their lives and potentially losing their lives because an idiot like you points a laser beam into the eyes of a pilot.\"\n\nThe judge said while he would have liked to have passed a sentence measured in years for the danger created by Fort's actions, it was likely another court would intervene.\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.", "Some areas of the UK are \"burning quite hot\" with rising levels of new coronavirus infections, England's deputy chief medical officer says.\n\nAlthough coronavirus levels are still decreasing across much of the UK, there are hotspots that buck the trend.\n\nThese are in the Midlands and east and west coast of England and some parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam told Friday's Downing Street briefing the battle is not yet won.\n\nHe warned people not to wreck it by relaxing the rules too early.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the aim was still to come out of lockdown together as a nation, but did not rule out measures being imposed locally if needed. The differences between areas now are smaller than those seen in the autumn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock: \"The stay at home rules are still in place for a reason\"\n\nProf Van-Tam said: \"In some parts of the UK, case rates are changing, albeit slowly, in the wrong direction.\n\n\"This is not a good sign and reinforces the fact that I'm afraid this battle at the moment is not won.\"\n\nThe latest R number - 0.6 to 0.9 - suggests infection numbers are shrinking overall in the UK. It means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 6 and 9 other people.\n\nHospital pressures and deaths are still high, however, despite the UK's coronavirus alert level having been lowered from the maximum five to four.\n\nAnother 345 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the total to 122,415, or 135,613 if you include death certificates that mention Covid-19.\n\nThere were 15,485 patients in hospital with coronavirus on 24 February 2021.\n\nPeople are still being advised to take precautions to stop the spread. There is still lots of the virus circulating.\n\nLatest ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nMeanwhile, the chair of Britain's Covid vaccine advice committee says the next phase of the vaccine rollout should focus on age groups rather than occupations.\n\nIt means people aged 40-49 will be the next in line to get a vaccine from mid-April, after all vulnerable groups and the over-50s are covered.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said the priority was to deploy vaccines as quickly as possible to protect lives, and that targeting occupational groups would be more complex and may slow the rollout.\n\nLatest figures show 19,177,555 people in the UK have received a first dose of Covid vaccine and 736,037 have been given a second dose.\n• None UK alert level raised to four - what does that mean?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Repair work on Blackweir Bridge is due to finish next Friday, says Cardiff University Image caption: Repair work on Blackweir Bridge is due to finish next Friday, says Cardiff University\n\nA bridge in Cardiff closed last year for Covid safety reasons is set to finally reopen as repair work is due to finish next Friday.\n\nBlackweir Bridge, over the River Taff in Bute Park, is a key route for walkers, runners and cyclists, but has been shut for almost a year.\n\nCardiff Council closed the bridge last April due to people not socially distancing.\n\nHowever it then emerged that the bridge had serious structural and fire damage which needed attention.\n\nCardiff University, which owns the bridge, says repair work is due to finish next Friday, 5 March.\n\nThe council has said the bridge will reopen once all the repairs are done, adding that the \"scientific understanding\" of Covid-19 which prompted the closure had changed.\n\nWhen the bridge reopens, people using it will be asked to help prevent the spread of coronavirus by keeping to the left, crossing in single file, and not stopping.", "All areas of the UK are moving into the next vaccination phase, to prioritise those aged over 40\n\nPeople aged in their 40s will be next in line to get the coronavirus vaccine, Wales' chief medical officer has said.\n\nThe four UK nations are doing this, under the plan to vaccinate all adults by the end of July.\n\nDr Frank Atherton said the plan for Wales depends on \"supply matching our ambition\".\n\nTeachers and police officers were among those who lobbied to be prioritised - but will now be vaccinated in line with their age group.\n\nNews of the next phase comes as Public Health Wales figures show more than 270,000 people aged in their 50s and 60s, have had their first dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nAll four of Wales' chief constables have criticised the decision not to prioritise frontline workers, saying they were \"incredibly disappointed\".\n\nHead teachers' union NAHT Cymru said all front-line staff \"should be protected now\".\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing, Dr Atherton said there was not enough evidence to support prioritising people from specific occupations in the next phase of the vaccine rollout, as outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frank Atherton says the plan depends on \"supply matching our ambition\"\n\n\"I, along with the UK's other three chief medical officers support the JCVI advice and the four UK governments have agreed to implement it,\" he said.\n\n\"This means the UK's vaccine programmes remains aligned as we all work towards one shared goal.\n\n\"This is the simplest, quickest and fairest approach. And it means we can remain on track to meet our ambitious vaccination targets.\"\n\nHe said calls for people in specific occupations to be prioritised had been heard.\n\n\"The JCVI did consider this - however, it found there wasn't sufficient evidence to set specific occupations apart from the general population. It also advised that the complexity of delivering this approach would slow down the pace of the vaccination roll-out,\" he added.\n\nHowever Laura Doel, director of NAHT Cymru, said that despite such complexity it was \"not a good enough reason not to prioritise the needs of committed professionals\".\n\n\"We call upon the Welsh Government to take a different view… front line staff should be protected now that those in the greatest danger have already been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\n\"They are being required to work with large groups of people who carry at least as much potential for infection as anyone else.\n\n\"Those groups often occupy confined and unventilated spaces for long periods of time with only rudimentary PPE.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, Wales' four chief constables - Carl Foulkes of North Wales Police, Mark Collins of Dyfed Powys Police, Pam Kelly of Gwent Police and Jeremy Vaughan of South Wales Police - said: \"We have repeatedly asked that policing be risk assessed so our officers and staff can be given due consideration, given the risks they take daily on behalf of us all.\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\"Police officers by the nature of their role have to go into different settings and come into contact with all high risk groups along with also being unable to social distance and on many occasions cannot maintain PPE as designed, given the physical role they have to undertake,\" they wrote.\n\n\"In addition they are being tasked with enforcing isolation and quarantine arrangements on the government's behalf on those they know have the virus.\"\n\nThe total number of people to have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in Wales is 902,334 and 80,062 of those have had their second dose.\n\nIn a statement, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"It is encouraging that the UK Government has brought forward some of Wales' supply allocation.\n\n\"But from the information available to us at this point there are concerns with both the type of supply and the timing of its delivery.\n\n\"We have always said that we could go even faster were the supply available.\"\n• None What are the latest Covid rules for Wales?", "Exports to Ireland are being blocked by extra paperwork and costs at customs, say CBI Wales\n\nWelsh exports to Ireland are being blocked by extra paperwork and costs at customs, says CBI Wales.\n\nDirector Ian Price said the authorities in the Republic of Ireland were \"zealous\" when checking goods which was \"causing some delays.\"\n\nHe said documents had been rejected for being written in blue not black ink.\n\nIreland's consul general in Wales insisted the Irish Government was \"focused\" on facilitating trade between the two countries.\n\nMr Price called for \"consistency of approach\" when exporting to the EU.\n\nThe republic is Wales' fourth biggest export market, behind Germany, France and the US and the fifth largest market for the UK.\n\nTrade worth £20bn goes back and forth across the Irish Sea every week.\n\nBut since 1 January, there has been a drop in UK-Ireland traffic at Holyhead and Pembroke Dock.\n\nCBI Wales' director Ian Price said documents had been rejected for being written in blue rather than black ink\n\nMr Price said it's difficult to tell whether this was down to companies \"biding their time\" because they foresaw problems or if it is \"a genuine change in the way people are moving their goods.\"\n\n\"There's no denying costs of freight have increased quite largely and it's hard to judge at the moment, whether this is a temporary glitch, or whether this is something that is with us for good,\" he explained.\n\n\"Quite clearly there's a lot more administration involved now we're moving goods from ourselves into mainland Europe and as a consequence, it requires more people, requires more time or documentation and that in itself creates a cost.\"\n\nThis was \"a burden\" being absorbed by UK businesses, he said.\n\nIreland's consul general in Wales, Denise Hanrahan said the Brexit changes were a \"steep learning curve\"\n\nIreland's consul general in Wales, Denise Hanrahan said: \"Ireland and Wales are so closely tied, our shared Irish sea border is one of the vital links between us.\n\n\"The UK has left the EU customs union, has left the single market, and that inevitably requires then systems to be put in place to manage the customs, the health aspects, the animal safety aspects.\n\n\"All of those normal aspects of trading.\"\n\nMs Hanrahan said it was a \"steep learning curve.\"\n\nThe Irish Government was supporting businesses \"to learn as much as possible as to how they can best interact with those systems.\"\n\nJosh Burbidge, managing director of 150-year-old family firm Archwood Group, says the Irish market is \"significant\".\n\nIt is worth more than £600,000 in annual revenue to the business, based in Chirk, Wrexham, he said.\n\nArchwood's Josh Burbidge said his firm won't be able to absorb extra costs in the long term\n\n\"We made the conscious decision to stop exporting anything to Ireland for two weeks at the start of January to help with the paperwork, and ensure that we had everything sorted in terms of all of the regulation,\" he explained.\n\nDeliveries have recently been delayed by six weeks and while currently absorbing extra costs, the firm cannot do so forever.\n\n\"Every pallet we send in as an extra £65, and every consignment or individual parcel is £6.50,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not in a high margin business. Therefore, we won't be able to continue absorbing those costs on the longer term.\"\n\nWrexham Lager sales manager Joss Roberts, said Brexit complications were having a \"major impact\", despite the majority of business comes from the UK.\n\n\"Prices are becoming unrealistic,\" said Mr Roberts.\n\n\"We've had to cancel three Irish orders this morning because the end receiver is expected to pay €11.50 per crate, that's on top of an admin courier fee.\n\n\"It's gone up around £17 alone to the Republic of Ireland where as to the likes of Spain it's gone up over €60 a crate.\"\n\nWrexham Lager will \"have to work out a way\" said sales manager Joss Roberts\n\nHe has written to customers to warn them of the extra fees.\n\nThe business will \"have to work out a way.\"\n\nHe said: \"Do they ring us and pay the extra over the phone? Do we put an extra addition on our cost on the website? It's hassle that from December wasn't there.\"\n\n\"We just hope it can get better soon.\"", "The Duke of Sussex has said he had to step back from royal duties to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press.\n\nPrince Harry told TV chat show host James Corden it was \"destroying my mental health\" and he \"did what any husband [or] father would do\".\n\nBuckingham Palace confirmed last week that the prince and his wife Meghan would not resume royal duties.\n\nThe duke insisted they were \"stepping back rather than stepping down\".\n\nThe couple, who are expecting their second child, moved to California with their one-year-old son Archie after announcing their plan to step back as senior working royals last January.\n\nThey said at the time that they wanted to work to become financially independent.\n\nLast week, Buckingham Palace said the duke and duchess would not return to royal duties, following a planned review of the arrangements.\n\nAs a result, they will have to return their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nIn a segment for Corden's US TV programme The Late Late Show, the duke joined the British presenter on a double-decker bus tour of Los Angeles.\n\nAsked by Corden about the couple's decision to walk away from royal duties, Prince Harry insisted it \"was never walking away, it was stepping back rather than stepping down\".\n\n\"It was a really difficult environment as a lot of people saw. We all know what the British press can be like. And it was destroying my mental health. I was like, this is toxic.\"\n\nHe said he \"did what any husband [or] father would do\", and moved his family away, but insisted: \"I will never walk away, I will always be contributing. My life is public service.\"\n\nAsked by Corden how he sees his future after lockdown restrictions are lifted, the duke said: \"My life is always going to be about public service and Meghan signed up to that.\"\n\nThe interview was recorded before it was confirmed Harry and Meghan would not resume royal duties.\n\nMuch has been said and written about Harry and Meghan over the past year, but this is Harry in his own words - the first interview since the family moved to California.\n\nThere's enough fluff to delight their fans - like details about Archie's first word and his love of waffles. Meghan makes an appearance via FaceTime and Harry gets muddy on an assault course.\n\nThe tone is informal - two mates chatting on a bus (James Corden was at their wedding) but he does ask the question people want answered, about why they are no longer working royals.\n\nHarry is perhaps a little defensive in his response, saying it \"was never walking away\", and although this was recorded before the official \"decree absolute\" from Buckingham Palace last week, the sentiment about continued public service is the same.\n\nCommentators will point to the name check for Netflix (the couple have signed a multi-million dollar deal with the streaming service).\n\nThen there's the fact that in-between revealing personal family details he argues the reason they left the UK was because of press intrusion.\n\nNext weekend, it will be Meghan who takes centre stage with Oprah.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have both taken legal action against media outlets in the past.\n\nThe duchess recently won a High Court privacy battle against the Mail on Sunday over the publication of extracts from a letter to her father.\n\nWhen his wife first began her legal action against the Mail on Sunday, the duke described the \"painful\" impact of the \"ruthless\" press campaign against her.\n\n\"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces,\" he said in a statement at the time.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, Harry said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\nEarlier this month, Harry also successfully sued the publisher of the Mail on Sunday for libel, over false claims he \"turned his back\" on the Royal Marines after stepping down as a senior royal.\n\nArchie was born on 6 May, 2019\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, the duke also defended Netflix drama The Crown, amid criticism from some quarters about its portrayal of the Royal Family's history.\n\n\"Of course it's not strictly accurate, but, loosely, it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that,\" he said.\n\n\"I am way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family, or my wife or myself.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan married at Windsor Castle in May 2018\n\nLast September, it emerged the duke and duchess had agreed a deal with Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\nHarry also revealed that Archie's first word was \"crocodile\" and the Queen sent him a waffle maker for Christmas.\n\nHe added that the monarch, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, who is currently being treated in hospital for an infection, have used Zoom to video call the family, and have seen Archie \"running around\".", "Residents in the area said they heard an \"explosion\" at about 04:00 GMT\n\nForty people had to be evacuated when burglars used acetylene cylinders to blast off a shop's door and cash machine in part of Cardiff.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the explosion at about 04:00 GMT at the Co-op in Llanrumney caused \"significant damage\".\n\nAbout 40 people living in the flats above the shop had to take refuge at a nearby branch of Greggs.\n\nCouncillor Keith Jones said the offenders showed a \"complete disregard for human life\".\n\nTwo South Wales Fire crews were also at the scene in Countisbury Avenue but there have been no reported injuries.\n\nCouncillors have said the offenders were targetting the ATM outside the Co-op\n\nMr Jones said he and his fellow ward councillors had previously successfully campaigned to install two CCTV cameras at either end of the parade of shops.\n\nHe urged police to \"urgently review\" the footage of what happened in the early hours and see if anyone could be identified.\n\nLlanrumney councillor Lee Bridgeman said when the 11 families were evacuated from their flats uthe leisure centre and hotels were put on standby to look after them.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nA spokesman for Cardiff Council confirmed it was contacted by the emergency services at 04:00 GMT.\n\nThey said: \"Following a failed attempt to remove an ATM machine from the Co-op store on Countisbury Avenue, a fire was started at the building, which caused an immediate danger to those living in flats above the shops.\n\n\"The council was responsible for the evacuation and shelter of 40 people during this incident, who were firstly moved to a safe distance, and then moved on to a bus until more suitable accommodation could be found.\n\n\"All protocols and procedures were followed and the incident ended at 6.30am. The residents have now been moved back into their properties and the council is continuing to support the emergency services while investigations continue.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Co-op said it was too early to confirm when the store would be able to reopen as the damage was still being assessed.\n\nPhilip Lancefield said Friday's incident was more \"significant\" than similar ones in the past\n\nPhilip Lancefield, who owns a greengrocers in the same parade of shops, said there had been a few break-ins and a ram raid on the Co-op two years ago but nothing as significant as Friday's .\n\nMr Lancefield said: \"I'm not particularly worried about my business being targeted but what's happened is affecting trade here today.\"\n\nKieran Davenport said his family heard the explosion in the early hours\n\nKieran Davenport, who lives opposite the Co-op, said: \"I didn't hear it because I was asleep but others in the house heard an explosion and a car screeching away. It happened at about four in the morning.\n\n\"It all happened really quickly. It's been targeted a few times in the past but I don't think they've ever got away with much before.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online booking platform Airbnb has said it is preparing for a \"significant\" travel rebound as the world emerges from coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nHowever the company said it was still \"too early\" to predict how the business would fare this year.\n\nThe company's revenue dropped 30% last year to $3.4bn (£2.4bn), as Covid-19 restrictions kept many from travelling.\n\nThat was better than many other travel companies, as people took to their cars for longer stays in private homes.\n\nThe firm said it has already seen a smaller decline in travel this year than in the last three months of 2020, when revenue was down 22% year-on-year at $859m. That was better than many analysts had expected, given the resurgence of Covid cases and fresh lockdown restrictions in many areas.\n\n\"Travel is coming back and we are laser-focused on preparing for the travel rebound,\" its chief executive Brian Chesky said.\n\nMr Chesky said he expected new travel preferences to emerge from the pandemic that will benefit his company.\n\nHe said the firm is optimistic that staying in private homes will appeal to people travelling to see family and friends. Remote working patterns will also allow people to take more frequent weekend trips - or even spend several months away from home, he suggested.\n\n\"We've seen a number of new use cases,\" he said. \"We don't think we're ever going to go back to travel in 2019. It's going to change and it's going to be different.\"\n\nHowever, Airbnb also warned that it still had \"limited visibility for growth trends in 2021 given the difficulty in determining the pace of vaccine rollouts and the related impact on willingness to travel\".\n\n\"We are not providing an outlook for the rest of 2021 at this time,\" it said in its first financial update for investors since its public listing in December.\n\nAirbnb, which is active in more than 220 countries, said people around the world are travelling more domestically during the pandemic - but not enough to make up for the loss of business from international tourism.\n\nAirbnb was founded by Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia when they were in their 20s\n\nIts business in Europe, which is fuelled by cross-border travel, was the hardest hit region in 2020, especially the UK, Germany and Italy. North America was the most stable.\n\nOverall the firm lost $4.6bn last year, including $3.9bn in the last three months of the year, when it was hit with high costs connected with its stock market debut.\n\nA recent survey conducted for the company in the US found that more than half of about 1,000 respondents had already booked or were planning to travel this year.\n\nOn a call with analysts, the firm faced some questions about its relationships with hosts, which has been strained this year partly due to financial losses suffered after cancellations.\n\nBut Angelo Zino, an equity analyst at CFRA, said he expected revenue to come \"roaring back\" as vaccines become widely distributed in the US and Europe by the summer, \"reflecting the enormous amount of pent-up demand in the ecosystem\".\n\n\"We believe Airbnb's business model and growth opportunities are highly attractive and struggle to find a better way to play the travel space,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum - the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria - has said she never wanted to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\nMs Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK's forgiveness and supports \"some British values\".\n\nShe told the BBC while it was \"wrong\" innocent people died in the 2017 Manchester attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nThe 19-year-old left Bethnal Green four years ago with two school friends.\n\nThere has been debate about Ms Begum's plight since she was found in a Syrian refugee camp by the Times newspaper last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz, IS's last stronghold in the country.\n\nShe gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children, and named him after her first son.\n\nWhile she told the BBC she would have let her late son become an IS fighter, she wants her new baby \"to be British\" and for her to return to the UK with him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville on Monday, Ms Begum said: \"I don't actually agree with everything they've done.\n\n\"I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on Monday that he would not \"hesitate to prevent\" the return of Britons who travelled to Syria to join IS. While the UK cannot leave people stateless, under international law, he said any such Britons would be \"questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted\".\n\nNo British troops would be used to help or rescue them, he said. He told MPs that more than 100 dual nationals have already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said. More than 900 people have left the UK to join the conflict in Syria, said Mr Javid, adding that those who join IS have \"shown they hate our country and the values that we stand for\".\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nAsked about the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, she said: \"I was shocked. I didn't know about the kids, actually. I do feel that is wrong. Innocent people did get killed.\"\n\nShe compared the attack to military assaults on Syria, saying: \"It's one thing to kill a soldier, it's fine, it's self-defence. But to kill people like women and children just like the women and children in Baghuz who are being killed right now unjustly by the bombings - it's a two-way thing really because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.\n\n\"It's kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, okay, that is a fair justification.\"\n\nMs Begum said she was sorry for all the families who had lost people because of the attacks in the UK and other countries.\n\n\"That wasn't fair on them,\" she said. \"They weren't fighting anyone. They weren't causing any harm. But neither was I and neither were other women who are being killed right now back in Baghuz.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested that her going to Syria might have been a \"propaganda victory\" for IS, Ms Begum said: \"I did hear a lot of people were encouraged to come after, but I wasn't the one who put myself on the news.\"\n\nShe added: \"The poster girl thing was not my choice.\"\n\nMs Begum said she made the choice to go to Syria and could make her own decisions, despite being only 15 at the time. She said she was partly inspired by videos of fighters beheading hostages and also by videos showing \"the good life\" under IS.\n\nShe watched videos of the murders of British hostages, she told the BBC, but said she did not know the names of any of the victims.\n\nOur correspondent said that \"throughout the interview, Shamima Begum continued to espouse Islamic State philosophy.\" He added: \"When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq'.\"\n\nBut she said: \"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK. Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"\n\nTwelve more British women have arrived at the camp in Syria in the last week and more are expected, our correspondent added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nEarlier, the lawyer representing Ms Begum's family said she is \"damaged\" and will need mental health support. Tasnime Akunjee also said her family are prepared to raise her newborn baby away from \"IS thinking\".\n\nHe said Ms Begum - who is legally British - had still not been in contact with her family and the family are trying to get the government to provide travel documents for Ms Begum and her newborn son, who he said has a right to citizenship.\n\nMs Begum left the UK in February 2015 with two other schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. Kadiza is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Amira is unknown.\n\nMr Akunjee also called for an \"urgent inquiry\" into how Ms Begum and the other schoolgirls were able to travel to Syria.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nPreviously, Ms Begum said she escaped from Baghuz, Islamic State's last stronghold in eastern Syria, two weeks ago.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nUnder international law, the UK is obliged to let a Briton without the claim to another nationality return home.\n\nBut the government does not have consular staff in Syria, and says it will not risk any lives to help Britons who have joined a banned terrorist group.\n\nIf Ms Begum is able to reach a British consulate in a recognised country, it is thought security chiefs could \"manage\" her return.", "The United Nations has called for the urgent rescue of dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea in Indian waters.\n\nReports suggest as many as eight have already died.\n\nLast year alone more than 200 lost their lives at sea, after boarding boats to escape refugee camps in Bangladesh, in search of opportunity. The Rohingya fled persecution in Myanmar in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: On patrol with an indigenous leader trying to protect the Amazon from land grabbers\n\nParts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook, the BBC has discovered.\n\nThe protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples.\n\nSome of the plots listed via Facebook's classified ads service are as large as 1,000 football pitches.\n\nFacebook said it was \"ready to work with local authorities\", but indicated it would not take independent action of its own to halt the trade.\n\n\"Our commerce policies require buyers and sellers to comply with laws and regulations,\" the Californian tech firm added.\n\nThe Amazon has been described as being the lungs of the Earth - and it is being destroyed\n\nThe leader of one of the indigenous communities affected has urged the tech firm to do more.\n\nAnd campaigners have claimed the country's government is unwilling to halt the sales.\n\n\"The land invaders feel very empowered to the point that they are not ashamed of going on Facebook to make illegal land deals,\" said Ivaneide Bandeira, head of environmental NGO Kanindé.\n\nAnyone can find the illegally invaded plots by typing the Portuguese equivalents for search terms like \"forest\", \"native jungle\" and \"timber\" into Facebook Marketplace's search tool, and picking one of the Amazonian states as the location.\n\nSome of the listings feature satellite images and GPS co-ordinates.\n\nCattle are often put to graze on land that is meant to be protected\n\nMany of the sellers openly admit they do not have a land title, the only document which proves ownership of land under Brazilian law.\n\nThe illegal activity is being fuelled by Brazil's cattle ranching industry.\n\nDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is at a 10-year high, and Facebook's Marketplace has become a go-to site for sellers like Fabricio Guimarães, who was filmed by a hidden camera.\n\n\"There's no risk of an inspection by state agents here,\" he said as he walked through a patch of rainforest he had burnt to the ground.\n\nFabricio is using Facebook Marketplace to sell land he has grabbed from indigenous communities\n\nWith the land illegally cleared and ready for farming, he had tripled his initial asking price to $35,000 (£25,000).\n\nFabricio is not a farmer. He has steady middle-class job in a city, and views the rainforest as being an investment opportunity.\n\nThe BBC later contacted Fabricio for his response to its investigation but he declined to comment.\n\nMany of the ads came from Rondônia, the most deforested state in Brazil's rainforest region.\n\nThe BBC arranged meetings between four sellers from the state and an undercover operative posing as a lawyer claiming to represent wealthy investors.\n\nOne man, called 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\nIt is the home to a community of more than 200 Uru Eu Wau Wau people. And at least five further groups that have had no contact with the outside world also live there, according to the Brazilian government.\n\nBut at the meeting, Mr Alves claimed: \"There are no Indians [sic] there. From where my land is, they are 50km [31 miles] away. I am not going to tell you that at one time or another they are not walking around.\"\n\nThe Uru Eu Wau Wau people are trying to protect their land from invaders\n\nThe BBC showed the Facebook ad to community leader Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau.\n\nHe said the lot was in an area used by his community to hunt, fish and collect fruits.\n\n\"This is a lack of respect,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know these people. I think their objective is to deforest the indigenous land, to deforest what is standing. To deforest our lives, you could say.\"\n\nHe said the authorities should intervene, and also urged Facebook - \"the most accessed social media platform\" - to take action of its own.\n\nAnother factor driving the illegal land market is the expectation of amnesty.\n\nMr Alves revealed he was working with others to lobby politicians to help them legally own stolen land.\n\n\"I'll tell you the truth: if this is not solved with [President] Bolsonaro there, it won't be solved anymore,\" he said of the current government.\n\nA common strategy is to deforest the land and then plead with politicians to abolish its protected status, on the basis it no longer serves its original purpose.\n\nThe land grabbers can then officially buy the plots from the government, thereby legalising their claims.\n\nAlvim Souza Alves told a BBC undercover agent that he was selling indigenous land but did not show a legal land title\n\nMr Alves took the BBC's undercover reporter to meet a man he described as the leader of the Curupira Association. Brazil's federal police have described the group as being an illegal land-grabbing operation focused on invading indigenous territory.\n\nThe two men told the reporter that high-profile politicians were helping them set up meetings with government agencies in the capital Brasília.\n\nThey said their main ally was congressman Colonel Chrisóstomo, a member of the Social Liberal Party, which Mr Bolsonaro used to be a member of until he founded his own party in 2019.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, Colonel Chrisóstomo acknowledged having helped arrange meetings, but said he did not know the group was involved in land invasions.\n\n\"They didn't tell me,\" he said. \"If they invaded [the land], they don't have my support anymore.\"\n\nWhen asked if he regretted setting up the meetings, he said: \"No.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Mr Alves for his response but he declined to comment.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest is home to one in 10 known species on Earth\n\nThe BBC also approached Brazil's Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles.\n\nHe said: \"President Jair Bolsonaro's government has always made it clear that his is a zero-tolerance government for any crime, including environmental ones.\"\n\nThe government has cut the inspections budget for Ibama, the federal agency that in charge of regulating deforestation, by 40%.\n\nBut Mr Salles said the coronavirus pandemic had hampered law enforcement in the Amazon, and that state governments also bore responsibility for the deforestation.\n\n\"This year the government has created operation Verde Brasil 2, which seeks to control illegal deforestation, illegal fires, and to join efforts between the federal government and the states,\" he added.\n\nHowever Raphael Bevilaquia, a federal prosecutor based in Rondônia, said the situation had worsened under the current government.\n\n\"The situation is really desperate,\" he said. \"The executive power is playing against us. It's disheartening.\"\n\nFor its part, Facebook claims trying to deduce which sales are illegal would be too complex a task for it to carry out itself, and should be left to the local judiciary and other authorities. And it does not appear to see the issue as being serious enough to warrant halting all Marketplace land sales across the Amazon.\n\nIvaneide Bandeira, who has been trying to combat deforestation in the state of Rondônia for 30 years, said she was losing hope.\n\n\"I think this is a very hard battle. It is really painful to see the forest being destroyed and shrinking more and more,\" she said.\n\n\"Never, in any other moment in history, has it been so hard to keep the forest standing.\"\n\nOur World: Selling the Amazon will be broadcast on BBC World News at 2330 GMT, and on the BBC News Channel this Saturday and Sunday at 2130 GMT. It will also be available on iPlayer.", "Vaccinating people in order of age is the fastest way to cut Covid-19 deaths in the next phase of the rollout, say experts advising the UK government.\n\nPeople in their 40s will be next, once the current phase is completed.\n\nPriority based on jobs would be \"more complex\" and could slow down the programme, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said.\n\nUnions representing teachers and police have criticised the decision, saying it could disrupt children's education.\n\nTeachers and police officers are among those who have campaigned to be prioritised in the next phase - but they will now be vaccinated in line with their age group.\n\nAll four nations of the UK will follow the committee's advice with a target of vaccinating all adults by end of July.\n\nMore than 19 million people in the UK have received a first dose so far.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which has looked at evidence on best how to reduce serious illness and death from Covid-19 in phase two of the UK's vaccination programme, says prioritising certain jobs could leave some vulnerable people waiting longer for a first dose.\n\nThe JCVI says the following groups should be prioritised, once all at-risk groups in phase one have been offered at least one dose of the vaccine (by mid-April):\n\nAnd it strongly advises some particular groups to take up a vaccine as soon as it is offered. They are:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After phase one is complete by mid-April, in what order will all other adults get the jab?\n\nIn phase one, nine priority groups were set out based on age and underlying health conditions - the biggest factors in raising someone's risk. Health and care workers were also included to protect the vulnerable people they look after.\n\nVaccinating these groups should protect around 99% of those most at risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nAll of those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - were offered a jab by mid-February. More than 95% of the over-70s have now been vaccinated.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 chair of the JCVI, said occupation was not well-recorded in GPs' records and the effort required to identify people by their jobs \"may slow down the whole programme\".\n\n\"Speed of deployment is the most important factor,\" he said, adding that a straightforward approach was better.\n\nMary Ramsay, from Public Health England (PHE), said even within occupation groups, age was the major factor for risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"We would want a 40-year-old policeman to come forward before a 20-year old,\" she said.\n\nAmong the under 50s, data from hospitals shows men and women in their 40s are most likely to end up in intensive care with Covid-19.\n\nBut Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said he was disappointed that education staff would not be prioritised in the next phase.\n\n\"This is important not only in reassuring staff who it expects to work in busy and crowded environments, but also in terms of minimising disruption to education caused by staff absence as a result of Covid.\"\n\nDr Patrick Roach, general secretary of the teachers' union NASUWT, agreed saying the government was \"failing to take all steps possible\" to ensure schools remain open \"without the risk of further closures or of further damaging disruption to children's education\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh criticised the plans to prioritise by age group, saying \"it's absolutely disgusting - they don't give a damn about us\".\n\nThe charity Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation said thousands of people with asthma would \"rightly feel anxious, angry and ignored by government\". It has called on the government to reconsider its \"unacceptable\" decision not to prioritise everyone with the condition.\n\nThree million people in the UK are being vaccinated every week in the UK with either a Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nEarly research suggests the vaccines are having a significant impact on preventing serious illness from Covid-19 in the UK. There is also some indication they could be reducing transmission of the virus between people.\n\nAfter a sharp rise in cases and deaths in January, levels of coronavirus are now decreasing across the UK although the pressure on hospitals is still high. The R number is currently between 0.6 and 0.9.\n\nThere were another 345 UK deaths reported on Friday within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nBut there is concern that take-up of the vaccine is lower among some ethnic minority groups and people who live in poorer neighbourhoods.\n\nPHE's Mary Ramsay said different communities had different concerns, and health officials were working hard to get people \"on board\" so they could protect themselves as well as their communities.\n\nThe JCVI said the priority groups for the vaccine were based on who was most likely to be severely ill or die from Covid-19 - not on who was most likely to become infected.\n\nBut when both exposure to the virus and personal vulnerability were taken into account, older people were still more at risk than younger people.\n\n\"By targeting older people fast, we will protect the largest number in the shortest time,\" Prof Wei Shen Lim said.", "Michael Gove should apologise to children who lost support from collapsed charity Kids Company, its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Woman's Hour, she also said she believed Kids Company was targeted by a \"smear campaign\".\n\nA government source later told the BBC the charity \"was badly run\" and \"beset by a litany of failures\".\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh's comments follow her High Court win against being disqualified from other organisations.\n\nThe ruling cleared former chief executive Ms Batmanghelidjh and seven others of personal wrongdoing.\n\nKids Company, which supported vulnerable young people in London and Bristol, closed its doors in 2015.\n\nIn the run-up to its collapse, the charity was spending around £20m a year, up to a quarter of which came from the government.\n\nA plan to restructure the organisation's finances had been agreed with David Cameron's government, but it was wound up after the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into sexual assault allegations, following the broadcast of a report on BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nThe police investigation concluded in 2016 after finding no evidence of criminality.\n\nA year earlier, Kids Company had also been investigated by the National Audit Office and the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts.\n\nAsked on the programme whether she felt she was owed an apology from anyone in government, Ms Batmanghelidjh said Mr Gove, now the Cabinet Office minister, had been \"disingenuous\".\n\nShe said he had initially supported the charity's work and handed her a CBE when he was in the Department for Education, but that by 2015 \"he was saying he never wanted Kids Co funded, you know, and I find it very difficult when people change colours\".\n\nThe state should be stepping up to protect children in care \"when their own parents aren't there to protect them\", Ms Batmanghelidjh said.\n\nShe added: \"I can live without Michael Gove's apology but the staff and the children are owed an apology from Michael Gove, [former Conservative MP] Oliver Letwin, all these people who promised that they were going to help us resolve the fact that children were pouring in through our doors.\"\n\nShe also explained why she felt the charity was wrongly tarnished, suggesting it had been subject to a \"smear campaign\".\n\n\"I think there were two targets,\" she said.\n\n\"One is, I believe, David Cameron, because he was seen to have chosen us as Big Society [Mr Cameron's initiative to fund voluntary projects] and I think the Brexit team wanted to discredit him.\n\n\"And I think another bit was campaigning for child protection issues and I think the country has no capacity to address its child protection problems.\n\n\"And I think we got sandwiched between these two concerns and that was why there was such a ferocious attack on us.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"The problems surrounding Kids Company that led to its closure have been well documented.\"\n\nHe added that the government was \"committed to levelling up outcomes for every young person, no matter their background or circumstance\" and pointed to investment of more than £2.4bn a year through the Pupil Premium to support the most disadvantaged pupils, raising the quality of children's social care and targeting support through our catch-up package to those who need the most help in getting back on track as a result of the Covid pandemic.\n\nAnd a government source said after the Woman's Hour interview: \"As two independent official investigations found, Kids Company was badly run, couldn't survive without government handouts and was beset by a litany of failures. That is why the charity collapsed.\"\n\nThe Official Receiver (OR) brought High Court proceedings against Ms Batmanghelidjh and the former trustees, arguing they were \"unfit\" to hold directorships because of their handling of the charity.\n\nBut, in a ruling on February 12, Mrs Justice Falk rejected the case and said the charity may have survived financially to continue its work had it not closed.\n\nA statement issued after the ruling on behalf of the former trustees said: \"Kids Company was forced to close in August 2015 following what the judge records as 'unfounded allegations' of child abuse, which made fundraising from private and government sources impossible.\n\n\"We are pleased that finally the facts have been gathered and assessed in a court of law, and that Mrs Justice Falk has exonerated both the former trustees and Kids Company chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh.\"\n\nFounded in 1996 in south London, Kids Company provided practical, emotional and educational support to up to 36,000 deprived and vulnerable inner-city children and young people.\n\nIt employed more than 600 people, with high-profile supporters including the then prime minister David Cameron.\n\nYou can listen to the full Woman's Hour interview here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tricia Gerrard: \"Jack died and nobody's being held accountable for it\"\n\nA man who died after being restrained in the street by public transport workers was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.\n\nManchester Coroner's Court was told Jack Barnes shouted \"I can't breathe\" repeatedly as he was held by Metrolink staff in Manchester in October 2016.\n\nThe 29-year-old from Hull had a cardiac arrest and died seven weeks later.\n\nConcluding his death was unlawful, Coroner Nigel Meadows said the workers' actions amounted to manslaughter.\n\nTransport for Greater Manchester's Chief Executive Eamonn Boylan said: \"First and foremost I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Jack Barnes.\n\n\"This was a tragic and deeply upsetting incident. There were clear policies and training in place at the time of the incident, which those involved that evening completely disregarded.\"\n\nThe group were challenged by a customer service representative in St Peter's Square in Manchester city centre\n\nThe court heard that the father-of-one's life effectively ended while being held face down on a pavement outside the Australasia restaurant in central Manchester.\n\nHe had recently moved from Hull and had been out with some friends on 11 October, 2016, travelling around Manchester on the city's trams.\n\nThe group were spotted at St Peter's Square at about 20:15 GMT and challenged by a Metrolink customer service representative (CSR).\n\nThe worker suspected the group was smoking illegal drugs, a claim they denied, and it is thought Mr Barnes responded with abusive language.\n\nEvidence in court indicated that he had taken the cannabinoid Spice at some point that day.\n\nMr Barnes's mother Tricia Gerrard, pictured with his sister Samantha Barnes, said her son would run away from violence\n\nThe inquest was told later that evening, shortly before 23:30, the group were spotted at Manchester Victoria station, and recognised by the CSR who had earlier challenged them.\n\nA group of CSRs approached them after being told about the earlier abuse.\n\nA row broke out and Mr Barnes became aggressive to being confronted.\n\nHe swung a drawstring bag he was carrying at the men, which hit two of the staff, before he and a friend ran off.\n\nMetrolink's policy was that their representatives should walk away from such encounters, alerting the police if necessary, and the inquest was told that all staff had been reminded of this at the start of their shift that night.\n\nThe policy states that CSRs cannot \"grab hold of a person\" or \"pursue a passenger either off the platform or trackside\", but the four workers - Paul Fogarty, Brian Gartside, Matthews Sellers and Stephen Rowlands - decided to chase the fleeing pair, two on foot, two in a taxi.\n\nAfter a nine-minute chase across almost a mile of the city centre, Mr Barnes was caught by Mr Gartside and bundled to the ground outside the Deansgate restaurant.\n\nBodycam footage from a camera worn by Mr Sellers, and played in court, showed that within moments of being caught, while being held down with his left cheek on the pavement, Mr Barnes asked for help, shouting out: \"I can't breathe.\"\n\nAfter being ignored, he repeated: \"I can't breathe.\"\n\nOver the course of about 90 seconds, Mr Barnes said he was struggling to breathe on eight separate occasions.\n\nJust before the camera moved away to focus on Mr Barnes' friend, Mr Rowlands was recorded telling him: \"If you struggle, I will put you to sleep.\n\n\"It won't kill you but you will go to sleep for a while.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Barnes had a cardiac arrest and, despite a police officer and a passing ambulance crew providing assistance, he never recovered and died on 2 December, having been transferred from Manchester Royal Infirmary to a hospital in Hull.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquest, the men refused to answer many questions about the incident, having been given legal advice that to do so could incriminate them.\n\nHowever, Mr Rowlands told the coroner that he had been trained in restraint while serving as a GMP officer for 13 years and that he had left the force due to an injury in 1989.\n\nHe estimated that he had restrained \"well over 1,000 people\" during his police career.\n\nHe also told the inquest that \"it didn't enter my head\" to follow Metrolink's \"walk away\" policy.\n\nMr Rowlands declined to speak to the BBC when approached for comment.\n\nMr Barnes, pictured as a young boy, had recently moved from Hull\n\nRecording a conclusion of unlawful killing, Mr Meadows said that the exertion of the chase and the pressure on Mr Barnes's neck more than minimally contributed to the heart attack.\n\nHe found the restraint amounted to assault as it was unnecessarily prolonged and the CSRs had had an opportunity to both call the police and to sit Mr Barnes up into a more comfortable position.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Mr Barnes's mother Tricia Gerrard told the BBC the men had \"hunted him down like an animal\".\n\nShe said the family refused to believe he had attacked the CSRs, as at \"any sign of trouble, any sign of violence, he'd run\".\n\nThe inquest was told the bag that hit the men contained clothes and a phone charger.\n\nMrs Gerrard said she wants the four CSRs, who had \"never apologised [and] never showed any remorse\", to be prosecuted.\n\nGreater Manchester Police, whose officers investigated the case, told the BBC in a statement that \"following a review by the Crown Prosecution Service, four men… who were arrested on suspicion of assault were released without charge\".\n\nLauren Dale of Hudgell Solicitors, who represented the family, said: \"This case is a reminder of the tragic consequences of security and other personnel seeking confrontation and using excessive force.\n\n\"In this case, the policy of the employer was to walk away, yet they chased Jack for more than half a mile before pinning him to the ground and bluntly refused to listen to his requests to allow him to breathe more easily.\"\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 focus of the vaccine rollout so far has largely been on older people. But it has also included nearly 200,000 younger people across the UK who are classed as extremely clinically vulnerable and who’ve been shielding for much of the past year.\n\nJobs, education, social lives and relationships have been severely restricted for them during the pandemic.\n\nHope Stevens, 22, and Adetutu Ojo, 30, both have received their first vaccines.", "Twitter has announced plans for a new \"super follow\" feature which will enable account holders to charge for exclusive additional content.\n\nThis could take the form of extra tweets, joining a community group or receiving a newsletter, the firm said.\n\nTwitter unveiled its plans at a virtual event held for investors.\n\nIt's the first time in a while that the platform has announced significant changes to the way in which people can use it.\n\nIt also said it was testing a live audio discussion service - which has proved popular on a new rival, the audio-only social network Clubhouse.\n\n\"Why don't we start with why folks don't believe in us,\" said Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.\n\n\"It comes down to three critiques: we're slow, we're not innovative, and we're not trusted.\"\n\nTwitter, which was launched in 2006 and recorded its first annual profit in 2018, said it hoped to double its revenue in 2023.\n\n\"Twitter is unquestionably looking for ways to drive new revenue streams with this new service,\" said analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight.\n\n\"For those with compelling enough content this service could be attractive but I expect it will be hard to deliver big paydays for the average Twitter user.\"\n\nThe news has received a mixed reaction among Twitter users. Social media consultant Matt Navarra asked his followers whether they would be prepared to pay a premium for their favourite accounts - and 85% responded that they would not.\n\nA spokesman for Twitter said Super Follow was due to be launched this year.", "The Scottish government said the number of consultants employed by NHS Scotland had increased by 56% since 2006\n\nIt will be \"impossible\" for NHS Scotland to recover from the pandemic if senior staff cannot be retained, a medical body has warned.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) Scotland said vacancies for consultants may now be higher than 15%.\n\nDoctors were also reporting \"widespread burnout\" even before the Covid crisis hit, according to the association.\n\nThe Scottish government said the number of consultants had increased by more than 56% since 2006.\n\nA spokesperson added that there was a \"record high\" of 5,702 whole time equivalent consultants currently employed by NHS Scotland.\n\nBMA Scotland is calling for urgent action from the Scottish government to stop what it called a \"deeply worrying drain of senior doctors out of the workforce\".\n\nA report published by the trade union found one in five consultants who were aged 45-49 in 2010 had left the profession by 2020 - with early retirement being the most likely destination.\n\nThe BMA also said that freedom of information requests indicated that the actual vacancy rate for doctors was at least twice the government's official figure.\n\nDr Graeme Eunson, chairman of the BMA's Scottish consultants committee, described the findings as \"extremely worrying\" and argued staff shortages were \"already affecting the ability of doctors to deliver the high-quality patient care they strive for\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that staff were exhausted from going from winter 2019 straight into the Covid-19 pandemic early last year, with no time to recover between the first and second waves, and were now running on empty.\n\nDr Eunson said that doctors were leaving quicker than their replacements could be trained - and said it took 15 years to train as a consultant.\n\nWithout adequate staffing, he stressed that patient care would suffer.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has created a huge load on Scotland's hospitals during both the first and second waves of the pandemic\n\nDoctors had been reporting widespread burnout and an array or workforce and workplace pressures long before the pandemic hit last year, he said.\n\nAnd the specialities that faced the biggest staff shortages were those that faced the biggest pressure from Covid.\n\nHe added that this came on top of \"a general increase in the intensity of work\" for doctors over the years.\n\nHe said long working hours had followed them through their entire career, and that there was little recognition of the burnout these medics faced.\n\n\"As you get older, the shifts get harder - you're either doing everything or nothing,\" he said.\n\nHe added that large tax bills drove people out at the end of their career.\n\nHe called for a \"portfolio career approach\", so doctors could wind down - for example, by cutting back on shifts - but still care for patients.\n\nIf the matter was not addressed urgently, he said the country would end up \"storing up problems\" for the future.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was committed to improving the wellbeing of health and social care staff across Scotland and had taken \"immediate action\" to provide support while they responded to the pandemic.\n\n\"We are also working to build a sustainable culture that will continue to prioritise staff wellbeing in the future,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gaga is often accompanied by her dogs at award shows and film premieres\n\nLady Gaga's two stolen French bulldogs have been found safe and handed in to police, according to officials.\n\nThe two dogs, stolen in an armed robbery, have been \"reunited\" with the singer's representatives, police said.\n\nLady Gaga's dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot by two men who abducted the dogs in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Wednesday.\n\nHe is in hospital and his family said on Friday that he was expected to make a full recovery.\n\nDetails of how the dogs were recovered are unclear. The Associated Press said a woman had brought them to the Olympic Community Police Station in LA and the singer's representatives had confirmed they were hers. The woman appeared to be \"uninvolved and unassociated\" with the robbery, a police spokesman said.\n\nLady Gaga had offered $500,000 (£359,000) for their safe return but it is not clear if the reward has been claimed.\n\nThe star - whose real name is Stefani Germanotta - is currently in Rome working on a new Ridley Scott film, Gucci. In her first public reaction to the attack, Gaga tweeted on Friday: \"My heart is sick.\"\n\n\"I am praying my family will be whole again with an act of kindness. I will pay $500,000 for their safe return.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in another Twitter post, the singer wrote: \"I continue to love you Ryan Fischer, you risked your life to fight for our family. You're forever a hero.\"\n\nGaga is known to be extremely protective of her dogs, who have accompanied her to the American Music Awards and her 2017 Super Bowl Halftime show.\n\nFootage has emerged showing one of the suspects firing at Mr Fischer before making off with the dogs, Koji and Gustav.\n\nA third bulldog, named Miss Asia, ran away and was later recovered by police.\n\nThe dog walker was shot in the chest, according to reports in US media.\n\nHis family released a statement on Friday praising the medical staff who had been caring for him and saying they were confident for his full recovery, according to US media.\n\n\"We cannot possibly say enough to thank all of the first responders, nurses and doctors who have worked so tirelessly to care for Ryan,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Of course, we also want to thank Lady Gaga who has shown nothing but non-stop love and concern for Ryan and our family right from the outset. Ryan loves Gustavo and Koji as much as Lady Gaga does; so we join in her plea for their safe return.\"\n\nPolice said the attack happened at about 21:40 local time on 24 February, in the area of Sierra Bonita Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.\n\n\"The suspects approached the victim in a white Nissan Altima four door. Two suspects exited the vehicle and demanded the victim turn over the dogs at gunpoint,\" the LAPD said in an updated statement on Friday.\n\n\"The victim struggled with the suspects and was shot once by one of the suspects. The suspects took two of the three dogs and fled the scene in the suspect vehicle.\"\n\nThe statement said \"the victim is in stable condition\", and the two suspects are described as black males aged 20-25.\n\nIt is not clear whether Lady Gaga's dogs were specifically targeted in the attack.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\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. An organised crime expert on the rising number of dog thefts in the UK", "Steph Norman and Aaron Willoughby have been told they must have their wedding ceremony in English first\n\nA couple feel \"discriminated against\" after being told they cannot have their wedding ceremony entirely in Cornish.\n\nSteph Norman and Aaron Willoughby were told by Cornwall Council their ceremony must be in English and Cornish.\n\nThe council said \"declaratory and contracting words\" can only be said in English or Welsh for a legally binding marriage.\n\nMs Norman said \"I feel if everyone understands the language, it should be up to them what language they speak\".\n\nThe couple contacted the council as part of their search for a registrar who speaks Cornish, when they were told their plans for the ceremony were not legal.\n\nMs Norman, 32, from St Anne near St Day, then researched the Marriage Act 1949 and found an exception only applied to Welsh speakers.\n\nCornwall Council told the couple their ceremony was not legally allowed to be entirely in Cornish\n\nShe said: \"If you fluently speak Welsh then that's perfectly legal, but not Cornish.\n\n\"It feels like we've been a bit discriminated against, because it's not equal across the board.\"\n\nThe couple have learned a \"good fair bit\" of the language as it was \"really important to our culture and our heritage,\" Ms Norman said.\n\n\"We just really wanted an authentic Cornish wedding and part of that would be incorporating the language.\n\n\"So we can a little bit, but not fully,\" she added.\n\nCornwall Council confirmed the \"declaratory and contracting words\" of a marriage ceremony must be conducted in English or Welsh to be legally binding.\n\nIt said: \"We try to tailor each ceremony to the couple's wishes and Cornish phrases are often included in our ceremonies.\n\n\"Currently we don't have a fluent Cornish speaking registrar but we can accommodate a Cornish translator if one is provided by the couple.\"\n\nCornwall Council estimated in 2015 about 300 to 400 people spoke the language fluently and used it regularly, with about 5,000 more having some conversational ability.\n\nCornish language teacher Jenefer Lowe said she was \"hopeful\" that a couple like Steph and Aaron would be able to take their vows in Cornish in the future.\n\n\"What we really need for that to happen is for Cornish to get official status like Welsh and Gaelic,\" she said.\n\n\"That needs a critical mass of people using the language for it to be accepted.\n\n\"But because it's not official we don't have the ability to do legal proceedings at the moment.\"\n\nShe has seen an increasing interest in the language in Cornwall and from around the world and there had been \"huge advances\" in the last 20 years, especially with uptake from young people.\n\nTeaching online in the pandemic had also increased the number of learners, she said.\n\n\"I have students in Australia, America and around the world, but we now need to translate that into more speakers and more resources.\n\n\"There has to come a time when it is used in all walks of life.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Salmond is being questioned by MSPs over his claims of a \"malicious and concerted\" conspiracy against him.\n\nThe former first minister is appearing at Holyrood as part of an inquiry into the government's mishandling of sexual harassment complaints about him.\n\nThe four-hour session is expected to focus on that botched probe and the accusations made by Mr Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has challenged her predecessor to prove his claims, saying there is \"not a shred of evidence\".\n\nThe first minister is expected to give evidence to the inquiry committee herself on Wednesday.\n\nThe Holyrood session with Mr Salmond began at 12:30.\n\nIt has been delayed on several occasions due to a row over his written submissions, which make a range of accusations about the conduct of the first minister, government officials, the SNP and the prosecution service.\n\nHe wrote that there had been \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort among a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned\".\n\nAnd he claimed there had been a \"complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and indeed the prosecution authorities\".\n\nHe has also taken aim directly at Ms Sturgeon, accusing her of \"repeatedly\" misleading parliament about her involvement in the row and of breaching the ministerial code.\n\nThe SNP leader has hit back Mr Salmond's claims, saying he is \"creating an alternative reality in which the organs of the state...are all part of some wild conspiracy against him for reasons I can't explain\".\n\nAnd she has challenged him to back the allegations up with proof, saying he has an \"obligation\" to \"replace the insinuation and assertion we have heard over several months now with evidence\".\n\nIt's been more than six years since Alex Salmond stood down as first minister after losing the independence referendum and now he's back at Holyrood, with what looks like a vengeance.\n\nHe'll accuse his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, of repeatedly breaking the rules for ministers in her handling of harassment complaints against him.\n\nHe'll point the finger at those in the Scottish government and the SNP - both of which he used to lead - that he believes plotted against him.\n\nHe'll allege that Scotland's prosecution service has assisted them by improperly withholding information that could back up his conspiracy claims.\n\nThis is his opportunity to convince MSPs his allegations have substance and are not the \"alternative reality\" Ms Sturgeon thinks he has created.\n\nInstead of commanding the main chamber as he did as first minister, today Alex Salmond will appear as a witness before a parliamentary committee.\n\nGiven the enormity of his allegations, his four-hour evidence session will be one of the most notable contributions in Holyrood's short history.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament inquiry was set up after the government admitted its investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nAn internal probe had upheld the complaints - which dated back to when he was first minister - but the decision report was torn up after the government conceded in court that the investigation had been \"procedurally unfair\" and \"tainted by apparent bias\".\n\nMr Salmond was awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses following the judicial review case, and was subsequently acquitted of sexual assault charges in a separate High Court trial.\n\nThe inquiry session will see Mr Salmond give an opening statement, and then take questions from the MSPs on the committee for up to four hours.\n\nThe group consists of four SNP MSPs - one of whom, Deputy Presiding Officer Linda Fabiani, acts as convener - as well as two from the Scottish Conservatives, one from each of Scottish Labour and the Lib Dems, and independent MSP Andy Wightman, formerly of the Greens.\n\nThe committee has frequently been at odds with the key players in the row, having complained of \"obstruction\" and submissions which provide \"very few clear answers\".\n\nThe Podlitical team break down the latest developments in the Alex Salmond saga as his row with Nicola Sturgeon escalates, and look ahead to his long-awaited appearance at the inquiry.\n\nYou can listen to the latest episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.\n\nThere has also been a lengthy row over whether one of Mr Salmond's submissions - which accuses Ms Sturgeon of breaching the ministerial code - could be published at all.\n\nMembers twice voted against publishing it at all due to legal issues, before Holyrood's cross-party management board intervened to say it could be. However, the Crown Office then raised \"grave concerns\" about its contents, and the paper was taken off the parliament's website and redacted - forcing yet another delay to Mr Salmond's long-awaited session.\n\nThe committee has agreed to apply to the High Court for \"specific guidance\" about what can and cannot be published, and to attempt to requisition further documents linked to Mr Salmond's criminal trial from the Crown Office.\n\nMs Sturgeon is due to give evidence on Wednesday, 3 March - which she said was the sixth date she had now had in her diary to face the committee.", "Shamima Begum, pictured here in 2020, is currently living in a camp in northern Syria\n\nShamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled.\n\nThe court said in a unanimous ruling that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.\n\nMs Begum, 21, wants to come back to challenge the home secretary's decision to remove her British nationality.\n\nShe is currently in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.\n\nMs Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls left the UK in February 2015 and travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group.\n\nIn 2019, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship on national security grounds.\n\nLast July, the Court of Appeal ruled that the only fair way forward was to allow her into the UK because she could not effectively appeal against the decision from the camp in northern Syria.\n\nThe Home Office subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court to reconsider the Court of Appeal's judgement, arguing that allowing her to return to the UK \"would create significant national security risks\".\n\nOn Friday, Lord Reed, president of the Supreme Court, said the government had been entitled to prevent Ms Begum from returning to the UK.\n\nAnnouncing the ruling, Lord Reed said: \"The Supreme Court unanimously allows all of the home secretary's appeals and dismisses Ms Begum's cross-appeal.\"\n\nHe said the Court of Appeal's judgment \"did not give the home secretary's assessment the respect which it should have received\" given the role's \"responsibility for making such assessments\" and accountability to parliament.\n\nLord Reed added the Court of Appeal had \"mistakenly believed that, when an individual's right to have a fair hearing... came into conflict with the requirements of national security, her right to a fair hearing must prevail.\"\n\nHe said the right to a fair hearing did \"not trump all other considerations, such as the safety of the public\".\n\nShamima Begum says she wants forgiveness - but all she's achieved after two years of battles over her citizenship is legal limbo.\n\nThat's the extremely unusual outcome of her epic struggle against the home secretary over whether she can still call herself British.\n\nIt is the role of judges and the courts to uphold the rule of law - and protect the universal right that each of us has to make our case fairly in court.\n\nBut, when it comes to matters of national security - threats to the nation - judges won't tell ministers that their assessment is wrong unless they have heard compelling evidence to prove it.\n\nIn the Begum case, that means she is at the heart of an imperfect world of her own making.\n\nShe is stuck, with no right to return under the law.\n\nBut, at the same time, her lawyers maintain she can't take part in her own case to have her citizenship returned because of the uniquely dangerous situation she is in.\n\nOther people banned from the UK have found a way to take part in appeals from overseas - but the camp she is in won't even let her lawyers visit.\n\nAnd so the highest court in the land says her entire case must now be paused until she can find some way of taking part.\n\nAnd perhaps that will never, ever happen.\n\nLord Reed said the appropriate answer was not to force the government to bring Ms Begum back to the UK - but to pause her legal fight over citizenship until she is in a safer position to take part in her appeal.\n\nHe added: \"That is not a perfect solution, as it is not known how long it may be before that is possible. But there is no perfect solution to a dilemma of the present kind.\"\n\nThe current home secretary, Priti Patel, said the Supreme Court's judgement had \"reaffirmed the home secretary's authority to make vital national security decisions\".\n\nShe added: \"The government will always take the strongest possible action to protect our national security and our priority remains maintaining the safety and security of our citizens.\"\n\nShamima Begum spoke to the BBC at al-Hawl refugee camp in north-eastern Syria in February 2019\n\nMs Begum was born in the UK to parents of Bangladeshi heritage.\n\nWhen she was 15, she and two other schoolgirls left the UK for Syria to join IS.\n\nMs Begum travelled via Turkey to IS headquarters in Raqqa, where she married a Dutch recruit.\n\nShe lived under IS rule for more than three years, and was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.\n\nThe baby later died of pneumonia and Ms Begum said she had previously lost two other children.\n\nMr Javid also welcomed the ruling, saying any \"restrictions of rights and freedoms\" faced by Ms Begum were a \"direct\" result of her \"extreme\" actions.\n\nHe said: \"There are no simple solutions to this situation but any restrictions of rights and freedoms faced by this individual are a direct consequence of the extreme actions that she and others have taken, in violation of government guidance and common morality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Shamima Begum and why is her case so important?\n\nLiberty, the human rights group which intervened in Ms Begum's case, said the latest ruling sets \"an extremely dangerous precedent\".\n\nRosie Brighouse, a lawyer with Liberty, said: \"The right to a fair trial is not something democratic governments should take away on a whim, and nor is someone's British citizenship.\n\n\"If a government is allowed to wield extreme powers like banishment without the basic safeguards of a fair trial it sets an extremely dangerous precedent.\n\n\"The security services have safely managed the returns of hundreds of people from Syria but the government has chosen to target Shamima Begum.\"\n\nMaya Foa, director of the human rights group Reprieve said preventing Ms Begum from entering the UK remained \"a cynical ploy to make her someone else's responsibility\".\n\n\"Like many of its European counterparts, the UK is more than capable of bringing home British detainees in Syria, many of whom left as teenagers after being trafficked or groomed online.\n\n\"Abandoning them in a legal black hole - in Guantanamo-like conditions - is out of step with British values and the interests of justice and security.\"", "The bill was introduced to allow Suella Braverman to take leave rather than quit office\n\nThe government has agreed to change its bill allowing ministers to take maternity leave, so that it uses the term \"mother\" rather than \"person\".\n\nThe Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill would ensure up to six months' leave on full pay.\n\nBut the House of Lords rejected the use of the word \"person\" in its text.\n\nThe government initially argued this was in line with \"drafting convention\" but has changed its view, saying use of \"mother\" is legally \"acceptable\".\n\nThe bill was introduced in time for Attorney General Suella Braverman, who is expecting her second child, to take maternity leave this year.\n\nUnder existing laws, she would have to resign if she wanted to take time off following the birth.\n\nDuring a debate on Thursday, Cabinet Office minister Lord True said the government \"recognised the strength of feeling\" on the use of language in the bill and would change its mind.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has backed the legislation, adding that the change to pregnant minister's rights \"should have been brought in a long time ago\".\n\nAnd Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said: \"The choice between taking leave to recover from childbirth and care for a new-born child or resigning from office is not acceptable in modern times.\"\n\nThe Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill, already passed by the House of Commons, is expected to enter law soon.\n• None Law change to allow maternity leave for minister", "Britney Spears at a film premiere in Los Angeles in July 2019\n\nPeople who believe Britney Spears' father should not be overseeing her controversial conservatorship \"have it so wrong\", according to his lawyer.\n\nIn an interview with ABC News, Vivian Thoreen called Jamie Spears \"a fiercely loving, dedicated and loyal father\" who had stopped her from being exploited.\n\nJamie Spears was made his daughter's conservator in 2008 after concerns were raised about the star's mental health.\n\nA recent documentary has led to renewed scrutiny of her legal arrangements.\n\n\"I understand that every story needs a villain but people have it so wrong here,\" Ms Thoreen told ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday.\n\nShe said unnamed people had been \"harming and exploiting\" the singer and that Mr Spears had \"rescued\" her from \"a life-threatening situation\".\n\n\"Britney's assets were clearly being mismanaged and she was being taken advantage of financially by some of those around her,\" the lawyer continued.\n\nShe added that Mr Spears had \"collaborated\" with his daughter, now 39, so that she could \"live her life the way she wants, like a normal person\".\n\nA conservatorship is usually granted for people who are unable to make their own decisions, like those with dementia or other mental illnesses.\n\nLast November the singer lost a legal attempt to remove her father's control over her estate, currently worth around $60m (£43m), but in February this year a judge denied a request by Mr Spears to exert greater control over her finances.\n\nAccording to Ms Spears' lawyer, Britney and her father have no \"viable working relationship\" and have not spoken in a \"long while\".\n\nMs Thoreen stated otherwise, claiming they had spent time together last year and she had never voiced a wish to have him removed from the conservatorship.\n\nVivian Thoreen said Spears had \"never asked\" her father to step aside\n\n\"Early on in the pandemic they spent two weeks with other family members, hunkered down in Louisiana, and they spent a lot of time together,\" she told ABC News.\n\n\"In that time, Britney never expressed those words to her father. She's never asked him to step aside.\"\n\nShe said ABC News would have to \"ask Britney\" why her lawyer had stated otherwise.\n\nSpears' life and career has returned to the headlines due to the documentary Framing Britney Spears, which explores the celebrity and media culture at the time of her meteoric rise.\n\nAccording to her lawyer Samuel D Ingham, the singer will not perform as long as her father oversees her affairs.\n\nThe singer has said she is \"taking the time to learn and be a normal person\" and was \"simply enjoying the basics of everyday life\".\n\n\"No matter what we think we know about a person's life it is nothing compared to the actual person living behind the lens,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nIn a subsequent post, she said it was \"so much fun\" spending time with boyfriend Sam Asghari, \"especially when you don't have to do anything at all\".\n\nThe accompanying video showed Asghari, who has been dating Spears since 2016, giving her a piggy-back ride while out on a hike.\n\nEarlier this week former child star Mara Wilson expressed solidarity with the singer, saying she was a victim of a culture that \"builds girls up just to destroy them\".\n\nAnother hearing on Spears' conservatorship is due to take place in Los Angeles next month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "'Moral thing to do was save most lives' - Hancock\n\nThe BBC's Hugh Pym asks what the health secretary would say to teachers who argue being given priority for the vaccine could help prevent absences from the classroom. Matt Hancock says the \"overall view we came to\" was that the \"right thing to do, the moral thing to do was to make sure we save the most lives\". It's also a matter of how people can receive vaccines most quickly - and the quickest way is by prioritising by age, he adds. \"Trying to come up with a scheme which prioritises one professional group over another would have been complicated to put in place and wouldn't have done what we asked the JCVI to put in place\", he adds, which is to prevent deaths. Prof Van-Tam says the ONS data suggests restaurant and catering managers have the highest risk of death, followed by other professions including metal working and machine operatives, chefs and cab drivers. The figures for male teachers is much lower for mortality. \"We have to start in a logical place,\" he adds, and says that is going to be difficult because of the many occupations that would need to be called forward. The pace of the rollout would be damaged and the \"big win\" is in speed, he adds.", "Amanda Staveley claimed damages over an emergency fundraising by Barclays in 2008.\n\nA businesswoman who sued Barclays for hundreds of millions of pounds has lost her High Court fight, despite the judge saying the bank acted with \"deceit\".\n\nAmanda Staveley claimed her finance firm, PCP Capital, was owed money for work during the financial crisis.\n\nBarclays raised billions of pounds during the crisis from Middle East backers, helping it avoid a UK government bailout.\n\nThe court also heard about complaints about the behaviour of bank bosses.\n\nBarclays welcomed the decision, but Ms Staveley, 47, said immediately after the ruling that she was considering an appeal.\n\nShe said: \"In spite of Barclays' efforts to question my character and credentials, the court has recognised my abilities as a businesswoman and the truth of my account of events.\n\n\"The judgment confirms what I have said from the outset and repeated in my evidence; a senior executive at Barclays repeatedly lied to me when seeking private investment in the bank during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"The evidence at trial was clear and unequivocal; PCP was an investor in the transaction and played an integral role in the capital raising, which ultimately prevented the bank from being nationalised.\"\n\nShe added that she would be \"taking advice on appealing the judge's decision not to award damages.\"\n\nThe financier had claimed Barclays concealed the terms of its complex fundraising, rather than disclose them to the financial markets as was required.\n\nHowever, Mr Justice Waksman, who heard evidence at a trial in London during the summer of 2020, criticised Barclays, saying he \"found Barclays to be guilty of serious deceit towards it [PCP]\".\n\nHe praised Ms Staveley's character, describing her as \"the driving force of PCP\" and as a \"tough, clever and creative entrepreneur\" but said her claim \"as a whole must fail\".\n\nEx-Barclays bosses came under fire for sexist comments.\n\nThe judge said: \"Barclays contends that, in general, Ms Staveley was thoroughly unreliable, her evidence was inconsistent with documents, she had a flawed recollection and she was guilty of 'obvious embellishment and invention'.\n\n\"I do not accept that as a general characterisation so that she was essentially an untruthful or unreliable witness.\"\n\nHe added: \"I thought that, for the most part, her evidence was reliable.\"\n\nPCP's lawyers had told the judge that an initial damages claim was for a sum between £1.6bn and £400m. But that was scaled back over the course of the trial to amounts between around £830m and around £600m.\n\nMs Staveley has made headlines after becoming involved with two Premier League football clubs.\n\nIn 2008, she acted for then Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra when he sold the club, and last year was involved in trying to broker a deal which could have seen a Saudi consortium take control of Newcastle United.\n\nShe told Mr Justice Waksman how she mainly invested in sports brands and companies in the hospitality sector.\n\nMs Staveley, who was born near Ripon, North Yorkshire, outlined her career during the trial of her dispute with Barclays.\n\nAfter setting up a number of businesses in the Cambridge area, with varying degrees of success, she later moved to Abu Dhabi and was offered a job at an investment fund.\n\nShe told the trial in the summer she had provided a variety of services to high-profile investments and political figures across the Middle East, including the president of Libya, Colonel Gaddafi.\n\nThe trial contained some colourful details. It emerged that Ms Staveley was described as a \"dolly bird\" and a \"tart\" by two then Barclays' bosses during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nRichard Boath referred to Ms Staveley as \"that dolly bird\" during an evening telephone call with Roger Jenkins in October 2008. Mr Jenkins referred to her as \"the tart\", the trial heard.\n\nAnother then-Barclays' boss speculated about whether she was \"sleeping with\" Manchester City football club owner Sheikh Mansour, the judge was told.\n\nStephen Jones made the comment in a telephone call with another then-bank boss in October 2008, saying: \"Whether she's sleeping with him or not I couldn't tell you...\"\n\nHe had also, in a separate 2008 phone call with the same colleague, referred to Ms Staveley as being as \"thick\" and having \"large breasts\", the trial heard.\n\nAs the comments were about to come to light in the trial last summer, Mr Jones resigned from his role as chief executive of UK Finance.\n\nHe apologised to both Ms Staveley and his colleagues for the remarks.", "Wales manager Ryan Giggs has had his bail extended after denying an allegation of assault.\n\nIn November, several newspapers reported he had been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was called to reports of a disturbance at an address in Worsley, Salford, just after 22:00 GMT on 1 November.\n\nIt said a woman in her 30s \"sustained minor injuries but did not require any treatment\".\n\nThe force said officers had arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of a section 47 assault and a section 39 common assault and he had been bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nHe was rebailed on 20 November.\n\nAt the time, Mr Giggs' representatives said he denied all allegations of assault and was co-operating with police.\n\nEarlier, Greater Manchester Police said a man, now 47, had had his bail extended until 1 May.\n\nA spokesman said: \"A file remains with the CPS and a decision is expected in due course.\"\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) previously said it was \"aware of an alleged incident involving the men's national team manager Ryan Giggs\".\n\nGiggs - who became Wales' manager in 2018 - is due to lead the squad as they start their bid for Euro 2020 glory - rescheduled because of Covid-19 - with a game against Switzerland on 12 June.\n\nThis summer's European Championship is meant to be staged in 12 different countries across Europe, starting in Rome.\n\nWales hope to repeat the success of reaching semi-finals of Euro 2016, and even go further.\n\nThe squad's only previous tournament appearance had been at the 1958 World Cup.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cornelia Connelly became a nun after her husband Pierce joined the priesthood\n\nPlans to transfer the remains of a nun who is under consideration for a sainthood from a Sussex school to the US have been abandoned amid opposition.\n\nMother Cornelia Connelly was declared \"venerable\" by the Vatican in 1992, the first step towards sainthood.\n\nIt had said her remains could be moved to Philadelphia, her birthplace.\n\nBut more than 300 people objected to her remains being moved from Mayfield School, the independent Catholic girls' school which she founded.\n\nSue Gaisford of Mayfield School's Cornelian Association, who led a campaign against the transfer, said there was \"much relief and gratitude\" that the plans had been abandoned.\n\n\"Cornelia restored the chapel in the 1860s and it became the mother house and hub of the teaching order she founded, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Her philosophy, the Cornelian spirit, still pervades both school and chapel.\n\n\"She specifically asked to be buried at Mayfield, and today's decision will ensure that her body will remain undisturbed and a focus for prayer and pilgrimage for many years to come.\"\n\nA statement from The Society of the Holy Child Jesus confirmed the \"decision has been made to withdraw the application\" for Mother Connelly's exhumation. A source told the BBC the decision had been made by the society's leadership in Rome.\n\nA spokeswoman for the school said: \"Our wish was always for Cornelia Connelly to remain undisturbed, but the decision was not ours to make and we have always made clear that we would abide by the final outcome.\"\n\nCornelia Connelly was born in Philadelphia in 1809.\n\nShe married and had five children before her husband, Pierce Connelly, converted to Catholicism and decided to become a priest.\n\nShe supported him, even though it meant the end of their marriage. She went on to convert to Catholicism herself, later becoming a nun and taking a \"vow of perpetual chastity\".\n\nBut her husband later renounced his priesthood and kidnapped their children, refusing to let Cornelia see them.\n\nAfter years of heartache she moved to England and devoted herself to education, founding Mayfield School in 1872.\n\nAt the end of her life she asked to be buried there.\n\nThe bid to exhume her remains was made earlier this month by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, who applied to Catholic Historic Churches earlier this month.\n\nThe aim was to remove a portion of her body and transfer it to a new home at Philadelphia Catholic Cathedral.\n\nA statement on the cathedral's website said Mother Connelly's \"sacred remains\" would \"soon will be translated from England to a new tomb in our Cathedral Basilica\".\n\nThe practice of gathering a saint's relics is sometimes practised within Catholicism as a means of furthering their cause, though the Cornelian Association of former pupils described the proposal as \"macabre\".\n\nIt said in a statement to the Catholic newspaper The Tablet: \"The gathering of relics, even of saints (which, officially, Cornelia is not) is virtually obsolete and seldom practised in the modern Church. Most people now regard it as a distasteful mediaeval custom\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pheasant surprise: Alex McSorley said he saw this pheasant \"tippy toeing\" through the outskirt of woods in Coldstream near the golf course. \"He looked as if he was on a mission (to survive I believe) as the sound of shotguns going off could be heard coming from the woods adjacent.\"", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce a £126m boost for traineeships in England in his Budget on Wednesday.\n\nThe scheme will include a new \"flexi-job\" apprenticeship that will enable apprentices to work with a number of different employers in one sector.\n\nUnemployment is at its highest level in almost five years, with younger and typically lower-paid workers bearing the brunt of job losses.\n\nMr Sunak said it was \"vital\" support continued to get people back into work.\n\nThe chancellor's boost to existing apprenticeship and traineeship programmes will include playing up to double the current cash incentive to firms who take on an apprentice, regardless of age.\n\nIt comes as a new government guarantee for low-deposit mortgages is announced as part of next week's measures.\n\nTraineeships are intended to get people into their first job after education. They last from six weeks to six months and they are open to people aged between 16 and 24.\n\nCurrently, firms in England are given £2,000 for every new apprentice they take on under the age of 25, and £1,500 for those over 25, in addition to a £1,000 grant they are already getting under another project.\n\nMr Sunak will promise to increase the cash incentives for employers who take on an apprentice to £3,000 - regardless of age.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is warning the UK's finances are \"exposed\"\n\nSo the government says the planned £126m investment could enable 40,000 more traineeships.\n\nWhile he is committed to helping jobseekers and employers, Mr Sunak warned in an interview with the Financial Times that the UK's finances were now \"exposed\".\n\n\"Because we now have far more debt than we used to and because interest rates . . . at least a month or two ago were exceptionally low, that means we remain exposed to changes in those rates,\" he said.\n\n\"That why I talk about levelling with people about the public finances [challenges] and our plans to address them.\"\n\nHe added that the UK's exposure to a rise of one percentage point across all interest rates meant adding £25bn a year to the government's cost of servicing its debt.\n\nThe Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which represents HR professionals, welcomed the move, but said it would like to see reform of the apprenticeships system to make it more flexible.\n\n\"Changing the apprenticeship levy to make it a flexible training levy would achieve a bigger boost to skills development than incentives alone,\" said Lizzie Crowley, skills adviser for the CIPD.\n\nShe stressed that awareness of traineeships is very low: \"Besides providing additional funding for placements, the government will have to do much more to market them to employers to boost uptake.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which had previously called for flexi-job apprenticeships, said the increase in incentives for employers was \"important\", because the current level of support \"is not leading to enough starts\".\n\n\"It will be important in the budget to take wider action to support jobs, including on employers national insurance and reintroducing the jobs retention bonus,\" said the FSB's national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\n\"Going forward, the government should consider changing the timings of apprenticeship incentives.\"", "Monger said it was \"hard to explain what it means to have been able to ride again\"\n\nRacing driver Billy Monger has completed the final stage of a Comic Relief challenge by walking and cycling laps of his \"home track\" in Kent.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who had both legs amputated after a crash in 2017, covered 140 miles over four days by walking, cycling and kayaking.\n\nHe completed 18 laps of Brands Hatch on a bike and three on foot, crossing the finish line at about 20:00 GMT.\n\nHe said it was \"hard to explain what it means to have been able to ride again\".\n\nMonger said he rode a bike for the first time since the crash about a month ago.\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\nBefore starting his circuits of Brands Hatch, he said the \"epic\" challenge, which began with an 18-mile walk in the North East of England on Monday, had left him feeling \"battered and bruised and sore\".\n\nOn Thursday, Monger completed a 65-mile bike ride from Birmingham to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.\n\nTelevision presenter Zoe Ball, who cycled 355 miles for Sport Relief in 2018, joined him at Brands Hatch before he finished with several laps on foot.\n\nBilly Monger walked 18 miles on Monday, passing the Angel of the North in Gateshead\n\nBad weather had forced Monger to delay plans to kayak in the Lake District on Tuesday. He took to the water on Wednesday and covered 6.5 miles across Ullswater, joined by BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker for the closing stages.\n\nCycling up steep hills on Thursday had forced him to \"to dig the deepest that I think I've ever had to,\" he said.\n\nThinking about the people who benefit from Comic Relief helped motivate him through the difficult moments, he added.\n\nMonger had never used a kayak before training began for the Comic Relief challenge\n\nBefore setting off on Friday, Monger, from Charlwood, in Surrey, said his experience at his \"home track\" Brands Hatch meant he knew just how hard the final stage would be.\n\n\"I know every inch of this place, so I know exactly how far I am going to have to go every single lap.\n\n\"I do know the racing line, so hopefully that might help me out,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\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.", "Martyn Hett was killed in the 2017 attack at Manchester Arena\n\nNew anti-terrorism legislation in memory of a Manchester Arena bombing victim should \"protect people and be proportionate\", the justice secretary has said as a consultation is launched.\n\nBuilding on \"Martyn's Law\", the new Protect Duty will require public places and venues to improve security.\n\nIt follows a campaign by Figen Murray, mother of Martyn Hett who died in the 2017 attack.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said it would \"minimise the risk of harm\".\n\nHe said there needed to be a balance between the \"obvious need\" for larger venues to plan and think ahead.\n\nMr Buckland said, while it had \"taken a long time\" to get to this stage, \"we wanted to get this right.\"\n\nWhitehall backed the plans last year but work stalled due to the pandemic.\n\nMr Hett was one of 22 people killed in a suicide bombing in the foyer of the Manchester Arena which left hundreds more injured.\n\nMs Murray has been campaigning to bring in legislation to step up security in crowded public spaces and venues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martyn Hett's mother, Figen Murray, says: \"I'd like to know and sense that I'm safer\"\n\nShe welcomed the move, which she described as \"a major stride towards making our country safer\".\n\nIn November, Ms Murray told the public inquiry into the bombing that \"the stakes were too high\" for further delay.\n\n\"To make Martyn's Law a reality is of huge relief and I look forward to making a lasting difference with all of those who have supported it,\" she said\n\n\"My focus will always be to stop such violent acts from happening again because Martyn and the other 21 victims cannot have lost their lives for nothing.\"\n\nProtect Duty legislation would make a legal requirement for venue operators to consider the risk of a terrorist attack and take steps to protect the public.\n\nCurrently, private and public owners of venues and sites are not obliged to act on advice about threats of a terrorist attack and how to mitigate the risk.\n\nThe consultation would help \"work out who should be subject to the duty and the extent of it and \"make sure we get the balance right between the need to protect people and the need to make sure it is proportionate,\" Mr Buckland said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the bombing\n\n\"People are now going to have their chance to have their say,\" Mr Buckland said.\n\n\"We want to make sure this is not a dry law, that this has a real impact on the ground and so it is pitched in the right way, so we are covering the appropriate venues,\" he added.\n\nHome secretary Priti Patel said: \"I have heard first-hand from those who have sadly lost loved ones in horrific terror attacks, and thank them for their tireless work.\n\n\"We will always take the strongest possible action to protect our national security.\n\n\"That is why we want all organisations responsible for public venues and spaces to put public safety and security first.\"\n\nAmong the Protect Duty proposals are:\n\nThe 18-week consultation will work with organisations including counter-terror police, and seek views on how the legislation would work and who precisely it would apply to.\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 recent timetable for easing lockdown restrictions has enabled a 2021 date to be set\n\nThe streets of the capital are once again set to be filled with thousands of people taking part in the Pride in London parade.\n\nThe event, which usually takes place every summer, was not staged last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe government's recent timetable for easing lockdown restrictions has helped organisers to set a date for the event.\n\nLondon Pride will return to the capital on 11 September, organisers say.\n\nThe 2019 parade was attended by more than 1.5 million people\n\nIt is the UK's biggest LGBT pride festival, with organisers estimating the 2019 parade was attended by more than 1.5 million people.\n\nMore than 100 Pride events were cancelled or postponed last year.\n\nMembers and supporters of the LGBT community taking part in the 2019 Pride parade in London\n\nMichael Salter-Church and Alison Camps, co-chairs of Pride in London, said: \"Now we have the roadmap from the government, we're working closely with the mayor's office, Westminster City Council and other key bodies in London to finalise what our plans will look like.\n\n\"We'll be announcing further details of the event, including what format it will take and how to participate or volunteer, in due course. We will continue to monitor and adhere to the necessary health guidance.\n\n\"Naturally, we can't wait to bring all of our wonderful communities together again and stand with them to champion LGBT+ rights across the capital and beyond.\"\n\nThey added that they were also working on a way to mark Pride's traditional anniversary in the summer.\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. Who is Shamima Begum and why is her case so important?\n\nThe Supreme Court is to rule later whether the runaway schoolgirl Shamima Begum should be allowed back into the UK from Syria.\n\nThe ruling comes six years after the then 15-year-old left with friends to join the Islamic State group.\n\nThe government stripped her of British nationality so she cannot return.\n\nFive justices must decide whether the only fair way she can challenge that decision is to allow her back to take part in the case.\n\nMs Begum's lawyers also argue she should automatically win her case to remain British, if she cannot receive a fair hearing.\n\nThe 21-year-old is in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.\n\nShe cannot speak to her lawyers or participate in a hearing by video.\n\nTwo years ago, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship, following the collapse of the IS regime.\n\nThe Court of Appeal ruled last July Ms Begum had been denied a fair opportunity to challenge that decision because she could not make her case from the camp.\n\nThe government then asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the Court of Appeal's ruling - so Friday's outcome has potentially major implications for Ms Begum's case and others like it.\n\nSeparately, the Attorney General's Office has confirmed the Sun newspaper will not be taken to court for revealing the Court of Appeal's judgement, apparently leaked to it by someone in government.\n\nThe story, headlined \"Return of Traitor\", briefly appeared online on the eve of the decision last July, quoting government sources.\n\nIt was taken down within an hour, after lawyers intervened.\n\nPublishing a judgement before it is public is generally considered a serious contempt of court and, in the case of newspapers, can lead to a significant fine.\n\nAn internal Whitehall inquiry into who might have briefed the newspaper has been sent to judges.\n\nA spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said the Sun's actions had been carefully considered by the solicitor-general, the second ranking minister in the department.\n\n\"After very careful consideration the solicitor-general concluded that contempt proceedings will not be instigated on this occasion,\" he said.\n\n\"However, it is to be understood that interference with the administration of justice constitutes a serious offence.\n\n\"And the Attorney General's Office will review all contempt-of-court allegations made to us.\"", "The hoaxer's targets included UK hospitals during the first lockdown\n\nAn Italian man in Germany has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening to bomb NHS hospitals, Black Lives Matter rallies and UK MPs.\n\nEmil Apreda, 33, sent emails from Berlin demanding £10m worth of Bitcoin to not carry out the attacks.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said he made his threats in the spring and summer of 2020 as the NHS struggled with Covid.\n\nSenior officers kept the threats from the public for fear of patients being scared into not attending hospitals.\n\nApreda used encryption techniques and the dark web in an attempt to hide his identity, but police brought in behavioural, linguistics and cyber-crime experts to track him down.\n\nHe sent emails to the NHS pretending to be a far-right activist linked to the neo-Nazi group Combat 18, but police believe that was just a ruse to instil fear.\n\nHe was finally identified by German detectives and armed officers raided his home in Berlin on 15 June last year.\n\nFor the first time, the NCA has revealed details of the case, calling it \"one of the most significant threats we've seen for some time\" which took place at a time of \"deep and heightened anxiety\" in the UK.\n\nTim Court, the NCA's head of investigations, said the content of the emails was \"so threatening and so damaging\" that it was only disclosed to a \"very tight circle of people - and I mean very tight\" within the police and government.\n\nMeanwhile, security at hospitals was quietly stepped up.\n\nMr Court said the risks were both of loss of life and a loss of confidence in the NHS.\n\n\"At the height of this, we were losing nearly nearly 1,000 people a day - and for six weeks we're trying to manage somebody who could have been planting a bomb in a hospital, somewhere in the UK.\"\n\nA particular concern was that many patients were on ventilators or oxygen at the time, and it would have been more difficult to get them out of a hospital in the event of a credible bomb threat.\n\nThe extortion campaign started on 26 April when Apreda sent an email to the NHS, making his demand for Bitcoin and warning that he would send a bomb in a package to a hospital in the UK if he was not paid.\n\nThis was followed by an identical email to an NCA control centre, followed by 16 more over six weeks.\n\nDuring that period, the death of George Floyd in the US and resulting protests in the UK prompted threats from him to blow up Black Lives Matter demonstrations.\n\nThreats were also made against Black Lives Matter protests\n\nFinally, as the fourth anniversary of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by a far-right activist approached, he emailed that he would kill MPs - but did not name any.\n\nPolice behavioural and linguistics experts drew up a profile of the extortionist, who they decided was not from the UK.\n\nPolice say further \"technical leads\" pointed to Germany. He was finally identified by LKA, the German CID.\n\nJo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen\n\nApreda had been issuing deadlines for payment after which he said he would attack, so the day before the anniversary of Ms Cox's death, German police moved in, blowing open the front door of his Berlin flat and arresting him.\n\nPolice say he has background in computing, but they have discovered no links to Combat 18, despite his claims.\n\nThe far-right group has been active in the UK in the past, but now exists mainly in the US and Germany.\n\nApreda was charged and convicted of extortion in Germany, but the NCA said he could have faced terrorism charges if he had been brought to the UK.\n\nThe NCA said he had no links that they could find with Britain, and therefore extraditing him had not been possible. It denied Brexit had been a major factor.", "Lord Coe's throat condition was eventually diagnosed thanks to a Radio 4 listener\n\nSebastian Coe is receiving treatment for a problem with his vocal cords after a Radio 4 listener contacted the station to express concern over his \"gravelly\" voice.\n\nLord Coe, the president of World Athletics, had been speaking to the Today programme's Garry Richardson about the delayed Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThe interview prompted an email from a retired GP, which led to Lord Coe seeing an ear, nose and throat doctor.\n\nHe said it was an \"act of kindness\".\n\nOn hearing the interview in December, the retired doctor emailed the programme immediately, and said: \"If he or especially family and friends feel his voice has altered over any time, more than three to four weeks, he should see his GP for an ENT referral so that a specialist can look at his vocal cords, to make sure there are no significant or alarming changes.\"\n\nHer comments were passed straight to Lord Coe, who said he was \"slightly perturbed\".\n\nHe visited specialist Peter Valentine, from Guildford, in Surrey.\n\n\"It was obvious when he spoke to me for the first time that he had an issue with his voice, in the sense that it was rough and gravelly,\" Mr Valentine said.\n\n\"What I was able to do was examine Seb using a nasendoscope, which is a small flexible optic fibre that we pass through the nasal passages to go to the back of the throat.\"\n\nMr Valentine discovered a throat condition which is now being treated with speech therapy.\n\nLord Coe said: \"It's almost like being back in training because you're sort of working on muscularity, and all sorts of things and learning to breathe properly and through your diaphragm.\"\n\nHe warned other people to speak to a doctor if they find \"alarming symptoms\".\n\n\"Don't be stoic and brave and not say anything about it,\" he 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.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Carl Woolley (pictured) punched Stephen Jeffries in the face, causing him to collapse\n\nA man who admitted fatally punching another man after an argument in a car park has been jailed for six years.\n\nStephen Jeffries, 59, was found with a head injury at The Avenue car park, Bournemouth, on 13 September and died two days later in hospital.\n\nCarl Woolley, 33, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in December.\n\nProsecutors accepted the plea and they did not seek a trial on a charge of murder.\n\nDorset Police said, prior to the assault, Mr Jeffries had been involved in a \"verbal altercation\" with a group of people close to the Flirt Cafe in The Triangle.\n\nWoolley, who was part of the group, followed Mr Jeffries as he walked away and punched him in the face, causing him to collapse.\n\nHe presented himself to officers at the scene on the morning after the attack and told them he was responsible.\n\nFollowing the sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court, Mr Jeffries' family issued a statement describing him as \"a kind and loving father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend who loved life\".\n\nThey said, because of the pandemic, they felt \"cheated\" of the opportunity to witness Woolley's sentencing and \"see if he is filled with remorse\".\n\nDet Insp Wayne Seymour, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team, said: \"I hope the sentence handed out today will provide Mr Jeffries' family and friends with some closure and serve as a reminder to the public about the dangers that just one mindless and avoidable punch can have.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah McDonald says the assault has been a 'wake-up call' about runners' safety\n\nAn athlete who competes for Great Britain says she has been left in a \"state of shock\" after being assaulted at a canalside while training for the Olympics.\n\nMiddle-distance runner Sarah McDonald had her backside grabbed by a man on a moped while warming up in Birmingham.\n\nThe 27-year-old said she had received an \"overwhelming response\" to sharing the experience on social media.\n\nShe added she would be reporting the matter to police.\n\nMs McDonald, who has represented her country at World and European Championships level, was out with a training partner when the assault occurred on Wednesday.\n\nShe said in preparation for the 1,500m at the Tokyo Olympics, she had been using a quiet stretch of canal to train \"most days\" during lockdowns.\n\n\"I think it's quite common to have things shouted at you and catcalls, but I didn't think twice about those,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBut things took a turn shortly after her training partner shouted to \"watch out for a bike\".\n\nMs McDonald said: \"I stepped to the left. I wasn't even looking, but the [moped] slowed down and the man on the back grabbed my bum before zooming off into the distance.\"\n\nShe added: \"If I'd gone to the right-hand-side, I hate to think - they might have pushed me into the canal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah McDonald This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 McDonald's tweet highlighting the incident prompted other women to share stories of harassment and assault while out running.\n\n\"I normally don't speak out about these things, but on this occasion I had to make an exception and have been overwhelmed by the response,\" she said.\n\nA number of Welsh female sprinters have recently reported being verbally abused by strangers as they trained in public rather than at athletics tracks during Covid restrictions.\n\n[Until the incident] I'd have felt comfortable being on my own,\" said Ms McDonald who added: \"This has been a wake-up call - be vigilant and look after each other.\"\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.", "Labour's support for keeping the UK's nuclear weapons is \"non-negotiable,\" the shadow defence secretary has said.\n\nBut in a speech, John Healey also promised to \"lead efforts to secure multilateral disarmament\" if the party wins power.\n\nLabour dropped its policy of unilaterally getting rid of the UK's nuclear weapons after then-leader Neil Kinnock lost the 1987 general election.\n\nMany on the party's left remain vehemently opposed to that decision.\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - a long-time opponent of the UK's Trident submarine-based missile system and a vice president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) - said in 2015 that he would never use it if he became prime minister.\n\nYet maintaining nuclear weapons remained a pledge in the party's 2019 election manifesto.\n\nIn a speech to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Mr Healey emphasised that the party leadership under Sir Keir Starmer is far clearer in its backing of this than Mr Corbyn was.\n\n\"Labour's support for the UK's nuclear deterrent is non-negotiable. The matter is settled,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Labour wanted to see the UK \"doing more to lead efforts to secure strategic arms limitation and multilateral disarmament\".\n\nMr Healey also said the party's commitment to the NATO military alliance - which Mr Corbyn said in 2012 should be disbanded, but later argued should focus on reducing \"tensions around the world\" - is \"unshakeable\".\n\nThis isn't a change in policy, but it's a distinct change in tone.\n\nLabour wants to make sure it gets a serious hearing on defence.\n\nIt knows that it needs its own position to be clear to be able to most effectively challenge the government's decisions (which is particularly important with the Integrated Review due soon).\n\nThat means definitively answering some of the questions which have been raised over recent years, especially around NATO and nuclear weapons.\n\nKeeping Britain's nuclear weapons system has always been a divisive issue within Labour, but it is party policy.\n\nThat didn't change under Jeremy Corbyn, but his lifelong personal opposition to nuclear weapons - and his statement in 2015 that he would never use them - allowed Labour's commitment to be questioned.\n\nStating that it is \"non-negotiable\" ends that speculation, although it is unlikely to go down well with everyone in the party.\n\nThe government launched its Integrated Review last year, looking at the UK's long-term foreign policy and defence priorities.\n\nMr Healey said the review should \"refocus our defence efforts on where the threats are, not where the business opportunities might be\".\n\nHe also called for the review - which ministers have promised this month - to be published now, to end \"confusion and speculation\" about its contents.\n\nHe added that unless the review confirmed a reduction in potential threats to the UK, it would be \"very hard to accept the case for reducing the strength of our full-time forces\".\n\nAnd he also urged the government to \"set a higher bar\" when deciding to buy military equipment from abroad.\n\nResponding to Mr Healey's speech, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament accused Labour's leadership of being \"stuck in a 20th Century rut\".\n\nIts general secretary Kate Hudson said the UK today was facing \"new and different threats,\" including climate change, pandemics, artificial intelligence and cyber warfare.\n\n\"This is where investment urgently needs to go, not on massively expensive nuclear weapons,\" she added.\n\n\"Labour has to stop pandering to an old agenda and give the people the sensible, forward-looking thinking that today's reality demands.\"\n\nThe government has promised an increase in spending on defence of 2.6% above the rate of inflation between 2019/20 and 2020/21.\n\nIt expects the overall figure to rise to £41.5bn during this time.\n\nMargaret Thatcher's Conservative government first acquired Trident - using submarines to carry up to eight missiles each - in the early 1980s, replacing the previous Polaris system.\n\nOpponents say the maintenance and update costs - running into billions of pounds - are excessive and that the deterrent effect of such weapons is questionable, and that is not truly independent as it relies on US technology.\n\nBut supporters argue that there is no alternative, and that Russia and China already have nuclear missiles, with several others attempting to develop them.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has described Trident as \"vital\" to protecting the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond: \"I've got no doubt Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has said he has \"no doubt\" that Nicola Sturgeon has breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe former first minister was speaking as he made his long-awaited appearance at a Scottish Parliament inquiry.\n\nMr Salmond gave an account to the committee of meetings he had with Ms Sturgeon that appeared to contradict her version of events.\n\nBut he said it was not for him to say whether Ms Sturgeon should resign if she was found to have broken the code.\n\nMs Sturgeon denies breaching the code, and has accused Mr Salmond of creating \"wild\" conspiracy theories that are untrue.\n\nHer spokesman said Mr Salmond had failed to prove his allegations in his evidence to the committee, and \"also gave testimony which directly undermined some of the central planks of his conspiracy theories\".\n\nThe inquiry is examining the Scottish government's botched handling of harassment allegations against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe government admitted it had acted unlawfully during its investigation into the initial complaints from two female civil servants after Mr Salmond launched a judicial review case, and had to pay his legal fees of more than £500,000.\n\nMr Salmond was arrested two weeks after the government admitted defeat in the civil case, and was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a trial at the High Court last year.\n\nHe has previously accused people close to Ms Sturgeon - his successor as both first minister and SNP leader - of plotting against him, and has named Ms Sturgeon's husband, SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, as being one of them.\n\nMr Salmond told the committee that he had been given a memory stick in the build up to his criminal trial that contained messages which involved \"pressuring police\", \"collusion of witnesses\" and \"construction of evidence because police were felt to be inadequate in finding it themselves\".\n\nHe said he would \"dearly love to provide\" more detail about the messages - but was unable to do so because he was \"under an injunction\" that could see him prosecuted for revealing evidence that was given to him as part of the criminal proceedings.\n\nMr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon were close political allies for decades - but are now embroiled in a bitter war of words\n\nAsked what the motivation would be for a plot against him, Mr Salmond said some in the Scottish government saw the judicial review case as a \"huge, looming, enormous and difficult problem\".\n\nHe said the potential impact on Ms Sturgeon and others in the government of a \"disastrous\" defeat in the civil case meant \"it became very important that the criminal case overtook the judicial review\".\n\nPart of the written evidence submitted by Mr Salmond ahead of the committee meeting was removed on the request of the Crown Office earlier this week after it had already been published in full by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe submissions included claims that Ms Sturgeon misled parliament over when she first learned of the allegations against her former political mentor.\n\nThis was one of the most extraordinary episodes in Holyrood's short history.\n\nIn six hours of testimony, Scotland's longest serving first minister set out what he believes was a malicious plot against him by key figures in the SNP and the Scottish government - both of which he used to lead.\n\nHis voice cracked with emotion as he accused former colleagues of pressurising police and potential witnesses to build a criminal case against him - claims they deny.\n\nHe was not able to present the social media messages that he believes will prove this case but during his appearance the Scottish Parliament issued an order demanding their release by Scottish prosecutors.\n\nFor their parts in the botched handling of the original harassment complaints against him, Alex Salmond called for the resignation of Scotland's top civil servant and its top law officer.\n\nBut he stopped short of demanding his former ally, friend and political partner - Nicola Sturgeon - stand down despite arguing that she had repeatedly broken the rules for ministers.\n\nHe said her fate should be decided by others after she's given evidence next week and the inquiries into this toxic affair have delivered their verdicts.\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of all 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial in March of last year\n\nMs Sturgeon initially told parliament she had not learned of the complaints until she was informed by Mr Salmond on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, she later claimed to have \"forgotten\" about an earlier meeting in her Scottish Parliament office on 29 March of that year, when she was told about the allegations by Mr Salmond's former chief of staff Geoff Aberdein.\n\nMr Salmond told the committee that if Ms Sturgeon had truly forgotten about the meeting, she should have corrected the record when she did remember.\n\nBut he said Ms Sturgeon had only admitted that the meeting had taken place after details of it were revealed 18 months later by Sky News.\n\nHe also said there was \"no doubt\" that the meeting with Mr Aberdein and subsequent meetings between Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon in her home were about government matters rather than SNP business, as she has claimed.\n\nMs Sturgeon denies breaching the code, and says any suggestions of a plot against Mr Salmond are untrue\n\nThis could potentially be another breach of the code, which says all government business and meetings should be recorded - but none of them were.\n\nMr Salmond also alleged that the name of one of the women who had made complaints about him was made known to Mr Aberdein ahead of his meeting with Ms Sturgeon.\n\nMs Sturgeon told parliament on Thursday that \"to the very best of my knowledge I do not think that happened.\"\n\nThe first minister has also been accused of potentially breaching the code by allowing the government to continue opposing a civil court case brought by Mr Salmond over its handling of the initial complaints against him from two female civil servants.\n\nMr Salmond has alleged that the government was given legal advice that it was unlikely to win the case on 31 October 2018 - but did not concede defeat until January of the following year.\n\nMr Salmond said: \"I have no doubt Nicola has broken the ministerial code, but it's not for me to decide what the consequences should be.\"\n\nA separate inquiry headed by Irish lawyer James Hamilton is specifically looking at whether Ms Sturgeon breached the code, which states that any minister who deliberately misleads parliament would be expected to resign.\n\nMr Salmond said he was due to be interviewed by Mr Hamilton next week.\n\nThe last six hours have been detailed. Alex Salmond's complaints are numerous. But stand back from it for a second.\n\nThe former First Minister of Scotland has just accused his successor of breaking the ministerial code - and left open the door for her having to resign as a result.\n\nHe has said Scotland's most senior civil servant should quit - and that its most senior lawyer should consider his position.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's allies will argue he has not provided evidence for his claims of a plot against him.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon will face huge questions when she appears before MSPs next week - some of the most difficult she has faced in her career.\n\nThe marathon evidence session - which lasted six hours - also saw Mr Salmond claim that the leadership of the Scottish government, civil service and Crown Office prosecution service had all \"failed\".\n\nHe said no one had taken responsibility for the \"nightmare\" he had been put through, and said the country's top civil servant, Leslie Evans should quit, and that the head of the Crown Office, Lord Advocate James Wolffe, should consider his position.\n\nHe also alleged that there had been a \"deliberate suppression of information inconvenient to the government\" throughout the saga.\n\nAnd he called for a police investigation into how details of the complaints against him were leaked to the Daily Record newspaper, and said he believed the leak came from within the government and was politically motivated.\n\nAn Information Commissioner's Office investigation into the leak found no \"hard evidence\" that it came from the government - but said it had \"some sympathy\" to the view that it had.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Salmond criticises the leadership of the civil service, the Crown Office and Scottish government\n\nMr Salmond went on to say he did not believe the House of Commons would accept a call from the Crown Prosecution Service in England to change a committee document, as the Scottish Parliament had done in response to the Crown Office request.\n\nHe said he had \"no incentive or advantage in revisiting the hurt and shock of the last three years\".\n\nBut he added: \"We can't turn the page or move on until the decision-making which is undermining the system of government in Scotland is addressed.\"\n\nHe said the country's \"move to independence\" - which he has campaigned for throughout his political life - \"must be accompanied by institutions whose leadership is strong and robust and capable of protecting each and every citizen from arbitrary authority\".\n\nThe inquiry committee has been badly delayed, with some members claiming it has faced deliberate obstruction from both the government and Mr Salmond\n\nMs Sturgeon has denied there was any conspiracy against Mr Salmond, and has said she is \"relishing\" the prospect of giving evidence to the committee next week.\n\nAnswering questions from journalists at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, she said: \"I don't think there is a shred of evidence behind those allegations and the claims that have been made\".\n\nShe claimed that Mr Salmond had created an \"alternative reality in which the organs of the state - not just me, the SNP and the civil service and the Crown Office and the police and women who came forward - were all part of some wild conspiracy against him for reasons I can't explain\".\n\nAnd she added: \"Maybe that's easier than just accepting that at the root of all this might just have been issues in his own behaviour.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said Ms Evans continued to have the support of the first minister and would not be resigning as the head of the civil service in Scotland.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said the government had a \"duty to investigate the serious and specific complaints against Alex Salmond and was right to do so\".\n\nShe added: \"As set out in detailed evidence to the committee, all government decisions were informed by legal advice and taken in line with the Civil Service Code.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office said: \"Scotland's prosecutors have acted independently and in the public interest at all times when considering matters related to this case.\"\n\nThe Lord Advocate will give evidence to the committee on Monday, before Ms Sturgeon - who will be the final witness - appears on Wednesday.", "Gaga is often accompanied by her dogs at award shows and film premieres\n\nTwo of Lady Gaga's French bulldogs were stolen on Wednesday night, after a gunman shot her dog-walker in Hollywood, Los Angeles.\n\nA male suspect fired a semi-automatic handgun at the dog walker, named in US media reports as Ryan Fischer, before making off with the dogs.\n\nThe victim was transported to hospital in an unknown condition, Los Angeles Police confirmed to the BBC.\n\nLady Gaga has offered a reward for the return of her dogs, Koji and Gustav.\n\nA third bulldog, named Miss Asia ran away and was later recovered by police.\n\nGaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, is currently in Rome working on a new Ridley Scott film, Gucci.\n\nShe is said to be offering $500,000 to anyone who can return the dogs.\n\nHer press representative said anyone with information on their whereabouts can email KojiandGustav@gmail.com.\n\nIt is not known whether Lady Gaga's pets were targeted because of her celebrity status, or whether it was a chance - or planned - attack, because of the breed of dog involved.\n\nThis is not an isolated incident involving French bulldogs. There have been several cases, around the United States, sometimes involving violent assaults on their owners, where the animals have been stolen.\n\nIn January, a woman in San Francisco was attacked at gunpoint by three men who escaped with her five-month-old puppy.\n\nFrench bulldogs are hugely popular and in much demand, but they are notoriously difficult to breed. They require artificial insemination and the physical characteristics of the dog - a large head and shoulders - mean they usually have to be delivered by Caesarean section.\n\nThe breeding costs explain the price tag of a puppy, which can range from $2,000-$10,000.\n\nLos Angeles Police Department confirmed that they are searching for a man who \"fired a gunshot from an unknown location and struck the victim\" on North Sierra Bonita Avenue at 21:40 on Wednesday.\n\nA \"possible suspect\" fled the scene in a white vehicle towards Hollywood Boulevard, they added.\n\nIt is not clear whether Lady Gaga's dogs were specifically targeted in the attack.\n\nGaga is known to be extremely protective of her dogs, who have accompanied her to the American Music Awards and her 2017 Super Bowl Halftime show.\n\nMiss Asia even has an official Instagram account.\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. An organised crime expert on the rising number of dog thefts in the UK\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Actor Ronald Pickup, who is best known for his roles in the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films and The Crown, has died aged 80.\n\nHis agent said he \"passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family. He will be deeply missed\".\n\nThe actor, who died on Wednesday, was the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2016's The Crown and played Neville Chamberlain in 2017 film Darkest Hour.\n\nHe worked in theatre, film and TV.\n\nPickup's career break came in 1964 with a role as a physician in Doctor Who episode The Tyrant Of France.\n\nPickup [centre] was in the National Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing\n\nIn 1967 he played Don John in a BBC studio recording of Franco Zeffirelli's famous production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.\n\nHe also starred in the films The Mission and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and played Norman Cousins in the Marigold Hotel films in 2011 and 2015, which also starred Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.\n\nHis extensive television work included a 2015 episode of Downton Abbey and 2014's Call the Midwife Christmas special. He also made appearances in shows including Vera, Coronation Street, Doc Martin, Parade's End, Holby City, The Bill and Silent Witness.\n\nPickup told the PA news agency in 2012 that his favourite role was playing the writer George Orwell in TV movie Crystal Spirit: Orwell On Jura, which told the story of him writing his acclaimed novel 1984.\n\nLast year he starred in horror film End Of Term, which starred former Doctor Who actor Peter Davison.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The last six hours have been detailed. Alex Salmond’s complaints are numerous.\n\nBut stand back from it for a second.\n\nThe former first minister of Scotland has just accused his successor of breaking the ministerial code – and left open the door for her having to resign as a result.\n\nHe has said Scotland’s most senior civil servant should quit – and that its most senior lawyer should consider his position.\n\nNicola Sturgeon’s allies will argue he has not provided evidence for his claims of a plot against him.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon will face huge questions when she appears before MSPs next week – some of the most difficult she has faced in her career.", "Villagers have been celebrating getting closer to reopening their beloved local pub\n\nVillagers are raising a glass after securing £350,000 of pledges to buy their local pub in under a week.\n\nTy'n Llan, in Llandwrog, Gwynedd, closed more than three years ago. Residents say it's vital the village has a community hub.\n\nScheme volunteer Grant Peisley said: \"It's the only place we've got where people can come together to enjoy some time together and be a real community.\"\n\nHe said he wasn't surprised by the enthusiastic reaction from neighbours.\n\n\"People feel so strongly about Ty'n Llan,\" he said.\n\n\"It's so important for us here in the community.\"\n\nThe next step is for the campaign to turn the pledges into loans, then people can invest in the scheme by buying community shares.\n\nA total of £350,000 has been secured in pledges to save Ty'n Llan, in Llandwrog, Gwynedd\n\nThe volunteers hope to be in a position to buy the pub within the next few months.\n\nThe 200-year-old building could be used as village shop, café, and community centre as well, Mr Peisley said.\n\nHuw Jones, who was part of the group that started the campaign, said: \"One thing that has happened because of Covid, people have been feeling the lack of a meeting place even more than usual.\n\n\"We haven't got a village hall, we haven't got a village shop, the pub had been closed for three years, so there was a real sense of 'where will we get together when this is all over?'.\n\n\"It's the local village itself that wants this.\"\n\nMr Jones emphasised that \"other services will be provided\" in the pub and villagers had many ideas for what these would be.\n\n\"The questionnaire was returned by more than 200 people with lots of ideas about what should be provided there, so we're all looking forward to an exciting time ahead,\" he said.\n\nCarol Lewis, who was also behind the campaign, said: \"We had an amazing response, to tell the truth.\n\n\"This just shows that people feel strongly that we should be investing in Ty'n Llan as a community.\"", "EU countries are being urged to adopt a common vaccination passport\n\nGreece and Austria are urging other EU states to adopt coronavirus vaccination \"passports\" which could help revive Europe's stricken tourist industry.\n\nThe idea of such a document, likely to be a certificate, would be to permit those who have been vaccinated to travel freely within the EU.\n\nThe proposal was put forward during a virtual discussion between EU leaders.\n\nBut a vaccine passport faces opposition from some of the bloc's 27 member states.\n\nFrance and Germany say such documents could be premature because data on the efficacy of vaccines in preventing a person from carrying or passing on the virus is incomplete.\n\nThere are also concerns that enabling a vaccinated minority to enjoy foreign travel while others, such as young people who are not seen as a priority for inoculation, continue to face restrictions would be discriminatory.\n\nA further complication is the rapid spread of more contagious Covid variants - the English, South African and Brazilian forms - and the possibility of future mutations. So it is more likely that people will need booster jabs to remain protected.\n\nGreece - as well as Israel - already has digital vaccination certificates, and others such as Denmark and Sweden have talked about developing them.\n\nGreek Deputy Prime Minister Akis Skertsos told the BBC that a common digital certificate \"is not discriminatory at all\". He argued that non-vaccinated tourists could also visit Greece this summer, but the procedure for them would be slower - they would have to be tested and might have to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nGreece and Cyprus have agreed to admit Covid-negative Israeli tourists this summer - those who can prove their status with the Israeli \"green\" digital certificate.\n\nGreek Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis said a similar deal could be reached with the UK. However, the UK government has not yet approved any vaccination certificate, nor has it given the go-ahead for foreign holidays.\n\nGreek tourism slumped disastrously last year because of the pandemic. Its revenues fell to €4bn (£3.5bn; $5bn), from €18bn in 2019, Reuters news agency reports. Tourism makes up about a fifth of the Greek economy, employing one in five workers.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted that \"we're advocating a digital Green Pass, like Israel's\".\n\n\"That should allow you to prove, on your mobile phone, that you've been tested, inoculated or have recovered [from Covid]. Our goal: to avoid a lengthy lockdown and finally enable freedom to travel again in the EU, and freedom to enjoy events and cuisine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would take three months to set up a data system for use at the borders and in national healthcare systems, but that most countries agreed that \"a digital vaccination certificate\" could be necessary in the future.\n\nAs some EU countries now struggle with a third wave of the virus there are tensions over unilateral border restrictions. Germany is the latest to have received a complaint from the European Commission, since it imposed new police checks on the Czech and Austrian borders.\n\nDuring the virtual meeting on Thursday, EU leaders also discussed how to address concerns over the slow vaccine rollout that has been widely criticised.\n\nThe Commission - the EU executive - has been under fire over its vaccine procurement strategy. It got into a row with AstraZeneca, because the Anglo-Swedish drug firm fell far short of the first-quarter delivery target.\n\nSome member states have also implied that the AstraZeneca vaccine is somehow inferior to others - French President Emmanuel Macron said at one point that it might be \"quasi-ineffective\" in the over 65s, without offering any evidence.\n\nThis has reportedly led to issues of authorities in some countries, such as Italy, reluctant to use supplies of the drug.\n\nThe Commission still aims to get at least 70% of adults vaccinated in the bloc by mid-September. But so far, the total vaccinated is below 10%.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she felt assured that the target would be met. \"These are 255 million people in the European Union, and if we look at the planned figures, this is a goal we are confident we'll reach,\" she said.\n\nThe EU is desperately seeking ways to increase vaccine supplies and improve its ability to track new variants, BBC Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly reports. But it is pursuing policies that might pay off in months or years, when voters want answers in days or weeks, he says.\n• None Can you catch Covid outside?\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "Derek Paton (l) and Leon Fitzpatrick died in the crash in Wishaw on Thursday\n\nTwo teenagers have died in North Lanarkshire after a crash involving an off-road motorbike and a van.\n\nThe incident happened on Ryde Road, Wishaw, near the junction with Waverley Drive, at about 16:30 on Thursday.\n\nDerek Paton, 19, who was in control of the Kawasaki bike, died from his injuries at Wishaw General Hospital following the crash.\n\nPolice said his pillion passenger, Leon Fitzpatrick, 18, was pronounced dead the scene.\n\nBoth victims were from the Wishaw area.\n\nThe 34-year-old driver of the white Volkswagen Crafter van suffered minor injuries.\n\nFlowers were left near the crash scene on Friday morning\n\nSgt Ryan McAuley said: \"Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this crash.\n\n\"Our inquiries to establish the full circumstances are ongoing and we would urge anyone with information to come forward.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with relevant dashcam or private CCTV footage to contact officers.\n\nThe road was closed for investigations until about 23:00 on Thursday to allow an investigation at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Pfizer vaccine appears to slow the spread of coronavirus as well as preventing people getting seriously ill, a study at a hospital has found.\n\nThe findings support similar research by Public Health England and an Oxford-AstraZeneca study, examining whether vaccines can stop the virus spreading.\n\nThe researchers said the results were a \"genuine good news story\" but warned that other precautionary measures were still required to combat the virus.\n\nThe impact on transmission is critical.\n\nIf a vaccine only stops you getting severely ill - but you can still catch and pass on the virus - everyone will need to be immunised to be protected.\n\nBut if it also stops you spreading the virus, there would be a far greater impact on the pandemic, as each person who is vaccinated indirectly protects other people, too.\n\nAddenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, has been testing staff regularly for coronavirus, even if they do not have any symptoms.\n\nIt started rolling out the Pfizer vaccine in early December and just over a month later had a mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated staff.\n\nThe regular swabbing showed 17 in 1,000 unvaccinated staff were testing positive in mid-January while only four in 1,000 staff who had had their first dose were positive.\n\nThere was a similar reduction among people who had no symptoms, but were still testing positive - and therefore potentially able to spread the virus unknowingly.\n\nThe headline results have been posted online, but the full data has not been reviewed by other scientists.\n\n\"This is a genuine good news story. People should be really pleased that the vaccine will protect them and they should have the vaccine in order to prevent themselves and others from getting infected,\" one of the researchers, Dr Mike Weeks, told the BBC.\n\nHowever, even with the vaccine there was not complete protection, he warned.\n\n\"The vaccine doesn't completely prevent infection and so handwashing, mask-wearing, social distancing, regular testing are as important as they ever are.\"\n\nThe Siren study, run by Public Health England, suggested one dose of Pfizer reduced the risk of infection by 70% and two doses by 85%.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is thought to reduce infections by around two-thirds.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, from Warwick Medical School. said: You can't spread the virus if you're not infected, and these studies show that the vaccine blocks infection in individuals who don't have symptoms but could pass on the infection.\"\n\nProf Jonathan Ball, a virologist at the University of Nottingham, said: \"To see such a reduction in infection rates after a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine is very impressive and shows that vaccination truly does offer a way out of the current restrictions and a much brighter future.\"", "The National Trust is planning to plant dozens of blossoming trees, including cherry, hawthorn and plum, at different sites around the UK.\n\nAs part of the plan, a circle of 33 trees will be planted across the capital, one representing each borough and the City of London.\n\nDesigns are being finalised for groves in Nottingham, Newcastle and Plymouth - and other sites will follow.\n\nThe project will help improve access to nature for those in towns and cities.\n\nThe idea is to try to create a UK equivalent of Japan's concept of \"Hanami\" - the annual celebration of flowers, and the coming of spring.\n\nResearch carried out for the National Trust last year showed that almost half a million people live in \"grey deserts \" with no trees or green spaces nearby.\n\nHilary McGrady, director general of the Trust, said the project was in its infancy, but \"from little acorns great things grow\".\n\nShe added: \"I want this to be just as valid as planting vast tracts of trees on mountains - it's just as valid for every individual to want to plant a tree in their garden or their city.\n\n\"At the heart of it, now more than ever, people need a little bit of soft beauty in their world, and remembering why nature matters.\"\n\nAccording to numerous studies carried out after the first lockdown, being around nature is crucial to people's mental and physical health.\n\nHowever, according to conservation group WWF, the UK is one of the most \"nature depleted countries in the world\".\n\nMs McGrady said the National Trust would be calling on the government to create solid commitments to protecting the natural world, ahead of hosting the global climate conference - known as COP 26 - in November.\n\n\"We need them to start to put money and action where their mouths are - we need some tangible targets. We want, by 2030, for the government to have halted the decline in nature. We have every opportunity to hold their feet to the fire,\" she told BBC News.\n\nMs McGrady added: \"Covid has taught us lots of lessons, including the importance of nature. The public are behind it.\"\n\nLast year's cherry blossom season in Japan saw tourist numbers hit by the pandemic\n\nWashington DC's cherry blossoms also attracts large numbers of visitors in spring\n\nThe project, part-funded by the People's Postcode Lottery, and supported by Historic England, will begin at a site in London. There are other plans for circles in Plymouth, Newcastle, Nottingham and other sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe National Trust's London Blossom Garden is being planted in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Newham. It's in the same borough as the temporary NHS Nightingale Covid-19 hospital. The local community was involved in the design.\n\nIt's designed to be a \"commemorative space\" to reflect on the impact Covid-19 has had on the capital.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan explained: \"This new public garden will create a lasting, living memorial to commemorate all those who have lost their lives in the pandemic. It will be a tribute to the amazing ongoing work of our key workers and create a space for Londoners to contemplate and reflect on all this global pandemic has meant to our city and world.\"\n\nThe nascent plan for a circle in Newcastle is supported by Newcastle City Council and Urban Green Newcastle (UGN).\n\nBarbara Hooper, UGN's director for parks and allotments, said: \"The events of the past year have highlighted more than ever how important it is for us all to have access to green space. Somewhere for us to breathe fresh air, connect with nature, and find solace during difficult times.\"", "Mark Drakeford says Wales is \"so lucky\" to have the natural resources for renewable energy\n\nLabour will put Wales \"at the forefront of the global energy revolution\" if the party wins the Senedd election in May, the party's Welsh leader has pledged.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford says Wales can use \"wind, water and wave\" to create \"the jobs of the future\".\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech to Welsh Labour's virtual spring conference, he also called for a \"more powerful devolution settlement\".\n\nMr Drakeford wants \"home rule for Wales in a successful United Kingdom\".\n\nLeader of Welsh Labour and first minister since December 2018, Mr Drakeford has already said he does not intend to serve a full term if he is reappointed after the election.\n\nIn his recorded address on Friday - shared publicly on social media - he said a Labour government would put the \"urgent need\" to tackle climate change \"at the heart of everything we do\".\n\n\"We are so lucky, in our country, to have all the natural resources we need to put Wales at the forefront of the global energy revolution which the world will need,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"Wind, water and wave - the next Welsh Labour Government will make those assets work to create the jobs of the future and, in doing so, make our contribution to securing the future of our beautiful but fragile planet.\"\n\nMark Drakeford wants Wales to \"break down barriers, not build them up\" in terms of the UK's future\n\nIn response to a growing debate around Wales' future in the UK, Mr Drakeford said: \"We need a more powerful devolution settlement, one in which we secure home rule for Wales in a successful United Kingdom - internationalist, not nationalist; outward facing, not inward looking.\"\n\nWith an apparent nod to the independence movement, he said: \"Yes for Wales, of course - that's what I have been throughout my whole life - but yes to a Wales that takes ownership of its own destiny alongside working people in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland who share our progressive values.\n\n\"Yes to a Wales which has the confidence of knowing that we are at our best when we break down barriers, not build them up, where we create our future alongside others, not despite or against them.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales his party's manifesto would be both ambitious and credible.\n\n\"I'll be focusing on health because we will have to rebuild our health service post pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"I'll be talking about jobs, particularly jobs for our young people, because this is an economic crisis as well as a health crisis.\n\n\"And I'll be talking about justice as well, so that we come out of all of this in a way that is fairer.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he was \"absolutely determined there will be no lost generation in Wales\".\n\nHe added that if Labour wins the election he would remain as first minister for \"beyond two years\".\n\n\"When I first stood as a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party... I said then that I expected to serve for around five years,\" he told Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So, if we are fortunate enough to win the confidence of Welsh people again... I will be the first minister in the full sense of that word.\n\n\"That's the plan that I had in the beginning - that's the plan I intend to stick to.\"\n\nLabour has been in government in Wales since devolution began in 1999, forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2000 and Plaid Cymru in 2007.\n\nThe party won 29 of the 60 seats in the 2016 Senedd election and governs with the support of Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams and independent member Lord Elis-Thomas.\n\nLabour lost six Welsh seats to the Conservatives at the last UK general election in 2019.\n\nThe Senedd election is due to take place on 6 May, although a law has been passed in light of the pandemic to allow a delay of up to six months if two-thirds of members think it necessary for safety or other reasons.\n\nIn this speech Mark Drakeford is trying to address some of the big issues in the forthcoming election.\n\nFirstly, the \"it's time for a change\" argument that will be made by Labour's opponents - the party has been in power in Wales for 20 plus years.\n\nSo he says it's only his team who have been \"tested in the fire of experience\" of governing through the Covid pandemic, which is \"far from over\".\n\nSecondly independence, which has risen up the political agenda recently.\n\nHe uses the phrase \"Yes for Wales\" to tell left-wing voters thinking of turning to Plaid or the Greens that he wants to get more powers for Welsh devolution (\"home rule\") but he balances that by referencing traditional socialist concerns about working class solidarity across the UK.\n\nAnd finally, he turns his fire power on the Conservative government in Westminster, presenting Welsh Labour as a bulwark against \"inequality and austerity\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have launched an investigation into the safety of smart motorways, after a coroner said they created an \"ongoing risk\" of death.\n\nIn 2019, 14 people reportedly died on the roads - on which hard shoulders can become driving lanes at peak congestion times, or on a permanent basis.\n\nThe Transport Committee is looking at whether they should go altogether or need better safety measures.\n\nThe government promised to assist \"this important inquiry\".\n\nSmart motorways, which use technology to maintain the flow of traffic and give information on overhead displays, have existed in England since 2002.\n\nThe all-lane-running version - which involves opening the hard shoulder permanently to drivers - began in 2014.\n\nAnother version uses a \"dynamic hard shoulder\", which opens and closes to traffic, depending on congestion.\n\nThe AA and RAC have raised concerns that vehicles that break down on these sections of road face greater dangers than before.\n\nAnd, in January, Sheffield coroner David Urpeth said they presented \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\", after two men died when a lorry driver ploughed into their vehicles while they were stationary on the M1 in South Yorkshire.\n\nLaunching the Transport Committee investigation, chairman Huw Merriman said: \"The Department for Transport says smart motorways help us cope with a 23% rise in traffic since 2000, helping congestion.\"\n\nThe Conservative MP added that the department's own \"stocktake\" found \"lower fatal casualty rates for smart motorways without a permanent hard shoulder than on motorways with a hard shoulder\".\n\n\"This message isn't reaching the public, whose confidence in smart motorways has been dented by increasing fatalities on these roads,\" Mr Merriman continued.\n\nThe committee will look at whether the government needs a \"rethink\" on smart motorways in general, whether \"enhanced\" safety measures are needed, or whether an \"awareness campaign\" is needed to help drivers use them better.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has published an 18-point action plan to improve motorway safety, including extending stopped vehicle-detection systems to all stretches of smart motorways.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said Mr Shapps had \"expressed his concerns\" over safety and committed £500m to improvements.\n\n\"We welcome this important inquiry from the Transport Committee and we will provide written evidence to help it in its work,\" she added.\n\nFor Labour, shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said: \"Dozens of people have lost their lives on smart motorways, so this investigation is welcome.\"", "A mother in Istanbul was forced to drop her four children from their apartment window to save them from their burning building.\n\nThe fire broke out at the entrance to the family's flat, causing the parent to take drastic action before firefighters arrived.\n\nThe children and their mother all survived.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Her Majesty The Queen: \"The jab didn't hurt at all\"\n\nThe Queen has urged the public to \"think about other people\" and get a Covid jab when they are offered one.\n\nThe monarch, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received their first doses of the vaccine in January.\n\nIn a video call with health leaders delivering the Covid vaccine across the UK, the Queen was asked about her experience of having the jab.\n\nShe smiled as she replied: \"Well, as far as I can make out it was quite harmless.\n\n\"It was very quick, and I've had lots of letters from people who've been very surprised by how easy it was to get the vaccine.\"\n\nThe Queen, who rarely talks about her own health, added: \"It didn't hurt at all.\"\n\nThe monarch said she understood getting a jab could be a \"difficult\" experience for some people but urged everyone to \"think about other people rather than themselves\".\n\nIt comes after UK vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said figures suggested 11-15% of people were vaccine-hesitant, with data skewed toward some black and ethnic minority communities.\n\nSome studies have also found disparities between poorer and wealthier areas.\n\nDr Emily Lawson, who is leading the vaccine deployment programme for the NHS in England, said the Queen's comments about her vaccine experience were an \"incredibly important vote of confidence in the programme\".\n\n\"We just want to make sure we create the conditions where everybody feels able to take up the offer of a vaccination when they're called,\" she said.\n\n\"And Her Majesty offering her view on that is a huge boost to our confidence and I hope to confidence more broadly in the programme.\"\n\nThe Queen also said the speed of the UK's vaccination rollout had been \"remarkable\" so far.\n\nSpeaking to the four officials overseeing the programme in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, she added: \"Keep up the good work.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many people have received the first dose of the vaccine in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out Vaccination rates by neighbourhood in your local authority and region People aged 40 and over vaccinated with at least one dose, as a percentage of the estimated population of over-40s Note: The map shows rates calculated using population estimates from the National Immunisation Management Service. They are based on GP registrations and people who are not registered with a GP may not be included. Some people may be counted in more than one neighbourhood if they have multiple GP registrations. Neighbourhood-level data only available in England.\n\nDuring the video call, which was held on Tuesday, the monarch likened the pandemic to a \"plague\" that has swept across the globe.\n\nAfter Derek Grieve, head of the Scottish government's vaccine rollout, told the head of state he would like to \"bottle\" the community spirit he had witnessed during the epidemic, she said it felt \"very much like\" the wartime spirit she experienced.\n\nMeanwhile, the Countess of Wessex has begun volunteering at a vaccination centre in south-west London.\n\nThe Countess of Wessex is among 10,000 St John Ambulance volunteers working in vaccine centres\n\nSophie, who is a St John Ambulance care volunteer, completed the required training to help provide reassurance and information to vaccine recipients.\n\nSt John Ambulance said it was \"delighted\" to welcome the countess to its team of more than 10,000 trained volunteers in vaccine centres across England.\n\nMore than 18 million people have had a first vaccine dose - equivalent to one in three adults in the UK.\n\nThe vaccine rollout has entered its next phase, after everyone in the top four priority groups was offered a jab. Many areas are now offering vaccine appointments to over-60s, adult carers of disabled people and younger adults in care homes.\n\nSome 600,000 people out of 1.7 million added to the shielding list last week are now being invited to book a slot for a vaccine, NHS England said, while the remainder have already had their jabs as part of the first phase of the vaccination programme.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have both received their first doses of the vaccine, with Camilla saying she \"leapt for joy\" after getting her jab.\n\nAnd the Duke of Cambridge said at a vaccine centre in Norfolk on Monday that he would be at the \"front of the queue\" for a vaccine to help to reassure people of its safety, but that he would \"wait my turn\".\n\nDuring his visit William also said his grandfather, Prince Philip, was \"OK\" after being admitted to hospital last week.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh remains at King Edward VII's Hospital in central London where he is being treated for an infection.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cairngorms' landscape has been recreated in the video game Minecraft to help young people understand how to run a national park.\n\nThe virtual world, in which players can build anything using blocks, covers all 1,700 sq miles (4,402 sq km) of the park, which includes parts of Highland, Moray, Aberdeenshire and Perthshire.\n\nThe settlements have been stripped out and members of the Cairngorms Youth Action Team are being asked to build new communities.\n\nIt is designed to get them thinking about how planning decisions are taken.\n\nBut it is fair to say that the team are not taking it totally seriously.\n\nSixteen-year-old Campbell from Aviemore says he has been constructing a hill fort at the top of Cairn Gorm, one of the UK's tallest mountains.\n\nHe explains: \"It doesn't get the temperature across very well but it gets the landscape.\n\n\"We've been up the Cairngorms and seen the corries. The Lairig Ghru's quite recognisable.\n\n\"It's as realistic as it can be. You know what area you're in by the different types of trees and if there are trees or not.\"\n\nLoch Kinord has been recreated in the video game\n\nFellow player Ellie Moore said: \"While we're trying to build things and farm there's this constant barrage of monsters and enemies that come out at night\n\n\"So, it's been quite hard to venture out into the world because you're constantly trying to survive but I'd say where we've been so far has been relatively accurate.\"\n\nThe Cairngorms are in Britain's largest national park\n\nRecreating the park was a lockdown project which Dan Harris carried out in his spare time.\n\nDuring the day he's planning manager for the Cairngorms National Park Authority.\n\nHe said: \"They're basically dropped onto the map at the place where Aviemore should be and they've been asked to create a community or neighbourhood that meets the aims of the national park.\n\n\"So, things they have to start thinking about are how they protect and enhance the natural environment and how they make sustainable use of resources.\"\n\nThe landscape around Ballater in Minecraft", "Jason Donovan was the latest contestant to be forced out on Monday\n\nITV has brought the final of this year's series of Dancing On Ice forward by a week after a string of celebrities pulled out through illness and injury.\n\nThe final will now take place on 14 March, instead of 21 March as planned.\n\nThe decision comes after producers scrapped last week's live programme because of the disruption.\n\nOn Monday Jason Donovan became the latest star to pull out, following Denise van Outen, Billie Shepherd, Rufus Hound and Joe-Warren Plant.\n\nThe Australian singer and actor has been suffering from back pain, while actress van Outen and reality TV star Shepherd both sustained injuries during training.\n\nMeanwhile, comedian Hound and Emmerdale actor Plant tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nOn top of the celebrity withdrawals, professional skater Hamish Gaman, who partnered soap actress Faye Brookes, dropped out last week after injuring a finger while putting on a sock. He was replaced by Matt Evers.\n\nBrookes told ITV's This Morning on Friday that training with a new partner was a \"whole new world\", adding: \"We've had 11 hours together to get ready for Sunday.\"\n\nEvers said: \"We are still standing, the morale here is still high.\n\n\"We know we're up against a lot this year and it's just a matter of making the best out of a weird situation that 2020 and 2021 have brought, so it's a matter of continuing to move forward, keeping that smile on our faces and hopefully entertaining people on Sunday night.\"\n\nThe contest is due to resume this weekend with five remaining celebrities - Brookes, Rebekah Vardy, Lady Leshurr, Colin Jackson and Sonny Jay.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"Our production team and cast have delivered a fantastic show during incredibly challenging times. Continuing to make the best TV for our viewers is our top priority and we look forward to the rest of the series.\"\n\nDancing On Ice is not alone in having to deal with disruption to its schedule in recent months.\n\nFilming of the Britain's Got Talent Christmas special was delayed last year\n\nBritain's Got Talent was recently postponed until next year due to concerns around safety during the pandemic. Producers said it would be difficult for acts like dance groups, choirs and orchestras to rehearse and audition safely.\n\nIt followed a delay in the filming of its Christmas special after at least three crew members tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! relocated from the Australian jungle to a derelict castle in north Wales because of the pandemic.\n\nNicola Adams and Katya Jones pulled out of Strictly after Jones tested positive for Covid-19\n\nOn the BBC, Strictly Come Dancing was also hit when former boxer Nicola Adams and her professional partner Katya Jones left the contest after Jones tested positive.\n\nBruno Tonioli did not sit alongside his fellow judges as he could not fly back and forth between the UK and the US, where he was appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Motsi Mabuse, meanwhile, had to self-isolate for two weeks after an \"urgent\" trip abroad.\n\nIn January, filming on ITV soap Emmerdale was suspended for a week after a number of positive tests among those working on the show.\n\nAnd fellow soap Coronation Street paused production for two weeks to allow its writers to change its then-future storylines and scripts to ensure it was feasible to film them within current restrictions.\n\nBoth shows have however been able to continue screening six episodes a 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. The deluge washed away hydro and bridge infrastructure\n\nDozens of people are missing and feared dead after a piece of a Himalayan glacier fell into a river and triggered a huge flood in northern India.\n\nThe floodwaters burst open a dam and a deluge of water poured through a valley in the state of Uttarakhand.\n\nVillages have been evacuated, but officials warned more than 125 people may have been caught in the torrent.\n\nVideo showed the floodwater barrelling through the area, leaving destruction in its wake.\n\nOne witness said a wall of water and rock sped down the Dhauliganga river so quickly there was no time to sound the alarm.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi said he was monitoring the situation. \"India stands with Uttarakhand and the nation prays for everyone's safety there,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nA piece of the glacier fell into a river and crashed into the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project dam\n\nUttarakhand police said the avalanche struck at about 11:00 local time (05:30 GMT), destroying a dam known as the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project.\n\nPolice said the impact catapulted water along the Dhauliganga river, damaging another power project downstream in the Tapovan area.\n\nOne witness compared the flash flood to \"a scene from a Bollywood film\".\n\nUttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said 125 people were confirmed missing so far, but that number could rise.\n\n\"Seven bodies have been recovered from the site and rescue operations are going on,\" Mr Singh Rawat told reporters at a briefing on Sunday.\n\nMost of those missing were workers at the two power projects swept away by the deluge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment a man trapped inside the tunnel is rescued\n\nMore than 50 people working at the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project were feared dead, Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar said.\n\nBut he said some workers had been rescued from the site.\n\nEmergency crew managed to rescue 16 workers who had been trapped inside a tunnel that had been filled with debris.\n\nIndian media said around 30 others were trapped in a second tunnel, with emergency crews prepared to work through the night to rescue them.\n\nMr Singh Rawat said teams from the police and the army were \"doing their best to save the lives of the workers\".\n\nDozens of emergency workers have been deployed to the region\n\nEmergency workers evacuated dozens of villages, but authorities later said the main flood danger had passed.\n\nHundreds of troops, along with military helicopters and other aircraft, have been sent to the region. They will begin searching for survivors on Monday morning.\n\nThe neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh has put some riverside areas on high alert for flooding.\n\nThe remoteness of where this happened means no-one has a definitive answer, so far.\n\nExperts say one possibility is that massive ice blocks broke off the glacier due to a temperature rise, releasing a huge amount of water.\n\nThat could have caused avalanches bringing down rocks and mud.\n\n\"This is a strong possibility because there was a huge amount of sediment flowing down,\" said DP Dobhal, a senior glaciologist formerly with the government's Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.\n\nExperts say an avalanche could also have hit a glacial lake that then burst.\n\nAnother possibility is that an avalanche or landslide may have dammed the river for some time, causing it to burst out after the water level rose.\n\nUttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, is prone to flash floods and landslides.\n\nSome 6,000 people are believed to have been killed in floods in June 2013 which were triggered by the heaviest monsoon rains in decades.\n\nSunday's disaster has prompted calls by environment groups for a review of power projects in the ecologically sensitive mountains.", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nPolice were told of shortcomings in a terror response plan months before the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe police inspectorate warned in November 2016 that \"an over-reliance\" on the officer in charge of the response could see them overwhelmed.\n\nPolicing experts believe that is what happened after the May 2017 attack.\n\nA former inspector told the inquiry Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was urged to \"raise its game\" at the time.\n\nThe public inquiry into the atrocity, which killed 22 people as they left an Ariana Grande concert, has been hearing about inspections of GMP around the time of the attack.\n\nIt has previously heard only one paramedic was in the City Room foyer, where bomber Salman Abedi detonated his device, for the first 40 minutes after the blast and the first fire engine arrived more than two hours after the explosion.\n\nAndrew Buchan, who worked as an inspector with HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, said it was identified in 2016 that GMP's plan was \"very tactically focused\".\n\nBut he said it did not go into detail about working with other agencies and had placed \"an over-reliance\" on the \"force duty inspector (FDO) to lead their response to a terrorist attack\".\n\nThe inspectorate's report said the number of tasks the officer would be \"expected to perform in all likelihood are so many that it may be some will not be completed or at least in the order expected\", the inquiry heard.\n\nIt said the force had acknowledged that the pressures the officer would be placed under would \"bring its own challenges\", but the matter was left unresolved.\n\nIt added that \"such apparent vagueness may cause confusion or doubt in a live scenario\" and there was a need \"to provide the FDO with more immediate support or resources to assist with all the functions expected of that role\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing is considering whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nMr Buchan said the watchdog spoke to four duty inspectors at GMP, who said they had received no counter-terrorism training and \"felt ill prepared for that eventuality\" but would draw on the experience of other critical incidents.\n\nThe inquiry heard unarmed officers, who were likely to be the first on the scene, were said to be unaware of GMP's counter-terrorism plans and did not know where to find them.\n\nIt was told that none of the officers who spoke to the watchdog knew exactly what they would have to do in the event of a terrorist incident.\n\nThe inquiry heard staff in GMP's control room had received no specific training to help them do their job during a terror attack.\n\nMr Buchan said the force had been told it \"needed to raise its game\" in testing and training control room and unarmed staff before \"the awful time when a terrorist attack actually happens\".\n\nHe said that in November 2016, he personally spoke to a senior GMP officer to share the shortcomings found in their inspection report, which he added were issues found in other forces throughout England and Wales.\n\nThe final report into UK counter-terrorism policing was never publically published due to national security reasons.\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.", "Sven Badzak met Boris Johnson when his mother campaigned for him in the 2008 London mayoral election race\n\nA 22-year-old man who was stabbed to death in north London \"was going to be prime minister\" his mother has said.\n\nSven Badzak was found fatally injured after he fled from a group of males in Kilburn on Saturday.\n\nA 16-year-old boy remains in hospital in a critical condition following the attack. No arrests have been made.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Badzak's mother \"and her family in mourning the loss of her son\".\n\nJasna Badzak called on Mr Johnson, for whom she campaigned during the 2008 London mayoral race, to \"help get justice for Sven\".\n\nHer son met other well-known Conservative politicians when he was younger, through her campaigning work with the political party.\n\nAsked what she would say to Mr Johnson, she said: \"This is a child and his mother who helped you get elected. You knew Sven. You were high-fiving him as your mate.\n\n\"I want to hear from him, from [David] Cameron, from [George] Osborne.\"\n\nSven had a lifetime of opportunities in front of him, his mother said\n\nMr Johnson pledged to do more to prevent young people from being \"sucked in the nihilistic\" gang culture.\n\nThe prime minister said there had been a big fall in crime figures, but that would be \"no consolation to a grieving mother\".\n\nPolice said Mr Badzak and his 16-year-old friend were attacked as they fled from a group of males at about 17.40 GMT.\n\nDet Ch Insp Darren Jones said the pair became separated and Mr Badzak was attacked on the ground after he fell.\n\nThe teenager managed to seek sanctuary in a shop and survived, although he remains critically ill, Det Ch Insp Jones said.\n\nJasna and Sven Badzak with former chancellor George Osborne\n\nMr Badzak was a former pupil at Wetherby School in Notting Hill, which was also attended by Prince William and Prince Harry.\n\nMrs Badzak said her son, who was planning on becoming a lawyer, had been in the Willesden Lane area \"to buy some orange juice and get a bagel\".\n\n\"Sven was the person everyone was saying was going to be the prime minster,\" she said.\n\nHer son \"was a child who would never raise a hand unless he was going to lift you up\", she said.\n\n\"He was that charming, spoke with a perfect voice and no-one could shut him up in an argument.\n\n\"He had a lifetime of opportunities in front of him.\n\n\"I keep expecting him to come through the door. I want him in my home and to never be away from me.\"\n\nPolice said there had been no arrests in either of the fatal stabbings in Croydon and Kilburn\n\nMrs Badzak called on anyone with information about the killing to come forward.\n\n\"Enough is more than enough,\" she said.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU's threat to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland has opened a \"Pandora's Box\" regarding post-Brexit arrangements, Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe told MPs an urgent \"reset\" was needed to the Northern Ireland protocol governing checks on GB-NI trade.\n\nThe agreement was \"not working\" and NI businesses and families were suffering too much \"disruption and interference\".\n\nWhile the UK did not want to \"ditch\" it, it \"reserved the right\" to do what it must to protect Northern Ireland.\n\nUnionist parties in Northern Ireland have called for the protocol - which came into force on 1 January - to be scrapped, saying it has created a border down the Irish Sea and threatened NI's place within the UK.\n\nThe protocol was designed to avoid checks along the border between Northern Ireland - which unlike the rest of the UK is continuing to follow many of the EU's rules - and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the EU.\n\nBut after checks were introduced on goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain, some exporters have scaled back deliveries or stopped fulfilling orders altogether, blaming the additional paperwork and costs involved.\n\nAnd following last month's vaccine row, graffiti opposing the Irish Sea border appeared in some loyalist areas of Northern Ireland, while some staff involved in inspecting goods were stood down over security fears.\n\nCabinet Office minister Mr Gove said the EU's threat to invoke Article 16 of the protocol to control shipments of vaccines from the continent to Northern Ireland - amid concerns of a shortage in Europe - had been a mistake.\n\nThe European Commission, he said, owed its members an explanation why it didn't follow the dispute mechanism procedures in the protocol and consult with other member states, particularly Ireland, before acting.\n\nAsked by Tory MP David Jones whether the \"bad blood\" between the two sides would cause long-term damage, Mr Gove said it would be \"better\" if the EU revoked the regulation in place allowing it to invoke Article 16 in future.\n\n\"The Pandora's Box has been opened and that is concerning,\" he told the European Scrutiny Committee.\n\n\"One of the consequences of opening that Pandora's Box has been the unfortunate effects we referred to on the ground in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nAsked by a number of Conservative MPs whether the EU's actions were a reasonable cause for the UK to seek to suspend the protocol or to axe it entirely, Mr Gove said while it was not functioning smoothly, it could be \"made to work\".\n\nWhile he said progress in the Joint EU-UK Committee on the protocol's implementation had not been as fast as he had liked, he hoped for better in talks with his EU counterpart Maros Sefcovic in London on Thursday.\n\n\"There are disruptions and difficulties faced by Northern Ireland citizens in their daily lives,\" he said. \"They can be resolved within the context of the protocol. We don't need to ditch it.\n\n\"But as the prime minister has spelt out, if we can't make progress in resolving those issues, then the UK government has to reserve its rights.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's not about scapegoats or putting people under a bus\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's justice minister has said the chief constable has her confidence after a row over an arrest at a memorial event on Friday.\n\nSimon Byrne is meeting political parties, as he insists he will not quit over pandemic policing mistakes.\n\nA man was arrested at an event marking the 29th anniversary of the loyalist murders of five people at Sean Graham's bookmakers on Belfast's Ormeau Road.\n\nThe chief constable has apologised and one officer has been suspended.\n\n\"I don't think it is good to personalise this around one individual,\" Naomi Long told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"I think whoever would have been chief constable last week, this could still have happened and we would still have had this situation evolving over the last number of days.\n\n\"The test for Simon is how he deals with this and I am absolutely committed to working with him and rebuilding the community confidence that has been damaged.\"\n\nNaomi Long said she did not think it was good to \"personalise\" the issue\n\nMr Byrne is discussing the fall-out with Sinn Féin, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and SDLP on Monday.\n\nIt is understood there will be separate meetings with other parties over a two-day period.\n\nDespite the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin having separate issues with the chief constable's statement of apology on Saturday, Mr Byrne said he has been \"very encouraged\" by what he heard from people over the weekend.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said there was a \"crisis in confidence\" in policing among nationalists over the PSNI's handling of the commemoration.\n\nFollowing a meeting with Mr Byrne on Monday, she said she had \"left the chief constable in no doubt that the events of recent days are a watershed moment for policing and public confidence in policing\".\n\n\"We need to see a change in the culture and ethos of policing with the community and that needs to start immediately,\" she added.\n\n\"I also raised the frustration of the families of those killed in the Ormeau Road massacre and the need for the Police Ombudsman's report into the killings to be published as soon as possible.\n\n\"There is a pressing need to address the legacy of the past and that needs to be done by implementing the legacy mechanisms of the Stormont House Agreement in a human rights compliant manner.\"\n\nThe DUP questioned why action was taken against officers before the outcome of a Police Ombudsman inquiry.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said police decisions should be \"based on the law and not politics\".\n\nSpeaking after she led her party delegation in a meeting with Mr Byrne, Mrs Foster said they had outlined their concerns and asked for the full facts.\n\n\"The swift response by the chief constable has all the hallmarks of trial by social media and of two young officers being scapegoated,\" she said.\n\n\"While we understand the need for a proportionate and sensitive policing response, operational decisions must be fair and balanced.\n\n\"There should be no apology for enforcing the rule of law.\"\n\nFriday was a disaster for community relations with the police and indeed the PSNI's perceptions within wider nationalism and republicanism.\n\nOn its own, in isolation, it would be bad enough.\n\nBut the problem for the PSNI - and by extension Mr Byrne as its chief constable - is that there have been a series of serious controversial policing issues in this pandemic, including BLM protests and, of course, funerals of paramilitary figures.\n\nIt was the accumulation of all these things that I think brought up the leadership question.\n\nBut politics and policing a divided society is a major factor in all this. That has been forgotten at times.\n\nThe executive parties have reminded themselves of this over the weekend and I think there is a collective push to calm things down a bit.\n\nThere is an awful lot of bridge building to be done and I think there is an acceptance all round that he and his senior team needs to be allowed time and space to do.\n\nThe last thing parties want is to intensify a policing crisis in the midst of everything else going on.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said political leaders had a responsibility \"given all of the tension out there over the last couple of weeks, to dial down the rhetoric, to stay calm and to work through the process\".\n\n\"There is an awful lot at stake here, around policing, around power-sharing, around the stability of our institutions and the stability of our community and I think we have to hold firm in encouraging people to work through the process,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the incident has been posted online\n\nIn an interview with BBC News NI, Mr Byrne said: \"I have to reflect personally on what happened. I am not so arrogant I can not listen to criticism and concern.\n\n\"I came here to do a job and am determined to see it through. If I walked out, the same issues would be in the in-tray of my successor.\n\n\"Sometimes policing and politics buffer up too close and we need to take a step back. We need a period of calm.\"\n\nMr Byrne rejected claims by the DUP and the Police Federation that the suspended officer had been \"scapegoated\" for his role, despite a Police Ombudsman investigation into officer conduct barely having started.\n\n\"It is not about scapegoats or putting people under a bus,\" said Mr Byrne.\n\n\"It is not unusual in serious situations to suspend people and we have taken that decision carefully.\"\n\nHe said senior officers had studied body worn camera footage of those who attended the scene.\n\nThe chief constable said at this point he could not apologise specifically to Mark Sykes, the man who was arrested, as a police investigation was still ongoing.\n\nSinn Féin has asked for Mr Sykes not to face further action.\n\nThe events on the Ormeau Road on Friday are being investigated by the Police Ombudsman\n\nMr Byrne also revealed the anniversary event was known about by more senior officers in the district, but it was two probationary constables who came across the scene on Friday.\n\nThey both passed out of training college only last summer.\n\nThe full circumstances of their deployment will form part of the ombudsman investigation.\n\nRelatives for Justice, who support the families of the victims of the Ormeau Road gun attack, have rejected police claims that up to 40 people were at the event, when coronavirus regulations limit public gatherings to six.\n\nThey said that no more than 15 people were on the street, socially distanced and in household bubbles, representing the families of four of those who were murdered in the shooting.\n\nThey also claim that at no stage were health regulations mentioned by the officers.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThere is a \"very credible case\" that the Chinese government is carrying out the crime of genocide against the Uighur people, according to a formal legal opinion newly published in the UK.\n\nIt concludes there is evidence of state-mandated behaviour showing an intent to destroy the largely Muslim minority in north-western China.\n\nThis includes the deliberate infliction of harm on Uighurs in detention, measures to prevent women giving birth - including sterilisation and abortion - and the forcible transfer of Uighur children out of their community.\n\nAnd, significantly, it says there is a credible case that Chinese President Xi Jinping is himself responsible for these crimes against humanity. It states \"the close involvement of Xi Jinping\" in the targeting of Uighurs would support a \"plausible\" case of genocide against him.\n\nIt says: \"On the basis of the evidence we have seen, this Opinion concludes that there is a very credible case that acts carried out by the Chinese government against the Uighur people in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region amount to crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide.\"\n\nA legal opinion is the professional judgement of a respected QC - an independent expert in their field - who assesses the evidence and the law and comes to a conclusion. It does not have a legal standing, like a court judgement, but can be used as a basis for legal action.\n\nThis opinion was commissioned - but not paid for - by the Global Legal Action Network, a human rights campaign group that focuses on cross-border legal issues, and the World Uighur Congress and the Uighur Human Rights Project.\n\nChina's foreign ministry has consistently denied allegations of human rights abuses against the Uighurs in Xinjiang.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in London accused anti-China forces in the West of fabricating \"lies of the century\" about Xinjiang.\n\nThe 100-page document - written by senior barristers at Essex Court Chambers in London, including Alison Macdonald QC - is understood to be the first formal legal assessment in the UK of China's activities in Xinjiang.\n\nThe opinion is significant because it beats a legal path that British judges would follow if Parliament were to agree new legislation allowing the High Court to decide on matters of genocide. MPs from all parties are hoping to push through this change in the House of Commons on Tuesday, but the government is working hard to avoid defeat.\n\nMinisters are hoping to see off the rebellion by offering to boost the role of parliamentary committees in assessing genocide, but the relevant committees are understood to have rejected the idea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe legal opinion was based on an exhaustive legal assessment over six months of publicly available evidence from governments, international organisations, academic scholars, charities and the media.\n\nThe documents included first-hand witness evidence from survivors, satellite imagery and leaks of Chinese government papers.\n\nThe bar for proving genocide is high. A court has to establish acts were committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.\n\nIn great detail, the opinion sets out evidence of what it describes as the \"enslavement, torture, rape, enforced sterilisation and persecution\" of the Uighurs.\n\n\"There is compelling evidence that detainees are subject to a range of forms of serious physical harm,\" the opinion says.\n\n\"Detainees report having been punished by administration of electric shocks, forced to remain in stress positions for an extended period of time, beaten, deprived of food, shackled and blindfolded.\"\n\nIt is alleged Uighur women have faced a \"ruthless\" birth control programme\n\nMeasures intended to prevent births within a group are among the activities that count as genocide in international law. The opinion sets out evidence of mass forced sterilisation as part of a plan for population control acknowledged by the Chinese authorities.\n\nIt concludes: \"There is prolific credible evidence of Uighur women being subject to measures that prevent them from reproducing, either temporarily or permanently (such as by having IUDs non-consensually implanted or through forced removal of their wombs), as well as forced abortions. Such acts would, in our view, clearly constitute a form of genocidal conduct under [international law].\"\n\nGenocide can also include the forcible transfer of children from one group to another.\n\nThe opinion says: \"There is evidence of Uighur children being forcibly removed from their parents. This includes their non-consensual placement in orphanages when one or both parents are in detention, and their mandatory placement in boarding schools.\n\nIt continues: \"The fact that children are deprived of the opportunity to practise their Uighur culture…, that they are sometimes given Han names, and that they are sometimes subject to adoption by Han ethnic families, all bolsters the evidence that their forced removal is carried out with the intention of destroying the Uighur population as an ethnic group as such.\"\n\nThe opinion says there is a \"plausible\" case that the policy against the Uighurs flows directly from President Xi Jinping\n\nSignificantly, the opinion says there is a \"plausible\" case that personal responsibility for the genocide lies with President Xi and two senior Chinese officials - Zhu Hailun, deputy secretary of Xinjiang's people's congress, and Chen Quanguo, party secretary in Xinjiang.\n\nIt points to leaked internal Communist Party documents, and other evidence, which it says show that \"Mr Xi controls the overall direction of state policy and has made a range of speeches exhorting the punitive treatment of the Uighurs. Mr Chen and Mr Zhu have acted upon that overall policy by devising and implementing the measures which have been carried out in XUAR, including mass detention and surveillance.\"\n\nIt says: \"We consider that there is a credible case against each of these three individuals for crimes against humanity.\"\n\nIt adds: \"The evidence reviewed above suggests the close involvement of Xi Jinping, Chen Quanguo and Zhu Hailun in initiating and implementing a range of measures which, taken together, target Uighurs with a severity and to the extent that one could infer an intent to destroy the group as such.\n\n\"In those circumstances, we consider that there is a plausible inference that each of those three individuals possess the necessary intent to destroy, so as to support a case against them of genocide.\"\n\nThe Chinese embassy in London insisted that the population of Uighurs in Xinjiang was growing. All ethnic groups, it said, had the same legal status and freedoms of religion and culture.\n\n\"Some anti-China forces in the West have concocted and disseminated plenty of false information about Xinjiang and fabricated \"lies of the century\" in various forms,\" the embassy said. \"They have smeared China's image and slandered its policies on Xinjiang.\"\n\nIt added: \"Anyone who is fair-minded can see that the true intent of those forces is to suppress and contain China's development... Their moves are driven by a Cold War mentality, hegemonic worldview and zero-sum game mindset. China will never allow such farce and vicious demonization to succeed. Lies may mislead people for a while, but cannot win the trust of the world. Facts and truth will eventually bust all lies.\"", "The Welsh Government has \"done everything\" it could have at the time decisions were made to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the health minister.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething said: \"That's not the same as saying that looking back we wouldn't want to do different things.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's press conference, he added: \"I think that's a really important part of the honesty that we need because we have learnt, our knowledge has developed, and it's important that we then use that to make different and hopefully better choices in the future.\n\n\"So, it isn't just about saying that we've done everything we could in the past, it's about being humble enough to recognise that we have better knowledge now and we can make even better choices in the future.\"\n\nWith the number of deaths from coronavirus reported to Public Health Wales going past 5,000, Mr Gething said the \"knowledge that the choices we really make can make a difference between whether people are alive or not\" has been one of the things he has found \"most difficult during the pandemic\".\n\n\"I've never tried to understate the importance of those choices or the impact, not just on me, but on our advisors and the whole team of ministers for the choices that we make,\" he added.", "Online fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands from failed retail group Arcadia for £25.2m\n\nThe deal includes the brands and online businesses, but not the 214 shops nor 2,450 workers employed in them.\n\nIt completes the sell-off of Sir Philip Green's once mighty Arcadia group which fell into administration last year.\n\nLast week, rival Asos bought Arcadia's other leading brands, Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT.\n\nThe Arcadia businesses employed 13,000, a fraction of which will carry on into employment with the new owners.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte, which has been conducting the sales, said around 2,450 staff would lose their jobs as a result of the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton sale, and the stores would permanently close.\n\nDeloitte said staff had been emailed on Monday and would informed over the course of the day.\n\nApproximately 260 jobs will be moving with the brands to Boohoo, mainly head office functions such as brand design, buying and merchandising, and the digital part of the business.\n\nLast month, Boohoo bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nBoohoo said the brands it had bought from Arcadia had two million active customers last year, and added that the deal would give it a significant opportunity to boost its share of the market across a broader group of customers.\n\nIt also said that buying Burton would improve its range of menswear.\n\n\"Acquiring these well-known brands in British fashion out of administration ensures their heritage is sustained, while our investment aims to transform them into brands that are fit for the current market environment,\" said chief executive John Lyttle.\n\n\"We have a successful track record of integrating British heritage fashion brands onto our proven multi-brand platform, and we are looking forward to bringing these brands on board.\"\n\nThe debate around the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has shifted subtly in recent weeks from the size and speed of the bounce back to its nature. What parts of pre-pandemic life will return, and which, given the virus is mutating quickly and may turn out to be a long-lasting threat, are gone forever?\n\nThe debate is already closed in one part of retail, clothing sales. The pandemic has accounted for several big High Street names, and this morning Boohoo bought three more stalwarts - Dorothy Perkins, Burton and Wallis.\n\nThe names will live on online, but their 214 UK shops will close, with about 2,450 staff losing their jobs. Hundreds more stores that were under the other Arcadia brands - notably Topshop - will also close after the brands were bought by another online player Asos. And Boohoo has already bought the Debenhams name, meaning 125 of its stores will close from next month.\n\nThis leaves a big hole on British high streets, one that will take a long time to be filled. Councils must now think how they can revitalise their high streets. Should they stick to Plan A and try and lure more retailers to fill the vacant shops, or be more radical, and use this sudden shift in the market as a catalyst for wholesale reinvention?\n\nIn Stockton-on-Tees a 1970s shopping centre will be bulldozed next year to make way for a park. It may not be the last one to bite the dust.\n\nBoohoo has bought a number of other leading High Street names in the past two years, buying the online businesses of Oasis and Warehouse for £5.25m last year.\n\nThat added to its portfolio, which included the Karen Millen and Coast brands, which it bought from administrators in 2019.\n\nSusannah Streeter, markets analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said the sale of the final assets of the former Arcadia empire gave Boohoo the parts with which to build its own: \"This purchase is part of a grand master plan by Boohoo to become the UK's largest retail marketplace and propel its international expansion.\n\n\"As Boohoo expands, the final bricks of Sir Philip Green's retail empire have been dislodged. Boohoo and Asos, dismissed as digital upstarts a decade ago are now the great disruptors in fashion, reaching the top branches of the retail tree.''\n\nDo you work in one of the stores that is being closed? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website 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.", "Scientists are developing booster jabs to tackle Covid-19 variants, a health minister says, amid concerns about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine's efficacy against the South Africa strain.\n\nThe vaccine provides good protection against the dominant 'Kent' variant in the UK.\n\nBut a small study suggests it offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant.\n\nSome 147 cases of this variant have been found in the UK.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said the government was anticipating that an annual jab could be required to combat variants of coronavirus.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was not effective at preventing severe illness from the South African variant, which scientists have warned could become more widespread in the UK.\n\nIn South Africa, where the variant - known as 501.V2 or B.1.351 - accounts for 90% of new coronavirus cases in the country, the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been put on hold awaiting further advice.\n\nEarly research suggests other vaccines are also likely to offer less protection against the South African variant than against the original virus.\n\nMr Argar told BBC Breakfast that every study \"deserves to be taken very seriously\" but there was \"no evidence\" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was not effective at preventing severe illness from coronavirus \"which is the key thing we are seeking to tackle\".\n\nSouth Africa's suspension of the rollout of the vaccine was only \"temporary\" at this stage and the \"context is a little bit different\" to the UK where the Kent variant is the dominant strain, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the public could have \"confidence\" in the UK's Covid vaccines which \"appear to work well\" against the dominant variants in the country.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Zahawi said: \"Our brilliant scientists and medical advisers are now working on the potential for new versions of existing vaccines to offer further protections against Covid variants.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need to be aware that even where a vaccine has reduced efficacy in preventing infection there may still be good efficacy against severe disease, hospitalisation, and death.\"\n\nDr Peter English, a consultant in communicable disease control, said he hoped to see the availability of new vaccines tailored to the South African variant \"within months\" as the technology was \"well-established\".\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease expert who advises the government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"it's very possible\" the South Africa variant could already be quite widespread in the UK.\n\nThe \"surge testing\" taking place in certain areas in England \"really needs to be effective\" to halt its spread, he said, but \"sadly we may be in a similar situation to the Kent variant\" which eventually spread across the whole country.\n\nHe added there were \"significant implications\" if it was the case that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was less effective against the South Africa variant, as it may mean \"more restrictions might be needed for longer\".\n\nViruses mutate - so what is happening is not surprising.\n\nThe mutations seen in South Africa change the part of the virus that the vaccines target.\n\nIt means all the vaccines that have been produced so far are likely to be affected in some way.\n\nTrials for Novavax and Janssen vaccines that were carried out in South Africa showed less effectiveness against this variant. Both are currently before the UK regulator.\n\nTherefore the news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca does not come out of the blue.\n\nThe fact it now only has \"minimal\" effect according to reports is concerning - the other vaccines showed effectiveness in the region of 60% against the South African variant.\n\nBut we should be careful about rushing to judgement. The study was small so there is only limited confidence in the findings.\n\nWhat is more, there is still hope the vaccine will prevent serious illness and hospitalisation.\n\nWhat this once again illustrates is the pandemic is not going to end with one Big Bang. Vaccines are likely to have to change to keep pace with the virus.\n\nProgress will be incremental. But vaccines are still the way out of this - and as things stand they remain very effective against the virus that is dominant in the UK.\n\nAdditional \"surge\" testing is taking place in small areas of England including parts of Surrey, Bristol, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Walsall, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.\n\nPositive cases will be analysed to see if they are caused by the South African variant with results coming back in around seven to 10 days, according to the director of public health in Worcestershire, Dr Kathryn Cobain.\n\nProf Shabir Madhi, who led the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trial in South Africa, told the Today programme there was \"still some hope\" the jab may perform well against the South Africa variant when it comes to protecting against severe disease.\n\nHe said he was \"extrapolating\" that from the efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine which used \"similar technology\" and had similar immune effects.\n\nThe new study of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, involved about 2,000 people who were on average 31 years old.\n\nA spokesman for the pharmaceutical company said it had not yet been able to properly establish whether the jab would prevent severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the South Africa variant because those involved in the study had predominantly been young, healthy adults.\n\nBut the company expressed confidence the vaccine would offer protection against serious cases, because it created neutralising antibodies similar to those of other coronavirus vaccines.\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert, the vaccine's lead researcher, said a modified version of the jab designed to combat the South Africa variant was likely to be ready to use in the autumn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Sarah Gilbert said the new version of the vaccine \"will be available for the autumn\"\n\nData on two new coronavirus vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - appear to offer some protection.\n\nAnd early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.\n\nDo you have confidence in the Covid vaccines? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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.", "Protests have broken out in southern Chile after footage emerged of a police officer shooting dead a street performer.\n\nPublic buildings in Panguipulli were set alight and people also took to the streets of the capital, Santiago, to express their anger.\n\nInterior Minister Rodrigo Delgado has condemned the arson but said justice would be served in the shooting.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says vaccines being used in the UK are “effective in delivering a high degree of protection” against serious illness and death\n\nBoris Johnson says he is \"very confident\" in the Covid vaccines being used in the UK, amid concerns about the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab's effectiveness against the South Africa variant.\n\nThe vaccines are effective in delivering a high degree of protection against serious illness, the PM said.\n\nA small study found the Oxford jab gave \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant.\n\nBut scientists are confident it will protect against serious disease.\n\nSome 147 cases of the South Africa variant have been found in the UK.\n\nHowever, the Oxford vaccine has shown to provide good protection against the so-called Kent variant, which remains the dominant strain in the UK.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"We're very confident in all the vaccines that we're using.\n\n\"It's important for people to bear in mind that all of them, we think, are effective in delivering a high degree of protection against serious illness and death, which is the most important thing.\"\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, told a Downing Street briefing that initial data from Pfizer-BioNTech, Novavax and Janssen - all of whose vaccines the UK has ordered - suggested they had a \"substantial effect at reducing serious illness\".\n\nHe said the latest study of the Oxford vaccine in South Africa did not change his view that the Oxford vaccine would be \"rather likely\" to have an effect on severe disease.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Van-Tam: \"Do not delay, have the vaccine that protects you against the current threat\"\n\nProf Van-Tam said headlines about the study have been \"a bit scary\" but his advice to anyone \"on the edge\" about whether they should wait to get vaccinated would be: \"Do not delay, have the vaccine that will protect you against the current threat.\"\n\n\"Early data\" suggested the South Africa variant did not have any advantage over the Kent variant, so it was unlikely to become dominant in the UK in the short term, he said.\n\n\"There is no reason to think the South Africa variant will catch up or overtake our current virus in the next few months.\"\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are currently being rolled out in the UK, where nearly 12.3 million people have been given a first dose according to the latest figures - almost one in four adults.\n\nAnother 14,104 confirmed cases were reported on Monday and a further 333 deaths were recorded within 28 days of a positive test, bringing the total to 112,798. But the numbers in hospital remain higher than the previous peak in April last year, at 29,326.\n\nMr Johnson said the vaccines \"remain a massive benefit to our country\" and he has \"no doubt that vaccines generally are going to offer a way out\".\n\n\"Yes we're doing everything we can to contain new variants but we're also increasingly confident that science, medicine, is gaining the upper hand over coronavirus and all its variants,\" he added.\n\nDr Katherine O'Brien, director of immunisation at the World Health Organization, said it was \"really plausible\" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine might still have a a \"meaningful impact\" on the South African variant, especially in preventing serious illness and death.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the NHS would issue booster jabs against variants if necessary, and had placed a new order for 50 million doses with vaccine company CureVac.\n\nThe deal is intended to rapidly develop vaccines, including using the mRNA technology already deployed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, in the UK \"so we will be prepared for whatever the future might bring\", Mr Hancock said.\n\nApproving revised vaccines for booster shots would take \"a matter of weeks rather than a matter of months\", Prof Van-Tam added.\n\nMr Hancock also said the government had ordered 20 million more rapid tests so it could expand workplace testing to all businesses with more than 50 employees in sectors that are currently open.\n\nViruses mutate - so what is happening is not surprising.\n\nThe mutations seen in South Africa change the part of the virus that the vaccines target.\n\nIt means all the vaccines that have been produced so far are likely to be affected in some way.\n\nTrials for Novavax and Janssen vaccines that were carried out in South Africa showed less effectiveness against this variant. Both are currently before the UK regulator.\n\nTherefore the news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca does not come out of the blue.\n\nThe fact it now only has \"minimal\" effect according to reports is concerning - the other vaccines showed effectiveness in the region of 60% against the South African variant.\n\nBut we should be careful about rushing to judgement. The study was small so there is only limited confidence in the findings.\n\nWhat is more, there is still hope the vaccine will prevent serious illness and hospitalisation.\n\nWhat this once again illustrates is the pandemic is not going to end with one Big Bang. Vaccines are likely to have to change to keep pace with the virus.\n\nProgress will be incremental. But vaccines are still the way out of this - and as things stand they remain very effective against the virus that is dominant in the UK.\n\nIn South Africa, where the variant - known as 501.V2 or B.1.351 - accounts for 90% of new coronavirus cases in the country, the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been put on hold awaiting further advice.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the South Africa variant is the \"single biggest risk\" in the pandemic at the moment, but added that the government was taking too long to introduce controls at the border, \"leaving a back door open at a vital stage in the battle against the virus\".\n\nMr Johnson said border controls could play a greater role against new variants once infection rates are further reduced in the UK.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease expert who advises the government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"it's very possible\" the South Africa variant could already be quite widespread in the UK.\n\nThe \"surge testing\" taking place in certain areas in England \"really needs to be effective\" to halt its spread, he said, but \"sadly we may be in a similar situation to the Kent variant\", which eventually spread across the whole country.\n\nAdditional surge testing is taking place in a number of areas in England where the South Africa variant has been found, including parts of Surrey, Bristol, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Walsall, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.\n\nOn Monday evening the Department of Health announced that surge testing would also be deployed in parts of the M14, M15 and M16 postcode areas in Manchester.\n\nSouth Africa's suspension of the rollout of the vaccine is only \"temporary\" at this stage and the \"context is a little bit different\" to the UK where the Kent variant is the dominant strain, he added.\n\nThe new study of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, involved about 2,000 people who were on average 31 years old.\n\nA spokesman for the pharmaceutical company said it had not yet been able to properly establish whether the jab would prevent severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the South Africa variant because those involved in the study had predominantly been young, healthy adults.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Sarah Gilbert said the new version of the vaccine \"will be available for the autumn\"\n\nBut the company expressed confidence the vaccine would offer protection against serious cases, because it created neutralising antibodies similar to those of other coronavirus vaccines.", "Most children have been learning remotely from home this term\n\nExtra hours of academic learning - as well as sport, music and drama - will be needed to help England's pupils make up ground following the pandemic, the new education catch-up tsar says.\n\nSir Kevan Collins told the BBC it was important to \"act quickly\" on making arrangements for the summer and he said that summer schools \"had promise\".\n\nSir Kevan said the most disadvantaged had lost up to seven months' progress.\n\nBut he also stressed that children were \"amazingly resilient\".\n\nIn his first media interview, he said the youngest children would \"need to learn to play together\" and to develop the language and social skills needed for school life.\n\nThe government is considering options including shorter summer holidays, summer schools and extended school days, with initial catch-up plans due to be announced in late February.\n\nAs well as lost learning, the mental health of children has been one of the major concerns of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sir Kevan says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Secondary school student Najeem explains how catch-up tutoring has helped him\n\nHe says the response must not just be about adding extra hours of study, but that children's broader needs must be taken into account.\n\n\"I think we need to think about the extra hours not only for learning, but for children to be together, to play, to engage in competitive sport, for music, for drama because these are critical areas which have been missed in their development.\"\n\nBut he stressed that \"we're going to have to ask teachers to increase learning time for children\" and to go back over earlier content children might have missed.\n\n\"If you're going to secondary school in the next couple of years, it's vital you're reading at the level you will need.\n\n\"We need to step in to support children in some of these critical areas of learning.\"\n\nSir Kevan told the BBC it was not for him to tell schools what to do and he said trusting teachers would be at the heart of his approach.\n\nHis first task will be to oversee the existing £1.3bn catch up programme in England's schools, including the national tutoring programme.\n\nNajeem, a Year 10 pupil from the City of Leicester College, is receiving some extra tuition from one of the companies approved for the programme, My Tutor.\n\nNajeem's school is in an area of Leicester which has been badly effected by Covid-19.\n\nThe whole city spent extra time in lockdown last year and some pupils had to self-isolate several times on top of that.\n\n\"I'm really happy that I have tuition, especially because I can freely ask questions that I need help or I'm struggling with - it's really helped me a lot.\n\n\"In maths I was struggling on a few questions. I asked my tutor if she could help and now I'm doing good on it.\"\n\nNajeem says the extra tuition has boosted his confidence\n\nHis father, Najibullah, is pleased with the tutoring as a short term solution.\n\n\"Tutoring has boosted his confidence and he is a lot better and feels a lot freer to ask questions.\"\n\nBut he says a longer plan is also needed.\n\n\"They have missed not only on education but also on social interaction and how to become resilient - they are definitely need a long term plan - one year out of education can affect ten years.\"\n\nNajeem's tutor, Annabelle Hondier says it can be very challenging for children to keep up with schoolwork if they are on their own at home.\n\n\"I've noticed that a lot of them are really, really keen to make progress in their learning and to catch up.\"\n\nHarriet Hurdley-Lees, assistant head teacher at the school, which has 1,700 pupils aged 11 to 18, wants to see long-term thinking, with schools able to make their own decisions.\n\n\"To have any extra forced onto the school, rather than us choosing what we want, the things we think will help our particular cohort, would not be helpful.\"\n\nThe impact of the pandemic will be rippling through schools for years to come.\n\nIt is likely for example that the content of GCSEs in 2022 will have to be slimmed down to match what teenagers have actually been able to learn, Sir Kevan says.\n\nHe agrees a long term plan is needed, but says the pandemic has also shown how well schools have embraced innovation.\n\nTechnology would continue to have a greater role in education, he added.\n\nSir Kevan was, until recently head of the Education Endowment Foundation, which examines evidence for what works in education.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League referee Mike Dean has notified police after his family received a number of threats, including death threats, and abusive messages.\n\nDean has received criticism for sending off Southampton defender Jan Bednarek last Tuesday and West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek on Saturday.\n\nBednarek's dismissal was overturned on appeal, while Soucek's red card was rescinded on Monday.\n\nMerseyside Police have said they are \"investigating allegations of malicious communications\" following a report on Monday relating to social media accounts and enquiries are ongoing.\n\nAs one of the most high-profile officials in the game, Dean is used to criticism but feels a line has been crossed by involving his family.\n\nProfessional Game Match Officials Limited managing director Riley said: \"Threats and abuse of this nature are totally unacceptable and we fully support Mike's decision to report these messages his family received to the police.\n\n\"Nobody should be victim of abhorrent messages like this. Online abuse is unacceptable in any walk of life and more needs to be done to tackle the problem.\"\n\nBBC Sport understands Dean will take charge of Leicester's FA Cup fifth-round tie against Brighton on Wednesday but will not be involved in any of the weekend Premier League fixtures in any capacity at his own request.\n\nThis is believed to be partly as a result of the recent issues but also he was due a break anyway given the number of games he has been involved in already this season.\n\nIn both the Bednarek and Soucek dismissals, Dean was asked by VAR to check incidents on the pitchside monitors that he had not initially seen.\n\nCzech Republic international Soucek was sent off in stoppage time during the 0-0 Premier League draw after catching Fulham's Aleksandar Mitrovic in the face with his elbow.\n\nSoucek, who is now available to face Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round on Tuesday, pleaded his innocence and Mitrovic told referee Dean his opponent should not be dismissed.\n\nSoucek also posted a statement on Twitter, expressing support for Dean and his family.\n\nHe wrote: \"Whatever decisions are made on the pitch should stay on the pitch. I don't like hearing about it interfering with [someone's] personal life and I send Mike Dean and his family my support.\n\n\"There is no place for abuse of any kind. It is in the past and I'm now focused on the rest of the season.\"\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters said: \"It is completely unacceptable that we are seeing abusive behaviour aimed at players, managers and match officials regularly on social media platforms.\n\n\"Mike and his family have our full support in reporting this to the police. This once again highlights the need for greater proactive intervention from social media companies to stop online abuse and identify offenders.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour would “clean up cronyism” in contracting, says Rachel Reeves.\n\nLabour has challenged the government to \"clean up\" how it awards contracts for Covid work.\n\nIn an online speech, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said procurement during the pandemic had been \"rife with conflicts of interest\".\n\nAnd she called for a new ethics watchdog to \"guarantee standards\" for spending public money.\n\nThe government said it has \"robust rules and processes\" to ensure that conflicts of interest do not occur.\n\nDuring her speech, Ms Reeves raised questions about contracts awarded to companies that she said have links to the Conservatives.\n\nShe added that \"cronyism in contracting\" had led to \"unforgivable waste\" and showed the need for tougher transparency rules.\n\nIt comes after a National Audit Office report last November found that more than half of contracts by the end of July 2020 had been awarded without competitive tender.\n\nAs the pandemic struck last spring, there was a scramble to ensure that hospitals and other care settings had adequate supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nThe NAO found that companies recommended by MPs, peers and ministers' offices were given priority, and not enough was done to address potential conflicts of interest by ministers and other government officials.\n\nHowever, it concluded that in cases of potential conflicts of interest involving ministers, all had properly declared their interests and it found \"no evidence of their involvement in procurement decisions or contract management\".\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary Allegra Stratton said: \"We have robust rules in place to make sure there are no conflicts of interest. There are eight checks involved. It is rigorous.\"\n\nShe said procurement \"had to be done at speed, because in early stages of the pandemic we didn't have enough PPE inside the country.\n\n\"The government believes that the beginning of the pandemic we had to act very quickly and we were very successful at that.\"\n\nShe added that all public contracts would be published \"in the fullness of time\".\n\nDuring her speech, Ms Reeves also called on ministers to end emergency procurement rules brought in at the start of the pandemic, which have streamlined the normal bidding process for contracts.\n\nShe said \"bad practices\" introduced at the start of the crisis had worsened, with contracts for protective equipment becoming an \"unseemly gold rush\".\n\nShe urged ministers to publish \"all outstanding contracts\" by the end of the month, and for the Freedom of Information Act to cover all new public service contracts outsourced to private firms.\n\nShe also criticised in the government's record in recovering money from firms that have failed to deliver services adequately or on time.\n\n\"The corporations running so many public services hide behind 'commercial sensitivity'. A shadow state has emerged and it is unaccountable to the people,\" she said.\n\nAs well as a new Integrity and Ethics Commission, she called for an \"independent anti-corruption and anti-cronyism commissioner\" to oversee how money is spent.\n\nShe argued these measures would \"clean up government contracting\" and make the UK a \"world leader in good governance\".\n• None Do doctors and nurses have enough protective gear?", "\"I'd shout it from the street - please have your vaccinations, you don't know what we're going through.\"\n\nThis is a plea from Shamim Abbas of Newport, who lost husband Ghulam and brother-in-law Raza to Covid.\n\nThe brothers died within hours of each other last April.\n\nConcerns have been growing in recent weeks about an apparent hesitancy from some people in black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities to have the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nAnd even though the virus has had such a devastating impact on Shamim's family, some relatives have been unsure about having it.\n\n\"My brother-in-law didn't want to have it done - he didn't want to let my mother-in-law have it done,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamim Abbas said despite Covid's devastating impact on her family, some relatives had been unsure about having their jabs\n\n\"I had to calm him down and reassure him. People are scared. They are reading these reports and they are scared.\n\n\"People seeing us now - for me and my daughters it's a living hell everyday. We miss him every minute of the day.\"\n\nThe reports that Shamim is talking about are myths or conspiracy theories that are posted online and on social media.\n\n\"I think the problem is that whereas resources that combat this misinformation are available in English, they're not necessarily available in languages that some of these communities speak as a first language,\" explains Dr Bnar Talabani, a doctor specialising in kidney and transplant medicine at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.\n\nShe is part of a group called Muslim Doctors Cymru, who are trying to dispel some of the myths circling on the internet.\n\nThey are carrying out a survey asking people for their views on the vaccine - and although only 220 people have replied so far, the results paint a picture reflected in other polling on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The brothers who died with coronavirus\n\nAbout 10% of people said they would not be taking the vaccine, with 16% unsure.\n\n\"These aren't anti-vaxxers, they are actually very, very open to dialogue,\" Dr Talabani said.\n\n\"One elderly gentleman I recently had a conversation with said to me 'well, does the vaccine change my DNA?' and I said 'Well, no, it cannot because it doesn't come into contact with your DNA'.\n\n\"And he said 'okay, well that was my only concern. I'm happy to have it now', and it was really that simple.\"\n\nHassan Ahmed was happy to have the jab after being reassured by a doctor\n\nA similar conversation took place at the Cardiff Bay surgery in Grangetown, where Hassan Ahmed, 77, who moved to the UK from Yemen in 1977, was waiting to be vaccinated.\n\n\"I heard people say the injection is bad for us, but you're the doctor, I don't know,\" he said.\n\nHis GP, Dr Emaad Alauddin, chatted him through how the vaccine worked, reassuring him, and afterwards, Mr Ahmed described his happiness about receiving it.\n\nDr Talabani said a problem within communities is that people receive misinformation in their own language via social media.\n\n\"If English is not your first language, you receive lots of misinformation via WhatsApp and other social media platforms in languages that are your first language, but the accurate information that is needed to combat this you don't necessarily have access to in that language,\" she said.\n\nHaving that information accessible and readily available and actually using social media as a platform to spread it just as the misinformation is also being spread, so arming communities with accurate information in multiple languages will go a long way in helping address this.\"\n\nShe added it was important this information comes from a \"grassroots\" level as well as from the government, and to engage faith leaders.\n\n\"We are holding weekly webinars in different languages and people within different communities are actually engaging with us.\n\n\"We're having feedback that that dialogue, the possibility to ask questions about the vaccine in a language they're comfortable with, with people who are from their own community, is really helping them address those concerns.\"\n\nMr Ahmed will now await the second dose of the vaccine\n\nAt the end of January, analysis of patient data in England to the middle of the month found black people over the age of 80 were half as likely to have been vaccinated as those who were white.\n\nPublic Health Wales said its data showing ethnic breakdown of vaccine take-up is not available yet.\n\nChairman of Race Council Cymru Ray Singh believes it needs to be in the public domain now.\n\n\"If we had data, we would know how many black Asians have been vaccinated, say in area one and how many people live in that area, and then the communities leaders and others can start working on these with these people to persuade them,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a race against time, a question of life and death.\n\n\"The minister for vaccination for England admitted that there was disparity in England and I see no reason why we're not having the same, but we have no data.\"\n\nNaveed Rahman has called for mosques to be used as vaccination centres\n\nAnother idea to increase confidence in the vaccine is to try and use places like mosques as vaccination centres.\n\nThe Dar-Ul-Isra mosque in Cardiff is one of those which has told the local health board that it would be happy to be used.\n\n\"We feel that as a mosque we are in the best position to dispel the myths - explain to people that there is no issue with taking the vaccine from a theological point of view but also from a health perspective,\" said Naveed Rahman, an administrator for the mosque.\n\n\"I think people just coming to the mosque and knowing they are taking the vaccine in the mosque will be a big part of that.\"\n\nPublic Health Wales recognised \"the importance of ensuring equitable access to and uptake\" of vaccinations.\n\nIt said it was examining data and other information, including ethnicity, to see who in what groups had been vaccinated.\n\n\"It will be shared with colleagues working to implement the vaccination programme in local areas to help identify areas in the local community where uptake of the vaccine is not as high as we would like,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We encourage everyone to have the vaccine when they are offered it, whatever their background.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething quoted Office for National Statistics figures showing men from black African backgrounds and women from black Caribbean backgrounds had the highest death rates for their sex but added Covid was having a disproportionate impact on all black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nHe said: \"We need to dispel misinformation and unite as a country to protect those we care about the most, from this deadly virus.\n\n\"I want to make it abundantly clear to all, the vaccine contains no pork products or traces of foetal matter and is safe for all ethnic minority and faith communities. \"", "A snow plough on the A66 near Bowes in County Durham where the road was closed due to heavy snow\n\nHeavy snow and ice has brought disruption to parts of the UK, with coronavirus vaccination centres and schools shutting in some areas.\n\nYellow warnings for snow cover much of England and Scotland, as well as parts of Northern Ireland until Wednesday.\n\nPolice have warned people not to travel, with long delays expected and road closures in some parts.\n\nOn Monday, 30cm (12in) of snow fell in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, while up to 22cm fell in parts of the east of England.\n\nHeavy snowfall and temperatures as low as -15C have been forecast for parts of Scotland, with the Met Office issuing an amber warning for snow for areas including Perthshire, Stirlingshire and Fife from 03:00 to 21:00 on Tuesday.\n\nFurther south temperatures could get as low as -10C, BBC Weather's Billy Payne said, in what he described as the most significant cold spell since the Beast from the East three years ago.\n\n\"We'll see further snow showers over the next couple of days and widespread overnight frosts and ice with temperatures for some not rising above freezing,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowy scenes across the UK as Storm Darcy causes disruption\n\nThe Met Office said it was \"bitterly cold\" due to Storm Darcy's strong easterly winds, with temperatures in parts of the UK around freezing.\n\nThe AA said \"treacherous driving conditions\" had caused \"numerous\" accidents.\n\nSome roads were closed in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Hertfordshire, with police forces in parts of East Anglia warning drivers some roads had become \"impassable\".\n\nNational Rail told train passengers that services across the country were likely to be affected by the conditions and said it may be necessary to close some routes.\n\nSouthern Rail cancelled services in south-east London, while networks in Kent and Essex also closed train lines.\n\nAbandoned cars in a snowy ditch in Suffolk on Monday\n\nThis snowplough was out in action in Ipswich\n\nThe conditions led to some vaccination centres being closed, including several in Essex and Suffolk, as well as in Surrey and Norfolk.\n\nAnd a number of schools also had to close across the south-east of England and Lincolnshire.\n\nIn Suffolk, a man who is thought to have been kitesurfing died on Sunday after being found on a beach in stormy conditions.\n\nEmergency services were called after reports of a person in the North Sea off Walberswick and the man was later found on the shore by members of the public. He died at the scene.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Nick Miller said it was a \"very cold week to come\" with day temperatures close to freezing, and overnight frost making it feel \"colder still\" with \"significant windchill\".\n\nIn the south east of England, eastern England, the Midlands and the North East, there is the greatest prospect of \"significant\" falls of snow and disruption, he added. Some areas will get \"shower after shower, with snow building up\".\n\nHowever, the severe conditions brought by Storm Darcy are not expected to be as widespread as 2018's Beast from the East, forecasters said.\n\nSnow falling in Auchleven in Aberdeenshire on Monday morning\n\nYellow warnings - meaning there could be travel disruption and a slight chance of power cuts or communities being cut off - include:\n\nThere were 28 flood warnings across England, as of 20:00 on Monday.\n\nPublic Health England has issued a cold weather alert for the whole nation through to Wednesday.\n\nDr Owen Landeg said it was \"crucial\" people looked out for those who may be vulnerable during the current cold snap, calling on the public to make sure those at-risk have enough food and drink to stay warm and well.\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather? 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 man has been charged in Lanarkshire in connection with an offensive social media tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nSir Tom died in Bedford Hospital last Tuesday, aged 100, after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe had captured the nation's hearts with his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown, raising more than £30m for NHS charities.\n\nThe 35-year-old man is due to appear in court later this week.\n\nWorld War Two veteran Sir Tom's family said the last year of his life was \"nothing short of remarkable\" and that he had \"experienced things he'd only ever dreamed of\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"On Friday 5 February 2021, we received a report of an offensive tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore who died on Tuesday 2 February.\n\n\"A 35-year-old man has subsequently been arrested and charged in connection with communication offences and is due to appear at Lanark Sheriff Court on Wednesday 17 February.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy snowfall and temperatures as low as -16.7C led to warnings of \"tough\" driving conditions in parts of Scotland.\n\nThe Met Office forecast of up to 20cm (8in) of snow in parts of central Scotland. An amber weather warning expired at 21:00.\n\nTransport Scotland said Covid rules meant people should not be travelling unless it was for essential purposes.\n\nThe temperature dropped to -16.7C in Altnaharra in Sutherland overnight.\n\nIt was the lowest temperature recorded in the UK since December 2010.\n\nPolice helped with the recovery of an HGV on the A68 south of Pathhead in Midlothian\n\nThe previous low of 2021 so far was -13C at Braemar.\n\nThere has been widespread disruption across Scotland, including:\n\nA car hit a lamppost after sliding down Cleveden Road in Glasgow's Kelvindale area\n\nA police vehicle crashed off the road and into a ditch in the west mainland of Orkney\n\nScotRail said heavy snowfall had caused \"significant disruption\" on its Edinburgh to Glasgow routes.\n\nThe rail company tweeted that it had a \"bumpy start\" to the day as road conditions delayed staff travelling to work.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was working to fix a number of points failures, particularly in the Central Belt, and urged people to check before they travelled.\n\nThe amber weather warning initially covered Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, West Lothian, East Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe Tomintoul Road has been closed\n\nIt was later extended to include Dundee and southern Angus, Edinburgh, the Lothians and northern Borders.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said all Covid vaccinations were going ahead as planned despite the travel difficulties.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scotland News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the Caird Hall vaccination centre in Dundee had to close early on Tuesday evening due to the poor weather conditions.\n\nNHS Tayside said the vaccination team would contact the remaining people to rearrange their appointments and apologised for any inconvenience caused.\n\nThere is also a yellow warning of snow in place for much of the rest of Scotland until late on Wednesday night. The warning extends from Shetland and down the east coast of Scotland.\n\nA snowplough was at the site of a road accident on the M90 at Dunfermline\n\nThe Caird Hall vaccination centre in Dundee had to close early on Tuesday evening due to the poor weather conditions\n\nTransport Scotland said road temperatures, including wind chill, dropped to -18C overnight at Bannockburn.\n\nSpokesman Stein Connolly said: \"There were temperatures of -7C and -8C throughout the country last night so we had challenges everywhere.\n\n\"We've got all the operating companies working in a multi-agency response team - working very closely with the Met Office - and we will be working all day today until we get clear of this.\"\n\nBear Scotland said snow showers across the network were \"making driving conditions tough\".\n\nMost of Fife, including Dunfermline, was left under a blanket of snow\n\nBraemar Mountain Rescue team have been helping SSEN engineers in Upper Deeside\n\nMidlothian Council said it had redeployed 80 staff from other departments to help clear paths and pavements.\n\nSome parts of Scotland had already seen heavy snowfalls.\n\nDepths of 26cm (10in) were recorded at Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, 18cm (7in) at Aviemore and 15cm (6in) at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, in the Highlands on Monday morning.\n\nUpper Deeside has been among places to see heavy snowfalls\n\nBraemar Mountain Rescue Team has been helping engineers from energy company SSEN restore supplies in Upper Deeside in Aberdeenshire following power and communication failures caused by heavy snow.\n\nThe wintry conditions are associated with cold air from Russia and Eastern Europe.\n\nThe weather has been nicknamed the Beast from the East Two, following the 2018 Beast from the East which brought widespread snow to Scotland.\n\nWhiteout in The Meadows in Edinburgh\n\nDeep snow near Grantown on Spey in the Cairngorms", "The surgical gowns in the contract are believed to be similar to these\n\nThe use of ten million surgical gowns, bought by the UK government, has been suspended for frontline NHS staff because of how the items were packaged.\n\nSterile gowns were bought for £70m from a US firm last year, but safety concerns were raised when they arrived in one layer of protective packaging.\n\nThe contract had not requested double packaging, as used in sterile settings.\n\nThe government says all PPE is quality assured, but Labour has called for an inquiry into the awarding of contracts.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating the purchase of PPE - or personal protective equipment - for NHS staff since the beginning of the pandemic. It has already been revealed how millions of face masks bought by the UK government cannot be used in the NHS as intended.\n\nMany of the contracts dated back to last Spring, when the government was scrambling to deal with PPE shortages in hospitals and care homes at the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, officials at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) continued to sign large PPE contracts after the first wave of infections was over, in a bid to avoid a repeat of shortages.\n\nOne of those contracts was a £70m deal, signed in June, for the supply of 10.2 million sterile surgical gowns from a US firm called Saiger LLC.\n\nThe BBC understands Saiger delivered the gowns on time but their use was suspended because of concerns about the way they were packaged.\n\nA court document obtained by the BBC shows NHS infection control experts were concerned the gowns were only single wrapped, when in their view they should have been double wrapped if they were to be used in sterile care settings.\n\nThe document shows there was no requirement - either in the government's published specifications or in its contract with Saiger - for the gowns to be double wrapped.\n\nLabour has called for an inquiry into the UK's contracts for PPE\n\nThe gowns came from the same firm that paid millions of pounds of UK taxpayer cash to a Spanish businessman to source PPE for the NHS.\n\nLast November, the BBC revealed Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson was paid $28m (£21m) in UK government cash by Saiger to find PPE as part of two deals.\n\nFor his work on the £70m contract for the surgical gowns - which was separate to those earlier deals - he was in line to be paid a further $16m (£12m).\n\nHowever, documents filed in a US court allege that he then stopped doing any work for Saiger, leaving the firm \"scrambling\" to fulfil its contracts by other means. It's not clear whether Mr Andersson received any of the money for this deal.\n\nThe parties have since agreed for the legal action to be dismissed.\n\nIn response, Saiger said: \"The government could not have been clearer that we delivered the goods in accordance with the contracts and to the technical specifications requested, that we delivered them on time, and that we delivered them at good value.\"\n\nThe government's decision to award the £70m contact for the gowns is currently being challenged in a separate case in the English courts by the campaigning organisation, the Good Law Project.\n\nJolyon Maugham, the project's director, said the government needed to know what it was buying. \"It should be buying from those who are experienced in the complicated business of supplying medical-quality PPE.\n\n\"And it also needs to be keeping a careful check on the prices it is paying so that intermediaries aren't able to make tens and tens of millions at public expense.\"\n\nYou can listen to File of 4's Unmasked: Stories from the PPE frontline on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday 9 February or on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe government is also facing questions over contracts it signed for millions of face masks, which now can't be used as intended in the NHS.\n\nIn April, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) signed a contract with Pestfix - a small Sussex-based family firm - for £168m to supply three types of mask. They included FFP3 particle filtering masks.\n\nThe BBC has found 17 million FFP3 masks supplied to the Department of Health by Pestfix will not be used as intended because they failed testing.\n\nThe masks came with ear loops, which the government says now should not be used because of safety concerns. It stopped the use of masks with ear loops in May last year, following discussions with the safety watchdog.\n\nThe government bought millions of masks with ear loops, similar to the one pictured\n\nHowever, the government had already bought millions of masks with ear loops. Pestfix told the BBC these masks never entered the NHS supply chain.\n\nThe BBC has also seen an internal document prepared by the safety watchdog showing another type of FFP3 mask - this time with headstraps on - put forward by Pestfix also failed tests.\n\nThe document says \"headstraps on several samples snapped\" and \"nosebands fell off on nearly all samples from the first batch\".\n\nPestfix said these were alternative, prototype masks that were provided as a potential replacement. The firm said DHSC did not proceed with the product.\n\n\"We are proud of our role in sourcing PPE from Chinese manufacturers to help meet massive shortages in the NHS during the pandemic, with 94% of the 282 million items of PPE we supplied meeting contracts standards,\" the company said.\n\n\"Pestfix is working with the government and the Chinese manufacturers responsible for the small percentage of items that did not enter the NHS supply chain to ensure the best possible result for taxpayers.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves has called for an inquiry into the awarding of PPE contracts.\n\n\"This area of procurement is one of the ways in which this government has really let people down, particularly our frontline workers during the course of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\n\"There should be an inquiry, a rapid review right now into the lessons that we can learn because if we learn lessons we can save lives, and this virus isn't going away.\"\n\nIn a statement, DHSC said PPE is only distributed in the NHS if it meets the relevant standards: \"We have been working tirelessly to deliver PPE to protect our health and social care staff on the frontline, with over 7.6 billion PPE items delivered so far.\"", "Britney Spears has had hits with tracks like Toxic, Oops! I Did it Again, and Baby One More Time\n\nBritney Spears has said she is \"taking the time to learn and be a normal person\" after a new documentary reopened the debate around her life, career and mental health.\n\nFraming Britney Spears, which aired this week in the US, details the singer's public breakdown in 2007.\n\nIt explores the media treatment of the US pop star and her legal arrangements.\n\nSpears' career remains on hold while she tries to remove her father Jamie from his role as her conservator.\n\nOn Tuesday, she shared a video of her performing one of her hits, Toxic, three years ago, alongside a message to her 27 million followers.\n\n\"I'll always love being on stage,\" wrote the 39-year-old. \"But I am taking the time to learn and be a normal person. I love simply enjoying the basics of everyday life!\"\n\nShe added: \"Each person has their story and their take on other people's stories! We all have so many different bright beautiful lives.\n\nThe documentary has renewed interest in how Spears has been treated throughout her career\n\n\"Remember, no matter what we think we know about a person's life it is nothing compared to the actual person living behind the lens.\"\n\nThe singer's boyfriend Sam Asghari, meanwhile, has publicly criticised her father online.\n\n\"It's important for people to understand that I have zero respect for someone trying to control our relationship and constantly throwing obstacles our way,\" he posted on Instagram.\n\nThe new messages come after critics and fans alike welcomed the aforementioned documentary.\n\nProduced by The New York Times, the film charts the singer's rise to fame and the controversy over her welfare. Britney's father Jamie Spears has been her conservator for 12 years, due to concerns about her mental health.\n\nIt's an arrangement that is usually granted for people who are unable to make their own decisions, like those with dementia or other mental illnesses, and means he has ultimate control over her finances and many of her career choices.\n\n\"The documentary adds to the critical conversation we are having about women, agency and trauma,\" wrote NBC's Patricia Grisafi.\n\n\"In the tradition of so many 'madwomen in the attic' stories before her, Framing Britney Spears asks what happens when the door is opened to reveal not a frothing hag but hints of a quirky, completely competent human who benefits from meaningful work, time with her children and an Instagram account.\"\n\nIn November, Spears lost a legal attempt to remove her father's control over her estate.\n\nFans take part in a #FreeBritney protest in Orlando in December\n\nThe legal battle has been played out against the backdrop of the #FreeBritney movement, led by fans who believe Spears is being controlled against her will.\n\nMr Spears has defended his role, telling CNN he is \"protecting\" his daughter from \"those with self-serving interests and those who seek to harm her\".\n\nThe documentary examines not only the complex history behind the long-running conservatorship, but also the treatment of Spears as she grew up in the spotlight.\n\nMany fans welcomed the documentary as further evidence of how the singer has been treated over the years, while some celebrities spoke out in support.\n\nActresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Bette Midler posted the #FreeBritney slogan, and Miley Cyrus used a pre-Super Bowl performance to tell the audience: \"We love Britney!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEntertainment Weekly's Mary Sollosi pointed out that \"too much information has been obscured by the parties involved for the documentary to come to a concrete conclusion about the truth of Spears' current mental, legal, or financial circumstances\".\n\nBut she said that \"after seeing the facts play out with the benefit of hindsight and context, it's hard to step away from Framing Britney Spears believing she hasn't been repeatedly wronged\".\n\nVariety's Daniel D'Addario said Framing Britney Spears \"comes to no conclusions\" but raises \"the idea that Spears may indeed be grateful for the ministrations of her fans online\".\n\nCNN's Brian Lowry agreed, writing: \"Framing Britney Spears doesn't really penetrate that protective shell, but it does meticulously lay out the history and key players, as well as the way the conversation about her status has grown to encompass issues beyond just the particulars of Spears' story.\n\n\"The more uncomfortable, slightly meta question is whether even serious attempts to examine the star's fame and potential exploitation wind up participating in the process.\"\n\nThe film examines old footage such as an interview with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, a game show making fun of her breakdown and her appearance as a child on a TV talent show.\n\nIn the Los Angeles Times, Meredith Blake wrote: \"Applying the rigour of a Frontline episode to a narrative that has been shaped by thinly sourced gossip and anonymous hearsay, Framing Britney Spears is also a pointed work of cultural criticism that might make some viewers feel guilt about idly gawking at pictures of Spears on Perez Hilton circa 2007.\n\n\"Framing Britney Spears is the latest project to reconsider women once ridiculed and reviled because of their role in salacious scandals, such as Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt and Paris Hilton. It asks us to ponder our collective complicity in the mockery and sexist criticism to which Spears has been subjected.\"\n\nThere is currently no news about whether the documentary will be aired in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tesco has called for a 1% sales tax to be levied on online competitors, including Amazon.\n\nBoss Ken Murphy has also joined with Morrisons, Asda and Waterstones to ask Chancellor Rishi Sunak for a \"level playing field\" on tax.\n\nThey say the current system puts retailers with large estates at a disadvantage to online firms.\n\nRetailers have not had to pay property-based business rates since the start of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the tax is due to restart in April.\n\nSupermarkets including Tesco and Morrisons have handed back business rates relief worth £1.8bn to the government.\n\nThey had been criticised for taking government support during the pandemic while announcing dividend payments to shareholders.\n\nThe chief executives of 18 companies and groups have written to the chancellor warning that a return to the old system \"will hamper the recovery of the retail sector post-pandemic, potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk\".\n\nBusiness rates are calculated by looking at a property's rateable value and multiplying it by a tax rate set by the government. A new tax rate comes into effect at the start of each financial year on 1 April.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), full-year retail sales at physical shops for the 12 months ending 31 December 2020 fell 10.3% from £318.5bn in 2019 to £285.8bn.\n\nThe group of 18 bosses stops short of asking for an online sales tax, but Tesco has called for a 1% levy.\n\nLast week, Amazon was criticised for paying less in business rates than British bricks-and-mortar retailers.\n\nThe online retail giant's financial results revealed that UK sales for 2020 totalled $26.5bn (£19.3bn) - a 51% jump from $17.5bn in 2019.\n\nAmazon's overall business rates bill for 2020-21 is estimated by researchers to be £71.5m - just 0.37% of its retail sales.\n\nAmazon insists that it pays its tax and has created thousands of jobs in the UK.\n\nRetail adviser Altus Group says that bricks-and-mortar retailers would have paid £8.25bn in business rates in 2020, had they not been given a tax holiday due to the pandemic.\n\nIt says the figure was calculated using rateable values, multiplied by the 2020 tax rate. The £8.25bn figure amounts to 2.9% of total retail sales, which is much higher than what Amazon pays.\n\nFor instance, Arcadia - which owned Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins at the time - would have had to pay £91m in business rates on its 444 stores in 2020, had there not been a tax holiday, Altus Group says.\n\nRobert Hayton, UK president of property tax at Altus Group, told the BBC that changing the business rate system would be \"a good place to start\" in trying to correct the imbalance between online and bricks-and-mortar retailers.\n\nHowever, he added that business rates had often been reviewed in the past 20 years and nothing had changed, because the need to keep the changes fiscally neutral meant that one sector could benefit only at the expense of another.\n\n\"If some additional money can be created through something like an online sales tax, and then crucially, if that can be ring-fenced and made available to make some improvements to business rates, then I think that's a really positive outlook,\" he said.\n\nAmazon would not comment on the calculations made by Altus Group and the Centre for Retail Research (CRR)\n\nA spokesman for Amazon said: \"We've invested more than £23bn in jobs and infrastructure in the UK since 2010.\n\n\"Last year, we created 10,000 new jobs and last week we announced 1,000 new apprenticeships. This continued investment helped contribute to a total tax contribution of £1.1bn during 2019 - £293m in direct taxes and £854m in indirect taxes.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We want to see thriving High Streets, which is why we've spent tens of billions of pounds supporting shops throughout the pandemic and are supporting town centres through the changes online shopping brings.\n\n\"Our business rates review call for evidence included questions on whether we should shift the balance between online and physical shops by introducing an online sales tax. We're considering responses now and will update in due course.\n\n\"The 2020 Spending Review also confirmed that the business rates multiplier would be frozen in 2021-22, saving businesses in England £575m over the next five years.\"\n\nJames Daunt, managing director of bookselling chain Waterstones, told the BBC that shops had \"clearly suffered hugely\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"A tax on online sales would at least allow us to keep our shops open,\" he said.\n\nHe also called for business rates to be reformed or even scrapped in the interest of preserving jobs in local shops.\n\nHowever, Sir Edward Troup, a former senior civil servant at the Treasury, said there were \"30 billion reasons\" why the Treasury would not want to abolish business rates.\n\n\"That's the amount of money roughly that business rates raise,\" he said.\n\nSir Edward said Treasury economists recognised that business rates were \"inefficient\", but added: \"It's an old adage that you tax property because it doesn't move.\"\n\nHe said sales taxes were also inefficient because they pushed prices up for customers while being unrelated to the level of profit made by firms.", "Rescue workers are trying to clear a blocked tunnel in Uttarakhand\n\nEmergency workers are searching for as many as 150 people after a piece of a Himalayan glacier is believed to have fallen into a river, triggering a huge flood in northern India and killing 26.\n\nThe floodwaters burst open a dam and a deluge of water poured through a valley in the state of Uttarakhand on Sunday.\n\nMost of the missing are believed to be workers from two hydropower plants.\n\nThe rescue effort is focused on several sites, including a tunnel more than 200 metres (656ft) long.\n\nMore than 30 people were apparently trapped inside when the torrent of icy water swept down the valley, carrying rocks and earth as it gathered speed.\n\nAccording to India's NDTV broadcaster, the tunnel is blocked with slush and debris.\n\nThere has been no contact with the workers since Sunday, and officials say it is hard to tell where in the tunnel they are and whether they are together.\n\nHundreds of troops, paramilitaries and military helicopters have been sent to the region to help with rescue efforts.\n\nRescue workers and locals have been using shovels and mechanical diggers to try and clear the entrance to the tunnel.\n\nNDTV reported that rescuers had also been seen with wooden planks to help them wade through the mud.\n\nAn investigation is continuing into what caused the suspected glacial burst.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deluge washed away hydro and bridge infrastructure\n\nSpeaking from hospital, one man described the moment the tunnel flooded.\n\n\"We heard screams, 'get out, get out'. We didn't know what was happening. We started running to escape when the force of the water gushed in through the mouth of the tunnel. We couldn't get out because of that,\" he said.\n\n\"We held on to the [roof] of the tunnel. We held on for about an hour. As the water receded, we slowly climbed onto the big rocks that flowed in, to take a breath. We had lost hope. We didn't think we would survive.\"\n\nUttarakhand police said an avalanche struck at about 11:00 local time (05:30 GMT) on Sunday, destroying a dam known as the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project.\n\nPolice said the impact catapulted water along the Dhauliganga river, damaging another power project downstream in the Tapovan area.\n\nSenior police officials said a bridge in the Tapovan area that connected 13 villages was washed away in the avalanche. Food packets were air dropped in some of these villages.\n\nOne witness compared the flash flood with \"a scene from a Bollywood film\".\n\nVideo showed the floodwater barrelling through the area, leaving destruction in its wake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment a man trapped inside the tunnel is rescued\n\nEmergency workers had earlier evacuated dozens of villages, but authorities later said the main flood danger had passed.\n\nEmergency crews rescued 16 workers who had been trapped inside a tunnel filled with debris.\n\nOfficials told the BBC that between 35 and 40 others were thought to be trapped in a second tunnel.\n\nEmergency crews have reached the mouth of the 2.5km (1.5 mile) tunnel and are in the process of clearing the area with heavy equipment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ANI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We are trying to break open the tunnel,\" said Ashok Kumar, the state police chief, told the Reuters news agency. Rescuers had gone 150m inside, he added.\n\nThe director general of the National Disaster Response Force told ANI news agency that rescue operations could take up to 48 hours.\n\nOfficials fear that as many as 35-40 people may be trapped in the tunnel\n\nUttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, is prone to flash floods and landslides.\n\nSome 6,000 people are believed to have been killed in floods in June 2013 which were triggered by the heaviest monsoon rains in decades.\n\nThe remoteness of where this happened means no-one has a definitive answer, so far.\n\nExperts say one possibility is that massive ice blocks broke off the glacier due to a temperature rise, releasing a huge amount of water.\n\nThat could have caused avalanches bringing down rocks and mud.\n\n\"This is a strong possibility because there was a huge amount of sediment flowing down,\" said DP Dobhal, a senior glaciologist formerly with the government's Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.\n\nExperts say an avalanche could also have hit a glacial lake that then burst.\n\nAnother possibility is that an avalanche or landslide may have dammed the river for some time, causing it to burst out after the water level rose.\n\nSunday's disaster has prompted calls by environment groups to review power projects in the ecologically sensitive mountains.\n\n\"Avalanches are common phenomena in the catchment area,\" MPS Bisht, director of the Uttarakhand Space Application Centre, told AFP news agency.\n\nUma Bharti, a former water resources minister, said she had spoken out against power projects on the Ganges and its tributaries.", "The next question comes from the Guardian about international travel. Should people be prepared for tougher restrictions on travel until there is widespread vaccination?\n\nMatt Hancock says: \"The proportion of cases coming from abroad at the moment is obviously very low, not least because it's currently illegal to go on holiday anyway.\n\n\"Of course we want to lift these measures... as soon is safely possible.\n\n\"But until we know, we need to know more about the impact of the vaccines on all these different variants and therefore for now, the precautionary principle is the right approach.\"\n\nProf Van-Tam is asked whether it is too early to book summer holidays in the UK.\n\n\"Thanks for the question and I can't answer it. I think it's just too early to say,\" he replies.\n\n\"We don't yet have the read-outs on the success of the vaccine programme although I expect we'll start to see these in one to two weeks.\"\n\n\"The more elaborate your plans are for the summer holidays in terms of crossing borders, in terms of household mixing, given where we are now, I think we just have to say, the more you're stepping into making guesses about the unknown at this point.\n\n\"I can't give people a proper answer at this point. We don't yet have the data, it's just too early.\"", "Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has signed a new one-year contract with Mercedes for the 2021 season.\n\nThe 36-year-old's previous deal lapsed in 2020 but he will now race for Mercedes for a ninth season.\n\nHamilton became the sport's most successful driver ever in 2020, breaking Michael Schumacher's all-time win record and drawing level with the German's seven titles.\n\n\"Our team has achieved incredible things together,\" said Hamilton.\n\n\"We look forward to building on our success even further, while continuously looking to improve, both on and off the track.\"\n\nPart of the new deal involves a commitment from Mercedes to continue to work with Hamilton on seeking \"greater diversity and inclusion in motorsport\".\n\nThey will work on creating a new joint charitable foundation and Hamilton says the manufacturer has been \"extremely supportive\" on the issue.\n\n\"I'm proud to say we are taking that effort further this year by launching a foundation dedicated to diversity and inclusion in the sport,\" he added.\n\n\"I am inspired by all that we can build together and can't wait to get back on the track in March.\"\n• None Lewis Hamilton: The exceptional kid who conquered the world\n• None Stefano Domenicali interview: New Formula 1 chief urges drivers to lead by example\n\nTeam boss Toto Wolff said the duration of the contract was a consequence of the lateness of the talks, which was caused by them having to delay negotiations when Hamilton contracted Covid in December, and their mutual desire to \"see how the world develops\".\n\nThere is the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, as well as by a number of major rule changes in F1, including a budget cap that starts this year at $145m (£114m) and new technical rules for 2022 aimed at closing up the field.\n\nWolff said the global situation could have an impact on the team's revenue, while Daimler as a group is having to invest in electrification, adding: \"We are living a financial reality that is very different from a few years ago.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are totally in line - Lewis and me and the wider group in Mercedes - about the situation, so there was never a discrepancy in opinion.\n\n\"It was just we felt that we had a good signature on a 2021 contract and we needed to get going and then find some time in 2021 earlier than this time to discuss the future.\n\n\"And it's not to discuss only 2022 but also beyond, and that was not something we wanted to carve out via video conferencing between Christmas and the end of January.\"\n\nWolff emphasised that the decision to set up a foundation on inclusivity and diversity with Hamilton - an idea that originated from Daimler boss Ola Kallenius - \"shows our long-term commitment to each other\".\n\nWolff said: \"There was never a moment when we thought he wouldn't sign and there was never a moment when he doubted.\"\n\nHe also rejected reports that Hamilton had asked for a veto on his future team-mate or for a share of team revenue.\n\nHe said: \"None of that is true,\" and described the claims as \"baseless\".\n\nMercedes did not state the value of Hamilton's new contract but his previous deal was for £30m a year, with up to a further £10m available as bonuses.\n\nWolff said the fact Hamilton was the best driver, with a huge global following and had achieved enormous success was weighed against the fact that all 2,000 employees contribute to the team's success.\n\n\"We have always been quite aligned of what the other side would expect on contractual terms,\" Wolff said.\n\n\"Because he has this helicopter perspective on the wider world, it was a very tough year for us personally - from a health standpoint and from an economic standpoint - so he knew that even though he delivered on his side, there is a financial economical reality that it is important to respect.\"\n\nWill Hamilton race on in 2022?\n\nWolff said no decision had been made on whether Hamilton would race on beyond 2021.\n\nHe said he recognised that sportspeople had \"shelf lives\" but added: \"As long as he enjoys racing, I think he is very capable of going longer.\n\n\"He develops as a driver, he looks after himself in terms of physical training and mental preparation, so I don't think in terms of ability that ends in 2021, but in the end it's his decision.\"\n\nThe new deal means both Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas will be out of contract at the end of 2021, as will Williams driver George Russell, a Mercedes protege who starred on replacing Hamilton at the Sakhir Grand Prix in December, when the champion had coronavirus.\n\nWolff said the \"first discussions\" over 2022 would be held with Mercedes' two existing drivers, but added: \"On the other side, the young drivers are the future, and we want to consider how we want to set ourselves up for the years beyond.\"\n\nHamilton's defence of his title begins at the Bahrain Grand Prix on 26 March and if he can win a fifth drivers' championship in a row he will surpass the all-time record of seven he shares with Michael Schumacher.\n\nHe has won six of his world titles at Mercedes, with the other arriving at McLaren in 2008.\n\nMercedes have won the constructors' championship seven times in a row and the drivers' world title has also gone to one of their drivers for seven straight seasons, with Nico Rosberg's 2016 success sandwiched in between Hamilton's six wins.\n\n\"The story of Mercedes and Lewis has written itself into the history books of our sport over the past eight seasons, and we are hungry to compete and to add more chapters to it,\" said Wolff.\n• None What role has an alleged drugs boss had in arranging Britain's biggest ever bout?\n• None A deeply personal film following Katie Price and her son Harvey as he enters adulthood", "Daniel Kinahan said his success in boxing has led some people to campaign against him\n\nA suspected crime boss has confirmed he is still involved in \"planning multiple world title fights\" in boxing.\n\nDaniel Kinahan insisted that allegations of criminality are part of \"a campaign\" against him.\n\nHis continued involvement at the top of the sport was revealed last week by BBC One's Panorama, leading to calls for tighter regulation.\n\nMr Kinahan has no criminal convictions, but was named in Irish courts as the head of a prominent drug cartel.\n\nThe suspected gangster helped set up boxing management business MTK Global - but it was announced last year he was stepping away from the sport.\n\nHowever, the company told Panorama that he still advises some of its boxers, and Mr Kinahan himself has now issued his own statement, telling Talksport that he was innocent, and that he continued to work at the very top of the sport.\n\n\"I have dedicated myself to my work in boxing for over 15 years. I am proud to say today that I have helped organise over a dozen major world title fights,\" Mr Kinahan said.\n\n\"I continue to be involved in planning multiple record-breaking and exciting world title fights.\"\n\nMr Kinahan said he believed that his success in the world of boxing \"has led to an increase in the campaign against me\".\n\n\"I am not a part of a criminal gang or any conspiracy. I have no convictions,\" he said.\n\nMr Kinahan's role in world boxing caused an outcry in June last year when it emerged he had been working as a personal adviser to world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury ahead of a much-anticipated £200m mega-fight later this year with fellow British champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nPanorama asked Fury whether Mr Kinahan was still his personal adviser, but he did not respond.\n\nDaniel Kinahan's role in boxing came under scrutiny after Tyson Fury thanked him for organising a bout with Anthony Joshua\n\nThe BBC team that produced the programme has received an unspecified threat from unnamed criminal elements since it was broadcast, but Mr Kinahan has denied being involved.\n\n\"Last week it was inferred that I had threatened a reporter. I have full respect for journalism. I have worked with journalists and I value their role,\" he said in his statement.\n\n\"I have never threatened a reporter or journalist or asked anyone to do that for me. I never have and I never would.\"\n\nLast week Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told the BBC that the film had raised \"very worrying allegations\".\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control has said it is powerless to stop Kinahan advising boxers as it does not regulate such roles and he is not licensed with them.\n\nEddie Hearn - who promotes Joshua - said he anticipated \"no impact\" on the fight with Fury, and insisted that no sponsors or broadcasters had expressed concern to him since the programme was aired. Last year, the Irish government called on broadcasters to boycott the planned world title fights.\n\nLawyers for MTK Global told Panorama that while Mr Kinahan \"provides some personal advice to a number of boxers managed by MTK Global\", he had never owned, controlled or been an employee of the company.\n\nMr Kinahan's lawyers also told the programme he has no criminal convictions and the allegations about him running a violent cartel are false and have no evidential basis.\n\n\"He is proud of his record in boxing to date. He has operated on the basis of honesty and with a commitment to putting fighters' needs first,\" they said.\n\n\"Mr Kinahan is a successful and independent adviser in the boxing industry in his own right. It is a matter of public record that he has exited the business of MTK.\"", "Check Point said spyware was hidden in restaurant and wallpaper apps, among others\n\nIran is running two surveillance operations in cyber-space, targeting more than 1,000 dissidents, according to a leading cyber-security company.\n\nThe efforts were directed against individuals in Iran and 12 other countries, including the UK and US, Check Point said.\n\nIt said the two groups involved were using new techniques to install spyware on targets' PCs and mobile devices.\n\nAnd this was then being used to steal call recordings and media files.\n\nOne of the groups, known as Domestic Kitten or APT-50, is accused of tricking people into downloading malicious software on to mobile phones by a variety of means including:\n\nThe American-Israeli company's researchers documented 1,200 victims being targeted by the campaign, living in seven countries.\n\nThere had been more than 600 successful infections, it said.\n\nThe second group, known as Infy or Prince Of Persia, is said to spy on the home and work PCs of dissidents in 12 countries, extracting sensitive data after tricking people into opening malicious email attachments.\n\nThe Iranian government has not commented on the report.\n\nDomestic Kitten's operation was first identified in 2018.\n\nAnd Check Point said there was evidence it had run at least 10 campaigns since 2017.\n\nFour of these were still active, with the most recent beginning in November 2020.\n\nAnd it was using an Iranian blog site, Telegram channels and text messages to lure people into installing its infected software, which the researchers have dubbed Furball, which could:\n\nThe 600 successful infections are said to have included dissidents, opposition forces and people belonging to the Kurdish ethnic minority in:\n\nThe other group, Infy, is said to have been operating as far back as 2007.\n\nIts most recent activity had targeted PCs, with fake emails with attractive content, usually with an attached document, Check Point said.\n\nOne example provided was of a document apparently about loans being offered to disabled veterans.\n\nOne infected document appeared to be from the Iranian-government-sponsored Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs\n\nOnce the document was opened, a spying tool was installed and sensitive data stolen, the company said.\n\nTwo documents recently used are said to have included a photo of an Iranian governor, with alleged contact details.\n\nThe researchers said Infy's capabilities were \"far superior\" to most other known Iranian campaigns, thanks to its ability to be highly selective about its targets and to have generally have gone undetected.\n\n\"It is clear that the Iranian government is investing significant resources into cyber-operations,\" Check Point cyber-research head Yaniv Balmas said.\n\n\"The operators of these Iranian cyber-espionage campaigns seem to be completely unaffected by any counter-activities done by others, even though both campaigns had been revealed and even stopped in the past.", "The Queen was shown legislation which may have forced her to reveal her private finances in the 1970s \"by convention\", Buckingham Palace says.\n\nPapers published by the Guardian suggest the monarch's personal lawyers successfully lobbied to change a draft law to conceal her wealth.\n\nThe documents were unearthed as part of an investigation into Queen's consent.\n\nIt is a process where Parliament asks for consent when debating bills which affect the Crown's interests.\n\nMore than 1,000 draft laws have been seen by the Queen or the Prince of Wales before being approved by MPs as part of the procedure, the Guardian said.\n\nQueen's consent is always granted where requested, the palace said.\n\nThe long-established convention sees the monarch asked to provide consent by Parliament when it is considering legislation \"which would affect the prerogative or interests of the Crown\", according to the Royal Family's website.\n\nThis process is separate to Royal Assent, where the monarch formally approves to a bill passed by Parliament for it to become law.\n\nRoyal Assent has not been refused since 1708.\n\nThe government memos, found in the National Archives, date back to 1973.\n\nThey show that the Queen, concerned that new legislation might force her to reveal her private holdings in companies, despatched lawyers to argue her case with the then Department of Trade and Industry.\n\nA revision to the draft law subsequently enabled her as a head of state to sidestep the new regulations.\n\nThe Guardian suggests that early sight of the draft legislation, under the powers of Queen's consent, gave the monarch an unrivalled opportunity to influence the legislation to her advantage.\n\nThis is a good get by the Guardian - shining a light into the always-sensitive interactions between palace and government as regards money.\n\nThe palace line on this is pretty simple - the mechanism of Queen's consent is a matter for government and discussions between the sovereign through her lawyers and government departments are a fact of life.\n\nGetting first sight of legislation that may affect you is a pretty significant advantage for any monarch. Not because anyone thinks about a block or veto or a threat of it. But because then you get a chance to get your lawyers round early.\n\nWhy is the palace denying a threat of a block, something that no one has alleged? Because, says a source, the allegations put to it by the Guardian were broader than those that turned up in the story published yesterday.\n\nIt's not entirely surprising that given the consultation in these areas, the Queen would have something to say.\n\nThe Queen is not a normal citizen. The tone of the correspondence published by the Guardian is a little surprising - it suggests a degree of involvement that belies the palace's claim that the mechanism is simply a formality.\n\nThe Guardian has compiled a list of 1,062 parliamentary bills that it says have been subject to Queen's consent since Elizabeth II's reign began in 1952 - which works out at about 14 uses of the procedure per year.\n\nIt features a wide range of legislation including laws which affected her private estates in Balmoral and Sandringham.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"Queen's consent is a parliamentary process, with the role of sovereign purely formal. Consent is always granted by the monarch where requested by government. Any assertion that the sovereign has blocked legislation is simply incorrect.\n\n\"Whether Queen's consent is required is decided by Parliament, independently from the royal household, in matters that would affect Crown interests, including personal property and personal interests of the monarch.\n\n\"If consent is required, draft legislation is, by convention, put to the sovereign to grant solely on advice of ministers and as a matter of public record.\"", "The UK's terrorism threat level has been downgraded from \"severe\" to \"substantial\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the move followed a \"significant reduction\" in the momentum of attacks in Europe - since those seen in Austria and France between September and November 2020.\n\nBut she stressed that it was kept under constant review and was always subject to change.\n\nA \"substantial\" threat level means a terrorist attack is still likely.\n\nThe threat level was raised to severe by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) in November following the attacks last year, which saw four people shot dead in Vienna, three others die in a knife attack in Nice, and a teacher murdered in Paris.\n\nBut on Thursday last week the expert analysts reduced the level, Ms Patel told MPs on Monday.\n\nShe added: \"Terrorism remains one of the most direct and immediate risks to our national security.\n\n\"Substantial continues to indicate a high level of threat; and an attack on the UK is still likely.\n\n\"The public should continue to remain vigilant and report any concerns to the police.\"\n\nThe UK's threat level system doesn't come with the publication of the number of ongoing plots - and indicators of foiled attacks and near-misses.\n\nBut the headline declaring there is now a \"substantial\" threat can be understood with the help of some historical context.\n\nWhen the level was raised last year, there was no specific new intelligence suggesting a major bomb plot was about to come to fruition.\n\nBut security agencies know, from the words of attackers themselves, that events at home are often inspired by those far away.\n\nChronic global crises, such as Syria, provide radicalisers with raw material they can use to recruit and incite hate. Single specific incidents - such as the deaths in Vienna last November - can influence other extremists to accelerate their own plans - the copycat effect.\n\nBut for months now, the pace of global events that are used as excuses for terrorism has slowed.\n\nThere's some intelligence that some extremists in the UK also briefly slowed down as the pandemic and lockdowns took hold.\n\nThat has not lasted. The number of potential suspects on MI5's radar remains largely unchanged at around 3,000 people.\n\nSo the intent remains - including from the extreme right wing.\n\nThe JTAC makes its recommendations independently from the government.\n\nThe five levels of threat set by the JTAC are:\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level was last raised to the highest rating, \"critical\", in the days following the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.\n\nIt reached that level again briefly in September that year, after a bomb partially exploded on a Tube train at Parsons Green.\n\nThe threat level remained at the second highest rating, \"severe\", until November 2019 when it was downgraded to \"substantial\", where it stayed until last November.", "Heavy snow and ice has brought disruption to parts of the UK, with coronavirus vaccination centres and schools shutting in some areas.\n\nPolice have warned people not to travel, with long delays expected.", "David Whitehouse (left) and Paul Clark (right) were awarded damages after being wrongfully prosecuted\n\nThe taxpayer will shell out more than £24m to settle a claim by two men wrongfully prosecuted during a fraud probe relating to the sale of Rangers.\n\nAdministrators David Whitehouse and Paul Clark settled out of court with the Crown Office in December.\n\nThe Crown Office has now revealed both men were awarded £10.5m damages, while legal costs will be at least £3m.\n\nScotland's most senior law officer has said there was no criminal misconduct in the failed fraud probe.\n\nThe Lord Advocate James Wolffe will make a statement on the case to Holyrood next week where he is expected to offer a public apology to both men.\n\nMr Whitehouse and Mr Clark were appointed administrators when the company that ran the Glasgow club went into administration in 2012.\n\nThe pair were arrested in 2014 but the Crown has since said the prosecution which followed was \"malicious\".\n\nBoth men launched a £20m compensation claim over their prosecution and the matter was resolved out of court.\n\nIn a separate legal claim, both men previously settled with Police Scotland over their wrongful arrest.\n\nThe Lord Advocate James Wolffe has said he will make a statement to Holyrood next week\n\nIn a letter to Holyrood's justice committee, Mr Wolffe said Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark received £10.5m in damages each.\n\nHe explained: \"Each of these pursuers was a very high-earning individual, and the settlement figure, in each case, reflected the actual loss which the pursuer was able to demonstrate had been caused to him by the wrongful prosecutions.\"\n\nIn addition, £3.08m has been paid out by the Crown Office to cover the former administrators' legal expenses to date but the final liability for these costs has not been calculated.\n\nThere are other civil cases pending against the Lord Advocate arising from the same failed prosecution but these have not been concluded.\n\nMr Wolffe added that \"arrangements have been made so that the settlement of these claims will not affect the operational effectiveness\" of the Crown Office.\n\nLast week, the Court of Session heard how Mr Whitehouse wants to pass on details from the civil case to any future investigations, such as a public inquiry, into the saga.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC, acting for Mr Whitehouse, said the businessman wanted answers about why he was arrested and prosecuted.\n\nBut the Crown Office said its investigations had \"disclosed no criminal conduct\" to date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online fashion firm Boohoo has told its Leicester-based suppliers that they must bring all clothes-making work in-house, either buying out or cutting ties with sub-contractors.\n\nThe demand has caused concern among some suppliers about how they will pay to hire new workers and rent space.\n\nBoohoo has given them a deadline of 5 March to stop using outside labour.\n\nThe company says it is acting on recommendations of a highly critical report published last year.\n\nBoohoo hired barrister Alison Levitt QC to investigate following concerns about worker welfare during the pandemic.\n\nThe report, published in September, said Boohoo had \"capitalised on the commercial opportunities offered by lockdown\" but took no responsibility for the consequences for those making the clothes they sold.\n\nIt recommended that \"within six months Boohoo should reduce its approved suppliers to a list which contains a manageable number of companies, ideally without reducing capacity\" with \"the goal of reducing and ultimately eliminating sub-contracting.\"\n\nIn an email to suppliers seen by the BBC, the company said all of its suppliers in the city must \"bring all finished goods manufacturing in-house\".\n\nIt said companies without \"the expertise and knowledge to run a factory\" or the space must buy a manufacturing unit, or Cut, Make and Trim (CMT), as they are known.\n\nWhile it said those with questions about the process should contact the company, it added that the move is \"a mandatory requirement and not open to negotiation.\"\n\nA supplier who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity said he was worried about jobs being lost, since the deadline is a month away and many sub-contractors are based miles away.\n\nGarment-makers in the city often farm out large orders of clothing to smaller businesses.\n\nThe business is known to work on very thin margins, with each piece being made for only a few pounds.\n\nIn the past factories in Leicester have been accused of paying less than the minimum wage to workers.\n\n\"As we state in our letter to suppliers, the boohoo group is committed to growing our business in a more sustainable and transparent manner. Working with suppliers in a more strategic and sustainable way, is a key part of our partnership approach to improve transparency, efficiency and accountability,\" the company said in a statement to the BBC.\n\n\"One of the key recommendations from the Alison Levitt QC review was to consolidate our supply chain. Supporting suppliers to bring their CMT units in-house shortens our supply chain and is just one of the ways that we are helping them to build stronger more sustainable businesses that can thrive.\"\n\nThe company declined to comment on what help would be offered by Boohoo for suppliers to manage this change if they are struggling financially.", "Four cases of the Kent variant of the virus have been discovered in Manchester\n\nSurge testing for coronavirus is to be introduced in parts of Manchester after four cases of a new mutation of the Kent variant of Covid were confirmed.\n\nMore than 10,000 tests are planned after cases of the E484K mutation were found in two unconnected households.\n\nTesting will take place in the Fallowfield, Hulme, Moss Side and Whalley Range districts, with extra testing centres opening.\n\nManchester City Council said volunteers would go house-to-house offering tests.\n\nThe council said it was working with Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace and everyone in the designated areas would be given a PCR swab test with results coming back within days.\n\nThe surge testing will begin on Tuesday, targeting people who do not have symptoms but live or work within the testing boundary area.\n\nSurge testing is the rollout of additional community testing of people who do not have any coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIt aims to help scientists and public health officials learn more about mutated Covid-19 variants.\n\nIt will also help reduce the spread of infection by finding asymptomatic cases and prompting people to self-isolate.\n\nDavid Regan, Director of Public Health, Manchester City Council, said: \"We all know that the virus will change over time and it's important that we investigate new strains to understand how they might spread.\n\n\"This is exactly what we're doing with the intensive testing in parts of Manchester, with local testing units and people going door-to-door to offer people tests.\n\n\"There is no evidence that this variant will be resistant to the vaccines or causes a more severe illness, and it is not yet known if the strain can be passed more easily between people, but it is really important that everyone who lives in the boundary area and is over the age of 16 plays their part and gets a test.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, the council's executive member for adult health and well-being, said: \"It's understandable that some residents in the area may be concerned by all this, but we need to remember that it's very normal for viruses to mutate.\n\n\"We are following the public health approach to react to the new variant and we will be working... to ensure as many people as possible know how to get a test so we can understand more about this version of the virus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 12 million people in the UK have now had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, after 550,000 first jabs were given out on Saturday.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer first doses to 15 million people in the top four priority groups by 15 February.\n\nAt the current rate, about 16 million people would receive a first jab by that date.\n\nThe UK's daily Covid cases continue to fall, but remain high - with another 15,845 reported on Sunday.\n\nAnother 373 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, the data also showed. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThe update on vaccine progress comes as scientists say early trials suggest Oxford-AstraZeneca's jab offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant.\n\nMeanwhile, workplace Covid testing is being offered to more companies in England, for staff who cannot work from home during lockdown, the government says.\n\nBusinesses with more than 50 employees are now able to access lateral flow tests, which can produce results in less than 30 minutes.\n\nPreviously only firms with more than 250 staff qualified for testing.\n\nThe speedy rollout of Covid vaccines to all vulnerable people is seen as critical to reducing the pandemic's death toll and relieving pressure on the NHS.\n\nOnce the first four priority groups, including the over-70s, healthcare workers and people shielding, have received their jabs, the programme will move on to people aged 50 and over and those with underlying health conditions.\n\nFrom spring, the government plans to begin vaccinating the rest of the adult population, another 21 million people. Teachers, transport workers, supermarket workers and the military could be prioritised.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each offer their own advice on testing.\n\nOn Sunday, Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman said her ambition was to have every adult vaccinated for Covid \"in the summer\".\n\nThe Scottish government had previously set a September target to vaccinate all over-18s.\n\nThe UK is currently receiving doses of two vaccines approved by the medicine regulator - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and a second vaccine, from Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine, made by US company Moderna, has been approved but supplies are not expected to be available until spring.\n\nThe UK is also lined up to receive at least three other vaccines if they are approved for use.", "The rescue team was responding to reports of a camper with chest pains on Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass\n\nTwo campers have been fined for breaching lockdown after a mountain rescue volunteer was seriously injured in a fall while going to their aid.\n\nThe volunteer, a man in his 60s, fell 500ft (150m) while responding to reports of one of the campers suffering chest pains in the Lake District in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPatterdale Mountain Rescue said he suffered \"significant injuries\" and is in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nThe force said one man from Liverpool and another from Leicester were camping in breach of coronavirus rules at Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass.\n\nThe Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association, which previously thanked people for following the lockdown rules, said the Patterdale team was heading to the campers when one of its volunteers fell down a steep slope.\n\nHe was airlifted to hospital while the ill camper was carried out on a stretcher and taken to hospital by road ambulance.\n\nThe association said its thoughts were with the camper as \"no-one sets out on the fells with the intention of having an accident\", but the \"simple truth\" is the more people who go out in the fells, the higher the number of rescues the teams will have to carry out.\n\nMike Blakey from the association said: \"This rescue and the subsequent life-changing injuries incurred by our team member were avoidable.\"\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.", "Dramatic video captures an avalanche as it buries a group of snowmobilers in eastern Utah.\n\nOn the same day, another slide in Millcreek Canyon killed four skiers while four survivors had to be airlifted to safety.", "Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday, almost a year after his first.\n\nHe’s accused of inciting the 6 Jan attack on the Capitol by a crowd of his supporters. But members of his Republican party are mostly standing by him.\n\nWhat’s the case against him and what are the chances of a conviction?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Sarah Gilbert said the new version of the vaccine \"will be available for the autumn\"\n\nOxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant, scientists say early trials suggest.\n\nA new study, not yet peer reviewed, involved about 2,000 people who were on average 31 years old.\n\nBut Prof Sarah Gilbert, Oxford lead vaccine developer, said vaccines should still protect against severe disease.\n\nShe said developers were likely to have a modified Oxford jab by the autumn to combat the South Africa variant.\n\nSouth Africa has said it is putting its rollout of the Oxford vaccine on temporary hold, while scientists advise on the best way to proceed following the results of the study.\n\nThe variant, also known as 501.V2 or B.1.351, is already the dominant virus variant in large parts of South Africa.\n\nEarlier, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Andrew Marr that a booster in the autumn and annual vaccines could be required to combat variants.\n\nMore than 100 cases of the South Africa variant have been found in the UK.\n\nA study outlining early trials, first reported by the Financial Times, suggests the vaccine offered \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease caused by the variant, the University of Oxford said.\n\nProf Gilbert told the Andrew Marr Show current vaccines \"have a reduction in efficacy against some of the variant viruses\".\n\n\"What that is looking like is that we may not be reducing the total number of cases but there's still protection in that case against deaths, hospitalisations and severe disease.\"\n\nShe added: \"That's really important for healthcare systems, even if we are having mild and asymptomatic infections, to prevent people going into hospital with Covid would have a major effect.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Zahawi said the UK government had ruled out issuing so-called \"vaccine passports\" to enable people who have had the jab against coronavirus to travel abroad.\n\nThe mutation involved - known as E484K - seems to help the virus dodge immunity built up to previous variants and current vaccines.\n\nReal world trials of two other vaccines (Janssen and Novavax) showed a dip in performance in South Africa too.\n\nThis is the same mutation that has also appeared in some cases of the \"Kent variant\" in the UK.\n\nWe are still waiting for scientists to publish their report in order to find out what \"limited\" means in hard numbers.\n\nIf people are still getting sick, even if it's mild, then they can spread the virus and that will make it harder to get on top of cases.\n\nIf the Oxford vaccine can prevent severe disease, and AstraZeneca thinks it will, then it would still be a life-saving vaccine.\n\nBut it is clear coronavirus is a moving target and that we may need to change vaccines in the future to keep up.\n\nIn a separate statement, AstraZeneca said the jab offered \"limited\" protection against mild and moderate disease caused by the variant.\n\nA spokesman for the pharmaceutical company said it had not yet been able to properly establish whether the jab would prevent severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the South Africa variant because those involved in the study had predominantly been young, healthy adults.\n\nBut the company expressed confidence the vaccine would offer protection against serious cases, because it created neutralising antibodies similar to those of other coronavirus vaccines.\n\nThe study, which assessed a two-dose regimen, is due to be published on Monday.\n\nAndrew Pollard, professor of paediatric infection and immunity and chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, said: \"This study confirms that the pandemic coronavirus will find ways to continue to spread in vaccinated populations, as expected, but, taken with the promising results from other studies in South Africa using a similar viral vector, vaccines may continue to ease the toll on health care systems by preventing severe disease.\"\n\nIn a news conference on Sunday, Prof Shabir Madhi, who has led trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in South Africa, said the study had been \"largely disappointing\" in terms of the jab's efficacy against the South Africa variant.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the AstraZeneca vaccine does not work against mild and moderate illness,\" he said, adding that the data did not say whether or not the vaccine might still protect at least against severe infections.\n\nEarlier, Prof Madhi said a vaccine developed by Janssen showed it stopped moderate to severe disease, rather than all disease, and this kept people out of hospital.\n\n\"These findings recalibrate thinking about how to approach the pandemic virus and shift the focus from the goal of herd immunity against transmission to the protection of all at-risk individuals in population against severe disease,\" Prof Madhi added.\n\nOn Saturday, AstraZeneca said its vaccine provided good protection against the variant first discovered in Kent, which is now dominant in the UK.\n\nEarly results suggest the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against the new variants.\n\nData on two new coronavirus vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - appear to offer some protection.\n\nAnd early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.\n\nExperts say vaccines could be redesigned and tweaked to be a better match for new variants in a matter of weeks or months if necessary.\n\nHave you been affected by issues relating to the vaccine rollout? 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.", "Ellie Rowsell's band Wolf Alice won the Mercury Prize in 2018 for their album, Visions of a Life\n\nEllie Rowsell, the singer with Mercury Prize-winning British band Wolf Alice, has accused Marilyn Manson of pointing a camera up her skirt at a festival.\n\nShe is the latest to make claims about the star's alleged abusive behaviour.\n\nIt comes after US actress Evan Rachel Wood and four other women published accounts of sexual, physical and emotional abuse.\n\n\"Solidarity to Evan Rachel Wood and those calling out Marilyn Manson,\" tweeted Rowsell.\n\n\"It's sad to see people defending him, just because he put his depravity in plain sight doesn't give him a free pass to abuse women?!\"\n\nThe rock star has not responded to Rowsell's account. The BBC has asked his representatives for a comment. He denied Wood's allegations, saying they were \"horrible distortions of reality\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ellierowsell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rowsell explained: \"I met Marilyn backstage at a festival a few years ago.\n\n\"After his compliments towards my band became more and more hyperbolic I became suspicious of his behaviour. I was shocked to look down and see he was filming up my skirt with a GoPro [camera].\"\n\nThe singer/songwriter, whose indie band won the prestigious Mercury Prize in 2018, added that there were \"no repercussions for his behaviour\" at the time, and that his own team admitted that such incidents were not uncommon.\n\n\"If he does this kind of thing all the time why on earth has he been headlining festivals for so many years?\" she asked.\n\nMarilyn Manson has been accused of abusive behaviour by a handful of women, which he denies\n\n\"When will we stop enabling misogynists on the account of their success? Women must feel safe in the male dominated world that is the music industry.\n\n\"I wasn't sure whether to bring any of this up but Manson claims in his recent statement that his relationships were 'entirely consensual' - I don't think he knows the meaning of consent if he goes around up-skirting young women at festivals.\"\n\nLast week, Wood claimed Manson \"horrifically abused\" her during their three-year relationship in the late noughties.\n\nManson denied the allegations via Instagram, saying: \"My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual.\"\n\nLast week, his ex-wife Dita Von Teese said the allegations \"do not match my personal experience during our seven years together as a couple\". She wrote on Instagram: \"Had they, I would not have married him in December 2005. I left 12 months later due to infidelity and drug abuse.\"\n\nShe added: \"Abuse of any kind has no place in any relationship. I urge those of you who have incurred abuse to take steps to heal and the strength to fully realise yourself.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Oscar-winning composer and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor again denied claims in Manson's 1998 memoir that the pair were involved in a sexual assault.\n\n\"I have been vocal over the years about my dislike of Manson as a person and cut ties with him nearly 25 years ago,\" Reznor said last week.\n\n\"As I said at the time, the passage from Manson's memoir is a complete fabrication. I was infuriated and offended back when it came out and remain so today.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccommodation rental websites are being used increasingly to book properties for illegal parties, Police Scotland data suggests.\n\nCall logs obtained by BBC Scotland show that sites like booking.com were used to hire space for large gatherings over the festive period.\n\nPolice were given the power to break up house parties contravening social gathering rules on 28 August last year.\n\nSince that date, officers have been called out nearly 7,000 times.\n\nMost of Scotland has been in lockdown since Boxing Day with a \"stay at home\" message put down in law.\n\nThe latest data, received through a Freedom of Information request, showed a marked increase in anecdotal reports of house parties being held at rented accommodation over the festive period.\n\nA search of one major rental website shows it is still possible to book accommodation in Scotland for up to 16 guests, despite much of Scotland being in lockdown until the end of February.\n\nBooking.com said it was committed to informing customers about travel restrictions currently in place in many destinations.\n\nThe company said it had also set up tools to make it easier for accommodations to provide clear information to guests about what national and local Covid restrictions are in place.\n\nA spokeswoman told BBC Scotland: \"In the very rare instance that we are made aware of any unlawful behaviour taking place at a property listed on our site, including house parties that violate the current lockdown restrictions, we investigate thoroughly, co-operate with local authorities or law enforcement, and when necessary, we will block the responsible customer account on our platform.\"\n\nBBC Scotland reporter Connor Gillies describes his night following the Glasgow police officers tackling illegal parties.\n\n\"The night begins at 22:00 in a briefing room at Partick police station. We're called to a tenement in Finnieston.\n\nInside, as we scale the five flights of stairs the sound of laughing gets louder. The door is banged repeatedly as the occupants ignore the call to answer.\n\nEventually six fines are issued to a group of students who had been drinking. One of them tells me she's embarrassed.\n\nWe get word of a big party nearby. Backup is called with reports the large group is crammed in a top floor flat.\n\nLoud music echoes down the stairwell. Police find 15 rule breakers holding a 30th birthday . The party is over, fines issued and the property owners charged and reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nTonight shows there continues to be a stubborn minority who simply don't care about putting the police and public at risk.\"\n\nWhile the number of callouts has slightly decreased since mid-September, police officers still attended hundreds of gatherings every week with callouts peaking at nearly 600 over the new year period.\n\nThe figures also show that while callouts may have declined, the proportion of gatherings in breach of restrictions has not.\n\nOn average, 73% of the weekly parties attended in December were deemed illegal compared to 33% in September.\n\nPolice data showed that officers had been alerted to 6,856 gatherings between 28 August and 8 January.\n\nHowever, the force has suggested the number is likely to be greater as house gatherings are typically under-reported.\n\nUnder-reporting can occur if officers were not assigned, or attended several hours later and did not enter the premises.\n\nInternal reports for Operation Talla - the name for Police Scotland's response to the coronavirus pandemic - also highlighted the increased resistance officers are receiving when they attend illegal house parties.\n\nThe data also revealed that 3,647 fines have been issued, and 486 arrests made, as of 8 January.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: \"The vast majority of the public have continued to comply with the regulations.\n\n\"Parties and indoor gatherings of different households are not permitted and we will continue to use our enforcement powers to disperse large groups of people where necessary.\n\n\"Policing during the pandemic has always been challenging and it remains so.\"\n\nWhile only 5% of all callouts were related to student parties, internal police documents suggested they were still a considerable concern.\n\nOne Operation Talla document noted: \"Students are still gathering unlawfully and are more likely to do so in larger numbers than the general population\".\n\nMatt Crilly, the president of NUS Scotland, said: \"Students overwhelmingly are following the guidelines and protecting their friends, families and communities.\n\n\"However, we continue to appeal to this small minority of students to comply with the current public health guidance\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nThe public should have \"confidence\" in the UK vaccination programme, the vaccines minister says - despite a study showing the AstraZeneca jab may be less effective against the South African variant of Covid-19. The study involved about 2,000 people, with an average age of 31. It showed the jab offered \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease from the South African variant. AstraZeneca said it did not know whether the jab would stop severe illness, because the study was predominantly on younger people. But the company said it could still be effective. Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi says the jabs \"appear to work well\" against the variants currently dominant in the UK. On Sunday, he told the BBC that a booster in the autumn, and annual vaccines, could be needed to combat variants. He also ruled out \"vaccine passports\" for people to travel - watch the clip below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have no plan of introducing a vaccine passport\"\n\nSouth Africa has responded to the study by pausing the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The country has received 1m doses of the AstraZeneca jab and was due to start vaccinating people next week. The government will still offer vaccines produced by Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer in the coming weeks. Watch our explainer on how vaccines are approved below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nLabour is challenging the government to \"clean up\" how it awards contracts for Covid work. In a speech on Monday, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves will say procurement during the pandemic has been \"rife with conflicts of interest\". She will call for a new ethics watchdog to \"guarantee standards\" for spending public money. The government said it has \"robust rules\" to ensure that conflicts of interest do not occur.\n\nRachel Reeves will also call for the Freedom of Information Act to cover all new public service contracts outsourced to private firms\n\nThe Super Bowl Halftime Show is traditionally built on grand gestures and eye-popping spectacle. Think about Lady Gaga diving off the roof of Houston's NRG stadium, or Katy Perry riding an animatronic lion, or Diana Ross soaring out of Arizona's Sun Devil Stadium, waving to fans through the open door of a helicopter. This year was a little different. Canadian R&B star The Weeknd was the interval act and was largely forced to perform from the stands, rather than the pitch, in compliance with strict coronavirus protocols. Read our reporter Mark Savage's full review here.\n\nThe Weeknd performed a medley of eight hits including Starboy and Blinding Lights\n\nA British family who went viral during the first lockdown - after adapting a song from the musical Les Miserables - have done it again. This time the Marsh family, from Kent, turned to a Bonnie Tyler track for inspiration...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This time the Marsh family were inspired by Bonnie Tyler's song, Total Eclipse of the Heart\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This piece looks at UK virus data - including the falling daily case and death rate.\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.", "Elon Musk's car firm Tesla has said it bought about $1.5bn (£1.1bn) of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in January and expects to start accepting it as payment in future.\n\nThe news caused the price of Bitcoin to jump 17% to $44,220, a record high.\n\nTesla said it was trying to maximise returns on cash that is not being used in day-to-day running of the company.\n\nIt comes days after Mr Musk added \"#bitcoin\" to his Twitter profile page, which drove up the price.\n\nHe removed it days later, but has continued talking up Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, including Dogecoin, which jumped 50% after his endorsement.\n\nIn a stock market filing, Tesla said it \"updated its investment policy\" in January and now wanted to invest in \"reserve assets\" such as digital currencies, gold bullion or gold exchange-traded funds.\n\nIt said it had already bought $1.5bn of Bitcoin and could \"acquire and hold digital assets\" in the future.\n\n\"Moreover, we expect to begin accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis,\" it said.\n\nMr Musk said a week ago in a tweet that Bitcoin was \"on the verge\" of being more widely accepted among investors.\n\nSome analysts said Tesla's investment could be a game-changer for the cryptocurrency.\n\n\"I think we will see an acceleration of companies looking to allocate to Bitcoin now that Tesla has made the first move,\" said Eric Turner, vice-president of market intelligence at cryptocurrency research firm Messari.\n\n\"One of the largest companies in the world now owns Bitcoin and by extension, every investor that owns Tesla, or even just an S&P 500 fund, has exposure to it as well.\"\n\nBut Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com, warned that Bitcoin was a \"very volatile\" cryptocurrency.\n\n\"Tesla is now starting to take on big [foreign exchange] risk - this may not worry a lot of investors, but some conservative types might be concerned,\" he said.\n\nBitcoin, which has hit record highs in recent months after a rollercoaster ride over the past decade, has also drawn support from major financial institutions this year.\n\nThe world's biggest money manager, Blackrock, recently changed a handful of investment mandates to allow some of its funds to invest in the currency.\n\nIn October, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments, pointing out that investors should realise its price was extremely volatile.", "All travellers entering the UK will be required to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining in an attempt to prevent variants entering the country.\n\nArrivals will be required to get a test on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine period, whether they are isolating at home or in a hotel.\n\nThe Department of Health said the move would enable authorities to track new cases more effectively.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out more details in the Commons later.\n\nIt is in addition to the current rules which require travellers arriving in the UK - whether by boat, train or plane - to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThis test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling, and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500, with Border Force officials carrying out spot checks.\n\nTravellers must provide contact details and their UK address. They can then travel - by public transport if necessary - to the place where they plan to self-isolate.\n\nThe new testing policy comes amid concern about new variants entering the country that are more resistant to existing vaccines.\n\nEarly trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine suggest it offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant. There have been 147 cases of the variant have found in the UK.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the results were \"expected\" because the virus is \"introducing mutations... to allow it to still transmit in populations where there's some immunity.\"\n\n\"As long as we have enough immunity to prevent severe disease, hospitalisations and death, then we're going to be fine in the future in the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said the South African variant did not appear to have a \"transmissibility advantage\" over the one first identified in Kent, which has spread across the UK.\n\nIt was therefore unlikely to \"overrun\" the Kent variant, he told Monday's coronavirus briefing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains how to fly safely during a global pandemic\n\nFrom 15 February, UK residents and Irish nationals arriving from certain countries will have to quarantine in hotels.\n\nPassengers will have to stay in their rooms for 10 nights, with security guards accompanying if they go outside.\n\nThe rules will apply to UK nationals and residents arriving from 33 \"red list\" Covid-19 hotspots - mostly in South America and Africa - where it's feared Covid variants may have already spread. Passengers will be expected to pay for the cost of the accommodation.\n\nNon-UK travellers who have been in these countries in the 10 days before travelling are banned from entry.\n\nAll travellers - including British nationals - must self-isolate for 10 days when they get to the UK.\n\nThe \"test to release scheme\" - where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five - will remain under the new testing rules.\n\nPassengers will be expected to use the gold-standard and more expensive PCR tests.\n\n\"As we have said all along, a robust testing regime is the way to open up travel again but it has to replace or at least shorten quarantine,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as Prof Van-Tam warned it was too soon to say to what extent people could begin to start planning summer holidays.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"The more elaborate your plans are for summer holidays, in terms of crossing borders, in terms of household mixing, given where we are now, I think we just have to say the more you are stepping into making guesses about the unknown at this point,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't give people a proper answer at this point because we don't yet have the data. It is just too early to say.\"\n\nLockdown rules mean people must only travel abroad for essential reasons. These are the same as the \"reasonable excuses\" for domestic travel, including:\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to make a declaration on why they need to travel, which will be checked by carriers prior to departure.\n\nHave you recently travelled into the UK? What was your experience at the UK border?\n\nSpeaking about the new testing plans, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said it was \"important the government continues to take the necessary steps to protect people and save lives\".\n\nHe added: \"Enhancing our testing regime to cover all arrivals while they isolate will provide a further level of protection and enable us to better track any new cases which might be brought into the country, and give us even more opportunities to detect new variants.\"", "The annual TV licence fee is to increase by £1.50, from £157.50 to £159, from 1 April 2021.\n\nIt is the final - and lowest - annual increase under a deal between the BBC and the government that has seen the fee rise in line with inflation every year since 2017.\n\nThe government must decide how much a TV licence will cost from 2022 onwards.\n\nThe increase comes eight months after about three million over-75s lost their entitlement to free TV licences.\n\nThe new fee works out at £3.06 per week or £13.25 per month.\n\nIn 2019-20, it raised about £3.5bn to pay for BBC services.\n\nLicence-fee evasion rose from 6.57% to 7.25% last year, according to the latest statistics.\n\nThe government had been considering whether non-payment should stop being a criminal offence.\n\nLast month, it decided not to go ahead with decriminalisation - but that it would \"remain under active consideration\".\n\nAlso last month, new BBC chairman Richard Sharp said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC.\n\nBut he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future.\n\nAnd it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.", "The teenager previously admitted 12 terror offences at the Old Bailey\n\nA teenager who is the youngest person in the UK to commit a terror offence has been given a two-year youth rehabilitation order.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Judge Mark Dennis QC said a custodial sentence would \"undo\" the progress made since the boy was arrested in July 2019.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named, had \"significant vulnerabilities\", he said.\n\nThe boy collected far right material and expressed racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on online platforms between 2018 and July 2019, the court heard.\n\nHe became the leader of the British arm of a now banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation called Feuerkrieg Division.\n\nWorking from his grandmother's house, he recruited members online such as Paul Dunleavy, a teenager from Rugby, who was jailed last year for preparing a terrorist attack.\n\nThe group wanted to enact \"white jihad\" and the genocide of non-white people, the court heard.\n\nThe judge said the boy had entered an \"online world of wicked prejudice and violent bigotry\".\n\nHe said that a custodial sentence caused \"irreversible harm for the future\" and that public safety required the boy's rehabilitation.\n\nThe judge said the teenager had \"significant vulnerabilities\" stemming from an \"abnormal childhood\".\n\nPaul Dunleavy was jailed for five years and six months, after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nThe defendant first joined the neo-Nazi forum Fascist Forge in 2018, having downloaded his first bomb-making manual that year when he was 13.\n\nHe first came to the attention of police in July 2019 after detectives received information he was constructing a weapon.\n\nWhen the home where he lived with his grandmother was searched, officers found a Nazi flag and a racist slogan painted on the garden shed.\n\nThe teenager appeared at court on bail by video link from Bodmin Magistrates' Court, sitting next to his grandmother.\n\nJenny Hopkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said after the case that people would \"rightly be disturbed that a 13-year-old should hold the most appalling neo-Nazi beliefs\".\n\nThe boy \"claimed not to have racist views and just wanted to appear cool\", she said, but the \"body of evidence led to him pleading guilty to possession and dissemination of terrorist material\".\n\nDet Insp Mark Samuel, of Counter Terrorism Policing South West, said the case was a \"timely reminder of potential extremism\" online.\n\nHe said the \"risk for the young and vulnerable\" was \"especially true during lockdown where young people spend more time online, often alone and unsupervised\".\n\nCh Supt Jim Pearce from Devon and Cornwall Police said the age of the offender, the \"extreme hatred displayed\" and the speed with which he became leader of the extreme group, \"brings into sharp focus the real and clear danger of online radicalisation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon has been criticised for paying less in business rates than British bricks and mortar retailers.\n\nThe online retail giant's financial results revealed that UK sales for 2020 totalled $26.5bn (£19.3bn) - a 51% jump from $17.5bn in 2019.\n\nAmazon's overall business rates bill for 2020-2021 is estimated by researchers to be £71.5m - just 0.37% of its retail sales.\n\nThey say this is far lower than what the retail sector typically pays.\n\nAmazon insists that it pays its tax and has created thousands of jobs in the UK.\n\nBusiness rates are calculated by looking at a property's rateable value and multiplying it by a tax rate set by the government. A new tax rate comes into effect at the start of each financial year on 1 April.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), full-year retail sales at physical shops for the 12 months ending 31 December 2020 fell 10.3% from £318.5bn in 2019 to £285.8bn.\n\nRetail advisor Altus Group says that bricks and mortar retailers would have paid £8.25bn in business rates in 2020, had they not been given a tax holiday due to the pandemic.\n\nIt says the figure was calculated using rateable values, multiplied by the 2020 tax rate. The £8.25bn figure amounts to 2.9% of total retail sales, which is much higher than what Amazon pays.\n\nFor instance, Arcadia - which owns Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins - would have had to pay £91m in business rates on its 444 stores in 2020, had there not been a tax holiday, Altus Group says.\n\nWithout the business rates holiday, Arcadia Group would have paid £91m in taxes on its 444 stores in 2020, says Altus Group\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"We want to see thriving high streets, which is why we've spent tens of billions of pounds supporting shops throughout the pandemic and are supporting town centres through the changes online shopping brings.\n\n\"Our business rates review call for evidence included questions on whether we should shift the balance between online and physical shops by introducing an online sales tax. We're considering responses now.\"\n\nSeparately, the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) calculated the business rates paid by physical shops in 2019 and found that they paid £7.17bn in business rates, or 2.3% of their total retail sales in 2019.\n\nThe two organisations said that Amazon, which has close to 100 sites in the UK, including distribution warehouses and lockers on High Streets, is not paying enough tax.\n\nHowever, their calculations do not include corporation tax, which is currently at 19% of profits.\n\nAmazon would not comment on the calculations made by Altus Group and CRR.\n\nA spokesman for Amazon said: \"We've invested more than £23bn in jobs and infrastructure in the UK since 2010.\n\n\"Last year we created 10,000 new jobs and last week we announced 1,000 new apprenticeships. This continued investment helped contribute to a total tax contribution of £1.1bn during 2019 - £293m in direct taxes and £854m in indirect taxes.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing the way in which the business rates system works, and is also separately considering a 2% tax on online sales and services.\n\nBut business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned that any tax rises would place additional pressure on businesses that are already struggling due to the pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A number of Gardai (Irish police) checkpoints were operating along the border on Monday\n\nPeople driving from NI into the Republic of Ireland are being turned back at the border if they do not have an essential reason for travel.\n\nNI residents face fines from Monday if they are caught crossing the border without \"a reasonable excuse\".\n\nThe unprecedented step has been taken by the Irish government in a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAnyone engaged in cross-border travel in breach of Ireland's Covid-19 restrictions will be fined €100 (£88).\n\nA number of Garda (Irish police) checkpoints were operational along the border from 07:00 local time.\n\nAt a checkpoint near Emyvale in County Monaghan, Insp Adrian Durcan said some people had \"turned back\" when requested.\n\n\"We have engaged with a few people who have not had essential reasons and on the advice of the guards, they have turned back,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it was three so far this morning.\"\n\nA checkpoint was set up near Emyvale on the Tyrone-Monaghan border\n\nInsp Durcan said fines would be issued to those not complying with the regulations.\n\n\"They will receive the fine and have 28 days to pay the fine, failure to pay that fine will result in a court appearance,\" he said.\n\n\"If they don't pay it we will issue a summons in respect of the offence and we will follow through on that summons.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland residents who have to cross the border for essential work or essential purposes, such as seeking medical treatment, will be exempt from fines.\n\nPublic health guidance in NI says people \"should not travel in or out of Northern Ireland except where it is essential to do so\".\n\nIrish police have new enforcement powers which include the right to fine people engaged in non-essential travel\n\nThe new rules are the latest in a series of decisions aimed at reducing travel to and within the Republic of Ireland, but it is the first time that people from Northern Ireland will face financial penalties for non-essential cross-border travel.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland is currently in the highest level of lockdown, known as \"level five\" in the government's five-stage plan for managing Covid-19.\n\nLevel five measures include a strict travel ban which means residents in the Republic of Ireland are temporarily prohibited from going more than 5km (3 miles) away from their home.\n\nThere are exceptions to the 5km limit for people who have to travel further for essential work; medical reasons; caring responsibilities; and other essential purposes such as shopping for necessities like food.\n\nSince January 2021, gardaí have new enforcement powers which include the right to fine people engaged in non-essential travel.\n\nAnother checkpoint on Monday - this time near Drogheda\n\nUntil now, Ireland's travel restrictions did not apply to people living in Northern Ireland, although Garda checkpoints a short distance from the border during earlier lockdowns did cause some tailbacks for cross-border traffic.\n\nThe new cross-border fines follow recent amendments to the Irish government's Covid-19 health legislation.\n\nThe regulations now state that \"any other person who is not ordinarily resident in the state shall not travel within a relevant geographical location without reasonable excuse\".\n\nGardaí said if they stop a car with a driver and two adults who should not be crossing the border, all three will receive a €100 fine. Cyclists and pedestrians will also be liable for fines.\n\n\"Travelling to an airport or port to take a holiday abroad is not an essential journey,\" they also warned.\n\nAny adult who is detected travelling to an Irish airport or port for a non-essential trip or holiday abroad currently faces a €500 fine.\n\nA Garda spokeswoman confirmed holidaymakers from Northern Ireland who are stopped by gardaÍ on their way to an airport will be liable for both that €500 fine and the €100 cross-border fine.", "Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters founder, Dave Grohl, spoke to the BBC about home schooling.\n\nHe also told us three albums kids should listen to for their music education.", "Alex Salmond was due to appear before the committee on Tuesday, but has raised \"a number of issues\" with the group\n\nAlex Salmond will not appear at the Holyrood inquiry on the government's handling of harassment complaints on Tuesday as had been planned.\n\nThe former first minister is locked in a dispute with the committee over what material can be published.\n\nA spokeswoman for the parliament said Mr Salmond had \"raised a number of issues for clarification\", and that Tuesday's session would not go ahead.\n\nShe said the committee would continue to have talks with his representatives.\n\nMSPs took more evidence from SNP chief executive Peter Murrell on Monday morning, and will discuss the issue of Mr Salmond's appearance afterwards.\n\nSome members had called for an emergency meeting of the committee on Friday, with Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton saying the group was \"in crisis\".\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine what went wrong with the government's investigation of two internal harassment complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe government conceded its process had been \"unlawful\" and agreed to pay the former SNP leader £500,000 in expenses after he launched a judicial review action in the courts.\n\nThe committee had originally hoped to take evidence from Mr Salmond in December, but had failed to agree a date amid a long-running dispute over whether they could obtain certain evidence from the Crown Office and whether they would publish all of his submissions.\n\nThe issue seemed to have been settled after MSPs accepted an offer from Mr Salmond to appear this week, with his successor Nicola Sturgeon due to give evidence a week later.\n\nHowever, the session has now been put off again after the parliament refused to publish a submission Mr Salmond made to a separate investigation into whether or not Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code in her dealings with him.\n\nIn it, Mr Salmond claimed Ms Sturgeon repeatedly misled parliament and gave evidence to the committee which was \"simply untrue\". These are claims Ms Sturgeon said she \"entirely rejects\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon is due to give evidence to the committee herself in the coming weeks\n\nParliamentary officials do not want to publish the submission in full, and now say a redacted version could not be published as the document had been posted in full elsewhere online.\n\nThe spokeswoman said Mr Salmond had not confirmed his appearance on Tuesday, and had \"raised a number of issues for clarification\" meaning the meeting could not go ahead.\n\nShe said: \"Mr Salmond had been contacted to make it clear that he can speak freely in committee about all of his contact with Nicola Sturgeon and his views on her actions.\n\n\"He was given the opportunity to make a lengthy opening statement on Tuesday and would have had four hours to answer questions in public. He was also invited to send more written evidence for publication after the meeting.\n\n\"The committee has already published two lengthy submissions from Mr Salmond and many, many pages of records and documents from him that he has been invited to speak freely about in parliament on Tuesday. All of this written and oral evidence could then be reflected in the committee's report.\n\n\"The committee continues to communicate with Mr Salmond's representatives.\"\n\nMSPs took evidence from Peter Murrell for a second time on Monday\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers have told MSPs that he can give evidence at any point up until Ms Sturgeon's mooted appearance on 16 February - provided the submission is published.\n\nThey said that the decision not to publish summed up \"the confusion and legal difficulties created by the committee\", saying Mr Salmond was \"still in the dark about the parameters of his evidence\".\n\nThey added: \"Our client cannot take his oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth unless and until you properly address in writing the legitimate concerns set out.\"\n\nThere have been reports that the former first minister may opt to hold a press conference instead of attending at Holyrood.\n\nMonday's committee meeting saw heated exchanges between Mr Murrell and Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser, who accused the SNP chief of giving \"false information having sworn an oath\" in his previous session.\n\nMr Murrell, who is married to Ms Sturgeon, said he would \"absolutely refute\" the claims, insisting there was no contradiction in his evidence - and \"no conspiracy\" against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe session came as another SNP official, Sue Ruddick, issued a statement criticising the approach of the committee.\n\nThe party's chief operating officer said MSPs were being \"led by selective quoting, leaks and false allegations\" and seemed \"determined to ignore complainers' privacy rights\".\n\nShe also criticised the group's decision to force the Crown Office to hand over private messages between her and others in the SNP and government which ultimately were not published.\n\nCommittee convener Linda Fabiani said at the time that members \"will not do anything that may cause further unnecessary distress to any women\".", "Sven Badzak was chased by a group of males in Kilburn before being stabbed, the Met Police said\n\nA 22-year-old man killed in a double stabbing outside a Tesco store in Kilburn, north-west London, has been named by police as Sven Badzak.\n\nDetectives said Mr Badzak was chased by a group of males and was attacked after falling on Willesden Lane.\n\nMr Badzak's 16-year-old friend was also stabbed in the attack and remains critically ill in hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nCh Insp Guy Ellwood described the attack as \"barbaric\".\n\nOfficers were called to Willesden Lane at 17:40 GMT on Saturday where they found Mr Badzak injured.\n\nMr Badzak was taken to a hospital in central London where he later died, Det Ch Insp Darren Jones said.\n\nHe added that, at this early stage of the investigation, detectives believe Sven and his friend came into contact with a group of males who then chased them.\n\n\"As this group chased the pair, Sven and his friend became separated. Sven fell to the ground and was attacked by a number of the group.\n\n\"His friend was also attacked but managed to seek sanctuary in a shop. However, he remains critically ill in hospital.\"\n\nPolice said there had been no arrests in either of the fatal stabbings in Croydon and Kilburn\n\nDet Ch Insp Jones appealed for any witnesses who were in the Willesden Lane and Kilburn High Road areas at the time of the attack.\n\nThe murder investigation comes after another 13 people were injured in an \"abhorrent\" wave of knife crime across parts of the capital.\n\nThroughout Friday night the Met was called to separate stabbings in other parts of Croydon, Chislehurst and Streatham.\n\nOne of the victims, a 22-year-old man, died after being attacked in the Wisbeach area of Croydon.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon another man, aged 24, was stabbed on Oakfield Road near West Croydon station.\n\nHours later, a 15-year-old boy was attacked on the Churchill Gardens Estate in Westminster, police said.\n\nNone of those victims suffered life-threatening injuries, the Met added.\n• None One killed and 10 injured in spate of stabbings\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People living in the UK unlawfully won't be risking deportation by coming forward for a coronavirus jab, the government has said.\n\nMinisters say they want everyone to get vaccinated and are urging illegal immigrants to register with a GP.\n\nThe vaccine is free, regardless of a person's immigration status.\n\nHowever, the policy is not an amnesty for immigrants and no-one will be given leave to remain in the UK as a result of being vaccinated.\n\nWhen the coronavirus pandemic struck in the spring, the government announced that anyone seeking a test or treatment for coronavirus would not have their immigration status checked.\n\nIt is now being made explicit that this principle applies to vaccinations too.\n\nAnd the government has said it will work with outside organisations to contact those who aren't yet registered with a GP.\n\nResponding to the news, the former minister, Conservative Julian Smith told the BBC's Westminster Hour: \"I welcome everybody, whoever they are, getting a jab.\"\n\nSteve Valdez-Symonds from Amnesty UK said many undocumented immigrants are \"too afraid\" to access healthcare, adding that \"it has been the message, very clearly, from the government that access to health care is something that leads to information being passed about them to the immigration authorities\".\n\n\"It is great that the government has said it won't do that in this case, but it has an awful lot to do to ensure that people can believe in that.\"\n\nHe also said it was the case that \"many GP surgeries wrongly think people aren't allowed to register with them because of their immigration status, which is not true.\"\n\nAccording to a National Audit Office report published last year the government has not had an up-to-date estimate of the number of immigrants in the UK illegally in 15 years - so it is not clear how many people this ruling affects.\n\nThe last official estimate found about 430,000 people were in the country with no legal right to remain, but that figure dates back to 2005.\n\nAnd the NAO says independent research since then has put the number at over a million.\n\nMore than 12 million people in the UK have now had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine and the government is aiming to offer first doses to 15 million people in the top four priority groups by 15 February.", "Tom Brady steered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a comfortable 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs to extend his record for Super Bowl wins to seven.\n\nIn his first season after a glittering 20-year spell with the New England Patriots, the evergreen quarterback helped Tampa Bay become the first team to play a Super Bowl in their own stadium.\n\nAnd despite facing Kansas City and their dynamic young quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who came in as favourites, Brady threw three touchdown passes to prevent the Chiefs becoming the first back-to-back NFL champions since Brady and the Patriots in the 2004 season.\n\nAt 43 years and 188 days, Brady became the oldest player to play in the biggest game in US sport, extending his record for Super Bowl appearances to 10 and joining Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks to win Super Bowls with two different teams.\n\nAlready widely considered the greatest NFL player of all time, Brady decided to leave New England in the off-season for a new challenge and was lured to Tampa Bay, whose only previous Super Bowl win came in the 2002 season.\n• None Is this the GOAT's greatest achievement?\n\nHe reportedly urged the Bucs to bring in former Patriots team-mates Rob Gronkowski and Antonio Brown, as well as Leonard Fournette, and the trio shared Tampa Bay's four touchdowns as they eased home in Super Bowl 55 after leading 21-6 at half-time.\n\nWhile the Chiefs came into the post-season as the top seed in the AFC Conference, Tampa Bay were the NFC's fifth seed and became the first wildcard team to win a Super Bowl since the Green Bay Packers 10 years ago after a remarkable play-off run.\n\nAfter losing to the Chiefs in week 12, the Bucs finished the regular season with four wins before beating three division winners - all on the road - to reach the title decider for just the second time.\n\nRemarkably, Brady now has more Super Bowl wins than any single NFL franchise and was named the big game's Most Valuable Player for a record-extending fifth time.\n\n\"I'm so proud of all of these guys,\" he said. \"We had a rough November but Bruce Arians (head coach) had all of the confidence in us and we came together at the right time.\n\n\"I'm not making any comparisons. Coming down here and playing with this group of guys is amazing.\"\n\nWhile at New England, Brady formed the NFL's most successful quarterback-coach partnership with Bill Belichick, and when he left, some felt that Belichick deserved more of the credit, that Brady would get 'found out' without him.\n\nBut the Patriots endured their first losing season since 2000 - the year before Brady became their starting QB - while Brady has won another Super Bowl, with a team he joined during a pandemic, after a heavily disrupted off-season with no pre-season games.\n\nIt was also a team that, before this season, had not won a play-off game since winning Super Bowl 37. They had not reached the post-season at all since 2007.\n\nBut Brady recognised they were gradually building a competitive roster. They had a solid offensive line that would protect him in the pocket and two of the NFL's best receivers in Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.\n\nDuring Super Bowl week, coach Bruce Arians said Brady was \"the missing piece\". For good measure, they brought Gronkowski out of retirement, gave Brown another chance and picked up free agent Fournette.\n\nAll came to the fore as the Bucs ramped up for an unlikely run at the Super Bowl and after Kansas City opened the scoring with a field goal, Brady found Brown twice on the next drive before sending tight end Gronkowski over with a screen pass.\n\nThe pair combined to devastating effect at New England before Gronkowski retired after winning Super Bowl 53 with Brady and the Patriots. The 31-year-old had brief stints in WWE and television during his time out. But after easing back into the rigours of the NFL with seven touchdowns during the regular season, he caught a 17-yard strike by Brady for his second of Super Bowl 55.\n\nThe Chiefs finally got some offence going to reply with a field goal, 61 seconds from half-time, and just as they did in the NFC Championship game against the Packers, Tampa Bay claimed a crucial score right before the half as Brady completed a 71-yard drive by finding Brown in the end zone.\n\nKansas City rallied at the start of the second half and cut the deficit with another field goal, but the Bucs continued to dominate on both sides of the ball, stifling the NFL's best offence.\n\nBrady found Gronkowski for another big play before Fournette burst through for a 27-yard touchdown to seal a victory which many dreamed of in Tampa when Brady came aboard, but few would have thought was possible.\n\n'The greatest professional athlete we have seen in history' - analysis\n\nOsi Umenyiora, two-time Super Bowl champion and former New York Giants defensive end:\n\n\"Tom Brady should be the first player in history to be in the Hall of Fame while he's still playing. What this man has done this year is almost beyond belief, almost beyond words. I cannot describe the level of difficulty, what it took for this man to do what he's done.\n\n\"Every single year this guy's been doubted, every single year this man rises to the top like a phoenix. This guy is the greatest professional athlete we have seen in history, and this goes for any sport. And I'm not just saying that to be hyperbolic. What this guy is doing in the quarterback position - the hardest position to play in sports - winning over and over again... my hat's off to this guy.\"\n\n\"It's all because of Brady's focus, his attention to detail. He came into the league as an underdog and he's never let it go. It drives him every single day.\"\n\nOn the manner of Kansas City's defeat: \"This defeat is humbling for the Chiefs, no doubt. They're going to want to get the taste of this out of their mouth. This was a terrible performance and I didn't like the way they reacted to adversity, the way they were talking to each other when they got down wasn't right. They'll have to bounce back next season.\"\n\nAfter leading Kansas City to their first Super Bowl win in 50 years, Mahomes was rewarded with a 10-year contract last July, making him the \"first half-billion dollar player in sports history\".\n\nHe had become the youngest player to win the Super Bowl and the NFL MVP award, and the 25-year-old is the most exciting talent of a new era of athletic quarterbacks.\n\nAfter steering the Chiefs back to the big game, 'the Kid' now had a chance to take on 'the GOAT' in the NFL showpiece. It was the first to feature the quarterbacks who had won the previous two Super Bowls, and two starting QBs who have both won an NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP.\n\nBut Kansas City erred in all three phases of the game - slicing punts on special teams, dropping catches on offence and showing indiscipline on defence. In the first half alone, they were penalised eight times for 95 yards.\n\nAfter Gronkowski put the Bucs in front, the Chiefs pulled off what seemed a huge goal-line stop to prevent the hosts extending their lead. Then Tyrann Mathieu claimed an interception on Tampa Bay's next drive, only to see it cancelled out by a defensive holding call. And although they forced the Bucs to settle for a field goal, an offside put the ball back in Brady's hands to pick out Gronkowski for his second touchdown.\n\nDespite cutting the score to 14-6 just before the half, two pass interference calls allowed Tampa Bay to march right back downfield and make it a 14-point game with Brown's touchdown before Fournette's third-quarter score proved the decisive blow.\n\n\"They were the better team today, they beat us pretty good,\" said Mahomes. \"We didn't end the season the way we wanted, but we'll learn from what went right and what went wrong.\"\n\nBrady to Gronk, yet again - Super Bowl stats\n• None Tom Brady now has more Super Bowl wins than any NFL franchise, one clear of both the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers (6)\n• None Rob Gronkowski became the first man to make at least one catch in five Super Bowls.\n• None Brady and Gronkowski have connected for five passing touchdowns in Super Bowls, passing Joe Montana and Jerry Rice (four) for the most in Super Bowl history.\n• None Brady and Gronkowski have combined for more post-season touchdowns than any other quarterback-receiver duo all-time - 14.\n• None At 68 years and 127 days, Bruce Arians became the oldest coach to win the Super Bowl.\n• None This game saw the largest age gap between quarterbacks in Super Bowl history (18 years and 45 days).\n\nThe Weeknd makes most of Covid restrictions\n\nThe Super Bowl Half-time Show is traditionally built on grand gestures and eye-popping spectacle.\n\nThink about Lady Gaga diving off the roof of Houston's NRG stadium, or Katy Perry riding an animatronic lion, or Diana Ross soaring out of Arizona's Sun Devil Stadium, waving to fans through the open door of a helicopter.\n\nThis year was a little different. Canadian R&B star The Weeknd was the interval act and, for the first time in the game's 55-year history, he was largely forced to perform from the stands, rather than the pitch, in compliance with strict coronavirus protocols.\n\nAnd his 12-minute show was \"watched\" by thousands of cardboard cut-outs, who bulked out the 25,000 socially-distanced fans.\n\nBut the 30-year-old made the most of the restrictions with a gimmick-free show that put the emphasis on his songs.\n• None What role has an alleged drugs boss had in arranging Britain's biggest ever bout?\n• None A deeply personal film following Katie Price and her son Harvey as he enters adulthood", "\"Obviously we will find a way to survive, because we have to, but it's a lot lot harder,\" said single mum, Rebecca\n\nFailing to extend a £20 lockdown benefit boost will harm the health of millions of people for decades, leading health organisations have told Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a letter.\n\nIntroduced last year, the £20-a-week uplift is due to end in April.\n\nClaimants say it has been a lifeline and dread losing it.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has hinted the government could be moving closer to extending the rise but says there is no decision yet.\n\nNow, groups representing doctors, nurses and social workers, say health inequalities laid bare by Covid will worsen if the uplift to universal credit is scrapped.\n\nTheir comments echo those of campaigners and claimants - such as single mother Rebecca, from the east of England, who told BBC News withdrawing the extra cash would be \"cruel\".\n\nRebecca, who asked the BBC not to use her full name, has an eight-year-old daughter and relies on universal credit to supplement her earnings from working 14 hours a week for a charity.\n\nShe has been receiving the benefit for two years, the first of which, before the extra payment was introduced, she describes as \"brutal\".\n\nAnd by October 2019, \"we had no money for food\".\n\n\"I put a post on Facebook, asking where I could go safely with a kid for free food,\" she said.\n\nIn the end, it was gifts from friends and food parcels from a local church that saw them through.\n\nThe introduction of the £20 boost had provided a buffer, said Rebecca.\n\n\"At least I had something coming in,\" she said.\n\n\"The £20 is mostly food for her - I eat whatever I can.\n\n\"Obviously we will find a way to survive, because we have to, but it's a lot lot harder.\"\n\nThe letter calls on the prime minister to make the temporary increase to universal credit and working tax credit permanent from April and provide the same uplift to other key benefits.\n\n\"As organisations working across health and care, we see the irrefutable evidence that poverty has significant negative impacts on individuals, their families and society more widely,\" it says.\n\nThe letter calls the extra £20 \"an investment in our nation's health, ensuring many of those on the lowest incomes have access to essentials like food or heating\".\n\n\"In a year marked by worry and uncertainty, the uplift has been a preventative lifeline keeping many afloat, protecting them from financial instability, debt and worsening mental health,\" it says.\n\nAnd if it is discontinued, \"overnight 6.2 million families will face a £1,040 cut to their incomes\".\n\n\"We cannot plan for the UK's economic recovery only to face another escalating health crisis for those on the lowest incomes,\" the letter says.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Coffey told MPs: \"We have the effects of this pandemic that are ongoing.\n\n\"And we recognise the need to continue to support people.\"\n\nShe rejected the idea the extra £20 \"reduces work incentives\", telling the Work and Pensions Committee this \"steady stream of money would be more beneficial to claimants\" than an alternative option of a one-off payment.\n\nThe £20 boost, which costs about £6bn, came after years of cuts to benefits.\n\nChanges since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, initially in coalition, mean spending on working-age benefits is about £32bn lower this year than it would have been, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has calculated.\n\nAnd even with the extra £20, a single person with no children who loses their job in the UK this year will receive just 17% of average earnings in benefit payments, the lowest figure among high-income economies.\n\nThe cuts to welfare have also been blamed by campaigners and charities for the increase in child poverty since 2010.\n\nAnother think tank, the Resolution Foundation, has calculated even if the £20 boost is made permanent, child poverty will continue to rise.\n\nAnd by 2024, one third of children will be living in poverty.\n\nRebecca said she knew how to budget but still struggled to make ends meet, even with the extra £20 a week.\n\nWithout it, \"every day is stress because you don't know how you're going to make it for the next month\".\n\n\"You're always living on your toes,\" she said.\n\n\"And you're always having to budget minute by minute and budget to the very penny.\"\n\n\"When already you are scraping for money, £20 is masses.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond to ensure that nobody is left behind.\"\n\nHe said support had been targeted at those most in need, including \"raising the living wage, spending hundreds of billions to safeguard jobs, boosting welfare support by billions and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme\".", "Greysteel couple Barney and Sarah McGlinchey died six minutes apart\n\nHospital staff have been praised for the care they showed a County Londonderry couple who died within six minutes of each other.\n\nBarney and Sarah McGlinchey from Greysteel died on 20 January with Covid-19 after spending almost two weeks in Altnagelvin Hospital.\n\nThey were in separate wards, but staff brought them together to be with each other in their final moments.\n\nOnly one of their daughters was with them due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBarney, passed away first at 16:55 GMT, while Sarah, known affectionately as Blossom, passed away shortly after at 17:01.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBarney, 81, and 78-year-old Blossom, who had five children and seven grandchildren, were absolutely devoted to each other, their daughter Lynne Gray said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mrs Gray praised the outstanding care provided to her parents by hospital staff during their family's \"most difficult time\".\n\n\"As much as we respected the restrictions and the reason they are in place to protect the wider community, it was really, really hard to think that your parents are alone in a sealed off room,\" she said.\n\n\"That they are with strangers and that you can't be with them in their final hours.\"\n\nMrs Gray said the family had mostly been corresponding with the couple through letters while they were in hospital.\n\n\"When they were fit enough they would read their own letters, but when they weren't the nurses would read them for them.\n\n\"We knew they weren't returning, but we wanted to keep their hope.\"\n\nLynne Gray says her father and mother were devoted to each other\n\nShe said the family received a phone call on 20 January to say her parents' condition had drastically deteriorated and \"were soon to be on their final journey\".\n\nThe consultant on her father's ward said they would like to bring her father from his ward to be with his wife.\n\n\"We know that they (hospital staff) wanted us as a family to be with our parents, but the restrictions prevented that for the betterment for the wider community,\" she said.\n\n\"As difficult as it was for us, we know it was equally as difficult for the nursing and caring staff at Altnagelvin Hospital.\"\n\nMrs Gray said the family's biggest fear was for them to die alone in hospital and said knowing they spent their last moments together in the company of her older sister Libby was of huge comfort.\n\nShe urged people to take the virus more seriously and to follow public health guidance.\n\n\"Listen to the professionals, trust the experts that we need to guide us through this pandemic.\"\n\nMrs Gray added her lasting memory of her mum and dad would be their love for one another, their love of family and their faith.", "Up to 87 million pints of beer will be thrown away as a result of pub closures during Covid lockdowns around the UK, an industry body has calculated.\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) called the waste - equivalent to £331m in sales - \"heartbreaking\".\n\nChief executive Emma McClarkin urged the government to give publicans more help in the Budget, including extending the VAT cut for the hospitality sector.\n\nThe Treasury said keeping businesses going was its \"priority\".\n\nBarrelled beer not sold by its best-before date has to be returned to breweries and disposed of.\n\nFor pasteurised beers - including most lagers - this is usually about three to four months after delivery to pubs.\n\nFor real ales and other unpasteurised beer, the timescale is normally around six to nine weeks.\n\nThe BBPA has worked out, from industry feedback, that 70 million pints of beer were thrown away during the first lockdown.\n\nWith publicans more alert to the risk of wastage - and amid ongoing restrictions imposed on large parts of the UK - they bought less stock after reopening.\n\nThis meant that, when further lockdowns occurred around the UK last autumn, seven million pints were wasted, with another 10 million expected to go the same way during the current one, the BBPA found.\n\nBefore the pandemic, the number of pubs in the UK had started rising slightly, following many years of decline.\n\nBut the difficulties since then mean many of the 39,000 premises operating at that point have closed or are \"struggling\", Ms McClarkin told the BBC.\n\n\"Pubs and breweries are effectively having to pour their businesses down the drain,\" she said.\n\nThe licensed trade was \"in limbo\", with \"no idea or clarity from government on when we can reopen again\", she added.\n\nGarry Tallent and partner Sandy Masson have incurred big losses during the pandemic\n\nGarry Tallent, landlord of the Red Lion in Chobham, Surrey, did up his pub at a cost of around £330,000 last year and estimates he has lost £20,000 in stock during lockdowns, £6,000 of that in beer.\n\n\"The government has got to give some real fiscal stimulation to get us through this,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all fighters in this trade but we've been through a year of grief through no fault of our own.\"\n\nMr Tennant employs 16 staff, whose pension contributions he has continued to pay. His total losses since the pandemic could total £130,000 by the time pubs reopen, he said.\n\nMs McClarkin asked Chancellor Rishi Sunak to keep the current 5% VAT rate for the hospitality industry - down from the usual 20% - in place after pubs reopen, arguing that venues closed during lockdowns have not been able to benefit from it yet.\n\nThe business rates holiday - due to finish at the end of this financial year - should also be extended in the Budget, on 3 March, she added.\n\nA Treasury statement said the hospitality sector was receiving \"significant support\", including one-off grants worth up to £9,000, monthly grants of up to £3,000, and a £1,000 grant that was provided to pubs not serving food at the time during tiered restrictions when so-called \"wet pubs\" were forced to close.\n\n''We've also extended the furlough scheme until the end of April, provided 100% relief on business rates, and have cut VAT for hospitality businesses,\" they added.\n\n\"At the upcoming Budget we'll outline the next stages of our plan for jobs to support businesses and families across the UK. That has been our priority throughout the past year and it will be the priority for the year to come.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We wish them to fall\": Teachers in the city of Yangon have joined protests against Monday's military coup\n\nA civil disobedience movement in Myanmar is gaining momentum, with teachers and students protesting against Monday's military coup.\n\nDemonstrators at a university in the biggest city, Yangon, chanted support for jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and wore red ribbons, her party's colour.\n\nMs Suu Kyi and other leaders have been held since the coup on Monday.\n\nEarlier, the military detained another senior leader from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nMs Suu Kyi, who has not been seen in public since Monday, is under house arrest, according to her lawyer. He said he was seeking her unconditional release and that of the president, who was also detained, but he had been unable to meet them.\n\nMyanmar, which is also known as Burma, has remained mostly calm in the aftermath of the coup, which has plunged the South East Asian country into uncertainty.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, hundreds of teachers and students gathered outside Dagon University in Yangon, where they displayed the three-finger salute - a sign that has been adopted by protesters in the region to show their opposition to authoritarian rule.\n\nThey chanted their support for Ms Suu Kyi and carried red flags.\n\n\"We will not let our generation suffer under this kind of military dictatorship,\" Min Sithu, a student, told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe first reaction to the coup was shock and horror. But now people have had time to digest what is happening and are finding different ways to fight back.\n\nAs the regime takes more steps to tighten its control, an increasing number of people are joining the leaderless civil disobedience campaign demanding a return of the democratically elected government.\n\nThe military has blocked the most popular social media platform, Facebook, but most people are still able to access it using virtual private networks - VPNs - and that's where lots of the protests are taking place.\n\nPeople here know very well the violent crackdowns the military is capable of, so that's why for now there are no widespread street protests. But there are other ways people can make their voices heard.\n\nThe lecturers who took part in Friday's campus protests said they were doing it for the next generation.\n\nI have an 18-month-old child. I grew up under military rule and the economic sanctions that came as a result of it. I prayed that my son would grow up in a very different Burma. Now I am not so sure what his future will be like.\n\nUniversity teachers have joined the protests elsewhere in the country, like here in Kachin state...\n\n...or here in Sittwe, Rakhine state\n\nThere have been a number of demonstrations in different parts of Myanmar - the first large-scale street protests seen in the country since the coup.\n\nResidents in some cities, including Yangon, have conducted nightly protests from their homes, banging pots and pans and singing revolutionary songs. There have also been daytime flash mobs.\n\nAbout 70 MPs are said to have held an insurgent parliament, to replicate the parliamentary session that was supposed to take place this week.\n\nWin Htein (left) is a senior leader in the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi (right)\n\nIn a pre-dawn phone call with BBC Burmese, Win Htein, a 79-year-old patron of the NLD and strong supporter of Ms Suu Kyi, said he was being taken to the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, by members of the police and the military.\n\nHe said he was being detained under sedition laws - which carry a maximum punishment of life imprisonment - although he was not told the exact charge.\n\n\"They don't like what I've been talking about. They are afraid of what I'm saying,\" he said.\n\nThere was a small protest in front of a university in Mandalay, the country's second city, on Thursday\n\nMany have also gone online to protest against the coup, but the military has now extended its temporary ban on Facebook to cover Twitter and Instagram too.\n\nTwitter declined to comment when asked by the BBC if it had seen a spike in new users or tweets from Myanmar.\n\nThe military overthrew Ms Suu Kyi's government after it claimed a November election won by the NLD was fraudulent, though the country's election commission said there was no evidence to back up these allegations.\n\nThe move has been met with global outrage. On Thursday, US President Joe Biden called on the military to \"relinquish power\" and release detained officials and activists. The US had already threatened severe sanctions on Myanmar.\n\nHowever, the military is seemingly undeterred, continuing down its path of consolidating power and appointing new ministers, says the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head.\n\nThe UN Security Council also called on the military authorities in Myanmar to release Ms Suu Kyi and other detained leaders - but stopped short of condemning the coup.\n\nIn doing so, it has brought China and Russia behind a call for her release, in what our correspondent has described as a rare show of international unity.\n\nMyanmar is a country of 54 million people in South East Asia which shares borders with Bangladesh, India, China, Thailand and Laos.\n\nIt was ruled by an oppressive military government from 1962 to 2011, leading to international condemnation and sanctions.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi spent years campaigning for democratic reforms. A gradual liberalisation began in 2010, though the military still retained considerable influence.\n\nA government led by Ms Suu Kyi came to power after free elections in 2015. But a deadly military crackdown two years later on Rohingya Muslims sent hundreds of thousands fleeing to Bangladesh.\n\nIt triggered a rift between Ms Suu Kyi and the international community after she refused to condemn the crackdown or describe it as ethnic cleansing.\n\nShe has remained popular at home and her party won again by a landslide in the November 2020 election. But the military have now stepped in to take control once more.\n\nHave you been affected by recent events in Myanmar? 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.\n• None What is happening in Myanmar and why?", "All adults aged 50 and over should have been offered a coronavirus vaccine by May, Downing Street has confirmed.\n\nPreviously ministers had said it was their \"ambition\" to vaccinate the first nine priority groups by the spring.\n\nThe UK had given a first jab to nearly 11 million people as of Thursday and is aiming to reach 15 million vaccinations by 15 February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said a lot of things would \"have to go right\" to hit the May target for all over-50s.\n\nHe said supply was the \"most difficult\" limiting factor in the roll out.\n\nBut he said the government was on track to vaccinate the first four priority groups by the middle of the month, these include the over-70s, frontline health and care workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe top nine priority vaccination groups - which are set by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) - also includes people aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions.\n\nMr Hancock also said it was \"still too early to say\" when restrictions could be lifted and warned the health service was still under pressure.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said, in a Twitter video, that on 22 February he would \"set out the beginnings of our roadmap for a way forward for the whole country as the vaccine programme intensifies and, as more and more people acquire immunity, a steady programme for beginning to unlock\".\n\nHe also warned that these were still \"early days\" and rates of infection in the country were \"still very high\".\n\nIt comes after Mark Harper, chairman of the Covid Recovery Group made up of Conservative MPs who want lockdown to be eased, said it would be \"almost impossible to justify having any restrictions in place\" once the over-50s had been vaccinated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock also spoke about government plans for quarantine hotels to be introduced in England\n\nProf Graham Medley, who is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, earlier said the government should avoid \"setting dates\" for lifting lockdown and focus on criteria, such as case rates, rather than a calendar.\n\nA further 1,014 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Friday, taking the total by that measure to 111,264.\n\nThere have been 19,114 more positive cases of coronavirus recorded, while another 480,560 people received their first dose of a vaccine - taking the total to 10,971,047 across the UK.\n\nCoronavirus cases are showing clear signs of falling across the UK, the latest figures suggest, and the R number - the average number of people that someone with Covid will go on to infect - has dropped slightly to between 0.7 and 1.\n\nIn a press release confirming May's local elections will go ahead, the Cabinet Office said: \"The UK's vaccination programme is planned to have reached all nine priority cohorts by May, meaning that the government can commit to go ahead with these polls with confidence.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said, while the NHS has the staff, volunteers and clinics needed to vaccinate the 15 million people in the next priority groups, vaccine production was a biological process so there were no guarantees about how much could be grown.\n\nBut our correspondent said there was growing confidence in the UK supply chain, with the bulk of supplies now coming from UK-based plants, while the first batches of the Moderna vaccine - of which the UK has ordered 17 million doses - would start to arrive before Easter.\n\nSo far, the falls in Covid cases and hospital admissions (about a fifth in a week respectively) are pretty much exclusively down to the effects of lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut soon, we'll start to see the impact of vaccination too - and we will expect to see more good news, particularly falls in deaths which are heavily concentrated in the over-80s.\n\nWhile deaths mainly occur in the over-80s, about 20% of hospital admissions are in 45-64-year-olds and another 20% in 65 to 74-year-olds. The latest commitment to vaccinate all over 50s could have a massive impact on severe illness and the strain it puts on the health service, too.\n\nBut the situation will remain precarious for a while. Cases, though falling, are still high - and despite a so-far successful vaccination campaign, large swathes of the country may still be unprotected come spring.\n\nThough much rarer, a proportion of younger, healthy people will end up in hospital with Covid, and we're only just beginning to learn about the burden of long Covid on the previously well young.\n\nSo once the groups at highest risk of ending up in hospital and dying have been vaccinated, the government will face difficult questions about what level of risk it is willing to stomach to ease restrictions, while a prolonged lockdown carries its own risks that might be currently difficult to measure.\n\nThe UK's drugs regulator, the MHRA, said the vaccines being distributed in the country were extremely safe, while new research shows the AstraZeneca jab protects well against the new \"Kent\" variant of Covid.\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government also announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac, which Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said would allow the UK to \"swiftly tweak and roll out\" existing vaccines to combat new variants, with 50 million doses placed in an initial order for later this year.\n\nThe government also said no contracts had yet been awarded to hotels to take part in England's new quarantine scheme, which will see all those arriving from 33 Covid hotspots have to stay in a hotel for 10 nights.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "Three journalists who were allegedly working as spies for China were asked to leave the UK last year.\n\nTheir departure, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, came because they had arrived under journalism visas but were believed to be working for the Ministry of State Security, part of China's intelligence apparatus.\n\nTheir departure was low-key and did not come in the past few months.\n\nThe Home Office declined to comment on the reports.\n\nIt is not clear which media organisations they worked for. The Chinese Embassy in London has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe revelation came after Ofcom on Thursday revoked the licence of the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN to operate in the UK.\n\nThe broadcasting regulator said the company that had the licence did not have day-to-day control over the channel which was against the rules.\n\nThe decision was not linked to the reports about the three Chinese journalists.\n\nChina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was \"firmly opposed\" to Ofcom's ruling.\n\nMeanwhile, the US government has said it was \"deeply disturbed\" by a BBC report detailing allegations of systematic rape of Uighur women in Chinese camps.\n\n\"These atrocities shock the conscience and must be met with serious consequences,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nUK government minister, Nigel Adams, told parliament on Thursday that the report showed \"clearly evil acts\".\n\nAccording to estimates, more than a million Uighurs and other minorities have been detained in camps in China.\n\nAn investigation published by the BBC on Wednesday contained first-hand testimony of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture of women detainees by police and guards.", "An impression of the island, surrounded by offshore wind turbines, 260m (850ft) in height\n\nA project to build a giant island providing enough energy for three million households has been given the green light by Denmark's politicians.\n\nThe world's first energy island will be as big as 18 football pitches (120,000sq m), but there are hopes to make it three times that size.\n\nIt will serve as a hub for 200 giant offshore wind turbines.\n\nIt is the biggest construction project in Danish history, costing an estimated 210bn kroner (£24bn; €28bn: $34bn).\n\nSituated 80km (50 miles) out to sea, the artificial island would be at least half-owned by the state but partly by the private sector.\n\nIt will not just supply electricity for Danes but for other, neighbouring countries' electricity grids too. Although those countries have not yet been detailed, Prof Jacob Ostergaard of the Technical University of Denmark told the BBC that the UK could benefit, as well as Germany or the Netherlands. Green hydrogen would also be provided for use in shipping, aviation, industry and heavy transport.\n\nUnder Denmark's Climate Act, the country has committed to an ambitious 70% reduction in 1990 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and to becoming CO2 neutral by 2050. Last December it announced it was ending all new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.\n\nEnergy Minister Dan Jorgensen said the country was simply \"changing the map\".\n\n\"This is gigantic,\" Prof Ostergaard told the BBC. \"It's the next big step for the Danish wind turbine industry. We were leading on land, then we took the step offshore and now we are taking the step with energy islands, so it'll keep the Danish industry in a pioneering position.\"\n\nThe plan is for the island to grow from an initial 120,000 sq m in size to 460,000 sq m\n\nGreen group Dansk Energi said that while the \"dream was on the way to becoming a reality\" it doubted the North Sea island would be up and running by the planned 2033 start date.\n\nBut Danish politicians across the spectrum have given their backing to the plan. Former energy minister Rasmus Helveg Petersen of the Social Liberal party said energy islands had begun \"as a radical vision\" but there was now a broad agreement to turn it into a reality.\n\nA smaller energy island is already being planned off Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, to the east of mainland Denmark. Agreements have already been signed for electricity to be provided from there to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.\n\nLast November the European Union announced plans for a 25-fold increase in offshore wind capacity by 2050, with a five-fold increase by 2030. Renewable energy provides around a third of the bloc's current electricity needs:\n\nWhile there is some secrecy over where the new island will be built, it is known that it will be 80km into the North Sea. Danish TV said that a Danish Energy Agency study last year had marked two areas west of the Jutland coast and that both had a relatively shallow sea depth of 26-27m.\n\nFind out more about Denmark's wind power:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who took wind power to another level\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "May's local and mayoral elections in England are going ahead - but voters will be asked to bring their own pens to help combat coronavirus.\n\nThe government is giving councils an extra £31m for plastic screens in polling stations and hand sanitiser in an effort to make the polls Covid-safe.\n\nAnd people who are shielding will be encouraged to vote by post.\n\nBut an all-postal ballot has been ruled out, despite local fears the elections will be too difficult to organise.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A really simple guide to the 2021 elections\n\nPolice and crime commissioner (PCC) elections will also go ahead on 6 May in both England and Wales. Welsh local council elections are scheduled to take place next year.\n\nScottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd elections are also scheduled to take place this May - with the devolved governments responsible for running them.\n\nThe government had previously said the local elections for England, scheduled for 6 May, were under review amid uncertainty about lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut Cabinet Office minister Chloe Smith confirmed on Friday they will go ahead, arguing \"democracy should not be cancelled because of Covid\".\n\nMay will see a bumper crop of voting, with local elections that were postponed last year combined with those originally scheduled to take place in 2021.\n\nIt means around 5,000 council seats will be contested in 149 local authorities in England, alongside 25 seats in the London Assembly, and some mayoral races.\n\nParticipation in local elections varies between years depending on which seats are up for grabs - around 7.5 million took part in England's elections in 2018, and 6.5 million in 2017.\n\nAs well as being asked to bring their own pen or pencil to mark their ballots, those voting in a polling station this year will have to wear a mask.\n\nCandidates are also being asked not to give voters a lift to polling stations in their cars - a common practice at election time.\n\nPolling booths must also be designed to ensure \"maximum ventilation\", the government says.\n\nRules on proxy voting - where people designate someone else to vote on their behalf - will also be changed to allow people who need to self-isolate to request an emergency proxy vote up until 5pm on polling day.\n\nHowever, the government said it had decided against postal ballot-only elections \"as this could increase fraud risk and reduce choice for voters\".\n\nAn extra £15m will be given to English councils to hold their elections, with an estimated additional £16m for PCC elections in England and Wales.\n\nIn a break with tradition, councils are also being asked not to use schools as polling stations in a bid to minimise any further disruption to pupils' education.\n\nThere's been growing expectation that the government would stick to May for these elections after ministers signalled they were reluctant to move them.\n\nThe government's action plan, the extension to proxy voting, and the extra funding have all been welcomed - but they haven't allayed all concerns.\n\nLogistically, there are still questions over whether enough suitable polling stations can be found, whether PPE should be supplied to staff who man them, and whether all the extra costs incurred by councils will be covered.\n\nPolitically, the big worry is the impact on campaigning.\n\nWith door-to-door visits limited, there's concern about how to engage voters, and what the effect of a shift to online campaigns might mean.\n\nCouncils are saying they'll crack on now and make these elections happen safely, but that's not without its challenges.\n\nCouncillor John Fuller, Conservative leader of South Norfolk Council and chairman of the District Councils Network, said delaying the elections would have been the best option.\n\n\"It would have been better to have a poll conducted when everyone was vaccinated rather than a campaign started in lockdown, but we'll all pull together to make this work,\" he said.\n\nHe added that going ahead with elections in May would be \"challenging,\" but said he was \"relieved\" that the need for extra costs had been recognised by the government.\n\nLabour accused the government of being \"woefully unprepared,\" warning \"cash-strapped\" local councils were not being given necessary support.\n\nThe party's shadow minister for democracy, Cat Smith, called for dedicated funding to help local authorities sign people up to vote by post.\n\n\"Ministers are yet to respond to the challenge of recruiting polling and count staff, with so many workers needed as Covid marshals and for additional cleaning,\" she added.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have complained about government guidance that it is not \"permissible\" for party activists to knock on doors or post leaflets during lockdown.\n\nA spokesman for the party accused ministers of trying to ban volunteer campaigning ahead of the polls, and called on them to \"urgently retract\" it.\n\n\"It cannot be right that it is legal for pizza delivery leaflets to come through your letterbox, but leaflets that criticise the government are not,\" they added.\n\n\"If putting your case to neighbours is banned, the election isn't fair.\"\n\nMinisters say they will publish specific guidance on face-to-face campaigning after consulting political parties.", "Christopher Plummer lit up both stage and screen over seven decades\n\nChristopher Plummer, the distinguished Canadian actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91.\n\nHe won an Oscar in 2012 for the film Beginners and was also nominated for The Last Station in 2010 and All the Money in the World in 2018.\n\nIn the latter film he replaced Kevin Spacey, whose performance as billionaire J Paul Getty was removed.\n\nHis many other films included The Man Who Would Be King and Knives Out.\n\nChristopher Plummer won his Oscar in 2012, and was also nominated in 2018 and 2010\n\nHe was a memorably villainous Klingon in the sixth Star Trek film and played TV anchorman Mike Wallace in 1999's The Insider.\n\nHe also played Sherlock Holmes in Murder By Decree and appeared with Peter Sellers in The Return of the Pink Panther.\n\nAccording to reports, Plummer died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side.\n\nLou Pitt, his long-time friend and manager of 46 years, remembered him as \"an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession\".\n\n\"He was a national treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots,\" he continued. \"Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come.\n\n\"He will forever be with us.\"\n\nSound of Music co-star Dame Julie Andrews said in a statement to the PA news agency: \"The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend.\n\n\"I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humour and fun we shared through the years.\"\n\nThe Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, said he \"beguiled audiences across generations\".\n\nBafta added its condolences, praising his \"amazing work since the 50s\".\n\nThe official Twitter account for The Sound of Music posted its condolences:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Sound of Music This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sound of Music\n\nStar Trek actor George Takei called the actor a \"giant of stage and screen\", adding: \"Rest in eternal music, Captain Von Trapp.\"\n\nActor Eddie Marsan worked with Plummer on the 2016 film The Exception and said: \"It was like watching a master class. He had nothing to prove anymore so he was completely free, kind, funny mischievous and beautiful to watch. RIP.\"\n\nLord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, who worked alongside Plummer on animated film 9, expressed his condolences, adding: \"What a legend.\"\n\nPlummer had a varied career across film, television and theatre, starring in productions on Broadway and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.\n\nThe actor, here in 1965, has drawn many tributes from fellow stars\n\nYet he will be forever known and loved for The Sound of Music, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.\n\nPlummer had ambivalent feelings towards his best-known film, which he famously renamed The Sound of Mucus in interviews.\n\nHe also likened working with Andrews to \"being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day\", though they later became great friends.\n\nHe also became reconciled to the film itself, describing it in his 2008 memoir In Spite of Myself as being \"warm, touching, joyous and absolutely timeless\".\n\nBorn Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer in Toronto in December 1929, Plummer grew up in Montreal as an only child and was exposed to the arts by his mother at an early age.\n\nHe first studied the piano before devoting himself to acting, having decided that playing the piano professionally \"was very lonely and very hard work\".\n\nHe made his debut on the New York stage role in 1954's The Starcross Story alongside the actress Mary Astor. It ran for just one performance - but did not stop him landing more stage work and then leading roles.\n\nPlummer made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, directed by Sidney Lumet. He was nominated for a Tony the following year and eventually won the award in 1974 for playing Cyrano de Bergerac.\n\nHe won his second in 1997 for playing fellow actor John Barrymore in Barrymore.\n\nChristopher Plummer as J Paul Getty in All the Money in the World\n\nIn 2017 Plummer was asked by Ridley Scott to appear in All the Money in the World, which he had already completed with Spacey.\n\nFollowing the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Spacey, the film's makers decided against releasing the film with his original performance.\n\nPlummer shot his scenes in a matter of days and was subsequently nominated for an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe.\n\nScott and his wife Giannina paid tribute to Plummer, telling The Hollywood Reporter: \"What a guy. What a talent. What a life. And I was fortunate enough to work with him less than two years ago and had a wonderful experience. My heartfelt condolences go to [his wife] Elaine. He will be really missed.\"\n\nThe actor was married three times. He and his first wife Tammy Grimes, are the parents of actress Amanda Plummer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sam Burgess was one of rugby league's biggest names\n\nFormer England Rugby League captain Sam Burgess has been found guilty of an intimidation charge against his former father-in-law in Australia.\n\nA Sydney court on Friday ruled Burgess had intimidated Mitchell Hooke, his ex-wife's father, with the intention of causing physical or mental harm.\n\nBurgess pleaded not guilty to the charge last year, relating to an incident at Mr Hooke's home in 2019.\n\nHe was given a conviction and placed on a two-year good behaviour bond.\n\nThe court heard competing accounts over the incident, which came as Burgess visited his children after separating from his ex-wife, Phoebe Burgess.\n\nA row escalated after Mr Hooke asked Burgess to leave, the trial was told.\n\nMr Hooke said Burgess had said: \"I'm going to get you. You've set all of this up.\"\n\nMr Hooke testified he had felt \"absolute terror\" that his former son-in-law would hit him during the argument.\n\nBurgess told the court that Mr Hooke had threatened him by saying: \"I'm going to destroy you and your career.\"\n\nMagistrate Robert Rabbidge found in favour of Mr Hooke, ruling that he was an \"impressive, believable and consistent\" witness.\n\nMr Hooke is a high-profile political lobbyist in Australia who was previously head of the Minerals Council of Australia.\n\nBurgess, one of Rugby League's biggest stars, was forced to retire in 2019 due to injury.\n\nHe was forced to step down from his assistant coach position at the South Sydney Rabbitohs club last October, after police began investigating other allegations against him.\n\nThe Australian newspaper reported that the National Rugby League (NRL) club had covered up alleged drug use and domestic violence by Burgess. Burgess has strongly denied the allegations.\n\nThe former Bradford Bulls player first joined the Rabbitohs in 2010, rising to become their star player and captain over 182 NRL appearances for the club.\n\nHe played 24 matches for England and two for Great Britain.\n\nBurgess also had a short spell in Rugby Union and won five England caps.", "Champion boxer Tyson Fury did not respond to Panorama's questions about his links to a suspected crime boss\n\nA BBC Panorama team has been threatened following a programme about a suspected crime boss's influence in world boxing.\n\nNorthern Ireland police have warned of an unspecified threat from unnamed criminal elements.\n\nThe programme investigated the role played by Daniel Kinahan, named in the Irish courts as the head of one of Europe's most prominent drug cartels.\n\nIt led to calls for tighter regulation but some in boxing defend his involvement.\n\nJo Carr, the BBC's head of current affairs, said: \"The BBC places the utmost priority on the safety of our teams, whose journalism plays a vital role in a free society. It is despicable and intolerable if thugs think they can muzzle a free press through intimidation.\n\n\"We will continue to throw light into even the murkiest of corners.\"\n\nThe courts in Ireland have accepted that an organised crime group linked to Mr Kinahan is involved in drug trafficking and execution-style murders.\n\nThe group is also suspected of involvement in a feud with a rival Dublin gang that has resulted in 18 people being murdered.\n\nMr Kinahan's lawyer told the programme he has no criminal record or convictions and the allegations about him being a crime boss are false and have no evidential basis.\n\nThe lawyer said: \"In so far as our client's record in boxing is concerned, he is proud of his record in boxing to date.\"\n\nDaniel Kinahan's involvement in world boxing was investigated by BBC Panorama\n\nMr Kinahan's involvement in boxing caused an outcry last summer when world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury publicly thanked him for setting up a much anticipated title fight with fellow British champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nThe criticism died down after it was announced that Mr Kinahan would no longer negotiate Mr Fury's fights and he was stepping away from boxing.\n\nBut Panorama's Boxing and the Mob programme discovered the suspected crime boss was still advising top fighters in world boxing.\n\nMr Fury did not respond to questions about whether Mr Kinahan was still acting as his personal adviser.", "Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron have discussed co-operation in the global fight against Covid-19 in their first conversation since a vaccine row.\n\nNo 10 said the two leaders agreed that collaboration between governments was vital in defeating coronavirus.\n\nThey also discussed cross-channel relations amid continuing tensions over the UK's post-Brexit arrangements.\n\nThe EU withdrew its threat last week to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland after an outcry in the UK.\n\nBut the dispute, prompted by concerns on the continent over the slow rollout of vaccinations, intensified calls for the post-Brexit rules governing trade between Britain and Northern Ireland to be reviewed.\n\nUnionists in Northern Ireland have urged Mr Johnson to scrap the Northern Ireland protocol, part of the 2020 Brexit Withdrawal Agreement which effectively leaves Northern Ireland in the EU's single market and customs territory and which critics say has created a damaging border down the Irish Sea.\n\nThe French president was criticised last week for questioning the effectiveness of the Astra-Zeneca/Oxford vaccine among over-65s and suggesting exports of vaccines produced on the continent should be controlled amid shortages there and the slow pace of rollout compared with the UK.\n\nIn a statement, Downing Street said the two men had discussed a wide range of subjects over the phone, including the Cop-26 climate summit taking place in the UK later this year, Russia and Iran.\n\nOn vaccines, No 10 said Mr Johnson emphasised the \"important role world leaders will play in ensuring that vaccines are rolled out effectively so that we can defeat the pandemic\".\n\n\"The leaders agreed that a successful global vaccination programme will require a collaborative effort between governments,\" it added.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson had expressed his desire to deepen Anglo-French co-operation now that the UK was fully outside the EU and to take advantage of the \"huge opportunities\" for joint working.\n\nMr Macron has said he continues to believe the UK's departure from the EU is an \"error\", telling journalists last week that \"it has made things much more difficult in many ways\".", "Levels of coronavirus are showing clear signs of coming down throughout most of the UK, more evidence suggests.\n\nAfter at least a month of lockdown, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest positive tests are falling in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK's reproduction or R number is estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street confirmed all adults aged 50 and over should receive a coronavirus vaccine by May.\n\nA spokesman said Prime Minister Boris Johnson would set out a \"precise timeline\" for vaccinations when he publishes the government's roadmap for lifting lockdown restrictions in England on 22 February.\n\nMinisters had previously refused to discuss the date by which the over-50s would be offered a Covid jab.\n\nSwab tests from people signed up to the Covid symptom app suggest cases are down 70% from their peak.\n\nBut experts warn that infection levels still remain high.\n\nAn estimated one in 65 people in both England and Northern Ireland had the virus, one in 70 in Wales and one in 115 in Scotland.\n\nCases fell in every UK nation apart from Wales where infections remained stable.\n\nThe ONS's data is slightly out of date - covering the week up to 30 January - so may not reflect the situation right now.\n\nSimilarly, the R number takes information from lots of different sources to provide a \"consensus view of what the epidemic is doing\", according to scientist advising government, Graham Medley.\n\nBut all of these different sources are slightly \"behind the curve\" because \"we never observe the exact moment when somebody is infected but have to wait until they develop symptoms, get tested, go to hospital and die,\" he said.\n\nTaken altogether, though, along with other sources like local authorities' reports of outbreaks in their areas, they give a good sense of roughly what's going on.\n\nIn theory the R number represents how many extra people each infected person gives the virus to.\n\nBut in reality, it is a calculation based on infections, hospitalisations and deaths, and is used to give a sense of whether the epidemic - including its impact on the health service - is broadly growing or shrinking.\n\nAside from the ONS, tother surveillance studies - where random samples of people are swabbed whether or not they have symptoms - also show cases coming down, starting somewhere around the second week of January.\n\nThe confirmed cases published on the government's daily dashboard should in theory be the most up to date, but they are skewed by who comes forward for testing.", "Protests took place across Russia in support of Mr Navalny\n\nRussia has expelled three diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland for joining protests in support of opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who was jailed earlier this week.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said the three took part in \"illegal demonstrations\" on 23 January.\n\nThe diplomats' home countries have condemned the expulsions, as have the UK, France and the EU.\n\nThe expulsions were announced just a few hours after EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people took part in protests in support of Mr Navalny across Russia on 23 and 31 January. Thousands were arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of protesters in Moscow were detained by police\n\nGermany denounced the expulsion as being \"in no way justified\" and said it would not \"go unanswered\" if Russia did not reconsider.\n\nSweden said the claim that its diplomat took part in the protest on 23 January was unfounded and said it reserved the right to an appropriate response.\n\nPoland said the expulsion could lead to the \"further deepening of the crisis in bilateral relations\".\n\nMr Borrell, on behalf of the EU, said he \"strongly condemned this decision and rejected the allegations that they conducted activities incompatible with their status as foreign diplomats\".\n\nHowever, Mr Lavrov said any European sanctions over Mr Navalny's treatment would be illegitimate.\n\nBoth Germany and Poland said they had summoned their respective Russian ambassadors to express concern over the expulsions - a move that could possibly lead to tit-for-tat measures and more diplomats being sent home.\n\nRussia could have expelled these European diplomats any day: the pro-Navalny protest they supposedly joined was two weeks ago. But the foreign ministry chose to make the announcement with Josep Borrell in town.\n\nThe timing was clearly meant to send a message: you can lecture us on human rights and freedom, but we'll do what we want and really don't care what you think. The ministry even had a prepared riposte to condemnation of the mass arrests of protesters: it handed over a video compilation of police violence in the US and Europe.\n\nSergei Lavrov is an old hand at this. He's been communicating indifference and defiance since the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the sanctions that followed. International pressure didn't alter Russia's behaviour there. It's preparing to handle the \"Navalny issue\" the same way.\n\nMr Navalny, 44, is a political activist who has campaigned against corruption and Mr Putin since 2011.\n\nLast August he was poisoned with a nerve agent in eastern Russia and taken to Germany for treatment. He returned home at the end of January, despite warnings from the Russian government that he would be arrested.\n\nHe was then jailed for three-and-a-half years for what prosecutors said was a violation of the terms of a suspended sentence for fraud in 2014. A year was later deducted from his sentence for time served under house arrest.\n\nMr Navalny accuses Mr Putin of running an administration riddled with corruption and of organising the poison attack that nearly killed him.\n\nShortly after his return to Russia, Mr Navalny released a YouTube video featuring an opulent Black Sea palace which, he alleged, was a Russian billionaires' gift to the president. More than 100 million people have watched the video.\n\nMr Putin has denied ownership. Last week Arkady Rotenberg, a billionaire businessman close to Mr Putin, came forward to say he bought the palace two years ago.\n\nMr Navalny will be back in court on 12 February on charges of defaming a World War Two veteran.", "Rishi Sunak said the changes would give business more confidence as they emerge from the pandemic.\n\nSmall firms are to get more time to repay state-backed loans taken out to help survive the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe changes include giving companies an option to extend the length of the loan from six to ten years under a \"pay-as-you-grow\" initiative.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the move was to give companies \"breathing space to get back on their feet\".\n\nHe has been under pressure to act amid fears the continuing lockdown will spark a wave of company closures.\n\nAbout £45bn has been borrowed by more than 1.4 million small firms under the Bounce Back Loan scheme, which offers cheap loans of up to £50,000.\n\nUnder the existing scheme, firms get interest-free loans for the first year. But many will start repaying the money in May, when economic recovery is still expected to be weak.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, announced late on Friday, businesses will have the options of:\n\nMr Sunak said the plan allowed firms to \"pay-as-your-grow\", offering flexible repayment options as the economy strengthens.\n\nHe said: \"Businesses are continuing to feel the impact of extended disruption from Covid-19, and we're determined to give them the backing and confidence they need to get through the pandemic.\n\n\"That's why we're giving Bounce Back Loan borrowers breathing space to get back on their feet, through greater flexibility and time to repay their loans on their terms.\"\n\nBanks, which have been processing the loans, will be asked to contact customers from Monday to explain the new options to their business customers.\n\nUK Finance, which represents the banking and finance industry sector, said it was committed to helping businesses \" of all sizes through the crisis\".\n\nConcerns have previously been raised about companies' ability to pay back the cash under the scheme - and about fraud.\n\nA recent report by the National Audit Office said up to 60% of loans made under the bounce back scheme may never be repaid.", "More than £40bn has been lent to struggling firms though the government’s bounce back loan scheme.\n\nWorth up to £50,000 per application, the loans offer a lifeline to companies on the edge.\n\nBut financial crime experts fear many billions may have been lost to fraud and mistakes.\n\nThe BBC's Angus Crawford was given exclusive access to a unit tracking down the fraudsters who took advantage of the scheme.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirty-two people have been rescued after vehicles became trapped overnight in snow on the A835 in the Highlands.\n\nHighland Council and mountain rescuers assisted emergency services reaching the 22 vehicles at the scene at Loch Droma.\n\nPolice described it as a \"major incident\", which came during heavy snowfalls across parts of Scotland.\n\nSnow drifts of 2-3m (6-9ft) blocked the A835 between Ullapool and Garve.\n\nWelfare centres were set up in Ullapool and Aultguish for those caught in the bad weather.\n\nThe road at the scene was reopened just after 14:00, but Traffic Scotland warned driving conditions were \"tricky\" due to the weather.\n\nVehicles in the snow on the A835\n\nA car and van in drifting snow on the A835 in an image taken by lorry driver John Maclean\n\nThe problems started when a lorry jack-knifed on Thursday night and traffic queued either side of the truck. Snow carried by high winds built up around the vehicles and filled the road.\n\nRoads company Bear NW Trunk Roads said there were drifts of snow 2m (6ft) deep on the A835.\n\nRoads crews, emergency services and Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team assisted in the rescue effort.\n\nThe road was cleared enough to allow the vehicles to be moved on Friday morning. No-one was injured.\n\nA driver and five passengers on a coach were among those caught up in the incident.\n\nPassenger Andy Pyott praised the coach driver for keeping spirits up\n\nCoach passenger Andy Pyott, who was trying to return home from work, said it became clear by about 22:00 that the bus would not be able to make it through the snow to Inverness.\n\nHe said: \"The snow building up around the bus was quite remarkable. There must have been about three feet of snow in front of the bus.\n\n\"All praise to the driver. He really kept everyone's spirits up.\"\n\nJordan Clark was trapped in a vehicle for 14 hours\n\nJordan Clark, from Renfrew, who was in the Highlands working, was in another vehicle trapped in snow for 14 hours.\n\nMountain rescuers, assisted by excavators, dug Mr Clark's vehicle free and he was able to get to Ullapool.\n\nHe said: \"The wind was blowing 55mph and I've never seen snow so thick.\"\n\nMr Clark praised welfare centre volunteers for the help they had given him and others.\n\nThe Met Office has an amber warning for snow in place until Saturday morning. It also has yellow \"be aware\" warnings for snow and ice for the weekend and Monday.\n\nEngineers from power company SSEN have been busy in the snowy conditions\n\nThere were concerns earlier this week about the impact of the poor weather on Covid-19 vaccinations.\n\nOn Friday, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said roads around vaccination centres would be treated as a priority. He said he did not anticipate the weather would have a serious effect on the vaccination programme.\n\nPolice said \"multi-agency efforts\" ensured people in communities affected by the A835 closure were able to attend vaccination appointments.\n\nA number of homes have been left without power due supply faults in parts of Skye, Lewis, north west and central Sutherland, and near Inverness.\n\nSSEN said the problems affected about 100 properties and engineers were working to restore supplies.\n\nAbout 40 drivers have had to be rescued from deep snow drifts on the A835\n\nThere was a rescue operation on the A835 on Friday morning\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said drifting snow had caused disruption to services on the Highland Mainline on Friday morning despite snow ploughs operating overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said the deepest accumulations of snow would be over high ground, with as much as 50cm (19in) of new snow in some places.\n\nThe Scottish Avalanche Information Service has rated the potential avalanche hazard in the Northern and Southern Cairngorms as \"high\".\n\nThe avalanche hazard in four other areas - Lochaber, Torridon, Creag Meagaidh and Glen Coe - has been rated \"considerable\".", "Samuel Kasumu said he feared for the Conservative Party's future\n\nBoris Johnson's senior adviser on ethnic minorities resigned complaining of \"unbearable\" tension within Downing Street - but then decided to stay on.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, seen by the BBC, Samuel Kasumu accused the Conservative Party of pursuing \"a politics steeped in division\".\n\nBut he retracted his resignation on Thursday night after talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nNo 10 said the government was the most ethnically diverse in UK history.\n\nMr Kasumu, an entrepreneur who has worked for the government since 2019, said in his letter that he wanted to step down as an adviser by May.\n\nHe argued that black and Asian voters were now less likely to choose the Conservatives than they had been under former Prime Minister David Cameron.\n\nMr Kasumu also suggested Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch may have broken the ministerial code when she publicly criticised a HuffPost journalist last week for asking why she had not appeared in a social media video featuring black MPs encouraging take-up of vaccines.\n\nAnd he criticised the government's response to Ms Badenoch's actions, saying: \"It was not OK or justifiable, but somehow nothing was said. I waited, and waited, for something from the senior leadership team to even point to an expected standard, but it did not materialise.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office has been considering whether Ms Badenoch had broken the rules, but it is thought officials did not consider her behaviour to be a breach, and no official investigation has been set up.\n\nFor Labour, shadow equalities minister Marsha de Cordova said: \"It is disgraceful that the equalities minister has not been held to account for her behaviour last week. The prime minister must condemn her actions.\"\n\nIn his letter, Mr Kasumu said the Conservatives had built a coalition of voters to win a majority at the last general election, but added: \"I fear for what may become of the party in the future by choosing to pursue a politics steeped in division.\"\n\nHe claimed the government's culture was not \"conducive\" to \"empathy\" and \"the damage that is often caused by our actions is not much considered\".\n\n\"As someone that has spent his whole adult life serving others, that tension has been at times unbearable,\" he said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman declined to comment on individual staff members, but said: \"This government is committed to inclusion and bringing communities together and is the most ethnically diverse in this country's history.\"\n\nThe government had set up a Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities to tackle inequality and discrimination and it is due to report shortly, they added.", "\"It's slow, it's outdated, it's challenging in a number of ways we never expected,\" says Charlie Samways.\n\nToday, with Charlie as sales director, the firm promises to get its fish and seafood \"from port to plate\" in 24 hours.\n\nBut extensive paperwork, rising costs and border delays following the end of the Brexit transition period have put that pledge under threat.\n\nSamways buys seafood from 150 local fishermen who operate in Lyme Bay.\n\nIts most popular products are Dover sole, lemon sole, cuttlefish and plaice - about 90% of which is exported to France, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy on its fleet of lorries.\n\nThis Monday, Mr Samways is overseeing the shipment of several tonnes of these fish, as well as scallops and seabass, to the EU on one truck.\n\nBefore the end of the Brexit transition period, the process was simple, he says. Each shipment needed a delivery note, made up of just one or two forms and invoices.\n\nBut the UK is now outside the EU - and its customs union and single market - so exporters face a very different set of requirements.\n\nCharlie Samways, the firm's sales director, handles cuttlefish heading out on a shipment\n\nTo begin with, British exporters need an ID number (called an EORI number). They must also make sure the fishermen they work with have a licence to sell sea fish and register their own premises as an \"approved establishment\" to do business with the EU.\n\nThe firm had taken these steps ahead of time and felt \"ready to go on day one\" when the new trade rules came in, Mr Samways says. But the day-to-day reality is different.\n\nTwo employees out of eight in the Samways office now focus on Brexit-related administration.\n\nChris Sheath and Katie Smith start filling out the new necessary forms for the lorry at 08:00. For each shipment, they must fill out and submit a catch certificate, which proves that the fish was caught legally.\n\nThat involves manually entering on a government website 149 different lines of data that was not previously required, such as the name of the vessel that caught the fish and the type of species being exported. The certificate for this shipment is 27 pages long.\n\nThey also have to get an export health certificate for each consignment to prove that the fish meet EU health standards. Information on the products, such as species and the weight of the fish, is uploaded and sent to an approved vet, who has to inspect the goods on-site later.\n\nMr Samways is considering recruiting a new employee to tackle the extra forms, which take until 13:00 to complete. That would cost the firm £30,000-£40,000 per year.\n\n\"We are a family business and you get used to the fact that you do long hours. But Brexit means we have to put an unholy amount of pressure onto every member of the team.\"\n\nThroughout the morning, Chris and Katie are also talking to a customs agent that Samways has hired.\n\nThe customs agent handles the new paperwork requirements on the import side, and produces a \"statement of value\", which is two pages. Samways pays them roughly £200 per shipment to do this, which will work out to about £51,000 this year.\n\nThey input similar information on the fish and upload the catch certificate to an EU system (Traces NT). They also notify French authorities that animal products will soon be arriving at a border control post, which must be done at least one working day in advance.\n\nAt 14:00, a vet from Sherbourne arrives to inspect the fish. They sign, stamp and number each page of an export health certificate, which for this truck is 20 pages long, after checking the products.\n\nOnce the vet has watched the truck being loaded and sealed, there are a few final hurdles before the driver can set off.\n\nThe agent must upload all of the signed-off documents to a UK government system to obtain a customs barcode, which takes about an hour to arrive and is printed out.\n\nIt is bundled together as part of an \"export pack\" for the shipment, which includes the catch certificates, export health certificates (in English and French), the statement of value and 22 invoices to show at the checkpoint.\n\nFor this one truck it totals 71 pages.\n\nAt this point, the driver gets ready to go - provided they have a Kent Access Permit, which confirms they have the correct documents for EU import controls before they enter Kent. Each one lasts 24 hours and they need a new one each time they travel to the EU via the Port of Dover.\n\nDue to the pandemic, they also need proof of a negative Covid test taken in the last 72 hours.\n\nThe driver sets off from the depot in Bridport at 17:00 on his way to Dover. Seven or eight 44-tonne Samways' trucks make the same journey each week.\n\nAt the ferry port, the driver must show the customs barcode that was printed off. No barcode and they may face a fine and severe delays.\n\nAfter the 22:00 ferry crossing through to Dunkirk in France, the driver heads to the border control post. French customs officials there inspect the fish and all of the paperwork.\n\nSamways has faced major hold-ups at the French border, with lorries stuck for six or seven hours at a time while forms are examined. The firm's transport manager has had to take urgent phone calls in the middle of the night with updates.\n\nA small mistake, or an omission, on one form can also mean a consignment is held. But Mr Samways says their customs agent gets little feedback as to what, if anything, is wrong with the papers.\n\nOnce any problems are resolved, the French authorities update EU systems with the outcome of the inspection.\n\nThe fish are approved for release, the driver continues to their destination. Samways' plaice, scallops and sea bass will reach European dinner plates on Wednesday evening - 24 hours longer than was typical before the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Samways boss: \"The paperwork is excessive... we can't go on like this\"\n\nMr Samways says he initially felt \"extremely prepared\" for Brexit, but was surprised by the \"excessive\" amount of paperwork required.\n\nThe government says that it is aware of a \"small number of issues\" since 1 January and that the recent announcement of a £23m fund for fishing firms should help those \"experiencing export delays\".\n\nBut Mr Samways dismisses the suggestion that these are just teething problems.\n\nHe has concerns that delays and extra costs could mean UK fishermen will take their catch directly to ports on the Continent, cutting out exporters like him.\n\n\"That's something we cannot afford.\"", "The government is to update the law so that the attorney general can take six months' maternity leave.\n\nSuella Braverman, the government's chief law officer, announced in November she was expecting her second child \"early next year\".\n\nShe would be one of the most senior government ministers to give birth in office.\n\nUnder current laws, she would have to resign if she wanted to take time off following the birth.\n\nThe government has announced a new law to formalise the process for ministerial maternity leave, which until now has been at the discretion of the prime minister.\n\nThe Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill will allow cabinet ministers to receive up to six months' leave on full pay.\n\nAt the moment, legislation from the 1970s means the prime minister does not normally have the flexibility to pay a cabinet minister maternity leave alongside paying a salary to their temporary replacement.\n\nThe bill would allow Ms Braverman and other cabinet ministers to take six months' leave on full pay - similar to more junior government roles and the civil service.\n\nSeveral female politicians serving as junior ministers have taken maternity leave in the past, including Conservative MPs Tracey Crouch and Kemi Badenoch.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party would back the bill, adding the change \"should have been brought in a long time ago\".\n\nThe party's shadow cabinet office minister, Rachel Reeves, said the measures were a \"small but significant step forward\" but the government needed to go further and make provision for paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.\n\nIntroducing the new measures in a written statement, the prime minister said: \"The choice between taking leave to recover from childbirth and care for a new-born child or resigning from office is not acceptable in modern times.\"\n\nBoris Johnson acknowledged that provisions needed to be made for leave for adoption, sickness and other circumstances.\n\nMinisters aren't subject to normal employee rights because they're appointed, and fired, by the prime minister.\n\nMany will be surprised to learn that Suella Braverman will become the first cabinet minister to take paid maternity leave.\n\nIt's a generous scheme which will grant six months of full pay - under current rules, she would have had to resign or be demoted to qualify.\n\nThe bill is being rushed through Parliament because she's due to give birth soon, but Labour wants to revisit the issue later to include paternity leave.\n\nThe years of muddling through on an informal basis will end next Thursday.\n\nMs Braverman, the Conservative MP for Fareham, became the second-ever woman to be appointed attorney general for England and Wales in February 2020.\n\nShe had previously served as a junior Brexit minister under Theresa May, before resigning in November 2018 in protest at the former PM's Brexit plans.\n\nShe went on to take maternity leave whilst serving as a backbench MP after the birth of her first child in July 2019, with a \"proxy MP\" taking part in parliamentary debates and votes on her behalf.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq delayed a caesarean section to take part in a vote\n\nAll MPs are paid in full while on maternity, paternity or adoption leave. But not all their duties in Parliament are covered during their absence:\n\nResponding to the change, Ms Creasy said: \"In no other workplace would guaranteed paid maternity leave and cover be only the preserve of the management.\n\n\"The introduction of cover for ministers is long overdue, and this legislation reveals the lie I was told when I asked for maternity cover that MPs employment status made it impossible.\"\n\nMs Creasy added: \"What message does it send to the thousands of pregnant women facing redundancy and job insecurity in the pandemic or any of those considering entering public life at any level, if parliament treats maternity leave as a bonus like a company car to be given only to those at the top?\"", "The new rules could make it harder for British bands to play at European festivals like Spain's Benicassim\n\nThe barriers facing British musicians who want to tour in the EU are \"absurd and self-defeating\", UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said.\n\nSince Brexit, British musicians face costly bills to obtain visas if they wish to play in some EU countries.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Dowden said the situation \"could have been solved\" before 1 January, and laid the blame with the European Union.\n\nSeveral MPs urged the government to return to the negotiating table.\n\n\"I know that the EU walked away from our offer, but it must be brought back to the table,\" said Conservative MP Giles Watling.\n\n\"Touring performers will be left with a double whammy of an industry devastated by Covid and the loss of an entire continent as a venue. Will he please bang the table and get the EU back to talk on this?\"\n\nCulture minister Nigel Huddleston replied that the \"door always remains open\" for further talks.\n\n\"A working group has been set up by the secretary of state to look at any obstacles which might face British performers seeking to tour,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU has previously said the UK government turned down its standard proposal of a visa waiver for musicians during Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe UK has insisted this offer \"would not have worked for musicians\" and was incompatible with the government's \"commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nThe EU also rejected a counter-proposal from the UK, the details of which have not been revealed.\n\nA petition on the issue is also due to be debated in Parliament on Monday.\n\nBacked by musicians including Dua Lipa, Biffy Clyro and Laura Marling, it calls for the government to \"negotiate a free cultural work permit\" that would allow bands and their crews to travel freely in the EU's 27 member states.\n\nOn Thursday, in preparation for the debate, the House of Commons petitions committee heard evidence from artists and touring professionals about the impact of Brexit on their livelihoods.\n\nOpera singer Anna Patalong said that, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, working in other European countries accounted for \"50% of my income\" - earnings which are now at risk.\n\nShe said the lack of a visa waiver meant \"all the artists in the UK are now in a worse position than musicians in the Congo and Columbia\".\n\nDance musician Yousef said it was \"pretty standard\" for DJs like himself to play in two or three European countries in one weekend. Having to arrange permits for each gig would make his career \"near impossible and unbelievably expensive\", he said.\n\nHe felt musicians were \"just not taken seriously\" by the government, adding: \"We're treated as if we're children playing in the toy room, but that's not the case at all.\n\n\"It's a very serious business run by hard-working music enthusiasts who don't ask for any support under normal circumstances.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dozens of environmental groups have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for a public inquiry into plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nThey say it is \"mystifying\" that No 10 has not stopped the mine from going ahead, when the UK is hosting the COP26 climate summit later this year.\n\nA top climate scientist has warned the PM risks \"humiliation\" over the plans.\n\nNo 10 said the UK is a world leader in climate policy and it would not reverse the decision.\n\nThe letter, signed by groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, criticises the decision not to intervene in the approval of the mine, when the UK's credibility - as summit host - is \"at stake\".\n\nThe letter to Mr Johnson describes the summit, which takes place in Glasgow in November, as \"the largest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement\".\n\nThe signatories acknowledge that whilst \"new jobs need to be created\", the government should \"lead the way with low-carbon technologies, rather than looking to the polluting industries of the past\".\n\nThe £165m West Cumbria Mining plan in Whitehaven was approved by Cumbria County Council in October. It would be the UK's first deep coal mine in 30 years.\n\nThe council said the government could have \"called in\" the plans for a public inquiry, but had chosen not to do so.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the local mayor welcomed the proposals.\n\nMike Starkie, the Conservative mayor of Copeland Borough Council, said: \"I think the project is absolutely fantastic, it'll bring huge amounts of jobs and prosperity into the area.\n\n\"It's been broadly welcomed across Copeland. I've never known a project that has carried so much public support.\"\n\nBut the campaigners say \"time is of the essence\" for the government to act, before Cumbria County Council issues its final decision on the mine \"very soon\".\n\nIn the letter, they urge Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for Housing, Communities and Local Government, to refer the plans to a public inquiry.\n\nThe government's chief planning officer previously defended Robert Jenrick's decision not to overrule consent for the mine\n\nThey write: \"Reversing this decision would help restore confidence in the UK government's climate leadership both internationally and at home.\"\n\nStanley Johnson, the prime minister's father, told the BBC it was a \"massive mistake in public relations terms\".\n\nHe said: \"How can we ask other countries to bring in their climate change reduction programmes when we are now reopening the whole coal argument here in Britain?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as Dr James Hansen, formerly Nasa's leading global warming researcher, urged Mr Johnson in a letter to halt production of the mine - or risk being \"vilified\".\n\nDowning Street has previously defended the decision over the mine as a local planning matter and insisted the UK is cutting emissions faster than any major economy and would end the use of coal for electricity by 2025.\n\nJustin Rowlatt, the BBC's chief environment correspondent, says when it comes to decarbonisation, the UK is a world leader.\n\nOur correspondent says the UK's coal consumption has decreased by 90% in the last five years and just four power stations still burn coal.\n\nDr Hansen's letter follows earlier criticism from the government's advisory body on global warming, the Climate Change Committee (CCC).\n\nIt warned the mine would increase global emissions and compromise the UK's legally binding carbon budgets.\n\nThe CCC said: \"The decision to award planning permission [for the mine] to 2049 will commit the UK to emissions from coking coal.\" The body said coking coal will have to stop by 2035 if the country is to meet its climate change targets.\n\nCORRECTION 7 February 2021: An earlier version of this story wrongly stated that the Conservative Environment Network opposes the proposed mine. Stanley Johnson is an ambassador for the group but was not speaking on its behalf.", "The recent uplift in UK house prices \"could be running out of steam\", the Halifax has said after it found that property values dropped last month.\n\nThe lender's latest survey showed prices fell 0.3% in January, the biggest monthly fall since April 2020.\n\nHowever, prices still climbed 5.4% over the past year, leaving the average property worth £13,000 more than in January 2020.\n\nAcross the UK, average property values stood at £251,968 in January.\n\n\"How far and how deep any slowdown proves to be is a challenge to predict given the prevailing uncertainty created by the pandemic,\" said Halifax managing director Russell Galley.\n\n\"With swathes of the economy still shuttered, and joblessness continuing to edge higher, on the surface this points to slower market activity and downward price pressures in the near-term.\"\n\nThe stamp duty holiday in England introduced last July is due to end on 31 March, which has raised concerns that sales could reach a cliff edge.\n\n\"The slowdown we are now seeing in house price growth reflects the looming end to (the stamp duty holiday),\" said Anna Clare Harper, chief executive of asset manager SPI Capital.\n\n\"Looking to the future, when assuming the temporary stamp duty reduction ends, we're likely to see a slowdown in house price rises.\"\n\nShe said that challenging economic conditions make potential home buyers less willing and able to buy.\n\nAndrew Montlake, managing director at mortgage broker Coreco, said: \"The UK property market went supersonic after the introduction of the stamp duty holiday last summer and, with the deadline fast approaching, it has inevitably slowed down,\n\n\"In hard economic terms, and with the stamp duty holiday over in all but name, the property market is facing a huge amount of uncertainty.\"\n\nNicky Stevenson, managing director at estate agent Fine & Country, said lockdown had played its part in keeping prices as high as they are because it reduced supply.\n\n\"The Budget is only around the corner now and, while it remains to be seen whether the chancellor will extend the stamp duty tax break, he has a big deficit and many other levers to pull that could affect the market in much more significant ways,\" she said.\n\nMr Montlake said that the Covid-19 pandemic triggered a massive rethink among homeowners and prospective homebuyers.\n\n\"The rules of the game have changed. Properties that were perfect a year ago are often no longer what people want as work and life priorities have been turned upside down.\"\n\nLucy Pendleton, of estate agent James Pendleton, said it was sellers, not buyers, who were a little quieter at the moment.\n\n\"A lot of people with children have decided against listing their property for sale while they're home-schooling and their home looks like a bomb has hit it.\"\n\nBut she said there were still plenty of first-time buyers looking and \"we always see a rush of activity after spring has sprung when people's gardens start to look better\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. South Yorkshire Police said one officer was injured as people rushed to leave\n\nPolice handed out £34,000 in fines after breaking up a student party attended by more than 150 \"incredibly selfish\" revellers.\n\nSome partygoers fled through fire exits and set off alarms when officers were called to the Ranmoor Student Village in Sheffield.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said one officer was injured amid the rush to leave.\n\nThe organisers have been fined £10,000 and more than 30 fines of £800 were issued.\n\nOfficers were called to the site by university security staff at 01:13 GMT on Thursday.\n\nInsp Ali Bywater said it was \"absolutely appalling\" to see \"such blatant disregard\" for safety \"at a time when the vast majority are working so hard and making huge sacrifices to adhere to the rules\".\n\n\"The actions of all those present were incredibly selfish and the fact that so many went to great lengths to flee from officers is evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong.\"\n\nPolice said at one point they had 14 officers on the scene dealing with partygoers\n\nIn a statement, the University of Sheffield said its security services had been working closely with police.\n\nIt said it had stressed to students it was \"their social responsibility to adhere to government guidance\" and the vast majority had done so.\n\n\"We will continue to take action if we receive specific reports of anti-social behaviour, including reports of social distancing not being adhered to, as well as provide practical and emotional support to students who may be struggling at this time,\" it added.\n\nFines of up to £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people were recently introduced in England.\n\nRepeat offenders can be fined double for each subsequent breach, up to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nOrganisers can face fines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people.\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.", "UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February, the government has confirmed.\n\nHotel owners will be asked to provide rooms for more than 1,000 new people every day, documents suggest.\n\nPassengers will have to stay in their rooms for 10 nights, with security guards accompanying if they go outside.\n\nLabour called the measures \"too little, too late\" to deal properly with new overseas strains of Covid.\n\n\"It is beyond comprehension that these measures won't even start until 15 February,\" said shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.\n\nQuarantine hotels are expected to be set up near airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.\n\nThe rules will apply to UK nationals and residents returning to the country from 33 \"red list\" Covid-19 hotspots - including several South American and African countries where new Covid variants have been detected in large numbers of people - and passengers will be expected to pay for the cost of the accommodation.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries already face UK travel bans.\n\nMinisters are also likely to increase the fines for people who break the rules. Home Office sources have said they expect fines will have a deterrent effect so traveller numbers are likely to fall from 1000 a day swiftly.\n\nAccording to documents seen by the BBC, the government wants quarantine hotels to be made available \"on an exclusive basis\".\n\nGuests will have three meals a day in their rooms, with tea, coffee, fruit and water being available.\n\nSecurity will \"accompany any of the arrived individuals to access outside space should they need to smoke or get fresh air\", one document says.\n\nOne hospitality industry source said the government estimated the cost at about £80 per night per person.\n\n\"If they are taking rooms for 1,425 passengers per night until 31 March, that is a bill of £55m,\" they added.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said it was working \"at pace\" to roll out managed quarantine facilities in the run-up to 15 February.\n\n\"In the face of new variants, it is important that the government continues to take the necessary steps to protect people and save lives,\" they said.\n\nThe department says it sent commercial specifications on Thursday evening to hotels near air and sea ports asking for proposals on delivering quarantine facilities ahead of formal contracts being awarded.\n\nThe government is expected to set out further details next week on how passengers will be able to book into the designated hotels.\n\nIt has also been announced that Mr Hancock will chair a new Cabinet sub-committee to oversee efforts to implement mandatory quarantine and enhanced testing aimed at preventing the spread of new Covid variants.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said: \"We are in a race against time to protect our borders against new Covid strains. Yet hotel quarantine will come in to force more than 50 days after the South African strain was discovered.\"\n\nLabour has called on the government to extend hotel quarantining to those returning to the UK from all countries, not just the areas on the \"red list\".\n\nBut the Conservatives described the plan as \"implausible\", arguing it would mean putting around 20,000 people in hotels every day.\n\nA further 915 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the UK, according to the government's daily figures.\n\nThis brings the total number of people to die within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test to 110,250.\n\nHave you recently entered the UK from a hotspot such as South Africa? Are you planning to travel soon? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website 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.", "People are being urged to check in on the elderly and vulnerable as cold and snowy weather threatens disruption.\n\nAn amber snow warning - meaning travel issues and power cuts are likely - is in place for parts of east and south-east England until Monday morning.\n\nYellow snow and ice warnings are also in force for much of England, Scotland and eastern Wales.\n\nMet Office weather expert Steven Keates said there would be \"many similarities\" with the Beast from the East in 2018.\n\nIt is due to a combination of cold air from Scandinavia and Russia plus Storm Darcy bringing winds and snow, he said.\n\nAsked whether he thought it was fair to call it the Beast from the East Two, the meteorologist said: \"I think so. The air mass is not quite as cold as it was then, so it's not quite as extreme, but nonetheless this is probably the coldest weather we'll see across the UK as a whole since then.\n\n\"And if you're stepping outside at all through the next few days, it really is going to feel cold. Temperatures [will be] barely above freezing on a thermometer, and when you factor in a strong easterly wind, you'll be feeling many degrees below freezing.\"\n\nPeople enjoy a chilly walk along the Basingstoke Canal in Hampshire\n\nParts of Scotland have already seen heavy snowfall in the past few days, with up to 50cm in some places - but Scotland's amber warning for snow has now expired.\n\nMore snow is expected in eastern parts of Scotland later, with 10 to 15cm possible in some areas, especially above 200m.\n\nOne amber warning is now in place for parts of London, the south-east and the east of England until 09:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThose areas could see between five and 10cm of snow on Sunday - with up to 20cm in some places, the BBC Weather Centre said.\n\nYellow warnings - which mean there could be travel disruption and a slight chance of power cuts or communities being cut off - are also in place for:\n\nParts of Scotland, including Ballater in Aberdeenshire, have seen persistent heavy snowfall and blizzards\n\nMet Office forecasters have warned of \"significant disruptive snowfall\" and gale force winds in the south-east of England, saying up to 30cm of snow is possible in the Kent Downs and more widely on the North Downs.\n\nMeteorologist Sarah Kent said: \"It is a small chance, but the threat is there, up to a foot of snow potentially combined with extremely strong easterly winds. Even inland in that area, gusting could be 45mph and higher than that on the coasts.\n\n\"This could lead to significant drifting of any lying snow and obviously blizzards for the snow coming past you for anyone who is attempting to travel.\n\n\"Sadly there will be people who have to make journeys for the emergency services and there are still lorries that have to go to the ports. It is going to be really disruptive.\n\n\"With that sort of snowfall, you would expect some roads to be closed or blocked by the drifting snow, and long delays or some cancellations of public transport.\"\n\nPublic Health England's Dr Owen Landeg said it was \"crucial\" people looked out for those who may be vulnerable during the current cold snap.\n\nHe called on the public to make sure those at-risk have enough food and drink to stay warm and well.\n\nThe conditions are caused by cold air spreading east from the Arctic Circle, tracking across the relatively mild North Sea to form showers that bring snow and a significant wind chill.\n\nStorm Darcy, which was named by the Netherlands, is bringing an area of low pressure, adding moisture to the cold air to help form the snow.\n\nIn Scotland, parts of which have seen heavy snow and ice since the end of last year, road clearing will be prioritised around Covid vaccination centres, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said.\n\nHe said it was possible weather conditions would create challenges for the vaccination programme.\n\nDrivers in the Highlands reported being stuck after heavy snow drifted\n\nOn Friday, about 20 vehicles were stranded in snow at Loch Droma, north west of Inverness, and emergency services have been assisting a rescue operation, Highland Council said.\n\nThe vehicles became stranded in two-metre snow drifts, said road management organisation Bear Scotland.\n\nNetwork Rail said services have been disrupted on the Highland Mainline despite plough trains being used to clear snow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is another Beast from the East on the way?\n\nAside from icy conditions, there were 52 flood warnings in place as of Sunday morning across parts of England, along the River Severn and the River Thames, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nIn Berkshire, parts of Cookham were left submerged after heavy rain caused flooding at Widbrook Common.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued a flood warning for Greenlaw to Allanton in the Borders.\n\nFlood alerts are in place across England, with roads almost impassable in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire\n\nDrivers are advised to make sure their vehicle is ready for the cold weather amid predictions of an increase in breakdowns.\n\nRAC spokesman Ben Aldous said: \"This means checking oil, coolant and screen wash levels, as well as ensuring the tyres have plenty of tread and are inflated properly.\n\n\"Large amounts of snow on vehicles should be cleared before setting off to avoid it falling on to other road users. And never attempt to use the windscreen wipers to clear an icy or snowy windscreen - you risk damaging not only the wipers but the linkages too, which could be a more costly repair.\"", "Calls for reform could lead to a split in Romania's Orthodox Church\n\nThe death of a six-week-old baby hours after a baptism ceremony in Romania has prompted an Orthodox archbishop to say such rituals will be analysed to avoid further tragedy.\n\nThe baby had a cardiac arrest after he was immersed three times in holy water. He had a violent death and liquid was found in his lungs, an autopsy found.\n\nSome 60,000 people have signed a petition calling for change.\n\nArchbishop Calinic is the most senior member of the clergy to back reform.\n\nHe told Romanian website Adevarul that he believed in the future the practice of immersing a baby would be reviewed and \"the most appropriate decision taken to respect [Church] ordinances and carefully avoid unwanted accidents\".\n\nA manslaughter inquiry has been opened by prosecutors into the priest who carried out the baptism in the north-eastern city of Suceava.\n\nIf the baby's death leads to reform in the way baptism rituals are carried out then it would cause a rift within Romania's Orthodox Church.\n\nBecause while some Church figures have suggested an inclination toward change, others have been clear about wanting to keep this archaic ritual of immersing the baby's head into water.\n\nEminence Calinic, the Archbishop of Arges, is the most prominent voice so far who appears open to change. \"In other icons, Jesus stands in the water up to his neck, and with his head bowed he receives baptism by pouring water over the top of his head,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nThe Archbishop of Tomis, however, took a more belligerent stance. \"We will never change the ritual. The canons of this religion have been in place for over 1,000 years,\" he said. \"That is why we won't change. We are not intimidated.\"\n\nRomania's powerful Orthodox Church is not known for reform, but this baptism tragedy may lead to change.\n\nArchbishop Calinic himself recently conducted the high-profile baptism of the daughter of the former prince Nicholas of Romania and said in his interview that while immersion in holy water was appropriate for adults, other ways were available.\n\nWhen he was a priest years ago in Transylvania, he said he would dip a baby's feet into holy water and sprinkle its head.\n\nThe petition calling for reform had attracted 60,000 signatures by Friday. The man behind it, Vladimir Dumitru, said baptisms had to be regulated to prevent unnecessary risks and the petition was aimed at being moderate and constructive.\n\nThe Orthodox Church in Romania is widely respected, but it has already come under scrutiny for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn March last year, as Romanians were about to go into lockdown, priests in the northern city of Cluj gave communion using one shared spoon among a large group of worshippers.\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. Mainstream religion is on the wane throughout Europe but in Romania the Orthodox Church is bucking the trend", "Corey Sharpling, who had moved to Newcastle Emlyn from Birmingham not long before he died, was a keen dancer\n\nA dancer died when he was swept away by a landslide as he stepped off a bus during a storm and became buried under debris, an inquest heard.\n\nCorey Sharpling, 21, was going to work in Carmarthenshire when \"earth and trees\" engulfed him and a lorry, during Storm Callum on 13 October 2018.\n\nMr Sharpling's body was later found close to a nearby river, in Cwmduad.\n\nDuring the hearing, Coroner's Officer Malcolm Thompson said Storm Callum had caused \"high winds and heavy rain\" in the area.\n\nConditions had forced the lorry driver to stop ahead of the bus, because there was debris in the road on the A484.\n\nBoth the lorry and Mr Sharpling were swept away when an \"entire embankment\" collapsed, the hearing was told.\n\nMr Bennett said he felt unable to \"describe the devastation caused\" after viewing CCTV recorded on the bus that showed the accident.\n\nDyfed Powys Police and the Health and Safety Executive carried out a joint investigation and a file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service, but there was insufficient evidence to proceed with any prosecution, the inquest was told.\n\nMr Sharpling, who worked at McDonald's in Carmarthen, had moved to Newcastle Emlyn from Birmingham with his family and was the youngest of three children.\n\nA former Army cadet, he joined the Apple Dance studio in Newcastle Emlyn, where he practised ballet, jazz and tap.\n\nHe was described as \"lively and funny and always had a plan for the future... he lived life to the full\" and had recently moved into a flat with his partner.\n\nFamily friend Gareth Evans, read a statement on behalf of his parents.\n\nHe said that the family wanted to \"pass on their thanks to those that helped on 13 October and on the days since. We will always be grateful.\"\n\nMr Bennett concluded by saying Mr Sharpling's life had been \"cut tragically short\" and it was a \"very, very sad case.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people dead after linked incidents in Kilmarnock\n\nA mother and daughter have been killed in linked attacks in Ayrshire before a man died in a road crash.\n\nEmma Robertson Coupland, 39, was found injured in the car park of University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock at 19:45 on Thursday.\n\nAround 20 minutes later the NHS worker's daughter, Nicole Anderson, 24, was fatally stabbed on Portland Street, about two miles away.\n\nSteven Robertson, 40, died in a road crash south of the town, at 20:30.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incidents - which led to a three-hour lockdown of the hospital - and there was no ongoing threat to the public.\n\nCh Supt Faroque Hussain said: \"A number of locations remain cordoned off as officers continue to conduct inquiries.\n\n\"We are working to confirm the full circumstances of what has happened.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the incidents, which unfolded over a 45-minute period, to come forward.\n\nCh Supt Hussain added: \"Understandably, people will be shocked by what has happened.\n\n\"We are still in the process of establishing the full circumstances, however, I would like to reassure people that there is no wider threat to the community.\"\n\nAn officer guards the scene of the stabbing on Portland Street, Kilmarnock\n\nMs Coupland was treated in the hospital car park but died at the scene.\n\nHer daughter was attacked about 20 minutes later and was taken to University Hospital Crosshouse but later died from her injuries.\n\nThe fatal road crash occurred on the C50, a minor road between the B7036 and the A76, about 12 miles south of Kilmarnock.\n\nMr Robertson was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nAmbulances were diverted to University Hospital Ayr as police dealt with the unfolding events until the three-hour lockdown was lifted shortly before 23:00.\n\nPolice maintained a presence at the hospital on Friday\n\nPolice forensics check drains in Old Kirk Place, near Portland Street in Kilmarnock\n\nPolice at the scene of the fatal road accident\n\nA statement from Ms Coupland's colleagues read: \"Emma was a valued member of the NHS, a wonderful friend, colleague and loving mother. We are all deeply saddened by the loss.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, the hospital's A&E department and main entrance were open and running as normal while two police vans full of officers remained outside with police tape around part of the car park.\n\nDr Crawford McGuffie, the medical director of NHS Ayrshire and Arran, said police had confirmed the risk to patients, staff and visitors to the hospital was minimal.\n\nJohn Burns, the health board's chief executive, acknowledged the professionalism of those who responded to the attacks.\n\nHe said: \"This was a particularly challenging incident, and our staff reacted with care and compassion.\"\n\nMr Burns added that the car park at the physiotherapy department will remain closed until police have concluded their investigations.\n\nRev Jim McNaughtan, of St Andrew's and St Marnock's Parish Church, said the reaction in the town has been one of disbelief.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The staff at Crosshouse Hospital have been working hard this wee while dealing with the Covid outbreak.\n\n\"For something like this to happen in the grounds of the hospital is tragic and shocking and there is great concern for all involved.\"\n\nFlowers were left outside the hospital\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Dreadful news. My thoughts are with the bereaved. Thinking too of everyone at Crosshouse Hospital, already dealing with the tough circumstances of Covid. I'm also grateful to our emergency services. Please continue to follow @policescotland advice.\"\n\nDuring the Scottish government's daily coronavirus briefing, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said his thoughts were also with the family and friends of those who died.\n\nHe added: \"A tragedy like this would be impossible to understand at any time but, after the events of the past year, it is particularly shocking that such an incident has taken place at an NHS hospital.\"\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson also offered his sympathies.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said: \"The prime minister's thoughts are with all those involved and he thanks the police and the healthcare staff for their response.\"\n\nEast Ayrshire Council leader Douglas Reid said he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the tragic events.\n\nHe added: \"In East Ayrshire we are proud of our community spirit and community resilience, but I know the events of last night will have had a devastating impact on several families in our communities and our heartfelt thoughts go out to them this morning.\"\n• None One 'stabbed' as hospital locked down in Kilmarnock\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roc Sandford with his children Blue (left) and Lazer during a protest in central London in 2018\n\nThe father of two climate change activists fears they could die inside a network of tunnels they helped to dig in protest at the HS2 rail project.\n\nRoc Sandford's children Blue and Lazer have been in the tunnels, near Euston station, for the past nine days.\n\nThe 63-year-old said he was \"scared he may never see them again\" and criticised efforts made to remove them.\n\nHS2 has rejected claims by Mr Sandford that Lazer has been subjected to an assault by those trying to evict him.\n\nBailiffs discovered earlier that the 20-year-old had locked his arm and ankle inside the tunnel network, where seasoned activist Daniel Hooper - better known as Swampy - and his son have also taken up residence.\n\n\"Lazer, who is locked in the downshaft, keeps getting things dropped on him, choked, put in wrist locks or being stood or sat on,\" Mr Sandford said.\n\nLazer Sandford's arm is stuck in a \"steel arm tube\" inside the tunnel, campaigners say\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said the safety of staff, protesters and emergency services was of \"paramount importance\".\n\n\"We are doing all we can to end this illegal action safely, and progress has been made with access secured to the underground tunnel,\" she said.\n\n\"As has been reported this [Friday] morning, the illegal trespassers have attached themselves underground, which increases the danger to themselves, but also to our team and the emergency services.\"\n\nBlue, 18, and Lazer are among nine protesters burrowed underground - something their father supports, despite the risks involved.\n\n\"I was really scared they would die down there and I would never see them again,\" Mr Sandford said.\n\nOne of the other protesters has since been arrested after voluntarily leaving the tunnel and has been taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nBlue Sandford pictured in the tunnel, which campaigners say is 100ft (30m) long\n\nDr Larch Maxey, one of the demonstrators, said bailiffs had dug a parallel \"down shaft\" to connect to the protesters' tunnels\n\nIn August, HS2 Rebellion campaigners started occupying a site on Euston Square Gardens, which is where the entrance to the tunnel is located.\n\nThey are on land that HS2 requires so it can build a temporary taxi rank, as part of the high-speed rail project.\n\nTo thwart eviction attempts, activists spent two months digging a secret tunnel, which they have been in since 26 January.\n\nEngineers have been drafted in to prevent activists being drowned or suffocated - the protesters have tunnelled near water and gas pipes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blue Sandford: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nThe underground protest has drawn criticism from Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who said the activists' actions were \"reckless, irresponsible and deeply concerning\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whose constituency includes Euston, said the most important thing was to make sure lives were not at risk.\n\nMr Sandford argues that his children have been left with \"no choice\" but to protest in the way they have been.\n\nHe added: \"They shouldn't have to be doing this. They should be studying.\n\n\"My children and their fellow tunnellers are fighting for all our lives and I'm really proud of them.\"\n\nBlue and Lazer were privately educated at King Alfred School, in Hampstead, north London, as there are no schools on the remote Hebridean island of Gometra - which Mr Sandford owns.\n\nPreviously, Blue said she was on a \"school strike\" for climate change, while Mr Sandford said his son started protesting once he left school.\n\nDaniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - is one of the campaigners below Euston Square Gardens\n\nFor more than a week, enforcement officers have been trying to remove protesters from tunnels below the HS2 Rebellion encampment in Euston Square Gardens\n\nSpeaking from his remote island home, Mr Sandford said he had been able to remain in contact with his children.\n\nAs well as the allegations he has made about the treatment of his son, Mr Sandford said the protesters were being denied the right to monitor oxygen levels in the depths of the tunnel network.\n\nHowever, the HS2 spokeswoman said there was no evidence to support Mr Sandford's allegations.\n\nEarlier this week, High Court judge Mr Justice Robin Knowles refused an application by one of the protesters, Larch Maxey, who was trying to stop bailiffs from trying to remove them.\n\nThe judge said the activists' predicament was \"very dangerous\" and that Dr Maxey should inform the authorities about the number of people in the tunnels and cease any further digging.\n\nThe entrance to the tunnel is through a shed in Euston Square Gardens\n\nIt is an order he has not complied with, the HS2 spokeswoman said.\n\nShe said: \"The High Court this week issued an order which required another illegal occupant of the tunnel, Dr Maxey, to leave the tunnel and encourage others, including Mr Sandford's children, to also do so.\n\n\"Continuing to ignore the court order compounds the illegality and risk of their actions.\n\n\"Mr Sandford should urge his children to remove themselves from the tunnel as soon as possible - for their safety and the safety of the other activists and HS2 staff and agents tasked with removing them from the danger they in which they have placed themselves.\"\n\nSome of the protesters above ground have been arrested\n\nThe campaigners say that HS2 is using \"huge amounts of high-carbon steel\" in the rail project, something they say \"will only make the climate emergency worse\".\n\nAn HS2 report published last February said the project would not reduce CO2 overall for more than 100 years, largely because of the emissions created during tunnelling and construction.\n\nHowever, HS2 now says that forecast is out of date. It also points to measures it has taken to reduce construction emissions by using less steel, although it has not produced any new figures.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HS2 Ltd This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 HS2 Ltd\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project.\n\nThey also say that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK government should avoid \"setting dates\" for when to lift lockdown and instead react to changing circumstances, a scientist has warned.\n\nProf Graham Medley, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, said leaders should not be \"driven by a calendar\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has said all over-50s should be vaccinated by May.\n\nAnd a senior Conservative MP has told the BBC that Downing Street should be \"looking to open up\" society.\n\nSir Graham Brady, who leads the 1922 Committee of Conservative Party backbenchers, cited the falling infection level and success of the vaccine rollout, telling the BBC the situation was \"optimistic\".\n\nThe government estimate of the R rate - the average number of people someone with Covid will go on to infect - has dropped slightly to between 0.7 and 1, from between 0.7 and 1.1 for the week before.\n\nBut Prof Medley - who chairs the modelling group SPI-M, which advises Sage - told the BBC's Today programme that the epidemic could still go in two directions, up or down, and \"it's up to the government to decide which of those paths it takes\".\n\nHe urged a strategy of \"adaptive management so you actually change the control of the epidemic as it goes along rather than setting dates, for example\".\n\nThis means rather than setting dates of when rules could ease, there would be some sort of threshold of what the government would do if certain criteria are met.\n\n\"To actually make decisions dependent on the circumstances, rather than being driven by a calendar of wanting to do things,\" Prof Medley added.\n\nThe government has always insisted it is guided by the science - but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has often given dates when expressing hope about the future of the pandemic, for example saying things will be better by Easter and being hopeful about summer holidays.\n\nAsked what type of circumstances the decisions could be based on, Prof Medley said case numbers were important.\n\n\"Vaccination offers a way out and it does reduce the impact of infection, but it doesn't remove it completely,\" he said. \"And so case numbers are still important because they represent the risk of having to go back into some kind of national measures.\n\n\"At the moment, we're in a relatively good position in a sense that the number of cases are falling, but they're still very high. So we only need one more doubling time, one more return to exponential growth, and we could be back in the same position we were in the beginning of January within two weeks.\"\n\n\"The lower the numbers of cases, the more time you will have to react if they start to increase.\"\n\nInfection levels have been falling since early January, and newly-released data shows that cases are down in every UK nation apart from Wales.\n\nNearly 10.5 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine so far. And on Friday, the Cabinet Office issued a press release saying it plans to vaccinate all of the first nine priority groups - including the over 50s - by May, giving it confidence to press ahead with the local elections.\n\nThe government also announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac, which Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said would allow the UK to \"swiftly tweak and roll out\" existing vaccines to combat new variants, with 50 million doses placed in an initial order for later this year.\n\nThe latest figures show the UK recorded another 20,632 coronavirus cases on Thursday. A further 915 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also reported, taking the total by that measure to 110,250.\n\nAnd around one in 65 people in private households in England and Northern Ireland had Covid last week, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics. In Wales, that figure was one in 70, while in Scotland it was one in 115.\n\nThe ONS also found that almost six in 10 adults say they are following \"stay at home\" lockdown rules by only leaving home for their basic needs. The figure is less than during the first national lockdown, when around 81% of people said they obeyed, and higher than in November.\n\nNow that more than 10 million of the UK's most vulnerable have been vaccinated, daily cases of the virus are falling, fewer people are being admitted to hospital and there are early signs of deaths coming down, there is pressure to start the process of returning to normal.\n\nBut what will that process look like? Relax restrictions too quickly and there's the risk that cases could start to rise again in the unvaccinated. Move too slowly and the economy, jobs, children's education and people's mental health could suffer unnecessarily.\n\nSome advocate a responsive approach - keeping a close eye on infection levels, which experts warn are still worryingly high, and other data, then reacting quickly when relaxations appear to be making things worse.\n\nThis is in contrast to, for example, setting fixed dates for schools to open which may then have to be changed nearer the time.\n\nReopening schools has always been the priority. Making that happen safely while carefully opening up other parts of society is now the greatest challenge.\n\nSir Graham - who has previously opposed lockdown rules - told the BBC the argument for going into a third national lockdown was to stop the risk of the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\n\"The NHS has actually coped spectacularly well,\" he said. \"Now that that threat is receding, we ought to be - and indeed we are, and the government says we are - looking to open up.\"\n\nOther politicians are urging a cautious approach to lifting lockdown.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's World at One the country had to target getting cases \"down significantly from their current levels\", making a comparison with South Korea, which he said had about 400 cases per day.\n\nHe said: \"If we really want to avoid going into a fourth lockdown, we're going to have to be much better at isolating and quarantining anyone who has the new variants.\"\n\nMr Hunt added he thought the \"end of the pandemic is within sight\" - but that the country needed to keep a \"weathered eye one these vaccines and variants\".\n\nEarlier this week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer also warned against lifting restrictions too early.\n\nOn Friday, government minister James Cleverly said he was not able to give a timetable of restrictions easing, but said plans will take into consideration \"the needs of the economy, people's mental health, the education of our children\".\n\n\"The decisions will be based on the assessment of what is safe, as well as effective,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said the government continues to follow advice from scientific and medical experts.\n\n\"As the prime minister has said, the government will set out a plan for taking the country out of lockdown during the week beginning 22 February, with the clear aim of taking a gradual, phase approach that is sustainable.\"", "Mark Carney headed the Bank of England for nearly seven years, up to March 2020\n\nThe world is heading for mortality rates equivalent to the Covid crisis every year by mid-century unless action is taken, according to Mark Carney.\n\nThe former central banker said the investment needed to avert millions of deaths was double current rates.\n\nBut with governments ploughing billions into keeping economies afloat, a question mark hangs over whether the recovery will be green enough.\n\nThe answer lies in smarter investment, Mr Carney said.\n\nMr Carney, who was the Bank of England governor up until last year, and the head of the Bank of Canada before that, is now the United Nations envoy for climate action and finance.\n\nHe told the BBC that while there were parallels between the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, damage to the environment and ecosystems has the potential to cause many more deaths.\n\n\"One of the biggest issues is you cannot self-isolate from climate,\" he said. \"That is not an option. We cannot retreat in and wait out climate change, it will just get worse,\" he told Talking Business Asia: The Climate Change Challenge.\n\n\"When you look at climate change from a human mortality perspective, it will be the equivalent of a coronavirus crisis every year from the middle of this century, and every year, not just a one-off event. So it is an issue that needs to be addressed now.\"\n\nBut governments pouring trillions of dollars into stimulus plans to rescue their ailing economies are mainly addressing job losses and the economic damage inflicted from lockdowns.\n\nVery little of that cash is heading towards reducing carbon emissions, although emissions have fallen in the past year because people aren't travelling as much.\n\nMr Carney, who is tasked with persuading policymakers, chief executives, bankers and investors to focus on the environment, said: \"The scale of investment in energy, sustainable energy and sustainable infrastructure needs to double.\n\n\"Every year, for the course of the next three decades, $3.5 trillion (£2.5tn) a year, for 30 years. It is an enormous investment opportunity.\"\n\nHe said the answer lies in a global pot of $170tn of private capital which, he says, \"is looking for disclosure\".\n\nBanks, investment funds and individuals increasingly want to know how their money will be used.\n\nIt is not just about disclosing the carbon position of companies, he says, but \"where it's going to go tomorrow in order to make these kinds of investment and lending decisions\".\n\nThat pot is bigger than the total economic output of the world for a year, he said. \"The issue is about putting that money to work.\"\n\nChina is part of the solution to lowering carbon emissions\n\nMr Carney said that as the US returns to the world stage in the battle against climate change, there's renewed momentum to the issue, especially as last year China, the world's largest polluter, aimed to become carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nAlthough China continues to build coal-fired power plants, and draws about 70% of its power from fossil fuel, the country is a crucial part of the solution.\n\n\"There clearly are issues in terms of coal in China, and the sooner China moves on that, the better for them and for the world.\n\n\"But China also produces 60% of the global solar photovoltaic panels. It is also the largest producer of electric vehicles. So China has many sides to this.\"\n\nThe US has the \"largest and most sophisticated financial sector\" along with the \"engineering and technological expertise\" to get to net zero emissions, he said.\n\nPart of his role at the UN is to tap into this financial sector.\n\nIt is the \"power of money\" that will ultimately play the biggest role in combating climate change, he said.\n\n\"We're getting the system in a position where, whether it's a bank, or somebody who's investing a small amount of savings in the market, or your pension, they can choose [how it is invested].\n\n\"They have the information and they can choose to be part of the solution, transitioning to net zero, or be part of the problem.\"\n\nYou can watch the full interview with Mark Carney on Talking Business Asia on BBC World News this weekend.", "The Texan T1 planes have been operating from RAF Valley on Anglesey for almost two years\n\nMPs have called on the RAF to make changes to training aircraft after complaints about noise from residents.\n\nArfon MP Hywel Williams said he was given assurances over a year ago safety equipment would be added so more flights could be made over the sea.\n\nThe Texan T1 has been operating from RAF Valley on Anglesey for almost two years, but the changes have not been made.\n\nThe RAF said making the modifications was a priority.\n\nThey can currently only conduct limited flight over water due to issues with the onboard life raft, harness, and life jacket.\n\n\"The RAF need to train their pilots of course,\" said Mr Williams.\n\n\"But it is high time for them to act and give proper attention to the impact on local people and the future visitor economy in Snowdonia, already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nThe aircraft are not currently allowed to train over the sea\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence concedes that these aircraft are currently unable to fully operate over water. This prompts the obvious question, why on earth did they buy them like this in the first place, especially given that their main base is on an island that is surrounded by water.\"\n\nResidents in parts of Gwynedd have described hearing \"a constant howling noise\" when the aircraft are in flight.\n\nBoth Mr Williams and Dwyfor Meirionydd MP Liz Saville Roberts say complaints \"have soared\" recently, with more people working from home during lockdown.\n\nHuw Jones, who lives in Llanllechid, near Bethesda, Gwynedd, said: \"It's got worse recently. I think we're noticing it more during lockdown.\n\n\"If we open the window, we hear the noise all day, a couple of times a week.\"\n\nThe RAF said that making the modifications to the aircraft was \"a priority\" but could not say when the work would be carried out.\n\nA spokesman said: \"When practicable, RAF Valley distributes Texan training to as many areas as possible.\n\n\"We are also continuing to work hard to remove remaining restrictions that reduce overwater activity.\"", "Teachers are not among those prioritised for the Covid vaccine in England, unless they also meet age or health-related criteria\n\nHundreds of teachers in London have been able to book Covid vaccine slots despite not being in the top priority groups, after they were forwarded messages intended for NHS workers.\n\nA booking link and passcode meant for staff at Barts Health NHS Trust were circulated via Whatsapp to staff at local schools, teachers told the BBC.\n\nSome have received a jab as a result.\n\nThe trust said it was investigating and will take steps to improve the security of its booking system.\n\nThe government told the BBC's Newscast podcast in a statement it was \"absolutely critical that vaccines are offered in the priority order\".\n\nTeachers at schools in north and east London - including in Hackney, Camden and Barnet - said the messages had been sent via school management and were spreading in WhatsApp groups with dozens of members.\n\nNewscast found that it was still possible to book an appointment using the information in the messages on Thursday evening.\n\nOne teacher who booked an appointment, and who asked to remain anonymous, said it was \"not a case of trying to jump the queue\".\n\n\"When the appointment was confirmed I was surprised, thinking that it would have been refused if teachers were not actually entitled to these vaccines,\" they said.\n\n\"The conflicting and changing guidance from the government made me feel like it was possible that this was a genuine offer for teachers that had just not been passed on.\"\n\nThey added: \"Obviously, teachers will only have the vaccine when it is made available to us.\"\n\nA message intended for NHS staff was circulated on teachers' WhatsApp groups\n\nAnother teacher said they, too, were surprised to find they could book an appointment.\n\n\"I thought this must be a local ad hoc way of avoiding wasting vaccines that hadn't been taken up. But I did some research and concluded this wasn't right,\" the teacher said.\n\n\"I think the problem is that people think this is genuine and don't think it's a loophole, but a local policy. It's not malicious or about queue-jumping.\"\n\nBarts Health NHS Trust confirmed that a booking link for its own employees was forwarded to local school staff and that this should not have happened.\n\nIt said it was investigating the source of the messages and measures were being put in place to make the booking system more secure.\n\nIt said anyone attending an appointment who is ineligible to do so would be turned away and that members of the public should not book an appointment until they have been contacted directly by the NHS.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said that it was vaccinating frontline staff and their relatives - where relevant - in line with national guidance.\n\n\"To avoid waste, any unfilled vaccination slots are offered to other staff working within our hospitals,\" it said.\n\nIt comes after reports that Rochdale Borough Council in Greater Manchester wrote to head teachers accusing some school staff of trying to get jabs via an \"inappropriately shared\" email.\n\nVaccination centres in Rochdale will now require people to show proof of employment in order to prevent people from being able to circumnavigate the system.\n\nThe leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese, warned that anyone who had received a vaccine under those circumstances would be investigated and appropriate action taken to ensure that vaccines are given to those in greatest need.\n\nDuring a press conference on Wednesday, Sir Richard said some people were \"fiddling the system, using other people's links to get access\".\n\n\"People should not go before they are called to go as you are taking a slot away from someone in greater need,\" he said.\n\n\"If people are gaming the system, if they are using other people's names, and they are not in priority groups, they are denying somebody at greater risk a vaccine and given the primary objective of this first half of the first phase is to save lives and take the pressure off our hospitals, they are also undermining our efforts to do that.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will eventually be able to identify anyone who has had a vaccine ahead of their eligibility criteria.\"\n\nThe NHS is currently only offering vaccines to people within England's first four priority groups, in line with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) guidelines.\n\nThis does not include teachers, unless they also meet age or health-related criteria.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said: \"It is absolutely critical that vaccines are offered in the priority order, as determined by the JCVI, and we expect everyone involved in vaccinations to follow this guidance closely.\"\n\n\"Vaccinating these groups first will save the most lives and provide the quickest and safest route out of the pandemic.\"\n\nAlmost 10.5 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard, and more than 500,000 have received their second dose.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool will not be able to travel to Germany for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against RB Leipzig on 16 February.\n\nGermany has banned most travellers from countries, including the UK, hit hard by new variants of Covid-19.\n\nA German interior ministry statement said Bundesliga club Leipzig had been told the fixture \"does not meet the requirements for an exception\".\n\nUefa said it was \"in touch with the respective clubs\" about the tie.\n\nLiverpool are being kept informed of developments as discussions take place about a solution.\n\nIt is understood, while RB Leipzig are in contact with both Liverpool and Uefa, they are also in talks with other stadium owners about hosting the tie as they explore their options.\n\nThey have until 8 February to present a solution to European football's governing body and are confident the match will take place.\n\nUefa has updated its regulations for the knockout stages of the Champions League and Europa League amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIf restrictions imposed in a country could result in a match not taking place, \"the home club must propose a suitable alternative venue, which may be in a neutral country\".\n\nHowever, if the host club fails to do that and it is not possible to play the game at another venue or on a different date, Uefa says it will deem the match to have been forfeited, with the home side losing 3-0.\n\nWith Germany's restrictions in place until 17 February, an option could be to reverse the tie so Liverpool host the first leg. The second leg is scheduled to take place on 10 March.\n\nUefa added: \"In all cases, the venue of a match must be approved by the Uefa administration, which has the right to assign an alternative venue for any particular match or even to decide that either or both legs of the relevant round to be rescheduled and/or played in a neutral country (within the territory of a Uefa member association) and/or organised as a single leg.\n• None How has Pep turned things round and can Micah get Timo Werner firing?\n• None How Kanye West challenged ideas about rap and religion", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the incident has been posted online\n\nThe police watchdog has launched an investigation after a survivor of a loyalist gun attack was arrested at a memorial marking the shooting.\n\nHe was part of a group who had gathered for a ceremony on Belfast's Ormeau Road, where five people were murdered in Sean Graham bookmakers in 1992.\n\nPolice said \"between 30 and 40\" people had gathered and a man was approached about the coronavirus regulations.\n\nHe added that a man was arrested for disorderly behaviour and resisting arrest.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill called it a \"shameful display of policing\" and said officers were \"heavy handed\".\n\nPublic gatherings of more than six people are currently prevented under Covid-19 lockdown regulations in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman's Office said officers were involved in an \"altercation\" with a group of people.\n\n\"We are aware of the incident and have received a complaint about what happened,\" a spokesman said.,\n\n\"Our investigation will focus on establishing all of the facts surrounding the incident and investigators will be examining all available evidence in order to consider the appropriateness of the actions taken by police, including the arrest.\"\n\nThe man arrested is Mark Sykes, who was among those seriously injured in the 1992 attack.\n\nHis solicitor Niall Murphy said the arrest was made shortly after 14:30 GMT and his client was released about two hours later.\n\nA memorial to the five victims of the attack was put up outside the Belfast betting shop\n\nFootage of the incident has been posted online.\n\nMr Byrne said the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was reviewing all footage of the incident, including from their own body-worn cameras.\n\nHe added the PSNI was \"carrying out an assessment of the conduct of the officers involved\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice have recently been accused of inaction when large crowds of mourners gathered at both republic and loyalist funerals.\n\nThe chief constable said he had spoken to Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster, Ms O'Neill and the local MP to brief them on what happened.\n\n\"I fully recognise the sensitivities of this incident and just how difficult a day this would have already been for the families who lost loved ones in the atrocity,\" he said.\n\n\"That should not be forgotten.\n\n\"We are acutely aware that this is the latest incident to raise concerns about the enforcement of coronavirus regulations and illustrates there are no easy answers.\"\n\nMs O'Neill, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, described the chief constable's response as \"inadequate and insulting\".\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she understood why events had \"left emotions running high\" but she called for calm and cool heads to prevail.\n\n\"Funerals and memorials are particularly sensitive when it comes to enforcement of the coronavirus regulations which, at their core, are designed to keep people safe and save lives,\" the minister said.\n\n\"Policing is an incredibly difficult job at the best of times but is even more so during this pandemic. It is therefore important that as a community we all continue to try our best to work together through these challenges.\"\n\nSinn Féin policing board member Gerry Kelly said he was \"shocked and appalled\" by the arrest.\n\nHe said family members of the victims had gathered at the scene of the attack to call for the publication of a delayed Police Ombudsman's report into the murder of their loved ones.\n\nHe criticised police actions and compared it to the PSNI's response when a large group of masked men gathered in east Belfast on Tuesday night.\n\nThat east Belfast incident was linked to an internal row within the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).\n• None Footage of confrontation at Belfast memorial event. Video, 00:00:49Footage of confrontation at Belfast memorial event", "Five reasons to be (cautiously) hopeful on Covid\n\nIt’s been a difficult few months with a surge in infections, tens of thousands of deaths and a damaging lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But there are now plenty of reasons to be, at least cautiously, hopeful that we are on the road to recovery. So what are they? We’re past the peak - Infection levels have been falling since early January and, in recent weeks, that has translated into fewer people being admitted to hospital. Vaccination programme going well - The UK has vaccinated more than 10 million people - more per head of population than almost anywhere in the world. Vaccination should slow the spread - As well as protecting the individual who has been vaccinated from developing Covid, there are growing signs the immunisation programme will also slow the spread of the virus between people. Infection offers long-lasting protection - Another factor that will help reduce the burden of Covid is that so many people have now been exposed to the virus, and the latest research suggests they should have lasting protection. The mutations can be beaten - There has been a lot of concern about how the virus is mutating – with new varients being found in the UK and South Africa. But this does not mean the vaccinations are ineffective.", "Political rhetoric around the Irish Sea border has become \"increasingly febrile\" and needs to be \"de-escalated\", Chief Constable Simon Byrne has said.\n\nHe also said claims that loyalists were ready \"to fight\" were \"inflammatory\".\n\nSpeaking after a Policing Board meeting, Mr Byrne said there was no intelligence suggesting loyalist paramilitaries intended any protests or violence \"in the short term.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, David Campbell, the chairman of the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC), which has the backing of paramilitary groups, said it may be necessary \"to fight physically to maintain our freedoms within the UK.\"\n\n\"I think there is a lot of emotion, but we are not picking up intelligence anyone is planning to protest or do anything worse,\" said Mr Byrne.\n\n\"A feeling of normality has to be brought back to the country.\"\n\nThe UK government told BBC News NI it was \"clear that inciting violence is never acceptable - it harms our communities and puts people at risk\".\n\n\"There was no place for violence and intimidation in the past and there is no place for it today,\" it added, in a statement.\n\n\"Our focus remains on resolving the outstanding issues in relation to the practical operation of the Protocol to make sure it works in the best interests of people and businesses in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOn Monday checks on animal and food products at Larne and Belfast ports were suspended amid concerns for staff safety.\n\nGraffiti threatening staff working at the ports has appeared in some loyalist areas.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) later said there was no suggestion of involvement by loyalist paramilitary groups and no evidence to support claims that staff licence plate numbers had been recorded.\n\nOn a separate issue, the chief constable admitted a social media video of police dealing with a masked UVF mob in east Belfast \"has not done us any favours.\"\n\nBut he rejected criticism his officers should have made arrests on the spot.\n\nDozens of people linked to the UVF had mobilised at Pitt Park for an intended attack connected to an ongoing feud, but police turned up to prevent it.\n\nMr Byrne said his officers were outnumbered - six of them compared to about 50 suspected paramilitaries.\n\nPolice could be seen monitoring the scene as the masked men walked in the area\n\n\"The priority of the officers was to protect a small number of people who were under threat by a group of hooded men,\" Mr Byrne said.\n\n\"We are actively following up lines of inquiry to bring people to book.\n\n\"There is no place for thuggery and intimidation and we want to keep these people on the back foot.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Piers says he does not want to go on holiday, he only wants to go to school\n\nAll Piers says he wants to do is go to school every day. He does not even want a holiday - just school, school and more school.\n\nBut Piers, who lives with a form of autism, has not been able to finish the final year of his maths GCSE full-time in the classroom with his friends and teachers because of lockdown.\n\n\"I really love school,\" said the 18-year-old. \"It's my favourite thing.\"\n\nBut Piers, like some of his friends, has only been in class one day a week.\n\nThe head teacher at his south Wales school, for children with special educational needs, says that while missing large parts of their education has the \"biggest impact\" on children with additional needs, school is a \"safety net\" for both pupils and their families.\n\nAnd how Piers, who also has learning difficulties and sensory issues, has missed being in the classroom and around familiar faces.\n\n\"I don't want a holiday at all this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I just wanted to go to school every day. I only get to do one day a week as it is my final year.\"\n\nHe has struggled with home-schooling because of his \"sleeping issues\" - and the strict lockdowns in Wales have not just affected Piers' education but his mood too.\n\nMaths GCSE students Piers and Amy join a digital lesson during their one day in school a week\n\n\"I'm not able to go out and my mental health is deteriorating,\" said Piers, who lives in Monmouth.\n\n\"I've been very upset and sobbing every day. I've a sweet tooth and wanting to eat lots of chocolate.\n\n\"I love going to school because it is learning - you are made to do work - because when I'm at home I want to sleep all of the time. I'd rather be kept on my toes and be busy.\"\n\nPiers' story is one of how a student with additional educational needs is dealing with the uncertain challenges of a global health emergency.\n\nJust 20% of Crownbridge's pupils are in school during lockdown\n\n\"School for some of our children is the safety net, not only for the children but for the families,\" said Bethan Moore, acting head of Crownbridge Special School in Cwmbran.\n\n\"Sometimes it's just a bit of respite for the children to come to school.\"\n\nAbout 20 of Crownbridge's 116 pupils have been going into school during lockdown while the rest remain at home and have been offered remote learning.\n\n\"It was kind of annoying at first, with the mask and because of Covid you can't do things,\" added Piers' school friend Amy, 19, who is also studying for a GCSE in maths.\n\nSchool \"brings out the best\" in final year student Amy\n\n\"But I haven't found it that bad as we've done some fun things.\"\n\nAmy's mum Caroline, from Monmouth, said her daughter, who has autism, \"thrived\" in school as it \"brings out the best in her\".\n\n\"Since lockdown it has been particularly difficult,\" she said.\n\n\"But the school has made great efforts to engage with Amy at home and in school which is really important because Amy needs that routine, the teachers have made it fun.\n\n\"The online learning experience is new but it has taught her some new skills so the blended-learning approach has been positive.\"\n\nCrownbridge, like all schools across the UK, has had to rapidly adapt to challenge of continuing education and mitigating the risks of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our teacher will send learning packs home each week with targets,\" said teaching assistant Megan Israel.\n\n\"The parents then send the work back and we put it in the children's folders to ensure the children are not missing out.\"\n\nThe \"blended learning approach\" is also applied to physio and exercise targets for pupils with more acute and physical needs.\n\nBut Ms Israel said it was important some pupils could attend school to use the specialist equipment \"to meet their needs\".\n\nTeachers have worked closely with physiotherapists and speech and language therapists to ensure support is provided to families at home.\n\n\"We are concerned about the dip in their progress,\" added Ms Moore.\n\n\"But as far as Crownbridge concerned, we've been really good at working as a tight team, providing support for pupils and families who are blended learning at home.\"\n\nCrownbridge Special School has 116 pupils aged between two and 19 on its roll\n\nWelsh Government guidance on Covid measures allows for \"a practical and flexible approach\" for children with special educational needs.\n\nThe school has established small contact groups and intensified cleaning on site and some facilities are shut, like their hydro pool or the hall where pupils would undergo physiotherapy.\n\nSocial distancing, masks and other coronavirus prevention measures can be more difficult to implement in schools like Crownbridge where many children have difficulty communicating and need physical interaction.\n\nStaff wear face coverings around the school but Ms Moore says it becomes more difficult when they interact with the children \"who rely on the mouth and the speech and language to communicate\".\n\nSome of Crownbridge's pupils need to use specialist equipment\n\nThe Welsh Government has pledged to vaccinate special school staff who provide intimate personal care for children - and Crownbridge's staff are waiting for their Covid jabs.\n\nWhile there are limited numbers of children coming into school, they also provide opportunities for their pupils to learn from home, whatever their needs.\n\nTeacher Bethan Stokes has teenagers Elliot and Shay in class doing some sensory maths by singing a song about numbers and asking them to use a fly swat to splat piles of cream with different amounts of cherries on the top.\n\nAfter the excitement of making a mess in the classroom, they go to the sensory room to let off some steam.\n\n\"We try to keep it as normal as possible,\" said Ms Stokes.\n\n\"It's really difficult because obviously the children know things aren't normal because of the circumstances. I'm so proud of how they're coping.\"", "New investment means 125 million more Dairy Milk bars will be made in Birmingham\n\nThe owner of Cadbury is set to return more of its Dairy Milk production to its historic Bournville factory.\n\nMondelez International - which owns the chocolate brand - said some production in continental Europe would return to the UK.\n\nAnnouncing a £15m investment at the Birmingham site, the company said from 2022, 125 million more Dairy Milk bars would be manufactured there.\n\nBournville village was built by the Cadbury brothers in the 1870s.\n\nBournville has been home to Cadbury since the 1870s\n\nMondelez' UK managing director Louise Stigant said Bournville was still considered the \"heart of Cadbury\" and bringing more Dairy milk production back \"home\" offered an opportunity to invest in the plant.\n\nUntil now, about two thirds of Cadbury's chocolate has been made in Birmingham, and the company said the new investment would see \"almost all\" of its products made at Bournville.\n\nAbout £11m of the new funding will go towards a new production line.\n\nThe remaining £4m will be spent increasing its chocolate-making capacity.\n\nLast year, Bournville produced 35,000 tonnes of Cadbury Dairy Milk tablets - about 234 million bars - and this investment will allow them to make an additional 12,000 tonnes of chocolate.\n\nSome production will remain overseas, Mondelez said, and the firm also confirmed the investment would not lead to the creation of any new jobs.\n\n\"At a time when manufacturing in the UK is facing significant challenges, it has never been more vital to secure the long-term competitiveness and sustainability of our business,\" Ms Stigant added.\n\nMillions of chocolate bars are produced at the Bournville factory\n\nJoe Clarke, national officer for Unite, said the decision meant the long-term security of the site was now \"very positive\".\n\n\"It's exceptional news as a proud Brummie who's looked after the site Cadbury site for a number of years, it's always good to see job security, investment and more products coming back to the UK and in particular Birmingham,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the home of Cadbury Dairy Milk and I think it's welcome to be having this increase in volumes with the increase in demand for chocolate under the present times we are enduring.\"\n\nMondelez, which owns other brands including Toblerone and Milka, is one of the largest chocolate, biscuit and coffee producers in the EU.\n\n\"Bournville is now much more competitive across our manufacturing network, particularly when it comes to producing high volume products such as Cadbury Dairy Milk tablets,\" Bournville manufacturing director, Roberto Gambaccini, said.\n\n\"It's important that we continue this journey and this investment will see us take full advantage of the efficiencies that modernisation, and upskilling can create to continue the growth and success of the Bournville site.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police vehicles at Crosshouse in Kilmarnock on Thursday night\n\nAt least one person is reported to have been stabbed during three \"serious incidents\" in East Ayrshire.\n\nUniversity Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock was placed in lockdown on Thursday evening, with ambulances diverted to University Hospital Ayr as police dealt with the unfolding events.\n\nThe three-hour lockdown was lifted shortly before 23:00.\n\nThe PA news agency said it understood at least one person was stabbed.\n\nThere was no official confirmation from Police Scotland.\n\nOfficers were called to the first incident at the Crosshouse site at about 19:45 on Thursday.\n\nThey believe another in the centre of Kilmarnock about 20 minutes later and a serious crash on the A76 may be linked.\n\nThe incidents are not being treated as terror-related.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter Police Scotland said there was no cause for concern for the wider community.\n\nIt added that inquiries were at an early stage and that the areas involved have been cordoned off.\n\nThe second incident was on Portland Street, which is about two miles from the hospital, at about 20:05.\n\nOfficers were called to the crash on the A76, on the outskirts of the town, at about 20:30.\n\nA police cordon at West George Street in Kilmarnock on Friday morning\n\nA area under a rail bridge in the town was cordoned off\n\nOn Friday morning, the hospital's A&E department and main entrance were open and running as normal while two police vans full of officers remained outside with police tape around part of the car park.\n\nDr Crawford McGuffie, the medical director of NHS Ayrshire and Arran, said police had confirmed the risk to patients, staff and visitors to the hospital was minimal.\n\nHe added: \"There remains a large police presence on the grounds of the hospital.\n\n\"We would like to reassure anyone coming to the hospital, in particular to any patients or staff coming on shift, that Police Scotland have confirmed it is safe to do so.\n\n\"However, if you are worried, please speak to the onsite Police Scotland officers.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the incidents as very serious.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are with those involved in these very serious incidents... Please help police do their job by following the advice to stay away from the areas affected.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman, who is also an Ayrshire MSP, commented on BBC's Good Morning Scotland about the events of Thursday night.\n\nShe said: \"They are very worrying and as I said last night my thoughts are with the family and friends of all those affected and with our colleagues in the NHS and Police Scotland and I want to thank them again for responding to these incidents in the professional, swift and caring manner that I know they will have done.\"", "Energy prices will rise for millions of people across the UK in April, at a time when finances are squeezed.\n\nRegulator Ofgem said the price cap for default domestic energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers' extra costs.\n\nThe typical gas and electricity customer is likely to see their bill go up by £96 to £1,138 a year.\n\nCharities say the timing is a \"double whammy\", coming at a time when the government's Covid-related support schemes are due to be wound down.\n\nOfgem said rising wholesale costs were behind the increase, adding that the existence of the price cap meant households saved £100 a year, and they could also switch to a better deal.\n\nJonathan Brearley, chief executive of the regulator, said: \"Energy bill increases are never welcome, especially as many households are struggling with the impact of the pandemic. We have carefully scrutinised these changes to ensure that customers only pay a fair price for their energy.\n\n\"As the UK still faces challenges around Covid-19, during this exceptional time I expect suppliers to set their prices competitively, treat all customers fairly and ensure that any household in financial distress is given access to the support they need.\"\n\nHe said a rise in spring, when less energy was used, was better than waiting until the autumn.\n\nPeter Earl, head of energy at price comparison website Comparethemarket.com, said: \"Raising energy costs for millions of households by an average of £96 is an extraordinary move in the current environment.\n\n\"It calls into question the whole point of a price cap which was designed to protect the most vulnerable households.\"\n\nThe price cap, set twice a year by the regulator, affects 11 million households in England, Wales and Scotland who have never switched suppliers or whose discounted deals have expired. Northern Ireland sets its own cap.\n\nThat accounts for about half of all UK households. The remainder are on so-called fixed deals, which will not be affected.\n\nThe cap for prepayment meter customers will go up by £87 to £1,156, affecting another four million customers.\n\nThe caps set the prices that suppliers can charge for each unit of energy, but that does not mean there is a limit to how much people can pay. The more gas and electricity you use, the higher the bill.\n\nLyn Clark says she has put on extra layers\n\nLockdown life means Lyn Clark, like so many others, has been spending a lot more time at home. Her energy bills have been rising as a result.\n\n\"I'm trying not to switch on heaters in the rooms that are not being used,\" she said.\n\nWhile prices are capped on default tariffs, the amount people pay in total is likely to have risen during more time at home.\n\nMrs Clark said she had been doing her best to keep the costs down.\n\n\"I find myself putting on extra layers,\" she said. \"I also go for a walk each lunchtime to make sure I'm warmer.\"\n\nIn October, Ofgem lowered the price cap by £84, but it has now more than reversed that with the rise scheduled for April.\n\nThe extra allowance for suppliers to raise prices is the result of greater costs on the wholesale markets.\n\nIt also includes an allowance to charge an extra £23 a year to cover bills that have not been paid. Ofgem said a further delay in recouping these costs would only create greater costs next winter.\n\nCharities point out that raising prices for everyone on these tariffs is likely to increase the number of people unable to pay.\n\nCitizens Advice said its research in December indicated that 2.1 million households were behind on their energy bills, a rise of 600,000 compared with before the pandemic.\n\nIt was concerned that the planned removing of assistance for recipients of universal credit, as well as other government financial support schemes being wound down, meant there were serious worries over debt.\n\nAlistair Cromwell, acting chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: \"This increase will be a heavy blow to a lot of households. For many people on universal credit it will come at the same time as the £20 a week increase to the benefit is set to end.\n\n\"With a tough jobs market and essential bills rising, now is not the time for the government to cut this vital lifeline\".\n\nAdam Scorer, of National Energy Action, which has also warned of financial pressures on households, said: \"People on the lowest incomes and in the worst housing are always hit hardest.\n\n\"Heating a poorly insulated home costs around £50 a month more than a decent home. If bills rise by £96, millions of households have two stark choices; stay cold or fall further into debt.\"\n\nHe argued that prepayment meter customers should not have been included in the cap as they found it difficult to switch.\n\nEven if households do switch, the cost of so-called fixed-rate deals has also been rising. The cheapest on the market rose by more than £50 in the last three months of the year to £851.\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, the chief executive of Energy UK, a trade body for energy suppliers, said the price cap was set to be fair to customers and suppliers.\n\n\"Today's rise reflects that the cost of buying energy - by far the biggest part of the bill - has risen significantly over the last few months,\" she said.\n\n\"It also includes a greater allowance for debt given the difficulties many customers are facing in paying bills at present.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland has doubled the daily number of Covid vaccines delivered in the space of a week.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said Scotland's vaccination programme was \"on track\" to meet its targets as he revealed the daily number of jabs had risen to 48,165 on Thursday.\n\nThat number was twice as many as was recorded a week ago.\n\nMr Swinney also said the positivity rate of tests carried out remained under 5% for a second day.\n\nThis is the rate the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines as being an outbreak under control.\n\nMr Swinney led the daily coronavirus briefing on \"deadline day\" for the vaccine to be completed for care home residents, healthcare workers and all over-80s.\n\nHe thanked all those involved in the vaccine rollout and said there was grounds for optimism in Friday's daily statistics.\n\nHe said the R number - or the reproduction rate - was currently between 0.7 and 0.9.\n\nHospital numbers had also improved, Mr Swinney said.\n\nThere are 1,794 people in hospital, a decrease of 18, with 123 people in intensive care - down four from yesterday.\n\nHowever, 61 more deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours of people who tested positive in the last 28 days.\n\nThat brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 6,383.\n\nA further 895 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which takes the total number of positive cases in Scotland to 184,313.\n\nAnd by 08:30 this morning, 742,512 people had received their first dose of vaccine, including:\n\nNational clinical director Jason Leitch said vaccination of the over-80s would be completed \"as far as absolutely possible by the end of today\" and praised the high numbers of people accepting the invitation to have the jab.\n\nProf Leitch said: \"If you told me we would do 92% three months ago, I would have said I thought it was complete but the take-up has been so good we want to try to get it even higher.\n\n\"I didn't think nine out of 10 over-80s would take this Covid vaccine. I think it's testament to the over-80s group, their relatives, carers and those vaccination teams.\"\n\nProf Leitch said anyone over 80 who still had not been invited should make themselves known.\n\nHe added: \"If you are over 80 and you don't know when you are getting the vaccine and you want one, please get in touch with your GP.\"\n\nIn a vaccine statement later, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman issued further advice.\n\nShe said: \"We appreciate that some people may have changed address and/or their phone number and may not have received a letter or phone call.\n\n\"If you are 80 or over or housebound and have not had a phone call or letter, you should contact your local GP.\n\n\"We are on track to make sure that those aged 70-79 and people aged 16 and over who are on the shielding list will have received their first dose of the vaccine by the middle of February - supplies permitting.\n\n\"If you are in these groups and have not received an invite for your first vaccination appointment by the end of this week, you should call the national Covid Vaccine helpline on 0800 030 8013.\"\n\nDuring the briefing Mr Swinney said the uptake so far had been \"really quite extraordinary\".\n\nHe said that there would be some people who could not be vaccinated for clinical reasons, and added that others would be getting their first injection on Friday - although he said it \"takes time\" to get out to those elderly people who are house-bound.\n\nBut he said: \"I think the performance on over-80s is tremendously reassuring, and it is indicative of the breadth and the depth of the vaccination programme around the country.\"\n\nHe said that expected severe weather this weekend could possibly affect the vaccination programme.\n\nThe Met Office has issued amber warnings for snow in parts of Scotland in the coming days.\n\nThe deputy first minster said that road clearing would be prioritised around vaccination centres to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.\n\nMr Swinney said: \"We're prioritising the clearance of roads in and around vaccination centres. That is standard practice around NHS facilities wherever there is snow or ice.\n\n\"These measures should help to ensure that people are able to meet their destinations.\"\n\nIf the weather prevents anyone from travelling to a vaccination appointment, they have been advised to rebook.\n\nThe deputy first minister also revealed that a community testing centre for asymptomatic people would open on Wednesday next week in Cowdenbeath, Fife.\n\nMr Swinney said proposals for similar centres from 19 local authorities were expected to be agreed by the end of Friday, and further agreements are due to be reached next week.\n\nLateral flow tests will be used at the centres, but any positive cases will be confirmed using the more sensitive PCR tests.\n\nMr Swinney said: \"The targeted expansion of testing in these communities will help more people find out if they have Covid, even if they don't have symptoms.\n\n\"It will help them to know if they or their contacts need to self-isolate and will therefore play an important part in helping us to stop the spread of the virus.\"", "Joint Base Andrews is home to the presidential aircraft, Air Force One\n\nThe US Air Force will conduct a global security review after an intruder entered the base that houses the presidential air craft, Air Force One.\n\nOn Thursday, an unarmed man was able to access Maryland's Joint Base Andrews and enter a C-40 aircraft, part of a fleet used by government leaders.\n\n\"Everyone is taking this very seriously,\" said defence department spokesman John Kirby on Friday.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the intruder is linked to extremist groups.\n\nThe suspect was detained by security forces on the base, according to a statement from the Air Force. He was given a federal summons for trespassing and handed over to local law enforcement. No personnel were harmed during the breach.\n\nThe intruder had two outstanding warrants, but no further details were provided.\n\nJoint Base Andrews is located about 15 miles (24km) from the White House in Washington, DC, and is frequently used by the president, vice-president and other US leaders.\n\nPresident Joe Biden flew from the base to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday evening.\n\nJoint Base Andrews is used frequently by the US president and other top officials.\n\nThe Air Force's inspector general will conduct an investigation into the break-in, the Air Force said in its statement. It will also conduct a \"comprehensive review of installation security and trends\" on its bases around the world.\n\n\"The security of our installation is paramount,\" said Col Roy Oberhaus, a commander at Joint Base Andrews in a statement. \"This was a serious breach of security\".\n\nThe break-in comes nearly one month after the 6 January riots at the US Capitol, which has left stricter security protocols in place. Thousands of National Guard troops will remain in Washington until March.", "Donald Trump, pictured in 2006, hosted reality TV show The Apprentice before his presidency\n\nDonald Trump has quit America's Screen Actors Guild after it launched a disciplinary hearing into him, citing the US Capitol attack.\n\n\"Who cares!\" the former US president wrote in a letter, adding that the union had \"done nothing for me\".\n\n\"Thank you,\" was the Guild's brief response.\n\nMr Trump has appeared in a number of films, including Home Alone 2 and Zoolander. He also hosted the US version of The Apprentice TV show.\n\nLast month, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) said its disciplinary committee would meet to decide what action should be taken regarding Mr Trump's role in the Capitol riot in Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nFive people died and dozens were injured during the pro-Trump siege.\n\n\"Donald Trump attacked the values that this union holds most sacred - democracy, truth, respect for our fellow Americans of all races and faiths, and the sanctity of the free press,\" said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris.\n\n\"There's a straight line from his wanton disregard for the truth to the attacks on journalists perpetrated by his followers,\" she said.\n\nSAG-AFTRA represents about 160,000 actors, journalists and other media professionals in the US.\n\nMr Trump, a Guild member for more than 30 years, was expected to be expelled at a forthcoming disciplinary meeting.\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 union shared his resignation letter, which was addressed to its president, a former star of Beverly Hills, 90210, on its website.\n\n\"I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\n\"While I'm not familiar with your work, I'm very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice - to name just a few!\"\n\nMr Trump added that he had \"greatly helped\" the cable news business, which he described as a \"dying platform with not much time left\" before he took to politics. He then branded the disciplinary action a \"blatant attempt at free media attention to distract from your dismal record\".\n\nOn 13 January, Mr Trump became the first president in US history to be impeached twice, after the US House of Representatives accused him of encouraging violence with false claims of election fraud.\n\nHe now faces a trial in the Senate.", "Covid vaccines being given to millions of people in the UK are extremely safe, with mild expected side-effects, says the country's drugs regulator.\n\nIt assessed safety reports from nearly seven million doses given up to 24 January - mostly with the Pfizer jab.\n\nSome 22,820 suspected reactions were reported. Almost all were mild, such as a sore arm or flu-like illness.\n\nMeanwhile, new research shows the AstraZeneca jab protects well against the new 'Kent' variant of Covid.\n\nThis more contagious version of the virus is now dominant in much of the UK.\n\nOxford Scientists and AstraZeneca, like many other Covid vaccine developers, are working on updating their shots to make sure they are a good match as the virus continues to mutate. The UK Government has announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac to develop vaccines against future variants.\n\nVaccines are seen as the way out of the pandemic, and all of the evidence so far suggests they are safe and effective.\n\nSide effects do occur, but overwhelmingly, are mild. They are not the disease itself, but the body's response to the vaccine. They usually get better within a couple of days, says the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.\n\nSevere allergic reactions to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine can happen but are very rare - between one and two cases per 100,000 doses administered, experts estimate. The MHRA received received 101 allergy-related reports.\n\nDoctors already say people with a history of significant allergic reactions to ingredients in the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should not receive it.\n\nIn the UK, people can report concerns after having the vaccine to the MHRA's Yellow Card scheme.\n\nThe ones received by the agency - affecting around three in every 1,000 people vaccinated - so far reveal no unexpected serious reactions, which experts say should help reassure anyone who may be anxious about getting immunised. There is strong evidence that the vaccines will save lives and prevent severe illness.\n\nProf Sir Munir Pirmohamed, a doctor who has been assessing vaccine safety on behalf of the UK, said: \"It is extremely safe. The benefits far outweigh the risks. I say that to my family as well.\"\n\nMHRA chief executive Dr June Raine said: \"Safety is our watchword. It is vital that people continue to get their jab when they get the invitation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Yellow Card scheme is designed to pick up anything serious and some people might not report very mild symptoms.\n\nCommon reactions that may affect up to one in 10 people and typically get better within days include:\n\nAs expected when you track any population over time, there were some deaths - 143 were recorded among the millions vaccinated. This is not alarming or worrying, says the MHRA, or in any way linked to the vaccine.\n\nThe regulator also received 75 reports of facial paralysis or weakness, but this condition can occur naturally. The MHRA said: \"The number of reports of facial paralysis received so far is similar to the expected natural rate and does not currently suggest an increased risk following the vaccines. We will continue to monitor these events.\"\n\nIt will be publishing weekly updates on all the vaccine safety data it receives.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mourners threw roses as the cortege made its way through Emmer Green\n\nHundreds of people have turned out for the funeral of a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, died from his injuries on 3 January after being stabbed in Emmer Green in Reading.\n\nMourners threw roses as the funeral cortege made its way through Emmer Green past Olly's old schools and St Barnabas Church.\n\nA service has taken place at Reading Crematorium.\n\nSpeaking during the service Stuart Stephens, Olly's father, said it \"was the stuff of nightmares\" when \"a knock on the door shattered our lives\".\n\nOlly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on 3 January\n\n\"No-one should have to receive news like this or deal with a situation as horrific,\" he said. \"But we are blessed, the time we shared with Oliver is our most precious gift.\"\n\nHe added: \"Oliver touched so many lives without either us or himself knowing it, we now know.\"\n\nA fundraising appeal for the teenager, who was autistic, has raised just over £21,000. The money will go towards Olly's family, and partly towards knife crime charities, the appeal said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The funeral cortege passed Olly's old schools and St Barnabas Church\n\nIn a statement, Highdown School, where Olly was a pupil, said the \"shock and disbelief continues to be felt\", and added many staff and students had received counselling arranged by the school.\n\n\"We know that many will need to continue to access these services in the weeks and months come,\" it added.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Matt Rodda, MP for Reading East, described the day \"as very, very moving\".\n\nHe said: \"This has been the most awful tragedy both for Olly's family and to the wider community here.\n\n\"People have been genuinely deeply shocked by this awful incident.\"\n\nMany of the hundreds of people who came out of their homes to pay their respects to Olly Stephens were children; his friends and his neighbours.\n\nMost wore red and were holding single red roses. Red was Olly's favourite colour.\n\nThe funeral cortege left his family's home just before 11:00, first passing his school, then driving along the local streets, and through Caversham Park Village.\n\nOlly's coffin was colourfully decorated. A floral rainbow, a cuddly toy and a packet of sweets could be seen through the back window of the hearse as it passed.\n\nAs the cortege approached Reading crematorium people threw single red roses onto the bonnet and clapped in his memory. There were tears and hugs.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on 3 January to reports of a stabbing at the fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey all remain in youth detention custody and are due to face trial in June.\n\nA service took place for Olly at Reading Crematorium\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "US country singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly, best known for writing 1970s hit Midnight Train to Georgia, has died aged 77.\n\nWeatherly passed away at his home near Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday.\n\nMusic publisher and friend Charlie Monk said the family attributed his death to natural causes.\n\nSinger Gladys Knight, who had a number one hit with Midnight Train to Georgia with her backing group The Pips, said he had been \"a sweetheart\".\n\nBorn in Mississippi in 1943, Weatherly released nearly a dozen studio albums during his five-decade career.\n\nIn his student years, the singer was a gifted quarterback for the University of Mississippi's American football team.\n\nBut later in the 1960s he decided to leave sport and focus on music in Los Angeles.\n\nGladys Knight, pictured with The Pips, said he had been \"about life and love\"\n\nMidnight Train to Georgia was recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1973. It went on to win a Grammy Award, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.\n\nA number of American artists, including Aretha Franklin, later recorded their own versions of the popular song.\n\nWeatherly's biggest solo success was 1975's I'll Still Love You. He also penned more Gladys Knight hits, including Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) and You're the Best Thing (That Ever Happened to Me).\n\nHe recorded with a range of high-profile stars, including Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks and Kenny Chesney.\n\nWeatherly was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.\n\n\"I'm missing him already,\" Gladys Knight said in a statement published by the Jackson Clarion Ledger. \"I love him and always will. He was about life and love and he wrote it so simply, he grew my love for country music.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"When we were with him it was like we'd always been together, we fit together. He started playing his guitar, and I started humming and it was magic.\n\n\"His music propelled us to a whole different level,\" Knight continued. \"I loved him and his music, he was a sweetheart and so gentle.\n\n\"We were just made for each other. At that time African Americans weren't into country music and he really helped us know it and love it.\"\n\nCountry singer Bryan White paid his own tribute on Twitter, remembering Weatherly as \"a HoF [Hall of Fame] songwriter with a massive catalogue of hit songs spanning 4 decades\".\n\nSinger BJ Thomas echoed those sentiments, saying he had been \"one of the great ones\" and had \"wrote some beauties\".\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. Jes Staley: 'London needs to focus on New York and Singapore'\n\nThe UK financial services industry should focus on competing with the US and Asia rather than the EU.\n\nThat's the view of the boss of Barclays for the City after Brexit.\n\nJes Staley told the BBC that although jobs that would have been created here have been moved to the EU, Brexit gives one of the UK's most important sectors the chance to define its own agenda.\n\n\"I think Brexit is more than likely on the positive side than on the negative side,\" he said.\n\n\"What the UK needs and London needs, is to make sure that the City is one of the best places, whether [it is in terms of] regulation or law or language, or talent.\n\n\"I think what London needs to be focused on is not Frankfurt or Paris, [it] needs to be focused on New York and Singapore.\"\n\nHowever, he said he was not a fan of widespread deregulation to achieve that - no regulatory bonfire for him.\n\nIn fact, he said the UK's robust regulation was a major strength, not weakness, and referred to the recent clampdown on firms offering buy now, pay later schemes as reassuring.\n\n\"You see what's happening right now with buy now, pay later, you know, the FCA is going to come in and start to increase the regulation of that marketplace. That's the right thing to do.\n\n\"And, in a funny way we've gotten pretty good at working inside the regulatory framework that is here. It protects the financial industry in London as we learn how to deal with this regulation, and it makes the bank safer.\"\n\nHe does admit that money and jobs have moved from the UK as a result of Brexit, but says the impact has been modest.\n\n\"Yes, there are some jobs that are going to Europe, that otherwise would have been in the UK, but it's in the hundreds. Barclays employs some 50,000 people in the United Kingdom, roughly 20,000 outside of the UK and 10,000 in the US.\n\n\"Some amount of capital has moved but London is still obviously the main centre for Barclays.\"\n\nHis message is that the UK should do everything it can to foster trust and good relations with the EU, but not at the cost of the UK becoming uncompetitive with the bigger fish in the global capital pool.\n\nMr Staley says financial centres like Singapore are London's competition\n\nIt's not everyone's favourite industry, but the financial services sector employs 1.1 million people, with two-thirds of them outside London. It is nearly 100 times more economically important than fishing and pays a whopping 11% of all taxes.\n\nIt was also almost totally ignored in the Brexit negotiations - access to EU markets enjoyed for decades ended in January. About £1 trillion in capital and assets and up to 10,000 jobs left the UK industry as firms set up EU subsidiaries. Big numbers, but in global financial terms, erosion rather than exodus.\n\nCatherine McGuinness, head of policy at the City of London Corporation, said that while financial services didn't get much air time in Brexit negotiations, they were better placed because they started preparing years ago.\n\n\"We have been disappointed in the lack of focus on the financial professional services sector - this is a critical part of our economy, a critical part in itself for the jobs and tax that it generates.\n\n\"But the minute the referendum result was announced, the institutions started planning how they would be able to serve their customers in whatever circumstances developed\"\n\nShe also agreed with Mr Staley that there is no need or desire for widespread deregulation to create what some have styled a Singapore-on-Thames.\n\n\"One reason why people want to come and do business here is because they trust the regulation. We're not hearing any great demand for a bonfire of regulation but we do need to look at how can we keep influencing and working with global standards to meet global challenges.\"\n\nOne of those global challenges is surely climate change and Mr Staley is convinced London can become a major global hub for green finance. He says these ideas are currently where the understanding of the impact of the internet was nearly 30 years ago.\n\n\"Climate today is like technology was in 1995. If you think about it… all the Amazons, the Googles, didn't really exist in 1995 and now it dominates 40% of the economy, I think it's a fair argument that dealing with climate and dealing with the environment is in the same position now.\"\n\nConfident and controversial words for the boss of a bank that counts climate change activists as regular attendees at its annual shareholder meeting thanks to its involvement in financing fossil fuel projects.\n\nBut that's the curious thing about money. You would think it's hard to create new products out of it, but it happens.\n\nThe ability to raise money in dollars on EU markets was the key new thing that propelled London to worldwide significance in the post-war period.\n\nCreating new products out of pools of sub-prime mortgages almost destroyed the world's financial system.\n\nHarnessing the international demand for financing climate-based projects could be the next big - and hopefully good - thing.\n\nIt's harder to reinvent a fish or a sheep. Unlike fishing and farming, which got a lot of political attention, and whose businesses are really struggling to adjust, UK financial firms like Barclays seem confident they can adapt to a post-Brexit future.\n\nAs Mr Staley says, \"you can't tax good ideas\".\n\nThe UK government thought the powerful financial sector could look after itself. On this evidence, it seems they might have been right.\n\nRishi Sunak will certainly hope so. No Chancellor of the Exchequer in living memory has needed the tax revenue more.", "An attempt to stop prosecutors using messages from hundreds of phones that were part of the Encrochat secret communications network in court has been rejected by the Appeal Court.\n\nJudges ruled the messages, obtained by French police by hacking the phones, were not gained by \"interception\".\n\nUnder British law, evidence from interception cannot be used in court.\n\nThe National Crime Agency believes Encrochat was mainly used by criminals, often to trade drugs and guns.\n\nThe judgement will have major implications for cases against suspected organised criminals around the country.\n\nDue to legal restrictions, it is the first time the BBC can report the detail of arguments surrounding Encrochat, which was penetrated by police last summer resulting in more than 1,000 arrests.\n\nThe NCA, which obtained the evidence from France, said it was the biggest breakthrough ever in the fight against organised crime.\n\nSenior officers described it \"as akin to cracking the enigma code\".\n\nThe messages, sent by suspects who did not know they were being monitored, detail alleged drug dealing and murder plots, and include images and videos.\n\nMany of the cases based on \"Encro\" evidence are now going to court, and if this judgement had ruled the messages couldn't be used, some trials may have been abandoned.\n\nUnder long-standing British law, designed to protect intelligence techniques from scrutiny and make criminal trials manageable, intercepted evidence can't be used in court.\n\nIn 2016, Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Act in a massive overhaul of surveillance law. The act introduced a \"double lock\" that requires interception warrants to be authorised by a secretary of state and approved by a judge.\n\nIn a 2015 factsheet on the bill before it became law, the Home Office defined interception as \"making available the content of a communication to someone other than the sender or intended recipient during the course of its transmission. In practice that means listening to a phone call or reading an email\".\n\nBut the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, Lord Justice Edis, and Mrs Justice Whipple dismissed an appeal by lawyers for Encrochat defendants.\n\nThe key legal argument centred on a piece of \"malware\" placed by French experts on Encrochat phones worldwide. It sent copies of every message to a police server.\n\nFrance has refused to say how, what it called \"the implant\", worked, creating legal uncertainty in British courts.\n\nEncrochat was a private messaging service that promised its users secure and secretive communications.\n\nAs well as the Encrochat messaging app, the company developed a modified version of the Android operating system and sold altered smartphones known as \"carbon units\" to run its software.\n\nSwitched on by pressing just the power button, the phones would load a \"dummy\" Android homescreen.\n\nBut activated another way they would boot into Encrochat mode.\n\nGetting hold of an Encrochat phone was not cheap, and the subscription charges were more than £200 a month.\n\nMessages sent between handsets were end-to-end encrypted: scrambled as they travelled across the internet, making them practically impossible to decode if intercepted.\n\nBut in June 2020, the company warned its users that an attack had comprised its handsets and advised them to \"physically dispose of your device immediately\".\n\nIf the implant had collected the messages as they were being transmitted, this would amount to interception of the communications.\n\nThe defence lawyers claimed the implant was taking messages from the phones' memory, milliseconds before being sent to their wifi or mobile data transmitters and therefore the data was \"in transmission\".\n\nBut the judges decided the data was in fact being stored temporarily on the devices as it was processed, before being transmitted.\n\nThey said this was evident because during the actual transmission the message were encrypted, and therefore couldn't have been read, as they were by the police.\n\nThe data collected also included crucial username information from the phone's storage memory, which is not sent as part of the transmission.\n\nIn Friday's judgement they compared the process with that of sending a letter: \"The process involves the letter being written, put in an envelope, a stamp being attached and then the letter being placed in the post box.\n\n\"Only the last act involves the letter being transmitted by a system, but all the acts are essential to that transmission.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works\n\nFamilies of those arrested during the fall-out from the Encrochat penetration have been arguing online that the NCA broke the law by accessing and reading messages \"in real time\", as they were being sent.\n\nThey say British law enforcement agencies effectively allowed a foreign power, France, to hack the phones of 9,000 UK Encrochat users.\n\nPolice claimed that in general, using an Encrochat phone, which cost thousands of pounds to own and operate, demonstrated a likely involvement in criminal activity.\n\nBut suspects' supporters say innocent family members were caught up in a race to make use of the Encro messages, because police feared they would be criticised if they were not seen to take action.\n\nHowever the decision of the Appeal Court was that the evidence was collected lawfully.", "Government bookers are targeting airport-based hotels for the scheme but no companies have yet confirmed their involvement\n\nNo contracts have yet been awarded to hotels to take part in England's new quarantine scheme, No 10 has said.\n\nFrom 15 February, all those arriving from 33 Covid variant hotspots will have to stay in a hotel for 10 nights.\n\nDowning Street said discussions were continuing but it was important to get arrangements right \"from the start\".\n\nBut government scientific advisers have warned nothing short of quarantining all visitors or closing borders will \"get close\" to excluding new variants.\n\nNewly-released minutes from a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on 21 January, conclude that only a \"complete, pre-emptive closure of borders or the mandatory quarantine of all visitors upon arrival in designated facilities, irrespective of testing history, can get close to fully preventing the importation of cases or new variants\".\n\nResponding to media reports earlier this week about Sage's views, No 10 said the committee put forward policy options rather than recommendations and it believed its discussions would show that existing measures, including pre-departure testing were \"effective in mitigating risks\".\n\nThe hotel quarantine requirements are being introduced in an effort to control the spread of new variants of coronavirus first identified in South Africa and Brazil, which scientists believe may be more infectious and may reduce the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe rules affect UK residents and Irish nationals travelling from 33 countries on the \"red list\" - which covers much of South America, southern Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Portugal.\n\nThe majority of non-UK nationals from these locations are currently banned from entering the UK anyway, so will not be affected, but those with residents' rights, as well as those holding long-term visas, will be covered.\n\nHotels near airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen are expected to be booked up for quarantine.\n\nDowning Street said the government had had discussions with more than 60 companies in the hotel and travel industries and a \"commercial specification\" had been sent out to hotels located near ports and airports.\n\nBut a No 10 spokesman said no \"formal contracts\" had been agreed yet and it was \"vital\" that the government got this \"right from the start\".\n\nThe government expects more than 1,000 UK residents a day to return from places where new variants are prevalent - but sources say the prospect of paying for secure accommodation could see this number reduce.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked why quarantine was not being imposed on all arrivals, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said the logistics would be \"difficult to implement\" and would affect people from low-risk countries.\n\nBut Labour said the government was doing \"too little, too late\".\n\n\"Currently 21,000 people are entering the country every day, with an ineffective quarantine system, as a result of Conservative incompetence,\" said shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon.\n\nQuarantined travellers will be served three meals a day in their rooms, with hot and cold options. Tea, coffee, fruit and water will be available.\n\nThe hotels would also be required to work with government-approved security staff, according to documents seen by the BBC.\n\nThese security guards will patrol inside and outside the hotel to \"prevent unauthorised access\". Anyone wanting to smoke outside or get fresh air will also be escorted by security staff.\n\nAn industry source said the government estimated quarantine could cost about £80 a night.\n\n\"If they are taking rooms for 1,425 [newly-arrived] passengers per night until 31 March, that is a bill of £55m,\" the source added.\n\nMany hotels have said they are keen to take part in the scheme but want more details from the government, although some have expressed concerns about their staff being exposed to Covid and potential reputational damage.\n\nHotels in and around airports have lost bookings from holidaying customers who typically book in for a night to be near the airport for early-morning departures.\n\nThat means they may be more likely to agree to the government's main requirement that quarantine hotels agree to turn away all other customers and have their premises used solely by quarantining travellers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, was admitted to Bedford Hospital on Sunday.\n\nThe Queen led tributes to Capt Sir Tom, \"recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world\".\n\nHis daughters said they \"shared laughter and tears\" with their father in their final few hours together.\n\nAnnouncing his death, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said the last year of their father's life had been \"nothing short of remarkable\".\n\nHe tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's hearts by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire last year during the first lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nHe was credited with lifting the nation's spirits and his saying \"Tomorrow will be a good day\" trended on social media.\n\nHe was knighted by the Queen in July in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe flags above 10 Downing Street have been flying at half-mast in tribute to Capt Sir Tom Moore\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"Her Majesty very much enjoyed meeting Capt Sir Tom and his family at Windsor last year. Her thoughts, and those of the royal family, are with them, recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Captain Sir Tom Moore was a hero in the truest sense of the word. In the dark days of the Second World War he fought for freedom and in the face of this country's deepest post-war crisis he united us all, he cheered us all up, and he embodied the triumph of the human spirit.\n\n\"He became not just a national inspiration but a beacon of hope for the world. Our thoughts are with his daughter Hannah and all his family.\"\n\nThe flag above 10 Downing Street has been flying at half-mast in tribute and Mr Johnson has spoken to Mrs Ingram-Moore to offer his condolences.\n\nA tweet from the White House said: \"We join the United Kingdom and the world in [honouring] the memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore, who inspired millions through his life and his actions.\"\n\nMore than 150,000 birthday cards were sent to Capt Sir Tom in April\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is incredibly sad news. Captain Tom Moore put others first at a time of national crisis and was a beacon of hope for millions. Britain has lost a hero.\"\n\nThe daughters' statement said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear father.\n\n\"We are so grateful that we were with him during the last hours of his life; Hannah, Benjie and Georgia by his bedside and Lucy on FaceTime.\n\n\"We spent hours chatting to him, reminiscing about our childhood and our wonderful mother. We shared laughter and tears together.\n\n\"The last year of our father's life was nothing short of remarkable. He was rejuvenated and experienced things he'd only ever dreamed of.\n\n\"Whilst he'd been in so many hearts for just a short time, he was an incredible father and grandfather, and he will stay alive in our hearts forever.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for the NHS\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughters said the care he received from the NHS was \"extraordinary\".\n\nThey said staff had been \"unfalteringly professional, kind and compassionate and have given us many more years with him than we ever would have imagined\".\n\nArtworks, including this mural in Southport, were made in honour of Capt Sir Tom\n\nCapt Sir Tom joined the Army at the beginning of World War Two, serving in India and Myanmar, then known as Burma.\n\nHe was originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire and among the local tributes being paid was Robbie Moore MP who said the town had \"lost one of its finest today\".\n\nHe was made an honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College in Harrogate on his 100th birthday.\n\nIn December, he went on a family holiday to Barbados after British Airways paid for his flight.\n\nCapt Sir Tom had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by walking 82ft (25m)-loops of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5 million supporters.\n\nNHS Charities Together said that would rise to £39m when Gift Aid was taken into account.\n\nEllie Orton, chief executive, said the funds raised by Capt Sir Tom had \"reached the length and breadth of the UK through every one of our 241 member charities\".\n\nShe said he was \"a one-off and he leaves the world a better place\".\n\nRuth May, chief nursing officer for NHS England, said Capt Sir Tom Moore \"has been the model of all that has been good about our country's response to Covid-19\".\n\nShe said in a statement \"for me his biggest achievement and most important contribution to helping my fellow nurses, doctors and all those in the NHS responding to coronavirus, has been how he brought the country together and gave us all a boost when we most needed it\".\n\nPeople have left flowers and messages of condolence outside Capt Sir Tom Moore's home in Bedfordshire\n\nFellow charity fundraiser Dabirul Choudhury, who was 100 years old when he raised more than £150,000 for coronavirus relief by walking while fasting for Ramadan, paid tribute to Capt Sir Tom.\n\n\"If you want to help mankind you should keep yourself very fit, fit, fit,\" he said.\n\nMr Choudrey's son Atique said Capt Sir Tom had \"left a massive legacy that will follow on through for generations\", adding \"even now, my father hasn't actually eaten since he's heard about the news [of Capt Sir Tom's death]\".\n\nCapt Sir Tom became the oldest person to have a UK number one single when he recorded You'll Never Walk Alone with Michael Ball last year.\n\nThe singer said on Twitter: \"A wonderful life so well lived and a hero and fighter to the very end. So very sad\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ray and Rosemary Scovell grew up in the same street and were well known on the Isle of Wight\n\nA woman has described the \"horrific\" anguish of losing both parents to Covid, just two weeks apart.\n\nRay and Rosemary Scovell, from Sandown on the Isle of Wight, had been looking forward to their golden wedding anniversary when Ray, 76, fell ill.\n\nTheir daughter Claire Apsey and grandson, Simon, said their grief had been compounded by lockdown.\n\nMrs Apsey said she also felt \"guilty\" for being unable to give them the send-off they deserved.\n\nThe couple grew up in the same street and were well known on the island after a lifetime dedicated to helping others.\n\nMr Scovell, who was a hammer coach at Isle of Wight Athletics Club, set up numerous sports initiatives for schools and was responsible for bringing events, such as Parkrun, to the island.\n\nHis 73-year-old wife supported his work, which included organising medals.\n\nSimon Apsey's grandparents were described as community-minded and always thinking of others\n\nMrs Apsey said that throughout lockdown her father continued to encourage children to go running and sent out certificates to keep them motivated.\n\nHe would also do errands for elderly neighbours, leaving shopping in their porches.\n\n\"They always wanted to do the best for people,\" she said. \"Always thinking of helping others.\"\n\nThe couple had been looking forward to celebrating their golden wedding anniversary this year\n\nIn recent times, Mrs Scovell suffered from short-term memory loss so, on 8 January, when Mr Scovell was admitted to hospital, Mrs Apsey and Simon, 14, moved in to care for her.\n\n\"While Dad was in hospital, we were having to explain it to her, which is hard because she kept forgetting, and when Dad died she would forget so we would have to explain again,\" Mrs Apsey said, adding: \"She was heartbroken.\"\n\nAlthough she was allowed to be with her father when he died, Mrs Apsey said she was \"gowned up\" and had to wear a face shield.\n\n\"It wasn't the ending we wanted,\" she said.\n\nClaire and Simon Apsey said their grief had been compounded by lockdown and isolation\n\nA little over a week after losing her husband, Mrs Scovell ended up in hospital after a fall.\n\nX-rays revealed she had inflammation on her lungs and she tested positive for Covid-19. She died five days later.\n\nMrs Apsey said: \"She went very quickly. She had a pulmonary embolism.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's been horrific really... The hardest thing is not being able to share the grief.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Scovell helped thousands of young people through sport\n\nThe funeral arrangements and contact with the solicitor, which had to be done via email, had also been \"so clinical\", Mrs Apsey said.\n\n\"When we had my dad's funeral, I felt so guilty there were only 30 people there,\" she added.\n\n\"It felt so wrong because my dad was so well known. We were inundated with cards and flowers.\"\n\nShe added they had both received \"the most wonderful care\" at St Mary's Hospital, which had given her and Simon \"great comfort\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Scotland has recorded 18 deaths from coronavirus and 525 positive tests in the past 24 hours, latest figures show.\n\nScottish government data shows the daily test positivity rate is 3.1%, down from 3.3% on Friday.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde recorded 151 cases, and there were 106 in Lothian and 89 in Lanarkshire.\n\nThere are 898 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus, down 26 in 24 hours, and 74 patients are in intensive care, down six.\n\nAs of 08:30, 1,570,153 people had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, an increase of 27,224 since Friday.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said the latest data had left him \"mildly hopeful\" as \"48 hours of reducing numbers\" showed the country was moving in the right direction.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I'm very hopeful the second half of the year will look very different to the first half.\"\n\nProf Leitch also said he was \"hopeful\" that Scottish football's lower leagues and the women's game will be told next week when they can resume playing.\n\nHe said: \"I'm hopeful we can do it with mitigation and safety in place.\n\n\"I'm pretty confident that next week there will be news that will indicate where we're headed for the next phases and I'm hoping that will be joint government and league news, because we're trying to do it together.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a new walk-through coronavirus testing centre has opened at the Ainslie Park Leisure Centre car park in Edinburgh.\n\nThe test centre is the 33rd walk-through site in Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gaga is often accompanied by her dogs at award shows and film premieres\n\nLady Gaga's two stolen French bulldogs have been found safe and handed in to police, according to officials.\n\nThe two dogs, stolen in an armed robbery, have been \"reunited\" with the singer's representatives, police said.\n\nLady Gaga's dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot by two men who abducted the dogs in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Wednesday.\n\nHe is in hospital and his family said on Friday that he was expected to make a full recovery.\n\nDetails of how the dogs were recovered are unclear. The Associated Press said a woman had brought them to the Olympic Community Police Station in LA and the singer's representatives had confirmed they were hers. The woman appeared to be \"uninvolved and unassociated\" with the robbery, a police spokesman said.\n\nLady Gaga had offered $500,000 (£359,000) for their safe return but it is not clear if the reward has been claimed.\n\nThe star - whose real name is Stefani Germanotta - is currently in Rome working on a new Ridley Scott film, Gucci. In her first public reaction to the attack, Gaga tweeted on Friday: \"My heart is sick.\"\n\n\"I am praying my family will be whole again with an act of kindness. I will pay $500,000 for their safe return.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in another Twitter post, the singer wrote: \"I continue to love you Ryan Fischer, you risked your life to fight for our family. You're forever a hero.\"\n\nGaga is known to be extremely protective of her dogs, who have accompanied her to the American Music Awards and her 2017 Super Bowl Halftime show.\n\nFootage has emerged showing one of the suspects firing at Mr Fischer before making off with the dogs, Koji and Gustav.\n\nA third bulldog, named Miss Asia, ran away and was later recovered by police.\n\nThe dog walker was shot in the chest, according to reports in US media.\n\nHis family released a statement on Friday praising the medical staff who had been caring for him and saying they were confident for his full recovery, according to US media.\n\n\"We cannot possibly say enough to thank all of the first responders, nurses and doctors who have worked so tirelessly to care for Ryan,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Of course, we also want to thank Lady Gaga who has shown nothing but non-stop love and concern for Ryan and our family right from the outset. Ryan loves Gustavo and Koji as much as Lady Gaga does; so we join in her plea for their safe return.\"\n\nPolice said the attack happened at about 21:40 local time on 24 February, in the area of Sierra Bonita Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.\n\n\"The suspects approached the victim in a white Nissan Altima four door. Two suspects exited the vehicle and demanded the victim turn over the dogs at gunpoint,\" the LAPD said in an updated statement on Friday.\n\n\"The victim struggled with the suspects and was shot once by one of the suspects. The suspects took two of the three dogs and fled the scene in the suspect vehicle.\"\n\nThe statement said \"the victim is in stable condition\", and the two suspects are described as black males aged 20-25.\n\nIt is not clear whether Lady Gaga's dogs were specifically targeted in the attack.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\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. An organised crime expert on the rising number of dog thefts in the UK", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge: \"Having vaccinations is really important\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have urged people to get the Covid vaccine, saying it is \"really important\".\n\nPrince William said the uptake so far had been \"amazing\" but added: \"We've got to keep it going so the younger generations also feel that it's really important for them to have it.\"\n\nThe royal's comments came during a video call with two women who have been shielding since last March.\n\nHe also warned against fake news about the jab on social media.\n\nMore than 19.6 million people have now had their first dose of the vaccine. And the number of people who have had their second dose has topped 760,000, latest government figures show.\n\nPrince William and Catherine spoke to Shivali Modha, who has type 2 diabetes, and Fiona Doyle, who has severe asthma, during the video call. The two women are both eligible for the vaccine as they are in priority group six, and were preparing to have their jabs.\n\nMs Modha, 39, from Barnet in north-west London, said she was initially anxious about having the jab after reading things on social media, but had been reassured by vaccinated family members and medics.\n\nShivali Modha, left, was joined on the call by her husband, Hiren, and their daughters, Shyaama, 11, and Jyoti, nine.\n\nPrince William told her: \"Catherine and I are not medical experts by any means but if it's any consolation, we can wholeheartedly support having vaccinations. It's really, really important.\n\n\"We've spoken to a lot of people about it and the uptake has been amazing so far. We've got to keep it going so the younger generations also feel that it's really important for them to have it.\n\n\"So it's great that, Shivali, you're taking the time to work it out and come to the conclusion that 'I need to do this,' because social media is awash sometimes with lots of rumours and misinformation, so we have to be a bit careful who we believe and where we get our information from.\n\n\"Especially for those who are clinically vulnerable as well, it's so important that those vaccinations are done, so good luck.\"\n\nThe Royal Family has been supporting the NHS in its rollout of the vaccine\n\nThe duchess added: \"I hope [the vaccine] comes as a huge relief in the end. I know there's maybe the anxiety and the worry leading up to it, but I hope for all of you it will add a bit of normality back to your lives and confidence as well as we go forward into the spring, that would be great.\"\n\nMs Modha thanked the duke and duchess for speaking with her and said she wished she could offer them a cup of tea, to which Catherine replied: \"Same here.\"\n\nCurrently, the government's aim is to offer a jab to all over-50s by 15 April, as well as people aged 16-64 with certain underlying health conditions and unpaid carers for disabled and elderly people.\n\nAfter that, they will start offering jabs to people by age group, with the hope that all adults will be vaccinated by the end of July.\n\nThere are no plans yet to vaccinate children, although trials have been announced to test the jab on children.\n\nIn January, it was announced that the Queen and Prince Philip had received their Covid jabs from a household doctor at Windsor Castle. Earlier this month, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall received theirs.\n\nEarlier this week, Prince William visited a vaccination centre and spoke to staff and people waiting for their jabs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The former Army captain became affectionately known as Captain Tom\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore won the nation's hearts with his extraordinary fundraising efforts for National Health Service charities.\n\nThe retired Army officer served in India and Myanmar, also known as Burma, during World War Two but it was by walking laps around his garden that he became known to millions.\n\nWhen he was 99, he was catapulted into the global spotlight with his attempt to raise an initial £1,000 for charity.\n\nEarly in April 2020, with the aid of his walking frame and a steely determination, he vowed to complete 100 laps of his patio before his 100th birthday at the end of that month.\n\nThe war veteran was inspired to help the health service after receiving treatment for skin cancer of the head, and a broken hip after a fall in 2018.\n\nHe described the NHS staff who helped him through this as \"marvellous\", and pledged to help those same \"super\" people who were working on the front line during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps of his walk in April 2020\n\nHis family thought reaching the £1,000 mark would be \"a real stretch\" but, as press coverage of his efforts increased, so did the donations.\n\nBy the time he completed his 100 laps - on 16 April 2020 - Captain Tom, as he had become affectionately known, had raised more than £12m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nIn 2007, he had moved from Kent to Bedfordshire to be with his youngest daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her family.\n\nIt was here, in Marston Moretaine, that the idea of raising relatively modest funds for a charity supporting the NHS was hatched.\n\nHe was surrounded by members of his family - and the world's media - as he fulfilled his mission\n\nCapt Sir Tom began walking - planning on 10 laps at a time of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his back garden - and the donations began mounting up.\n\nEvery million was another milestone, but the veteran, who became a well-known face on national television, took it all in his stride.\n\nCapt Sir Tom Moore (bottom row, far left) and colleagues pictured during his service in the Army\n\nCapt Sir Tom with daughters Lucy Teixeira (left) and Hannah Ingram-Moore (right)\n\nEver modest about the challenge he had set himself, Capt Sir Tom was nevertheless astounded by the generosity of donors, describing it as \"completely out of this world\".\n\n\"It's all for the sake of the nurses and the NHS we have, because they are doing such a magnificent job,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"Every penny that we get, they deserve every one of it.\"\n\nThe NHS said it was \"humbled\" by his fundraising effort for their charities\n\nHe was described as a \"one-man fundraising machine\" by the Duke of Cambridge, while both the prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Capt Sir Tom was \"an inspiration\" to everyone.\n\nNot only did his efforts encourage thousands to donate to the fundraising appeal, but he inspired many to join his campaign to raise both awareness and money for those working in, and supporting, the NHS.\n\nFrom a teenage girl learning to walk again on a treadmill as part of her recovery from a stroke, to a non-verbal boy with autism - who wrote \"He is a hero to us,\" as he embarked on his own challenge to walk for the NHS - people set themselves their own challenges, buoyed by the former soldier.\n\nAge, it seemed, was no barrier - as Capt Sir Tom was proving.\n\nDozens dusted off their own walking frames and took to the streets to prove they could play their own part in the drive to raise funds.\n\nOne woman completed a marathon by walking laps near her Berkshire home, at the age of 104.\n\n\"Tom, I've done it,\" she laughed, as she finished her challenge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA week before his 100th birthday, Capt Sir Tom became the oldest person ever to get to number one in the UK singles charts when his duet of You'll Never Walk Alone - with singer Michael Ball - took the top spot.\n\nHis 100th birthday on 30 April 2020 was marked with an RAF flypast, personal birthday greetings from the Queen and prime minister, and he was made an honorary colonel of the British Army.\n\n\"I'm still Captain Tom, that's who I really am but if people choose to call me colonel, well, thank you very much,\" he replied.\n\nThe following month it was announced he would be awarded a knighthood for his fundraising efforts and would be known as Captain Sir Thomas Moore \"under Ministry of Defence protocol\".\n\nOn 17 July 2020, he was knighted in the grounds of Windsor Castle, in the Queen's first official engagement in person since the lockdown period began in March.\n\nThis was the first knighthood the Queen had carried out in person since the beginning of the pandemic\n\nHis youngest daughter said at the time of his fundraising efforts that her father had become a \"beacon of hope\" during challenging times.\n\nAnd indeed, Capt Sir Tom always seemed to know just the right thing to say to buoy the nation's spirits as the public tried to abide by government regulations to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"To all those people who are finding it difficult at the moment, the sun will shine on you again, and the clouds will go away,\" he said.\n\n\"Tomorrow will be a good day\" - another example of his positivity - became a hashtag on social media posts.\n\nAn image of Capt Sir Tom lit up the night sky during the virtual 2021 New Year celebrations over the Millennium Dome (O2 Arena) in London\n\nThe proud Yorkshireman completed his 100 laps of his garden live on television in April 2020, with a Guard of Honour from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and a rousing round of applause from his family.\n\nBy the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Capt Sir Tom had raised £32,794,701 for charities supporting the NHS, from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former UN official Mary Robinson says she was \"horribly tricked\" in the Dubai princess scandal\n\nFormer President of Ireland Mary Robinson made a \"big mistake\" over Princess Latifa Al Maktoum.\n\nThe daughter of Dubai's ruler, who tried to flee the country in 2018, was previously described as a \"troubled young woman\" by Mrs Robinson.\n\nBut earlier this month, the ex-UN rights envoy told BBC Panorama that she was \"horribly tricked\" by the princess's family.\n\nOn Friday, Mrs Robinson told RTÉ: \"I should have been more alert.\"\n\nA photograph of Mrs Robinson, who was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the princess went viral in December 2018 after it appeared to show proof of Latifa's life.\n\nShe had been invited to meet Latifa by invitation of Dubai's royal family in 2018.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ's Late Late Show, Mrs Robinson said that \"it's hurtful to me when I realise that I made a big mistake\".\n\n\"I've made mistakes before and that's the biggest one. I hope I'll never be in that situation again.\"\n\nShe added: \"I let my heart lead my head. I went to help a friend, I was naive.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLatifa's father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is one of the richest heads of state in the world, the ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\nAfter a failed escape bid, Latifa sent secret video messages to friends accusing her father of holding her \"hostage\" as she feared for her life.\n\nIn the footage shared with BBC Panorama, she said commandos drugged her as she fled Dubai by boat and flew her back to detention.\n\nMrs Robinson told the Late Late Show that she had been in contact with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney about the princess.\n\n\"He has said we are on the [UN] Security Council now but even before that contact had been made with our ambassador in Geneva to support the High Commissioner,\" Mrs Robinson said.\n\nShe said Latifa needs political support and added that she \"100% believes Latifa now\" and the princess should be freed.\n\nDubai and the UAE have previously said she is safe in the care of family.", "The hoaxer's targets included UK hospitals during the first lockdown\n\nAn Italian man in Germany has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening to bomb NHS hospitals, Black Lives Matter rallies and UK MPs.\n\nEmil Apreda, 33, sent emails from Berlin demanding £10m worth of Bitcoin to not carry out the attacks.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said he made his threats in the spring and summer of 2020 as the NHS struggled with Covid.\n\nSenior officers kept the threats from the public for fear of patients being scared into not attending hospitals.\n\nApreda used encryption techniques and the dark web in an attempt to hide his identity, but police brought in behavioural, linguistics and cyber-crime experts to track him down.\n\nHe sent emails to the NHS pretending to be a far-right activist linked to the neo-Nazi group Combat 18, but police believe that was just a ruse to instil fear.\n\nHe was finally identified by German detectives and armed officers raided his home in Berlin on 15 June last year.\n\nFor the first time, the NCA has revealed details of the case, calling it \"one of the most significant threats we've seen for some time\" which took place at a time of \"deep and heightened anxiety\" in the UK.\n\nTim Court, the NCA's head of investigations, said the content of the emails was \"so threatening and so damaging\" that it was only disclosed to a \"very tight circle of people - and I mean very tight\" within the police and government.\n\nMeanwhile, security at hospitals was quietly stepped up.\n\nMr Court said the risks were both of loss of life and a loss of confidence in the NHS.\n\n\"At the height of this, we were losing nearly nearly 1,000 people a day - and for six weeks we're trying to manage somebody who could have been planting a bomb in a hospital, somewhere in the UK.\"\n\nA particular concern was that many patients were on ventilators or oxygen at the time, and it would have been more difficult to get them out of a hospital in the event of a credible bomb threat.\n\nThe extortion campaign started on 26 April when Apreda sent an email to the NHS, making his demand for Bitcoin and warning that he would send a bomb in a package to a hospital in the UK if he was not paid.\n\nThis was followed by an identical email to an NCA control centre, followed by 16 more over six weeks.\n\nDuring that period, the death of George Floyd in the US and resulting protests in the UK prompted threats from him to blow up Black Lives Matter demonstrations.\n\nThreats were also made against Black Lives Matter protests\n\nFinally, as the fourth anniversary of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by a far-right activist approached, he emailed that he would kill MPs - but did not name any.\n\nPolice behavioural and linguistics experts drew up a profile of the extortionist, who they decided was not from the UK.\n\nPolice say further \"technical leads\" pointed to Germany. He was finally identified by LKA, the German CID.\n\nJo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen\n\nApreda had been issuing deadlines for payment after which he said he would attack, so the day before the anniversary of Ms Cox's death, German police moved in, blowing open the front door of his Berlin flat and arresting him.\n\nPolice say he has background in computing, but they have discovered no links to Combat 18, despite his claims.\n\nThe far-right group has been active in the UK in the past, but now exists mainly in the US and Germany.\n\nApreda was charged and convicted of extortion in Germany, but the NCA said he could have faced terrorism charges if he had been brought to the UK.\n\nThe NCA said he had no links that they could find with Britain, and therefore extraditing him had not been possible. It denied Brexit had been a major factor.", "All areas of the UK are moving into the next vaccination phase, to prioritise those aged over 40\n\nPeople aged in their 40s will be next in line to get the coronavirus vaccine, Wales' chief medical officer has said.\n\nThe four UK nations are doing this, under the plan to vaccinate all adults by the end of July.\n\nDr Frank Atherton said the plan for Wales depends on \"supply matching our ambition\".\n\nTeachers and police officers were among those who lobbied to be prioritised - but will now be vaccinated in line with their age group.\n\nNews of the next phase comes as Public Health Wales figures show more than 270,000 people aged in their 50s and 60s, have had their first dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nAll four of Wales' chief constables have criticised the decision not to prioritise frontline workers, saying they were \"incredibly disappointed\".\n\nHead teachers' union NAHT Cymru said all front-line staff \"should be protected now\".\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing, Dr Atherton said there was not enough evidence to support prioritising people from specific occupations in the next phase of the vaccine rollout, as outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frank Atherton says the plan depends on \"supply matching our ambition\"\n\n\"I, along with the UK's other three chief medical officers support the JCVI advice and the four UK governments have agreed to implement it,\" he said.\n\n\"This means the UK's vaccine programmes remains aligned as we all work towards one shared goal.\n\n\"This is the simplest, quickest and fairest approach. And it means we can remain on track to meet our ambitious vaccination targets.\"\n\nHe said calls for people in specific occupations to be prioritised had been heard.\n\n\"The JCVI did consider this - however, it found there wasn't sufficient evidence to set specific occupations apart from the general population. It also advised that the complexity of delivering this approach would slow down the pace of the vaccination roll-out,\" he added.\n\nHowever Laura Doel, director of NAHT Cymru, said that despite such complexity it was \"not a good enough reason not to prioritise the needs of committed professionals\".\n\n\"We call upon the Welsh Government to take a different view… front line staff should be protected now that those in the greatest danger have already been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\n\"They are being required to work with large groups of people who carry at least as much potential for infection as anyone else.\n\n\"Those groups often occupy confined and unventilated spaces for long periods of time with only rudimentary PPE.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, Wales' four chief constables - Carl Foulkes of North Wales Police, Mark Collins of Dyfed Powys Police, Pam Kelly of Gwent Police and Jeremy Vaughan of South Wales Police - said: \"We have repeatedly asked that policing be risk assessed so our officers and staff can be given due consideration, given the risks they take daily on behalf of us all.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chief Constable Pam Kelly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Police officers by the nature of their role have to go into different settings and come into contact with all high risk groups along with also being unable to social distance and on many occasions cannot maintain PPE as designed, given the physical role they have to undertake,\" they wrote.\n\n\"In addition they are being tasked with enforcing isolation and quarantine arrangements on the government's behalf on those they know have the virus.\"\n\nThe total number of people to have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in Wales is 902,334 and 80,062 of those have had their second dose.\n\nIn a statement, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"It is encouraging that the UK Government has brought forward some of Wales' supply allocation.\n\n\"But from the information available to us at this point there are concerns with both the type of supply and the timing of its delivery.\n\n\"We have always said that we could go even faster were the supply available.\"\n• None What are the latest Covid rules for Wales?", "Some areas of the UK are \"burning quite hot\" with rising levels of new coronavirus infections, England's deputy chief medical officer says.\n\nAlthough coronavirus levels are still decreasing across much of the UK, there are hotspots that buck the trend.\n\nThese are in the Midlands and east and west coast of England and some parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam told Friday's Downing Street briefing the battle is not yet won.\n\nHe warned people not to wreck it by relaxing the rules too early.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the aim was still to come out of lockdown together as a nation, but did not rule out measures being imposed locally if needed. The differences between areas now are smaller than those seen in the autumn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock: \"The stay at home rules are still in place for a reason\"\n\nProf Van-Tam said: \"In some parts of the UK, case rates are changing, albeit slowly, in the wrong direction.\n\n\"This is not a good sign and reinforces the fact that I'm afraid this battle at the moment is not won.\"\n\nThe latest R number - 0.6 to 0.9 - suggests infection numbers are shrinking overall in the UK. It means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 6 and 9 other people.\n\nHospital pressures and deaths are still high, however, despite the UK's coronavirus alert level having been lowered from the maximum five to four.\n\nAnother 345 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the total to 122,415, or 135,613 if you include death certificates that mention Covid-19.\n\nThere were 15,485 patients in hospital with coronavirus on 24 February 2021.\n\nPeople are still being advised to take precautions to stop the spread. There is still lots of the virus circulating.\n\nLatest ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nMeanwhile, the chair of Britain's Covid vaccine advice committee says the next phase of the vaccine rollout should focus on age groups rather than occupations.\n\nIt means people aged 40-49 will be the next in line to get a vaccine from mid-April, after all vulnerable groups and the over-50s are covered.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said the priority was to deploy vaccines as quickly as possible to protect lives, and that targeting occupational groups would be more complex and may slow the rollout.\n\nLatest figures show 19,177,555 people in the UK have received a first dose of Covid vaccine and 736,037 have been given a second dose.\n• None UK alert level raised to four - what does that mean?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steph Norman and Aaron Willoughby have been told they must have their wedding ceremony in English first\n\nA couple feel \"discriminated against\" after being told they cannot have their wedding ceremony entirely in Cornish.\n\nSteph Norman and Aaron Willoughby were told by Cornwall Council their ceremony must be in English and Cornish.\n\nThe council said \"declaratory and contracting words\" can only be said in English or Welsh for a legally binding marriage.\n\nMs Norman said \"I feel if everyone understands the language, it should be up to them what language they speak\".\n\nThe couple contacted the council as part of their search for a registrar who speaks Cornish, when they were told their plans for the ceremony were not legal.\n\nMs Norman, 32, from St Anne near St Day, then researched the Marriage Act 1949 and found an exception only applied to Welsh speakers.\n\nCornwall Council told the couple their ceremony was not legally allowed to be entirely in Cornish\n\nShe said: \"If you fluently speak Welsh then that's perfectly legal, but not Cornish.\n\n\"It feels like we've been a bit discriminated against, because it's not equal across the board.\"\n\nThe couple have learned a \"good fair bit\" of the language as it was \"really important to our culture and our heritage,\" Ms Norman said.\n\n\"We just really wanted an authentic Cornish wedding and part of that would be incorporating the language.\n\n\"So we can a little bit, but not fully,\" she added.\n\nCornwall Council confirmed the \"declaratory and contracting words\" of a marriage ceremony must be conducted in English or Welsh to be legally binding.\n\nIt said: \"We try to tailor each ceremony to the couple's wishes and Cornish phrases are often included in our ceremonies.\n\n\"Currently we don't have a fluent Cornish speaking registrar but we can accommodate a Cornish translator if one is provided by the couple.\"\n\nCornwall Council estimated in 2015 about 300 to 400 people spoke the language fluently and used it regularly, with about 5,000 more having some conversational ability.\n\nCornish language teacher Jenefer Lowe said she was \"hopeful\" that a couple like Steph and Aaron would be able to take their vows in Cornish in the future.\n\n\"What we really need for that to happen is for Cornish to get official status like Welsh and Gaelic,\" she said.\n\n\"That needs a critical mass of people using the language for it to be accepted.\n\n\"But because it's not official we don't have the ability to do legal proceedings at the moment.\"\n\nShe has seen an increasing interest in the language in Cornwall and from around the world and there had been \"huge advances\" in the last 20 years, especially with uptake from young people.\n\nTeaching online in the pandemic had also increased the number of learners, she said.\n\n\"I have students in Australia, America and around the world, but we now need to translate that into more speakers and more resources.\n\n\"There has to come a time when it is used in all walks of life.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arfon Jones is stepping down as North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner at May's election\n\nA police and crime commissioner wants prisoners to be given cannabis behind bars in a bid to tackle addiction and curb violence.\n\nArfon Jones said he wanted to see a trial commissioned and introduced to see if the measure could work.\n\nHe is standing down from his role overseeing North Wales Police after elections for a new commissioner in May.\n\nThe Prison Service said it had a zero-tolerance approach to drugs.\n\nIt also highlighted a spot check by prison inspectors in Cardiff, who found 52% of prisoners said it was easy to get illegal drugs.\n\nThe report pointed to concerns raised by HM Inspectorate for Prisons, which described the rise in the use of synthetic psychoactive drugs such as Spice as \"now the most serious threat to the safety and security of the prison system\".\n\nMr Jones said authorities needed to be \"addressing the causes\" of addiction and violence in prisons - especially the abundance of drugs such as Spice.\n\nThe dangers of the synthetic drugs was highlighted by the case of 22-year-old prisoner Luke Morris Jones, from Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, who died at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham in 2018.\n\nAn inquest jury later found there had been a \"systemic failure\" in stopping drugs from entering the prison, contributing to his death.\n\nLuke Jones died at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham in 2018 after taking Spice\n\nMr Jones, the Plaid Cymru police and crime commissioner (PCC), said he was also concerned about the levels of prescription painkillers given to prisoners, especially opioid-based drugs.\n\n\"If they are on opioids, why can't they be prescribed cannabis?\" he asked.\n\n\"Opioids are a damn sight more dangerous than cannabis. Let's supply cannabis in controlled conditions and see if offences reduce.\"\n\nMr Jones has been a long-time campaigner on the issues surrounding drug use and prohibition, and has often backed calls for heroin injection schemes to provide safe, controlled environments for addicts.\n\nHe previously said it was a \"national scandal\" that people were \"dying needlessly\" because governments had refused to acknowledge a radical new approach to drug policy was needed.\n\nBoth the Welsh Conservative and Labour candidates vying for votes to take over his post in May have been critical of his latest idea.\n\nTory PCC candidate for north Wales, Pat Astbury, said: \"There may be other ways to treat prisoners, using alternative medicines which are legal and mimic illegal drugs.\n\n\"One can't be seen to break the law at the expense of the force you are representing.\"\n\nThe HM Inspectorate of Prisons warned that psychoactive drugs such as Spice posed a \"serious threat\" behind bars\n\nLabour's Andy Dunbobbin added: \"There are lots of ways to prevent problematic drug use but this isn't one of them - prevention and treatment programmes in and out of prison should be strengthened and I'll work with partners, if elected, to do so.\"\n\nHe said the biggest issue was \"not drugs in prisons - it is drugs in society\" and called for \"decimated\" drug, alcohol and mental health service cuts to be rolled-back.\n\nAnn Griffith, Plaid Cymru's choice to replace Mr Jones, said a cannabis trial was \"something I would be willing to cautiously explore\" with criminal justice partners.\n\n\"Any such initiative would need to consider any unintended consequences and would need to be based on sound evidence and robust evaluation,\" she added.\n\nA Prison Service official said: \"We have a zero-tolerance approach to drugs and work closely with healthcare to support offenders through treatment and recovery.\"", "Parents with a child under the age of one are able to mix with another household from Saturday\n\nFamilies with babies can now hug and stay with their loved ones after a slight relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in Wales.\n\nWales remains under a strict 'stay at home' lockdown, with most people unable to travel or see relatives and friends.\n\nHowever, now families with a child under one-year-old are able to form a \"bubble\" with one other household.\n\nIt means some grandparents will be able to hug their grandchildren for the first time in months from Saturday.\n\nIt is the latest slight easing of Wales' lockdown rules with up to four people now allowed to exercise together - with social distancing in place - and the youngest primary school pupils returning to the classroom.\n\nUntil now, only those living alone, or a single parent, had been able to form a so-called \"bubble\" with one other household, allowing them to meet indoors.\n\nNow the rules have been eased slightly to allow families with young children to form a bubble, allowing them to travel to see loved ones anywhere inside or outside of Wales, for the first time since Christmas.\n\nIt comes after a Senedd petition organised by new mum Megan Chhabra, from Cardiff, reached over 8,000 signatures.\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\nUnder the rules, households with one or more children under the age of one can form a support bubble with one other household for any purpose.\n\nWith those in support bubbles not needing to social distance, it means families and friends with young children will be able to hug, stay in each others homes overnight and exercise outside together.\n\nHowever, the Welsh Government is urging people to \"take special care around people who are at increased risk from the virus\" and around people who are \"extremely vulnerable\", including the elderly and those with medical conditions.\n\nWhile the bubble can be anywhere in Wales, or across the UK, people will face tough decisions, as the bubble must only be with one other household and must be exclusive, so it cannot be swapped and changed.\n\nThe Welsh Government is urging people to \"think carefully\" before forming a bubble which would require extensive travel or travelling to an area outside of Wales with a high case rate.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the change was to help \"ensure new parents can receive support from friends or family during the crucial first year of a baby's life\".\n\n\"This will also help the baby's development,\" he said.\n\nUnder the changes teenagers - aged 16 and 17 - living alone or with other children in a household with no adults are also able to form a support bubble.\n\nIf someone in a support bubble develops symptoms or tests positive for coronavirus, all members of the bubble must self-isolate.\n\nFor the first time since September, Covid rates in all Welsh counties are below 100 cases per 100,000 people\n\nThe changes come as the Welsh Government announced more than one million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered in Wales.\n\nCase rates continue to fall in many parts of Wales, with the seven-day case rate now standing at 72 for every 100,000 people - the lowest infection rate since September.\n\nHowever as the sunny weather looks set to continue people have been warned not to let their guard down and continue to stick to Covid rules, which means no one should be travelling apart from essential reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bethan Sayed said the 24/7 culture of her job made it \"impossible\" to raise her new family\n\nPlaid Cymru welcomed the news families could form support bubbles but called for more support for perinatal mental health.\n\n\"Becoming a new parent during such a period of isolation can be over-whelming, and support from other new parents can be central to well-being,\" said Bethan Sayed MS.\n\n\"As a new parent, I cannot overstate the importance of having this option of support and contact.\n\n\"After a year of campaigning, my only disappointment is that it has taken such a long time to provide this lifeline.\"\n\nThere will be a further relaxation of Covid lockdown rules on Monday as weddings or civil partnership ceremonies will be able to be held at 'approved premises' like hotels and castles.\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 the moment a World War Two bomb was detonated in Exeter\n\nA controlled detonation has been carried out on an unexploded World War Two bomb found in Exeter.\n\nMore than 2,600 households and University of Exeter halls of residence were evacuated after the device was found on Glenthorne Road on Friday.\n\nPolice declared a major incident and put up an initial 100m (330ft) cordon, extended to 400m (1,310ft).\n\nBomb disposal experts used 400 tonnes of sand to create an enclosing \"box\" before it was made safe at 18:12 GMT.\n\nAbout 1,400 students were evacuated from 12 halls of residence after the explosive was found by builders on private land next to the Streatham campus at about 09:20 GMT on Friday.\n\nPolice said bomb disposal crews \"worked through the night to establish a walled mitigation structure\" and they had been expecting \"a big bang\" to be heard \"quite a distance across Exeter\" during the operation to make it safe.\n\nPolice said they were expecting \"a big bang\" when the bomb detonated\n\nThere were reports of it being heard five miles (8km) away.\n\nThe force said that, after the device was made safe and following assessments by utility companies, it was \"anticipated that the majority of residents will be able to return home this evening\".\n\nThe BBC's John Ayres said there had been \"unusual scenes\" of \"hundreds of students with suitcases, all marching down the street towards St David's [railway] Station, away from the university and finding somewhere to go\".\n\nOne student, Lucy, told the BBC she was in a hall just over 100m away from the scene when she and neighbours were told to leave at about 18:00 on Friday, given dinner and moved to hotels.\n\nShe said: \"I didn't think it was that big a deal until I realised how big it was and how people were taking it so seriously.\"\n\nThe university said it was supporting \"those who are affected until the situation is resolved and buildings are reopened\".\n\nIt said on Friday night it could not say exactly how many students were moved as \"obviously many students are not back on campus because of the Covid-19 situation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by University of Exeter\n\nIt tweeted on Saturday that anyone affected by the incident would need \"to apply for mitigation for any forthcoming assessments\" could \"do so without the need to provide evidence\".\n\nOne local resident, who did not have friends and family in the area to call on at short notice, was told on Saturday morning he would have to spend the time away in his car.\n\nAshley Attrell said: \"You can't have the heater on all day in the car. There wasn't actually anywhere to go at all.\"\n\nPolice said Devon County Council and Exeter City Council staff had been working to \"support those in private residences to find alternative accommodation, providing support to those who are particularly at-risk or vulnerable\", police said.\n\nProblems were reported on a helpline earlier in the day, but it was later running again.\n\nPolice declared a major incident at the scene on Glenthorne Road\n\nCoastguard rescue officers, volunteers from Dartmoor Search and Rescue and members of disaster response charity Re:Act were among workers who helped with the evacuation.\n\nRoads were closed in the area and city rail services disrupted as a result of the discovery.\n\nThe city was heavily attacked by German bombers in 19 raids during World War Two, particularly in May 1942 during the Baedecker Raids.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Shamima Begum, pictured here in 2020, is currently living in a camp in northern Syria\n\nShamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled.\n\nThe court said in a unanimous ruling that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.\n\nMs Begum, 21, wants to come back to challenge the home secretary's decision to remove her British nationality.\n\nShe is currently in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.\n\nMs Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls left the UK in February 2015 and travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group.\n\nIn 2019, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship on national security grounds.\n\nLast July, the Court of Appeal ruled that the only fair way forward was to allow her into the UK because she could not effectively appeal against the decision from the camp in northern Syria.\n\nThe Home Office subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court to reconsider the Court of Appeal's judgement, arguing that allowing her to return to the UK \"would create significant national security risks\".\n\nOn Friday, Lord Reed, president of the Supreme Court, said the government had been entitled to prevent Ms Begum from returning to the UK.\n\nAnnouncing the ruling, Lord Reed said: \"The Supreme Court unanimously allows all of the home secretary's appeals and dismisses Ms Begum's cross-appeal.\"\n\nHe said the Court of Appeal's judgment \"did not give the home secretary's assessment the respect which it should have received\" given the role's \"responsibility for making such assessments\" and accountability to parliament.\n\nLord Reed added the Court of Appeal had \"mistakenly believed that, when an individual's right to have a fair hearing... came into conflict with the requirements of national security, her right to a fair hearing must prevail.\"\n\nHe said the right to a fair hearing did \"not trump all other considerations, such as the safety of the public\".\n\nShamima Begum says she wants forgiveness - but all she's achieved after two years of battles over her citizenship is legal limbo.\n\nThat's the extremely unusual outcome of her epic struggle against the home secretary over whether she can still call herself British.\n\nIt is the role of judges and the courts to uphold the rule of law - and protect the universal right that each of us has to make our case fairly in court.\n\nBut, when it comes to matters of national security - threats to the nation - judges won't tell ministers that their assessment is wrong unless they have heard compelling evidence to prove it.\n\nIn the Begum case, that means she is at the heart of an imperfect world of her own making.\n\nShe is stuck, with no right to return under the law.\n\nBut, at the same time, her lawyers maintain she can't take part in her own case to have her citizenship returned because of the uniquely dangerous situation she is in.\n\nOther people banned from the UK have found a way to take part in appeals from overseas - but the camp she is in won't even let her lawyers visit.\n\nAnd so the highest court in the land says her entire case must now be paused until she can find some way of taking part.\n\nAnd perhaps that will never, ever happen.\n\nLord Reed said the appropriate answer was not to force the government to bring Ms Begum back to the UK - but to pause her legal fight over citizenship until she is in a safer position to take part in her appeal.\n\nHe added: \"That is not a perfect solution, as it is not known how long it may be before that is possible. But there is no perfect solution to a dilemma of the present kind.\"\n\nThe current home secretary, Priti Patel, said the Supreme Court's judgement had \"reaffirmed the home secretary's authority to make vital national security decisions\".\n\nShe added: \"The government will always take the strongest possible action to protect our national security and our priority remains maintaining the safety and security of our citizens.\"\n\nShamima Begum spoke to the BBC at al-Hawl refugee camp in north-eastern Syria in February 2019\n\nMs Begum was born in the UK to parents of Bangladeshi heritage.\n\nWhen she was 15, she and two other schoolgirls left the UK for Syria to join IS.\n\nMs Begum travelled via Turkey to IS headquarters in Raqqa, where she married a Dutch recruit.\n\nShe lived under IS rule for more than three years, and was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.\n\nThe baby later died of pneumonia and Ms Begum said she had previously lost two other children.\n\nMr Javid also welcomed the ruling, saying any \"restrictions of rights and freedoms\" faced by Ms Begum were a \"direct\" result of her \"extreme\" actions.\n\nHe said: \"There are no simple solutions to this situation but any restrictions of rights and freedoms faced by this individual are a direct consequence of the extreme actions that she and others have taken, in violation of government guidance and common morality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Shamima Begum and why is her case so important?\n\nLiberty, the human rights group which intervened in Ms Begum's case, said the latest ruling sets \"an extremely dangerous precedent\".\n\nRosie Brighouse, a lawyer with Liberty, said: \"The right to a fair trial is not something democratic governments should take away on a whim, and nor is someone's British citizenship.\n\n\"If a government is allowed to wield extreme powers like banishment without the basic safeguards of a fair trial it sets an extremely dangerous precedent.\n\n\"The security services have safely managed the returns of hundreds of people from Syria but the government has chosen to target Shamima Begum.\"\n\nMaya Foa, director of the human rights group Reprieve said preventing Ms Begum from entering the UK remained \"a cynical ploy to make her someone else's responsibility\".\n\n\"Like many of its European counterparts, the UK is more than capable of bringing home British detainees in Syria, many of whom left as teenagers after being trafficked or groomed online.\n\n\"Abandoning them in a legal black hole - in Guantanamo-like conditions - is out of step with British values and the interests of justice and security.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anas Sarwar: \"I'll work day and night to give you the Labour Party you deserve\"\n\nAnas Sarwar has been announced as the new Scottish Labour leader.\n\nGlasgow MSP Mr Sarwar defeated Monica Lennon, the only other candidate in the race.\n\nThe contest was triggered after Richard Leonard resigned as leader, saying it was in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Sarwar takes charge of the party ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Sarwar, who is the first non-white leader of a major political party in the UK, got 57.6% of the vote, while Ms Lennon got 42.4%.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, he said: \"I want to say directly to the people of Scotland, I know Labour has a lot of work to do to win back your trust.\n\n\"Because if we're brutally honest, you haven't had the Scottish Labour Party you deserve.\n\n\"With rising injustice, inequality and division, I'm sorry we haven't been good enough.\n\n\"And I will work day and night to change that, so we can build the country we all need.\"\n\nThe election of Anas Sarwar is obviously important for Scottish Labour but it is a landmark in UK politics too.\n\nNever before has any major political party chosen a leader from a non-white minority ethnic group.\n\nThat could afford Mr Sarwar a voice, an influence and a status as a role model well beyond Scotland.\n\nHowever, his primary job is to rebuild Labour in Scotland from their current position in a miserable third place, with Holyrood elections less than 10 weeks away.\n\nWhile his opposition to indyref2 for the whole of the next parliament offers clarity and reassurance to pro-UK voters, it may cause frustration among Labour-minded voters who support independence.\n\nThat he is his party's 10th leader since devolution, the seventh since the SNP took over from Labour in the Scottish government in 2007 gives a clue to the severity of his challenge.\n\nFormer leader Mr Leonard congratulated Mr Sarwar, calling for the party to get behind him.\n\nMs Lennon also took to Twitter to congratulate the new leader, as well as thank her campaign staff and issue a call for party unity.\n\nShe said: \"Congratulations to Anas Sarwar, our new leader. Proud to have been part of this positive leadership debate.\"\n\nLothians Labour MSP Neil Findlay told BBC Scotland that the prospect of another independence referendum remained the \"elephant in the room\" for his party.\n\nHe said: \"We cannot rebuild the labour party taking a hard unionist stance, I don't think that is credible because that immediately writes off the 50% or so of the electorate who want a referendum.\n\n\"We need a clear, radical alternative based on maximum devolution and I would argue that should be the third option on any ballot paper in any future referendum.\"\n\nOn becoming the first non-white leader of a major political party in the UK, Mr Sarwar said: \"That doesn't say something about me. That says something great about Scotland and its people.\"\n\nThe move was welcomed by Scotland's justice secretary and SNP MSP Humza Yousaf.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leadership race was short, and largely overshadowed by the Covid crisis, but was more cordial than previous contests the party has held.\n\nScotland's constitutional future was one of the major features of the campaign, with both candidates repeatedly asked for their take on the issue.\n\nWhile both have said they are opposed to the idea of Scottish independence, Ms Lennon said that should a pro-independence majority be elected to Holyrood in May, the party would have to accept another referendum on the issue.\n\nMr Sarwar, meanwhile, has urged independence-supporting parties to put the issue aside and focus on the recovery from coronavirus.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon congratulated Mr Sarwar and tweeted, \"he (and his dad before him) and I are long-time political opponents, but I also like and rate him. That may not always be obvious in the weeks ahead as election battle is joined, so worth saying so now.\"\n\nDouglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, also congratulated Mr Sarwar in a tweet and added: \"Yesterday I said @ScotTories will not support indyref2 or work with the SNP at any stage. I hope he will now do the same.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said Mr Sarwar faced a \"divided party\" on the issue of Scottish independence.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the new leader should concentrate on advancing UK federalism.\n\nHe said: \"I am keen to work with Anas and his party to make reform of the UK a reality. \"\n\nReacting to the announcement, trade unions have appealed for Labour party unity ahead of May's Holyrood elections.", "Anas Sarwar has been elected the new leader of Scottish Labour, replacing Richard Leonard who led the party for three years. The Glasgow MSP takes over less than three months before the next Holyrood elections.\n\nAnas Sarwar became a member of the Scottish Labour party at the age of 16, but politics was already in his blood.\n\nHis dad, Mohammad Sarwar, was the UK's first ever Muslim MP and held the Glasgow Central seat for Labour between 1997 and 2010 - until his son Anas succeeded him.\n\nGraduating from the University of Glasgow, Mr Sarwar worked as a dentist in Paisley for five years prior to becoming a MP.\n\nThe 37-year-old was the Glasgow Central MP from 2010 to 2015 and was firmly in the Gordon Brown camp of New Labour.\n\nMr Sarwar took an active role in the pro-Union campaign leading up to the 2014 independence referendum, touring Scotland in a bus with No activists.\n\nAnas Sarwar and his wife Furheen in 2017 - the couple have three children together\n\nAfter the Glasgow Central seat was won by the SNP's Alison Thewliss in the 2015 general election, Mr Sarwar turned his attention to Holyrood and was elected a list MSP for Glasgow in 2016.\n\nAs has often been the case for Scottish Labour in the last decade, the party faced a leadership election in 2017 after Kezia Dugdale quit and Mr Sarwar was pitted against Richard Leonard.\n\nIt was a rancorous campaign and Mr Sarwar faced criticism over his children attending a fee-paying school in Glasgow, with questions also raised over his family's cash-and-carry firm advertising jobs that paid less than the \"real\" living wage of £8.45 an hour.\n\nMr Leonard won the race, becoming the first Scottish Labour leader to come from the left of the party.\n\nThe victory firmly reflected the party's membership make-up at the time; Mr Leonard was a firm supporter of the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn whereas Mr Sarwar had signed a letter opposing Mr Corbyn's bid for re-election.\n\nMr Sarwar's most high profile role as an MSP was as Scottish Labour's health spokesman and he played a key role in the concern over safety issues at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital which led to a public inquiry.\n\nMr Sarwar congratulating Mr Leonard after his victory in 2017 after an acrimonious leadership contest\n\nMr Sarwar will be the first non-white leader of a major political party in the UK and has spoken in the past about the racism he has experienced as a politician.\n\nThis included death threats made against his family.\n\nFollowing his unsuccessful leadership bid in 2017, Mr Sarwar claimed that one councillor had told him Scotland would not vote for him because of his religion and the colour of his skin.\n\nA party investigation ultimately found there was no case to answer but Mr Sarwar was critical of Scottish Labour's complaints system which did not allow him to give evidence at the hearing.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Sarwar established the Scottish Parliament's cross-party group on tackling Islamophobia.\n\nIn his pitch to party members, Mr Sarwar said he wanted to \"rebuild Scottish Labour, and then rebuild Scotland\".\n\nThe Glasgow MSP has also taken a firm stance against the prospect of another independence referendum which he claims is not credible as the country rebuilds after Covid.\n\nThe immediate concern for Mr Sarwar is May's Holyrood election where party strategists are hoping the new leader can lift them from third to second place in Scottish politics.", "The couple had been due to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary this year Image caption: The couple had been due to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary this year\n\nA daughter has described the \"horrific\" anguish of losing both parents to Covid, just two weeks apart.\n\nRay and Rosemary Scovell, from Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, had been looking forward to their golden wedding anniversary when Ray, 76, fell ill.\n\nClaire Apsey and grandson, Simon, says the family's grief has been compounded by lockdown. She says she felt \"guilty\" for being unable to give her parents the send-off they deserved, describing the funeral arrangements as \"clinical\".\n\nMr and Mrs Scovell were well known for their work in the community. Her father was responsible for bringing sporting events, such as Parkrun, to the island - and was ably supported by his wife.\n\nWhen Mr Scovell was admitted to hospital in early January, Claire and her son moved in with her mum, who had developed short-term memory loss.\n\n\"When Dad died she would forget, so we would have to explain again,\" says daughter Claire, adding: \"She was heartbroken.\"\n\nBarely more than a week after her husband's death, Mrs Scovell suffered a fall and, while in hospital, tested positive for the virus. She died five days later.\n\n\"It's been horrific really... The hardest thing is not being able to share the grief.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Gething said the vaccination target would be reached as \"long as supply matches our ability to deliver\"\n\nAll adults in Wales will have been offered a first Covid vaccine by 31 July, the health minister has promised.\n\nVaughan Gething said matching Prime Minister Boris Johnson's jab pledge for the whole UK would depend on supplies.\n\nThe new date is a few months ahead of the original autumn plan laid out by the Welsh Government in January.\n\nOver-50s and over-16s with an underlying health condition will be offered vaccines by the middle of April, Mr Gething added.\n\nWales is currently ahead of the other UK nations in the proportion of the population that has been vaccinated.\n\nAt a press conference where he made the vaccine announcement, Mr Gething said that trying to make long-term forecasts on Covid \"has made a mug of a range of people\".\n\nThe UK prime minister had suggested restrictions could be lifted in England by 21 June in his lifting lockdown roadmap.\n\nIn comments criticising the England plans, Mr Gething said predicting what the situation will be like after Easter was more like \"astrology rather than scientific and public health advice\".\n\n\"When it comes to a longer term forecasting beyond the middle of April it starts to feel that it's not a sensible approach,\" he said.\n\nRapid testing was also announced for private and public organisations with more than 50 employees.\n\nMr Gething said workplaces that are at higher risk will be prioritised.\n\nTargeted community testing will also begin in parts of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf, in a bid to find people with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\n\nLateral flow tests - plastic devices that aim to give results within half an hour - will be used.\n\nAbout 18 million people in the UK have had their first Covid jab with 878,000 of those in Wales. In Wales, nearly 50,000 have now been given a second dose of the vaccine.\n\nWales has the lowest Covid case rate of any of the UK nations for the last three weeks - with an infection rate of less than 76 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Gething said coronavirus cases in Wales are now at their lowest level since September and the country's R number is between 0.6 and 0.9.\n\nHis announcement comes as the joint committee on vaccination (JCVI) agreed that people on the learning disability register should now be prioritised.\n\nUnder Welsh Government guidance people with learning disabilities, and individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar or mental illnesses which cause functional impairment will be called for vaccination in priority group six.\n\nOfficials say they are taking an \"inclusion\" approach in identifying those who should be called forward, and they expect this to result in more individuals being prioritised than might otherwise be the case if the JCVI guidance was strictly interpreted.\n\nThe guidance recommends using GP surgeries rather than mass vaccination centres to administer the vaccines.\n\n\"Today really is good news and I hope we will give people lots of comfort that they can expect to be receiving those appointments in the very near future,\" the minister said.\n\nMr Gething is responsible for the vaccination roll out in Wales while the UK government purchases the jabs.\n\nConservative Janet Finch-Saunders said the July target was a \"huge game changer\".\n\nBut she said expectations will grow as more people were vaccinated and it was \"very disappointing\" that Mr Gething had been \"vague\" about visits to care homes.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Delyth Jewell welcomed the announcement that guidance would be issued on prioritising vaccinations for people with learning disabilities or severe mental illness, and also for unpaid carers.\n\nHowever she questioned why the announcement could not have been given to families \"two weeks ago\".", "Ian Blackford said Nicola Sturgeon had not sought to mislead anyone\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has thrown his support behind Nicola Sturgeon, saying she has not broken the ministerial code.\n\nThe first minister has been accused of misleading parliament over when she knew about harassment allegations against her predecessor, Alex Salmond.\n\nIn six hours of inquiry evidence, Mr Salmond said he had no doubt that she had broken the ministerial code.\n\nMr Blackford said he had \"full confidence\" in Ms Sturgeon.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think we've had a number of false dawns in this whole spectacle and I do not believe under any circumstances, under any determination, that the first minister has broken the ministerial code.\"\n\nHowever, Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser, who is a member of the Scottish Parliament committee that questioned Mr Salmond on Friday, told Today that if half of what Mr Salmond had claimed was true, then Ms Sturgeon would have to resign.\n\n\"I've been a member of the Scottish Parliament for almost 20 years and this was the most extraordinary event I can recall,\" he said.\n\n\"To have the former first minister of Scotland and the former leader of the Scottish National Party come and make such devastating claims about the failure of leadership across a whole range of public institutions in Scotland and effectively say the country is not ready to become independent - despite the fact that is a cause he has campaigned for his entire political life - was quite striking.\n\n\"If even half of what he alleged yesterday turns out to be true - and we will get to the bottom of this very soon - then Nicola Sturgeon's position is untenable, and she will have to resign.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon once described Mr Salmond as having been the most significant person in her adult life\n\nAppearing at the committee that is looking into the botched handling of claims made against Mr Salmond, he repeatedly said, under oath, that Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code, but stopped short of saying she should stand down.\n\nThe first minister referred herself for investigation to James Hamilton QC, an independent adviser on the ministerial code.\n\nMr Blackford told the Today programme: \"She's made it clear on a number of occasions that she does not believe she has broken the ministerial code.\n\n\"I believe that to be the case as well, this will be put to bed, and we will be able to move on from it to make sure we are dealing with the Covid crisis in the right way, and we're having that discussion about what Scotland's future is.\n\n\"I and my party have full confidence in the first minister leading us to that destination of Scotland becoming an independent country.\"\n\nHe added: \"Yesterday was supposed to be a seminal day in this inquiry where the former first minister was going to bring forward evidence of a conspiracy - by his own admission, there is no evidence of a conspiracy by the first minister against him.\"\n\nMr Blackford refused to say whether Ms Sturgeon should resign if she was found to have broken the rules, describing the question as \"hypothetical\".\n\nHe added: \"The fact is there has been no conspiracy, the first minister has not sought to mislead anybody over this whole saga, and that will be demonstrated next week when the first minister appears before the committee.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon denies breaching the code, and has accused Mr Salmond of creating \"wild\" conspiracy theories that are untrue.\n\nHer spokesman said Mr Salmond had failed to prove his allegations in his evidence to the committee, and \"also gave testimony which directly undermined some of the central planks of his conspiracy theories\".\n\nThe Scottish government admitted it had acted unlawfully during its investigation into the initial complaints from two female civil servants after Mr Salmond launched a judicial review case, and had to pay his legal fees of more than £500,000.\n\nMr Salmond was arrested two weeks after the government admitted defeat in the civil case, and was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a trial at the High Court last year.\n\nMs Sturgeon is due to give her evidence to the inquiry on Wednesday.", "Police were seen seemingly asking people to disperse from the Senedd steps in Cardiff Bay on Saturday\n\nPolice have been patrolling beauty spots across the country to ensure strict Covid lockdown restrictions were met as Wales basked in the sunshine.\n\nOfficers conducted checks in Swansea while in Cardiff Bay, police were seen seemingly moving people on from the steps of the Welsh Parliament.\n\nWales is under 'stay at home' lockdown with people allowed to go out for essential reasons and local exercise.\n\nWales' health minister urged the public not to \"throw away their progress\".\n\nWith fine weather expected all weekend and Wales beating England to win the Six Nations Triple Crown on Saturday, forces and public health officials had warned people not to be tempted to break rules.\n\nNorth and South Wales Police had issued reminders that lockdown rules were in place, with officers being granted additional powers to stop people visiting beauty spots.\n\nFour people in Merthyr Tydfil were given Covid fixed penalty fines for attending a child's birthday party on Saturday.\n\nGwent Police said it had been called to Bryn Bach park in Tredegar after reports of people breaking Covid rules. The force tweeted that officers had counted \"over 100 vehicles\" at the park.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChecks were conducted in Swansea, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan to \"ascertain the reason for travel\", with people being reminded travelling for exercise is against the law.\n\nThe move came after complaints from residents in Penarth about an increase in visitors to the seaside town with similar issues reported in Snowdonia.\n\nPeople in the weekend sunshine outside the Welsh Parliament in Cardiff Bay\n\nPeople face £60 fines for breaking stay-at-home lockdown rules which ban all but essential travel in Wales.\n\nWales had the highest Covid case rate among the UK nations before their pre-Christmas lockdown in December.\n\nNow, however, Wales has the UK's lowest infection rate, which fell to 72 per 100,000 people on Saturday - the lowest since September.\n\nPolice stopped a driver in Barry to check if their travel was essential\n\nWales' health minister urged the public not to \"throw away the remarkable progress\" that had been made in fighting Covid-19.\n\n\"Please don't throw it away, stick with it because we really are doing something remarkable here in Wales,\" said Vaughan Gething.\n\n\"It's still possible to do a lot of harm to each other and to overwhelm our NHS if we do the wrong thing.\n\n\"If we stick on the path, with all of us doing the right thing, we can get through this to release liberties, in a way that is sustainable and have more freedom for all of of us.\n\n\"The last thing I want is doing the wrong thing to lead us backwards and undo some of the hard work we have all done together.\"\n\nVaughan Gething was speaking while taking a parent to get vaccinated in Barry\n\nSouth Wales Police said \"those believed to be in blatant breach of the rules can expect to be subject to enforcement action\" as Wales remains under the strictest national lockdown rules.\n\n\"There's a great temptation this weekend, we have great weather and sport going on and this is really a big plea to say, please let's not mess it up,\" said the force's police and crime commissioner Alun Michael.\n\n\"Let's not lose all the gains that have been made. It's great we've seen the numbers coming down but there are still people dying of Covid 19.\n\nPeople were enjoying the Saturday sunshine while walking in Llandaff Fields in Cardiff\n\n\"There are some people who are ignoring that advice. That means we need to do more enforcement and police will enforce without fear or favour but the plea is don't let them have to do that, it's not necessary.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 North Wales Police #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\nSwansea University lecturer Simon Williams, a researcher into public attitudes, tweeted to say the good weather would increase the risk of non-compliance and there were \"cars and crowds\" at his local beaches at Langland and Caswell on the Gower.\n\nChecks will be conducted in Swansea, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan to \"ascertain the reason for travel\"\n\nBut it was \"nice and quiet\" at Moel Famau Country Park, a popular beauty spot in Denbighshire.\n\nRanger Ed Sopp said it appeared motorists were heeding the advice to stay away.\n\nNo signs of vehicles at Moel Famau Country Park in Denbighshire on Saturday", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds, BBC iPlayer & Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport website and app, S4C\n\nIf you want to know what it is like to play in the heat of a Wales v England international, ask Alun Wyn Jones.\n\nThe Wales captain will lead his side into Saturday's Principality Stadium showdown having featured in more encounters with England than he has against any other opponent during his record 154 Test appearances.\n\nThe 35-year-old has made no fewer than 22 successive starts against England since he first lined up against them in 2007. Won nine, lost 13 if you were wondering.\n\nJones has seen pretty much everything this famous fixture has to offer.\n\nYet there will be something new even for him this weekend as Wales aim to complete a Triple Crown.\n\nThere will be no Principality Stadium capacity crowd creating the cauldron of tension between rival supporters and players.\n\nThere will be no Welsh singing reverberating around the ground punctuated by choruses of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot in response.\n• None Rugby Union Weekly on the Six Nations showdown in Cardiff\n\nInstead, the sides will be greeted by an empty stadium.\n\n\"It's a very different one,\" said Jones.\n\n\"I know we've already played against England once without a crowd in the Autumn Nations Cup (in Llanelli).\n\n\"That was everyone getting through the midst of the pandemic, but this one in the Six Nations is definitely heightened with the excitement that goes around it.\n\n\"To be involved is as good as it gets from domestic to international rugby.\"\n\nJones' stock remains high, especially among opponents. England coach Eddie Jones has remained remarkably quiet this week in the pre-match build-up.\n\nUnnervingly so, for a man who has not been averse to throwing a few verbal grenades to try to unsettle Wales before recent matches.\n\nBut he has reserved his few words of conflict for his namesake Alun Wyn by warning his players about the prospect of being targeted with wind-ups by the Ospreys second-row.\n• None England bring in George and Wilson to face Wales\n\nWales skipper Jones repeatedly niggled Kyle Sinckler in the 2019 Six Nations game in Cardiff. The provocation had the desired effect as Sinckler conceded two penalties in quick succession, leading to a pivotal shift in momentum and the red rose prop's substitution on the hour mark in the 21-13 defeat.\n\nSo Eddie has made a point of it, but Wales' wily leader has seen and heard it all before.\n\nHe has refused to rise to the bait.\n\n\"Our focus is us and that's what we'll maintain going into this game,\" was his only offering in response to media enquiries about Eddie Jones' comments. Next question please.\n\nHe was more forthcoming on George North becoming just the sixth Welshman to win 100 caps for his country.\n\nJones is the only current Wales player who was involved in North's debut against South Africa in 2010 and they are both former Llandovery College pupils.\n\n\"To share someone's first cap is pretty special, to share their 100th is as special, if not more,\" he said.\n\n\"It's hard to put into words, but testament to his hard work and the things you don't see.\n\n\"It's not just the 80 minutes or the nine-to-five, it's the things people do when they're coming back from injury, facing criticism and going through the mire.\n\n\"Those are the things you respect as a fellow professional and George has done them in abundance. To see him leading us out on Saturday will be a special moment for him, his family and for us to be a part of.\n\n\"Any professional can keep going through two reasons - selection or desire. George has the second in abundance and that leads onto the first. I'm sure he's got plenty more in there.\"\n• None Can contestants beat the balance board and walk away with £100,000?\n• None Why it causes emotional eating habits and how can we manage them?", "Police have declared a major incident at the scene on Glenthorne Road\n\nHundreds of university students have been evacuated from 12 halls of residence after an unexploded World War Two bomb was found.\n\nPolice were called to University of Exeter halls on Glenthorne Road in the city at about 09:20 GMT and have declared a major incident.\n\nA 100m (328ft) cordon is currently in place and a further 100 nearby properties have also been evacuated.\n\nBomb disposal specialists are expected to remain on-site until Saturday.\n\nThe large bomb is estimated to be about 2.5m (8ft) by 70cm (27in).\n\nPolice are expanding the cordon to 400m from 08:00GMT on Saturday and ask all householders to leave their homes\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the cordon size would extend to 400m from 08:00 on Saturday at the request of Royal Navy bomb specialists.\n\nPeople are being advised to avoid the area and residents within the cordon will be asked to leave their homes by 09:00 and stay away until work is completed.\n\nInsp Sean Roper confirmed about 100 buildings have so far been evacuated as a result of the bomb being discovered\n\nInsp Sean Roper, who could not confirmed exactly how many people had been affected, said resolving the situation would \"take some time\" because of the \"considerable size\" of the device.\n\n\"That will take us until tomorrow, without a doubt,\" he added.\n\nOn Twitter, the university said the explosive device had been discovered by \"builders on private land\" next to the Streatham campus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by University of Exeter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 University of Exeter\n\nThe campus evacuation was initially restricted to about 200 students from one hall of residence, but this was later expanded to 12 residences and other campus buildings on Friday evening as a \"precaution\", it said.\n\nIt added all affected students were being relocated to alternative accommodation in hotels and provided with \"personal care items and details of food allowances\".\n\nThe university urged students who were not attending a timetabled teaching session, a scheduled welfare appointment or who lived there, to avoid going in until the incident was resolved to \"keep campus as quiet as possible\".\n\nExeter City Council said no evacuation centres had been set up and other people affected have been encouraged to stay with relatives.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales won the Triple Crown with victory over England in a dramatic Six Nations match at the Principality Stadium.\n\nControversial tries from Josh Adams and Liam Williams helped Wales open a 17-14 half-time lead in Cardiff, with Anthony Watson responding for England.\n\nKieran Hardy and Ben Youngs then swapped second-half tries as the teams went into the last 15 minutes level.\n\nCallum Sheedy's boot and a late try from Cory Hill moved Wales to within two games of a Grand Slam.\n\nWayne Pivac's side now have trips to Italy and France on March 13 and March 20 respectively as they seek a second clean sweep in the past three tournaments.\n\nEngland will point to the two first-half tries awarded by French referee Pascal Gauzere, but will be also left to rue their continued indiscipline, with lock Maro Itoje especially guilty.\n\nAdams' score was allowed after a quickly taken tap penalty kick from Dan Biggar, while Williams crossed despite suggestions of a Louis Rees-Zammit knock-on in the build-up.\n\nThose tries helped Wales record their highest points tally against England as they followed up victories against Ireland and Scotland.\n\nDefending champions England have now lost two of their opening three matches.\n\nPlenty has been written about the lack of crowds in stadiums during the coronavirus pandemic, but a Six Nations game between Wales and England - usually so vibrant - conjured perhaps the eeriest atmosphere yet.\n\nWales' George North led the sides out as he became the youngest player to win 100 caps for his country in one of five changes from the side that beat Scotland.\n\nIn the minute's silence to mark the stand against racism, half of the England squad took the knee while Wales kept their usual stance of remaining standing.\n\nEngland set the tone by giving away three early penalties in the opening five minutes with Biggar slotting over the opening three points.\n\nItoje's effective nuisance value almost paid off with an England try when he charged down a Hardy kick, but covering full-back Williams just beat his former Saracens team-mate to the touchdown.\n\nBreaks from Elliot Daly and Youngs allowed Farrell to level the scores.\n\nThe first moment of controversy saw wing Adams cross to score after collecting a quick clever cross kick from a quickly taken Biggar penalty.\n\nEngland captain Farrell argued vehemently there were water carriers on the field and his side had no chance to reset after being asked to speak to his team about their discipline.\n\nBut Gauzere batted away the complaints and allowed the score which Biggar converted.\n\nIt was, however, a special moment for Adams who was back in the starting side after serving a two-match suspension for breaking Covid-19 protocols.\n\nFarrell reduced the deficit with his second penalty as Gauzere's whistle continued to dominate proceedings.\n\nThe next disputed score occurred when Liam Williams crossed after Rees-Zammit fumbled possession from an Adams chip.\n\nGauzere gave an initial decision on the field of a try and a discussion with television match official Alex Ruiz and replays did not change his mind that Rees-Zammit had not knocked the ball on or was not in control of possession.\n\nBiggar converted off the post and everything was going Wales' way.\n\nEngland responded almost immediately with a try from wing Watson from their first flowing move. Farrell missed the conversion, but slotted over a penalty to reduce the deficit to 17-14 at half-time.\n\nA cagey second half saw both sides waiting for the other team to make a mistake and Wales flanker Josh Navidi was guilty of an error as he was penalised, but Farrell failed to level the scores.\n\nBiggar left the field early in the second half after failing to shrug off a first-half knock with Callum Sheedy coming on.\n\nWales immediately lifted the tempo and Hardy took advantage of an off-guard England defence with a quickly taken penalty, after a clumsy offence from visiting lock Jonny Hill. Sheedy converted.\n\nFarrell put England within a score with his third penalty before some encouraging ball-carrying bursts from the Vunipola brothers put the visitors on front foot before conceding another penalty.\n\nIt demonstrated England's attacking intent and Youngs sniped over with Farrell converting to level the scores.\n\nThis shocked Wales into action with Sheedy's incisive break and chip almost resulting in another try for Hardy, but he was denied and damaged his hamstring in the process.\n\nSheedy slotted over three late penalties to restore Wales' advantage after more England indiscipline as the Bristol fly-half answered any doubts about his goal-kicking prowess at international level.\n\nA late flurry saw Gloucester team-mates Jonny May and Rees-Zammit decide who was the fastest, but the Wales wing was just denied a try.\n\nFrom the resulting scrum replacement lock Hill drove over to complete a bonus-point victory with Sheedy converting to complete a personal 13-point match defining display.\n\nReplacements: Sheedy for Biggar (45), Halaholo for J Davies (50), Hill for Beard (54), Dee for Owens (63), R Jones for W Jones (63), G Davies for Hardy (65), Brown for Francis (67), Botham for Navidi (70).\n\nReplacements: Ewels for Hill (58), Cowan-Dickie for George (60), Genge for M Vunipola (67), Robson for B Youngs (70), Earl for Wilson (70).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A doctor receives his second dose of vaccine in Newbridge, Caerphilly county\n\nMore than one million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered in Wales, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nA total of 916,336 people have received their first dose, of which 89,053 have had a second jab, a total of 1,005,389.\n\nIt means one in three of the country's adult population have received at least one dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it was a \"fantastic testament\" to the hard work of staff involved in the rollout.\n\nHe said it was an \"incredible marker\" in the 12 weeks since the rollout of the country's vaccination programme.\n\nMr Gething was in Barry on Saturday where he was \"delighted\" to be helping his mother get to her vaccine appointment.\n\nHe added: \"It's a remarkable achievement in just a few short months, from a slower start building our infrastructure to really moving very, very quickly, ahead of [schedule].\n\n\"I'm very confident we'll be getting through a million first doses in short order and completing the first nine priority groups by the middle of April.\"\n\nVaughan Gething took his mother to get her first jab on Saturday\n\nIt means 29.1% of the Welsh population have had a first dose and 2.8% have had a full vaccination.\n\nThe majority of care home residents and other target groups aged over 70 have had their first doses.\n\nOn Friday, Wales' chief medical officer Dr Frank Atherton said people aged in their 40s will be next in line to get the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nLast week saw a stock of 46,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses being used in Wales and another 56,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines available.\n\nAlong with this week, there was a planned reduction in supply, as manufacturers prepare their processes for a significant ramp-up of production from March onwards, when between 160,000 and 190,000 doses are expected to be available.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app, S4C\n\nWales face England at the Principality Stadium on Saturday with a Six Nations Triple Crown on their minds.\n\nVictory at Murrayfield gave Wayne Pivac's side two wins from two but Scotland, like Ireland in round one, were reduced to 14 players.\n\nChampions England followed up their defeat by Scotland by cruising past Italy but have yet to hit top form.\n\nWales have won just one of the last seven Six Nations games against the Red Rose - can they defy recent history?\n• None England and Wales search for style in unusual surroundings\n• None 'A once in a generation player' - tributes to North as he wins 100th Wales cap\n\nGeorge North becomes at 28 the youngest player ever to win 100 caps in one of five changes from the side that beat Scotland.\n\nNorth - and his centre partner Jonathan Davies - are back from injury while Josh Adams returns on the wing following a suspension for breaking Covid protocols.\n\nScrum-half Kieran Hardy gets a first Six Nations start in place of Gareth Davies while in the pack fit-again flanker Josh Navidi is back in place of Aaron Wainwright.\n\nEngland make two changes with hooker Jamie George and flanker Mark Wilson the fresh faces.\n\nGeorge - one of six Saracens players in the starting line-up - replaces Luke Cowan-Dickie, who drops to the bench, while Wilson comes in for the injured Courtney Lawes.\n\nFull-back Elliot Daly will win his 50th cap while uncapped Leicester forward George Martin is on the bench.\n• None Rugby Union Weekly podcast: A Cardiff showdown and what next for France?\n• None Bothams happy to cheer for Wales against England\n\n'I'm hoping for a game for the ages' - pundit view\n\nFormer England wing Ugo Monye on the Rugby Union Weekly podcast: \"I'm hoping for a firecracker. I am fascinated about what we might witness.\n\n\"Wales seem to have found this steely edge and have got their fundamentals right. Start at their number one - name me a better loose-head prop than Wyn Jones in the Six Nations? His numbers are off the chart.\n\n\"With England we know they've not been at their best but look at the potential of those two teams and imagine Wales at their best and England somewhere near their best, that will be a game for the ages. That's what I'm hoping for.\"\n\nBBC TV commentator Eddie Butler: Billy Vunipola is growling at himself, so when he and Taulupe Faletau go to it, we could have Etna 2. It will light up the sky, but represents yet another threat to space at ground level.\n\nFreedom lies in the sky, where the ball will presumably be sent with unrelenting frequency. Like or not, up we go. Wales 26 England 22.\n• None How to follow the 2021 Six Nations on the BBC\n\nWales head coach Wayne Pivac on in-form wing Louis Rees-Zammit: \"I'm probably going to embarrass some family members but I've got twin 14-year-old step-daughters and they're after an autograph and photograph when we get out of Covid!\"\n\nAnd paying tribute to North: \"He is still highly motivated and wants to play for Wales well past 100 games. I am sure he is going to do that with the attitude he is showing at the moment and the form he will bring to the 13 jersey.\"\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"For most teams the third game is a make-or-break game and I think both teams face similar pressure.\n\n\"Wales v England means a lot to both countries. They're always tough, tough games and that's the allure of the Six Nations.\n\n\"They're tight contests that go down to the last moment. We won one there in 2017, basically on the bell. And we had to win on the bell at Twickenham last year, so we're expecting a similar sort of game.\"\n• None Wales have only won one of their last seven Six Nations meetings with England.\n• None England are the only team yet to concede more than two tries in a Six Nations game in Wales.\n• None Wales have won four of their last five matches, losing one.\n• None They have won their opening two Six Nations fixtures for a sixth time. In four of the previous five occasions they have managed this they have gone on to win a Grand Slam.\n• None England have won nine of their last 10 matches.\n• None England's nine try bonus points since their Six Nations introduction in 2017 is a tournament-high.\n• None Jonny May's try v Italy saw him move to outright second on England's all-time scorers list with 32.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tricia Gerrard: \"Jack died and nobody's being held accountable for it\"\n\nA man who died after being restrained in the street by public transport workers was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.\n\nManchester Coroner's Court was told Jack Barnes shouted \"I can't breathe\" repeatedly as he was held by Metrolink staff in Manchester in October 2016.\n\nThe 29-year-old from Hull had a cardiac arrest and died seven weeks later.\n\nConcluding his death was unlawful, Coroner Nigel Meadows said the workers' actions amounted to manslaughter.\n\nTransport for Greater Manchester's Chief Executive Eamonn Boylan said: \"First and foremost I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Jack Barnes.\n\n\"This was a tragic and deeply upsetting incident. There were clear policies and training in place at the time of the incident, which those involved that evening completely disregarded.\"\n\nThe group were challenged by a customer service representative in St Peter's Square in Manchester city centre\n\nThe court heard that the father-of-one's life effectively ended while being held face down on a pavement outside the Australasia restaurant in central Manchester.\n\nHe had recently moved from Hull and had been out with some friends on 11 October, 2016, travelling around Manchester on the city's trams.\n\nThe group were spotted at St Peter's Square at about 20:15 GMT and challenged by a Metrolink customer service representative (CSR).\n\nThe worker suspected the group was smoking illegal drugs, a claim they denied, and it is thought Mr Barnes responded with abusive language.\n\nEvidence in court indicated that he had taken the cannabinoid Spice at some point that day.\n\nMr Barnes's mother Tricia Gerrard, pictured with his sister Samantha Barnes, said her son would run away from violence\n\nThe inquest was told later that evening, shortly before 23:30, the group were spotted at Manchester Victoria station, and recognised by the CSR who had earlier challenged them.\n\nA group of CSRs approached them after being told about the earlier abuse.\n\nA row broke out and Mr Barnes became aggressive to being confronted.\n\nHe swung a drawstring bag he was carrying at the men, which hit two of the staff, before he and a friend ran off.\n\nMetrolink's policy was that their representatives should walk away from such encounters, alerting the police if necessary, and the inquest was told that all staff had been reminded of this at the start of their shift that night.\n\nThe policy states that CSRs cannot \"grab hold of a person\" or \"pursue a passenger either off the platform or trackside\", but the four workers - Paul Fogarty, Brian Gartside, Matthews Sellers and Stephen Rowlands - decided to chase the fleeing pair, two on foot, two in a taxi.\n\nAfter a nine-minute chase across almost a mile of the city centre, Mr Barnes was caught by Mr Gartside and bundled to the ground outside the Deansgate restaurant.\n\nBodycam footage from a camera worn by Mr Sellers, and played in court, showed that within moments of being caught, while being held down with his left cheek on the pavement, Mr Barnes asked for help, shouting out: \"I can't breathe.\"\n\nAfter being ignored, he repeated: \"I can't breathe.\"\n\nOver the course of about 90 seconds, Mr Barnes said he was struggling to breathe on eight separate occasions.\n\nJust before the camera moved away to focus on Mr Barnes' friend, Mr Rowlands was recorded telling him: \"If you struggle, I will put you to sleep.\n\n\"It won't kill you but you will go to sleep for a while.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Barnes had a cardiac arrest and, despite a police officer and a passing ambulance crew providing assistance, he never recovered and died on 2 December, having been transferred from Manchester Royal Infirmary to a hospital in Hull.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquest, the men refused to answer many questions about the incident, having been given legal advice that to do so could incriminate them.\n\nHowever, Mr Rowlands told the coroner that he had been trained in restraint while serving as a GMP officer for 13 years and that he had left the force due to an injury in 1989.\n\nHe estimated that he had restrained \"well over 1,000 people\" during his police career.\n\nHe also told the inquest that \"it didn't enter my head\" to follow Metrolink's \"walk away\" policy.\n\nMr Rowlands declined to speak to the BBC when approached for comment.\n\nMr Barnes, pictured as a young boy, had recently moved from Hull\n\nRecording a conclusion of unlawful killing, Mr Meadows said that the exertion of the chase and the pressure on Mr Barnes's neck more than minimally contributed to the heart attack.\n\nHe found the restraint amounted to assault as it was unnecessarily prolonged and the CSRs had had an opportunity to both call the police and to sit Mr Barnes up into a more comfortable position.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Mr Barnes's mother Tricia Gerrard told the BBC the men had \"hunted him down like an animal\".\n\nShe said the family refused to believe he had attacked the CSRs, as at \"any sign of trouble, any sign of violence, he'd run\".\n\nThe inquest was told the bag that hit the men contained clothes and a phone charger.\n\nMrs Gerrard said she wants the four CSRs, who had \"never apologised [and] never showed any remorse\", to be prosecuted.\n\nGreater Manchester Police, whose officers investigated the case, told the BBC in a statement that \"following a review by the Crown Prosecution Service, four men… who were arrested on suspicion of assault were released without charge\".\n\nLauren Dale of Hudgell Solicitors, who represented the family, said: \"This case is a reminder of the tragic consequences of security and other personnel seeking confrontation and using excessive force.\n\n\"In this case, the policy of the employer was to walk away, yet they chased Jack for more than half a mile before pinning him to the ground and bluntly refused to listen to his requests to allow him to breathe more easily.\"\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 British man behind the Syrian civil defence group, the White Helmets, found himself at the centre of a battle to control the narrative of the Syrian war. Russian and Syrian propagandists accused his teams of faking evidence of atrocities - and convinced some in the West. The battle for truth formed a backdrop to James Le Mesurier's sudden death in Istanbul in November 2019.\n\nWith the setting sun reflecting in the water and the lights of Istanbul twinkling on the horizon, the wedding guests sat around lantern-lit tables: diplomats from several countries, military officers, journalists and activists who had flown in from around the world to see James Le Mesurier get married.\n\nA dashing former army officer in his 40s, Le Mesurier had made his name as the co-founder of the White Helmets - the group of several thousand young Syrian men and women who pulled survivors and bodies from the rubble of bombed-out buildings in rebel-held areas of the war-ravaged country.\n\nThe woman he was marrying, Emma Winberg, once worked for the UK Foreign Office but had latterly been helping him manage the White Helmets. She was his third wife.\n\nThe couple lived in a traditional white wooden house overlooking the Marmara Sea on Buyukada island, off the coast of Istanbul. The small island once had a reputation for hosting subversives and spies - Trotsky lived there in a similar wooden house a few years before his fateful meeting with the icepick in Mexico. These days it's popular with journalists, artists and those wanting to escape the chaos of the city.\n\nThe wedding party, in summer of 2018, was held in the garden of the couple's home with the bride and groom dressed like old-fashioned movie stars. Le Mesurier was carried on the shoulders of his Syrian guests as they bounced him around in a traditional arada sword dance - his face flushed and glowing.\n\nIt was a romantic setting and it was obvious the couple was very much in love. But if you had been able to listen in to the guests, you wouldn't have heard the usual wedding chatter - the main topic of conversation among the champagne and canapes was the ongoing conflict in Syria.\n\nThe war was always present - even on their wedding day. They found it impossible to separate their work and their private lives.\n\nEmma knew their future together wouldn't be stress-free. \"We often said, as bad as it gets, we will have each other. We knew it would be an adventure,\" she says.\n\nAnd after the fairy-tale wedding things did get bad - far worse than Emma could have imagined. In just 18 months, James was dead.\n\nSpoiler alert: This is the story told in the BBC's 11-part Mayday podcast - if you prefer to listen to the audio please click here, otherwise read on (this story is a 23-minute read)\n\nOn 11 November 2019 at around 05:00, a worshipper on his way to morning prayers discovered James Le Mesurier's crumpled body lying on the cobblestones in a narrow alleyway in Istanbul. He had apparently fallen from the apartment above his office, three floors up. Emma was still asleep in their bed when the police banged on the door and woke her.\n\nTurkish detectives questioned her and took her DNA and fingerprints before forensically scouring the scene. There were concerns that Le Mesurier had also been murdered by foreign agents, like the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi a year earlier, almost to the day.\n\nAs the news of the 48-year-old's death broke around the world, lots of people - including many friends and associates - assumed he had been murdered. The White Helmets were a thorn in the side of the Syrian and Russian governments, bearing witness to the bombing and killing of innocents and posting the videos online.\n\nIn Moscow the television news described his death as a \"purely English murder\" claiming he had been finished off by his \"MI6 handlers\" when he stopped being useful. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad later gave an interview where he likened Le Mesurier's death to that of Jeffrey Epstein, saying both men knew too many secrets to be allowed to live.\n\nThe British government was quick to dismiss such allegations.\n\n\"The Russian charges against him that came out of the Foreign Ministry that he was a spy - categorically untrue,\" said Karen Pierce, the UK ambassador to the UN. \"He was a real humanitarian, and the world and Syria in particular is poorer for his loss.\"\n\nDigging into his past it seems that at one point Le Mesurier did want to be a spy. After leaving the army he applied to join MI6 and - on paper at least - he looked a perfect fit. He aced the application process, but he was turned down at vetting; it took him months to recover from the disappointment.\n\nAn old friend, Alistair Harris, describes Le Mesurier as \"Lawrence of Arabia-esque\" - an image friends say he liked to cultivate. He had a taste for the finer things in life, and lived in a series of homes on islands. During several years living in the Gulf, he would regularly travel into town from his home on Futaisi island, Abu Dhabi, standing at the wheel of a boat wearing a suit and brogues, his tie flapping in the wind. But he was never in the Security and Intelligence Services says Harris, a former UK diplomat who worked with Le Mesurier on several projects in the Middle East.\n\nThe son of a decorated colonel, Le Mesurier earned a degree in international politics and strategic studies before graduating top of his class from Sandhurst military academy. Friends from that time describe him as an incredibly talented soldier, head and shoulders above the others in strategy and communications but \"too much of a nice guy for anyone to begrudge him it\".\n\nHe spent the next decade in the Army but left after becoming disillusioned with the failures of the West to prevent atrocities in Kosovo, where he served as an officer. By 2004 he was working as an adviser to the new Iraqi government, but again he became exasperated by what he saw as wasted opportunities and money squandered on projects which failed to rebuild the country or win the support of its people.\n\nSo when, in 2011, he was invited by Alistair Harris to move to Turkey and manage civil society projects across the border in Syria, he jumped at the chance. A democratic uprising, which the Syrian government had attempted to crush by force, had become a civil war, and government-run services were absent in rebel-held areas.\n\nAs head of the Istanbul office of Harris's organisation, Ark, one of the projects Le Mesurier's took on focused on training young Syrians to act as firefighters, ambulance drivers and rescuers. Young men and women were already rushing in to help their relatives and neighbours whenever a bomb landed on a residential area, flattening apartments and trapping the residents inside - but often without the necessary skills.\n\nLe Mesurier felt that here at last was an inspiring Western-funded project. In a dark complex war, these were heroes: local people, instinctively trusted by their own communities, doing what they could in a time of crisis. He brought them all together in one organisation and got them professionally trained by the Turkish earthquake rescue specialists, Akut.\n\nOne of Le Mesurier's colleagues at Ark, Shiyar Mohammed, remembers that before this vital training, volunteers would rush into a bomb site wanting to help, but without any idea what they were doing - which sometimes made things considerably worse.\n\n\"They hadn't even heard of things like maintaining an open airway,\" says Mohammed. \"Somebody with a neck injury would get picked up from his arms and legs and put on the back of a pickup truck.\"\n\nLe Mesurier and his team pulled in funding from the British, French, Dutch, Japanese, German and Canadian governments: one of his talents was persuading diplomats to part with their country's money.\n\nOnce the trainees returned to their neighbourhoods with their new civil defence skills, Le Mesurier began securing funding for equipment - shovels, medical supplies and hard hats. There weren't enough of the red helmets meant for firefighters, so they ordered white ones - and these helmets would eventually earn the rescuers their nickname.\n\nA White Helmet walks past the remains of a blasted building in al-Kalasa district of Aleppo (June 2016)\n\nBut at Ark the White Helmets were just one of many projects and Le Mesurier wanted to focus on them exclusively, so in 2014 - with Harris's blessing - he set up his own not-for-profit organisation, Mayday Rescue.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2014, Le Mesurier described the rescuers as ordinary people: \"Former bakers, former builders, former students who... chose to stay with very little equipment, and at the beginning with no training whatsoever, to respond to bomb attacks, respond to shellings and to try to save their fellow Syrian civilians.\"\n\nWhile rescue operations were taking place in Syria, Le Mesurier was in Istanbul, hundreds of miles away. The only way he could find out what was happening on the ground was by watching videos of the new trainees in action. So he equipped the White Helmets with Go-Pro cameras attached to their hard hats.\n\nBefore long, films of the White Helmets' daring rescues were going viral on social media. You can still find them on their Facebook page: hundreds of videos showing men and women in fleece jackets digging, sometimes for hours, through rubble and blocks of concrete, to the sound of cries from those trapped below. Often they pull out corpses - many of them dead children, whose parents are seen wailing over their tiny bodies. Sometimes they manage to pull people out alive, dusty and blood-splattered, who are rushed into ambulances.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. White Helmet volunteers carry out a dramatic rescue of a girl trapped under rubble in 2017 in Damascus\n\nMuch of the footage showed the destruction caused by Syrian and Russian war planes. The Syrian Air Force's weapons of choice were oil barrels stuffed with explosives - barrel bombs - which were dropped from helicopters on to rebel neighbourhoods. Occasionally the rescuers themselves can be seen weeping - a reminder that they are local people and that the victims were probably people they knew.\n\nOne incident in Aleppo in 2014 was filmed in detail: It's night and a lot of people are panicking, frantically digging for their neighbours who are buried under concrete following an aerial attack. A woman caught in the rubble is rescued relatively quickly, but her two-month-old baby is still trapped under layers of debris.\n\nThe White Helmets are filmed removing the concrete piece by piece until they can see the baby's head, but they continue to dig until finally they can access the baby's body and a rescuer called Khaled Omar Harrah is able to pull him out.\n\n\"We saved a baby. It was an incredible accomplishment for all of us,\" says Shiyar Mohammed. He remembers it as a moment of elation, feeling that all their hard work and the training sessions had been worth it. But their joy was tempered by the realities of war.\n\n\"This was just one baby out of thousands and thousands of other babies who have died, who couldn't be reached,\" he says.\n\nKhaled Omar Harrah died in an air strike two years after rescuing this baby\n\nThat scene of the baby's rescue had a huge impact in the West. It was the first time that a lot of people had seen the work of the White Helmets, and many were very moved.\n\nLe Mesurier explained to the BBC that Khaled was a former painter and decorator, who became a civil defence volunteer after his own street was heavily bombed. The baby was under seven feet of concrete and the rescue took 19 hours to complete. \"The work that they do is absolutely humbling,\" he said.\n\nBut for cynics, the baby-rescue drama seemed a little too slick. Could the whole thing have been stage-managed by Le Mesurier and the White Helmets to gain support and extra funding, they wondered? And in some more radical circles - where everything financed by the West was seen as tainted by an imperialist agenda - the White Helmets started being accused of producing propaganda to push for intervention in the war.\n\nThe videos were not stage-managed but the rescuers were deliberately documenting what they believed were war crimes, including the indiscriminate bombing of civilian apartment buildings, markets, schools and hospitals. And while the White Helmets were not calling for Western boots on the ground, they were pushing for the declaration of a no-fly zone enforced by foreign governments.\n\nThere is also no doubt that the videos were tremendously helpful for fund-raising.\n\nBy the time a Netflix documentary about the rescuers won an Oscar in 2017 Le Mesurier's organisation, Mayday Rescue, was receiving millions of dollars from states around the world including the USA, France, Britain, Germany, Holland, Japan and Qatar. The money was used to run training camps for the rescuers and to send equipment across the border into Syria, including fire trucks and ambulances.\n\nBut the Syrian and Russian governments insisted that James Le Mesurier and the White Helmets were manipulating the truth. According to their account the Syrian state, with Russia's help, was protecting a loyal and grateful population from evil jihadists, some of whom were dressed as White Helmets.\n\nThe Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad repeated these accusations in televised interviews and Russian diplomats began publishing what they said was evidence of the White Helmets using film sets to produce faked rescues. Two injured children - Omran and Aya - found themselves at the heart of this upside-down story of the war.\n\nIn the summer of 2016 a Russian bomb fell on the Al-Qaterji neighbourhood in rebel-held East Aleppo. When it exploded it took out the home of the Dagnish family.\n\nWhen the White Helmets arrived on the scene they pulled five-year-old Omran from the debris along with his parents and baby brother. His older brother didn't survive.\n\nThere's footage of little Omran, being carried by a White Helmet and put into the back of an ambulance. He's tiny and monochrome - covered head to toe in brick dust like a little grey ghost. He sits there, expressionless, utterly dazed.\n\nOmran's photo was on the front page of newspapers around the globe.\n\nAnother child whose face appeared on our TVs here in the West, was a little girl called Aya. The eight-year-old was filmed in a hospital in Homs, in western Syria. She had been hiding under a table when the ceiling of her home collapsed on her.\n\nA week after Aya's story was broadcast on CNN, the Syrian president gave an interview to Swiss TV where he was confronted with a photo of Omran. Unflustered, he replied that Omran and Aya were just props, siblings being used by the White Helmets in fake videos. And he claimed the rescuers had used them not just once, but several times in different videos.\n\nWhen journalists (including Channel 4 and France 24) looked into the claims, they found that they were false. Aya was confused with another child, pictured in the arms of three different people, but that was at a single rescue event where the pictures were taken moments apart. Journalists also tracked down witnesses, including Omran's father, who confirmed they had been involved in real bombings.\n\nIn another \"discovery\" of fake videos, the Russian Embassy in South Africa tweeted a photograph purporting to show the White Helmets mid-shoot, with dressing rooms in the background and a clapper board in front of the camera. The photograph was quickly identified as having been lifted from the set of a real film, called Revolution Man.\n\nA still from the Revolution Man film's website\n\nIn a bizarre twist, the feature film, financed by the Syrian Ministry of Culture, was about a corrupt Western journalist who travels to rebel-held areas of Syria and finds himself helping the White Helmets to fake videos. The White Helmets in the photograph weren't actors working to discredit the Syrian state, they were actors working for the Syrian state.\n\nWhat the Russian and Syrian governments say about the war is unlikely to have much influence on most people in the UK, but they are not alone in spreading these stories about the White Helmets - a network of sympathetic Western bloggers and activists have amplified their ideas. The most prolific among them is Vanessa Beeley, a British diplomat's daughter who quit her job in manufacturing about a decade ago in order to highlight what she saw as injustices in the Middle East.\n\nBeeley began travelling to Gaza to report on the suffering of ordinary people there. She set up a citizen journalist blog and began posting articles about what she saw. When the war in Syria began in earnest she, along with a small group of other pro-Palestinian activists, became convinced that the uprising had been instigated by Western proxies.\n\nShe soon turned her attention to the White Helmets, accusing the organisation of being a Western-created disinformation operation masterminded by a British spy - James Le Mesurier. She took up the allegation that they were faking videos, and also put great emphasis on the idea that they were jihadists, who had been taking part in executions.\n\nThe Syrian state granted her visas and offered her government-guided tours of recently captured areas, where Islamist logos on the walls of White Helmets premises were pointed out to her.\n\nWhat Beeley's videos show is evidence that a variety of groups, some of them jihadists, have operated in the same areas as the White Helmets and possibly used the same buildings - not that the rescuers and Islamists ever worked together.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MFA Russia 🇷🇺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNevertheless, there are other photographs and videos online that seem to show individual White Helmets supporting jihadists - from the so-called Islamic State group or the al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda's representatives in Syria) - either cheering their arrival in an area, or appearing to assist in an execution by removing the body afterwards.\n\n\"There's no way to deny it,\" says Nur (not his real name) who helps manage the White Helmets' media online. \"Former volunteers were in pictures waving flags.\"\n\nIn the early days, in a few isolated cases, rescuers joined the White Helmets having left jihadist organisations, he says. In other cases individuals might have seen the jihadists as a possible solution to the bombs that were raining down on them from Syrian government aircraft - but he says the organisation quickly sacked anyone who showed such sympathies. Le Mesurier helped put a code of conduct in place which required independence from all armed groups, among other things, and all the rescuers were trained to understand its importance.\n\nAs for the executions, Nur explains, one of the jobs of the White Helmets is to replace undertakers in rebel-controlled areas. \"Someone has to respectfully deal with the bodies and get them to their families,\" he says, adding that they were just informed when and where an execution would take place\n\nThe White Helmets say their impartiality and adherence to humanitarian principles has been the secret to their survival as an organisation through so many years of war and in so many different areas with different groups in control.\n\nWhite helmets rescue an injured fighter in a Damascus suburb in 2017\n\n\"There have been multiple different examples of White Helmets teams, responding to buildings, not knowing who is trapped inside, and they continue regardless,\" James Le Mesurier told Dutch TV in 2015.\n\n\"They have rescued regime soldiers from under piles of rubble, and they do so neutrally and they do so impartially. For them what is important is saving a life. It doesn't matter who that life belongs to.\"\n\nOne video in 2016 left the White Helmets wide open to Vanessa Beeley's accusations of fakery.\n\nThe mannequin challenge was an online fad where people pretended to be mannequins - frozen mid-action before suddenly starting to move, like a mannequin coming to life. The White Helmets had filmed a mannequin challenge of their own. In it they are frozen mid-rescue about to pull a young man out of the rubble. For their detractors this was further proof that the organisation were expert fakers.\n\nSpeaking on the Russian state-funded channel Russia Today (RT), shortly after her first visit to Moscow, Vanessa Beeley called the video bizarre. \"Whatever reason the White Helmets had for doing this extraordinary event, we've seen a reaction that I believe… massively backfired on them,\" she said, adding that the stunt made a mockery of the suffering of the Syrian people.\n\nWhen the whole scandal broke James Le Mesurier was furious. His wife, Emma, says she had never seen him so angry.\n\n\"He just thought it was the most stupid own goal. James was very frustrated because this would keep getting used and recycled on a routine basis by the White Helmets' antagonists.\"\n\nI managed to track down the young Syrian who filmed the video. He wasn't a White Helmet - he was a media activist. He hoped the mannequin challenge might help people in the West connect to what was going on in Syria. It never occurred to him that it would be used as proof that the White Helmets' videos were fake.\n\nVanessa Beeley is so convinced that the White Helmets are working for Western intelligence (and with Islamist militant groups) that she has even argued they are legitimate targets for the Syrian military.\n\n\"The White Helmets cannot be considered a humanitarian organisation, when they are embedded with a designated terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, and of course, ISIS and various other armed groups... They do not behave in any way like a humanitarian organisation inside Syria, and therefore… they themselves are a legitimate target in a war situation,\" she said in an interview to UK Column News in October 2020, repeating a view she had expressed before.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was horrified when he saw her tweet this idea.\n\n\"I don't really have words for it. It was clearly legitimising the targeting of civilians,\" says his wife, Emma. \"And the fact that Beeley was a UK national, and was hosted on Russia Today as an independent investigative journalist, put them at even greater risk.\"\n\nVanessa Beeley taking part in a joint Russian and Syrian presentation at the UN in December 2018\n\nEven before Vanessa Beeley's comments, Syrian and Russian states had begun employing double and triple-tap strikes in what appear to be deliberate efforts to bomb the rescuers. After a bomb falls the planes circle around waiting for the rescuers to arrive at the site before bombing a second time and sometimes delaying again before bombing a third time. Almost a quarter of all the White Helmets - there were around 4,300 at the height of the war in 2016/17- have been killed or seriously injured in the course of their work; it's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.\n\nBut perhaps Vanessa Beeley's most bizarre claim is that James Le Mesurier was involved in an organ-harvesting racket. In 2018 she was invited to speak at a joint Russian and Syrian presentation at the United Nations, sharing the floor with a Russian researcher.\n\nApparent witnesses were shown in videos being interviewed by the researcher and saying that they had seen the White Helmets return the bodies of injured victims back to their families with all their organs missing. It is impossible to know whether the people who provided these accounts were speaking freely, and no other evidence was presented. The White Helmets say they have never heard any such claims from anyone in the areas where they operate.\n\nWhite Helmets investigate a collapsed house in countryside west of Aleppo in February 2020\n\nThe accusation that Le Mesurier was involved in murder and organ theft might sound far-fetched but the fact that the ideas were presented at the UN gave them the veneer of officialdom. Misinformation about the Syrian war has become so ubiquitous it has resulted in what psychologists have called the \"illusionary truth effect\" where most people end up absorbing some of the false narratives, even on an unconscious level. When I first began looking into the White Helmets I had a feeling they were a bit dodgy, but I wouldn't have been able to tell you why or where I had heard that.\n\nAll this was beginning to have a real effect on Le Mesurier. At one point, his colleagues say, when he tried to open a new bank account he was turned down because of concerns he might be involved in organ-trafficking. His wife Emma says he worried that after the war was over his reputation might be so damaged that he would never work again.\n\nVanessa Beeley has denied being pro-Assad despite singing the praises of the presidential couple and the Syrian Army on social media. These days she lives in Damascus and drives around the city in a bright pink 1970s VW Beetle with a picture of Bashar al-Assad pasted in the back window.\n\nThe pink VW with a portrait of Bashar al-Assad in the rear window\n\nShe declined to give me an interview but we did exchange emails. She told me she is not incentivised by any government, that she is self-funded and that her concern is getting to the truth. She also made it clear that she believes the BBC is a mouthpiece for the British government and is engaged in deliberate anti-Assad propaganda.\n\nBeeley sometimes claims to have been a finalist for the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. But when I contacted a member of the prize committee, James Fox, he told me: \"There are no finalists of the Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, and no 'runners up'. The prize does not draw up or publish such a list. The judges publish only winners or special commendations.\"\n\nThere are other British Assad sympathisers. One is Peter Ford, the UK ambassador to Syria from 2003 to 2006, who says the White Helmets have faked all but a handful of rescues, have been involved in beheadings, and played a crucial role in the faking of chemical attacks - all of which he believes were hoaxes. He argues that the Syrian revolution was instigated by Western governments with the intention of toppling President Assad.\n\nFord co-chairs the British Syrian Society with Assad's father-in-law, Fawaz Akhraz, who lives in London and has recently come under US sanctions as one of the state's \"enablers… in perpetuating their atrocities\". These days the organisation is seen by many as a propaganda operation for the Syrian leadership, though Peter Ford is at pains to make it known that he isn't paid by the society. He has also made it clear he believes the BBC was commissioned \"by Le Mesurier's handlers\" to whitewash the White Helmets.\n\nPeter Ford is a former UK ambassador to Syria\n\nFord has shared a platform with The Working Group on Syria Propaganda and the Media, led by a group of British professors from some of the country's top universities, which also argues that chemical attacks in Syria have probably been faked.\n\nIn 2020 three members of the Working Group gave a presentation at Portcullis House, part of the Houses of Parliament complex, focusing on a chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma in April 2018. It argued that dead bodies and gas canisters had been moved and manipulated in photographs that had been presented as evidence of a chemical attack, and that this staging would have required the active participation of the White Helmets.\n\nThe Douma attack is one of the most contested events in the Syrian war, with both the Syrian government and their Russian allies claiming it was a \"false-flag\" attack, perpetrated by the rebels against their own side, so that the Syrian government would be blamed - and on this occasion the US, France and the UK did in fact respond with a punitive missile strike.\n\nAn investigation into the Douma incident by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded - in characteristically careful language - that there were reasonable grounds to believe chlorine gas was used and that it was delivered from the sky, which would indicate it had been dropped by Syrian or Russian government forces, as no other parties to the conflict possess aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 White Helmets This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 White Helmets\n\nBut two members of the OPCW investigation team rejected this report, alleging that the US had pressured the organisation to reach this conclusion. They questioned whether the limited amount of gas that had apparently been dropped would have killed people where they lay, and also whether the canisters could have crashed through a concrete ceiling without showing more damage. The OPCW said these former employees had not been involved in the full investigation and had not had access to all the facts and independent reports. Despite this, the Working Group found the whistleblowers' arguments convincing - but then had to explain how the more than 40 victims who had been filmed at the location of the attack had died at the same time from the same cause.\n\nOne of the Working Group's members, Prof Paul McKeigue of Edinburgh University - whose area of expertise is genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics - suggested that the most likely scenario was that the victims had been executed in a gas chamber and then carried to the apartment building and posed to look as if they had died there.\n\nI contacted the spokesman of the Working Group - a former professor from Sheffield University, Piers Robinson - who told me they did not accept that their assertions were conspiracy theories. He said their output was objective and rigorous and that they consulted widely when expertise outside their own research areas was needed.\n\nJames Le Mesurier's wife, Emma, says attacks like these made during his lifetime were putting him under a great deal of stress.\n\nShe believes it is likely that he was also suffering from trauma after years of watching distressing videos of the White Helmets' rescues. Most of those they pulled out of the rubble were already dead, including a disproportionate number of children.\n\nIn making the podcast series Mayday I ended up watching dozens of these videos - there are hundreds on their Facebook page. This stuff sticks with you, and it left people like Le Mesurier's colleague at Ark, Shiyar Mohammed, traumatised.\n\n\"Because I was subjected to so much graphic footage and so much violence. I ended up with sort of basically horrific scenes stuck in my head. Instead of the victims, I'm imagining myself to be in their place,\" he says.\n\nThere was a macho culture, Mohammed says, in which Le Mesurier and his colleagues saw themselves as too tough to be affected by all the horror of the war. Mohammed admits he was naive. By the time he left Ark he was no longer able to function in his daily life, suffering from panic attacks for three or four minutes every couple of hours.\n\nHow close was Le Mesurier to experiencing this kind of trauma? I asked Emma about that and instead of answering me she showed me the photos and videos he had on his mobile phone when he died.\n\nThere are happy times at home on Buyukada island, hanging out with his dog Balloo, and weekends spent entertaining his two young daughters from his previous marriage. But interspersed with all these domestic scenes are images the White Helmets sent him, of tiny shroud-wrapped dead children, videos of parents wailing over corpses, a lot of horrifying images of cruelty and death.\n\nAnd it wasn't just the horror of the war - it was the denial of all that horror that got to him. The Syrian and Russian governments were flipping everything on its head, as he saw it, and turning the war's heroes into villains.\n\nThat's why, among all those awful images on Le Mesurier's phone at the end of his life there were also countless screenshots of online messages doubting whether any of it was true and calling him a liar, an organ harvester and a jihadist.\n\nIn the end, though, it was misinformation from inside his own organisation that was apparently the final straw.\n\nAlthough Le Mesurier excelled in wooing donors, finances proved to be his Achilles' heel. He had never been across the books at Mayday Rescue, which was dealing with tens of millions of dollars a year - he left that to his colleagues. And it was the financial fallout following a major rescue mission that proved his undoing.\n\nJames Le Mesurier (right) with the leader of the White Helmets, Raed Salah\n\nThis time the people being rescued were the White Helmets themselves. In the summer of 2018, rescuers in the south of the country were caught between President Assad's forces and the Islamic State group.\n\nIn a daring plan dubbed Operation Magic Carpet Le Mesurier organised the evacuation of 800 White Helmets and their families through three border crossings into Israel - a country which had been at war with Syria for decades. To make this happen he helped orchestrate high-level discussions with the governments of Canada, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as Jordan and Israel. The discussions continued at his and Emma's wedding, attended by some of the key players - a detailed plan was cooked up among the canapes and lamb shanks.\n\nEmma crafted a clever seating arrangement for the reception, grouping together people who needed to speak to each other. Five days later, Le Mesurier flew to Amman, Jordan, to help oversee the huge operation. He was in his element - all his talents in strategising, learned at Sandhurst and honed over his decade in the military, came into play.\n\nWhite Helmets and their families had been hiding for days in a town near the razor-wire fences and concrete watch towers that marked the disputed border with Israel on the Golan Heights. They had fled their homes as the Syrian military advanced on their towns. Fear of arrest and torture - they had seen videos of \"confessions\" colleagues had been forced to make - had them running with only the clothes on their backs, carrying crying, hungry children.\n\nLe Mesurier was determined to get them out. Finally, on 21 July 2018, just as the sun was setting, the Israeli military cranked open the huge metal gates at two of the border crossings to let the families through.\n\nA Russian airstrike inside Syria, seen from the Israeli Golan Heights on 23 July 2018\n\nIt had taken just a few weeks to mobilise the huge international operation but it wasn't fast enough. One exit route had already become too dangerous - in the previous days it had fallen under the control of Islamic State - and half of those they hoped to rescue didn't make it out. It is not clear what happened to these 400 people, but they were advised to burn their uniforms and hide. Senior members of the White Helmets told me they believe many of those left behind were captured and tortured or killed.\n\nLe Mesurier had managed to save 400 White Helmets, but at a huge political cost. Now he and the whole organisation appeared directly connected to Israel and his detractors - ever prone to see conspiracies involving the hidden hand of Zionism - had more fuel than ever.\n\n\"It was extremely frustrating, not just that there was this relentless personal attack on him, but that some people would believe it. I remember him saying, 'Will I ever work again after this?' So I think it was a huge strain on him,\" says Robin Wettlaufer, then Canada's Special Representative to Syria and one of the people who made the rescue happen.\n\nLe Mesurier returned to Istanbul utterly depleted. He hadn't slept for days and in this exhausted state he made a fatal mistake.\n\nTo cover any expenses during the rescue mission Le Mesurier had withdrawn $50,000 in cash from Mayday Rescue's safe. In the event, he only spent around $9,000. Months after his return to Istanbul his head of finance, a Dutchman named Johan Eleveld, asked where the remaining cash had gone. James Le Mesurier couldn't remember.\n\n\"He might have lost it, he might have left it at the airport. He couldn't remember,\" admits his wife Emma. \"James had made a mistake.\"\n\nHe would make an even bigger one. At a meeting with several senior staff members, including Eleveld, Le Mesurier took the decision to repay the missing cash out of his salary. But fearing he would look unprofessional if he publicly admitted he had misplaced such a large amount, he also decided to fake a receipt making it look as if he had replaced the unspent cash as soon as had returned from Jordan.\n\nIn November 2019 an audit firm was checking operational changes at Mayday Rescue, with Johan Eleveld assisting them with their work. At some point they turned their attention to the organisation's cash books and came across the faked receipt. When they questioned Le Mesurier about it he immediately confessed. The audit firm also flagged loans and advances that had been taken by his wife, Emma, and warned Le Mesurier that he was leaving himself open to some difficult financial questions.\n\nEmma Le Mesurier says that their relationship with Johan Eleveld had been deteriorating for some time and he was avoiding their calls. Meanwhile, colleagues at Mayday Rescue say Eleveld was telling them the loan Emma had taken, which she had paid back within days, and the faked receipt amounted to fraud - and that there was a high chance Le Mesurier would face a prison sentence.\n\nJohan Eleveld said a non-disclosure agreement prevented him from talking to me, but in an email he denied saying that James might be jailed.\n\nTwo nights before his death Le Mesurier wrote to the governments supporting the White Helmets saying that he took responsibility for any financial wrongdoing and offering to resign. The donors did not accept his resignation but said they would need a forensic audit and that would involve freezing Mayday Rescue's operations until a full investigation had been concluded. This meant the White Helmets' salaries, training and equipment would be withheld at a time when they were facing an escalating bombing campaign.\n\nEmma says Le Mesurier spent three tortured days believing that a stupid mistake he had made would result in harm and suffering to the most vulnerable people in Syria - those he had spent years trying to protect.\n\nHe also believed that he would be publicly humiliated, and thought it was true that he might go to prison.\n\nPerhaps after years of fighting an increasingly personal disinformation campaign and seeing the brutality of war close up, James Le Mesurier was too tired to fight any more.\n\nThe couple spent the evening of 10 November in their flat above the Mayday Rescue offices in central Istanbul. They had a difficult night. James went to bed and left Emma pacing the flat thinking. Around 04:00 he got up and offered her a sleeping pill and stood by the window smoking a cigarette, waiting for her to fall asleep. An hour later Emma was woken by police banging on her door.\n\nIn the end, the Turkish police concluded that James's death was suicide. The detective in charge of the investigation told me a high-tech security system meant no-one else could have entered the apartment, and they found no evidence of a struggle.\n\nSix months later, an extensive independent financial investigation by Grant Thornton would conclude that Mayday Rescue's book-keeping was shoddy - but they could find no evidence of financial mismanagement or fraud by either Emma or James Le Mesurier.\n\nTrawling through years of correspondence, they unearthed emails from Le Mesurier to the finance department in the summer of 2018, soon after he had returned from the rescue mission. It turned out the money had never been missing. The emails show he kept the cash and asked the accountants to offset it from his salary. But he was so tired he had completely forgotten what he had done.\n\nMayday Rescue went into administration in July 2020 and these days the White Helmets' finances are all managed by an American organisation called Chemonics - but as a commercial operation they charge considerably more for their services than Mayday Rescue did so the White Helmets get less of the funds.\n\nWhen someone kills themselves, that single act, that one moment in the thousands of moments that made up their life, ends up colouring everything. It inverts their biography so we look back at all they did through the lens of their death. And that is not always fair.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was a man who lived several lives. He was a soldier, he was a Middle East traveller and an island dweller, a father and a husband and he was a humanitarian. And, like the people of Syria, he was a victim of disinformation.\n\nThese days his wife Emma lives alone in Amsterdam, in an apartment they bought together on an island in the centre of the city. She spends hours sitting by a shrine she has built for James; a photograph of him, holding a bottle of wine with a cheeky lopsided smile, sits on top of the wooden box containing his ashes, surrounded by flowers and candles.\n\n\"I talk to him, and he talks back,\" she says, her voice breaking.\n\n\"He was an extraordinarily robust and resilient person. But he was exhausted and we were on the losing side. But I don't want to speculate on what James was thinking [in his final moments]. I don't think anyone has the right to do that.\"", "Student Francesca Murphy is one of those sharing her mental health message after a year of Covid in Wales\n\n\"You might have to fight for it - but the support is out there, there is help - don't give up.\"\n\nIt is the overwhelming message of hope from Francesca Murphy, a 24-year-old student who has spent the Covid pandemic fighting her own mental health battles.\n\nShe is just one of those who shared her lockdown wellbeing stories with BBC Wales News.\n\nThey have all been touched by the virus - often in ways they did not expect.\n\nSports science undergraduate Francesca said she knew her mental health was deteriorating not long before the pandemic was officially declared on 11 March, 2020.\n\nThe World Health Organization made the announcement just two weeks after the very first case was identified in Wales, in Swansea, when a holidaymaker returned from a skiing trip in Italy.\n\nFrancesca had already experienced episodes of illness before, including dealing with the eating disorder anorexia.\n\nAs the pandemic began to spiral out of control across Europe, she knew she was becoming ill again.\n\nA number of hospital admissions followed, and referrals to mental health services.\n\nAnd when the first lockdown kicked in - so did the anorexia.\n\n\"Everyone was quite panicky, I guess, in March and April time,\" she explained.\n\n\"And for those who struggle with eating issues, it had such a detrimental effect.\"\n\nThe biggest challenge for Francesca then became food shopping, as supermarkets and stores asked customers to shop on their own.\n\n\"Some individuals may look absolutely fine on the outside, but actually really need someone else to go shopping with them,\" she said.\n\nShe said without that support, for those experiencing eating disorders it can be difficult and mean even more anxiety.\n\nFrancesca is continuing to study for the final year of her degree remotely from her home in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, and frankly admitted: \"I'd like to say that I'm better, but that's far from the truth.\"\n\nShe said she was an individual who thrived on structure and certainties, getting outside and to the gym, and mixing with others.\n\nLockdown after lockdown has stripped those certainties away.\n\nShe is waiting for a place at a specialist eating disorders centre, and said the mental health support she has been receiving has been \"fantastic\".\n\nBut she and her family had to fight for the care and support she needed, she added.\n\n\"If you need extra support, if you need therapy, fight for it. Ask the GP, get your parents on board. If your families recognises the signs, they can ask for help too.\n\n\"Go out and fight for the help that is out there.\"\n\nLiving alone with depression and anxiety has made the pandemic challenging for Siân Edwards\n\nSome 40 or so miles away down the road in Carmarthen, Siân Edwards has gone back to work this week. It's a relief.\n\nFor her, the weeks - then months - of Covid lockdown have been a strain.\n\nShe experiences both depression and anxiety, and like Francesca, she has missed the structure of her life before lockdown - with a job as a youth worker and a school crossing patrol.\n\n\"When the virus first arrived, I thought it would fade away and wouldn't amount to anything,\" she recalled.\n\n\"And then of course we had lockdown, which immediately set off alarm bells: 'Oh my god, how am I going to cope with my mental health' kind of thing.\n\n\"If I'm stuck in my flat, if I'm not allowed to go anywhere, if I'm not going to see anyone face-to-face, how am I going to cope?\"\n\nSiân said without being able to bubble with her mother, and enjoy the family garden during the warm spring, she would most likely have \"ended up in hospital\".\n\nBut the continuing uncertainty about when restrictions will end, when the \"new normal\" will return - or what it will look like, plays on her mind.\n\n\"Normally at about three o'clock in the morning,\" she said.\n\n\"I like to plan ahead, I'm not one for spontaneity.\"\n\nBut she said the vaccination programme did offer hope that things would begin to change.\n\nAnd she was out on patrol, stopping traffic outside her school again this week, as foundation age classes started to return in Wales.\n\n\"It was lovely to see all the children. I think they were quite happy to get back, and I think their parents were very happy to have them back.\"\n\nLorena Mihalcea has been shielding in Newport since the start of the pandemic to protect her disabled sister Alisa\n\nIn Newport, Lorena Mihalcea is a full-time carer for her severely disabled sister Alisa.\n\nIt has meant the 25-year-old has also been shielding throughout to protect Alisa, who has cerebral palsy and complex care needs.\n\nIn a city with Wales' third largest population, Lorena describes the pandemic in one word: \"Lonely.\"\n\n\"It's been almost a year since I've been quarantined completely. I did it willingly because I want to protect my sister, as she is very vulnerable.\n\n\"But this is getting all too much now. Covid has made it 10 times worse. You get frustrated, and you breakdown sometimes.\"\n\nShe said she has found it difficult - almost impossible - to access respite care during the pandemic, especially as her 26-year-old sister requires a special blended food diet, which is an added complication.\n\nLorena said there needs to be a change in policy in Wales to allow others to feed her sister, and she is still waiting for that to happen.\n\nHowever, after starting a business management degree, remotely, she is now getting some help with personal care at home for her sister.\n\nAs the first anniversary of the first lockdown in Wales approaches, Lorena said she hoped 2021 would be a better year than 2020 - but she has yet to be convinced.\n\n\"Here we are now, still in the same situation as we were last year. I am sceptical - is this year going to a better time? Or should we hope that it will be the next one?\"\n\nTom Morgan was on his way to a promising Welsh rugby career when injury struck - it became his inspiration in lockdown\n\nTom Morgan knows all about hoping for better years, and also hopes he can help others to get there.\n\nAt 22, he hoped he was going to have a glittering career in rugby.\n\nHe had already been capped for Welsh Students rugby league side, was captain of the Welsh Academicals RFC and had been signed to Cardiff RFC, when just a couple of games in for them he suffered a career-ending injury.\n\n\"I slipped two discs in my back, and the doctors just said 'you can carry on, but you may not be okay when you are a little bit older', so I knocked it on the head,\" said Tom, who is now 25.\n\nHe said he was left feeling \"anxious\" and \"searching for something - and I didn't know what it was\".\n\nHe found that \"something\" and is now a primary school teacher in Cardiff.\n\nSo when the pandemic hit, he decided to use his own experience of navigating mental wellbeing and his classroom talent to launch a podcast to help others.\n\nThe concept of \"Unlocking Your Mind\" is simple, he chats with elite athletes about how they have overcome injury, defeat, or even retirement.\n\n\"I thought that really translated into something people were going through in lockdown,\" said Tom.\n\n\"When the things they like doing, with the people they love, and then suddenly you can't do those things - and what are you left with?\n\n\"So I set up the podcast and it aims at looking at mindsets of how we embark on challenges, how we perceive setbacks, and how we overcome failures.\"\n\nHe has been fortunate to recently chat with rugby greats such as Australia scrum-half Will Genia, capped 110 times for his country, and the former Leeds Rhino's captain Stevie Ward who retired from the game last month at 27, due to the long-term effects of concussion.\n\nTom said that chat in particular was \"hard\" to listen back to because of Ward's honesty about the end of his career.\n\n\"But he also focused on how important it is to listen to your body, and that there is more to life than putting your goals and identity into one thing.\"\n\nHe said he hoped he could help others \"unlock their own potential\" in what has been such a difficult time for so many people.", "A mortgage guarantee scheme to help people with small deposits get on the property ladder is set to be announced at next week's Budget.\n\nThe government will offer incentives to lenders, bringing back 95% mortgages which have \"virtually disappeared\" during the pandemic, the Treasury says.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak says public finances are facing a \"challenge\" from the pandemic's impact on the economy.\n\nThe government has borrowed £271bn this financial year - up £222bn on 2019-20.\n\nThis has pushed the national debt to £2.13 trillion.\n\nExplaining the government's economic response to the pandemic, Mr Sunak told the Financial Times: \"We went big, we went early, but there is more to come and there will be more to come in the Budget. But there is a challenge [in the public finances] and I want to level with people about the challenge.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will do whatever it takes to protect the British people through this crisis and I remain committed to that.\"\n\nFormer Conservative chancellor Lord Clarke called for Mr Sunak to raise taxes in order to bring the UK's finances under control, and warned \"if we don't get it under control before inflation comes back then we will face a financial crisis\".\n\nThe question of tax rises is one the chancellor will need to address when he unveils his Budget in a Commons speech on Wednesday.\n\nIn the run-up to the 2019 election, the Conservatives promised not to increase income tax, National Insurance Contributions or VAT - but Mr Sunak could argue circumstances have changed.\n\nCarlisle MP John Stevenson, of the Conservative Northern Research Group, said it was \"too early\" for tax rises, saying UK still had a few months of the pandemic to get through and he wanted to see continuing support.\n\nBut Lord Clarke said the pandemic had been \"unfair financially\" on \"the poor, the young, the low-paid, the vulnerable\" and suggested making people who continue in full-time work after the age of 65 pay the same taxes as younger people.\n\nLabour has criticised the government for a \"stop, start\" approach to support measures during the pandemic. Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the Times her party did not support an \"immediate\" increase in corporation tax but would welcome longer-term rises and said she wanted a \"more progressive tax system\".\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to announce an £126m scheme for traineeships in England.\n\nIt will include a new \"flexi-job\" apprenticeship, enabling apprentices to work with different employers in one sector. With unemployment at its highest level for almost five years, Mr Sunak said this was \"vital\" support for getting people back into work.\n\nMortgage providers will only lend to those with a regular income, irrespective of any government incentive.\n\nBut young adults' finances, and their employment prospects, have been hit hard by this pandemic. It was the same in the financial crisis of a decade ago.\n\nThat is why jobs will be central to this Budget - both protecting them now and creating them in the future to aid an economic recovery.\n\nWhile the chancellor may be able to borrow fairly cheaply now to pay for that support, the prospect of future tax rises to foot the bill will no doubt be addressed too.\n\nCovid has led everyone to face the realities of home, work, and working from home. On Wednesday, many will be looking to Mr Sunak to save their jobs and keep a roof over their heads - whether they own it, or not.\n\nThe new mortgage scheme is not restricted to first-time buyers or new-build homes, but there will be a £600,000 limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has meant there are now few low-deposit mortgages available, the Treasury said, with just eight on the market in January.\n\nThey are often seen as riskier by banks as they are more vulnerable to negative changes in property prices - meaning people hold more debt than their home is worth.\n\nUnder the scheme, which will launch across the UK in April, the government will offer to take on some of this risk.\n\nIt is based on the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme, which closed to new loans at the end of 2016, a policy the Treasury said \"reinvigorated the market for high loan-to-value lending after the 2008 financial crisis\".\n\nBut housing charity Shelter said that scheme increased house prices by 1.4%.\n\nShadow housing secretary Thangam Debbonaire also raised concerns, saying young people needed \"genuinely affordable\" new houses to be built and did not want to go \"back to the days of sky-high mortgages\".\n\nThe new scheme could coincide with the expected end of a stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland on 31 March - though this may yet be extended.\n\nNext week's announcement is also expected to include a new £100m taskforce to crack down on fraudsters who have exploited support schemes, such as furlough.\n\nTax officials have opened about 10,000 inquiries into suspected fraudulent activity, the government said.", "Capt Sir Tom Moore won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk where he completed 100 laps of his garden in his village in Bedfordshire\n\nThe family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have called for trees to be planted around the world in his honour.\n\nThe 100-year-old Army veteran, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, died on 2 February.\n\nThrough the Trees for Tom campaign, a \"legacy forest\" will be planted by two charities on behalf of his family.\n\nHis daughter, Lucy Teixeira, said it could create a \"living legacy\".\n\nMrs Teixeira and her sister, Hannah Ingram-Moore, said many people had asked what they could do to honour him, \"other than cards and cut flowers\" and this gave them the idea of donating to charities to plant trees in his name.\n\nThey have chosen the UK's largest woodland conservation charity, The Woodland Trust, to carry out the work in this country and TreeSisters to plant trees internationally.\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughters Lucy Teixeira (left) and Hannah Ingram-Moore (right) are asking people to plant trees in his name\n\nShe said both environmental charities had many initiatives planned, but she hoped a wood in her father's native Yorkshire could be grown and that they could help reforest a part of India, a place close to his heart.\n\n\"Like every grandparent, he was concerned about what the future holds for his four grandchildren and the negative impact we are having on our planet,\" she said.\n\n\"Planting a tree is a small but significant gesture that can collectively make a big difference and create a lasting, living legacy.\"I can't think of anything better and I know Dad would be delighted that his hope for a brighter tomorrow was being honoured in this way.\"\n\nWoodland Trust chief executive, Darren Moorcroft, said it was a \"fitting way to celebrate the life of someone as inspirational as Captain Sir Tom\".\n\nClare Dubois, founder of TreeSisters, said restoring tropical forests would serve \"all of life on Earth\".\n\n\"Restoring these forests together is a way of taking care of everyone,\" she said.\n\nThe World War Two veteran, who served in India and Myanmar - also known as Burma - was originally from Keighley near Bradford.\n\nHe died at Bedford Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 and his funeral will be held on Saturday.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "At times of crisis, a nation needs hope and heroes.\n\nSometimes, they're found in unlikely places - and when Britain first locked down against the coronavirus pandemic, it discovered Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nIn April 2020 the then 99-year-old war veteran accepted a little family challenge: to raise £1,000 for health service charities by walking 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of that month.\n\n\"One small soul like me won't make much difference,\" he declared in his first TV interview.\n\nHe could not have been more wrong.\n\nBy the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Captain Sir Tom had raised more than £32m from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.\n\nBut that was just the beginning - a knighthood, RAF flypast to mark him turning 100 and personal greetings from the Queen and prime minister soon followed.\n\nAnd he even became the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK, when he and Michael Ball sang a cover of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was born in Keighley on 30 April 1920. His father, Wilson, came from a family of builders; his mother, Isabella, taught children at a local school.\n\nIt was a comfortable, middle-class background, but a decade later came the Wall Street Crash. It triggered a world-wide economic depression which hit Yorkshire mill towns hard.\n\nA quarter of the British population struggled to feed themselves. Young Tom was surrounded by long lines at soup kitchens, and classmates suffering from rickets and tuberculosis.\n\nSir Tom Moore joined the Duke of Wellington's regiment in 1940\n\nBright enough to win a place at grammar school, he found he enjoyed working with his hands more than reading books.\n\n\"I was always a very practical boy,\" he recalled. \"The sort of toys I liked would be a piece of wood, some nails and a hammer.\"\n\nBut his real passion was motorbikes. At the age of 12, Captain Sir Tom discovered one lying in a barn and bought it for half a crown. He proudly took it home, and lovingly did it up.\n\nHe left school to start an apprenticeship in civil engineering, but there was barely time to finish it before World War Two broke out.\n\nConscripted into the British army in June 1940, Captain Sir Tom joined the Duke of Wellington's regiment - an infantry battalion with historic links to the West Riding.\n\nBy his own admission, he was \"too young to feel frightened\". Indeed, for a practically-minded motorsport enthusiast barely out of his teens, the British army was a thrilling place.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom spent time in Cornwall, preparing to defend the coast from a German invasion, and learned how to drive tanks.\n\nSelected for officer training, he became a second lieutenant on his 21st birthday, and - now part of the 146th Royal Armoured Corps - found himself posted to India.\n\nA motorbike enthusiast since childhood, Sir Tom Moore became a dispatch rider in the Army\n\nWith the Suez Canal closed, the sea journey took six perilous weeks. The convoy inched around the southern tip of Africa, at constant risk from German submarines.\n\nThe train ride across India took nearly as long, the burning heat made only slightly less unbearable by huge blocks of ice scattered among the troops.\n\nTheir final destination was Burma, where the British army and its Indian allies had been forced into a fighting retreat by a seemingly unstoppable Japanese advance.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was joining the bruised and bloodied \"forgotten army\", which was suffering from disease and low morale. It was fighting in the world's least hospitable terrain, with impenetrable jungle, poisonous snakes, and hot lashing rain for six months of every year.\n\nMuch of the fighting was done hand-to-hand, with no quarter given on either side. Years later, Captain Sir Tom clearly recalled staring into the \"whites of the eyes\" of the opposing troops.\n\nWith his knowledge of motorbikes, Captain Sir Tom was asked to train dispatch riders. Radio transmissions could be intercepted, so this was the best means of getting information to and from the front line.\n\nCaptain Moore (centre) taught new recruits how to drive tanks\n\nIt was dangerous work. Dispatch riders worked alone and at night. The roads that did exist were deeply rutted and thick with mud, and the risk of ambush was ever-present.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom loved the motorbikes, but described the job as a \"poisoned chalice\". Once the engine started, there was no stopping or going back.\n\n\"If it didn't go well,\" he said bluntly, \"I was dead\".\n\nSlowly, the 14th army turned the tide in Britain's favour. Over the next two years, Captain Sir Tom's team helped cut Japanese supply lines along the Burmese coast.\n\nOne notable occasion was the battle for Ramree Island in 1945. More than 1,000 Japanese infantrymen were forced into a mangrove swamp infested by salt-water crocodiles. Only a handful emerged.\n\nA then 99-year-old Captain Sir Tom embarks on his epic walk\n\nBy this time, Captain Sir Tom had survived a nasty bout of dengue fever and been promoted to Captain. With the Japanese finally on the back foot, he returned to England to train recruits in the art of driving tanks.\n\nOn VE Day, there were \"certain activities in the bar\", but Captain Sir Tom's thoughts were with his mates still fighting in the Far East. \"They didn't get a day off,\" he said.\n\nHe became an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Dorset. He loved the work, but was desperately unhappy at home\n\nIn 1949, he married his first wife Billie and took a job as a sales manager for a roofing company in his native Yorkshire. The troubled marriage lasted 18 years and did not produce children.\n\nNow in his late 40s, Captain Sir Tom resigned himself to never finding love. Until, a few years later, he met Pamela.\n\nShe was 15 years younger and an office manager at the firm's headquarters in Gravesend. Romance blossomed, and Captain Sir Tom began to think of excuses to travel down to Kent.\n\n\"She looked terrific to me, like a model,\" he later told the Daily Mail. \"The attraction became stronger and I eventually married her.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom raced his beloved Scott motorbikes around Yorkshire, winning various cups and medals. He and Pamela had two children - Lucy and Hannah.\n\nIan Silk, Headmaster of Bedford school, holds up some of Tom Moore's 160,000 birthday cards\n\nIn 1992, Captain Sir Tom retired at the age of 72. He was looking forward to retirement but life proved less than kind.\n\nPamela fell ill with dementia. Captain Sir Tom cared for his wife for two years, and then visited her care home every day until her death in 2006.\n\nNot wanting to be alone, Captain Sir Tom moved into his daughter Hannah's home in the Bedfordshire village of Marston Moretaine.\n\nThere, his routine seldom wavered: waking early each morning to let the dogs out, followed by a daily jog on a running machine. He allowed himself a few luxuries, including a daily glass of wine in front of the television. Judge Judy was a favourite programme.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was treated for skin cancer and a broken hip, and received \"marvellous service\" from the NHS. When the world locked down for the coronavirus pandemic, he saw a chance to give something back.\n\nBy his 100th birthday, Captain Tom had raised more than £30 million for NHS charities and had a record at the top of the charts\n\nBut a piece in Bedford Today about his sponsored walk mushroomed into a global media event. For millions trapped at home, Captain Sir Tom was a much-needed symbol of defiance, national unity and hope.\n\n\"Please remember,\" he said repeatedly, \"tomorrow will be a good day.\" The money flooded in.\n\nAs Captain Sir Tom turned to complete his final lap, the total stood at more than £12m. It would eventually surpass £30m. An honour guard from his old regiment saluted an extraordinary achievement.\n\nHis cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, a duet with Michael Ball, raised even more - hitting the top of the charts in time for Captain Sir Tom's hundredth birthday and making him the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK.\n\nTom Moore was awarded a knighthood at a special ceremony at Windsor Castle\n\nOn the day itself, a Spitfire wheeled in tribute over Marston Moretaine; a local school volunteered to display 160,000 birthday cards sent to a national treasure.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom - promoted to Colonel - did not set out to inspire millions. Like the young lieutenant in 1941, he was just trying to do his bit. The Queen knighted him at a special ceremony at Windsor Castle on 17 July 2020.\n\nWith stubbornness, courage and optimism, he was the right man at the right time.\n\nHe was Britain as it needed to see itself: selfless, patriotic and undefeated - and never taking a backward step.", "A mother in Istanbul was forced to drop her four children from their apartment window to save them from their burning building.\n\nThe fire broke out at the entrance to the family's flat, causing the parent to take drastic action before firefighters arrived.\n\nThe children and their mother all survived.", "Tiger Woods was already recovering from a back injury before Tuesday's crash\n\nTiger Woods is \"in good spirits\" after being moved to a new Los Angeles hospital for treatment from injuries he sustained in a car accident.\n\nA statement on the golfing champion's Twitter account said he had received successful \"follow-up procedures\" at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nWoods suffered a fractured leg and shattered ankle in Tuesday's accident, which saw him cut from his vehicle.\n\nPolice say he will not face criminal charges over the single-car crash.\n\nFriday's tweet said the golfer and his family wanted to thank well-wishers \"for the wonderful support and messages they have received over the past few days\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tiger Woods This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWoods was initially treated at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center after he was removed from the wreck of his car by firefighters and paramedics.\n\nDoctors said he had \"open fractures\" on the tibia and fibula of his lower right leg and a rod was inserted into the tibia. Injuries to his foot and ankle were stabilised with screws and pins.\n\nThe move to Cedars-Sinai was made \"for continuing orthopaedic care and recovery,\" according to a statement from Dr Anish Mahajan, chief medical officer at Harbor-UCLA.\n\nWoods had been driving alone along a downhill stretch of road that has a high frequency of accidents, according to police.\n\nHis SUV struck the central reservation, crossed into the opposite lane, rolled over several times and then plunged off the road and down an embankment.\n\nEarlier this week, Los Angeles police said there was no evidence Woods had been impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.\n\nCounty Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters that it was \"purely an accident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tiger Woods suffered serious injuries in the crash\n\nHe said the sportsman had survived \"what would otherwise have been a fatal crash\" because the interior of his vehicle had remained largely intact.\n\nWoods, who had been recovering from a fifth round of back surgery in January, was in Los Angeles to host last week's Genesis Invitational PGA Tour event and was driving one of the tournament cars when he crashed.\n\nHe recently said he had hoped to recover from his back surgery in time to play in this year's Masters in April.\n\nHowever, medical experts have said he faces a long period of recovery after his latest injuries.", "Kelly Macdonald (right) will join series regulars Compston and McClure (left) when the BBC drama returns\n\nNow we're sucking diesel! The sixth series of Line of Duty will begin on 21 March, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nMartin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar will reprise their roles in the Jed Mercurio drama about corruption inside the police force.\n\nThey will be joined by Kelly Macdonald, who will play a DCI (Detective Chief Inspector) who comes under suspicion.\n\nThe latest series of the popular crime drama will have seven episodes, making it the longest series to date.\n\nSeries two is currently being repeated on BBC One, while all five previous series can be watched on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe exploits of the fictional AC-12 unit have gripped audiences ever since the BBC drama first hit screens in 2012.\n\nLennie James, Keeley Hawes and Thandie Newton are among the star names who have played its complex antagonists.\n\nMore than nine million viewers tuned in to see the final episode of Line of Duty's fifth series when it aired in May 2019.\n\nFilming on the sixth series was temporarily halted in Northern Ireland last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAn image from the first day of filming Line of Duty's sixth series\n\nThe new series will see Compston, McClure and Dunbar return to their roles as Steve Arnott, Kate Fleming and Superintendent Ted Hastings respectively.\n\nShalom Brune-Franklin, seen last year in BBC One's political thriller Roadkill, will play Chloe Bishop, a new addition to the AC-12 team.\n\nTrainspotting star Macdonald will play DCI Joanne Davidson, the senior investigating officer on an unsolved murder case whose conduct attracts the attention of the Anti-Corruption unit.\n\nMercurio also wrote hit drama Bodyguard and is an executive producer on Bloodlands, a Northern Ireland-set thriller starring James Nesbitt that is currently running on BBC One.\n\nLine of Duty begins on BBC One on Sunday 21 March at 21:00 GMT.\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. Alex Salmond: \"I've got no doubt Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has said he has \"no doubt\" that Nicola Sturgeon has breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe former first minister was speaking as he made his long-awaited appearance at a Scottish Parliament inquiry.\n\nMr Salmond gave an account to the committee of meetings he had with Ms Sturgeon that appeared to contradict her version of events.\n\nBut he said it was not for him to say whether Ms Sturgeon should resign if she was found to have broken the code.\n\nMs Sturgeon denies breaching the code, and has accused Mr Salmond of creating \"wild\" conspiracy theories that are untrue.\n\nHer spokesman said Mr Salmond had failed to prove his allegations in his evidence to the committee, and \"also gave testimony which directly undermined some of the central planks of his conspiracy theories\".\n\nThe inquiry is examining the Scottish government's botched handling of harassment allegations against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe government admitted it had acted unlawfully during its investigation into the initial complaints from two female civil servants after Mr Salmond launched a judicial review case, and had to pay his legal fees of more than £500,000.\n\nMr Salmond was arrested two weeks after the government admitted defeat in the civil case, and was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a trial at the High Court last year.\n\nHe has previously accused people close to Ms Sturgeon - his successor as both first minister and SNP leader - of plotting against him, and has named Ms Sturgeon's husband, SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, as being one of them.\n\nMr Salmond told the committee that he had been given a memory stick in the build up to his criminal trial that contained messages which involved \"pressuring police\", \"collusion of witnesses\" and \"construction of evidence because police were felt to be inadequate in finding it themselves\".\n\nHe said he would \"dearly love to provide\" more detail about the messages - but was unable to do so because he was \"under an injunction\" that could see him prosecuted for revealing evidence that was given to him as part of the criminal proceedings.\n\nMr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon were close political allies for decades - but are now embroiled in a bitter war of words\n\nAsked what the motivation would be for a plot against him, Mr Salmond said some in the Scottish government saw the judicial review case as a \"huge, looming, enormous and difficult problem\".\n\nHe said the potential impact on Ms Sturgeon and others in the government of a \"disastrous\" defeat in the civil case meant \"it became very important that the criminal case overtook the judicial review\".\n\nPart of the written evidence submitted by Mr Salmond ahead of the committee meeting was removed on the request of the Crown Office earlier this week after it had already been published in full by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe submissions included claims that Ms Sturgeon misled parliament over when she first learned of the allegations against her former political mentor.\n\nThis was one of the most extraordinary episodes in Holyrood's short history.\n\nIn six hours of testimony, Scotland's longest serving first minister set out what he believes was a malicious plot against him by key figures in the SNP and the Scottish government - both of which he used to lead.\n\nHis voice cracked with emotion as he accused former colleagues of pressurising police and potential witnesses to build a criminal case against him - claims they deny.\n\nHe was not able to present the social media messages that he believes will prove this case but during his appearance the Scottish Parliament issued an order demanding their release by Scottish prosecutors.\n\nFor their parts in the botched handling of the original harassment complaints against him, Alex Salmond called for the resignation of Scotland's top civil servant and its top law officer.\n\nBut he stopped short of demanding his former ally, friend and political partner - Nicola Sturgeon - stand down despite arguing that she had repeatedly broken the rules for ministers.\n\nHe said her fate should be decided by others after she's given evidence next week and the inquiries into this toxic affair have delivered their verdicts.\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of all 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial in March of last year\n\nMs Sturgeon initially told parliament she had not learned of the complaints until she was informed by Mr Salmond on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, she later claimed to have \"forgotten\" about an earlier meeting in her Scottish Parliament office on 29 March of that year, when she was told about the allegations by Mr Salmond's former chief of staff Geoff Aberdein.\n\nMr Salmond told the committee that if Ms Sturgeon had truly forgotten about the meeting, she should have corrected the record when she did remember.\n\nBut he said Ms Sturgeon had only admitted that the meeting had taken place after details of it were revealed 18 months later by Sky News.\n\nHe also said there was \"no doubt\" that the meeting with Mr Aberdein and subsequent meetings between Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon in her home were about government matters rather than SNP business, as she has claimed.\n\nMs Sturgeon denies breaching the code, and says any suggestions of a plot against Mr Salmond are untrue\n\nThis could potentially be another breach of the code, which says all government business and meetings should be recorded - but none of them were.\n\nMr Salmond also alleged that the name of one of the women who had made complaints about him was made known to Mr Aberdein ahead of his meeting with Ms Sturgeon.\n\nMs Sturgeon told parliament on Thursday that \"to the very best of my knowledge I do not think that happened.\"\n\nThe first minister has also been accused of potentially breaching the code by allowing the government to continue opposing a civil court case brought by Mr Salmond over its handling of the initial complaints against him from two female civil servants.\n\nMr Salmond has alleged that the government was given legal advice that it was unlikely to win the case on 31 October 2018 - but did not concede defeat until January of the following year.\n\nMr Salmond said: \"I have no doubt Nicola has broken the ministerial code, but it's not for me to decide what the consequences should be.\"\n\nA separate inquiry headed by Irish lawyer James Hamilton is specifically looking at whether Ms Sturgeon breached the code, which states that any minister who deliberately misleads parliament would be expected to resign.\n\nMr Salmond said he was due to be interviewed by Mr Hamilton next week.\n\nThe last six hours have been detailed. Alex Salmond's complaints are numerous. But stand back from it for a second.\n\nThe former First Minister of Scotland has just accused his successor of breaking the ministerial code - and left open the door for her having to resign as a result.\n\nHe has said Scotland's most senior civil servant should quit - and that its most senior lawyer should consider his position.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's allies will argue he has not provided evidence for his claims of a plot against him.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon will face huge questions when she appears before MSPs next week - some of the most difficult she has faced in her career.\n\nThe marathon evidence session - which lasted six hours - also saw Mr Salmond claim that the leadership of the Scottish government, civil service and Crown Office prosecution service had all \"failed\".\n\nHe said no one had taken responsibility for the \"nightmare\" he had been put through, and said the country's top civil servant, Leslie Evans should quit, and that the head of the Crown Office, Lord Advocate James Wolffe, should consider his position.\n\nHe also alleged that there had been a \"deliberate suppression of information inconvenient to the government\" throughout the saga.\n\nAnd he called for a police investigation into how details of the complaints against him were leaked to the Daily Record newspaper, and said he believed the leak came from within the government and was politically motivated.\n\nAn Information Commissioner's Office investigation into the leak found no \"hard evidence\" that it came from the government - but said it had \"some sympathy\" to the view that it had.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Salmond criticises the leadership of the civil service, the Crown Office and Scottish government\n\nMr Salmond went on to say he did not believe the House of Commons would accept a call from the Crown Prosecution Service in England to change a committee document, as the Scottish Parliament had done in response to the Crown Office request.\n\nHe said he had \"no incentive or advantage in revisiting the hurt and shock of the last three years\".\n\nBut he added: \"We can't turn the page or move on until the decision-making which is undermining the system of government in Scotland is addressed.\"\n\nHe said the country's \"move to independence\" - which he has campaigned for throughout his political life - \"must be accompanied by institutions whose leadership is strong and robust and capable of protecting each and every citizen from arbitrary authority\".\n\nThe inquiry committee has been badly delayed, with some members claiming it has faced deliberate obstruction from both the government and Mr Salmond\n\nMs Sturgeon has denied there was any conspiracy against Mr Salmond, and has said she is \"relishing\" the prospect of giving evidence to the committee next week.\n\nAnswering questions from journalists at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, she said: \"I don't think there is a shred of evidence behind those allegations and the claims that have been made\".\n\nShe claimed that Mr Salmond had created an \"alternative reality in which the organs of the state - not just me, the SNP and the civil service and the Crown Office and the police and women who came forward - were all part of some wild conspiracy against him for reasons I can't explain\".\n\nAnd she added: \"Maybe that's easier than just accepting that at the root of all this might just have been issues in his own behaviour.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said Ms Evans continued to have the support of the first minister and would not be resigning as the head of the civil service in Scotland.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said the government had a \"duty to investigate the serious and specific complaints against Alex Salmond and was right to do so\".\n\nShe added: \"As set out in detailed evidence to the committee, all government decisions were informed by legal advice and taken in line with the Civil Service Code.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office said: \"Scotland's prosecutors have acted independently and in the public interest at all times when considering matters related to this case.\"\n\nThe Lord Advocate will give evidence to the committee on Monday, before Ms Sturgeon - who will be the final witness - appears on Wednesday.", "Nearly 20 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of coronavirus vaccine, according to the government's latest figures.\n\nAs of Friday, more than 19.6 million people had received their first dose - an increase of more than half a million in a day.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people who have had their second jab has risen to 768,810.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer all adults the vaccine by the end of July.\n\nThe next target is to offer a first dose to all over-50s by 15 April, as well as people aged 16-64 with certain underlying health conditions and unpaid carers for disabled and elderly people.\n\nAfter that, they will start offering jabs to people by age group.\n\nThere are no plans yet to vaccinate children, although trials have been announced to test the Oxford University jab on children.\n\nThe latest government statistics show a total of 20,450,858 jabs have been administered in the UK - including 19,682,048 first doses, equivalent to more than one in three adults in the UK.\n\nThis includes more than 16.6 million first doses in England, more than 1.5 million in Scotland, 916,336 in Wales and 515,678 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe figures also show another 7,434 cases and a further 290 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nIn a tweet on Saturday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"delighted\" at the latest figures.\n\n\"The vaccine roll-out shows what we can achieve when we work together,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour is calling on the government to set out a \"proper plan\" for how the local elections in May will be run safely.\n\nEarlier this month it was announced the elections would go ahead on 6 May but with some changes - for example plastic screens in polling stations and people told to bring their own pens.\n\nBut deputy leader Angela Rayner accused the government of a \"failure to take any action to encourage people to sign up to vote safely from home\", meaning people could be disinclined to vote or face \"dangerous crowds at polling stations\".\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said a \"strong set of measures\" had been put in place to make polling stations Covid-secure and a comprehensive public information campaign would be launched soon \"so that voters are fully informed about how to participate\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce a £126m boost for traineeships in England in his Budget on Wednesday.\n\nThe scheme will include a new \"flexi-job\" apprenticeship that will enable apprentices to work with a number of different employers in one sector.\n\nUnemployment is at its highest level in almost five years, with younger and typically lower-paid workers bearing the brunt of job losses.\n\nMr Sunak said it was \"vital\" support continued to get people back into work.\n\nThe chancellor's boost to existing apprenticeship and traineeship programmes will include playing up to double the current cash incentive to firms who take on an apprentice, regardless of age.\n\nIt comes as a new government guarantee for low-deposit mortgages is announced as part of next week's measures.\n\nTraineeships are intended to get people into their first job after education. They last from six weeks to six months and they are open to people aged between 16 and 24.\n\nCurrently, firms in England are given £2,000 for every new apprentice they take on under the age of 25, and £1,500 for those over 25, in addition to a £1,000 grant they are already getting under another project.\n\nMr Sunak will promise to increase the cash incentives for employers who take on an apprentice to £3,000 - regardless of age.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is warning the UK's finances are \"exposed\"\n\nSo the government says the planned £126m investment could enable 40,000 more traineeships.\n\nWhile he is committed to helping jobseekers and employers, Mr Sunak warned in an interview with the Financial Times that the UK's finances were now \"exposed\".\n\n\"Because we now have far more debt than we used to and because interest rates . . . at least a month or two ago were exceptionally low, that means we remain exposed to changes in those rates,\" he said.\n\n\"That why I talk about levelling with people about the public finances [challenges] and our plans to address them.\"\n\nHe added that the UK's exposure to a rise of one percentage point across all interest rates meant adding £25bn a year to the government's cost of servicing its debt.\n\nThe Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which represents HR professionals, welcomed the move, but said it would like to see reform of the apprenticeships system to make it more flexible.\n\n\"Changing the apprenticeship levy to make it a flexible training levy would achieve a bigger boost to skills development than incentives alone,\" said Lizzie Crowley, skills adviser for the CIPD.\n\nShe stressed that awareness of traineeships is very low: \"Besides providing additional funding for placements, the government will have to do much more to market them to employers to boost uptake.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which had previously called for flexi-job apprenticeships, said the increase in incentives for employers was \"important\", because the current level of support \"is not leading to enough starts\".\n\n\"It will be important in the budget to take wider action to support jobs, including on employers national insurance and reintroducing the jobs retention bonus,\" said the FSB's national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\n\"Going forward, the government should consider changing the timings of apprenticeship incentives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTributes have been paid to Captain Sir Tom Moore by his family at his funeral.\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore described her father as \"a beacon of light and hope to the world\".\n\nHis other daughter Lucy Teixeira said: \"Daddy, I am so proud of you. You may be gone but your message and your spirit lives on.\"\n\nThe service for the 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, began with him being honoured by the military.\n\nSix Yorkshire Regiment members carried the Army veteran's coffin, draped in the union jack, and an honour guard fired three volleys.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's funeral cortege was driven through the village of Marston Moretaine\n\nAfter the military honours, which included a flypast from a World War Two-era plane, his family followed the coffin into the crematorium for the private service.\n\nMs Teixeira and Ms Ingram-Moore were joined by Capt Sir Tom's four grandchildren and his sons-in-law.\n\nThe service opened with a rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone, which Capt Sir Tom recorded with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir.\n\nThe celebrant conducting the funeral described him as \"a proud British veteran and a gentleman\".\n\nFollowing the White Cliffs Of Dover by Dame Vera Lynn, his daughter Lucy Teixeira told the service she was \"proud\" of her father.\n\n\"You always told us to put your best foot forward and that's what you did last year,\" she said.\n\nA version of the song Smile, recorded especially for the funeral by singer Michael Buble, was also played.\n\nMy Way by Frank Sinatra was heard toward the end of the service, as requested by Capt Sir Tom, who said he liked the line about \"having too few regrets to mention\".\n\nAs his coffin was carried by the Yorkshire Regiment solders, a C-47 Dakota, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, soared past in tribute to the man whose charity efforts inspired people across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Churches across England rang a 100 single bell toll in memory of Captain Sir Tom\n\nA bugler sounded The Last Post when the service concluded, and St Mary's Church in Marston Moretaine, Captain Sir Tom's home village, led others across the country in ringing their bells 100 times.\n\nA post on his Twitter page read: \"So even if tomorrow is my last day, if all those I loved are waiting for me then that tomorrow will be a good day too\" while the Yorkshire Regiment posted it was \"proud\" to be representing the British Army at the funeral.\n\nThey said it was a \"solemn, dignified and fitting tribute to a man who inspired millions\".\n\nThe Army veteran's funeral was attended by just eight members of his immediate family, in line with Covid-19 restrictions\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's coffin was lifted from the hearse on to the shoulders of the six bearers from the Yorkshire Regiment in dignified silence.\n\nThen, from the north-west, came first the rumble then the roar of the engines of the wartime Dakota as it flew overhead in tribute through clear blue skies.\n\nThree volleys were fired by the 14-man firing party as the coffin was carried into Bedford Crematorium, followed by his two daughters and their families - people who would reflect and remember the cherished times they spent with their father and grandfather.\n\nOn top of the coffin, draped in the union jack, were Captain Sir Tom's war medals, his knighthood medal, and a specially commissioned officer's sword. On one side was his regiment's motto \"Fortune Favours the Brave\" and on the other, his motto, \"tomorrow will be a good day\".\n\nThe service lasted just over an hour, featuring music he had requested, and a specially-recorded version of the song Smile.\n\nAnd his picture on the order of service showed him doing exactly that.\n\nThe service celebrated his life, and thanked him for his incredible contribution - to his family, and to the world.\n\nCapt Sir Tom with daughters Lucy Teixeira (left) and Hannah Ingram-Moore (right)\n\nThe veteran had spent the last few months of his life writing a book which he had planned to publish just before his 101st birthday.\n\nA section was released, in which he said he would \"like to watch my own funeral from a distance\" and laugh at \"everyone making a lot of fuss over me\".\n\n\"I want the service to end with My Way by Frank Sinatra because I always did things my way and I especially like the line about having too few regrets to mention,\" he wrote.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was originally from Keighley near Bradford, and his family said that once Covid-19 restrictions allow, his ashes will be interred in Yorkshire, where he will rest with his parents and grandparents in the Moore family plot.\n\nThe Army veteran's family said they had \"no choice\" but to hold a small funeral\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The animal has been transferred to a farm (file photo)\n\nA cockerel that had been fitted with a knife for an illegal cockfight has killed its owner in southern India.\n\nThe bird's owner was impaled in the groin by the knife as the animal tried to escape. The man died on the way to hospital from a loss of blood.\n\nPolice are now searching for 15 more people involved in the event, which took place in the village of Lothunur in Telangana state earlier this week.\n\nThe animal was held at a police station before being transferred to a farm.\n\nPolice said the animal was being readied to take part in a fight when it tried to escape. Its owner attempted to catch it but was struck by the 7cm-long (three inch) knife on the bird's leg during the struggle.\n\nThose involved in the event face charges of manslaughter, illegal betting and hosting a cockfight, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nLocal police officer B Jeevan said the animal would be taken to court as evidence at a later date, according to The New Indian Express.\n\nCockfighting was made illegal in India in 1960 but fights are still relatively common in rural areas such as Telangana with many falling around the Hindu festival of Sankranti.\n\nIt's not the first time an owner has been killed by their cockerel. Last year a man in Andhra Pradesh died after he was hit in the neck by a blade attached to his bird.\n\nAccording to CNN, the owner was taking his animal to a cockfight when the incident occurred.", "The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore escorted the prolific pandemic fundraiser on his journey from his home in Marston Moretaine to a Bedfordshire crematorium.\n\nThe funeral was attended by Captain Sir Tom's two daughters, Lucy Teixeira and Hannah Ingram-Moore, four grandchildren and his sons-in-law.\n\nHis family urged the public to stay at home to \"continue to support the NHS\" but suggested people pay tribute to him by donating to his foundation or to charities who would plant trees in his name.\n\nSoldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment carried Captain Sir Tom's coffin into the crematorium as a C-47 Dakota, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, performed a flypast.", "Monger said it was \"hard to explain what it means to have been able to ride again\"\n\nRacing driver Billy Monger has completed the final stage of a Comic Relief challenge by walking and cycling laps of his \"home track\" in Kent.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who had both legs amputated after a crash in 2017, covered 140 miles over four days by walking, cycling and kayaking.\n\nHe completed 18 laps of Brands Hatch on a bike and three on foot, crossing the finish line at about 20:00 GMT.\n\nHe said it was \"hard to explain what it means to have been able to ride again\".\n\nMonger said he rode a bike for the first time since the crash about a month ago.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by billywhizz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore starting his circuits of Brands Hatch, he said the \"epic\" challenge, which began with an 18-mile walk in the North East of England on Monday, had left him feeling \"battered and bruised and sore\".\n\nOn Thursday, Monger completed a 65-mile bike ride from Birmingham to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.\n\nTelevision presenter Zoe Ball, who cycled 355 miles for Sport Relief in 2018, joined him at Brands Hatch before he finished with several laps on foot.\n\nBilly Monger walked 18 miles on Monday, passing the Angel of the North in Gateshead\n\nBad weather had forced Monger to delay plans to kayak in the Lake District on Tuesday. He took to the water on Wednesday and covered 6.5 miles across Ullswater, joined by BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker for the closing stages.\n\nCycling up steep hills on Thursday had forced him to \"to dig the deepest that I think I've ever had to,\" he said.\n\nThinking about the people who benefit from Comic Relief helped motivate him through the difficult moments, he added.\n\nMonger had never used a kayak before training began for the Comic Relief challenge\n\nBefore setting off on Friday, Monger, from Charlwood, in Surrey, said his experience at his \"home track\" Brands Hatch meant he knew just how hard the final stage would be.\n\n\"I know every inch of this place, so I know exactly how far I am going to have to go every single lap.\n\n\"I do know the racing line, so hopefully that might help me out,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\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.", "Three police officers have been injured after attacks during a demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions in the centre of Dublin.\n\nHundreds of protesters were prevented from gathering at St Stephen's Green and were moved to Grafton Street by officers using batons.\n\nPolice were attacked with fireworks, cans and bollards and Irish broadcaster RTÉ reported one officer was taken to hospital.\n\nThere have been 23 arrests.\n\nOn Saturday night, gardaí (Irish police) said 20 people had been charged in connection with the protests, with 13 of them appearing before the Criminal Court of Justice before being remanded in custody to appear before Cloverhill District Court at a later date.\n\nSeven of those arrested were charged with offences and released on station bail while \"three juveniles were released for consideration of inclusion in the Juvenile Diversion Programme\", gardaí said.\n\nGarda (Irish police) Commissioner Drew Harris said police were \"lucky\" an officer was not seriously injured when a firework was aimed at them.\n\nGarda Commissioner Drew Harris said a full investigation into what happened was under way\n\n\"It was directed at that individual and so we're fortunate we didn't suffer a serious injury. It's only the individual member's quick thinking saved him,\" Mr Harris told a media briefing on Saturday evening.\n\n\"You don't carry fireworks to a protest for any other purpose than to engage in violent conduct,\" he added.\n\nThe commissioner said a full investigation is under way into what happened at the protest.\n\nMr Harris said: \"Undoubtedly there was an element of planning, we could see that building up during the week between social media and other contexts.\"\n\nHe said a number of groups were \"working in concert\" with each other, ranging from far right and far left groups, as well as those opposing lockdowns and vaccines.\n\nTaoiseach (prime minister) Micheál Martin condemned the protest and said they \"posed an unacceptable risk to both the public and Gardaí (Irish police)\".\n\nPaying tribute to police \"who moved quickly to make arrests and restore order\", Mr Martin added that the large gathering \"showed a complete lack of respect to the people who have made huge sacrifices during this pandemic\".\n\nTánaiste (deputy prime minister) Leo Varadkar said he was \"horrified\" by what had happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leo Varadkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Fine Gael leader said there was \"no excuse for violence to gardaí or anyone\", adding that a \"selfish few\" were undermining \"sacrifices that millions have made in the last 12 months\".", "The coronavirus variant first found in Kent could become the world's dominant strain, the head of the UK's genetic surveillance programme has predicted.\n\nProf Sharon Peacock told the BBC's Newscast podcast the new variant has \"swept the country\" and \"it's going to sweep the world, in all probability\".\n\nShe said her team's work sequencing variants of the virus could be required for at least 10 years.\n\nThe Kent variant has already been detected in more than 50 countries.\n\nIt was first detected in September 2020 in south-east England and its rapid spread over the following months was cited as the reason for the introduction of new lockdown rules across the UK in January.\n\nProf Peacock, director of the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium, said: \"What's really affected us at the moment is transmissibility.\"\n\nShe added: \"Once we get on top of [the virus] or it mutates itself out of being virulent - causing disease - then we can stop worrying about it. But I think, looking in the future, we're going to be doing this for years. We're still going to be doing this 10 years down the line, in my view.\"\n\nShe explained this was not because she thought the pandemic would go on for 10 years, but she believed they would be sequencing new variants for that length of time.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier versions of coronavirus, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well.\n\nProf Peacock said the vaccines approved for use in the UK appeared to work well against the existing variants of the virus in the country.\n\nSharon Peacock is also Professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Cambridge University\n\nThe Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium is a network of public health bodies and labs and currently analyses more than 20,000 positive tests a week.\n\nIn recent weeks, it has been explained that about 5-10% of positive tests are selected randomly to be sent on for further genome analysis but the consortium says, as the number of cases falls below its capacity, its aim is to genetically screen every positive coronavirus test.\n\nProf Peacock told Newscast that while it is normal to see variants, only a very small number have \"special features\". These can make them more transmissible, avoid the immune response and affect vaccination, or have the potential to cause more severe disease.\n\n\"These are the things we are looking out for. I'd say it happens vanishingly rarely but we have to be on the look out for it,\" the expert, who was previously director of the government's National Infection Service, said.\n\nIt comes as the World Health Organization is recommending using the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine even in countries tackling new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Oxford jab has attracted controversy about its effectiveness against new variants, whether it should be used in the elderly and how far apart the doses should be given, due to a lack of data.\n\nEarly data from trials in South Africa - where a variant has acquired mutations that seem to help it evade immunity from vaccines and from previous infections - showed the vaccine was offering \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease in young people.\n\nBut the WHO's director of immunisation, Dr Katherine O'Brien, said the South African study was \"inconclusive\" and it was \"plausible\" the vaccine would still prevent severe disease.\n\nOxford scientists still expect their vaccine to prevent people from becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 and needing hospital treatment.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the two million people yet to take up their offer of a Covid jab to \"come forward\" this week.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first dose of a vaccine to 15 million people - those aged 70 and over, healthcare workers and people required to shield - by 15 February.\n\nAs of Tuesday 13,058,298 had received a first vaccine dose, a daily rise of 411,812.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nEverton reached the FA Cup quarter-finals after edging out Tottenham Hotspur in a nine-goal classic at Goodison Park.\n\nA magnificent contest swung in both teams' favour before Carlo Ancelotti's hosts - showing huge reserves of resolve and fitness - finally struck the decisive blow when substitute Bernard fired home in the seventh minute of extra time.\n\nSpurs dominated the early exchanges and were rewarded when Davinson Sanchez headed in from a corner in the third minute before Everton sprang to life with a three-goal burst inside eight minutes before half-time.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin, who later went off with what looked like a groin injury, levelled nine minutes before the break with a shot Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris should have saved, before Richarlison's fine low drive and Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty looked to have put Everton in command.\n\nBut Erik Lamela scored in the closing seconds of the first half to put Spurs back in contention and Sanchez pounced again after more chaos at a corner to drag Jose Mourinho's side level just before the hour.\n\nMourinho had introduced Harry Kane as a substitute just before that equaliser but it was Everton who edged ahead again as more brilliant individual work by Richarlison restored their advantage after 68 minutes - but it was inevitable Spurs' main man would have a say.\n\nIt came with seven minutes of normal time left as Everton were undone by the old firm, Son Heung-min's cross the perfect invitation for Kane to score with a far-post header.\n\nAll the momentum appeared to be with Spurs but Everton are now a side to be reckoned with under Ancelotti and Bernard cashed in after more good work by Sigurdsson - who claimed three assists - to beat Lloris with an angled finish.\n\nThere was still time for Spurs to respond but Everton saw out an outstanding victory in relative comfort, certainly given what had gone before, to secure a place in the last eight.\n• None Everything you need to know about FA Cup quarter-final draw\n• None Reaction and analysis from all of Wednesday's FA Cup fifth-round ties\n\nAncelotti, the manager who has seen it all, was the calmest man amid the mayhem inside Goodison Park - celebrating what turned out to be the winner from Bernard by simply blowing on his cup of coffee while his backroom staff reacted wildly.\n\nThis was perhaps the Italian's finest moment since coming to Everton, his side - without the injured James Rodriguez, Andre Gomes and Jordan Pickford - showing remarkable energy, spirit and a capacity to recover from adversity to outlast their visitors.\n\nAncelotti will be concerned about some of Everton's questionable defending - especially from corners - and the injury to Calvert-Lewin, but he will also be justifiably proud of how they fought back to win when, at several stages, the tide seemed to be turning against them.\n\nThe sight of Calvert-Lewin going off, Spurs danger man Kane having just come on and losing a two-goal lead as the hour mark approached could have undermined Everton but they carried a threat throughout, with Richarlison back to his menacing best after a season where he has not been in peak form.\n\nIn midfield, both Tom Davies and Abdoulaye Doucoure were outstanding, the latter demonstrating remarkable fitness and still running non-stop until the final seconds, while his young team-mate continues to flourish under the sympathetic guidance of Ancelotti.\n\nSigurdsson, who scored calmly from the spot after Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg tripped Calvert-Lewin, was also a huge creative force and contributed hugely to Everton's attacking threat.\n\nEverton are seeking their first trophy since they won the FA Cup in 1995 - they beat Spurs in the semi-finals on that occasion - and this victory will raise hopes not just of further progress in the competition, but for their long-term development under of one of Europe's most decorated managers.\n\nThe scenes of elation at the final whistle were understandable and fully deserved. Everton gave everything and were rewarded.\n\nMourinho would have hoped to build on Sunday's Premier League win against West Bromwich Albion after three successive defeats - but he was left to survey the end of Spurs' FA Cup ambitions after a dramatic night on freezing Merseyside.\n\nIt all looked good for Spurs for the first half-hour as they had a deserved lead, but the manner in which they capitulated for those crucial minutes to concede three goals just before the break, and then continued to look vulnerable, meant this was a very damaging night.\n\nSpurs, after criticism of Mourinho's perceived conservative approach in recent weeks, were positive and played with attacking intent throughout with some sparkling passing but were let down by dreadful defending and another expensive error from Lloris, who should have saved Calvert-Lewin's equaliser but only helped a powerful drive that was straight at him into the net.\n\nMourinho did not risk Kane from the start after his return from an ankle injury at the weekend, but when he was introduced it was with Spurs looking the more likely winners.\n\nHe will be particularly frustrated with his porous defence, given his stock-in-trade is meant to be a rearguard that gives nothing away.\n\nThis looked nothing like a Mourinho team in a defensive context.\n\nThis was the first time a team managed by Mourinho has conceded five goals since his Chelsea side lost 5-3 to his predecessor Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham in January 2015.\n\nAnd another sub-plot to this FA Cup exit was the absence of Gareth Bale, who Mourinho said had complained of a muscular issue so was not even on the bench.\n\nBale's return to Spurs on loan from Real Madrid, hailed as a coup when he arrived, has turned into a huge anti-climax. It will continue to be a distraction if results do not improve.\n\nThis was a night where there was very little in the way of good news for Mourinho and Spurs - and next they face a visit to rampant Manchester City on Saturday.\n\n'The FA Cup is the one we want' - what they said\n\nEverton assistant boss Duncan Ferguson to BBC Sport: \"It was an exciting game. Tottenham started better than us and got the lead but we got ourselves back into the game.\n\n\"At 3-1 you're thinking 'get to half-time at 3-1' and then they score to put us on the back foot. Exciting game, fantastic.\n\n\"It's 25 years since we won the FA Cup. It would be great to get to the final. It keeps your season going. We want to do well in the Premier League but the FA Cup is the one we want.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"If you say it was fantastic, it was fantastic. I'm not a neutral.\n\n\"When you score four goals, you have to win. The way we played, we should win comfortably. Attacking football and defensive mistakes.\n\n\"The players gave everything. I have to admit for some of them it was not easy because you play so well and one, two, three mistakes and you're losing 3-1.\n\n\"OK, I take positives. Amazing to watch.\"\n\nKane closes in on Greaves - the stats\n• None This was the highest scoring FA Cup game between two top-flight teams since February 1961 when Sheffield Wednesday won 7-2 against Man Utd.\n• None In what is the 981st match of his managerial career, this is the first time a Jose Mourinho side has both scored and conceded at least four goals in a single game.\n• None Mourinho has seen his team concede five goals in a game for the first time since January 2015, when his Chelsea side were beaten 5-3 by Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs in the Premier League.\n• None There were just seven minutes and 26 seconds between Everton's first and third goals against Tottenham. While it was the first time a Mourinho led side conceded three first-half goals since Man Utd away at Brighton in August 2018.\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored his 50th goal in all competitions for Everton (159th app), with 26 of his goals for the Toffees coming under Carlo Ancelotti.\n• None Gylfi Sigurdsson became the first Everton player to assist three goals in a single match since Steven Pienaar against Fulham in a Premier League tie in April 2012.\n• None Nine of the 12 goals in all competitions scored by Colombian players for Premier League sides this season have come at Goodison Park (James Rodriguez - four, Yerry Mina - three, Davinson Sanchez - three).\n• None Harry Kane has now scored 209 goals in 318 appearances in all competitions for Tottenham, making him the second highest scorer in the club's history behind only Jimmy Greaves (266 goals in 379 apps).\n• None Son Heung-min has provided 12 assists in all competitions this season - his most in a single campaign for Spurs.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Harry Winks with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Michael Keane (Everton) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Substitution, Everton. Mason Holgate replaces Lucas Digne because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Abdoulaye Doucouré.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The Six Nations is back:\n• None Greg James and Bella Mackie ask what we might have missed in school", "Prisoners in England's jails have been locked in their cells for more than 90% of the day to keep them safe from Covid-19, the prisons watchdog says.\n\nAnd the extra restrictions, which began in March, have led to a decline in their mental and physical health and a rise in drug taking and self-harm.\n\n\"It's being imprisoned while you're in prison,\" one inmate told inspectors.\n\nPredictions up to 2,000 inmates would die in the pandemic in England and Wales without action have been avoided.\n\nBut inspectors who visited a cross-section of jails, interviewing male and female prisoners as well as young offenders, found the long-term consequences of such an extended and restrictive regime could be \"profound\", with some newly released offenders ill-prepared for life outside.\n\nNormally, adult prisoners should spend between eight and 10 hours a day outside their cells.\n\nBut pandemic restrictions have meant the suspension of:\n\nAnd prisoners must cram daily tasks, such as showers and exercise, into the short period they are allowed out of their cells.\n\nPrisoners told inspectors they felt like \"caged animals\" and passed their time rearranging their possessions or varying when they sat on their bed or a chair.\n\nThe lack of interventions for prisoners approaching their release date has already had an impact, according to social-justice charity Nacro.\n\nMiriam Khan, a reducing-reoffending officer in a men's category-B prison in South Yorkshire, told BBC News she was already seeing the most vulnerable men reoffending and returning to jail.\n\n\"When I have asked them, 'What are you doing back?' it's because they are struggling massively with their mental health and not being able to access support.\n\n\"Because everything is over the phone, they don't have the skill set to do it.\n\n\"Even their probation appointments have to be pre-booked, so they don't see them as much anymore\".\n\nInspectors also highlighted the issue of \"doubling up\", where two prisoners share a cell designed for one.\n\nIn lockdown, prisoners have to eat their meals in cells that sometimes have unscreened or uncovered toilets.\n\n\"You can hate someone for no reason, can't you? Being in the cell with them every day,\" said one prisoner, who shared.\n\nChief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said: \"Many months after the introduction of these restrictions, most adult prisoners were still locked in their cell for an average of 22.5 hours a day, seven days a week.\"\n\n\"We have heard suggestions that the restrictions, and a subsequent reduction in recorded violent incidents, have made prisons safer.\n\n\"Clearly with so little time out of cell, prisoners had less opportunity to be violent or fight.\n\n\"But this was not the full picture according to those we interviewed.\n\n\"Prisoners said that violence, intimidation and bullying had not stopped but had instead taken other forms.\n\n\"And some had turned to using drugs and other unhealthy coping strategies as a way of managing their isolation and boredom.\"\n\nSeparately, the governor of an adult men's jail, speaking anonymously, said prisons were \"at a point of absolute crisis\".\n\n\"The pressure has been relentless for months and months,\" the governor said.\n\n\"I simply do not know how staff and prisoners are coping.\n\n\"And with increasing numbers of positive cases amongst prisoners and staff, and large numbers of staff having to self-isolate, it is increasingly difficult to ensure that even the basics get done.\n\n\"It is vital that prison staff are treated as a priority occupation for vaccination, as the current situation simply cannot continue.\"\n\nOne officer, also speaking anonymously, said there were currently 150 staff off sick or self-isolating at the high-security prison where he worked.\n\nPrisoners told the inspectors they had understood the need for the lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nBut the continued restrictions had led to \"despondency, resentment and lack of hope\".\n\n\"At the beginning, you could put up with it because you had the mental strength,\" one said.\n\n\"You wonder how much more you can actually tolerate.\"\n\nPrisons and Probation Minister Lucy Frazer QC said: \"As this report recognises, the action we've taken and the hard work and dedication of front-line staff has significantly limited the spread of the virus, saved lives and protected the NHS.\n\n\"We know these necessary measures have come at a cost, so we continue to support prisoners with their well-being and rehabilitation through vital family contact, education, work and exercise.\n\n\"I will consider the report's findings carefully as we continue to work hard to protect the lives of staff and prisoners and cut crime.\"", "The romantic gesture - overlaid with neon lights in 2008 - had formed part of the city's skyline since 2001\n\nMusicians have reacted angrily to the removal of a graffiti marriage proposal painted almost 20 years ago.\n\nThe 'I Love You Will U Marry Me' message had remained on Sheffield's Park Hill flats since 2001.\n\nSinger Richard Hawley, a well-known son of the Steel City, said he was \"really angry\" and called for the symbol of his hometown to be reinstated.\n\nPulp drummer Nick Banks and singer Yungblud also said they were \"dismayed\" and \"heartbroken\".\n\nThe graffiti was painted by Jason Lowe in a bid to woo his then-girlfriend and was later immortalised in neon lights as part of a marketing campaign.\n\nDevelopers Urban Splash said the message - on a bridge linking two blocks of flats - had been removed to allow for \"essential repair work\".\n\nHawley told BBC Radio 4: \"Like all graffiti, it's sometimes just some kind of nuisance, but it symbolises a state of mind in Sheffield.\n\n\"When I first found out about this I was, probably like a lot of Sheffielders, really, really angry.\"\n\nL-to-R: Yungblud, Richard Hawley and Nick Banks have all spoken out about the graffiti removal\n\nHawley, who wrote songs for a 2019 musical about the Park Hill estate, added: \"I just hope and would urge Urban Splash to put at least the fluorescent signs back.\n\n\"The people of Sheffield love it and that's the bottom line really.\"\n\nBanks said the graffiti had become \"almost a message to Sheffield itself, overlooking the city\".\n\n\"Put the neon sign back, yes, but it kind of loses something without the graffiti underneath.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, from Doncaster, tweeted to say he was \"heartbroken\".\n\nHe described the graffiti as \"a quirky act of romance\" in his song I Love You, Will You Marry Me.\n\nSurriya Falconer, speaking on behalf of the developers, said there were \"some structural issues\" which meant the words had to be removed but there were plans to replace them.\n\nAlex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys sported a t-shirt bearing an image of the graffiti during gigs\n\nAlthough Mr Lowe and his girlfriend never married, his romantic gesture has formed part of the city's skyline since, with many considering it an \"iconic\" piece of history.\n\nIn a BBC radio documentary, Mr Lowe explained how he braved his fear of heights to make a public show of proposing to Ms Middleton, who he had had been dating for a year.\n\nHe said: \"You used to be able to see it from the Odeon cinema.\n\n\"I took her there, she thought she was going to see a film and I said: 'I've got something to show you'. I told her to look up and she read it.\n\n\"She said 'yeah'. She thought I was mad.\"\n\nThe pair split up three months later and Ms Middleton died in 2007 from cancer.\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.", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon was asked if she would resign by Labour's Jackie Baillie\n\nNicola Sturgeon has denied breaching the ministerial code by meeting Alex Salmond while claims against him were being investigated by her government.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said there was a \"cover up at the heart of government\" over the row.\n\nBut the first minister said she would rebut \"ridiculous conspiracy theories\" when she faces a Holyrood inquiry.\n\nAnd she hinted that the committee should use its powers to compel her predecessor, Mr Salmond, to appear too.\n\nThe former first minister is now not expected to give oral evidence after the committee said he had set conditions they \"simply could never meet\".\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry was set up after the government admitted its investigation of two internal harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been \"unlawful\", and agreed to pay him £500,000 in legal expenses.\n\nMs Sturgeon also commissioned an independent review of whether or not she broke the ministerial code in her dealings with her former mentor during the process, with both probes expected to report back in the coming months.\n\nMs Davidson said the first minister had \"chosen not to tell officials in advance and not keep a record\" of the meetings with Mr Salmond, and said she had told MSPs \"things that are utterly contradicted by her own evidence and testimony\".\n\nShe added: \"We have failed women, taxpayers money and a cover up at the heart of government - this whole affair stinks to high heaven.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is expected to finally give evidence to the committee next week after the session was repeatedly postponed, said she was \"relishing\" the prospect.\n\nShe said: \"I certainly hope to be sitting in front of the committee answering all of these questions on oath next Tuesday morning, and people can listen to that and make up their own minds.\n\n\"I believe it is important to subject myself to scrutiny, but also to have the opportunity to take head on some of the ridiculous conspiracy theories that people like Ruth Davidson have been all too quick to want to indulge.\"\n\nAlex Salmond had been due to give evidence on Tuesday, but the session was called off and looks unlikely to be rearranged\n\nMs Sturgeon was also pressed by Scottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie, who said ministers who knowingly mislead parliament are expected to resign.\n\nShe asked Ms Sturgeon whether she would quit if she was found to have breached the code - but the first minister said she would not engage with the \"hypothetical\" question.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I do not consider that I breached the ministerial code - I will make that case very, very robustly.\n\n\"I know why the opposition are desperate to get rid of me, I'm under no illusions about that. But I like everyone else am entitled to due process.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also hinted that the inquiry committee should use Holyrood's powers to compel Mr Salmond to appear, saying it should not \"indulge conspiracy theories without insisting people come before the committee to substantiate those theories\".\n\nShe said: \"I still hope the committee will perhaps use the powers that are available to it to make sure everybody relevant sits before it and gives evidence.\"\n\nParliamentary committees do have the power to compel witnesses to attend, although there is an exemption if they can provide a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nMr Salmond had said he would only appear if MSPs agreed to publish his written submissions in full, and to give certain guarantees about what he could speak about.\n\nThe committee was split over whether to publish one submission - which included detailed claims about Ms Sturgeon breaching the ministerial code - but narrowly voted down the proposal along party lines.\n\nMs Sturgeon also defended her husband, Peter Murrell, against opposition claims that he had contradicted himself\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry committee questioned SNP chief executive Peter Murrell - Ms Sturgeon's husband - amid a dispute over whether he had given contradictory evidence about his wife's meetings with Mr Salmond.\n\nHe told members that his previous evidence about the meetings being a government matter - rather than SNP business, as Ms Sturgeon has claimed - was \"speculation on my part\".\n\nHe said he would \"absolutely refute\" claims that he had given \"false information\", adding: \"It's pretty simple, I think you're trying to suggest things or knowledge that I just don't have about these things.\"\n\nDuring Thursday's Holyrood questions, Ms Davidson said that Mr Murrell \"may have committed perjury by changing his story under oath\".\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that her husband \"did tell the truth\", adding that he \"is perfectly capable of standing up for himself\".\n\nShe added: \"It's clear to everyone why the opposition parties are so keen to drag Peter Murrell into a process he had no part in and try to damage him. Perhaps they know how integral he's been to the electoral success of the SNP, and conversely the electoral defeat of their parties.\"\n\nMs Davidson later said Ms Sturgeon had \"backed herself into a corner\" by supporting Mr Murrell's account, saying she was \"dismantling her own evidence\".\n\nShe said: \"If the SNP chief executive told the truth under oath, as Nicola Sturgeon insisted today, then the first minister misled parliament and broke the Ministerial Code.\n\n\"Peter Murrell said the Sturgeon-Salmond meetings were government business. The first minister has told the Parliament that they were not.\n\n\"That is a glaring contradiction. Both accounts cannot be correct.\"", "The UK boss of KPMG will step aside while the accountancy giant investigates offensive comments he allegedly made at a meeting on Monday.\n\nBill Michael reportedly told consultants to \"stop moaning\" about the impact of the pandemic and lockdown on people's lives, and to stop \"playing the victim card\".\n\nHe later apologised, saying the comments did not reflect his beliefs.\n\nBut KPMG said an \"independent investigation\" had begun.\n\n\"Mr Michael has decided to step aside from his duties as chair while the investigation is underway,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We take this matter very seriously and will not comment further while the investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, about 500 KPMG staff attended the virtual meeting on 8 February.\n\nAfter Mr Michael's alleged comments, staff reportedly complained on an app used to post comments anonymously during the meeting.\n\nSome said they were disappointed by Mr Michael's suggestion that staff needed to stop complaining and work harder, the FT reported.\n\nOthers were allegedly angry that he had dismissed concerns about potential cuts to staff bonuses, pay and pensions.\n\nMr Michael's comments were particularly badly received after a staff poll at the beginning of the meeting, which showed a high percentage of consultants were struggling to cope during the pandemic, the FT said.\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Michael said: \"I am sorry for the words I used, which did not reflect what I believe in, and I have apologised to my colleagues.\n\n\"Looking after the wellbeing of our people and creating a culture where everyone can thrive is of critical importance to me and is at the heart of everything we do as a firm.\"\n\nMr Michael, who was hospitalised with Covid-19 last year, has presided over a rocky period at KPMG.\n\nThe firm has faced scrutiny over its audit of Carillion, the government contractor that collapsed under £1bn of debt in 2018. There have also been claims from some staff of a toxic work culture.\n\nLast week the company's UK business revealed that Mr Michael was paid £1.7m in 2020, down from £1.98m in 2019.\n\nSales for the year slumped 4% to £2.3bn as the company's clients cut back expenses amid the pandemic.", "China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday.\n\nChina has criticised the BBC for its reporting on coronavirus and the persecution of ethnic minority Uighurs.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"disappointed\" by the decision.\n\nIt follows British media regulator Ofcom revoking state broadcaster China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK.\n\nSeparately, the broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) said it would stop relaying BBC World Service programming in the region, prompting condemnation from the BBC.\n\nChina's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) said that BBC World News reports about China were found to \"seriously violate\" broadcast guidelines, including \"the requirement that news should be truthful and fair\" and not \"harm China's national interests\".\n\nIt said that the BBC's application to air for another year would not be accepted.\n\nThe BBC said in a statement: \"We are disappointed that the Chinese authorities have decided to take this course of action. The BBC is the world's most trusted international news broadcaster and reports on stories from around the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.\"\n\nThe commercially funded BBC World News TV channel broadcasts globally in English. In China it is largely restricted and appears only in international hotels and some diplomatic compounds, meaning most Chinese people cannot view it.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the move an \"unacceptable curtailing of media freedom\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 US State Department condemned the decision, calling it part of a wider campaign to suppress free media in China.\n\nIn Hong Kong, the publicly-funded broadcaster RTHK said it was suspending the relaying of BBC World Service radio. It had previously aired it daily from 23:00 to 07:00. It also removed a weekly Cantonese programme from the BBC's Chinese Service from its schedule.\n\nBBC World News TV channel broadcasts, however, are still available in Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong, a former British colony, is expected to retain certain rights and freedoms, including freedom of press, until 2047, as part of a handover agreement between China and Britain.\n\nHong Kong Journalists Association chairman Chris Yeung Kin-hing told the South China Morning Post that RTHK's decision was \"disturbing and worrying\", amid questions about whether RTHK was instructed to act by the authorities.\n\nThe RTHK union also called the decision \"extremely regrettable\", adding: \"Under the policy of One Country Two Systems, we've never seen Hong Kong being required to follow decisions of China's State Film, TV and Radio Administration before\".\n\nHong Kong's Office of the Communications Authority said it \"did not set boundaries\" and that decisions were up to individual operators.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We condemn this decision by the Chinese authorities. Access to accurate and impartial news is a fundamental human right and should not be denied to the people of Hong Kong and mainland China, millions of whom rely on BBC News every week.\"\n\nThe corporation rejected accusations of bias and said it would make every effort to bring the news to its audiences, who would \"still find ways to access the BBC\".\n\nThe actions in China and Hong Kong follow Ofcom's revoking of the CGTN licence after it found it was wrongfully held by Star China Media Ltd.\n\nCGTN was also found in breach of British broadcasting regulations last year, for airing the allegedly forced confession of UK citizen Peter Humphrey.\n\nCGTN can now also no longer be broadcast in Germany following Ofcom's decision, Deutsche Welle reports, as the licence in Germany had been approved by Ofcom as part of a sharing initiative.\n\nRelations between China and the UK have seen a serious deterioration in recent months over Hong Kong, where Beijing introduced a controversial new security law after a large pro-democracy movement swept the ex-colony.\n\nIn January the UK introduced a new visa that gives 5.4 million Hong Kong residents the right to live in the UK and eventually become citizens because it believes China is undermining the territory's rights and freedoms.\n\nAnd in the past two years China has been systematically blocking or banning foreign media, including in effect expelling journalists from three US newspapers in 2020. The BBC website and its app are already banned in mainland China.\n\nIn February the BBC published a report featuring interviews with Uighur women who said they had been systematically raped, sexually abused and tortured in China's \"re-education\" camps in Xinjiang. China's foreign ministry accused the BBC of making a \"false report\".\n\nLast month the US said China had committed genocide in its repression of the Uighurs and other mainly Muslim groups.\n\nAccording to estimates, more than a million Uighurs and other minorities have been detained in camps in China.\n\nChina denies that Uighurs are persecuted. Last year China's UK ambassador Liu Xiaoming told the BBC's Andrew Marr that reports of concentration camps were \"fake\" and the Uighurs received the same treatment under the law as other ethnic groups in his country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"", "Nearly 225,000 people in England have now waited more than 12 months for routine hospital treatment - the highest number since April 2008, NHS England figures show.\n\nThis includes people waiting for planned knee and hip surgery.\n\nIt comes as growing numbers of operations were postponed during December when Covid cases rose rapidly.\n\nIn January 2021 alone, hospitals treated nearly a third of all patients with Covid since the pandemic began.\n\nProfessor Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said staff had worked extremely hard to provide essential services during the pandemic.\n\nHe added: \"Even in January, when hospitals admitted almost a third of all the Covid patients they have treated during the pandemic, they were treating twice as many patients with other conditions as they did for those with the virus over the month.\n\n\"But the NHS remains under significant pressure so it is vital that everyone continues to do all they can to stop the spread of the virus by staying at home and following the expert 'hands, face, space' guidance.\"\n\nDespite Covid, NHS England says more than six million elective treatments were completed last year and average waiting times for non-urgent surgery fell by more than 40% between July and the end of the year.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons of England, said Covid-19 continued to take an enormous toll on hundreds of thousands of people across the country left waiting for an operation.\n\nVice president, Mr Tim Mitchell, said the number waiting over a year for their treatment was now 150 times higher than it had been in 2019.\n\n\"Many are waiting in limbo, reliant on painkillers, and unable to get on with day-to-day family life or work,\" he said.\n\nAlthough infection rates are now coming down in many parts of the country, Mr Mitchell warned many staff were \"burnt-out\" from what had been \"a brutal and traumatic year\" and would need time to recover.\n\nDuring December, just over 200,000 patients received urgent checks by cancer specialists and 25,000 people started their treatment - both measures are in line with numbers seen before the pandemic.\n\nBut Sara Bainbridge, head of policy at Macmillan Cancer Support, said 2020 had been a \"devastating year\" for many people living with cancer \"who faced agonising delays or disruption to diagnosis and treatment\".\n\nShe urged anyone experiencing cancer symptoms to contact their GP without delay and go to medical appointments.", "Conor Murphy and Arlene Foster were speaking at the NI Executive press briefing on Thursday\n\nStormont ministers will take a \"collective approach\" when reviewing NI's lockdown restrictions next week, Conor Murphy has said.\n\nNI re-entered lockdown on 26 December, with the measures due to last until 5 March.\n\nBut ministers will meet on Thursday to review what should happen beyond that point.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said there needed to be one more \"push\" to reduce infection rates as much as possible.\n\nNext Thursday's executive meeting would be a \"key decision point\" about how Northern Ireland emerges from lockdown, she said.\n\nA pathway to recovery document is due to be published by the executive in the coming weeks, with many businesses asking for clarity around indicative reopening dates.\n\nIt comes as Stormont's health minister warned there are concerns that Northern Ireland's Covid-19 transmission rate has stagnated.\n\nThe R - or reproduction - number was estimated between 1.5 to 1.9 at the start of January, but has fallen to below one.\n\nSpeaking at the executive's press briefing on Thursday, Mrs Foster said she recognised that people wanted to see an end to restrictions, but warned: \"We need to see numbers as low as possible so we can plan for gradually emerging from lockdown.\"\n\nShe said Northern Ireland's R number is currently sitting at 0.75 to 0.85 and that it was right to remain hopeful for \"better days ahead\".\n\n\"We must approach with care so we don't lose the gains we have made, the clear message has been about saving lives and easing pressure.\"\n\nNine more coronavirus-related deaths were reported on Thursday, along with 253 new cases.\n\nAccording to Department of Health figures, 1,966 people have now died in Northern Ireland after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThere are 518 people being treated in hospital for the virus in Northern Ireland.\n\nSome 58 are in intensive care units (ICU), 57 of which are ventilated - a drop of four from the previous day.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland a further 52 deaths have been recorded, bringing its total to 3,846.\n\nA further 866 confirmed cases of the virus have also been reported.\n\nAt the executive meeting on Thursday, the first minister also said it had considered the issue of international travel.\n\n\"I do regret it's not a four and five-nation approach,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the executive would consider the use of quarantine hotels for passengers from so-called red list countries, if and when international flights begin in NI again.\n\nMr Murphy said his party had been arguing for an all-island approach throughout the pandemic, and said there were \"international lessons\" about how to manage travel.\n\n\"I want to see as much of a joined-up approach as we can possibly manage.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health has said 353,757 people have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Northern Ireland.\n\nVerbal abuse is being levelled at vaccine call centre staff, the Department of Health has warned.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who heads up the vaccination programme in Northern Ireland, said there have also been issues with double-booking and no-shows at vaccine centres.\n\nShe said: \"Unfortunately, there have been some instances of people who are not eligible for the jab phoning up to try to get an appointment.\n\n\"Some become abusive when they are informed that they cannot book. This is unacceptable behaviour and it must stop.\"\n\nMs Donnelly said there were concerns that abuse of the booking system was making it more difficult for people who are eligible to get through.\n\nShe added: \"We are also seeing cases of some people double booking - by telephone and online. This is taking appointments from others.\n\n\"Please turn up when you have made an appointment. Please don't phone up if you are not eligible - you won't get a booking. And please be courteous to staff on the telephone lines.\n\n\"I fully understand people are anxious to get the protection that the vaccines offer. Let me assure everyone that we are rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as we can. While it is not a race, I believe our progress to date would be the envy of many other countries.\n\n\"Our rate of progress is limited by the availability of supplies. Further vaccine supplies will come and you will get your jab. Please be patient.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the department has appealed for people aged between 65 and 69-years-old to get their vaccine after demand has slowed since after an initial surge in demand when slots were made available for that age group late last month.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Swann told Stormont's health committee that the drop in the R number had \"undoubtedly saved lives\".\n\n\"We always need a period of time when R is as low as possible - to more quickly break those chains of infection which are resulting in people becoming sick and hospitalised and losing their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Our health and social care needs time to deliver other care and that has been delayed or disrupted by the epidemic,\" he added.\n\nHe also discussed the issue of new variants of the virus and said the Kent variant now accounts for 40-60% of new cases in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was also asked about what changes are being made to the Covid-19 strategy to avoid more cycles of lockdown and lifting of restrictions.\n\nHe said a lot had been learned from the first wave of the pandemic, and they have \"massively up-scaled\" the test, trace and protect (TTP) programme.\n\nHe said the average contact time is now six-and-a-half hours after a positive case.\n\nAt the peak of this wave in January, 12,000 cases were referred to TTP and contact success was 93.5%, he said.\n\nSince January, there has been an increase in the average number of contacts from one to two-and-a-half people despite the current restrictions in place, he added.\n\nMr Swann also said testing is being rolled out elsewhere - in workplaces, special schools, meat factories, Translink - and waste water was also being tested.", "The very real threat to Speaker Pelosi and her staff\n\nStacey Plaskett shows the chamber new footage that details how rioters searched high and low for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and \"terrorised\" her staff. \"You can hear the terror in their voices as they describe what's happening as they are barricaded inside,\" she says, over audio of staff members whispering frantically to each other. \"You can hear the pounding in the background,\" she notes, interspersing the sounds with new security footage of insurrectionists trying to break into the office where staff members are hiding. The rioters can be heard chanting \"Where are you Nancy?\" as they spread out across the office complex. \"The mob pillaged and vandalised the speaker's office, documenting their crimes on social media,\" says Plaskett. She then calls attention to one man in particular - Richard Barnett - the man pictured with his feet up on Pelosi's desk and who is accused of stealing documents from her office. She points out he was carrying a stun gun tucked into his waistband. It is a weapon, Plaskett says, that \"could have incapacitated anyone he used it on\".", "The strategy warned that lots of online safety features to protect children were outdated\n\nNot enough is known about how much children and young people are at risk online in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat is according to a new online safety strategy for young people published by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nIt said more research and data collection was needed to understand the scale of the problem.\n\nThe strategy also said that a lot of restrictions on online access for children were \"outdated\".\n\nIn 2018, BBC News NI revealed that publication of the strategy had been delayed due to the collapse of the executive for three years and the lack of a health minister.\n\nThe National Children's Bureau had expressed concerns that children's online safety was being put at risk by the delay.\n\nAccording to the just published document, the strategy aims to support and empower \"children and young people to engage in online activities in an educated, safe, responsible and respectful way\".\n\nIt said that while the online world had \"opened up a new level of opportunity for children and young people\", there were a number of risks to their safety.\n\nThese included exposure to pornography, abuse or information encouraging suicide or self-harm.\n\nThey were also at risk of things like grooming, harassment, sexting or cyberbullying.\n\nSome young people who took part in a consultation for the strategy, however, felt their parents \"over-exaggerated\" the dangers.\n\n\"Parents are nervous as they don't know too much about [the internet] and because there has been a lot of stories like cyber-bullying,\" one said.\n\nHowever, young people said that if they had concerns, they wanted them to be taken seriously.\n\nBut some teachers quoted in the document said there was \"pretty much nothing in place\" in their school to help children online.\n\n\"It is just a box-ticking exercise, it is just paperwork,\" one said.\n\n\"We tend to be reactive to specific issues so at the moment there would be huge things in our school around Snapchat,\" another said.\n\n\"But we are never prepared for it - it is always after the event, unfortunately.\"\n\nThe strategy document said there were a number of gaps in current information about online safety.\n\n\"Outside of official crime statistics, there is little regular data collected on either the scale of online-safety related incidents happening across NI, nor of the particular issues and concerns facing children, young people and parents or carers on a regular basis,\" it said.\n\n\"It is important to remember that the incidents which make the headlines, or appear as crime statistics are the exception; we know little about the everyday online safety needs of children and young people.\"\n\nIt said more research and data collection was needed.\n\nParents and young people also said while there were some excellent resources, a single website on online safety and a more \"joined-up\" approach were needed.\n\n\"A central repository of online safety information, support and guidance is needed to support dissemination of consistent messaging to children and young people, parents/carers, practitioners, policy makers and the wider public,\" the document said.\n\nIt said that not all schools took a consistent approach to the risks to pupils online.\n\nSome had, for instance, installed additional wifi which could enable pupils to access websites which could put them at risk.\n\nThe strategy said a common approach to educating children and their parents and carers was needed, as well as more accredited training in online safety.\n\nIt also made a number of other commitments to lower the online risks to children and young people.\n\nAn action plan has been developed to support the strategy, which will be co-ordinated by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland.", "Tommy Ross took this picture from Kit Hill near Launceston in Cornwall\n\nA huge fire has broken out across an area of moorland in Dartmoor, Devon.\n\nRob Steemson, Dartmoor National Park emergency officer, estimated the blaze to be about 5km (3.1 miles) wide and continuing to spread.\n\nHe said the fire, which could be seen about 20 miles away in Plymouth, was being stoked by fierce south-westerly winds.\n\nThe blaze is on remote moorland near Tavistock and no residents or animals are thought to have been injured.\n\nMr Steemson said a \"watching brief\" was ongoing overnight \"because although it is affecting the moorland, it's not affecting any property or walkers or people out there\".\n\nHe said he believed firefighters were not directly trying to put out the blaze because of the strength of the winds.\n\n\"All being well it will peter out when it goes out of the wind and into the river valleys,\" the emergency officer said.\n\nThe fire can be seen from the hamlet of Hatt in Cornwall\n\nTen fire service vehicles are dealing with the fire at Tavy Cleave, a Devon and Somerset Fire spokesman said, adding that members of the public should avoid the area.\n\nThe area on fire was \"general moorland\", Mr Steemson said, made up of heather, gorse and bracken.\n\nHe said many Dartmoor residents were trained in dealing with fires of this nature, but had not yet been asked to go out.\n\nThe fire is thought to be about 5km (3.1 miles) wide\n\nColin Sargent saw the blaze from his house at Brentor on the western edge of Dartmoor.\n\n\"It was a long line of flames and the sky was just getting redder and redder,\" he said.\n\n\"It was just a red glow in the sky like a sunset or sunrise.\"\n\nColin Sargent said the blaze looked like a sunset\n\nThis fire is the latest in a spate of winter blazes, including at a nature reserve in Cornwall and a number of them in Scotland's Western Isles, all on Wednesday.\n\nArea commander Bruce Farquharson, from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, said winter fires were not uncommon due to extreme cold \"curing\" or drying out vegetation, and happened in Antarctica, Norway and. Scandinavia.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"It is counter intuitive for almost everybody but the risk is there, the vegetation is tinder dry and it just takes the slightest spark to ignite the fire and it will burn very quickly and spread very quickly.\"\n\nBBC weatherman David Braine said the air temperature at Okehampton on the northern edge of Dartmoor was 0C at 22:30, with wind chill making it feel like -8C.\n\nThe fire on Dartmoor lit up the night sky\n\nSmoke from the flames filled the skies near Bridestowe in West Devon\n\nAre you in the area? Can you see the fire? If it is safe 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.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools in Wrexham will delay opening classes to children aged three to seven due to concerns over coronavirus rates.\n\nFoundation phase pupils are due to start a phased return to school from the Monday after half term.\n\nWrexham still has the highest rate of Covid infections in Wales, and will not be sending children back until Friday, 26 February.\n\nAnglesey, Denbighshire and Gwynedd are also delaying the immediate return of younger pupils.\n\nThe Welsh Government announced last week that primary schools would begin the process of reopening for the first time since Christmas on 22 February.\n\nWrexham council said: \"Although coronavirus levels are falling in Wrexham, the figures are still very high, so the council and headteachers are carefully considering plans, while continually monitoring the local situation.\n\n\"In light of this cautious approach, children will not be returning to schools in Wrexham until Friday, 26 February at the very earliest - depending on local coronavirus levels after half-term.\"\n\nWrexham and Flintshire still have six of the 10 highest localised rates in Wales, when they are broken down by community - or what are known as middle layer super output areas (MSOAs).\n\nAlthough these case rates too have dropped back in recent weeks.\n\nThe highest in Wrexham - Wrexham West - has seen 35 actual positive tests over the last week.\n\nThere are local hotspots too in Holywell and Bagillt and part of Connah's Quay in Flintshire\n\nFlintshire council, which currently has the second highest case rate in Wales, said it would review a decision to reopen schools on 22 February \"should the public health situation become a cause for concern\".\n\nSchools on Anglesey, which has the third highest rate of coronavirus infections in Wales, said it would also be delaying pupils returning, phased from Thursday, 25 February.\n\n\"Our aim is that all foundation phase pupils are back in their classrooms by Wednesday, 3 March at the latest,\" Anglesey officials said.\n\nMeanwhile Denbighshire said its primary schools would reopen to foundation phase pupils from Wednesday, 24 February, as long as \"all necessary safety measures\" are in place.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council has confirmed the Monday and Tuesday of that week will see schools remain closed for staff to prepare for pupils' return.\n\n\"Gwynedd's Education Authority has met with head teachers this week to ensure they are fully aware of the latest development and our officers continue to offer help and advice regarding the planned phased opening for foundation phase pupils during the week beginning 22 February,\" a spokesman said.\n\nFree school meals and school transport will be available for all eligible pupils when those schools reopen, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nChildren classed as vulnerable and those of critical workers have been able to remain in school during lockdown. No timetable has yet been given for the return of other children.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams schools should be \"last to close and first to open\"\n\nIn an open letter to headteachers, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said the Welsh Government had \"always said\" schools should be \"last to close and first to open\" when safe to do so.\n\nShe said \"much lower\" rates of transmission of Covid-19 and advice from its Technical Advisory Group had allowed the \"partial and phased return to face-to-face learning in schools\".\n\nMs Williams explained there would be some flexibility to the arrangement over the first week, but with all foundation pupils in school by the end of the week.\n\nAny further phased return for other year groups will be considered as part of the next 21 day review on 19 February.\n\nThe Welsh Government has also issued detailed guidance on the return to classes, with teachers told they will be expected to face masks in some circumstances.", "New rules on importing from Europe come into force in April\n\nScotland's food and drink industry is warning of price rises and potential shortages when new Brexit rules on imports come into force in April.\n\nThe UK's departure from the European Union has already led to a forest of new paperwork for firms exporting to the continent.\n\nAccording to James Withers, of trade body Scotland Food and Drink, the impact has been \"horrendous\".\n\nHe says the seafood sector alone was losing \"about a million pounds a day\".\n\n\"There's no sign of any improvement soon,\" Mr Withers says. \"In fact [there are] many signs things could get worse.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was working closely with businesses to make sure they could \"take advantage of the opportunities\" that leaving the European Union brings.\n\nIt said businesses were adjusting well to the new trade rules, which are being phased in over the next few months, and it was offering extensive advice and support.\n\nWhen Great Britain finally left the single market on Hogmanay the EU insisted on the immediate introduction of controls on exports to the continent but the UK government opted to wait until 1 April to introduce similar checks on imports.\n\nMr Withers says: \"Those checks, when they're put in place, could also make things slow, more expensive and a lot more complex for EU businesses who need to sell products into businesses here.\n\n\"And that's a big issue for supermarkets and will be a big issue for many food companies who get ingredients from Europe.\"\n\nOne of those companies is Charles Stamper Fruit and Veg in Edinburgh which sources much of its produce from Spain and the Netherlands.\n\nLouise Stamper's firm supplies fruit and veg to the hospitality industry, schools and nursing homes\n\nManaging director Louise Stamper says: \"One thing for certain is prices will go up.\n\n\"It's going to just become very expensive to go out for a meal.\"\n\nMs Stamper founded the firm 32 years ago with her husband, Charles. They normally supply fresh fruit, vegetables and other produce to the hospitality industry, schools and nursing homes.\n\nLike many businesses they saw a heavy impact last year due to the Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns.\n\nMs Stamper says the first lockdown in March last year saw them lose all but a handful of their customers.\n\nSwitching to home deliveries helped but they didn't come close to making up for the lost trade. A year ago the firm employed 30 people. Now it has 15 staff.\n\nMaking matters worse, Ms Stamper says imports are 20% more expensive than they were last winter, a rise which she attributes in part to Brexit-related border disruption.\n\nMr Withers reckons that the enforced closure of hospitality, entertainment and tourism due to Covid cost food and drink firms £3bn in lost sales in 2020, in a sector worth £15bn annually to the country's economy, including £6bn of exports.\n\nCompared to the effects of the pandemic, Jim Cummiskey views the long-term impact of leaving the EU as nothing more than an irritation\n\nJim Cummiskey, chief executive of food wholesaler Failte Group, says the impact of the pandemic has been massive.\n\n\"To sum up the hospitality industry in one word: horrendous,\" he says.\n\nThe Glasgow giant is based beside a huge food market at Blochairn in the north of the city and has three arms: produce, food service and wholesale.\n\n\"We've paid off probably 17 staff,\" says Mr Cummiskey, glancing around at empty shelves in a vast refrigerated warehouse which he says would usually be crammed with fresh produce.\n\n\"People just seem to think you can switch the lights back on and everything's going to be back to normal. That's not going to happen in this industry. It's going to take years of recovery,\" he says.\n\nCompared to the effects of the pandemic Mr Cummiskey views the long-term impact of leaving the EU as nothing more than an irritation.\n\nBad weather rather than Brexit is to blame for seasonal price rises on continental goods, he argues.\n\n\"The UK will diversify,\" insists Mr Cummiskey. \"We always have and we always will. So we'll store more Scottish product when it's in season and we'll store more UK product when it's in season.\"\n\nWilma Finlay and her husband run an organic dairy farm near Gatehouse of Fleet in Galloway\n\nSome businesses which export to the EU are not so relaxed.\n\nWilma Finlay and her husband David run an organic dairy farm near Gatehouse of Fleet in Galloway, famous for its ice cream and visitor centre.\n\nWhen the nation was ordered to stay at home in March last year, and again this winter, tourism and ice cream sales to restaurants collapsed.\n\nThe impact on turnover was \"massive\" says Ms Finlay, \"absolutely massive\".\n\nMs Finlay's dairy farm has branched out into cheese\n\nLuckily the farm had recently branched out into the production of cheese with the creation of a company called The Ethical Dairy.\n\n\"Home delivery has just taken off,\" she explains.\n\n\"It went from 30 orders a week to 300 orders a week almost overnight.\"\n\nThat's nothing like enough to offset the farm's ice cream and tourism losses but if Scotland were still in the EU, says Ms Finlay, she would now be taking the cheese enterprise to the next stage by ramping up exports to the continent.\n\nThe additional costs of Brexit have put paid to that ambition. They amount, she calculates, to £45 in time and paperwork on every £35 order. That's before she has even considered the cost of production or postage.\n\n\"It's just a non-starter,\" says Ms Finlay who describes the impact of Brexit as an \"annoyance\" and the pandemic as \"devastating\".\n\nMs Finlay's dairy farm has customers in Northern Ireland which they now require EU paperwork to supply\n\nWhat really surprised the Finlays though was the realisation that the EU-mandated checks and paperwork would also apply to trade with Northern Ireland where they had developed a number of loyal customers.\n\nThe reason lies in the deal formalising the UK's exit from the EU which allowed Northern Ireland to remain in the single market to prevent the potentially incendiary return of an Irish land border.\n\nInstead there is now an Irish Sea border: dividing the UK, outraging unionists and leading to shortages of some goods in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We hadn't seen that [Brexit] would also close the route to Northern Ireland because we're actually physically nearer to Belfast than we are to Glasgow and Edinburgh,\" says Ms Finlay who says she was deeply disappointed to be forced to stop supplying her Northern Irish customers.\n\nThe disruption of commerce is also have an effect on the constitutional debate.\n\nIn the 2016 referendum Brexit was supported by majorities of voters in England and Wales - and therefore by the UK overall - but it was opposed by 62% of people who cast ballots in Scotland and 56% in Northern Ireland.\n\nSince then support for Scottish independence has risen, with more than 20 polls in a row indicating a majority in favour of Scotland going it alone, and there has also been renewed discussion about the possibility of a referendum - known as a border poll - on Irish reunification.\n\nFor now though a more pressing concern for business is the effect of the new checks and charges on imports from the EU to Britain due to come into effect on 1 April and whether they will lead to the shortages in Northern Ireland being replicated elsewhere in the UK?\n\nJames Withers says dealing with the EU will get more complex, slower and more expensive\n\nMr Withers of Scotland Food and Drink is concerned.\n\n\"At the moment supply chains are pretty robust,\" he says. \"The big supermarkets know what they are doing but if the lessons of the first few weeks in trying to get products out of the country are replicated for products coming into the country, we could find a real challenge.\"\n\nFresh fruit and vegetables are particularly vulnerable, he warns, especially when they are out of season in Scotland.\n\nHe says: \"What I do know is we sell £1.2bn of Scottish food into the European Union every year and that has got an awful lot more difficult, an awful lot more expensive and an awful lot slower.\"", "Springsteen was arrested in New Jersey on 14 November\n\nBruce Springsteen was arrested in New Jersey three months ago and charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, officials have said.\n\nThe rock veteran was also cited for consuming alcohol in a closed area of a national park on the same day, 14 November.\n\nHe is due to appear in court \"in the next few weeks\", TMZ reported.\n\nA National Park Service spokeswoman said Springsteen, 71, was \"cooperative throughout the process\".\n\nThe Gateway National Recreation Area is a park that connects Sandy Hook, a New Jersey strip of beach just south of New York City, with part of the oceanfront section of New York's Staten Island and Jamaica Bay.\n\nSpringsteen, often called \"The Boss\", has had a career spanning more than five decades, with many of his songs describing his home state of New Jersey.\n\nSpringsteen's career has spanned more than 50 years so far\n\nHis arrest came a few weeks after the release of his 20th studio album, \"Letter to You\".\n\nSpringsteen also made a recent appearance in an advert for Jeep played during the Super Bowl, the annual championship American football game. In the video, titled \"The Middle\", he spoke about reuniting a divided US.\n\nThe video, which is still available on the singer's Instagram page, has now been removed from Jeep's YouTube channel.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of a matter we have only read about and we cannot substantiate,\" a Jeep spokesman said in a statement.\n\n\"But it's also right that we pause our big game commercial until the actual facts can be established. Its message of community and unity is as relevant as ever. As is the message that drinking and driving can never be condoned.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016, Bruce Springsteen spoke to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz about his music, depression and then-president Donald Trump", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CEO Secrets: Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe says don't take yourself too seriously\n\nNo bumbling here: Dating app Bumble, which made its name by putting women in charge of making contact with potential mates, has soared to a market value of more than $13bn after listing shares.\n\nBumble, which also owns Badoo, is one of less than two dozen US firms to list publicly while led by a female founder.\n\nShares in the firm debuted at $43 apiece, valuing it at over $8bn.\n\nBut in opening trade on Thursday they shot up to more than $76 each, making the firm worth more than $13bn (£9.4bn).\n\nMs Wolfe Herd launched Bumble in Texas in 2014, with backing from Russian billionaire Andreey Andreev, the founder of European online dating site Badoo.\n\nShe has said she was inspired to create a platform where women \"make the first move\" by her frustration with archaic gender norms controlling dating.\n\nUnlike most dating apps, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users, while in same-sex matches either person can send a message first.\n\n\"I have experienced firsthand how unequal relationships negatively impact all areas of life,\" she wrote in a letter to investors ahead of the share listing. \"I wanted to change this.\"\n\nMs Wolfe Herd, the youngest woman to take a company public in the US, also co-founded dating app Tinder, but left the firm alleging sexual harassment.\n\nTinder's parent company Match Group Inc, which denied the claims and later tried unsuccessfully to acquire Bumble, paid about $1m to settle the dispute.\n\nMs Wolfe Herd has led Bumble and Badoo since 2019 when Mr Andreev sold his stakes in both businesses to investment giant Blackstone. The two apps combined have 40 million active users, including more than 2.4 million paying customers.\n\nBumble, whose apps are available in more than 150 countries, has said it is poised for growth, pointing to the rising number of single people globally, increased adoption of online dating and signs that users have become more willing to pay.\n\nThe firm is also expanding into new areas, like business networking.\n\nBut despite an uptick in use, the pandemic has hurt the business, which makes money primarily from subscriptions and in-app purchases.\n\nIn 2019, revenue jumped more than 35% and it turned a profit of $68.6m.\n\nIn the first nine months of 2020, however, its growth rate sank to roughly 15% year-on-year, and it posted a loss of $116m.\n\nIn recent months, investors have displayed strong appetite for shares of new listings, sending companies such as Airbnb and Doordash to sky-high valuations in their market debuts.", "The ozone hole over Antarctica in the year 2000\n\nA steady decline in the levels of ozone-harming CFC chemicals in the atmosphere has resumed, scientists say.\n\nThis follows a recent, dangerous pause in that downward trajectory, which could have slowed the healing of Earth's protective ozone layer.\n\nAtmospheric measurements published in 2018 pointed to illegal CFC production that was occurring in Eastern China.\n\nStopping that production appears to have set the ozone layer's healing process back on track.\n\nThe ozone layer is a thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.\n\nWhen it is depleted, more of this UV radiation can reach the surface - causing potential harm to humans and other living things.\n\nUltraviolet rays can damage DNA and cause sunburn, increasing the long-term risk of problems such as skin cancer.\n\nCFCs stand for chlorofluorocarbons. This family of chemicals has seen widespread use in refrigeration and as propellants in aerosol cans. Their role in destroying the ozone layer has been known since the 1980s.\n\nMuch of the CFC-11 gas produced in Eastern China has been used in home insulation\n\nThe conclusions of a chemistry-based detective story, based on work carried out over several years by an international team of researchers, are published in two papers in the journal Nature.\n\nThe first paper reveals that global emissions - of one particular type of CFC, trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11) - decreased in 2019 at a rate that is consistent with the global ban on CFC production.\n\nThat ban was put in place by the 1987 Montreal Protocol - an environmental treaty signed by almost every country that banned the production of these ozone-depleting chemicals from 2010.\n\n\"Things seemed to be going to plan,\" explained Dr Luke Western, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Bristol.\n\nBut in 2018, a study revealed that \"the concentration of CFCs in the atmosphere wasn't falling as quickly as we would expect\".\n\n\"That's where it all started - we wanted to know what was happening,\" said Dr Western. \"The work I was involved in showed that this [extra CFC-11] was primarily coming from East China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The visualisation from 2016 tracked the behaviour of the ozone layer\n\nDr Western and his colleagues used data from air monitoring stations in South Korea and Japan.\n\nFurther detective work in China by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) - and by environmental journalists - found that the chemical was being used in the majority of polyurethane insulation foam that was being produced by firms in the region.\n\nMonitoring stations in Korea and Japan were key to detecting the mystery sources of CFC-11\n\nThe scientists stressed that the scale of this illegal production may never be revealed in full. But this combination - of chemistry, investigative journalism and enforcement of the Montreal Protocol, the researchers say, has avoided significant delays to the healing of the ozone layer.\n\n\"First we noticed that the pollution spikes in the region were falling, so likely the nearby polluters were stopping, or at least reducing, their emissions.\n\n\"And then we saw that, in 2019, emissions had really fallen back to the levels we hadn't seen since before 2013, which is when we first saw this uptick.\"\n\nResearchers say the recovery of the ozone layer is now \"back on track\".\n\n\"So later this century we should see recovery of the ozone layer back to levels that we saw in 1980,\" Dr Western added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The college has had a number of high-profile students\n\nThe heir to the Spanish throne is to study in Wales from this summer, it has been announced.\n\nPrincess Leonor de Borbon, 15, the elder of two daughters of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, will attend Atlantic College, based at St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThe princess, who turns 16 in October, will begin her £67,000 two-year course at the boarding school this summer.\n\nKing Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will personally meet the cost of the course.\n\nShe applied for a place through the United World Colleges (UWC)'s Spanish committee.\n\nPrincess Leonor went through the entire selection process, part of which is conducted anonymously, along with all other candidates.\n\n\"We are looking forward to welcoming HRH Princess Leonor of Asturias as one of the Spanish nominees to attend UWC Atlantic in 2021,\" said Peter T. Howe, principal of the college.\n\n\"We hope very much she enjoys her time in Wales and have little doubt she will thrive as a member of our amazing community.\"\n\nPrincess Leonor is the elder of the two daughters of the King of Spain\n\nJens Waltermann, executive director of UWC International, added: \"The princess will join 4,500 other students from 155 countries, and from a diverse range of backgrounds, who will be studying at one of our 18 schools.\n\n\"It doesn't matter where a student comes from to access a UWC education, with over 75% of all students receiving partial or full scholarships.\n\n\"What matters is their potential to contribute towards building a better and more just future for all.\"\n\nAtlantic College is located at St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nAtlantic College is a residential sixth form college which brings together students aged 15-19 from around the world.\n\nFounded in 1962, the estate near Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan includes the 12th Century St Donat's Castle and was once the former home of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.\n\nAtlantic College has a history of attracting foreign royals. Its president is Queen Noor of Jordan and one of her daughters graduated from the institution.\n\nWillem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, was also once a student at the college.\n\nAtlantic College is a boarding school for pupils from all over the world\n\nThe college has also welcomed famous visitors in the past, including the Queen, Prince Charles and the Emperor of Japan.\n\nIn 2013, the college once again gained the world's attention when two Pakistani teenagers shot by the Taliban while travelling with their friend Malala Yousafzai - now a Nobel Prize laureate - were given scholarships to study there.\n\nThe 350 students at the college study towards the International Baccalaureate, which is combined with a co-curricular community service activities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister urged people to get the vaccine, saying 'now is the moment to do it'\n\nBoris Johnson has urged the two million people yet to take up their offer of a Covid jab to \"come forward\" this week.\n\nThe UK was closing in on Monday's target for vaccinating almost 15 million of its most vulnerable people, the PM told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nBut he said some people \"for one reason or another\" had not been vaccinated.\n\nMr Johnson said the aim was not to \"hit some numerical target, but to save lives... another step on the long and hard road back to normality\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first dose of a vaccine to 15 million people - those aged 70 and over, healthcare workers and people required to shield - by 15 February.\n\nAfter the first four priority groups receive their jabs, ministers hope that people aged 50 and over, as well as those with underlying health conditions will be vaccinated by the end of April.\n\nAs of Tuesday 13,058,298 had received a first vaccine dose, a daily rise of 411,812.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"With less than a week to go until the target date... there's no doubt we've made great strides, with just over 13 million people now vaccinated in our United Kingdom, including one in four adults in England, over 90% of everyone over 75 and over 90% of eligible residents of care homes for the elderly.\n\n\"But that still leaves nearly two million people, a population roughly twice the size of Birmingham, that we still hope to reach.\n\n\"And there are people across the country who for one reason or another haven't yet taken up their offer. So now is the moment to do it.\"\n\nMr Johnson appealed to care workers who still have not been vaccinated to contact their employer to \"fix it up\". His comments came after a survey suggested more than 30% of staff in nearly half of all care homes for older people have not been vaccinated.\n\nThe government is on track to meet its target to offer vaccines to 15 million people by Monday.\n\nBut the question now on everyone's lips is what difference is it making?\n\nGiven it takes two to three weeks for immunity to develop and then another few weeks for the impact of that to be seen in infection levels and hospitalisations, it is too early to tell for sure from the published data.\n\nThe government has been collecting data behind the scenes by monitoring cases in people who have been vaccinated.\n\nIt is expected to unveil that next week.\n\nEarly reports suggest it is having a significant difference - and if that is the case it will shift the dynamics of the pandemic significantly.\n\nThe latest official figures on Covid also show there have been a further 1,001 deaths reported within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the UK, and another 13,013 positive tests.\n\nThis compares to 1,322 deaths and 19,202 cases reported a week ago.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged that the figures showing a reduction in Covid-19 cases were not necessarily down to the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I've looked at the data and scrutinised it with my layman's eye and so far, yes we are getting the numbers down, but can I see results that I think are directly attributable to the vaccine? Although I'm assured that will happen soon, I can't say that I can see them yet.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the briefing there were still a \"significant number of people in high-risk groups\" who had not been vaccinated and the lifting of restrictions in England needed to take place with \"caution.\"\n\nSir Patrick said: \"Those people remain at risk and so it's important we go cautiously in opening up, in order to be able to measure the effects.\"\n\nSir Patrick was asked about Covid lateral flow tests (LFTs) as they began to be rolled out to more workplaces.\n\nHe said they were a \"really important part of our toolkit\", and while not as \"sensitive\" as a PCR lab test, were \"good with picking up people with high viral load, who are most infectious\", and who are asymptomatic.\n\nMr Johnson says LFTs will \"come into their own\" once the economy is starting to \"unlock\".\n\n\"They do have a very clear use case but it's in conjunction with everything we are doing and the priority is obviously vaccination.\"", "A drug normally used to treat arthritis can be a life-saver for some of the sickest hospital patients with Covid, new research shows.\n\nFor every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, along with a cheap steroid already routinely given, an additional life would be saved, the experts say.\n\nSome hospitals are now doing this.\n\nAs well as improving survival and recovery time, it can avoid patients needing to be moved to intensive care, say the NHS doctors.\n\nWendy Coleman, 62, received the treatment last year when she was admitted to Chesterfield Royal Hospital with severe Covid-19.\n\nWendy Coleman volunteered to take part in the trial\n\n\"I was struggling to breathe quite badly and on the verge of being placed in an intensive care unit.\n\n\"After I was given tocilizumab, my condition stabilised and I didn't get any worse. Up until then, it was quite scary as I didn't know if I was going to make it or not,\" she said.\n\nResearchers say around half of people admitted to hospital with Covid could benefit from the treatment.\n\nThey have carried out a clinical trial with more than 4,000 volunteers, like Wendy, and say the results are \"tremendous\".\n\nHalf of these Covid patients were given tocilizumab, via a drip, alongside usual care with a life-saving cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nIn that group, compared to another group that did not receive the new drug:\n\nCombined, tocilizumab and dexamethasone should cut death risk by about a third for patients on oxygen and halve it for those on a ventilator, the researchers say.\n\nProf Martin Landray, joint chief investigator of the RECOVERY trial and a medical expert at Oxford University, said: \"Used in combination, the impact is substantial. This is good news for patients and good news for the health services that care for them in the UK and around the world.\"\n\nDr Charlotte Summers, an intensive care medic at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said: \"These findings are a tremendous step forwards. This therapy looks like it keeps people out of the intensive care unit so they never need to see people like me which can only be a good thing.\"\n\nThe treatment isn't cheap, costing around £500 per patient on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone. But the advantage of using it is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000.\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nThe preliminary trial results will soon be submitted to a peer-reviewed medical journal.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We are working quickly and closely with colleagues across the health system and sector to ensure every NHS patient who needs this treatment should be able to access it - reducing further pressures on the NHS and potentially saving thousands of lives.\"\n\nNHS national medical director Prof Stephen Powis said it was another breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland's vaccination programme is likely to slow down later this month because of supply problems, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said a \"temporary reduction\" in Pfizer's manufacturing capacity meant the country had received slightly lower stocks of the vaccine than expected.\n\nThis means the number of vaccination appointments is likely to be reduced.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said Scotland is still on track to hit its vaccine targets.\n\nAnd she said the country would be able to \"rapidly accelerate\" the vaccination programme again if supplies increase again.\n\nA further 63,178 people had their first dose of the vaccine on Wednesday - the highest in a single day so far despite the bad weather - bringing the total in Scotland to 1,048,747.\n\nThe figure for the UK as a whole stands at more than 13 million.\n\nNearly a quarter (23%) of all adults in Scotland have had their first dose, including about 97% of over 80-year-olds, 87% of those aged between 75 and 79 and 54% of 70 to 74-year-olds.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the figures meant that Scotland had given the first dose to 75,000 more people than than had originally been expected by this stage.\n\nAnd she said it gave \"real hope\" that the vaccine will soon start to have an impact on the number of people dying or becoming seriously ill with the virus.\n\nA record number of people were vaccinated on Wednesday despite many parts of the country seeing extreme weather conditions\n\nBut she said the higher than expected take-up, alongside reduced supplies of the Pfizer jab and the need to preserve some stocks for second doses, meant that \"we may need to reduce the number of appointments that we schedule over the next few weeks\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"This sort of issue is not unexpected, given the huge complexities that the vaccination programme throws up.\n\n\"Importantly, we remain on course to meet the key targets we have set out.\n\n\"And we still anticipate, subject to supply, that everyone over the age of 50 will have received their first dose by early May.\"\n\nIt was revealed last month that the UK was set to face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer jab as the pharmaceutical company upgraded its production capacity.\n\nPfizer is upscaling production at its plant in Puurs, Belgium, in efforts to produce more doses than originally planned for 2021 - temporarily reducing deliveries to all European countries.\n\nThe American firm said at the time that this would mean \"fewer doses will be available for European countries at the end of January and the beginning of February.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many people have received the first dose of the vaccine in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out Vaccination rates by neighbourhood in your local authority and region People aged 40 and over vaccinated with at least one dose, as a percentage of the estimated population of over-40s Note: The map shows rates calculated using population estimates from the National Immunisation Management Service. They are based on GP registrations and people who are not registered with a GP may not be included. Some people may be counted in more than one neighbourhood if they have multiple GP registrations. Neighbourhood-level data only available in England.\n\nScotland's health secretary, Jeane Freeman, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme earlier on Thursday that the issue was \"about the supply into the UK, it is not about distribution around the UK\" and would therefore affect all four nations of the UK.\n\nShe added: \"That will reduce our expected supply next week and the week after by about somewhere between 120,000 and 190,000 doses a week overall over the two vaccines.\"\n\nBut the UK government said it was \"confident of our vaccine supply\" and that it would be able to hit its target of vaccinating everyone in the top four priority groups by next Monday.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"We are confident of supplies but we haven't commented on details of delivery schedules or movements of the vaccines.\"\n\nAnd a spokeswoman from Northern Ireland's Department of Health said: \"We are not aware of any Pfizer supply issues and are continuing to work through the priority groups as planned.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the deaths of a further 48 people in Scotland who had previously tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the total by that measure to 6,599.\n\nHowever, only 4% of the tests carried out on Wednesday returned positive results - down from 4.8% the previous day.\n\nThe R number - effectively the rate at which the virus is transmitted - continues to be below one.\n\nAnd the number of people in hospital wards with the virus has now fallen slightly below the peak from the first wave last year, with the number of patients in ICU units also gradually falling.", "Nargis Begum died after the car she was travelling in with her husband Mohammed Bashir broke down on a smart motorway\n\nHighways England should be investigated over possible manslaughter charges after a woman's death on a smart motorway, a coroner has said.\n\nNargis Begum, 62, from Sheffield, was killed after her car broke down on part of the M1 with no hard shoulder.\n\nHer own vehicle was hit and ploughed into her, and the length of time it went undetected was highlighted by South Yorkshire coroner Nicola Mundy.\n\nHighways England said it did not believe it had committed any offence.\n\nMs Mundy suggested the government-owned company should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consider if manslaughter charges were appropriate.\n\nPrevious hearings into Ms Begum's death in 2018 have heard that 16 minutes elapsed between her Nissan breaking down near Woodall Services and the crash.\n\nIt took a further six minutes before warning signs were activated.\n\nIt took 22 minutes for warning signs to be switched on after the car Mrs Begum's was travelling in broke down\n\nAt the latest pre-inquest review hearing at Doncaster Coroner's Court, Ms Mundy outlined factors behind her decision to refer the case.\n\nShe said \"nobody has responsibility for monitoring cameras\" feeding footage from smart motorways and drivers were unaware \"the onus is on them\" to report any incidents.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Mrs Begum's daughter, Saima Aktar, said she was pleased the CPS would look into her mum's death and the use of smart motorways.\n\nShe said it had been \"incredibly difficult\" for the family to come to terms with her mother's death, especially for her father Mohammed Bashir, who had been driving.\n\nHighways England is a Government-owned company responsible for managing England's motorways and major A-roads.\n\nNicholas Chapman, representing the firm, said footage from a CCTV camera covering the scene of the crash would have been sent to a \"busy\" regional control centre staffed by \"seven or eight\" people.\n\nBut he said staff would also be receiving images from about 450 other cameras and there was \"no constant or routine monitoring\".\n\nHe added that there was no evidence any of the operators did \"anything else other than conscientiously go about their duties\".\n\nThirty-eight people have been killed on smart motorways across the country in the past five years.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some who received the jab earlier in the vaccine programme will soon get their second dose\n\nThe number of vaccines supplied to Wales is expected to fall in the next few weeks, affecting some of the country's vaccination centres.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board says it is pausing vaccinations at four centres for a fortnight. Local politicians say it is because of a fall in the supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nOther vaccinations centres are expected to reduce their hours.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the drop in supply had been planned for.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the reduction in supply would affect the whole of the UK.\n\nIt comes after Wales became the first UK nation on Wednesday to have given first doses to 20% of the population, after a slow start.\n\nThe government said it was on course to meet its mid-February target of offering a jab to the over 70s, health care workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nBut officials are expecting fewer doses of the AstraZeneca jab - which has been mostly delivered in GP surgeries rather than vaccination centres - before deliveries return to recent levels from the beginning of March.\n\nHealth boards will determine how vaccines are delivered over the next two weeks, with mass vaccination centres changing their opening times to reflect the reduction in supply.\n\nHealth officials however, say they have sufficient stocks of Pfizer vaccine to significantly increase the number of second doses next week, as those who had a first dose in December are now due for their next injection.\n\nMr Drakeford told a Welsh Parliament committee: \"We know that we are going to get less vaccine over the next few weeks than we have over the past few weeks.\"\n\n\"That was planned for and known for and is accommodated in our plans which remain to complete the vaccination of those next five priority groups by the spring.\n\n\"So, without unforeseen barriers, we are confident that we will remain on track.\"\n\nHe said plans remain in place to complete vaccinations of the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nMr Drakeford said the Welsh NHS \"will be focusing our Pfizer vaccine supply on the second vaccination of those people in the top four priority groups who have already had their first vaccine\".\n\n\"We will be deploying the Astra Zeneca vaccine for first shots for people in the next five groups,\" he said.\n\n\"We will hear, I'm afraid, from people disappointed that the amount of supply they're getting is less than we've had over the last couple of weeks because we could use more.\n\n\"If there was more, we could use it, there's no doubt about that.\"\n\nThe vaccination programme will soon be targeting groups further down the priority list - with jabs due to be given to people over the age of 65 and people with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe military have been assisting with the vaccine programme\n\nHealth officials say the next two weeks' reduction in supply is planned for - allowing manufacturers to ramp up their production processes, which will lead to significant increases in vaccines from the start of March.\n\nWales is looking to deliver 103,000 more doses next week - 56,000 Astra-Zeneca vaccines will be mainly first doses and 46,000 Pfizer which will be to push on with second doses for those in the priority groups.\n\nAnother 108,000 doses would be given out the following week but then numbers would rise to 160,000 to 190,000 and accelerating.\n\nLast Sunday, Cwm Taf Morgannwg was the best performing of all health boards in giving doses to its 70 to 74-year-olds, according to Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThe health board's executive director Clare Williams, said the switch to the next phase of vaccination will allow a \"pause\" from 16 February \"for two weeks at our four community vaccination centres in Merthyr Tydfil, Abercynon, Rhondda and Bridgend\".\n\nVaccination of health and social care workers, and those aged 70-74, is now \"nearly complete,\" she said.\n\n\"It has always been our intention to bring vaccines as close to where people live as we possibly can. Therefore, during this two-week pause, we will be looking at the locations of all four of our community vaccination centres (CVCs) to ensure they are in the best locations for residents.\"\n\nThe board hopes to expand to seven CVCs, with new centres at Aberfan Leisure Centre, Llantrisant Leisure Centre and Cynon Valley Indoor Bowls in Mountain Ash, and Maesteg Leisure Centre.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Transparency is key in maintaining public trust. Everyone involved in the vaccine rollout has done a fantastic job in vaccinating 20% of the Welsh population, but we need to see the flow of vaccines into the four UK nations, to have confidence that we are getting our fair share.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative MS Angela Burns said: \"The Conservative UK Government - which is procuring the supplies - is confident that the steady stream of doses will continue, and this underlines the benefit of being in a strong United Kingdom that works for Wales.\"\n\nMass vaccination centres could see their hours reduced\n\nThe Welsh NHS has planned for reduced supplies over the coming weeks, as have health officials in other parts of the UK.\n\nAs a result, the news that some vaccine centres will close temporarily is no surprise to the people manning them.\n\nIt also comes as Wales appears to have reached its milestone of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nNo appointments should be cancelled as a result of the lower doses reaching Wales, and it is not expected to impact the longer-term plan to offer a dose to the top nine priority groups by the spring.\n\nFrom next week the vaccine statistics will also reflect the increasing numbers of second doses being administered in Wales, as those who were among the first to be vaccinated in the weeks before Christmas are now due to begin receiving their second dose.\n\nStocks of the Pfizer vaccine will be prioritised for second doses in the coming weeks, ensuring nobody faces a delay in receiving their full immunisation.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We have factored this into our plans and it will not affect people's appointments or delay when people are due to get their second dose.\n\n\"The supply of vaccines is expected to ramp up significantly from the beginning of March.\n\n\"Every dose of vaccine we receive will continue to be delivered immediately to all those who need it. Our vaccination teams continue to do an incredible job to vaccinate everyone as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe UK government spokesman said: \"We are confident that the steady, regular supply of doses will continue to support the vaccine rollout in the weeks ahead.\n\n\"If you get called for a vaccine, please continue go to your appointment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "Scotland's transport secretary says he is pressing the UK government to close a loophole which could allow travellers to avoid new Covid quarantine rules.\n\nMichael Matheson told BBC Scotland the current UK arrangements for enforced isolation in hotels were \"inadequate\".\n\nNew UK quarantine rules only apply to people arriving from 33 countries deemed \"high risk\", but Scotland's apply to all international travellers.\n\nThere are fears traveller could avoid the rules by flying into England first.\n\nEveryone arriving in Scotland on an international flight from next Monday will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days at a cost of £1,750.\n\nThe Scottish government has block-booked rooms at six hotels near Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.\n\nMr Matheson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme he believed there should be a \"comprehensive system\" across the UK on managed isolation to reduce the risk of importing variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our preferred option would be for individuals to be required to self-isolate at the point of entry into the UK, rather than travelling from one part of the UK to self-isolate when they get into Scotland or Northern Ireland or any other part of the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"[The UK government] want to continue to take a targeted approach on the way in which individuals enter into ports of entry in England.\n\n\"Our view is that remains inadequate in order to prevent the risk of new variants entering into the country and that is why we we're continuing to pursue and press the UK government to listen to the clinical advice and expert opinion from the Joint Biosecurity Centre that the existing system operating isn't adequate.\"\n\nAsked if Scotland would introduce controls on the border with England to ensure people travelling to Scotland via an English airport were complying, Mr Matheson said the Scottish government was looking at a \"range of measures\".\n\nMichael Matheson said the Scottish government believed people should isolate at their \"point of entry\" into the UK\n\nThe £1,750 cost of the stay in managed quarantine will have to be paid for by the passengers themselves.\n\nThe charge includes mandatory Covid tests on day two and day eight following arrival for one person - any additional travellers will incur supplemental costs.\n\nAnyone who breaches the measures could face criminal charges including culpable and reckless conduct.\n\nMr Matheson told the BBC that about 1,600 people travelled to Scotland from abroad last week.\n\n\"If you take out those who would be subject to an exemption, we estimate there would be the need for potentially around 1,200 individuals to self-isolate in a managed quarantine facility,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the things that may happen as a result of the policy we have taken forward, is that some of the airlines may choose to draw back on their international flights into Scotland.\n\n\"And there is some indication that the airlines may choose to cancel their flights coming into Scotland next week as a result of the managed isolation provision we have put in place, on the basis that they believe the demand for those flights is going to drop off dramatically as a result.\"\n\nThe oil and gas industry has said the 10-day quarantines could have a massive impact on business.\n\nTrevor Stapleton, from industry body Oil and Gas UK said: \"Given that they are doing critical roles and that the rotas have been planned a good year in advance, to suddenly say that that individual cannot go offshore - and therefore they have to quarantine for 10 days - would have a couple of outcomes.\n\n\"If they are doing a critical role then either they... have to stay on the installation for a further 10 days, and if that's not possible, if the person has to come back, then you are looking quite seriously at whether you can continue to operate that installation.\"\n\nMr Matheson said that there would be \"some level of exemptions\" provided for some passengers.\n\n\"We're looking at particular aspects around the oil and gas sector and also around areas such as defence and areas of critical infrastructure as well,\" he added.\n\nUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs on Tuesday that new UK border measures built on \"touch actions\" already taken to prevent news variants of Covid-19 entering the country.\n\nHe also said that the UK government was working on \"similarly tough schemes with the devolved administrations\".", "Improving air quality needs to be \"at the core\" of the UK's post-pandemic rebuild, MPs say\n\nAbout six million people aged over 65 in England are at high risk of lung damage and asthma attacks because of toxic air, according to a new report.\n\nIt finds that older people and those with lung disease who are most vulnerable to the effects of pollution are often the most exposed.\n\nThe new document is from the British Lung Foundation (BLF) and Asthma UK.\n\nIt comes as MPs also demand the government sets tougher targets for air pollution.\n\nImproving air quality needs to be \"at the core\" of the UK's post-pandemic rebuild, say members of a House of Commons committee that focuses on environmental issues.\n\nThe new report by two of the UK's leading respiratory charities finds that a quarter of all care homes and a third of all GP practices and hospitals in England are in places where particulate pollution exceeds the limits recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the new report.\n\nThe focus is on exposure to fine particulate matter.\n\nThis consists of tiny particles known as PM2.5s which have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres across - that is one-four-hundredth of a millimetre, or about 3% of the diameter of a human hair.\n\nPM2.5 particles are so small they can lodge in the lungs and even pass into the bloodstream. There's evidence they can damage blood vessels and other organs.\n\nParticulate pollution affects us all, but older people are more likely to suffer lung disease or have weakened lungs from aging.\n\nThere are no safe limits for PM2.5s, but the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that concentrations should not exceed 10 micrograms per cubic metre.\n\nThe BLF and Asthma UK report used data on PM2.5s collected in 2019. They found air pollution blackspots across the country that affected care homes.\n\nIn 36 local authorities, every single care home is located in areas with PM2.5 levels above the limits recommended by the WHO. These include Epping Forrest, Luton, Thurrock, Reading, Slough, Spelthorne, Broxbourne, Dartford and Watford.\n\nAir pollution is a major health issue in the UK, says Dr Nick Hopkinson, the medical director of the BLF.\n\nHe estimates that between 30,000 and 40,000 premature deaths each year are caused by exposure to toxic air.\n\nAir pollution also increases the chances of a person developing lung cancer and cardiovascular disease and may be associated with cognitive decline, including dementia.\n\n\"We know that older people are more likely to be exposed to particulates and we know that air quality is worse where poor people live\", Dr Hopkinson told BBC News.\n\nIt also found that 3,000 hospitals and GP practices are in areas where particulate pollution exceeds WHO recommended levels.\n\nThe current legal limit for PM2.5 in the UK is twice the WHO recommendation, at 20 micrograms per cubic metre.\n\nThe BLF and Asthma UK are demanding the government reduce that to the 10 micrograms per cubic metres limit recommended by the WHO.\n\nMy lungs bleed... Sometimes it can be so bad I'm actually sick because of the coughing\n\nThe advice has been echoed by the Commons environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) select committee.\n\nThe charities behind the report are also calling for the government to appoint a minister with specific responsibility for improving air quality in the UK and to publish a national health protection plan to safeguard those most at risk from toxic air.\n\nKimberlee Cole from Eastbourne is one of those people.\n\nShe has a lung condition called bronchiectasis, which is exacerbated by air pollution.\n\nHer lungs are so sensitive she can tell how polluted it is just by breathing in the air when she opens the door in the morning.\n\nWhen the particulate count is high, it irritates her lungs, making them produce excess mucus which leads to violent coughing fits that can last hours.\n\n\"Sometimes my lungs actually bleed\", Kim says. \"Sometimes it can be so bad I'm actually sick because of the coughing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK scientists estimate air pollution cuts British people's lives by an average of six months\n\nResponding to the report, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow said: \"Air pollution has reduced significantly since 2010 with emissions of fine particulate matter falling by 9% and emissions of nitrogen oxides are at their lowest level since records began. However, we know there is more to do.\n\n\"Our landmark Environment Bill will set at least two ambitious legally-binding air quality targets, with a primary focus on reducing exposure to particulate matter pollution. As part of this, we will consider the World Health Organization's guidelines for PM2.5.\n\n\"PHE (Public Health England) also continues to support health professionals improve our understanding of links between air pollution and health, including working with the National Institute for Care Excellence to develop guidelines and standards to better protect vulnerable people from air pollution.\"\n\nAlastair Lewis, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of York, welcomed the report's focus on the impact of air pollution on vulnerable communities.\n\n\"The largest inequalities arise based on issues like health and deprivation and deprived communities typically have the worst air quality,\" he says.\n\nHowever, he cautions that the figures for particulate pollution in the report are based on atmospheric models, rather than measurements made on the ground.\n\nHe also points out that much of the PM2.5 in the atmosphere is often formed in the atmosphere by chemical reactions of other gases.\n\nThese gases move between regions and even between countries so there may not be a local solution to the problem.\n\nDr Heather Walton, an expert in air pollution from Imperial College London, also welcomed the findings. She told BBC News: \"The summary of the health evidence is well balanced and the modelling used is a standard model used by Defra.\"\n\nShe said the WHO guidelines provided a useful focus, but added: \"Nonetheless, it is important to note that health effects continue down to concentrations below the WHO guidelines and so it is always beneficial to reduce PM2.5 concentrations in whatever way possible.\"", "A ScotRail train at the Yoker depot in Glasgow after a treacherous journey\n\nScotland has faced a second day of travel disruption after temperatures continued to plummet overnight.\n\nAltnaharra in the Highlands saw a reading of -17.1C, which was the lowest recorded in the UK since Boxing Day 2010.\n\nFurther heavy snowfall and freezing conditions have caused problems on the roads and across the rail network.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for snow is in place for most of central and eastern Scotland.\n\nForecasters warned that Wednesday night could be even colder and the cold spell is set to last until the weekend.\n\nThe temperature had already dropped to-13.8C in Kinbrace in Sutherland by 18:00.\n\nUnder Covid rules, people should only be travelling for essential purposes, such as work, education, essential shopping and exercise.\n\nIn a tweet, Road Policing Scotland described driving conditions as \"terrible\" after dealing with stranded vehicles on the A720 Edinburgh bypass.\n\n\"Before jumping in the car, ask 'is my journey essential?' If it is, drive safe. Slow and steady wins the day,\" they added.\n\nAn HGV stuck in the snow on the A720 Edinburgh City Bypass caused huge tailbacks on Wednesday\n\nSatellite images of the UK at about 10:48 show large areas of snow cover\n\nMore than 10cm (4in) of snow fell in parts of the Borders overnight, according to Jim Fraser, Scottish Borders Council's emergency planning officer.\n\nHe urged people to only travel if their journey is essential and added: \"The Met Office is continuing to forecast more persistent snow showers across some areas today.\n\n\"Our snowploughs and gritters are out clearing our primary road network and will move on to the secondary routes as and when conditions and resources allow.\"\n\nPolice urged people travelling to Edinburgh airport or nearby vaccine or testing sites to extra care\n\nIn Edinburgh, waste collections have been suspended so staff can help with the snow-clearing effort.\n\n\"We had our full fleet of gritters and mini-tractors out yesterday and throughout the night, treating roads, pavements and cycle lanes and clearing priority routes of snow,\" transport and environment convener councillor Lesley Macinnes said.\n\n\"The team have been focusing on Covid vaccination centres and key arterial routes to make sure anyone needing to make an essential journey or to receive a Covid vaccination is able to.\"\n\nMeanwhile a snow blower, tractor fitted with a snow plough and an excavator had to be used to reopen a road blocked by snow in the Cairngorms.\n\nHighland Council workers started the job last Friday and had the A939 Grantown on Spey to Bridge of Brown road cleared of tonnes of snow by Monday this week.\n\nWorkers spent several days clearing the A939 Grantown on Spey to Bridge of Brown road\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC North East Scot This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Clare Nasir said \"temperatures will plummet wherever you are\" on Wednesday, and strong winds and snow will be \"disruptive across many areas\".\n\nTemperatures will struggle to get above zero during the day with overnight temperatures expected to drop to -6C and below in exposed areas.\n\nAn amber weather warning expired at 21:00 after up to 20cm (8in) of snow fell in parts of central Scotland.", "The prime minister misspoke when he claimed Bridgend would become a great centre of battery manufacturing, the UK government has confirmed.\n\nBoris Johnson has been asked to apologise for his comments in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nLabour's Nia Griffith said they were \"deeply unfair\" when the town was \"reeling from the closure of Ford\".\n\nThe UK government said it is working with investors on battery manufacturing plans across the United Kingdom.\n\nPlaid Cymru called for a retraction for the comments, made in response to a question from Plaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts.\n\nNo plans have been announced for a battery factory in Bridgend.\n\nIn December, it was announced that a Britishvolt electric car battery factory that would create 3,000 jobs was going to be built near Blyth, Northumberland, rather than St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan as had been previously planned.\n\nThat announcement came days after a decision from another company, Ineos, to build its 4x4 vehicle in France rather than Bridgend - just 13 miles away from St Athan.\n\nBritishvolt had previously signed a memorandum of understanding with the Welsh Government in July 2020 to build the plant in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson had said Bridgend was \"going to be the one of the great centres of battery manufacturing in this country if not the world\".\n\nA video of Mr Johnson's comments was later tweeted by the Welsh Secretary Simon Hart.\n\nThe UK government later confirmed to BBC Wales that Mr Johnson had misspoken when he made the comments.\n\nSpeaking later, Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Whether intentional or negligent, the Prime Minister's answer misled the people of Wales, while the Secretary of State for Wales threw his support behind him.\"\n\n\"We are inured to his abuse of facts. But for Mr Hart to broadcast false information about investment in his own country - the interests of which he has a duty to defend - is reprehensible. I expect a retraction and apology.\"\n\nShadow Welsh Secretary Ms Griffiths said: \"It is deeply unfair for the prime minister to be so loose with his words when Bridgend has faced so many set backs on his watch. The community is still reeling from the closure of Ford and the loss of the Ineos project to France.\"\n\nPeter Hughes, Unite Wales Regional Secretary said: \"The prime minister's comments today regarding Bridgend are news to everyone in Wales.\"\n\nA UK government spokeswoman said they would \"continue to work with investors\" to progress plans for UK battery manufacturing.\n\n\"We are investing heavily to expand the UK's supply chain for cleaner vehicles, while working with our auto industry to ensure it remains competitive for years to come.\n\n\"As part of the prime minister's Ten Point Plan, we recently announced nearly £500m funding - as part of a wider commitment of up to £1 billion - to support the electrification of vehicles and their supply chains, including developing Gigafactories across all parts of the UK.\n\n\"We will continue to work with investors to progress plans to mass manufacture the batteries needed for the next generation of electric vehicles.\"", "The go-ahead for the next phase of Britain’s controversial HS2 high-speed rail network has been approved.\n\nPhase 2A of the project will be built from the West Midlands to Crewe, and was given Royal Assent on Thursday.\n\nSupporters of HS2 say it will spur economic growth, help level up the country, and provide greener transport.\n\nBut environmentalists say it will increase carbon emissions and can’t be justified now people have embraced video conferencing such as Zoom.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Whatever your view of this project, HS2 is now a reality - heading north, creating jobs and building a brighter future for our country.\n\n\"This vital project is at the heart of the government's commitments to build back better from the pandemic, tackle the North-South divide and drive growth across the country.\n\n\"I look forward to seeing spades in the ground to get this section built and deliver the benefits of high-speed rail to the North as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nBut critics argue that the justification for building HS2 was ever-increasing rail passenger numbers. And the government now admits future passenger growth is unknowable.\n\nHS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson recently said: \"If the first reaction to the pandemic is to cancel major infrastructure projects committed to by successive governments now for more than a decade… that would have a chilling impact on the construction sector in the UK and inward investment.”\n\nA year since the prime minister announced that HS2 would be built, another phase has been given the go ahead. But this project still has more hurdles to go.\n\nWhile phase 2a was anticipated to be signed off, the rest of the proposed route - from Crewe to Manchester and the eastern leg, connecting Birmingham and Leeds - are both still in the works. Businesses and local politicians campaigning for these routes have called on the government to commit to the rest of the project to avoid an east-west divide in transport in the North.\n\nThe project still has its critics, from environmental campaigners to those who argue new capacity isn't needed with new remote ways of working.\n\nPassenger services won't start on the first parts of the line until at least 2029, and arguments about the project aren't over yet.\n\nMPs voted overwhelmingly for the project, but some still question its value for money.\n\nChesham and Amersham MP Dame Cheryl Gillan asked whether the cost could be justified when ministers “have not established that the future use of public transport will be at a level that will make this railway viable in any way, shape or form?”\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas called it a “vanity project”. She says travel patterns have been revolutionised during Covid, and won't return to previous levels. And she complained: “It’ll take decades for the project to have even a chance of becoming carbon neutral because of the emissions from building the line.\n\n\"Meanwhile dozens of ancient woodlands are being put at risk or damaged – the very woodlands we should be protecting to help tackle climate change.”\n\nGreen campaigners are still hiding out in tunnels under Euston station to make their protest against the scheme’s impact on the climate and wildlife.\n\nTony May, Emeritus Transport Professor at Leeds University, said: “Even on optimistic predictions HS2 takes 65 years from its completion before its carbon saving (through low-carbon trains) has offset the carbon costs of construction.\n\n“So up to 2050 (the critical deadline for achieving nearly zero emissions) HS2 is a carbon burden on the country. It doesn't save carbon at all.” The company says it is working on smarter designs to reduce the carbon impact of the materials it uses.\n\nThe first phase of HS2 between London and the West Midlands is already well underway. There are 240 sites now active along the Phase One route.\n\nHS2 says it employs over 13,000 people with 400 apprenticeships, and tens of thousands more jobs supported through the supply chain.\n\nCampaigners have staged anti-HS2 protests in London and elsewhere.\n\nPassenger services are scheduled to start between stations at London’s Old Oak Common and Birmingham Curzon Street between 2029-33. Phase 2A’s opening will coincide with the London–Birmingham route. HS2 A will carry six long-distance high speed services per hour.\n\nSara Williams, chief executive of Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce, said: “Extending the high speed line northwards will generate thousands of contract opportunities for local businesses and provide a vital boost for the Staffordshire economy.”\n\nCritics say the government could have created far more jobs for the same amount of money by developing a labour-intensive national scheme to renovate leaky homes – an activity that would actively reduce carbon emissions.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' call for people to stop making summer holiday plans has been branded \"puerile and nonsensical\" by a senior travel industry professional.\n\n\"We're talking about the end of May or June, which is a long way off,\" said Sue Ockwell of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO).\n\nMr Shapps said there was too much uncertainty because of Covid.\n\nBut Ms Ockwell said booking breaks gave hope to holidaymakers and the industry.\n\n\"It's something for people to look forward to and to keep travel companies going,\" she told the BBC.\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Please don't go ahead and book holidays. I simply don't know the answer to the question of where we'll be up to this summer.\n\n\"It's too early to give that information. The best advice to people is: do nothing at this stage.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later said it was \"just too early for people to be certain about what we'll be able to do this summer\".\n\nHe added that he understood \"why people want to make plans now, but we're just going to have to be a little bit more patient\".\n\nMr Shapps' comments have been seen by many in the travel sector as dealing a blow to hopes of a swift recovery for tourism.\n\nFor Ms Ockwell, they are symptomatic of a government that has failed to listen to her and her colleagues.\n\n\"It's highly frustrating. The government doesn't compare notes with anyone in the travel industry,\" she said. \"They could save getting a lot of egg on their faces if they did.\"\n\nAITO represents about 120 specialist and independent tour operators in the UK.\n\nMs Ockwell said the industry understood \"the scale of the challenges\" facing the government over coronavirus, but added that tourism brought great benefits to the UK economy and was in need of sector-specific help.\n\n\"Holidays bring in a lot of money, holidays employ a lot of people and they're good for us,\" she said.\n\n\"We just want to be allowed to trade. That's all we're asking,\" she added.\n\n\"We're not forcing people to make bookings. We want people to be allowed to make their own common-sense judgements.\"\n\nRyanair's Michael O'Leary is \"optimistic\" British people will be allowed to travel from May onwards\n\nBrian Strutton, general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"Airlines are drowning but, rather than throwing us a life raft, the transport secretary has just thrown a bucket of cold water at us.\"\n\nAnd trade organisation Abta said waiting until the UK's vaccination programme was completed before allowing people to travel abroad meant \"we'll lose another summer season to the pandemic\".\n\nSeveral big travel companies, including Tui and Ryanair, have said they expect to see a strong rebound in bookings this summer.\n\nRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC he remained \"optimistic\" that British people would be allowed to travel from May onwards.\n\n\"Many companies will not see their way through next winter if we go through a second summer of no bookings,\" he added.\n• None UK holidays: What are the rules?", "The clock has struck midnight (16:00 GMT) in China, ushering in the Lunar New Year.\n\nIt is normally the happiest time of the year in China, when families gather to have meals and set off fireworks.\n\nBut because of coronavirus outbreaks in the country's north-east, many people will be celebrating alone this year.\n\nA “unique but safe” new year is how some state media outlets have been framing the occasion.\n\nOn the bright side, it has been four days since China recorded a domestically transmitted case of the coronavirus.\n\nSo, with China's vaccination programme well under way, there is a lot of optimism for the Year of the Ox.\n\nAs for the Year of the Rat, state media outlets appear to be pleased to see the back of it.\n\nOn its Weibo account, the People’s Daily newspaper posted a cartoon of an ox chasing a rat carrying parcels, and a coronavirus, out of an apartment.\n\nMeanwhile, in a reminder of more normal times, the annual New Year countdown show - the Spring Festival gala - returned to being the large-scale spectacle audiences expect it to be.\n\nCelebrations - more scaled down than usual - were seen across China to mark to Lunar New Year Image caption: Celebrations - more scaled down than usual - were seen across China to mark to Lunar New Year", "The World Health Organization recommends using the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca even in countries tackling new variants of coronavirus.\n\nSome new forms of the virus appear to make vaccines less effective.\n\nThe WHO also says the vaccine can be used in people aged over 65, which some countries have advised against.\n\nSpacing out the two doses, as is happening in the UK, makes the vaccine more effective, it advises.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is seen as the \"vaccine for the world\" as it is cheap, can be mass produced and is stored in a standard fridge.\n\nHowever, it has attracted controversy about its effectiveness against new variants, whether it should be used in the elderly and how far apart the doses should be given, due to a lack of data.\n\nThe WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, known as Sage, has been scrutinising evidence from vaccine trials.\n\nIts interim recommendations say the vaccine is 63% effective overall.\n\nHowever, early data from trials in South Africa showed the vaccine was offering \"minimal protection\" against mild and moderate disease in young people.\n\nThe WHO's director of immunisation, Dr Katherine O'Brien, said the South African study was \"inconclusive\" and it was \"plausible\" the vaccine would still prevent severe disease.\n\nA variant in the country has acquired mutations that seem to help it evade immunity from vaccines and from previous infections.\n\nHowever Oxford scientists still expect their vaccine to prevent people from becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 and needing hospital treatment.\n\n\"There is no reason not to recommend its use even in countries that have circulation of the variant,\" said Dr Alejandro Cravioto, the chairman of WHO's Sage.\n\nThere has been criticism about a lack of data on the effectiveness of the vaccine in the elderly with some countries, including France and Germany, advising against using it in the over 65s.\n\nThe WHO said even though there was a small number of over 65s in the trials, other studies showed older people had a nearly identical immune response to younger adults so the vaccine should be used.\n\nThe scientific advisers also said giving two doses eight-12 weeks apart increased the vaccine's effectiveness and provided greater protection.\n\nInitially, the WHO had recommended a gap of up to six weeks between doses, only in exceptional circumstances.\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert, the chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, said: \"It is excellent news that the WHO has recommended use of the Sars CoV-2 vaccine first produced in Oxford.\n\n\"This decision paves the way to more widespread use of the vaccine to protect people against Covid-19 and gain control of the pandemic.\"\n\nBoris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, said he welcomed the WHO's support for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, and for the longer interval between doses.\n\nIn the UK, more than 13 million people have now received a vaccine to protect against Covid-19. On Wednesday, another 1,001 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test for coronavirus.\n\nGlobally, there have been more than 2.3 million deaths with the disease during the pandemic", "Amsterdam ousted London as the largest financial trading centre in Europe last month as Brexit-related changes to finance rules came into force.\n\nAbout €9.2bn (£8.1bn) worth of shares were traded on Amsterdam exchanges each day, against €8.6bn in London.\n\nFollowing new Brexit rules, EU-based banks wanting to buy European shares currently cannot trade via London, meaning a loss of fees for City firms.\n\nBank of England chief Andrew Bailey has warned the EU not to cut off London.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Bailey said there were signs that the EU planned to cut the UK off from its financial markets.\n\nFollowing the new Brexit trading rules coming into effect, there are talks to harmonise rules over financial regulations - so-called equivalence\n\nBoth sides are working towards a March deadline to agree an \"equivalence\" regime under which the UK and Europe would recognise the other's regulations.\n\nNumber 10, said it remained \"open\" to discussions with the EU on the equivalence issue.\n\n\"Despite the fact that we've supplied all of the necessary paperwork and are one of the world's most preeminent financial centres, with a strong regulatory system, the EU still haven't granted us full equivalence.\"\n\n\"This has meant that some EU shares that were previously traded on UK venues have moved to the EU venues on advice of the European regulator, but our position is fragmentation of share trading across financial centres is in no one's interest,\" it added.\n\nIt's called invisible trade - but selling services abroad is something the UK excels in, particularly when it comes to banking.\n\nFinancial services makes up about 7% of the UK's income in total, and about 40% of banking and investment's business abroad is with the EU.\n\nBut its needs were largely invisible from the deal struck with the EU at the end of last year. The diversion of share trading is the first visible, if inevitable, sign of the impact.\n\nAnd that business may not return to London. Even if the UK government and Brussels can ultimately reach agreement that financial services can get more access to each others markets, on the basis the UK's standards can be deemed \"equivalent\" to the EU's, share dealing may not be part of that.\n\nThe UK government hopes Brexit will enhance the City's dominance, with scope to deepen relationships with other financial centres. But that's a work in progress.\n\nThe boss of one share exchange described a recently-struck deal that allows Swiss shares to be traded in London as being like a free kick in a football match rather than an equaliser: it doesn't compensate for what has been lost in loosening ties with Europe.\n\nMr Bailey said the City wanted to reach an agreement on financial rules, but would not accept being \"dictated\" to by Brussels. He said EU demands had so far been unreasonable.\n\n\"I'm afraid a world in which the EU dictates and determines which rules and standards we have in the UK isn't going to work,\" the governor said in his annual Mansion House speech to the City, this year held virtually.\n\n\"Is the EU going to cut the UK off from itself? There are signs of an intention to do so at the moment but I think that would be a mistake,\" he added.\n\n\"We have to state the argument for global standards and markets and openness and if we all sign up to that then there's no need to go in that direction.\"\n\nFinancial services - a key driver of the UK economy - were largely omitted from the last-minute Brexit trade deal agreed in December.\n\nThe City generates about £135bn in business annually, with financial institutions earning big fees from trading stocks and shares. But London's financial centre has been cut off from EU markets since 1 January.\n\nBut Brussels says it will not be rushed into decisions on granting access for UK financial firms, as it wants to see how far UK rules will diverge from its own.\n\nIt follows fears the UK will adopt a low-regulation Singapore-style model that would undercut the EU.\n\nMr Bailey said the EU was holding the UK to unrealistically high standards on the issue of divergence, saying it would in effect make the City a \"rule taker\".\n\nHe added that while some UK rules would change post-Brexit, sudden deregulation was not on the cards.\n\n\"Let me be clear, none of this means that the UK should or will create a low-regulation, high-risk, anything-goes financial centre and system,\" he said.\n\n\"We have an overwhelming body of evidence that such an approach is not in our own interests, let alone anyone else's.\"\n\nDespite the current situation, Mr Bailey said that London would \"undoubtedly continue as one of the world's leading if not the leading financial centre\".\n\nLast month Mr Bailey said up to 7,000 finance jobs had so far been relocated from London to rival centres in the EU - well down on predictions of as many as 50,000 losses.", "The provocateur and pornographer was a divisive figure\n\nLarry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine and self-proclaimed \"smut peddler who cares\", has died aged 78.\n\nFlynt died in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles with family by his side, according to his manager.\n\nHe frequently courted controversy and was subject to lawsuits during a career spanning five decades.\n\nFlynt was shot in 1978 while standing outside a courthouse in Georgia during a trial for obscenity.\n\nThe assassination attempt left him a paraplegic. He had his wheelchair gold-plated and lined with velvet.\n\nThe man alleged to be the perpetrator was never charged. However he was executed years later, in 2013, in connection with a series of unrelated murders.\n\nBorn in Kentucky in 1942, Flynt was a school drop-out who began his career in the adult industry by launching strip clubs in Ohio along with his brother.\n\nA newsletter about those clubs evolved into Hustler magazine, which was first published in 1974.\n\nAccording to Flynt, at the height of circulation the publication was bought by about three million people a month.\n\nHis pioneering legal battles were depicted in the 1996 film The People vs Larry Flynt, in which he was played by Woody Harrelson.\n\nOne lawsuit in particular saw Flynt sued for a sexual parody cartoon of televangelist Jerry Falwell that appeared in Hustler in 1983.\n\nFlynt won his case on appeal to the US Supreme Court\n\nThe cartoon, a fake advert, showed Mr Falwell saying his first sexual encounter had been with his mother in an outhouse.\n\nMr Falwell sued Flynt for $50m (£36m) for libel and won in a lower court, but the case went up to the US Supreme Court.\n\nFlynt then won the case with a unanimous 8-0 verdict, which reinforced free speech rights and protections for satire in the US.\n\nHis business empire extended into other areas of entertainment and was thought to have a $150m turnover at one point, according to Reuters.\n\nAway from pornography, he launched and lost long-shot bids at political office and was married five times.\n\nMinda Gowen, spokeswoman for Larry Flynt Publications, said Wednesday that he died from \"from the recent onset of a sudden illness\".\n\nHis brother told US media that the death was caused by heart failure.", "Shauna Donnelly said the verdict meant she was \"finally able to move forward\" with her life\n\nA woman cleared of murdering her baby son feared she would be jailed because nobody believed she \"hadn't done anything wrong\".\n\nShauna Donnelly, 25, was charged after taking Ellis to hospital in October 2019 where he was pronounced dead.\n\nShe was eventually acquitted at Teesside Crown Court on Wednesday after prosecutors offered no evidence.\n\nHowever, the case saw her subjected to \"traumatic\" abusive threats, her solicitor said.\n\n\"I knew I hadn't done anything wrong but nobody seemed to believe me,\" Ms Donnelly, of Teesside, said in a statement released after the case was dropped.\n\n\"I honestly thought I was going to prison for the rest of my life.\"\n\nMedical experts said it was likely Ellis was stillborn after Ms Donnelly's placenta was damaged\n\nMs Donnelly took her son's lifeless body to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough following a home birth.\n\nA post-mortem examination proved inconclusive, but she was charged with her son's murder.\n\nThe defence commissioned medical reports from five expert witnesses and it was agreed Ms Donnelly's son was likely born in an extremely compromised state as a result of a hypoxic injury, believed to have been caused by a significant placental abruption.\n\nThey agreed that her son, if born alive, was extremely poorly and so unwell that she could have believed the child was stillborn.\n\nIn court on Wednesday, prosecutors accepted there was a lack of evidence Ms Donnelly had harmed her baby and that it was likely Ellis was stillborn after her placenta was damaged.\n\nBut Ms Donnelly had became the target of abuse, particularly online, including calls for her to be sterilised.\n\nHer solicitor, Eric Watson, said: \"On top of the traumatic experience of giving birth at home to a stillborn child, she suffered cruel comments from strangers.\n\n\"People who knew nothing of Shauna or the case were threatening to burn her house down, to assault her and to find her and harm her in a serious way.\n\n\"I would like to think they would reflect on the harm such bile can inflict.\"\n\nMs Donnelly said she had to deal with the death of her son, a murder charge and the abuse of strangers.\n\n\"I couldn't think about anything else,\" she said. \"Even now, I know the judge and the barristers know I didn't do anything, people still shout things at me and people still talk about me.\n\n\"The total strangers who made comments on the newspaper articles threatening to do all sorts of awful things to me should listen to what the judge has said about me being innocent of this and not say such nasty things about people in the future.\n\n\"It felt awful, but now I'm finally able to move forward with my life.\"\n\nMr Watson added: \"She is slowly coming to terms with getting her life back to normal.\n\n\"There will be no champagne corks popping in the Donnelly household, there's just relief.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA mother who suffocated her disabled 10-year-old boy after reaching her \"wits' end\" during lockdown has been detained in hospital indefinitely.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThe judge said Dylan was \"an indirect victim of interruption to normal life caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nFreeman was sentenced to a hospital order under the Mental Health Act without a limit of time.\n\nMrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said it was a \"rare and desperately sad\" case.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nProsecutor Gareth Patterson QC said Dylan required round-the-clock care and had attended a special school five days a week but had been unable to go during the lockdown as it had shut.\n\nThis took a toll on Freeman, the court heard.\n\nMr Patterson added: \"Last year during the first lockdown and through the summer she struggled more and more with her son.\n\nDylan's body was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nPolice found Dylan in a bedroom lying on his back covered by a duvet after Freeman had walked into a police station to report she had killed her child.\n\nA post-mortem found he died from restriction of the airways from pieces of sponge that had been stuffed in his mouth.\n\nPsychiatrist Dr Martin Lock said Freeman had \"developed psychotic symptoms when under very heavy stress because of the Covid-19 lockdown\".\n\nRequests were made to increase support for Dylan's care but Ealing Council appeared to be \"slow\" in responding, the court heard.\n\nMr Patterson said: \"The council does seem to have been slow in determining her requests for increased financial assistance and she felt let down by the council.\"\n\nThe court heard a serious case review was expected to conclude shortly.\n\nSentencing Freeman, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said the burden of looking after Dylan meant she had reached her \"wits' end\".\n\nShe added: \"I have no doubt at all that you were a remarkably loving and dedicated mother to a vulnerable child until multiple pressures overwhelmed you and your mind was swamped by a destructive illness with florid psychotic elements.\"\n\nAfter sentencing, Ealing Council said Dylan had received 30 hours of care a week - 16 of which were council-funded.\n\n\"It is clear from the evidence from the review so far, that this death could not have been foreseen,\" it said.\n\n\"This tragic incident reflects the most extreme and traumatic aspect of the challenges experienced by many parents in trying to do their best to care for their children during a global pandemic.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said they \"could not believe\" the man had attempted to drive the car\n\nA man has been charged with dangerous driving after being stopped in Dundee with snow covering almost his entire front and rear windscreens.\n\nPolice said it was \"about the most extreme example of lack of preparation\" that they had ever seen.\n\nOfficers said the man had been driving with \"practically zero-visibility\" when stopped.\n\nThe incident took place in the Dunsinane Industrial Estate on Thursday.\n\nThe car was stopped in an industrial estate in Dundee\n\nInsp Greg Burns said it was \"miraculous\" that no-one had been injured as a result.\n\nHe said: \"Our officers genuinely could not believe what they were seeing when they saw this car today.\n\n\"This man has put himself and other road users and pedestrians at huge risk by driving the car in this condition.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Edinburgh, another driver was charged with dangerous driving when police spotted their windscreen covered in ice.\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.", "Social media posts by Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on The Mandalorian, have been called \"abhorrent and unacceptable\" by Lucasfilm.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson said: \"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future.\"\n\nThe hashtag #FireGinaCarano trended on Twitter for hours following a story shared on her Instagram, that some branded anti-Semitic.\n\nIt has since been deleted.\n\nIn the post, the former MMA fighter compared \"hating someone for their political views\" in the US to the treatment of Jewish people leading up to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.\n\nMillions of Jewish people and other minorities were killed at the hands of the Nazis during World War Two.\n\nThis isn't the first time the 38-year-old actress, who's played Cara Dune in the hit show on Disney Plus for two seasons, has been controversial on social media.\n\nBack in November Star Wars fans called for her to to be fired after she put up several posts supporting Donald Trump.\n\nShe openly questioned whether vote counting during the US presidential election was fair, something President Donald Trump had said repeatedly.\n\nThe actor tweeted: \"We need to clean up the election process so we are not left feeling the way we do today. Put laws in place that protect us against voter fraud.\"\n\nThere has never been any evidence to support President Trump's claims of voter fraud.\n\nShe has also previously made fun of people who wear masks during the pandemic.\n\nStar Wars actor John Boyega, and Carano's Mandalorian co-stars Carl Weathers and Pedro Pascal have also posted about their own beliefs, whether it's support of Joe Biden or for the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nBack in August Carano was asked to show her support for BLM. When she didn't post anything online, some on social media accused her of being racist.\n\nShe responded saying: \"In my experience, screaming at someone that they are a racist when they are indeed NOT a racist & any post and/or research you do will show you those exact facts, then I'm sorry, these people are not 'educators.' They are cowards and bullies.\"\n\nShe's also been defended by some fans, saying she's a victim of \"cancel culture\".\n\nAfter the release of Lucasfilm's statement, some social media users launched a campaign to boycott Disney Plus, the streaming service which airs The Mandalorian.\n\nThe hashtag #CancelDisneyPlus has also been trending.\n\nVariety is also reporting that Gina Carano has been dropped by her agent United Talent Agency.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None How my grandad survived the Holocaust", "Nearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England last year were disabled, figures suggest.\n\nSome 30,296 of the 50,888 deaths between January and November were people with a disability, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows.\n\nIt also suggests the risk of death is three times greater for more severely disabled people.\n\nCharities have called for urgent government action, describing the data as \"horrifying and tragic\".\n\nThe ONS figures suggest disabled people were disproportionately affected by the pandemic - accounting for 17.2% of the study population but nearly 60% of coronavirus deaths.\n\nAmong women, the risk of death involving coronavirus was 3.5 times greater for more-disabled women - defined as having their day-to-day activities \"limited a lot\" by their health - compared with non-disabled women.\n\nFor less-disabled women, defined as having their day-to-day activities \"limited a little\", the risk was two times greater.\n\nCompared to non-disabled men, the data showed that the risk was 3.1 times greater for more-disabled men, and 1.9 times greater for less-disabled men.\n\nLooking at people with a medically diagnosed learning disability, the risk of death involving Covid was 3.7 times greater for both men and women compared with people who did not have a learning disability.\n\nThe ONS said an \"important part\" of the increased risk was because disabled people were \"disproportionately exposed to a range of generally disadvantageous circumstances\" compared with non-disabled people.\n\nJames Taylor, from disability equality charity Scope, said disabled people had been \"hardest hit\" by the pandemic and there was \"an urgent need for the government to act\".\n\n\"Behind these horrifying and tragic figures are individual stories of disabled people whose lives have been cruelly cut short by coronavirus.\"\n\nRichard Kramer, chief executive of national disability charity Sense, said that throughout the pandemic disabled people had \"largely been forgotten, left without sufficient support, information and communication\".\n\n\"The government must act now, planning its way out of lockdown with disabled people and their family's needs prioritised, to show that it's learnt from the mistakes of the past year.\"", "Asthma sufferers have called for clarity from government over \"confusion\" about whether they will be prioritised for the Covid vaccine.\n\nIt has confirmed the most severe cases who have been advised to shield will be prioritised for the jab by 15 February.\n\nAnd younger people requiring \"repeated or continuous\" use of oral steroids or with previous hospital admissions will be vaccinated ahead of their peers.\n\nThe NHS defined non-severe asthmatics as being at \"moderate risk\" from Covid.\n\nAsthma UK previously said it understood anyone using a steroid inhaler would be prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nA guide still on the government website also states the vaccine will be offered to \"adults with...breathing problems like asthma (use of steroid inhaler often)\".\n\nBut separately the government has said the priority groups for vaccination would include all those who need regular \"systemic\" steroids for asthma.\n\n\"Systemic\" steroids are nearly always in the form of tablets, though Asthma UK is still in the process of confirming whether priority six will include people using steroid inhalers.\n\nThe government said it was following independent experts' advice on how vaccines should be allocated.\n\nJames, a 37-year-old commercial manager from Chesterfield, said he had been left off the list despite suffering from both moderate asthma and having suffered a pulmonary embolism as a result of a rare blood clotting disorder that has caused lasting lung damage.\n\nHe believes he has \"fallen through the cracks\" despite vascular disease appearing on the priority list, leaving him feeling frustrated and forgotten.\n\nAnd Jeff Hunt, a 50-year-old from Somerset, said his moderate asthma had not required hospitalisation because he had been \"extremely cautious\" - but that didn't mean his condition didn't put him at risk.\n\n\"I'm really frustrated with the government guidance being so unclear,\" he said. \"It doesn't feel like it makes sense\".\n\n\"We're all being called for an annual flu jab but now we're being told we're at no greater risk than the average population,\" he added.\n\nMr Hunt criticised the lack of consistency in the guidance meaning some people were getting the jab while others on the same medication were not.\n\nOthers spoke of a lack of clarity over what \"severe asthma\" meant, and being made to feel \"troublesome\" or like they were trying to jump the queue when they enquired.\n\nThe nine priority groups are based on preventing deaths in the most vulnerable and protecting health and care staff.\n\nSince age is the biggest risk factor for Covid deaths, the first three groups are:\n\nGroup four covers people who are \"clinically extremely vulnerable\" - those who have received a letter advising them to shield.\n\nWhen it comes to asthma, the confusion has been around who falls into priority group six - those who are not formally shielding but are considered clinically \"at risk\".\n\nThat group should be vaccinated after healthy over-65s but before anyone younger than that without health conditions\n\nAnd for asthma it appears to have similar criteria to group four - those advised to shield - but the difference is likely to be in the dose of steroids taken or whether they are taking any other medications, such as ones which target antibodies in the blood to prevent inflammation.\n\nWell-controlled asthma that doesn't require oral steroids is not thought to increase someone's risk of dying from Covid.\n\nThis is based on the medical records of people with asthma who contracted Covid over the past year.\n\nIt is understood the government will aim to offer the jab to group six - and all over-50s - by May.\n\nAnd the government aims to vaccinate everyone in the first four priority groups by mid-February.\n\nAsthma UK and British Lung Foundation chief executive Sarah Woolnough said: \"We know that many people with asthma are confused about when they will get the vaccine and what priority group they fall into.\n\n\"We've been urging the government for some months to provide clarity on this, as we know it's a worrying time for lots of people.\n\n\"And we now have more information.\"\n\nBut, she added: \"It may be hard to accurately identify everyone in this [priority-six] group.\n\n\"The government should err on the side of caution in decision-making and cast its net wide when making decisions about definitions, to ensure that people with asthma who are at risk won't be missed.\"\n\nAs well as being an indicator of how severe someone's asthma is, steroids suppress the immune system, making it harder to fight off viruses.\n\nMs Woolnough said: \"Reassuringly, evidence now shows that people with well controlled asthma that is not severe don't seem to be at higher risk of dying from Covid-19.\"\n\nBut some people with asthma have expressed concerns online about their wider health including the risks of long Covid.\n\nNHS England said it would be offering vaccines based on the government's nine categories and patients' medical records.\n\nCLARIFICATION: The article previous stated all steroid-users would be prioritised and has been updated to reflect that only those using oral steroids have been confirmed. The BBC is seeking further clarification over inhaled steroids.", "More than five million people have fallen into a \"fragile\" financial position owing to the coronavirus crisis, with young working adults among the hardest hit.\n\nPeople from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds were also more seriously affected than others, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nThe regulator said \"the pain is not being shared equally\".\n\nAn estimated 14.2 million people are vulnerable to a financial shock.\n\nThe regulator's Financial Lives survey is a benchmark for the state of the nation's finances.\n\nA total of 16,000 people were interviewed in February last year, with another 22,000 spoken to in October, after the pandemic struck.\n\nAs a result, it gives a snapshot of the first six months of restrictions caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe findings suggest that a quarter of the UK adult population now have low financial resilience. That means they have debts that are hard to manage, low savings, and are vulnerable to a financial shock such as a large, unexpected bill.\n\nThe number of people who fell into that category rose by 5.1 million between February and October.\n\nMany people have cut back on essentials, around a fifth expect to borrow from family and friends, and one in 10 plan to use a food bank.\n\n\"While there are some positives in the data, many of the findings are worrying,\" said Nisha Arora, director of consumer and retail Policy at the FCA.\n\n\"The pain is not being shared equally with a higher than average proportion of younger and BAME adults becoming vulnerable since March. It is likely the picture will have got worse since we conducted the survey.\"", "United Airlines plans to buy 200 flying electric taxis that it hopes will fly passengers to the airport within the next five years.\n\nThe US airline is one of the first major carriers to commit to the purchase of flying taxis.\n\nUnited Airlines will also invest in flying taxi firm Archer as part of a $1.1bn (£800m) deal to develop the aircraft.\n\nThe aircraft need regulatory approval before the purchase can go ahead.\n\nUnited Airlines will team up with US regional carrier Mesa Airlines to buy Archer's electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of a $1bn order.\n\nThe deal is seen as a stamp of approval for start-up Archer, which said it will launch its shares on the US stock market following the deal.\n\nOther investors in the start-up include carmaker Stellantis, the new company formed last month by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Group.\n\nUnited and Mesa said they predict using the taxis to fly passengers over congested highways to hub airports.\n\nCalifornia-based Archer says the taxis will be capable of flying a distance of 60 miles (95km) at 150 miles an hour (240km/h) and could nearly halve carbon dioxide emissions for passengers travelling to the airport.\n\n\"With the right technology, we can curb the impact aircraft have on the planet, but we have to identify the next generation of companies who will make this a reality early and find ways to help them get off the ground,\" United Airlines chief executive Scott Kirby said in a statement.\n\nUnited and Mesa have the option to buy another $500m worth of aircraft under the deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, airlines have been forced to slash costs as planes have been grounded during the travel slump.\n\nUnited Airlines lost more than $7bn last year and has relied on US government aid to avoid laying off thousands of workers.\n\nSome economists see the pandemic as an opportunity to use these stimulus funds to develop carbon-neutral air travel.\n\nAnother flying taxi firm Volocopter is planning journeys into city centres using its VoloCity electric air taxi.\n\nHowever, ride-sharing business Uber sold off its flying taxi unit Elevate in December.", "Royal Mail is to keep on 10,000 of the 33,000 temporary workers it took on to help it through the Christmas period.\n\nThe parcel service said it had its busiest-ever three months between October and December last year, delivering 496 million parcels.\n\n\"Our busiest day during the quarter saw 32% more parcels delivered than our busiest day during the first national lockdown in 2020,\" it said.\n\nBut it apologised for delivery delays over Christmas and the New Year.\n\n\"Given these record volumes, we recognise that at times our service during the period was not always as we would have wished,\" said Royal Mail chairman Keith Williams.\n\n\"But thanks to the efforts of our team, the retention of around 10,000 of the 33,000 flexible workers from the Christmas peak, and the introduction of new processes, we have been making encouraging progress.\"\n\nThe company delivered almost 12 million parcels on its busiest day of the year.\n\nMr Williams thanked staff who he said \"have worked incredibly hard to deliver these exceptional volumes at a time when many units have experienced rising levels of Covid-19 related absences, including necessary self-isolation\".\n\nLast month, Royal Mail agreed what unions called a \"landmark\" deal to settle a long-running two year dispute with workers over pay and conditions.\n\n\"With the dispute now over, bosses at Royal Mail will be focused on looking ahead and tackling the rising competition from online retail delivery contracts which have boomed during the pandemic,\" said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.\n\nUnder the agreement, Royal Mail is able to prioritise investment in its fast-growing parcels division.\n\nIn the three months to the end of December its parcels division saw volumes grow 31% and revenue climb 37%.\n\nGrowth was driven by e-commerce and Black Friday and Christmas, as well as the introduction of tighter Covid-19 restrictions regionally across the UK, it said.\n\nGiven the stronger-than-expected trading, Royal Mail said it now predicted group adjusted operating profit would be \"well in excess of £500m\" for the 2020-21 financial year.\n\n\"Royal Mail remains one of the largest couriers in the UK and has shown it's willing to innovate and reshape itself to meet the new demands of its customers,\" said Ms Palmer.\n\nBut she warned that the next year is going to be crucial for the long-term stability of the company.\n\n\"Simon Thompson, Royal Mail's new chief executive, will need to successfully deliver the company's restructuring plan and appease shareholder concerns or his tenure may be limited.\"", "The European Commission's Maros Sefcovic arrives in London to meet the UK's Michael Gove\n\nThe UK and the EU have had a \"frank but constructive discussion\" on problems implementing post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove met the vice-president of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, in London on Thursday evening.\n\nBoth sides reiterated their \"full commitment\" to the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nBut they pledged to meet again to \"address all outstanding issues\".\n\nMr Gove had previously called for an urgent \"reset\" on the arrangements, which see checks taking place between Northern Ireland and Great Britain - calling for a two-year \"grace period\" on the rules.\n\nBut the Irish Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, said any pause in enforcement could only be a matter of months, telling the BBC: \"It can't be a year.\"\n\nWriting to Mr Gove ahead of the meeting, Mr Sefcovic said the existing protocol was \"the only way\" to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster - who wants the protocol scrapped - said \"more rigorous implementation\" was \"not going to work\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol was designed to ensure an open border remained on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nBut to make it work, the two sides agreed that Northern Ireland would remain in the single market for goods, unlike the rest of the UK.\n\nThis meant checks had to be introduced on some goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nSince the new rules came into force, there has been tensions at ports in Northern Ireland, with disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries.\n\nChecks at some ports were temporarily suspended at the beginning of February over \"sinister\" threats made to some border staff who were carrying out checks on goods.\n\nUnionists want the protocol to be scrapped because they say it damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK union.\n\nDUP leader Mrs Foster accused Mr Sefcovic of having his \"head in the sand\" over the issues, and called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to \"step up\" to sort out the issues.\n\nBut the EU has stood by this part of the post-Brexit trade agreement, finalised in December and coming into force on New Year's Day.\n\nIn a joint statement after their meeting, Mr Gove and Mr Sefcovic reiterated their \"full commitment\" to the Good Friday Agreement and to the \"proper implementation\" of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThey said this was necessary to ensure stability, prevent a hard border and \"impact as little as possible on the everyday life\" of people living on the island of Ireland.\n\nThe statement also said they had \"taken in to account\" the views expressed by both the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is understood Mr Gove and Mr Sefcovic will hold a virtual meeting with Northern Ireland business leaders next week, before further discussions on 24 February.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, described the meeting as \"a good day's work\".\n\nIn a tweet, he said the \"focus now\" was on \"cooperation to implement what's been agreed in the protocol... and to work on solutions to outstanding issues\".\n\nSinn Fein's deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill said she welcomed the two sides' commitment to the Good Friday Agreement and implementation of the protocol \"protecting the gains of peace, and avoiding a hard border in Ireland\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood told the BBC that the language of the statement was \"more constructive\", but Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken said the protocol was \"breaking\" Northern Ireland's links with Great Britain, which \"shouldn't be allowed to happen\".", "Preserving post-Brexit trading rules for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is \"the only way\" to avoid a hard border, warns the EU.\n\nEuropean Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has written to the UK's Michael Gove, saying \"teething problems\" needed to be resolved.\n\nIt comes after Mr Gove called for an urgent \"reset\" of the arrangements that came into force on 1 January.\n\nMr Sefcovic and Mr Gove will discuss the issues in London on Thursday.\n\nThe so-called Northern Ireland Protocol was designed to ensure an open border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic after Brexit.\n\nNorthern Ireland remained in the single market for goods, but the rest of the UK did not - meaning some checks for goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland were introduced.\n\nTensions have been high in recent weeks at ports in Northern Ireland, with disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries due to the new checks required.\n\nUnionists want the protocol to be scrapped because they say it damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK union.\n\nBut the EU has stood by this part of the post-Brexit trade agreement, finalised in December and coming into force on New Year's Day.\n\nMr Gove told MPs last week that, while the UK did not want to \"ditch\" it, it \"reserved the right\" to do what it must to protect Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Sefcovic said he welcomed \"the shared commitment\" between the UK and the EU to work together to solve the difficulties.\n\nBut he stressed that Brexit had caused problems, adding: \"The UK's withdrawal from the Union, its single market and customs union presents unique and significant challenges for the island of Ireland.\"\n\nHe said the UK and the EU had a shared objective to \"work tirelessly in order to make the protocol work\" because it was \"the only way\" to protect the Good Friday Agreement, and to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Sefcovic also said the EU and the UK had a \"common responsibility to diffuse tensions and to ensure the safety of staff on the ground\".\n\nChecks at some ports were temporarily suspended at the beginning of February over \"sinister\" threats made to some border staff who were carrying out checks on goods.\n\nThe Commission vice-president said it had come to his attention that border control posts were not yet fully operational and a number of consignments were entering Northern Ireland without being properly declared and without proper certificates.\n\nBut he said he hoped these were \"teething problems\" for which \"swift solutions\" could be found.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster, has raised concerns over the protocol\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster, accused Mr Sefcovic of \"putting his head in the sand and his fingers in his ears\" over concerns her party - the DUP - had raised.\n\nShe told ITV's Peston that the call to strengthen the protocol, despite the problems raised by unionists, was an \"incredible state of affairs\".\n\nMs Foster said the protocol was not only creating problems for businesses, but consumers too having problems with parcel deliveries, adding: \"You can't even get a pot plant from Great Britain.\"", "Lawyers Bruce Castor and David Schoen will set out Trump's case Image caption: Lawyers Bruce Castor and David Schoen will set out Trump's case\n\nNow that Democratic prosecutors have finished setting out their case, it’s time for Donald Trump’s lawyers to have their say.\n\nAttorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen will have up to 16 hours over the next two days to set out their defence, although they are not expected to use all that time.\n\nOn the opening day of the trial, they argued that Trump was exercising his right to free speech, both in tweets and when he took to the stage in front of supporters on 6 January. We are likely to hear more of this line of argument from them.\n\nEarlier today, Schoen accused the Democrats of making \"movies\" and presenting the case as an \"entertainment package\" with the video and audio footage they showed the Senate.\n\nAfter Trump’s team concludes their case, the Senate will have up to four hours to ask written questions of both sides.\n\nWitnesses could also be called but it is not yet clear if that will happen. If there are no witnesses, we could see a vote on conviction this weekend, or by Monday.", "Jan after a flight at Duxford Aerodrome in September 2019, which she says would have been impossible before her four-stone weight loss\n\nA drug that suppresses appetite has led to some people losing more than a fifth of their body weight, a major international trial shows.\n\nA weekly injection of the drug, semaglutide, was given alongside advice on diet and fitness.\n\nThe study, conducted on almost 2,000 people, showed an average 15kg weight loss during the 15-month trial.\n\nScientists said the results could mark a \"new era\" in treating obesity with even more therapies on the horizon.\n\nJan, from Kent, lost 28kg (four stone), equivalent to more than a fifth of her body weight.\n\n\"The drug changed my life and completely altered my approach to food,\" she said.\n\nShe said dieting had made her \"miserable\" but taking the drug was completely different as she was less hungry.\n\nHowever, now Jan has come off the trial her appetite has returned and she is putting weight back on.\n\nShe said: \"It felt effortless losing weight while on the trial, but now it has gone back to feeling like a constant battle with food.\"\n\nSemaglutide will already be familiar to some people who use it as a treatment for type 2 diabetes, but this trial looked at giving it at higher doses.\n\nThe drug works by hijacking the body's appetite levels and mimicking a hormone - called GLP1 - that is released after eating a filling meal.\n\nThe trial gave some people the drug and others a dummy injection, while both groups were given the lifestyle advice.\n\nThe results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed people lost an average of 15kg on semaglutide compared with 2.6kg without.\n\nHowever, 32% of people lost a fifth of their body weight with the drug, compared with fewer than 2% on the dummy treatment.\n\nProf Rachel Batterham, from UCL and one of the UK researchers, told the BBC News website: \"This is a game-changer in the amount of weight loss it causes.\n\n\"I have spent the last 20 years doing obesity research, up until now we've not had an effective treatment for obesity apart from bariatric surgery.\"\n\nShe said losing weight would reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes and of severe Covid-19.\n\nSemaglutide is being submitted to drugs regulators so cannot be routinely prescribed. However, Prof Batterham expects the drug would be used initially by specialist weight loss clinics rather than being widely available.\n\nThere were side-effects to the treatment including nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, and constipation. And there are five-year studies taking place to see if weight loss can be sustained in the long term.\n\nProf Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, from the University of Cambridge, said: \"The amount of weight loss achieved is greater than that seen with any licensed anti-obesity drug.\n\n\"This is the start of a new era for obesity drug development with the future direction being to achieve levels of weight loss comparable to semaglutide, while having fewer side-effects.\"\n\nDr Duane Mellor, a dietitian and from Aston Medical School, said: \"It is useful to have a potential option to help people lose weight, however we need to acknowledge that weight loss will still need lifestyle change, and that any medication or change in lifestyle can bring potential risks and side-effects.\n\n\"So, it is always wise to speak to a health professional before trying to lose weight.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Citing the suffragettes, Stella Creasy calls for all MPs to be given parental leave and not just those serving as ministers.\n\nLabour's Stella Creasy is threatening legal action against the government after they did not include all MPs in maternity cover plans.\n\nThe government has passed a new law so senior ministers do not have to resign if they have a baby.\n\nThe move was prompted by Attorney General Suella Braverman, who is due to give birth next month.\n\nMs Creasy, who is also pregnant, welcomed the change, but said it should not just apply to those at the top.\n\nBackbench MPs are allowed take informal maternity leave, but not all their duties are covered during their absence.\n\nThe situation is different for ministers, who are not able to take time off from their positions.\n\nUnder the old system, they had to resign from their ministerial jobs if they want maternity leave, although they continued to receive their MPs' salary.\n\nBut with the government's changes, Ms Braverman and other cabinet ministers are now able to take six months' leave on full ministerial pay, and the salary costs for a temporary replacement will be covered.\n\nIn 2019, Stella Creasy became the first MP to be given locum maternity leave cover, after a battle with the parliamentary authorities, who, she says, had told her it was not possible under Commons rules.\n\nThe government's decision to push the Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Bill through Parliament in a single day shows that it is possible, the Walthamstow MP said.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think every woman should be able to have paid maternity cover, proper cover - it's not just about being paid, it's that somebody else will be doing that job - so Suella Braverman will be able to take proper leave with her child.\"\n\nAttorney General Suella Braverman is due to give birth next month\n\nMs Creasy, who is expecting her second child, said lawyers had advised her the changes were discriminatory as they only benefitted senior ministers, and not other members of Parliament.\n\n\"I am very prepared to go to court over this, because it is a form of direct discrimination... as a backbencher, none of these provisions will apply to myself, it's still very unclear what I can tell my constituents they can get in terms of cover,\" she told Today.\n\n\"Thousands of pregnant women are facing risks in the workplace, including the risk of the loss of their job. The message that we're sending is that we treat maternity leave like a benefit, like a company car.\"\n\nCabinet Office Minister Penny Mordaunt told MPs the bill to change maternity rights for senior ministers was an \"important and well overdue change\".\n\nShe said alterations in the Ministerial Code in 2019 allowed for other members of the government to take over roles from a junior minister on maternity leave.\n\nThe bill puts to an end the \"wholly unacceptable\" situation of senior ministers resigning to allow other government members to take over their departments while on maternity leave, she said in the Commons.\n\nMinister Penny Mordaunt said the law would make for an \"important and well overdue change\".\n\nMs Braverman said she was grateful to Boris Johnson and the Conservatives for \"leading this historic change to support women in the workplace\".\n\nLabour did not oppose the changes in the Commons.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper told MPs it had been 20 years since she was the first junior minister - then in the Department of Health - to take maternity leave.\n\nShe warned the changes were \"limited\" as they did not have any provisions for male ministers to take longer paternity leave.\n\nMs Cooper said that when she needed to take maternity leave two decades ago: \"I asked the health secretary what I should do, he didn't know, he said ask the prime minister, he didn't know, he said ask the cabinet secretary he said he had no idea.\n\n\"As ministers are Crown appointments, he said it was really a matter for the Queen, but nobody thought we should be asking Her Majesty.\"\n\nThe MP said they \"then tried to work something out\" that was similar to the arrangements for civil servants, but \"no one had thought about it before - that was bad enough 20 years ago\".\n\nShe added: \"At the heart of government [these issues] still aren't being taken seriously enough.\"\n\nAll MPs are paid in full while on maternity, paternity or adoption leave. But not all their duties in Parliament are covered during their absence:\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain said for female MPs, there were now provisions for locums to step in, but pointed out that was not yet available for male MPs on paternity leave.\n\nSome MPs had complaints about the language in the bill - which used the word \"persons\" instead of \"women\" - saying it was \"adopting extreme gender ideology\".\n\nBut Ms Mordaunt said it had merely been a \"drafting issue\" and the term \"women\" would be used in all its documents going forward.\n• None Creasy on parental leave: Time for deeds not words. Video, 00:01:00Creasy on parental leave: Time for deeds not words", "Icicles covered businesses in the village of Braemar\n\nThe Met Office says an overnight temperature of -23C (-9.4F) recorded in Scotland is the lowest in more than 25 years.\n\nBBC weather presenter Simon King described the temperatures in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, as \"incredible\".\n\nIt was the lowest February temperature since 1955, and the UK's coldest night since 30 December 1995.\n\nA Met Office yellow snow and ice warning is in place for large parts of the country until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nScotRail said the winter weather was causing major problems for its services on Thursday morning.\n\nCars were buried in snow in Aberdeenshire\n\nMr King said cold air from Siberia and the Arctic - known as the Beast from the East - had sent temperatures \"plummeting\" over the last week.\n\n\"While we've all experienced the cold wind, it's over the last couple of nights the temperature has got really low, especially in northern Scotland,\" he said.\n\n\"There are three reasons for this: thick snow on the ground, clear skies and light winds.\"\n\nHe said that a covering of snow traps the warmth in the ground.\n\n\"So when night falls, where the ground would normally radiate heat to the air, that heat can't get out so the air temperature is lower,\" he explained.\n\n\"If skies are clear, any heat that does get out of the ground, escapes into space.\n\n\"Wind normally mixes the air close to the surface, so at night it'll mix the warmth coming from the ground and keep temperatures up. When the wind is light and there's no warmth from the ground, the temperature can fall to levels you normally find in your freezer. Just like we've seen in northern Scotland.\"\n\nA red stag takes the snow in its stride in the forest at Braemar\n\nThe River dee near Balmoral featured chunks of ice\n\nMalcolm MacIntyre, of the Braemar Mountain Rescue Team, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"It is a beautiful morning actually and it is really cold.\n\n\"The snow is squeaky, which always signifies that it is really cold.\n\n\"But in some ways once it gets below about minus 10/12, as long as it is not windy, it just feels really crisp and clear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScottish Water said it was dealing with double the normal number of burst pipes for the time of year as temperatures plunged.\n\nHundreds of burst pipes have been reported in the past week.\n\nAbout 29,000 properties were left without water on Wednesday night in the east end of Glasgow after a mains pipe burst.\n\nScottish Water has also brought in divers to break up ice in reservoirs at Stornoway on Lewis and Kinlochbervie in the Highlands. The build-up of ice was affecting supplies.\n\nThe company said it had not previously used so many divers in a such a short period of time.\n\nPolice said they 'could not believe' the man had attempted to drive the car\n\nPolice in Tayside charged a man with dangerous driving after being stopped in Dundee with snow covering almost his entire front and rear windscreens.\n\nThey said it was \"about the most extreme example of lack of preparation\" that they had ever seen.\n\nOfficers said the man had been driving with \"practically zero-visibility\" when stopped.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Highland Defenders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 stark contrast, firefighters worked through the night to tackle a large wildfire in the Western Isles.\n\nThe blaze on Benbecula was reported at 15:30 on Wednesday and extended across about 1km at its height.\n\nTraffic Scotland urged drivers not to leave home unless it is essential and ScotRail is encouraging people to check their journey before leaving the house.\n\nThe operator tweeted: \"We're currently seeing severe disruption across the network, particularly in the Central Belt with disruption affecting services to/from Glasgow Queen Street High Level and Edinburgh Waverley.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the UK's tabloid press they are ending all co-operation with them.\n\nIn a letter to editors of all the Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express titles and websites, a representative said the pair had taken the step due to \"distorted, false or invasive\" stories.\n\nHarry and Meghan said they refused to \"offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion\".\n\nThe couple have relocated to California after stepping back as senior royals.\n\nIn the letter, the couple's public relations representative wrote it was \"gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media\" has printed \"distorted, false or invasive\" articles.\n\n\"There is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society,\" the letter said.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know - as well as complete strangers - have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\"\n\nThe BBC was told that the letter had been sent to the editors of the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express newspapers.\n\nThe new policy will apply to the four newspapers, their Sunday editions and associated websites, the Guardian's media editor Jim Waterson reported.\n\nThe Daily Star, which was not specifically mentioned, is published by the same group that publishes the Mirror and Express titles.\n\nThe ban on engagement with the papers will mean that the couple's PR team will no longer even answer calls from the papers asking them to confirm whether claims made about the couple are true or not.\n\nOutlining the new policy of \"no corroboration and zero engagement\" with all the publications that received it, the letter said the measure would also protect the couple's communications team \"from the side of the industry that readers never see\".\n\n\"This policy is not about avoiding criticism,\" the letter continued.\n\n\"It's not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can't be based on a lie.\"\n\nPrince Harry has spoken in the past of seeing - as a young child - the effect media intrusion had on his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe letter said the couple will continue to work with other media and \"young, up-and-coming journalists\" to raise awareness of the issues and causes they care about.\n\nIn recent days, photographs of the Sussexes delivering food to vulnerable people in Los Angeles have been published by two of the newspapers to receive the letter.\n\nAnd it comes ahead of a court hearing this week in a legal case Meghan has brought against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter written to the duchess by her estranged father.\n\nThe couple officially stepped back as senior working members of the Royal Family at the end of March as part of a transition following an announcement of their intention to become financially independent in January..\n\nAs The Duke and Duchess of Sussex now settle into the next chapter of their lives and no longer receive any publicly funded support, we are writing to set a new media relations policy, specifically as it pertains to your organisation.\n\nLike you, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that a free press is a cornerstone to any democracy— particularly in moments of crisis. At its best, this free press shines light on dark places, telling stories that would otherwise go untold, standing up for what's right, challenging power, and holding those who abuse the system to account.\n\nIt has been said that journalism's first obligation is to the truth. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex agree wholeheartedly.\n\nIt is gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media, over many years, has sought to insulate themselves from taking accountability for what they say or print—even when they know it to be distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason. When power is enjoyed without responsibility, the trust we all place in this much-needed industry is degraded.\n\nThere is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know—as well as complete strangers—have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\n\nWith that said, please note that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be engaging with your outlet. There will be no corroboration and zero engagement. This is also a policy being instated for their communications team, in order to protect that team from the side of the industry that readers never see.\n\nThis policy is not about avoiding criticism. It's not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can't be based on a lie.\n\nThey also want to be very clear: this is not in any way a blanket policy for all media.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are looking forward to working with journalists and media organisations all over the world, engaging with grassroots media, regional and local media, and young, up-and-coming journalists, to spotlight issues and causes that so desperately need acknowledging. And they look forward to doing whatever they can to help further opportunities for more diverse and underrepresented voices, who are needed now more than ever.\n\nWhat they won't do is offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion.\n\nWe are encouraged that this new approach will be heard and respected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens: \"We do not have a fair and properly resourced adult social care system\"\n\nPlans to adequately fund the social care sector need to be in place within a year, the head of NHS England has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC the Covid-19 crisis had shone a \"very harsh spotlight\" on the \"resilience\" of the care system.\n\nHe said there was a need to \"decisively answer\" how high quality care could be provided long-term.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would bring forward a plan for reform.\n\nIn their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservatives pledged to find a cross-party solution to reduce pressures on the sector and provide long-term funding.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Sir Simon said the Covid-19 pandemic should be used to give momentum to plans to overhaul how the system works.\n\n\"If any good is to come from this, we must use this as a moment to resolve once and for all to actually properly resource and reform the way in which social care works in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"The reality is that after at least two decades of talking about it, we do not have a fair and properly resourced adult social care system with a proper set of workforce supports.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would hope by the time we are sitting down this time next year on the 73rd birthday of the NHS that we have actually, as a country, been able to decisively answer the question of how are we going to fund and provide high-quality social care for my parents' generation.\n\n\"If you take back the history coming out of the Second World War, the country at that point was on austerity. We had rationing for bread and potatoes.\n\n\"The founders of the NHS did not use that as a moment to hesitate, they said, 'let one of the legacies of the war be the creation of the NHS'.\n\n\"That's the same legacy we need for long-term care support in social care coming out of coronavirus.\"\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has placed many care homes under additional stress\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he agreed with NHS England chief executive Sir Simon.\n\n\"The system needs a huge amount of work - it has been broken for a long time,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"I think it has been fractured, it's been underfunded, I think the staff have been undervalued and underpaid, and the prime minister needs to take responsibility.\n\n\"The Conservative government has been in power for 10 years and therefore they've had time to start doing something about social care - they haven't done it.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said it had set out a \"comprehensive action plan\" to support social care in England during the pandemic.\n\n\"We know there's a need for a long-term solution for social care and there are complex questions to address,\" they added.\n\n\"We will bring forward a plan that puts social care on a sustainable footing to ensure the reforms will last long into the future.\"\n\nAdult social care encompasses the support provided by councils to older people and younger adults with disabilities.\n\nUnlike health care, social care is not generally provided for free. In England, anyone with assets over £23,250 is expected to pay for some or all of their costs, leading to the prospect of some having to sell their homes to pay for care.\n\nServices have also been stretched as a result of years of funding cuts from government and growing demand linked to an ageing population.\n\nIn Scotland, free personal care is available. Some care costs are capped in Wales, and home care is free for the over-75s in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolitical parties have been talking about reforming the sector for the past 20 years.\n\nThe Conservatives previously brought forward legislation for a cap on care costs, but the plan was scrapped amid concerns about the costs of implementation.\n\nHowever, the idea was again considered by ministers in the current government prior to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAt December's election, the government pledged an extra £1bn per year for social care in England over the next five years.\n\nIt has subsequently given an extra £3.2bn in emergency Covid-19 funds to English councils, which can be put towards helping with social care costs.\n\nMinisters have also promised an additional £600m for care homes to help with controlling infections.\n\nDo you work in a care home? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None What are the challenges facing social care?", "In normal times, you probably wouldn't think it's any business of a politician's to tell you when, or when not, to book a summer holiday.\n\nOn a freezing February night, what better cheering activity is there than to hunt for bargains that promise sunnier climes months way?\n\nThe pandemic, of course, has changed all that - you can look still, but you may well not want to book.\n\nInternational travel is very heavily restricted. Even leaving your own home is only allowed for limited and specific reasons.\n\nSo whether you'll be heading for a lounger in six months time is, like it or not, part of the government's responsibility.\n\nAnd the chances of going away will depend, not just on how the disease has shifted at home, but also how other countries have handled it abroad.\n\nYet still, with progress being made, cases falling, and the government pointing to the start of March as the hoped for beginning of the end of this lockdown, the transport secretary's remarks on Wednesday morning jumped out of the radio.\n\nGrant Shapps warned that it was too early, not just to book a holiday abroad, but also a holiday at home.\n\nSources suggest that he was really just exercising natural caution at a very unpredictable time, but by doing so, we entered what has become a very familiar classic Covid situation.\n\nMr Shapps said don't book anything. But his colleague, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, had previously told the world that he was looking forward to a happy \"Great British Summer\", and had booked his holiday to Cornwall.\n\nIn turn, the prime minister had earlier said that he was \"optimistic\" about the prospects for summer breaks, even though he added plenty of caveats.\n\nAt Wednesday's Downing Street press conference, when asked for a second time, Boris Johnson said that it was too early to be sure.\n\nBut at the same time, Mr Hancock was talking to a group of MPs on a video call. Responding to questions, he repeated his own plans to head to the South West.\n\nYou would be forgiven for wondering then, as a would be holidaymaker, what you are meant to do?\n\nOne former minister tried to translate what they meant, suggesting: \"Bottom line on holiday gate: travel abroad this year is unlikely. Holidays within the UK *are* likely by the summer, but the government can't make a hard and fast statement to this effect at this stage.\n\n\"If you book (as I have), you do so at your own risk.\"\n\nHaving talked to sources in government about what is likely, that is not a bad guess. But it is, very much, a guess.\n\nGrant Shapps won't be going anywhere soon...\n\nWhich brings us to the second classic Covid situation.\n\nMinisters' remarks clash with each other - in emphasis or fact sometimes - because they just do not know exactly what the situation will be, so they have no solid decision to explain.\n\nAnd if they don't know, well there's not much they can tell us.\n\nThere is a separate conversation about just how vital clarity in government communications is during a public health crisis, whether ministers stick to exactly the same script is a matter that can affect life and death.\n\nThere are also ways for experienced politicians to not answer questions, even if it makes some people shout at the telly or turn off the radio.\n\nBut when it comes to looking more than a few weeks into the future, in the way that we all want to, all too often, ministers have ended up in a tangle.\n\nThat is one of the reasons why the PM, during this lockdown, has been noticeably more cautious about what might come next.\n\nIt's one of the reasons too why a couple of weeks ago he announced his intention to publish a plan on 22 February.\n\nIt gives the government a bit of breathing space to work out exactly what it wants to do, rather than ending up in some of the situations they have faced previously that have caused huge frustration - like some boroughs finding out about entering new tiers of regulations with only a few hours to go.\n\nIn this instance, that plan may not even give detail about holidays, still many months away.\n\nOn current expectations, schools in England are likely to open their gates to all pupils again on 8 March.\n\nIf the disease is being squeezed in the way ministers hope by then, it's likely some outdoor sports and some more socialising outside could return too.\n\nBut it doesn't seem that the next level of reopening, whether getting clients back in the hairdressers' chair, fitness enthusiasts back in the gym or punters back sharing a few drinks in a beer garden, is likely until April onwards.\n\nAnd underline all of that with heavy black ink - it is dependent on what happens with the disease.\n\nI've written before that there is a reluctance in government to have to close the doors again. And that conviction seems to be getting stronger, not weaker, with one insider telling me: \"Literally the worst thing we can do is lockdown four.\"\n\nCaution in No 10 seems to be very firmly bedded in, and with the very real possibility of booster vaccinations being required later in the year, the practical effects of the disease aren't going to disappear fast.\n\nThere are massive concerns in the travel industry about losing another summer. Frustration perhaps too among many families eager for a spot of sun, or to know they can go and visit family abroad.\n\nBut as in many areas of life right now, the government isn't willing, and maybe not really able, to give a guarantee.", "The musician died from a rare form of cancer, a statement on his website said\n\nTributes have been paid to jazz \"genius\" Chick Corea, who has died at the age of 79.\n\nThe Grammy Award-winning musician died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer that was only recently diagnosed.\n\nThe influential American is the fourth most nominated artist in Grammys history with 65 nods and 23 wins.\n\nThe Recording Academy, which hosts the Grammys, paid tribute to \"undisputedly one of the most incredible jazz innovators of all time\".\n\nIn a message written before his death and left for his fans, Corea said: \"My mission has always been to bring the joy of creating anywhere I could, and to have done so with all the artists that I admire so dearly - this has been the richness of my life.\"\n\nMiles Davis on stage with pianist Chick Corea (left), bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack Dejohnette for the BBC Jazz Scene TV show in 1969\n\nHis career spanned more than five decades and he played with Miles Davis in the late 1960s - including on his acclaimed jazz-rock double album Bitches Brew. His own group, Return to Forever, were at the forefront of the jazz fusion movement.\n\nThe late star was also known around the world for his work as a composer with hits like Spain and 500 Miles High.\n\n\"Through his body of work and the decades spent touring the world, he touched and inspired the lives of millions,\" a statement on his website said.\n\n\"An extraordinary composer and keyboardist, Chick rewrote the rulebook for jazz in his more than 5-decade long career, receiving mass critical acclaim along the way for his musical excellence.\"\n\nHis influence stretched far and wide, informing many different genres of music. Yusuf aka Cat Stevens described Corea as a \"genius\" and \"one of the most innovative and inspired musicians I ever had the privilege to work with\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ghostpoet This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC last November, Corea said he had spent lockdown taking on new projects and was looking forward to playing in front of a live audience again. His last album was released in 2020.\n\nCorea grew up in Massachusetts, and his father was a jazz trumpeter who led a Dixieland band in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He introduced his son to the piano and to the bebop of the likes of Dizzy Gillespie from a young age.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nathan East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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\nSpeaking to the National Jazz Archive in 1978, Corea explained that it was his intention at the start of that decade to make \"more melodic music\".\n\n\"I find that every kind of really good jazz that I've ever been interested in - like the music of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane or Miles Davis - it's always very lyrical music, you know,\" he said.\n\nCorea was known around the world for his work as a composer and a performer\n\n\"And it's one of the most attractive elements in the music for me - the melodic line. So it's something that I desire to have in my music as well.\"\n\nScientology became a growing influence on his musical direction and personal beliefs during that period too.\n\nCorea is survived by his wife, vocalist and pianist Gayle Moran, his children and his grandchildren.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A new booking system for England's hotel quarantine scheme was taken offline minutes after it launched.\n\nThe portal, set up as part of efforts to control new Covid variants entering the country, is \"undergoing work to correct a minor technical issue\".\n\nThe Department of Health said the portal would be open \"well before\" the scheme comes into effect on Monday.\n\nOfficials are expecting to have the website back up and running by 10:00 GMT on Friday, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe requirement to quarantine in a hotel applies to British and Irish citizens, and UK residents arriving in England from 33 countries from Monday and will cost £1,750 for an individual booking.\n\nThe so-called \"red list\" countries - including Portugal, Brazil and South Africa - are deemed high risk due to emerging new virus variants.\n\nIn Scotland, residents arriving from any country by air will have to isolate in hotels.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants the UK to follow Scotland and extend the rules to cover all international travellers, saying the borders will be \"too leaky\" otherwise.\n\nThe website had been accessible for some users intermittently since it was launched just after 13:00 GMT. The most recent holding message promised the site would be \"back soon\" and apologised for the inconvenience as it carried out \"maintenance\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said ministers \"must act to fix this urgently\".\n\n\"It is extremely worrying that even the limited hotel quarantine booking system is showing signs of failing from the outset,\" he said.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"Rooms are available from Monday 15 February and the portal will be open well before the go live date.\"\n\nAround 1,300 people a week are arriving into the UK from those countries at the moment, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nThe Department of Health has arranged for about 4,700 rooms across 16 hotels to be available for the new quarantine system. Travellers have to book a place in quarantine - which lasts 10 days - before arriving in the UK.\n\nInternational travel is currently banned, other than for a small number of permitted reasons, including for essential work, medical appointments and education. Holidays are not allowed.\n\nThe cost of the hotel quarantine packages is £1,750 per adult for 11 nights, which includes transport and testing.\n\nFor extra adults or a child over 12 the cost is £650, and for a child aged five to 12 it is £325.\n\nIn Scotland, the cost is the same for one adult - £1,750 - but the government is still working through the costs for extra travellers. The Scottish government is also launching a fund for people who cannot afford the charge.\n\nAirlines and travel companies will be legally required to make sure travellers have signed up for the new measures before they depart, with fines for companies and passengers if they fail to comply, he said.\n\nFailing to quarantine in a designated hotel when required will carry a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nGiving false travel history information on the mandatory passenger locator form filled in by travellers when they arrive in the UK will attract a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.\n\nAll arrivals from countries not on the \"red list\" must see out a 10-day quarantine at home, but will be required to pay £210 for two additional private virus tests, booked prior to arrival.\n\nIt came as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"too early\" to know whether summer holidays can go ahead this year.\n\nMr Hancock said there was still \"a lot of uncertainty\" but ministers were doing everything possible to make sure people could have a holiday this year.\n\nHe told the BBC he had booked his own summer break in Cornwall \"months ago\".\n\nSir Keir urged the government to \"get rid of the mixed messages\" about whether people should book holidays for later in the year.\n\nDowning Street said Prime Minister Boris Johnson would unveil a roadmap for easing restrictions - potentially including travel - in the week beginning 22 February.", "University of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nA serial sex offender has been found guilty of raping and murdering a student before dumping her body in a river.\n\nPawel Relowicz, 26, prowled the streets of Hull before attacking \"vulnerable\" 21-year-old Libby Squire.\n\nJurors heard Relowicz had committed a string of offences against women prior to the killing.\n\nSpeaking outside Sheffield Crown Court, Libby's mother paid tribute to her \"beautiful, caring, wonderful girl\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutor Richard Wright QC said Relowicz had spent the night of 31 January 2019 driving around looking for a woman to attack.\n\nJurors heard University of Hull philosophy student Ms Squire, who had been turned away from a nightclub, was drunk and \"extremely vulnerable\" when Relowicz \"intercepted\" her .\n\nHe drove her to Oak Road playing fields, where he attacked her before putting her in the River Hull.\n\nProsecutors said the married father-of-two had repeatedly lied to police, his wife and in court documents about what happened on the night of Ms Squire's disappearance.\n\nPawel Relowicz had previously committed a string of sexual offences against women\n\nHe maintained he had consensual sex with the student and said he had lied because he did not want his wife to find out he had cheated on her.\n\nAfter a massive search effort, Ms Squire's remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost two months later.\n\nHer parents, Lisa and Russ, held hands and cried as they sat in the public gallery overlooking the courtroom to await the verdicts.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mrs Squire thanked supporters but said Relowicz's conviction \"changes nothing for us, there is no closure\".\n\n\"We don't get to have Libby back and our lives don't revert back to normal,\" she said.\n\n\"Libby will always be with us and we are all so proud of our beautiful, caring, wonderful girl.\n\n\"And, although she has been physically taken from us, the memories we have and the love we share will never be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolish national Relowicz, a butcher, showed no emotion as the jury foreman read out the verdicts. He will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nJurors found him guilty of rape unanimously and guilty of murder by a majority verdict of 11 to one.\n\nPathologists were unable to establish how she died, or whether she was still alive when she went into the water.\n\nWitnesses reported hearing screams from the playing fields on the night she disappeared.\n\nGerry Wareham, from the Crown Prosecution Service said CCTV footage of Relowicz and Ms Squire's last known movements was \"crucial evidence\" in bringing the case to court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of Libby Squire and Pawel Relowicz's movements was shown to jurors\n\nDuring the 14-day trial, the jury of seven women and five men heard Relowicz had previous convictions for voyeurism, performing sex acts in public and stealing sex toys and underwear from women's homes.\n\nOne of his previous voyeurism victims told the BBC she hoped the police would learn from the case.\n\nShe said his earlier offences were \"sufficiently minor\" by themselves \"to not actually require the level of investigation that would result in him being caught\".\n\nIn a statement, Humberside Police said it was \"satisfied\" with its investigation and that officers \"acted quickly\" to identify, locate and apprehend the defendant within days of Ms Squire's disappearance.\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said: \"I can understand that people are interested to know whether Libby's tragic death could have been prevented.\n\n\"It is important to remember that whilst, taken as a whole, and with the benefit of hindsight, we may be able to point to a history of offending by Pawel Relowicz, officers investigating these offences at the time were doing so with far less information than we have now and that my investigation into Libby's disappearance had.\"\n\nDet Supt Smalley said the investigation was \"one of the most challenging and emotional cases\" in his 30-year career\n\nThe University of Hull said it would continue to offer support to the student community.\n\nVice-Chancellor Prof Susan Lea said in a statement: \"What took place in February 2019 deeply affected everyone at the university and those within the local community.\n\n\"Libby made a huge impact during her time at Hull, and will be remembered fondly by all who met her.\"\n\nShe said the \"kindness and care shown by everyone was overwhelming\" both at the university and in the wider community.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\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.", "After the safe arrival of their first-born child he was nicknamed Car Park Charlie\n\nA baby born in a hotel car park after his parents were sent home from hospital has been nicknamed \"Car Park Charlie\".\n\nCharlie Smith was born in an ambulance outside the Premier Inn, Grimsby, after his parents checked-in rather than risk driving home through heavy snow.\n\nHarriet Hanson and Adam Smith had been facing a 45-minute drive to Skegness but chose to stay near to the hospital.\n\nThey said they believe the decision was \"critical\" to Charlie's safe arrival.\n\nThe decision not to drive home was \"critical\" for Charlie's safe arrival, the couple said\n\nMs Hanson, 25, had gone to hospital in Grimsby on the night of 7 February after she began experiencing contractions, but was told to go home and return when she was in established labour.\n\nHowever, rather than travel in the freezing conditions, they chose to book a nearby hotel room.\n\nLater that night Ms Hanson's waters broke and hotel staff helped the couple by calling 999.\n\nWhen paramedics arrived she was taken to a waiting ambulance, where baby Charlie was delivered at 00:29 GMT the next day, weighing 8lb 3.5oz (3.7kg).\n\nMs Hanson and Mr Smith, 28, said: \"We are so grateful for the care and kindness shown by the team at Premier Inn during our time of need.\n\n\"To say you were born in the car park of a hotel is certainly a story you will never forget - we have even affectionately nicknamed him Car Park Charlie.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government's decision to hire a firm with links to the PM's ex-chief adviser Dominic Cummings has been challenged at the High Court.\n\nCampaign group The Good Law Project has complained of \"apparent bias\" in the decision to recruit Public First for Covid-19 opinion polling last year.\n\nDuring a hearing on Monday, the group's lawyer argued emergency rules used to award the work should not have applied.\n\nBut Mr Cummings said the £540,000 contract had been \"entirely justified\".\n\nIn a written statement, he said although he was \"friends\" with the company's founding directors, he had not recommended them for that reason.\n\nHe added there had been \"no time\" to follow usual procurement rules, and the work was \"crucial\" to the government's early pandemic response.\n\nPublic First was founded by James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, whom Mr Cummings said he knew from previous roles both inside and outside government.\n\nAccording to a November report into Covid-19 contracts by the National Audit Office, it was initially hired \"on an informal basis\" in March 2020 to do focus group research.\n\nThe spending watchdog added the company was then given a \"retrospective contract\" in June, covering work from March and \"potential future work\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office's decision to award the work under emergency tendering rules is subject to a legal challenge from The Good Law Project.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Monday, the group's lawyer Jason Coppel QC told judge Mrs Justice O'Farrell that \"no other provider was considered\" for the work.\n\nHe added that although other firms already working for the government had been able to bid, \"no thought was given to any other provider because Dominic Cummings wanted Public First to have the contract\".\n\nArguing that rules allowing the \"direct award\" of contracts did not apply, he added awarding the contract without open competition had not been \"strictly necessary\".\n\nMr Cummings, who was working as Boris Johnson's senior adviser at the time the work was awarded, did not give evidence in person during the hearing.\n\nBut in a written statement, he defended his decision to recommend the firm for the work.\n\nHe said he was friends with both Mr Frayne and Ms Wolf, as well as ex-civil servant Gabriel Milland, who is also a partner at Public First.\n\nHe said he had not met Mr Frayne since 2016, and had \"no involvement\" in the \"contractual arrangements\" with the firm.\n\n\"Obviously I did not request Public First be brought in because they were my friends. I would never do such a thing,\" he added.\n\nHe said he had recommended the firm because he knew the company was \"very good\" at running focus groups, and he could \"rely on them to make an extra effort\".\n\nAlthough he added he was not allowed to \"direct\" civil servants, he said he expected Public First to be hired \"as a result of my suggestion,\" adding that he was an \"expert in the interaction between policy, mass communication and focus groups\".\n\n\"Civil servants could have disagreed and did disagree with my suggestions all the time, and my response depends on my expertise of the matter in hand and other circumstances.\"\n\n\"On this occasion, I was an expert,\" he added.\n\nMr Cummings said the company was brought in to inform government communication during the pandemic.\n\nArguing for the legal challenge to be dismissed, lawyers for the Cabinet Office told the judge Mr Cummings made a recommendation, not a decision, on awarding the work.\n\nRepresenting the Cabinet Office, Michael Bowsher QC said Mr Frayne and Ms Wolf had \"professional and personal connections\" with Mr Cummings, as well as Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove.\n\nBut it was \"emphatically denied\" that there was \"any bias, or apparent bias\" in the award of the work to Public First, he added.\n\nHe said: \"At a time of national emergency Dominic Cummings recommended a firm he knew could get the job done.\"\n\nHe added Mr Gove did not have any involvement in the decision or influence it in any way.\n\nIn an outline argument earlier this month, government lawyers said it was \"clear\" that the conditions for allowing emergency procurement rules to apply had been met.\n\nThey said the research Public First had been hired to do was required \"immediately,\" and there was \"no time to conduct even an accelerated procurement exercise\".\n\nFormer Labour MP Natascha Engel, who is now a partner at Public First, defended the firm's involvement.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, she said: \"Given James Frayne hasn't spoken to Dominic Cummings in several years and neither he nor Rachel Wolf spoke to Dominic Cummings or Michael Gove about Covid research, the idea this was some sort of quiet arrangement between friends is clearly wrong.\"\n\n\"Everyone in government knows which research agencies can deliver in a crisis, and it's no surprise Public First was chosen given our record.\"\n\nHaving heard rival arguments, Mrs Justice O'Farrell said she would deliver a ruling on a date to be fixed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking via a big screen link at the Natural History Museum, Bill Gates said achieving net zero would be 'humanity's greatest ever achievement'\n\nFifty-one billion and zero - the two numbers Bill Gates says you need to know about climate.\n\nSolving climate change would be \"the most amazing thing humanity has ever done\", says the billionaire founder of Microsoft.\n\nBy comparison, ending the pandemic is \"very, very easy\", he claims.\n\nMr Gates's new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, is a guide to tackling global warming.\n\nDon't underestimate the scale of the challenge, he told me when we spoke last week.\n\n\"We've never made a transition like we're talking about doing in the next 30 years. There is no precedent for this.\"\n\nFifty-one billion is how many tonnes of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere each year.\n\nNet zero is where we need to get to.\n\nThis means cutting emissions to a level where any remaining greenhouse gas releases are balanced out by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere. One way to do this is by planting trees, which soak up CO2 through their leaves.\n\nMr Gates' focus is on how technology can help us make that journey.\n\nRenewable sources like wind and solar can help us decarbonise electricity but, as Mr Gates points out, that's less than 30% of total emissions.\n\nWe are also going to have to decarbonise the other 70% of the world economy - steel, cement, transport systems, fertiliser production and much, much more.\n\nWe simply don't have ways of doing that at the moment for many of these sectors.\n\nThe answer, says Mr Gates, will be an innovation effort on a scale the world has never seen before.\n\nThis has to start with governments, he argues.\n\nAt the moment, the economic system doesn't price in the real cost of using fossil fuels.\n\nMost users don't pay anything for the damage to the environment done by pollution from the petrol in their car or the coal or gas that created the electricity in their home.\n\n\"Right now, you don't see the pain you're causing as you emit carbon dioxide,\" is how Mr Gates puts it.\n\nThat's why he says governments have to intervene.\n\n\"We need to have price signals to tell the private sector that we want green products,\" he says.\n\nThat is going to require a huge investment by governments in research and development, Mr Gates argues, as well as support to allow the market for new products and technologies to grow, thereby helping drive down prices.\n\nYet Mr Gates was famous for arguing that regulation stifled innovation when he was building Microsoft into the multi-billion-dollar behemoth it is now.\n\nSo isn't it a bit rich for him now to demand government intervention?\n\nHe replies he has always supported \"the basic role of government in terms of roads and justice and education and scientific research\".\n\nAnd, on the climate issue, he maintains it will be impossible to avoid a disaster, particularly for those who live near the equator, without governments around the world getting behind the effort.\n\nThe Republican Party in America needs to recognise the importance of tackling climate change, says Mr Gates.\n\nThis needs to be a \"constant 30-year push\", he maintains. \"Business just can't change all that physical infrastructure unless the market signals are constant and very clear.\"\n\nMelinda and Bill Gates set up their charitable foundation in 1994\n\nSimply consuming less stuff - fewer flights, local food, less electricity and gas - won't solve the problem.\n\n\"India is going to build housing for their people, provide lighting at night, air conditioning to make conditions liveable,\" Mr Gates believes, so global demand will not reduce.\n\nHe argues political action is more important, demanding government do the right thing, and, using our voices as consumers, insisting the same of companies.\n\n\"If you buy an electric car, a hamburger made of a meat substitute, an electric heat pump for your home you are helping increase the production of these products and therefore helping drive prices down.\"\n\nMr Gates still enjoys the trappings of the billionaire lifestyle.\n\nHe uses private jets, but insists that they are powered by biofuels - aviation fuels made from plant products.\n\n\"I pay three times as much now for my aviation fuel, you know, over $7m [£5m] a year in all my offset spending.\"\n\nAnd he has joined a £3bn bidding war to buy one of the world's largest private jet services companies, a business called Signature Aviation.\n\nIs that appropriate when you've just written a book telling the world how to avoid a climate disaster?\n\n\"I don't think getting rid of flying would make sense,\" he replies. \"That type of brute force technique won't get us there.\"\n\nHe says the answer has to be \"a type of aviation fuel that doesn't cost much extra and is zero emission and that's got to be biofuels or electric fuels or perhaps using green hydrogen to power the plane\".\n\nMr Gates has become something of a bogeyman for coronavirus conspiracy theorists.\n\nHe has been accused of everything from concocting the virus in a secret laboratory as part of a project by global elites to depopulate the world, to using vaccinations to implant microchips in people to track and control them.\n\nHe laughs when asked about this.\n\n\"Why would I want to track people? You know, I'm just not that interested in where people are going.\"\n\nThe main focus for his huge charitable efforts to date has been tackling health issues in developing countries.\n\nHe tells me he is used to people getting bored when he talks about tuberculosis and malaria at cocktail parties, so this is a real change from what he calls \"the normal obscurity of working on infectious disease\".\n\nBut he says he was worried that speaking out on climate might attract similar controversy.\n\n\"I don't want to dilute my voice on issues like polio eradication or malaria,\" Mr Gates explains, but says he felt this was the right time to publish his plan for tackling climate change.\n\nHe says he wants his ideas to feed into the green stimulus packages being proposed around the world and to be discussed in the run-up to the crucial climate conference the UK is hosting in Glasgow in November this year.\n\nWe are at a crucial point in the climate debate, Mr Gates believes.\n\nHe describes the young generation as having a \"moral conviction\" that they have to be involved in bringing change on the issue.\n\n\"Now we have to take that energy and make sure it's directed at the policies that will make a difference,\" he argues.\n\nBut it isn't going to be easy, he warns.\n\nThis has to continue to be a huge priority for the world year in, year out.\n\nThe hope is \"we get a bit lucky\" and succeed in developing innovative new technologies that really do solve the hard areas, he says.\n\nBut he is optimistic that we can still avoid the worst effects of climate change.\n\n\"You know, I've seen many times, innovation surprises us in a positive way.\"\n\nI've travelled all over the world for the BBC and seen evidence of environmental damage and climate change everywhere. It's the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. Tackling it means changing how we do virtually everything. We are right to be anxious and afraid at the prospect, but I reckon we should also see this as a thrilling story of exploration, and I'm delighted to have been given the chance of a ringside seat as chief environment correspondent.", "There has been a \"concerning\" rise in food businesses operating out of people's homes during lockdown, according to the food safety watchdog.\n\nMany of them are selling food through social media, putting further pressure on a hygiene inspection system that is under strain because of the crisis.\n\nAnd other experts are also worried.\n\n\"Little food businesses are popping up like mushrooms in lockdown,\" said Julie Barratt from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).\n\n\"There are rank outsiders operating off the radar, who think, 'Oh, my mum can cook', and confuse cooking with catering,\" she added. They sell to locals on apps such as Whatsapp, Instagram and Nextdoor.\n\nMany are failing to register as food businesses, meaning their hygiene arrangements are not checked by local authorities.\n\nBut even those that do register are often not getting an inspection - despite new businesses usually being a priority - because the system is struggling to keep up during the pandemic.\n\nHygiene inspections ceased completely during the first lockdown and since then a scaled-back operation has focused on high-risk cases.\n\nA business selling meat would be deemed higher risk than one selling cakes\n\nLocal authorities are using video calls in a bid to clear the backlog. They allow basic issues to be resolved and reduce the time environmental health officers need to spend on-site. They could be used, for example, to ensure there is a separate sink for washing hands.\n\nBut these video calls can never be as effective as in-person, surprise inspections, says Ms Barratt.\n\nThey are unable to reveal things such as ingredients past their use-by date, or rat droppings under the cooker.\n\nIndeed, a challenge posed by the new legion of at-home businesses is that even if a physical inspection is required, a 24-hour warning has to be given because it is a private address, so the surprise element is lost.\n\nAbout 44% of new food businesses started since the first lockdown are home-based, according to a new centralised online registration system used by nearly 200 local authorities, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed.\n\nThe full picture will be clearer when all local authorities report their registration figures in the new financial year in April.\n\n\"The growth of at-home food businesses is a concern,\" the FSA said.\n\n\"Local authority resources are already stretched and many are finding it difficult to keep on top of the workload [these at-home food businesses] are generating,\" says Michael Jackson, the FSA's head of regulatory compliance.\n\nSome people are starting food businesses from their home because they have lost work and need to generate income - including professional chefs who have been hit by the closure of restaurants.\n\nOthers are on furlough and have time to set up \"side hustles\". Takeaway eating and the idea of cooking for neighbours in need has also become more common in lockdown.\n\nAs well as social media platforms, websites such as Olio and Cook My Grub also now allow this new army of at-home food entrepreneurs to find customers, selling everything from cakes to Sunday roasts.\n\nEvery new food business must register before it starts selling food. Once registered with the local authority, an environmental health officer can visit in person and this eventually leads to an official food hygiene rating of 0-5 (or pass-fail in Scotland). The business can still trade prior to gaining its rating.\n\nHowever, the rating is a vital tool for customers to gauge the safety of an establishment and can be a selling point.\n\nIndeed, many new at-home food businesses that are well-run and take hygiene seriously are frustrated that they haven't been able to secure a rating yet, due to the backlog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Woodhouse is registered and hygiene-trained but awaiting inspection\n\nThe FSA described the situation with inspections as \"at the edge of our risk appetite\" back in early December, before the current lockdown was announced.\n\nThere have been no reported outbreaks of food poisoning connected to new at-home businesses so far. However, the FSA wants the public to be aware of the risks.\n\n\"Our advice to people when ordering food online is to check that the business has a food hygiene rating and choose only those with a rating of 3 or above, this can be checked on our website,\" says Mr Jackson of the FSA.\n\n\"If a consumer has any doubts about a food seller or a food product, they should report them to the local authority,\" he adds.\n\n\"Where sellers do not follow the rules, they may be fined, imprisoned for up to two years, or both.\"\n\nHowever, others think the system itself needs an overhaul to protect the public.\n\nThe law should be changed so that food businesses of any type cannot trade until they have been inspected and rated, says the CIEH's Ms Barratt.\n\nYou can follow Dougal on Twitter: @dougalshawbbc", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use, which means it will be part of the WHO’s global vaccine-sharing scheme Covax.\n\nThe vaccine will be produced at two plants - by SKBio in South Korea and the Serum Institute of India - and so had to be approved twice.\n\n\"We now have all the pieces in place for the rapid distribution of vaccines,\" WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\n\n\"But we still need to scale up production.\"\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is seen as the \"vaccine for the world\" as it is cheap, can be mass produced and is stored in a standard fridge.\n\nIt has attracted controversy about its effectiveness against new variants, whether it should be used in the elderly and how far apart the doses should be given, due to a lack of data.\n\nBut a review by the WHO found that it met the \"must-have\" criteria for safety, and its benefits outweighed the risks.", "Nancy Pelosi says more funding is needed to secure Congress\n\nUS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress will establish an \"outside, independent\" commission to investigate the 6 January attack on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.\n\nIn a letter to lawmakers, she said the commission would be modelled on the inquiry into the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon.\n\n\"We must get to the truth of how this happened,\" she said.\n\nFormer President Trump was acquitted by the Senate of inciting the violence.\n\nBut Democrats and some Republicans have backed an independent investigation into the riots, which left five people dead.\n\nMrs Pelosi said that retired US Army Lt Gen Russel Honoré had, over the past few weeks, been assessing the security needs of the Capitol in light of the attack.\n\nThe commission, she said, \"would investigate and report on the facts and causes\" of the attack; \"the interference with the peaceful transfer of power\"; and the \"preparedness and response\" of both the Capitol police and other branches of law enforcement.\n\nShe also said that, based on Lt Gen Honoré's initial findings, Congress needed to allocate additional funding to \"provide for the safety of members and the security of the Capitol\".\n\nA group of House Republicans wrote to Mrs Pelosi on Monday complaining that their party had not been consulted about the general's security review.\n\nIn the letter, they also demanded to know what Mrs Pelosi knew and the instructions she gave to secure the Capitol ahead of 6 January.\n\nHouse Republican Adam Kinzinger, who called for Mr Trump's removal after the riots, was condemned by 11 members of his family in a handwritten letter, in which they said he was in cahoots with \"the devil's army\".\n\n\"Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!\" they wrote to the Illinois representative, who was one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Mr Trump last month, denouncing his \"horrible, rude accusations of President Trump\", the New York Times reports.\n\n\"It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you,\" they said in the 8 January letter. \"You have embarrassed the Kinzinger family name!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The debate that led to Donald Trump’s acquittal\n\nMr Trump survived his second impeachment trial on Saturday, after Democrat prosecutors failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to convict him. He is the only president to have faced the process twice.\n\nThe vote split largely along party lines, with seven Republicans joining the Senate's 48 Democrats and two independents in voting to convict.\n\nThe senior Republican in Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell, had voted against conviction on constitutional grounds, but after the vote declared Mr Trump \"responsible\" for the assault on the Capitol.\n\n\"President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,\" Mr McConnell told the chamber. \"He didn't get away with anything yet.\"\n\nOther Republicans have also expressed support for an independent inquiry into the riots, including a close ally of Mr Trump, Senator Lindsay Graham. He told Fox News Sunday that the former president bore some culpability.\n\n\"His behaviour after the election was over the top,\" he said. \"We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again.\"", "More data from Israel's vaccination programme is suggesting the Pfizer jab prevents 94% of symptomatic infections.\n\nThis indicates the vaccine is performing just as well in a larger population as it did in the clinical trials.\n\nIt is proving highly effective at preventing illness and severe disease among all age groups, according to public health doctor Prof Hagai Levine.\n\n\"High vaccination coverage of the most susceptible groups\" was key, he said.\n\nIsrael's largest health fund Clalit looked at positive tests in 600,000 vaccinated people and the same number of unvaccinated people, matched by age and health status.\n\nIt found 94% fewer infections among the vaccinated group.\n\nThis was based on test results in people's medical records, usually taken if they had symptoms or were a close contact of someone who had tested positive.\n\nAnd the vaccine prevented almost all cases of serious illness.\n\nThis pattern was the same in all age groups - including the over-70s, who may have been under-represented in clinical trials.\n\nThe data has not yet been formally published.\n\nBut it \"sends a message to other countries such as the UK\" about the usefulness of the vaccine, said Prof Levine, and the need to get \"very high\" coverage of the groups most likely to become very ill from the virus.\n\nHe said he could not put a number on what proportion of the population would need to be immunised before restrictions could ease.\n\n\"We still don't know what the impact is on transmission,\" he said.\n\nBut we can say that, at least, \"the vaccine is useful for personal protection\", he added.\n\nProf Eran Segal, who is analysing data for the Israeli Ministry of Health, suggested Israel had to vaccinate 80% of its over-60s before learning of its effect on Covid-19 cases.\n\nIsrael is the first country in the world to see the impact of its vaccination programme, but it took significant population coverage and several weeks to reach this milestone.\n\nGreater falls were seen in the over-60s who were vaccinated first and in cities that vaccinated their populations earlier - patterns not seen in earlier lockdowns. This provides strong evidence it was the vaccine, and not just the lockdown, driving down cases.\n\nBut Prof Segal warned falls had happened more slowly than expected, possibly because of the effect of the UK variant, which has become the dominant strain in Israel.\n\nAnd he cautioned that, even with the \"very rapid pace\" of Israel's vaccination programme, there were still tens of thousands of people who were unprotected and could become severely ill if infected.\n\n\"We still have to exit our lockdown very cautiously,\" he said, or risk large numbers of people being hospitalised.\n\nIsrael has been experiencing a significant wave of infection and remains under strict measures - but with everyone over the age of 16 now entitled to get vaccine, the hope is at least the education system could be reopened too.\n\nThe country has also been met with criticism over questions about who should provide vaccines to the Palestinian territories.\n\nIsrael has only just also started to transfer some doses to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, so that vaccinations can begin for front-line health workers.\n\nMeanwhile it has given the full two doses to a quarter of its resident population.", "Police in New York City have arrested a man after a string of stabbings on the city's subway that left two people dead and two injured.\n\nRigoberto Lopez is charged with two murders and two attempted murders at stations in Manhattan and Queens.\n\nCity police posted a photo of a knife. All of the victims are said to be homeless people.\n\nUS media report the suspect, 21 and himself homeless, was arrested wearing blood-soaked clothes.\n\nThe four attacks on the A train began on Friday morning:\n\nAll the attacks were carried on New York City's subway\n\n\"I'm not going to get into motive, but what I can tell you is they were all unprovoked attacks,\" NYPD senior officer Brian McGee was quoted as saying by the New York Post.\n\n\"The victims had nothing, didn't initiate anything.\"", "In India's southern city of Bangalore, Disha Ravi was a cheerful, familiar figure among local climate activists.\n\nThe sprightly 22-year-old helped clean up lakes, plant trees and campaigned against plastic. She attended workshops, walked the streets demanding climate action, loved animals and spoke out against sexism and capital punishment. A vegan and the sole-earning member in her family, she worked with a local company that makes plant-based food.\n\nMs Ravi is also one of the founders of the local wing of Fridays For Future, a global movement begun by climate change activist Greta Thunberg. Here, she participated in campaigns to preserve the lion-tailed macaque in an Indian bio-diversity spot, and stall a hydro power plant, among other causes.\n\nLiving in a low-lying neighbourhood in a city which would get easily flooded during rains, she worried about climate change. Bangalore, she said, was experiencing severe rainfall and flooding these days. She had lived in the family home for 13 years, and found that the city had never experienced such heavy rains as it had in recent years.\n\nMs Ravi did not mince her words. \"People of colour are suffering from the climate crisis first-hand - a lot of people don't give us attention that we need. The fact that you would choose to listen to a white person on the same issue rather than a person of colour, to me, is environmental racism,\" she told Vogue magazine last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old has helped clean up lakes, plant trees and campaigned against plastic\n\nFriends and fellow campaigners say she is a law-abiding activist. During a recent campaign to save trees in her city, Ms Ravi went to the police and sought permission. \"We have interacted during many campaigns to protect the environment. I always noticed she never transgressed the law,\" said Tara Krishnaswamy, a veteran activist.\n\nAt the weekend, Ms Ravi was arrested after sharing a document intended to help farmers protest against new agriculture reform laws. The police say she was a \"key conspirator\" in the formulation and dissemination\" of the document. The so-called \"toolkit\", which suggested ways of helping the farmers, was tweeted by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. \"The call was to wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India,\" the police said.\n\nThey say Ms Ravi \"collaborated\" with separatist groups to \"spread disaffection against the Indian state\".\n\nIn court, Ms Ravi, accused of sedition and conspiracy, broke down and told the judge she had merely edited two lines of the document. But police believe she shared the document with Ms Thunberg, and then asked her to remove it after it was \"accidentally\" leaked. The court remanded her to police custody.\n\nMs Ravi's arrest has sparked a firestorm of protest and shocked many Indians. The chief minister of Delhi, run by an opposition party, has called the arrest \"an unprecedented attack on democracy\". A journalist wondered how \"editing publicly available documents that help people coordinate views disagreeing with those of the government can be an act of sedition\". Yet another journalist tweeted: \"The message is clear: lock up your children, stop them protesting, or we will\".\n\nThere have been protests against Ms Ravi's arrest\n\nLast July, the Delhi police temporarily blocked the website of Fridays For Future India, describing its content as \"objectionable\" and depicting an \"unlawful or terrorist act\". Members said all that it had done was swamp the environment ministry with thousands of emails in protest against an environmental law.\n\n\"In India, people continue to suffer because of laws that are anti-people. We live in a country where dissent is suppressed. We in Fridays For Future India were labelled terrorists for objecting to the law]. Only a government that puts profit over people would consider asking for clean air, clean water and a liveable planet, an act of terrorism,\" Ms Ravi told an interviewer at the time.\n\nIn September, she told The Guardian: \"Countries like India are already experiencing a climate crisis. We are just not fighting for our future, we are fighting for our present. We, the people from the most affected [regions], are going to change the conversation in climate negotiations and lead a just recovery plan that benefits people and not the pockets of our government\".\n\nIn a video interview, the feisty and outspoken young campaigner made it clear that she is no fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\n\n\"Mr Modi has convinced everybody that everything he is doing is good. There are so many questionable things about his governance. Not just in terms of equal rights but environmental rights or human rights.\"\n\n\"My parents support him, I know.\"\n\nHer friends describe Ms Ravi as a bright student, who won debates in college, where she graduated in business administration with a specialisation in finance. Like many young people of her generation, she loves Bollywood songs, binge-watches Netflix shows, loves cooking and pampers her dog. She plans on doing a masters in conservation: her role model is the world-famous conservation activist, Jane Goodall.\n\nMs Ravi's friends and co-workers say she is a \"funny, goofy girl\" who is often late to events. \"We get irritated but we never say anything to her because she is so passionate about what she does,\" a friend said.\n\nThe website of the Bangalore-based food company where she works mentions her as the \"youngest member\" who joined as an intern and then came on \"full time to work her magic on our customers by leading the company's direct-to-consumer efforts\".\n\nOn social media, Ms Ravi has posted about Olive Ridley turtles, doing away with plastic and posed for pictures with her kitten and her dog. A Harry Potter fan, she has also shared pictures of Evanna Lynch. On Facebook, she calls herself a \"carrot enthusiast\". On Instagram, she describes herself as \"climate worried.\"\n\nHer profile says: \"People united will never be defeated.\"\n\nWith additional reporting by Imran Qureshi in Bangalore", "Wales' top nine priority groups will have received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of April, the first minister has said.\n\nThe over-70s, care home residents and staff, health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable have already been offered the jab.\n\nMark Drakeford is \"confident\" on vaccinating the next five groups \"provided nothing gets in the way\".\n\nAn updated roadmap out of lockdown will be published on Friday.\n\nAt the next lockdown review on 19 February, the government will prioritise the return of three-to-seven year olds to school, along with some older children on vocational courses, said Mr Drakeford.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, the first minister said other changes would be \"very marginal\", including the possibility of allowing \"the outdoors to be used a little more\" and more flexibility for families.\n\n\"But the cabinet will not make those decisions until Thursday when we have the very latest information,\" he added.\n\nMr Drakeford said he hoped on Friday to be able to indicate \"how we will plan\" to get more children back to the classroom, possibly from the following review on 12 March.\n\nMinisters have started \"cautious\" talks about Wales' tourist industry reopening in time for Easter.\n\nThree-to-seven year olds will return to school on 22 February\n\nThe reopening of self-contained holiday accommodation is likely to be prioritised in the first instance.\n\nAlthough he has not ruled it out, Mr Drakeford has suggested it is unlikely pubs and restaurants would be open at the start of April.\n\nFrom Monday, UK residents and Irish nationals arriving in England from 33 red-list countries will have to quarantine for 10 days in hotels selected by the government.\n\nPeople entering Scotland from any country by air will have to isolate in hotels.\n\nFrom 04:00 GMT on Monday, people arriving in England and Scotland from red-list countries will be fined if they break their 10-day quarantine and enter Wales.\n\nAsked whether people arriving at Cardiff Airport once commercial flights restart will have to quarantine regardless of which country they have flown from, Mr Drakeford said: \"It may be that later on in March, if and when flights resume, that we will need to put those things in place.\n\n\"We will learn from the next few weeks, see what is necessary, see how the regimes are being put in place in the seven entry ports in Scotland and England, and then make a decision about what's needed here in Wales,\" he added.\n\nPeople aged five and over arriving into Wales from abroad are already required to isolate for 10 days.\n\nThey will now also be required to undertake a Covid-19 test on the second and eighth day of their 10-day isolation period.\n\nFailure to do so will be a criminal offence, liable to a fine, and failure to undertake both tests will also mean that the isolation period is extended to 14 days.", "The bird watchers travelled to see the rare Northern mockingbird in an Exmouth garden\n\nBird spotters who breached lockdown restrictions to catch a glimpse of a rare bird have been handed fines.\n\nThe Northern mockingbird, not often seen in the UK, was first spotted by Chris Biddle in his garden in Exmouth, Devon, on 6 February.\n\nHe tweeted about the sighting, prompting excitement among twitchers.\n\nFive were fined for travelling to the town to photograph the bird after Devon and Cornwall Police were contacted on Saturday over the lockdown breaches.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"It was reported that a number of individuals, suspected to have travelled from outside the area, were trying to photograph a rare bird which had been seen in a garden.\"\n\nThe grey, long-tailed Northern mockingbird is known for its mimicking ability, and is found in southern Canada, across the US, Mexico and the Northern Caribbean.\n\nIt is thought not to have been seen in the UK since the 1980s.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than one million cars over a safety defect with the cars' emergency call system.\n\nThe problem is with the cars' eCall feature, which alerts emergency services of an accident and relays a vehicle's location to them.\n\nBut a fault means it is possible that the wrong location could be sent.\n\nThe problem affects 1,292,258 cars in the United States, and the company says it is preparing a fix for customers in other countries too.\n\nThe safety recall information form the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that Mercedes \"determined that a safety risk cannot be ruled out\".\n\nBecause the problem is software-related, the fix can usually be done \"over the air\" - via a wireless download using the car's existing mobile data connection.\n\nBut if it cannot, due to a bad connection or other problems, owners will be able to bring their cars into an authorised dealer to have the update applied.\n\nThe eCall system is mandatory in the EU for all cars sold since 2018 - and the US documents reveal that the reason for the investigation was a known case of the wrong location being sent \"in the European market\" in October 2019.\n\nMercedes-Benz in the UK told the BBC: \"This software update will also be implemented in other countries and we are in close contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nBut it said it was not providing any further details until an official announcement of the fix.\n\nIn the US, all 1,292,258 affected vehicles will have to receive a software update to fix the problem.\n\nThat includes more than 200 different models and variants made between 2016 and 2021, including:\n\nThe fault, Mercedes said, was in the software connected to the communications module used by the emergency call system.\n\n\"In rare cases, this could mean that in the event of an accident-related temporary drop in a vehicle's voltage, the communication module might not communicate the correct current position when an emergency call is made/triggered,\" a spokeswoman for the car-maker said.\n\n\"All other functions of the automatic and manual emergency call function remain fully operational,\" she added.\n\nMercedes also said that it had discovered the fault itself due to its safety monitoring programme, which it said was a \"top priority\" for the company.\n• None Carmakers compete to keep you entertained", "Patricia Devlin believes paramilitaries think women in the media are easy targets\n\nWomen working in the media suffer more abuse for reporting on paramilitaries than their male counterparts, a Sunday World newspaper journalist has said.\n\nPatricia Devlin has received multiple death threats - including two within 12 hours - and was recently the subject of \"sinister graffiti\" in east Belfast.\n\nLast year she lodged an official complaint against the police for a \"complete failure\" to properly investigate a threat to rape her baby.\n\nShe said the attacks are escalating.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Ms Devlin said female reporters were more frequently threatened for their work.\n\n\"Male journalists who do the same job as me, who have written closer to the bone about paramilitaries, do not get the same level of abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"I suppose these people think that these women are an easier target.\"\n\nMs Devlin was informed of the first threat against her life in April last year.\n\nThe threats have been extended to her family, including her baby son - that threat is the subject of a police investigation.\n\nThe attacks have been \"never-ending\", she said.\n\n\"Unfortunately it's escalated and now we're seeing my name on walls in east Belfast with a picture of a crosshair.\n\n\"It's almost like we're going back in time, that we're not in a society that's going forward.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Devlin said she has been warned her work could be used to entrap her.\n\nThe most recent threat against her life had included the location of where she would be killed.\n\nHer family has asked her to reconsider her role in journalism but they also understand why she has continued in it, she said.\n\n\"They don't want to lose me - I don't want to lose my life.\n\n\"I do my job to help others, to give people a voice - many of the people I speak to are too scared to speak out because they've been intimidated and attacked.\n\n\"I won't be giving up my job because it does make a difference and my worry is that Friday's threat was not only a threat to me but it was a threat to all media workers.\"\n\nShe said her attackers had been able to act with impunity and she called on the PSNI to take action.\n\n\"The fact that these people are targeting journalists who are giving a voice to these people who are being intimidated, it's scary because if we don't have journalists to do that, who do we have?\"\n\nPolice have said they are investigating three incidents of graffiti that appeared at locations in east Belfast.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We do not discuss the security of individuals however we never ignore anything which may put an individual at risk.\"\n\nThe threats have been condemned by the National Union for Journalists (NUJ), with Irish secretary Seamus Dooley telling Good Morning Ulster that it was a \"shocking indictment\" of the situation in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"There is now a situation where what are considered low-level threats are almost considered part of the job,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the only part of Europe that I know where journalists almost expect low-level threats - it's not natural, it is not inevitable and we must get angry about this.\n\n\"It isn't natural that a young woman, trying to her job in the public interest, receives threats like this.\n\n\"We need at the highest level, we need police and civic society and the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister to grab these threats by the scruff of the neck and solve the problem.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice are investigating a man's death hours after his release from custody.\n\nMohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at his Cardiff home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThe 24-year-old died on Saturday night and his family said he claimed he was assaulted in custody.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had so far found no evidence of excessive force or misconduct but has referred itself to the complaints watchdog.\n\nIt said the referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) was standard practice following a death after police contact.\n\nIn a statement, the force said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road in the Roath area of the city on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nZainab Hassan said there were many unanswered questions about her nephew's arrest and what happened after\n\nThe force added it was aware of \"extensive reporting on social media\" but due to the on-going investigation and referral to the IOPC, it was unable to comment further.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place on Tuesday.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said her nephew was \"loving\" and was due to become a father.\n\nShe said she saw him within one hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\n\n\"Nothing we do is going to bring him back but we will not rest for a second until we have justice.\"\n\nSolicitor Hilary Brown, director of Virgo Consultancy, said a complaint had been made to the IOPC, while the family would be seeking an independent pathologist report and called for an independent police force to investigate the issue.\n\n\"We want somebody to try to explain to us why a young, healthy man was arrested by South Wales Police with no apparent injuries to his body and as a result of being released from Cardiff Bay police station... he was badly marked with bruising and cuts, and within hours was dead,\" she said.\n\n\"We need somebody to explain to us whether there was a connection between the injuries he sustained either before being taken to Cardiff Bay police station or while at Cardiff Bay police station - did they play any part in his death.\n\n\"We want to know whether the allegations he made against officers of South Wales Police of being assaulted has contributed in any way to his demise.\"\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said of the police referral: \"We are assessing the referral to determine whether the IOPC needs to be involved in an investigation.\"\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. Some bystanders put their own safety at risk to help the ice skaters who were stranded in the freezing water in Amsterdam\n\nDays of sub-zero temperatures saw not only parts of northern Europe covered in snow but also the freezing of many lakes, ponds and canals.\n\nFor many, it has been a welcome escape from coronavirus lockdown restrictions, prompting them to dig out their sledges and skates for some winter fun.\n\nOfficials have been urging people to stay at home to avoid crowds and prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nNow they are also warning of the dangers of thinning ice.\n\nThere were a number of incidents across Germany at the weekend where people fell through the ice, including a couple who were skating.\n\nBut it has not put people off.\n\nBild newspaper reported that as many as 2,500 people descended on the frozen Landwehr Canal in Berlin on Sunday for an unauthorised rave until police broke it up.\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 in northern England, fans of the hit TV show Dancing on Ice are said to be \"putting their lives at risk\" by practising their moves on the frozen lakes in remote nature reserves.\n\n\"These lakes are deep, because of the recent floods, and there will be areas where the ice is going to be thin,\" warned Alan Wright of the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.\n\n\"Our reserves, by their nature, are remote places and if anyone gets into difficulties, there will only be a few, if any, people around to help.\"\n\nTwo 11-year-old girls were rescued after becoming trapped on a frozen section of the River Trent, in Nottinghamshire, on Saturday.\n\nOver in the Netherlands, people have been enjoying the chance to skate on their frozen canals for the first time in nearly three years.\n\nPeople have been playing hockey on the frozen waters near Eindhoven in the Netherlands\n\nThere were even cricket and hockey matches being played on frozen waters around the country.\n\nBut a number of people fell into one pond because of thinning ice in the Hague, leading the city council to warn people to keep away.\n\nAnd while Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned against mass skating because of the coronavirus restrictions, he also pleaded \"Please don't fall and have to go to the hospital because it is already so busy there.\"", "People travelling to England from 33 high-risk countries may face suspended flights and long queues at the border, Heathrow Airport has said.\n\nThe airport said \"good progress\" had been made on a \"number of issues\" with the government's hotel quarantine plan, which comes into force on Monday.\n\nBut it said it was concerned about whether UK Border Force could \"cope\".\n\nThe government said it was working closely with airports and hotels to manage any issues that arose.\n\nFrom Monday, British and Irish citizens and UK residents arriving in England from a \"red list\" country will have to quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels for 10 days to try to stop new coronavirus variants entering the country.\n\nThey will have to pay £1,750 for their stay, which covers the cost of the hotel, transport and testing, and book it in advance using a government portal.\n\nThose who fail to quarantine in such hotels face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nThe \"red list\" mainly consists of countries in South America and Africa, as well as Portugal.\n\nHeathrow Airport said it had been \"working hard\" with the government to make sure the plan works.\n\nHowever, in a statement it said \"queues at the border in recent days of almost five hours are totally unacceptable\".\n\n\"Ministers need to ensure there is adequate resource and effective processes at the border to avoid compromising the safety of passengers and those working at the airport, which could necessitate the suspension of some arriving flights,\" it added.\n\nThe airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK and is expected to receive the largest number of passengers.\n\nThe other four are Gatwick, London City, Birmingham and Farnborough Airfield.\n\nRegulations for the hotel quarantine measures, which come into force from 04:00 GMT on Monday, have been published.\n\nBut on Friday the Immigration Services Union said its officials had yet to receive guidance on how the system would work.\n\nThe union said officials still did not know what levels of checks they should be conducting on travellers.\n\nIt also raised concerns about the safety of security halls.\n\nAnd the GMB union has warned that \"rushed\" government plans are not thorough enough to make sure workers on the front line in quarantine hotels are protected.\n\nThe union said security guards were one of the occupations worst hit by Covid deaths, adding that it wanted to meet employers to develop a strategy to better protect workers.\n\nBeckie Morris said travellers should not be used as \"guinea pigs\"\n\nMeanwhile, a family returning to the UK after four years living in Abu Dhabi said travellers should not be used as \"guinea pigs\", amid confusion over hotel quarantine rules.\n\nBeckie Morris, 30, planned to repatriate to the UK with husband Matthew and their five-week-old daughter, but they now face a quarantine bill of thousands of pounds if they do.\n\nThe new mother said there was \"no information\" on the government website about what to do with young children.\n\nShe said: \"We'd have to arrange all the formula. I don't know what we do about sterilising bottles, or nappies or washing their clothes - there's all this unknown. I tried to reach out, and I know it's still really early days, but there's just no information.\n\n\"They haven't really laid out what actually happens when you get to that hotel and I don't think that's going to be known until the first person goes in there.\n\n\"People shouldn't be used as guinea pigs - especially not paying that amount, that is an extortionate amount of money.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every essential check - from pre-departure testing to the passenger locator form - will help prevent the importing of new coronavirus variants into the UK.\n\n\"We are working closely with airports and hotels to manage any issues that arise and ensure the new process runs as smoothly as possible, and we are clear the safety of all staff and passengers is a priority.\"\n\nAre you due to arrive in the UK from a \"red list\" country? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Anne Robinson is to become the first female host of Countdown\n\nTV presenter Anne Robinson is to be the new host of Countdown, Channel 4 have confirmed.\n\nShe will become the game show's first female host in its 39-year history when she replaces Nick Hewer later this year.\n\nRobinson, 76, well known for her acerbic wit on BBC quiz show The Weakest Link, said she was \"beyond thrilled\" to be joining Countdown.\n\n\"The show is almost as old as I am and just as historic,\" she joked.\n\nHer appointment was announced on Monday's episode of Steph's Packed Lunch.\n\nThe announcement comes after Nick Hewer confirmed in December that he would be departing Countdown after a decade in the hot seat.\n\nRobinson will replace former BBC Apprentice advisor Nick Hewer as host\n\nIn a series of tweets, Hewer said coronavirus lockdown had made him reconsider his career path.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Don't you love the sound of that?\" Robinson asked. \"Worryingly, Susie and Rachel are not only very smart but younger, prettier and thinner than me.\n\n\"Sadly, there's no time for another facelift so I'll have to make do with this old one,\" she joked in response to previous speculation over her plastic surgery.\n\n\"I am a crossword nut so the Countdown's conundrums I can make sense of. But the adding up and taking away - I can't go much further than working out the fee once my agent takes his cut.\n\n\"I'm slightly scared of those brains but I think the three of us will transform things, it will be Countdown goes chic, won't it?\"\n\nIn response to the news, Dent posted congratulations on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRobinson cemented her presence on TV screens by fronting BBC shows Watchdog and Points Of View during the 1980s, 90s and 00s.\n\nBut she became perhaps most famous for her put-downs to contestants on The Weakest Link, which she hosted from 2000 until 2012.\n\nThis included the catchphrase \"You are the weakest link, goodbye\" said to each contestant as they were voted off after each round.\n\nDiscussing the iconic saying, Robinson told Steph's Packed Lunch she is planning to \"tone down my nastiness\".\n\n\"The catchphrase just came about on the pilot when I got really cheesed off with a contestant and I added the goodbye,\" she told host Steph McGovern.\n\n\"These things are best developed just as they happen.\"\n\nRobinson appeared in Countdown's Dictionary Corner for a week in 1987, when the show was led by the late Richard Whiteley.\n\nShe recalled: \"I was so in awe of the great Richard Whiteley. I think I only said 'Good afternoon' and 'Goodbye'. Who thought I'd have the chance to follow in his giant footsteps?\"\n\nJo Street, head of daytime at Channel 4, said: \"I am a huge fan of Anne and her quick wit. I am immensely proud that this ferociously smart woman will be joining the show as host alongside the brilliant Rachel Riley and Susie Dent.\"\n\nCountdown executive producer Peter Gwyn said viewers will \"relish Anne's unique style at the helm of this much-loved institution.\"\n\nCountdown was the first programme to be broadcast on Channel 4 and has been on air since its launch in November 1982, making it one of the longest-running quiz shows in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The arrest of 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi has sparked widespread outrage, with many calling it an attack on free speech.\n\nShe was arrested on Saturday over a shared document to help farmers protest against new agricultural laws.\n\nDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal described her arrest as an \"unprecedented attack on democracy\".\n\nSeveral activists and journalists have also been arrested in recent weeks in connection with the protests.\n\nNow in their third month, the protests have come to represent one of the biggest challenges faced by prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.\n\nPolice said Ms Ravi was a \"key conspirator\" in the \"formulation and dissemination\" of the document - a protest \"toolkit\".\n\nThey said Ms Ravi, one of the founders of the Indian branch of the Fridays for Future climate strike, was an editor of the document and had shared it with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\n\"I did not make the toolkit. We wanted to support the farmers. I edited two lines on 3 February,\" Ms Ravi told the court, according to the NDTV news site.\n\nMr Kejriwal has joined several prominent voices online, including activists, journalists and opposition politicians (such as former finance minister P Chidambaram), all of whom appear both shocked and furious over the arrest.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arvind Kejriwal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ravi, who lives in the southern city of Bangalore, was flown to the capital Delhi where she appeared before a magistrate on Sunday. She was sent to judicial custody for five days.\n\nQuestions have been raised over the fact that Ms Ravi did not have a lawyer during her hearing - a fact which criminal lawyer Rebecca John, who has been tracking the case, described as \"a shocking abdication of judicial duties\" in a Facebook post.\n\n\"If the accused was not being represented by counsel at the time of the hearing, the magistrate should have waited till her counsel arrived or in the alternate, provided her with legal aid,\" Ms John wrote.\n\nIt's unclear still what Ms Ravi is being charged with, but many fear she is being held under a colonial-era sedition law that has been used in recent arrests against journalists.\n\nPeople charged under the draconian law have to surrender their passports, are not eligible for government jobs and must produce themselves in the court as and when required.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One night at the farmers' protest\n\nThe Delhi police, who arrested Ms Ravi, invoked the same law earlier this month when they said they were investigating the toolkit. They said it suggested a conspiracy in the run up to a huge rally on 26 January, which saw protesting farmers clash with police.\n\nThe toolkit was hugely publicised about two weeks ago when Ms Thunberg tweeted it, voicing her support for protesting farmers.\n\nThe farmers are seeking the repeal of new agriculture reform laws that will further open up India's farming sector to corporate buyers and investment.\n\nThe government, which has offered to suspend the laws, says they will improve farming incomes. But farmers, who want nothing short of a complete withdrawal, say the opposite will happen. They fear the laws will threaten decades-old concessions guaranteed by the government and leave them vulnerable to the private market.\n\nMs Ravi's arrest is being seen by many as an intimidation tactic by the federal government, which oversees the Delhi police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This is a new low, even for India,\" environmentalist Nityanand Jayaraman told the BBC. \"These are the kinds of young people we should be celebrating, and not jailing.\"\n\nHe described her as \"conscientious, outspoken youngster who has constantly defended and fought for India's rights on the global stage\" on the issue of climate change.\n\nHe said this runs contrary to PM Modi's efforts to enlist youth in cleaning up cities as part of his flagship Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Campaign\n\nMy Jayaraman added that it sent a clear message to young people that \"they should restrict themselves to picking up garbage on the streets or planting trees, and not come into the arena of policy-making\".\n\nFarmers' group Samyukta Kisan Morcha, one of the main groups behind the protests, expressed their support for Ms Ravi and demanded her release.\n\nSupport has poured in from everywhere, including Indian film actor Siddharth, Canadian poet Rupi Kaur and US Vice President Kamala Harris's niece Meena Harris.\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.", "This week should see the start of a more even split between first and second doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe total of second doses now stands at 5,402 - with Sunday seeing the most given out in a single day so far.\n\nWe can already see more second doses being given out in Wales since the start of the month - just under 2,000 in the previous week but 1,178 on Sunday alone.\n\nThat is set to rise as the Welsh vaccination programme aims to make more in-roads into priority groups given a first dose two months ago.\n\nUsing Saturday's figures for the whole of the UK we can already see Wales is now on a similar daily rate to Scotland and above England in terms of second doses.\n\nThis week will see a stock of 46,000 Pfizer doses being used.\n\nAnother 56,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca will also be available, as the programme of first doses also continues.\n\nBut the next two weeks will see a planned reduction in supply, as manufacturers prepare their processes for a significant ramp up of production from March onwards.\n\nThat is likely to be noticeable with some of the figures we are likely to see in a few days time.", "People whose asthma is under control will not be prioritised for the Covid vaccine, the government has confirmed.\n\nSufferers of the condition will not be on the list ahead of their peers unless they are formally shielding, regularly take steroid tablets or have ever had an emergency hospital admission.\n\nThis appears to be a rowing back from previous guidance indicating steroid-inhaler users would be eligible.\n\nIt has since been judged this group is not at increased risk of death.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it was following independent advice that the immediate priority should be to \"prevent deaths and protect health and care staff, with old age deemed the single biggest factor determining mortality\".\n\nA DHSC spokesperson said: \"This prioritisation captures almost all preventable deaths from Covid-19.\"\n\nPeople with non-severe asthma are considered by the NHS to be at increased risk from Covid - but not at risk of dying from the virus.\n\nAsthma has also been linked to an increased risk of \"long Covid\" - an array of different symptoms suffered by some people weeks or months after the initial infection has cleared.\n\nAnyone with the condition requiring a steroid inhaler or tablets will be offered a free annual flu jab. And that's led some people to question why they are being treated differently when it comes to Covid where only oral (tablet or liquid) steroids are considered.\n\nJeff Hunt, a 50-year-old from Somerset, said his moderate asthma had not required hospitalisation for the condition because he had been \"extremely cautious\" - but that didn't mean his condition didn't put him at risk.\n\n\"I'm really frustrated with the government guidance being so unclear,\" he said. \"It doesn't feel like it makes sense.\n\n\"We're all being called for an annual flu jab but now we're being told we're at no greater risk than the average population,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Asthma UK said the government had assessed evidence suggesting people with mild or moderate asthma, even those using high doses of inhaled steroids, were not at greater risk of dying.\n\nA study tried to correct for this behavioural effect - the fact people with asthma may have been particularly careful - by only looking at the outcomes of people with asthma who had contracted Covid.\n\nThe most severe asthma sufferers will be vaccinated in the fourth priority group if they have received a letter advising them to shield.\n\nPeople with asthma will be vaccinated in the sixth priority group, after the over-65s and frontline staff, if they:\n\nThe first five groups cover care-home residents and staff, over-80s and front-line health and care workers, the over-75s, \"clinically extremely vulnerable\" people (shielders) and the over-65s.\n\nThere are nine priority groups in total, which the government says it will offer a first jab to by the end of April - including all over-50s regardless of health status.\n\nThe next set of priority groups has yet to be laid out.\n\nBut it is expected to include people with both a wider range of health conditions and in a broader group of occupations, like police officers and teachers.\n\nSarah Woolnough, chief executive of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation, said: \"The government have advised people with asthma that they are clinically vulnerable to Covid, throughout the pandemic, leaving many people to believe that they were going to be in priority group six for the vaccine.\n\n\"However, based on evidence that a lot of people with asthma are at no increased risk of dying from coronavirus, it has changed the eligibility for category six, which means many people with asthma no longer fall into this group.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government must urgently communicate directly to people with asthma why it has made this decision, and explain the reasoning behind it.\"\n\nThe charity is calling for people with non-severe asthma to be prioritised ahead of their peers after the first nine groups have been vaccinated.\n\n\"The government's lack of attention, urgency and confused messaging around this issue from the start of the pandemic has caused needless anxiety for people and it needs to be put right,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: \"You can't get ahead of the evidence\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has rejected calls from Conservative MPs to put a date on when England's lockdown measures will be eased, saying the government will be \"cautious\".\n\nThe lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group (CRG) said all restrictions must be lifted by the end of April.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he was \"confident\" in the vaccine rollout, but added: \"You can't get ahead of the evidence.\"\n\nSo far 14.5 million people have had at least one dose of the vaccine.\n\nMr Raab said that the government was \"on track\" to hit its target of offering the vaccine to 15 million people from the top four priority groups by Monday.\n\nThe CRG has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to say there will be no justification for Covid laws once the top nine priority groups have been vaccinated - which the government is planning to have done by May.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"We share all of the ambition and the desire to get out of this lockdown. We want to do it responsibly and safely and therefore it's got to be based on the evidence,\" adding, \"You can't get ahead of the evidence of the impact of the vaccine on the transmission.\"\n\nHe said the R-rate was between 0.7 and 1 and, as of Friday, the seven-day totals for admissions, cases and fatalities were down by between a fifth and a quarter respectively.\n\nBut developments needed to be monitored \"in real time\", making it difficult to give guarantees or be precise about an end of April or beginning of May date for easing, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Harper: \"It's not arbitrary at all, it's completely tied to the rollout of the vaccination programme\"\n\nMr Johnson said on Saturday he planned a \"cautious\" reopening - the road map for which will be unveiled on 22 February, with restrictions on outdoor recreation expected to be among the first to be relaxed.\n\nThe CRG - which was formed in November to oppose a third lockdown and says it has the backing of 63 MPs for its letter - said the prime minister should set out a plan for \"a return to normal life\" from 8 March.\n\nThat is three weeks after Monday's target date for vaccinating 15 million of the most vulnerable - the same length of time the vaccine is believed to need to start taking effect - and the date pencilled in by the government for schools reopening.\n\nThe top four priority groups, targeted for vaccination by 15 February include:\n\nThe vaccine rollout has already been officially extended to people outside these groups, with invitations going out in England to people aged 65 to 69 and younger people who are in an at-risk group.\n\nBoris Johnson will spend the next few days looking at data on the spread of coronavirus and the success of the vaccine rollout, before deciding how quickly to reopen society.\n\nWe know roughly what the order will be: schools, followed by outdoor mixing, non-essential shops then hospitality.\n\nSome Conservative MPs - who have been close to the prime minister in recent years - are urging Mr Johnson to move fairly quickly and lift all restrictions by May, when the government plans to have give a first dose to everyone over 50.\n\nBut Downing Street has been stung in the past after moving too quickly and having to re-impose restrictions in a matter of weeks.\n\nThat's why ministers are being cautious at the moment - and why the foreign secretary said it would be wrong to set an arbitrary date.\n\nThe CRG called for pubs and restaurants to open by Easter in a \"Covid-secure\" and \"commercially viable\" way, saying two-thirds of the people in the top nine priority groups should have had a first vaccine dose by then.\n\nAnd by the end of the April, when all the priority groups should have had one jab of vaccine, they say all lockdown laws should be removed.\n\nThe group says the burden of proof should be on ministers to show restrictions are necessary.\n\nScientists and medics have urged caution, saying there is still potential for another surge in cases.\n\nDr Shondipon Laha, a member of the Intensive Care Society, dismissed the idea that Covid-19 could end up being seen on the same level as the flu - something that has been suggested by Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Mr Johnson.\n\n\"It's not just deadlier, it's more debilitating. So we're expecting to see significant numbers of patients who have had Covid who need intense rehabilitation.\"\n\n\"We know that every patient that comes to an intensive care unit that needs ventilation loses muscle mass at 2-3% per day,\" Dr Laha said, adding that many such patients cannot stand and have problems with their long-term memories.\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, a virologist at the University of Brighton, said the variations of coronavirus were becoming more infectious and more dangerous, also dismissing suggestions it could be treated the same as flu.\n\nShe said restrictions should be lifted \"very gently\", and that, in the future, \"short, sharp\" lockdowns should be introduced for a few days to target smaller, localised outbreaks - similar to those being used in Australia.", "Councillor Iftakhar Hussain was first elected to Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in 2004\n\nA mayor has resigned after breaching Covid restrictions by visiting a house where police said people were \"celebrating a wedding\".\n\nLancashire Police said nine people were fined after being found at an address on Dukes Brow, Blackburn, at about 21:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen Mayor Iftakhar Hussain confirmed he was fined £200.\n\nHe said he regretted the \"momentary lapse of judgment\", adding that he \"should have known better\".\n\nIn a statement, he said he believed resigning was \"the right thing to do\", as he no longer believed he could \"continue to serve as mayor to the best of my ability\".\n\n\"I do not want to make any excuses,\" he added.\n\n\"I regret the momentary lapse of judgment - I should have known better and I accept full responsibility for my actions.\"\n\nMohammed Khan, the leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council, said he had accepted Mr Hussain's resignation, adding: \"I know he deeply regrets this mistake [and] I would like to thank him for his dedicated service during this difficult year.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Lancashire Telegraph, the Labour councillor had earlier said he had been taking part in a \"remote meeting\" all evening when his uncle called, at about 20:30, and \"asked for some food to be delivered to his house\".\n\n\"I agreed to facilitate this by going to the house and letting the food outlet deliver the food,\" he said.\n\n\"Once the food was delivered to the house, I remained there while my uncle returned.\n\n\"I know in hindsight, I should have left the house... once the food had been delivered.\"\n\nHe added that he had urged those present to abandon the function once he realised what was happening.\n\nLancashire Police said that officers responding to a report that up to 30 guests would be at the house had \"found nine people inside celebrating the wedding, including two residents of the address\".\n\nA force spokesman said all nine had been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice and the non-residents had been instructed to leave.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen Council's deputy chief executive Sayyed Osman said the mayor stepping down was \"the correct course of action\" and had reinforced \"the council's members' code of conduct, which highlights personal responsibility\".\n\n\"We do not endorse or condone any behaviour that falls outside this code and the coronavirus restrictions,\" he added.\n\nDeputy mayor Derek Hardman will take over mayoral responsibilities until a new mayor is chosen in May.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen, which was subject to tier four restrictions before the national lockdown was imposed, currently has 16th highest infection rate in England, according to the latest government figures.\n\nIn the week leading up to 10 February, the area had an infection rate of 263.2 cases per 100,000, down from 354.1 cases per 100,000 seven days before.\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 Scottish government is \"satisfied\" it has hit its latest vaccination target - but has warned that progress is set to slow down in the coming days.\n\nMinisters aimed to give a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine to all over-70s and the clinically vulnerable by Monday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said everyone in this group should have been offered an appointment.\n\nShe urged anyone who had not received one to contact the government, and said \"nobody is going to be left behind\".\n\nHowever, she said the rate of progress was set to \"decline a bit\" due to supply issues, with health teams \"unlikely to vaccinate more than 30,000 people a day this week\".\n\nThis would be fewer than half of the number of people vaccinated on several days over the past week, but Ms Sturgeon said staff \"stand ready to pick up the pace as soon as supplies allow\".\n\nMonday is the final day for the government to reach its target of giving a first dose of vaccine to all over-70s and those deemed to be extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"satisfied we have met that target\", and that everyone in these groups had been offered the vaccine.\n\nA \"significant number of people\" had to rebook appointments due to the severe weather over the past week, but Ms Sturgeon said levels of uptake were already \"well beyond the 80% target we set out in our deployment plan\".\n\nThe first minister said \"close to 100%\" of older care home residents and over-80s in the community had been given a first dose, along with 99% of 75 to 79-year-olds.\n\nAnd she said the uptake rate for those aged 70 to 74 was already at 85%, with more booked in for Monday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was \"without a doubt a significant achievement\", which in time would \"reduce deaths from Covid-19 significantly\".\n\nThe vaccination rate is expected to dip over the coming weeks due to a combination of factors, including a reduction in supplies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said Pfizer had \"re-phased its delivery over the coming period\". The same number of vials will be delivered, but over a different timescale.\n\nShe also said the higher than expected uptake of vaccines meant more doses had been used than anticipated, while more stocks would have to start being held back for second doses.\n\nSome vaccination centres like the NHS Louisa Jordan may move from seven days a week operation to five to reflect this.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon stressed that \"we are not talking about closing vaccination centres\" and said the system could pick up pace \"very rapidly\" once supplies are available.\n\nShe said: \"We're going to see these issues through this programme, that's in the nature of it, but it shouldn't take away from the fact we are in a much better position than we thought we would be in.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the vaccination target being hit was \"great news\" and that the government must now work on a \"route map\" towards easing lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"Understandably specific dates set in stone are not possible because as the virus mutates it can get stronger variants, as we've seen over the last 10 or 11 months.\n\n\"But we need to know the triggers that will be in place for all school pupils to go back, for businesses to reopen - will we have a tiered approach or a national approach?\n\n\"These are the crucial points that businesses really need to be aware of so we can see our way out of this crisis.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's cabinet is due to decide on Tuesday morning whether more pupils can return to Scotland's schools in the coming weeks, with an announcement to follow at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nThe first minister said she was \"very keen\" to go ahead with the phased return of children to schools.\n\nShe said there would be \"trade-offs\" over the coming months as the country eases out of lockdown, with schools and care home visiting \"the kind of things we focus on first as we try to get things back to normal\".", "Takeaway firm Deliveroo and 300 restaurant groups are urging the government to run Eat Out to Help Out again when restaurants finally reopen.\n\nThey said the discount scheme, which gave 50% off meals in August, would boost demand for ailing restaurants.\n\nThey also said other urgent support was needed to stop \"viable\" hospitality firms failing despite optimism about the vaccination programme.\n\nIt came as one worried pub boss called for pubs to be reopened by April.\n\nYoung & Co's Patrick Dardis accused the government of a \"lack of respect\" for the sector and of basing the decision to close pubs on \"unproven\" science - a claim which experts dispute.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Deliveroo and partners including Itsu and Pizza Hut said that with all restaurant businesses closed, many were \"under immense financial pressure\".\n\n\"Even when they are able to reopen to customers, restrictions around mixing of households and social distancing measures mean that a return to trading at full capacity will remain dependent on the successful vaccine rollout,\" they wrote.\n\nThey said continued government support was \"critical\" to protect jobs, adding: \"The withdrawal of support too early or too suddenly risks viable businesses failing just as the light at the end of the tunnel is becoming clearer.\"\n\nThey said the Eat Out to Help Out scheme had helped restaurants \"survive\" in 2020 and should be run again \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nThe scheme - which gave discounts of up to £10 per diner on food and soft drinks from Mondays to Wednesdays - was used 100 million times in August. The impact was felt after the scheme ended too.\n\n\"The boost the scheme provided not only helped protect restaurants from closure but also showed customers the work we have done to make sure they are safe and can get back to enjoying great food,\" the letter said.\n\nIt also called for support measures including:\n\nIn a separate letter to the prime minister, Young's & Co's Mr Dardis accused the government of a \"lack of interest and respect\" regarding the plight of pubs.\n\nHe said major pub chief executives, including himself, were quitting an industry forum set up by small business minister Paul Scully. He declined to name the executives.\n\nHe added that the industry needed a \"road map\" to reopening with social distancing restrictions in place, but that these should only be in place for a few months.\n\nQuestioning the science behind the current pub restrictions, he said: \"We are shocked and appalled that the government is basing its decisions to keep the great British pub closed on unproven and unfounded statistics.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We are deeply disappointed that some pub leaders have decided to step back from meetings with ministers.\n\n\"As we plan our way out of restrictions, we will continue to engage relentlessly with the hospitality sector, as we have done throughout this pandemic, and our door remains firmly open,\" he said.\n\nDr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter medical school, said talk of reopening pubs by April was premature.\n\n\"What the executives of pubs need to know is that failure to get it right equals back to square one. And back to square one equals much more pain economically, much more hardship.\"\n\nHe added: \"Whichever way you want to cut it, you drink alcohol to relax and have a bonhomie with your friends.\n\n\"One of the consequences of relaxing is that you drop your guard,\" he said.\n\nDr Julian Tang, honorary associate professor at the University of Leicester, agreed.\n\nThe consultant virologist said: \"Opening pubs will bring more people into closer contact with each other - this will allow the virus to spread - we already know and understand this concept.\"", "Jaguar Land Rover's Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker has said.\n\nThe company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added.\n\nThe firm said it would keep all three of its three British plants open as part of its new strategy.\n\nBut it has dropped plans to build an electric version of its XJ saloon at the Castle Bromwich plant, meaning the site will eventually stop making cars.\n\nChief executive Thierry Bolloré said the plant would focus instead on \"non-production\" activities in the long term, without giving details.\n\nThe company plans to spend about £2.5bn a year on new technology for its cars.\n\nThis is a big move for Jaguar Land Rover, but the reality is it has little choice.\n\nLike other manufacturers, it is under pressure to reduce the CO2 emissions from its fleet, as new regulations come into force in Europe and elsewhere. At the same time, sales of diesels - which generally produce less CO2 than petrol engines - have been plummeting.\n\nAnd in the longer term, the UK government wants to outlaw the sale of all wholly petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Governments in other countries are moving in the same general direction.\n\nThe problem is, electric cars cost more to design and build than conventional models, meaning it is currently hard to make a profit from them. Bigger manufacturers can throw money at the problem now, and hope to benefit from economies of scale later.\n\nJLR is a smaller company and can't do that - so instead it will re-emphasise Jaguar's credentials as a luxury brand when it goes all-electric.\n\nThat might make sense from a marketing point of view, but making the sums add up looks like a steep challenge.\n\nIt will also invest in hydrogen fuel cell technology. Fuel cells provide electric power, without producing tailpipe emissions - water is the only by-product.\n\nHowever, in order for them to be truly environmentally friendly, the hydrogen itself needs to be produced using renewable sources.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the announcement was \"a huge step for British car manufacturing\".\n\nCarmakers are under pressure to meet stringent carbon emission demands in Europe and China, as well as customer demand for high-performance electric cars with a luxury or performance feel.\n\nThe UK plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.\n\nLuxury car brand Bentley Motors, owned by Germany's Volkswagen, said in November its range will be fully electric by 2030, and last month General Motors said it aimed to have a zero tailpipe emission line-up by 2035.", "A return to lockdown in Wales cannot be ruled once the current restrictions are lifted, the health minister has warned.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK government's plan to move England out of lockdown would be \"cautious but irreversible\".\n\nBut Vaughan Gething said ministers would have a \"responsibility to act\" if there was an upswing in the virus.\n\nA revised plan out of Wales' lockdown, which began in December, is expected in the next few days.\n\nWelsh cabinet ministers are considering the latest scientific evidence this week before any changes to restrictions are announced on Friday.\n\nBut First Minister Mark Drakeford has suggested any initial easing may be limited.\n\nHe said at the weekend that \"cautious\" talks had begun on Wales' tourist industry reopening in time for Easter.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives called for consideration to be given to a reopening of gyms, while Plaid Cymru said easing lockdown should be based on data, rather than dates.\n\nMr Johnson is due to announce his road map for ending restrictions next Monday.\n\nHe told reporters the plan would include target dates for changes \"if we possibly can\", but warned high rates of infection could lead to delays.\n\nHe added: \"So we have got to be very prudent and what we want to see is progress that is cautious but irreversible. I think that is what the public, people up and down the country, want to see.\"\n\nAt Monday's press conference, Mr Gething warned there was a \"danger\" of setting out \"absolutes\" by talking about whether lockdown lifting was \"irreversible\".\n\n\"If we make cautious steps outwards, then it will still very much feel like a form of lockdown for most people, because we're not going to be returning straight away to what we thought of as our normal lives just over a year ago.\n\n\"So yes we don't want to see a return to having to introduce more restrictions, but I wouldn't say we can give a cast iron guarantee that would never happen.\"\n\nVaughan Gething said ministers would have a responsibility to act if there was an upswing in the virus\n\nMr Gething said if a number of restrictions were removed but there was then a \"significant upswing\" in the virus - such as a new variant - then ministers \"would have a responsibility to act\".\n\nHe added that the majority of people would rather see lockdown rules continue until it is safe to ease them.\n\nMinisters are looking at \"small things\" to ease out of lockdown, he said, but would not speculate on what measures were being discussed.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Gething said the next stage of the vaccine programme began on Monday.\n\nHe said appointments would be offered to people aged 65 to 69, people aged 16 to 69 with an underlying health condition, younger adults in residential care and unpaid carers.\n\nAn expected drop in the supply of vaccines to Wales will not delay anybody's second dose appointment, he added.\n\nThe Welsh Government's lockdown easing roadmap has to be \"built around data not dates\", said the Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price.\n\n\"That's absolutely critical, so you can't set an arbitrary date\", he said, adding there should be a \"phased step by step approach rather than all at once\".\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said it was right to be cautious over easing lockdown restrictions, but he hoped gyms could be reopened \"in an organised manner\".\n\n\"I'd like to see some sort of consideration around gyms being allowed to come forward in an organised manner so that people can look to those avenues to help them with their well-being\".", "Parler is back with a new logo after a month offline\n\nControversial social-media app Parler has come back online after more than a month without service.\n\nThe Twitter-like app was a favourite among supporters of former US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives.\n\nIt was banned from Google and Apple's app stores and Amazon's web-hosting service, after an armed mob broke into the US Capitol building on 6 January.\n\nBut now, the self-styled free-speech platform says it is \"here to stay\".\n\nThe app was not available for all users immediately, however.\n\nAnd users reported their posts from the previous version had vanished from their profiles.\n\nParler said the plan was to bring the service back online for existing users first, with new users able to sign up in a week's time.\n\nAnd it was no longer working with a \"big-tech\" provider but was \"built on sustainable, independent technology\".\n\nDuring its gap in service, the company also sacked vocal chief executive John Matze, replacing him with interim boss Mark Meckler.\n\n\"We will thrive as the premier social-media platform dedicated to free speech, privacy, and civil dialogue,\" Mr Meckler said.\n\nAnd the decision of other technology companies to cut ties with Parler had been taken \"by those who desire to silence tens of millions of Americans\".\n\nWhile users who already have the app downloaded can log in, it is more difficult to install onto phones that did not have it before.\n\nAndroid users must \"sideload\" the software, meaning it has to be sourced and installed without using Google's Play Store.\n\nAnd iPhone users trying to reinstall the app or download it for the first time from Apple's App Store are told it is \"not currently available\".\n\nLate last year, as Twitter banned some Trump supporters and then President Trump himself, Parler soared up the app charts. It had what every fledgling online business seeks, momentum - until it was stopped in its tracks.\n\nNow it is back, but in a very limited form. It is still unavailable on app stores and with no way yet for new users to sign up. It feels as though its moment has passed - even if its old members do manage to get back online they may find Parler just a little dull.\n\nThe past - and the evidence of its use to plan the invasion of Congress - has been wiped clean.\n\nTrue, the Trump acolyte and Fox firebrand Sean Hannity is back, already posting half a dozen Parleys in the first couple of hours. But while he has over five million followers on Twitter, on Parler he's bellowing into a mostly empty space where a few like-minded people nod quietly in agreement.\n\nThere's probably only one person who could give Parler its mojo back - Donald J Trump. But so far he seems reluctant to show up at a party which feels like it's over.\n\nThe app's popularity was in part fuelled by President Trump's supporters, who often claimed \"censorship\" by the largest online platforms.\n\nThe former president had allegedly been offered a significant stake in the company if he joined, Buzzfeed News reported earlier this month - something rival politicians are now investigating.\n\nBut he never joined Parler while in power and does not appear to have joined the relaunched version.\n\nParler said it would not be \"cancelled\", as it relaunched - with a new logo\n\nIts main selling point had been light-touch moderation, which it said was to encourage free speech.\n\nBut Google and Apple banned the app for failing to remove posts they felt had incited violence.\n\nAnd Amazon pulled its web-hosting service days later for similar reasons.\n\nBefore the app was knocked offline, however, hackers said they had managed to access an archive of posts and downloads - more than one million videos and images, including some from the 6 January riots.\n\nCarolyn Maloney, who chairs the House oversight committee, has asked the FBI to investigate the role of Parler in the violence at the Capitol.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Wong family are among the first travellers to Scotland to face hotel quarantine\n\nA family, desperate to be reunited after 16 months apart, will have to wait an extra 10 days before they can be together.\n\nEight-year-old Kiernan Wong and her father Chun were among the first arrivals at Edinburgh Airport on the first day of new travel measures.\n\nThey had already been held back by a disrupted immigration process.\n\nInstead of an emotional reunion, father and daughter were whisked away to a quarantine hotel to self isolate.\n\nMum Danielle has been in Scotland since November 2019. A dual UK/US citizen, she is a front-line worker, involved in the care of people with addictions.\n\nBut the plan for her husband and daughter to join her in Glenrothes, Fife, was hit by the pandemic.\n\nDanielle said: \"Because of Covid, immigration was completely shut down. So what would normally have been a six-month process has turned into 16 months - and a lot of heartache.\n\n\"I've missed holidays, I've missed birthdays,\" she said. \"And then on top of that both Chun and Kiernan both contracted Covid, so watching that from Facetime and not being able to be there was extremely difficult.\"\n\nDanielle Wong has not seen Kiernan for 16 months\n\nBoth parents agree that the rules must be followed and both understand the reasons for them.\n\nBut they are frustrated that after waiting for so long, and being asked to arrive before 3 March to collect visas, they ended up arriving on day one of travel quarantine.\n\nAll arrivals must isolate for 10 days in a quarantine hotel in Scotland. In England this only applies to people from 33 \"red list\" countries.\n\nDanielle said: \"I think what is frustrating and what needs to be remembered is there are visa processes in place.\n\n\"This wasn't a choice, they had to come by a particular date or the visa would be null and void. Unfortunately, their date of arrival was the date that this started. \"\n\nChun Wong and his daughter Kiernan were among the first arrivals at Edinburgh Airport who needed to quarantine in a hotel\n\nHome for the next 10 days: Chun and Kiernan's quarantine hotel room\n\nHowever, she accepts what has to happen.\n\n\"Theoretically, another 10/11 days is a drop in the bucket for how long we have had to wait. But I can't wait to give her a hug. It's been too long.\"\n\nChun and Kiernan have settled into the hotel room that will be their fist experience of Scotland as well as their home for the next 10 days.\n\nHe and his wife have had to pay about £2,500 for the stay, on top of about £10,000 in immigration fees.\n\nTravellers who are required to self-isolate in hotels have to pay £1,750 each, plus an extra fee for additional isolating guests for their managed quarantine.\n\nChun, who worked in healthcare in the US, also accepts the process is necessary. Even though he was fully vaccinated in America.\n\nThe family will be reunited on 26 February after the quarantine period has ended\n\nHe said: \"The one drawback is that the expense is a little much, but you do what you have got to do to keep everyone safe. I understand it's better to be safe than sorry.\n\n\"It sucks that we have to be here another 10 days and it's coming out of my pocket but these are lives we are talking about here.\"\n\nAnd Keirnan is also taking it in her stride.\n\n\"I am kind of upset that I can't see my mum,\" she said. \"But I am kind of ok because at least we are in Scotland now.\"\n\nChun told reporters at the airport he would do whatever it takes.\n\nHe said he was preparing to play a lot of board games with his daughter and might teach her poker before the family is reunited on 26 February.", "Boris Johnson has insisted US democracy remains \"strong\", despite the \"kerfuffle\" over former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.\n\nThe Senate acquitted Mr Trump of incitement to insurrection following the storming of Congress on 6 January.\n\nMr Johnson told US broadcaster CBS his relationship with new President Joe Biden was \"excellent\".\n\nAnd he promised the American and UK governments would work well together on issues like climate change and defence.\n\nMr Biden, who was inaugurated on 20 January, has never met the prime minister in person, but this is set to change later this year, with the UK hosting the G7 summit in the summer and the COP26 climate change gathering in the autumn.\n\nDuring his interview for CBS's Face the Nation show, Mr Johnson was keen to stress that their two countries were \"coming together\" on the environment, ways of dealing with Iran and the future of Nato.\n\nThese were all issues on which Mr Trump took a different line to the UK government, but the prime minister called recent statements by Mr Biden \"incredibly encouraging\".\n\nHaving previously condemned the violence inside Washington's Capitol building last month, he was asked about the impeachment trial of Mr Trump, in which prosecutors failed to get the two-thirds majority in the Senate needed to convict the ex-president.\n\n\"I think the clear message that we get from the proceedings in America is that, after all the toings and froings and all the kerfuffle, American democracy is strong,\" he said.\n\n\"And the American constitution is strong and robust. And we're delighted now, I'm very delighted, to have a good relationship with the White House, which is an important part of any UK prime minister's mission.\n\n\"I've had some good conversations already with President Biden, fantastic conversations about the way he sees things.\"\n\nJoe Biden said the substance of the charge against Donald Trump was not in dispute\n\nFive people died in the violence in Washington on 6 January.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Mr Biden described democracy - in contrast to Mr Johnson - as \"fragile\" in the face of \"violence and extremism\".\n\nHe said of Mr Trump's trial: \"While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.\"\n\nBut Mr Trump welcomed his acquittal, calling his impeachment a \"witch hunt\".\n\nIn his first telephone call to the prime minister last month, Mr Biden said he wanted to \"strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged care staff to come forward to be vaccinated\n\nA third of social care staff in England have not had the Covid-19 vaccine, the health secretary has said, despite them being among the groups prioritised.\n\nMatt Hancock said it was \"very important\" for the staff, patients and society that they get the jab.\n\nMeanwhile, a hospital trust has revealed that only 36.8% of its black staff have had the vaccine.\n\nEveryone in the top four groups has had a jab offer and 15 million people have had a first dose, the government says.\n\nThe rollout in England has officially been expanded to those aged 65 and over and younger people in at-risk groups.\n\nIn a bid to encourage more social care staff to have the jab, Mr Hancock told BBC Breakfast: \"It is the right thing to do. It is very important that you come forward and take up this vaccine. It's important for you, it's important for your patients and of course it's important for the whole of society.\"\n\nAnalysis from the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has revealed lower proportions of black and Asian staff being vaccinated.\n\nIt found that 70.9% of white staff had come forward, compared with 58.5% of South Asian staff and 36.8% of black staff.\n\nUniversity of Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"The data is two weeks old and three in four Leicester hospital staff have now been vaccinated, with uptake rising across all ethnic groups, and others taking up the offer of a jab in their local community. We want everyone to get the jab when they are called to do so.\"\n\nAre you a social care or NHS worker who has yet to be vaccinated? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson urged those eligible to receive the vaccine to come forward.\n\n\"These jabs, these vaccines are safe, they are efficacious, they will help protect you against disease and against death and they're a wonderful thing to have - they help protect you, your family, your neighbours,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said he would be talking to clinical leaders from various ethnic groups \"to work out together how we can encourage everybody to take up the vaccine\".\n\nChristina McAnea, general secretary of the trade union, Unison, said getting as many care workers as possible to have the Covid jab should be achieved through \"encouragement and persuasion\".\n\nShe said care workers must be provided with \"the correct information\" and \"time to ask the experts about their concerns, think things through and talk to colleagues who've had the jab\".\n\nThe uptake among care workers isn't surprising - they tend to come forward in lower numbers for the flu jab.\n\nIt illustrates the need to continue reaching out to those who have not taken up the offer.\n\nThe fear is some of the most vulnerable and deprived communities have the lowest levels of uptake, which would widen inequalities in the future.\n\nToday, though, marks an important milestone. But that is all it is.\n\nMost Covid deaths have come in the over-70s, but just over half of hospitalisations have.\n\nIt means there are a significant number at risk in the 50 to 70 age group as well as younger adults with health conditions. They have been promised a jab by the end of April.\n\nAchieving that will not be easy. From March people will start needing second doses, which means the rate at which first doses are given is expected to tail off.\n\nAs always, everything depends on supply. Ministers are confident in the supply of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines and by Easter the deliveries of a third jab made by Moderna should arrive. There can be no let up.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that there was still \"some way to go\" before easing lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"At the latest count there are still over 23,000 people in hospital with Covid - that's more than in the April peak.\"\n\nIt is 69 days since the UK began its mass vaccination programme - and six weeks since the prime minister set out the pledge to offer a first dose to the four priority groups by 15 February.\n\nThat meant vaccinating all elderly care home residents and their carers; everyone over 70; all frontline health and social care workers; and everyone with a condition that makes them extremely vulnerable to the virus - a total of 14.6 million people.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's Downing Street briefing Mr Johnson hailed the vaccine rollout as an \"unprecedented achievement\" and said the country can go into the next stage \"with great confidence\".\n\nBut while the UK's vaccination rate is third in the world, behind only Israel and the United Arab Emirates, there have been reports that some people in priority groups - including those who are housebound - are still waiting for their first dose.\n\nAnd a small number of the 15 million people vaccinated will have been outside these initial priority groups as some NHS regions had already begun giving jabs to younger people.\n\nAs well as the over-65s, the next group to be offered the vaccine is the estimated 7.3 million people aged 16 to 65 with a range of health conditions that put them at risk from the virus.\n\nThe rollout will then be extended to the remaining over-50 age groups, with the aim of offering a first dose to another 17.2 million people before the end of April.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has confirmed that millions of people whose asthma is under control will not be prioritised for the vaccine.\n\nMr Hancock said that 90% of the over-70s had accepted the vaccine and one in four adults were now starting to receive protection against Covid-19.\n\nThe Department of Health said 88% of the UK's coronavirus deaths occurred in the priority groups who have now been offered the vaccine.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded another 9,765 new coronavirus infections, according to the latest government figures. It is the first time the daily cases figure has been under 10,000 since 2 October.\n\nA further 230 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also recorded. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Mondays due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nWith the expectation that increasing numbers of people will be protected from serious illness, ministers will this week finalise plans on how England's coronavirus measures can be eased.\n\nThe government has said it will take \"cautious\" steps, rejecting calls from Conservative MPs to commit to abolishing all Covid-19 restrictions by the end of April.", "A woman gestures to members of the media through the window of Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel\n\nThe first travellers required to stay at quarantine hotels have begun arriving in the UK.\n\nAll British and Irish citizens and UK residents who arrive in England after being in a high-risk Covid country now have to self-isolate in hotels.\n\nThe \"red list\" of 33 countries includes Portugal, Brazil and South Africa.\n\nThe new regulations, which aim to stop Covid variants entering the country, apply to arrivals who have been in one of those places in the past 10 days.\n\nThey have to pre-book and pay £1,750 to spend 10 days in government-sanctioned hotels. The cost covers the hotel stay, transport and testing.\n\nIn Scotland, the rule to stay in a hotel applies to travellers arriving directly by air from all countries outside the Common Travel Area (the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) - rather than just those from the list of 33 countries.\n\nRoger Goncalves, who is from Brazil and travelled via Madrid to get to the UK, waves from the window of the Radisson\n\nOne traveller newly quarantining at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel near Heathrow Airport said he was \"feeling sad\" at the prospect of isolating for 10 days.\n\nRoger Goncalves, 23, from Belo Horizonte in Brazil, said: \"I did my test for coronavirus. The test was negative. Why do I need to stay in my room for 10 days?\"\n\nMr Goncalves, a delivery driver who lives in London, flew into the capital from Sao Paolo, via Madrid in Spain because he needed to come back to work.\n\nHe said the £1,750 cost of his stay was \"too high\" and \"crazy for 10 days\", but described his room as \"not bad\" and said he had been told food will be left at his door.\n\nZari Tadayon is also staying at the hotel\n\nMeanwhile, Zari Tadayon, 66, from north London, faces spending her birthday in isolation after flying in from Dubai, via Frankfurt.\n\nAsked how she felt about spending 10 days in isolation, she said: \"I feel horrible because I live here, I have my own individual home, and also I have some medical issues which I was hoping they would consider.\n\nShe added that she wasn't feeling happy \"because tomorrow is my birthday and I would have wanted to be with my family... those are the rules, what can you do?\"\n\nIn Scotland, the first passenger to go into quarantine hotel was Chun Wong, an American medical worker, who had travelled from America to Edinburgh via Dublin with his eight-year-old daughter Kiernan - to join his wife in Fife.\n\nHe told the BBC he would do \"whatever it takes\" to stay, adding: \"Even though I got my Covid shot already, whatever it takes to make everybody safe.\"\n\nHowever, he and his daughter were later allowed to leave the hotel after it was realised that as they had arrived from the US - which is not on the red list - via Dublin, which is in the Common Travel Area, they were allowed to isolate at home instead.\n\nThe government has defended the arrangements after questions were raised about the ability of passengers from \"red list\" countries to mingle with other travellers on flights and at airports before being moved to their accommodation.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Separation cannot always be easily implemented at airports, but every step is taken to reduce risks and to minimise any potential for passenger interaction, including Covid-19 tests prior to departure and routine protocols like mandatory mask wearing, social distances and regular cleaning of facilities.\n\n\"A number of airports, including Britain's busiest airport, Heathrow, have introduced additional measures to segregate passengers from red list destinations ahead of the immigration hall to limit the possibility of mixing.\"\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Times Radio the hotel quarantine system had been operating \"smoothly\" since it came into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, Heathrow said in a statement that the measures had come into effect \"successfully\", and it would continue to monitor whether Border Force had adequate resource and processes \"to avoid unacceptable waiting times and compromising the safety of passengers\".\n\nIt comes after the airport warned of delays caused by the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAre you travelling to the UK from a \"red list\" location? Tell us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHeathrow Airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK and is expected to receive the largest number of passengers. The other four are Gatwick, London City, Birmingham and Farnborough.\n\nPassengers arriving at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday were escorted by security personnel to coaches, which took them to nearby hotels, including the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel.\n\nAt Birmingham Airport, there were just four flights touching down on Monday, including a plane from Istanbul with about 100 passengers, some of whom are believed to be from a red list country.\n\nOne of the hotel rooms being used to quarantine arrivals\n\nMore than 16 hotels have struck deals with the government\n\nThe government says it has struck deals with 16 hotels so far, providing 4,963 rooms for the new quarantine system, with a further 58,000 rooms currently on standby.\n\nPeople travelling from red list countries to Wales and Northern Ireland will be required to book and pay for quarantine in England, as neither destination has any direct international flights.\n\nAny passenger required to stay in a quarantine hotel in England needs to reserve a room online in advance using a government portal.\n\nThe additional rate for one extra adult or a child aged over 12 is £650, and for a child aged five to 12 it is £325.\n\nThose who fail to quarantine in such hotels face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nAsked at a No 10 briefing on Monday what would happen if someone staying in a hotel had to extend their stay due to a positive test, Prime Minister Boris Johnson stressed it was currently illegal to travel abroad for holidays and that people going into quarantine should be able to \"cover their costs\".\n\nA new testing regime for all travellers arriving in England has also started, with two tests required during the quarantine process.\n\nThey will be required to get a test on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine period, whether they are isolating at home or in a hotel. The tests, conducted by NHS Test and Trace, will cost travellers £210.\n\nThose who do not take the tests could face a £2,000 fine.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the nation had decided to adopt stricter rules \"because we think it is important to go as far as we can\".\n\nAt her daily Covid briefing, she also stressed a common approach to travel restrictions across the four nations of the UK would be \"preferable\" and she said Scottish ministers would try to persuade the UK government \"to adopt more comprehensive measures\".\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said he also wanted to see \"a stronger set of defences at our borders\" and described the UK government's measures as \"the bare minimum of what needs to be done\".\n\nLast week, Labour's shadow health secretary said the public wanted the government to \"go further\" on border quarantine measures.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK - whether by boat, train or plane - are already required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nAnd all travellers - including British nationals - must self-isolate for 10 days when they get to the UK.\n\nLockdown rules mean people must only travel abroad for essential reasons.", "Unions, women's groups and charities have asked the UK's equalities watchdog to investigate whether the government broke the law in its pandemic response.\n\nThe groups claim some of the decisions taken by government are \"deepening inequalities\" faced by women.\n\nTheir intervention comes a week after a committee of MPs said the government's response to Covid had \"repeatedly skewed towards men\".\n\nThe government said it had offered \"unprecedented\" help in the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said measures included help for the sectors where women are more likely to be employed, protection for female led start-ups and new childcare support.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission said it had concerns about the \"particularly negative impact it [the pandemic] has had on women\".\n\nIt added: \"While government focuses on the current crisis we do not consider it appropriate to use our legal powers, but we will be seeking to input into the promised review of the government's response and decisions taken.\"\n\nIn a letter to the commission, the groups - including the TUC, the Fawcett Society and Save the Children - suggest the government may have failed to meet its legal obligations to consider the impact of its policies on women.\n\nThey are asking the commission chair Baroness Falkner to launch an investigation, and urging ministers to carry out equality impact assessments of the furlough and self employment schemes.\n\nFrances O'Grady, TUC general secretary, said the needs of women had been over looked \"at every stage of this pandemic\".\n\n\"Low-paid women have been excluded from getting sick pay, self-employed women who have taken maternity leave have lost out on vital financial help and women have had to take on primary caring responsibility for children,\" she said.\n\n\"The impact of school closures and childcare has put many women in an impossible situation because the right support has not been put in place.\"\n\nShe added that many had been forced to cut their hours or leave their jobs altogether.\n\nAnother signatory to the letter - Anna Whitehouse from parenting website Mother Pukka - said equality had been \"swept off the table as privileged fathers in politics (often with nannies) decide the fate of mothers\".\n\nResponding to the letter the government insisted that every department considered the impact of its policies on inequality.\n\n\"As we seek to build back better following the pandemic everyone will play a crucial part and we will reflect that in our policy development,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon Luca says she has \"the brunt of everything\" as she tries to juggle work and home-schooling\n\nLast week, MPs on the Women and Equalities Committee raised similar concerns in a report which said ministers had \"repeatedly\" failed to consider existing inequalities in the labour market when designing job and income support schemes.\n\nTheir report argued that women are more likely to be employed in less secure work, and in sectors that have been shut down during the pandemic.\n\nIt warned that women had borne the brunt of extra caring responsibilities, putting pressure on working mothers, and that pregnant women and new mothers are at risk of discrimination in a tough jobs market.\n\nThe committee also said the government's plans for an economic recovery was too-male focused and called for more training and support for women.", "Schools do not appear to play a big role in spreading coronavirus, say UK researchers who have studied teacher and pupil absences during the pandemic.\n\nThe University of Warwick team looked at sick days taken because of Covid during the autumn 2020 term in schools across England.\n\nAbsences matched infection rates in the wider community, with no evidence schools were a major driver of cases.\n\nThe prime minister is yet to announce plans for reopening schools.\n\nEnglish schools will not return before 8 March, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive is also yet to decide if some or all pupils can return on 8 March.\n\nBut in Scotland and Wales the youngest primary-school pupils are due to return on 22 February.\n\nSince the beginning of January, when the current lockdown began, primary and secondary schools have offered remote learning for most pupils.\n\nVulnerable pupils and children of key workers have been able to attend for face-to-face learning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nThe University of Warwick researchers say the decision on schools must be a political one, balancing the social and educational benefits of letting more children return to the classroom against the potential Covid harms.\n\nChildren can catch and spread coronavirus but are unlikely to become very sick with it.\n\nThe study was unable to determine whether any infected staff or pupils had caught the virus in the school setting.\n\nCo-researcher Dr Mike Tildesley said: \"We are not saying there is no risk.\n\n\"It's an absence of evidence.\"\n\nThere was continuing uncertainty about the impact reopening schools might have on the pandemic.\n\nAnd a cautious approach was needed, he said.\n\nIn the study, Covid-related absences were lower in primary schools than secondary.\n\nAnd there was a significant rise in secondary schools in the South East and Greater London in December, which might be linked to the more transmissible variant of the virus identified in Kent.\n\nDr Tildesley said: \"You could potentially think about doing early years first.\n\n\"But this is a political decision.\"\n\nThe Public Health Agency says school transmission \"does occur but tends to be small scale\".\n\nProf Sarah Lewis, an epidemiology expert at the University of Bristol, said it appeared that cases in the community were spilling into schools rather than vice versa, based on the available data.", "Last updated on .From the section Rangers\n\nScotland's first minister has urged football to \"make sure your house is in order\" as Rangers launch an internal investigation after a weekend party was broken up by police.\n\nCovid-19 lockdown restrictions mean no indoor mixing of households is allowed in Scotland under normal circumstances.\n\nRangers said they were \"aware of an alleged incident\" and would make \"no further comment\" as they investigate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said breaches were \"really unfair\" to \"the vast majority\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said on Sunday: \"We received a report of a gathering at a property in Hayburn Lane, Glasgow, around 1.10am on Sunday, 14 February.\n\n\"Officers attended and those in attendance left. Ten people were issued with fixed penalty notices for breaching coronavirus regulations.\"\n\nIt is not clear if any Rangers players were at the party or whether any were among those issued with fines.\n\nThe first minister said she did not have all the information concerning the Rangers investigation but said: \"I don't care what club it is that's breaching the rules, if you're breaching the rules you're in the wrong. It is really frustrating.\n\n\"It's really unfair to the vast majority of people in the country who don't have the privileges that elite sportspeople have right now. The vast majority are not [breaking rules] but when a small number do then people think, 'why am I bothering?'\n\n\"Can I say to football and sport, generally, please make sure your house is in order because it shouldn't take me standing here to say to highly paid footballers that you've got to obey the rules.\"\n\nRangers' investigation comes two months after Jordan Jones and George Edmundson were handed two-week club suspensions for breaching Covid protocols by attending an illegal house party.\n\nNorthern Ireland winger Jones and English defender Edmundson were subsequently handed seven-match bans by the Scottish FA and both moved on loan to English clubs in January, Jones to Sunderland and Edmundson to Derby County.\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "A year ago families across the UK were packing suitcases, organising play dates and planning day trips - all in preparation for the February half-term break.\n\nBut this year's school holidays are set to look very different, with travel and social mixing restricted to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nSo, as children take a week off from Zoom lessons or socially distanced classrooms, what can parents do to keep the family entertained without burning themselves out?\n\n\"Children are going to have to be quite resourceful to keep active during this half-term,\" says former England footballer Rachel Yankey.\n\nShe has been coaching children remotely as part of the Youth Sport Trust's After School Sport Club, which takes place most weekday evenings.\n\n\"If kids don't have an outdoor space, parents might need to make an exception and allow them to dribble a football inside in a controlled way.\n\n\"Even half an hour of physical activity makes a big difference to a child's day.\"\n\nJason Sugrue, a former British table-tennis champion who works with London-based charity Greenhouse Sports, says children should be \"left to their own devices\" as much as possible.\n\n\"Kids are bored of adults telling them what to do by now - so we've been doing a lot of peer-to-peer fitness classes online.\n\n\"Kids will work with their friends to find an object in their house [in a treasure hunt, for example] - it's simple, free and fun.\"\n\nGreenhouse Sports organised more than 1,500 virtual coaching sessions for children in east London during the first nationwide lockdown.\n\nUnder lockdown rules, families can still get out of the house for exercise once a day, provided they remain within their local area.\n\n\"It's really important young people make the most of that time outside,\" says Sugrue. \"Nothing beats fresh air.\"\n\n\"Whether it's a cycle ride, drills or just walking, families must try and find a designated time each day to do an activity together during half-term.\"\n\n\"It's always said about books that they take you to another place,\" says children's author Michael Rosen. \"It may be to the inside of a mind that's not theirs or a physical place, but that feels especially important for kids during lockdown.\"\n\nRosen says parents must try to make reading \"feel relevant\" to children's interests.\n\n\"My trick was always to try and connect books up to theatre, live readings and movies,\" he explains.\n\n\"Obviously, we can't do that now but parents must be open to using digital tools to trigger more interest.\"\n\nThe National Literacy Trust and Oak National Academy are offering online activities and making hundreds of e-books available to children through the virtual school library project.\n\nBut Rosen recommends parents let children's reading habits over the holidays \"emerge organically instead of foisting their anxiety about the need to read on [them]\".\n\n\"If ever there's a time to relax the rules on screen time, it's this February half-term,\" says child psychologist Laverne Antrobus. \"Especially as it will be the main way for them to stay connected with their friends.\"\n\nOxford University research on more than 17,000 teenagers in the US, UK and Ireland showed higher levels of screen time had little discernible effect on their mental health, but many parents are still cautious.\n\n\"Screen time doesn't have to be isolating,\" adds Antrobus. \"Choosing a film or a TV show for the family to watch in the evening is something that brings everyone together.\"\n\nVirtual events are also accessible to families over half-term: the Royal Observatory Greenwich is putting on stargazing workshops and the Shakespeare's Globe festival is offering family tickets for storytelling masterclasses.\n\nAntrobus warns it may be \"easier\" for parents to get younger children engaged than teenagers.\n\n\"With teenagers, it's a case of checking in on them and showing interest in the video game they're playing - they love to teach us dinosaurs about tech,\" she explains.\n\n\"Arts and crafts is all about making the most of everyday objects - in the house or in nature,\" says illustrator Rob Biddulph, whose online drawing tutorials have become increasingly popular during the pandemic.\n\n\"We've been going out on walks as a family and we'll pick up beautiful leaves, pebbles and sticks.\n\n\"And when we get home we'll paint eyes on them and turn them into characters - all that takes is two splodges of white paint.\"\n\nThe Tate Museum and the Southbank Centre also have virtual art events available to children over half-term.\n\nBiddulph says his 11-year-old daughter is less \"receptive\" to drawing and painting than she used to be \"but can still be tempted away from the screen when she sees the rest of the family having fun together\".", "Japan's economy surged in the fourth quarter of 2020, but it was not enough to keep the country from negative growth for the year.\n\nThe economy beat expectations to grow by 3% between October and December compared to the same period in 2019.\n\nBut growth was considerably slower than in the previous quarter, when the economy expanded 5.3%.\n\nJapan's economy shrank 4.8% over the full year, its first contraction since 2009.\n\nThe growth figures come as Japan's Nikkei index briefly hit 30,000 for the first time since 1990.\n\nThe world's third-largest economy suffered its worst post-war quarterly contraction between April and June, as the global pandemic hit domestic consumption and exports.\n\nBut consumption and exports, which are both key drivers of the Japanese economy, also fuelled a rebound in the second half of the year.\n\nPrivate consumption, which makes up more than half of the economy, rose 2.2% in the final quarter of 2020, slowing from the 5.1% increase in the previous quarter.\n\nStronger economic growth globally in the third and fourth quarters also helped Japanese businesses sell more of their products overseas.\n\nAnnualised growth - which assumes the quarter's growth will be maintained for the whole year - was 12.7%, suggesting Japan could be on track for a strong and rapid recovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tokyo's famous Kabuki-za Theatre has been closed for the last five months\n\nBut growth is still fragile, and could be hampered by restrictions aimed at limiting another wave of Covid-19.\n\nTakumi Tsunoda, senior economist at Shinkin Central Bank Research, expects the recovery to struggle because Japan lags behind western economies in vaccine distribution.\n\n\"The conditions are such that Japan will not be able to avoid negative growth in the first quarter,\" he told Reuters.\n\n\"There is a high possibility that there will be a repeating cycle of coronavirus infections spreading and being contained this year, which means that consumption is not likely to recover at the expected pace.\"\n\nIn December, the government announced another round of stimulus aimed at pulling the world's second largest economy out of its slump.\n\nThe 73.6tr yen ($708bn; £530bn) package took Japan's total stimulus spending to around $3tr.", "The report's authors said the discrepancy could affect the roll-out programme\n\nLower proportions of black and Asian staff at a hospital trust have come forward to have a Covid-19 vaccine, according to a study.\n\nThe analysis found 70.9% of white staff at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust had received the jab, compared with 58.5% of South Asian staff and 36.8% of black staff.\n\nThis could have \"major implications\" for vaccine roll-out, the report said.\n\nA union said it was important to understand \"any reasons for hesitancy\".\n\nThe trust runs three hospitals in Leicester\n\nThe study, yet to be peer-reviewed, was co-authored by Prof Kamlesh Khunti, a diabetes expert from the University of Leicester who is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nThe trust, where 36% of staff are from minority ethnic backgrounds, has been running vaccination hubs for staff at each of its three hospital sites.\n\nThe report - which covers the period from 9 December to 3 February - found 12,278 staff from a total of 19,044 had come forward to have a jab since it was offered in mid-December.\n\nFurther analysis of the South Asian group found a much lower take-up among Pakistani and Bangladeshi healthcare staff (43.2%) than the Indian cohort (60.3%).\n\nHowever the rate between Black Caribbean and Black African staff was quite similar.\n\nThe study also noted a lower take-up among staff under 30.\n\nStaff in this age range made up 18.7% of the vaccinated group compared with 31.7% in the group who had not come forward for a jab.\n\nMore than 15m people in the UK have now had a Covid jab\n\nThe report said: \"These findings give significant cause for concern, as ethnic minority groups (especially those working in healthcare) are at higher risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 [coronavirus] and adverse outcome from COVID-19, yet are not taking up this critical preventative intervention.\n\n\"Furthermore, healthcare workers are an important source of health information for ethnic minority communities and so our findings may also have implications for vaccine uptake in the population at large.\"\n\nThe authors called for the findings to be \"acted upon urgently to prevent the disparities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from being allowed to widen further\".\n\nProfessor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We need to understand the reasons as to why there is hesitancy amongst people from BAME communities, so that it can be properly addressed.\n\n\"Some reasons we've been told include misinformation about the virus and vaccine, mistrust in health interventions more generally, and some people have said they want to wait until there is more certainty about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.\"\n\nSara Gorton, Unison's head of health, said: \"Encouraging vaccination for all is the key to getting us out of this crisis. It's important to have as much understanding as possible about any reasons for hesitancy.\n\n\"Health workers gather information from many sources, so it's vital to ensure those they turn to are correct.\n\n\"NHS staff also need to be given time to ask vaccination teams about their concerns, talk to those who've had the jab and think things through. It can't just be a one-off opportunity.\"\n\nDr Habib Naqvi, director of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, said the organisation was \"deeply concerned that vaccine uptake for Covid-19 is lower among black and minority ethnic hospital staff\".\n\n\"Amongst those most at risk of dying from Covid-19 are also those that are most vaccine-hesitant,\" he said.\n\n\"More needs to be done to mediate and ensure accurate information, based upon facts, is targeted in culturally appropriate ways, to reach those who need the vaccination the most.\"\n\nUniversity of Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"The data is two weeks old and three in four Leicester hospital staff have now been vaccinated, with uptake rising across all ethnic groups, and others taking up the offer of a jab in their local community.\n\n\"We want everyone to get the jab when they are called to do so.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Lawrence, seen here on the 10th anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, was a retired solicitor\n\nThe father of missing Claudia Lawrence has died without ever knowing what happened to his daughter.\n\nPeter Lawrence, who was 74, died on Thursday at St Leonard's Hospice in York following a short illness, his family said in a statement.\n\nHis death comes 12 years after his daughter vanished in the city.\n\nPolice believe Claudia - who was 35 when she was last seen on 18 March 2009 - was murdered but her body has never been found.\n\nMr Lawrence's family said in a statement: \"It is sad that nearly 12 years after Claudia's disappearance from York, Peter never found out what has happened to her.\n\n\"He was a very private person thrust into the full glare of the media, and despite a tireless campaign to find her he also selflessly devoted himself to helping others with missing relatives through the charity Missing People.\"\n\nPeter Lawrence was appointed an OBE in 2018 for his charity work\n\nMr Lawrence campaigned for the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Bill, also known as Claudia's Law, which was passed in April 2017.\n\nClaudia's Law, which came into force in July 2019, allows relatives to take control of their missing loved ones' financial matters.\n\nMr Lawrence, a retired solicitor, said it was an \"absolutely marvellous feeling\" to see the proposals clear a major hurdle in the law-making process.\n\nIn 2018 he was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his tireless campaigning for change after his daughter's disappearance.\n\nPeter Lawrence said not knowing what happened to Claudia was \"the hardest thing for the family to bear\"\n\nMr Lawrence's family said: \"Despite Peter's death, the message remains the same - where is Claudia?\n\n\"Anyone with information should contact North Yorkshire Police on 101.\"\n\nMr Lawrence described being \"hugely disappointed and depressed\" when in January 2017 detectives said they were scaling back the investigation.\n\nMiss Lawrence was reported missing after she failed to turn up for work at the University of York.\n\nPolice previously said they \"strongly suspect key and vital information\" which would offer a breakthrough was being \"withheld\".\n\nNine people have been questioned as part of the investigation, but no charges have ever been brought.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A screengrab from a video called Ask the Experts\n\nActivists have been targeting people with fears about vaccines in a social media blitz. In an experiment, BBC Panorama showed a panel one video filled with falsehoods to see how it affected their willingness to get a jab.\n\nIn a sleepy suburb of Norwich, 83-year-old Rosemary opens a WhatsApp message from a relative.\n\nIt contains a video called Ask the Experts.\n\nThe clip features people with impressive medical and scientific titles based in the UK, US, Spain and Sweden.\n\nSome allege, contrary to the evidence, that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe, that they can alter a person's DNA - and even that the pandemic is somehow not real.\n\nRosemary is frightened - and suddenly unsure about whether she'll get vaccinated.\n\n\"It sounded so real and the people were so plausible and they were named as clinicians and doctors,\" she says.\n\nWith the majority of the elderly and at-risk groups having had their jabs, the next big challenge for the government is to vaccinate everyone else in the UK.\n\nMost people say they want a jab, but the latest anti-vaccine tactics deployed by a committed minority seek to exploit people's nervousness.\n\nRosemary and her husband Donald were concerned about the video they received via WhatsApp\n\nRosemary is just one of millions exposed to tactics used by anti-vaccine activists - a loose collection of people who make a variety of claims about vaccines, including suggesting they are dangerous and a form of state control.\n\nOver the course of 27 minutes, the Ask the Experts video relentlessly introduces 33 people, many brandishing their credentials, often sitting in what look like medical consultation rooms.\n\nThey confidently and calmly repeat similar messages - although many of the claims are misleading or just plain untrue.\n\nRosemary was left shocked as these people - who looked similar to the doctors she would usually turn to for sound advice - said that Covid-19 was \"not a real medical pandemic\", that vaccines alter your DNA, that they cause infertility and that they're part of a deliberate global plan to hurt people.\n\nShe's not alone in being scared by the video.\n\nOne London council has issued a warning after the Ask The Experts video started circulating in Asian and black communities.\n\nThese groups have been disproportionately affected by coronavirus - and there are indications that some ethnic minority groups have a higher level of reluctance when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that they are targeting it at those communities will mean that there will be people who die as a result of not having the vaccine,\" says Westminster council leader Rachael Robathan.\n\nDespite being removed from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, it's been claimed that Ask the Experts has been seen more than 250,000 times.\n\nIt's gone viral on WhatsApp and its producers have been asking for donations via PayPal.\n\nThe video is just one part of an online anti-vaccine blitz.\n\nExclusive research by BBC Monitoring has found a huge increase in followers of social media accounts promoting anti-vaccine material during the pandemic.\n\nThese aren't accounts asking legitimate medical questions - but people and organisations who've already made up their minds against vaccinations, and are manufacturing evidence or twisting facts to support their conclusions.\n\nOn Instagram, the number of followers of major anti-vaccination accounts increased nearly five-fold in 2020, to more than four million.\n\nOn Facebook, the top anti-vaccination pages grew by 19% in the last year and followers of Twitter accounts sharing anti-vaccine claims almost trebled.\n\nThe increases came alongside a huge overall surge in people seeking out health information online due to the pandemic. But the raw numbers still mean false anti-vaccine claims are reaching millions more than ever before.\n\nHow do the misinformation and conspiracy theories pushed by the video affect the views of people who have legitimate questions about vaccines?\n\nI ran a test for BBC Panorama. Our team assembled a panel of eight people from across the country who were unsure about having a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nLogging on to a Zoom call on a January evening, they view the Ask the Experts video as we observe their reactions.\n\nSix of the eight people who volunteered to watch the anti-vaccine film\n\nOur experiment happens under the watchful eye of Dr Liam Smeeth, a professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who's also a GP.\n\nRob - a 27-year-old volunteer radio DJ in Norfolk who's spending the latest lockdown trying to raise people's spirits with music - questions the speed of vaccine trials.\n\nIt's a concern shared by 20-year-old law student Phoebe, who has other worries.\n\n\"Every time I search about the Covid vaccine and fertility, it literally changes, so often it's quite overwhelming,\" she says.\n\nExperts say that the coronavirus vaccines have gone through the same rigorous process as other vaccines - and there's no biological mechanism by which it could affect fertility.\n\nAfter expressing their concerns, the panel begins watching Ask the Experts. I didn't tell them what the video was about - and reactions vary.\n\nEddie, a 76-year-old from Northumberland, furrows his brow in front of a backdrop of watercolours he's painted during lockdown.\n\n\"I thought at first 'Are these actors? Is this just a sham?'\" he says. \"And as I went on, I realised that they were real.\"\n\nAnother person in the video appears wearing a white lab coat, pictured in what looks like a hospital.\n\nMatt - a 31-year-old who works in IT - nods along, listening attentively.\n\n\"I feel I could trust some of them,\" he says, eyes glued to the screen.\n\nBut the footage turns off others.\n\nAs one of the people in the video argues, with an air of authority, that this is \"not a real medical pandemic\", Russell from Norwich puts his head in his hands. He was ill with coronavirus last year.\n\n\"Blimey! It's like being hit over the head a number of times. For half-an-hour,\" he says. \"I feel like I'm being brainwashed.\"\n\nPhoebe, the law student, also senses she's being fed misinformation. She crumples her face in disgust.\n\n\"If these people are saying the virus isn't real, I'm less inclined to believe what they say about the vaccine being dangerous,\" she says.\n\nHowever, after watching the video half of the group says they are more worried about having a Covid-19 vaccine than before.\n\n\"It's being rushed, and there hasn't been too much information,\" says decorator Steven from Inverness, who has had cancer. \"I do agree with all that part of it.\"\n\n\"The video says what I've had in the back of my mind,\" he says, running his hand through his hair as he tries to make sense of what he has just watched.\n\nDr Smeeth's main fear, that the video would amplify people's pre-existing fears, has materialised.\n\nHe wants any doctor or professional promoting false claims to face disciplinary action.\n\n\"I would certainly be very pro them being investigated and any evidence of harm being looked at,\" he says, \"and them being stopped from using their title.\"\n\nWe have one more question - in the face of bad health information, can accurate advice from a respected expert increase trust in science?\n\nOne by one, Dr Smeeth tackles the concerns raised by the panel. The vaccine doesn't change your DNA, he explains. It has been through animal trials, and there's no biological mechanism by which it would affect your fertility, he adds.\n\nAfter the discussion, all our volunteers say they're leaning towards having the vaccine. And some are even enthusiastic.\n\n\"I will definitely have it now,\" says Eddie, the painter from Northumberland, chuckling as he logs off.\n\nBack in Norwich, once Rosemary also realised that many of the claims made in the video were false, she made her decision.\n\nRosemary and Donald met 60 years ago out dancing. During the pandemic they have made do, dancing the cha cha cha in their garage\n\n\"I'm so relieved to be getting the vaccine,\" she told me as her husband Donald prepared to visit their local GP.\n\nPanorama contacted all 33 people in the video. Eleven responded - four defended the video's contents, five said if we referred to them as anti-vaccine they'd take legal action, and one made no comment. Another acknowledged the virus is real and causes diseases and deaths, but said the measures to manage the pandemic are disproportionate.\n\nPanorama invited Oracle Films, which produced the video, to comment. The filmmakers chose not to.\n\nAfter Panorama contacted PayPal about the request for donations, its account was taken down.\n\nFacebook - which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram - removed a number of the pages and posts flagged by Panorama. The company says it continues to step up its enforcement policies about harmful misinformation and actively points people towards credible information.\n\nTwitter gave us a similar statement and said it's prioritising the removal of Covid-19 content that could potentially cause harm.\n\nBut the Ask the Experts video is still in circulation on WhatsApp - one of thousands of videos and posts by anti-vaccine activists, who are still fighting to scare people away with false claims.\n\nWatch Panorama, Vaccines: The Disinformation War in the UK only, on BBC One, Monday 15 February at 19:30 GMT or later after broadcast on BBC iPlayer.", "Cars were buried in muddy snow on the A98\n\nCars have been buried overnight under huge banks of drifting snow blown from fields next to the A98 in Moray.\n\nThe vehicles were trapped as gale-force winds carried mud-coloured waves of snow onto the road near Buckie.\n\nSnow ploughs were used to try and clear the stretch, close to its junction with the B9016, but were unable to make it through and the road remains closed.\n\nElsewhere in the north east, stretches of the A90, A95 and A96 were also closed overnight due to drifting snow.\n\nThe clearing operation went on through the night on the A95\n\nThe A9 has also been affected, with the snow gates being closed between Dalwhinnie and Trinafour.\n\nAll major roads were at least partially cleared on Sunday morning but road management firm Bear Scotland said its teams were still working to keep them passable.\n\nDrivers have been urged only to travel in the area if absolutely essential.\n\nBear Scotland tweeted: \"All early morning treatments are now complete. We are still dealing with drifting snow on the A9 at Drumochter.\n\n\"Our teams have been working tirelessly overnight and will continue to keep working hard to keep the carriageway clear.\n\n\"If you are out an about please #DriveSafe.\"\n\nA police vehicle edges its way along the A9 near Dalwhinnie", "A greater proportion of people in Wales have received a jab than other UK nations\n\nWales will be the first UK nation to have offered the top four priority groups a Covid jab, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nWithin hours, officials say, all over-70s including care home residents, will have been offered a first dose.\n\nWales and the other UK nations have aimed to hit the target by mid-February.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford thanked \"everyone who had been working around the clock to reach this point\".\n\nIt follows a warning that vaccine supplies will fall in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK Government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said Wales' milestone was \"fantastic news\" and testament to the continued effort made by NHS and military staff.\n\nThe country currently leads the UK in the percentage of the population that has received a first jab - at least 715,944 doses have been given out.\n\nThere have been warnings that supplies could slow down\n\nFigures up to Thursday night show 22.7% of the population have been vaccinated, compared to 21% in England, 20.4% in Scotland and 19.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there were more than 87,000 people from target groups, including more than 37,000 in their early 70s, still to get a first dose.\n\nThe picture is complicated by a built-in delay on data being published while figures are checked and verified.\n\nThere are also issues involving some care home residents having to wait for doses, because of isolation due to Covid outbreaks.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he was confident the programme remained on track - with plans remaining in place to reach the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nHe said: \"We're the first UK nation to reach this milestone, others will follow in a couple of days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Mark Drakeford says the success of the vaccine rollout is due to the \"phenomenal effort\" of all involved.\n\nAsked how many people in those top groups who will not have had vaccine appointments by the weekend, he said it would be \"a very small number\".\n\n\"We've already completed 92% of all the people in those priority groups thanks to the amazing efforts of our NHS and other staff,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be some people who were ill when they were offered and need to be re-book. There will be some people who chose not to have a vaccine when they were first offered it, who may have changed their minds.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the NHS was \"checking and rechecking\" whether anyone had been left out and final appointments were being arranged for the weekend.\n\n\"Anybody who knows of somebody who may have missed out, it is not too late at all,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure that those people have an appointment as fast as possible.\"\n\nHealth minister Vaughan Gething said \"a leave no-one behind approach\" was being taken.\n\n\"The next group, those people 65 and over, all health boards are already sending out invites for those people to come forward as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not looking to miss a step, we're carrying on with the vaccine we have available.\"\n\nFigures show 88.4% of those aged 80 or older have had a first dose, compared to 86.3% for 75 to 79 year olds and 79.8% of 70 to 74 year olds.\n\nPublic Health Wales said a total of 80.3% of care home residents have had a first dose, and 83.5% of care home workers.\n\nBritish Medical Association chairman Dr David Bailey said Wales was \"hopefully on the home straight\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People are really making an effort to make the thing go smoothly as possible, and it is a credit to the Welsh public, as well as everyone who has actually been delivering the vaccine, because it has gone smoothly and everyone has been trying to do their part.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"To have achieved this first milestone and offered vaccination to everyone in the first four priority groups - those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus - is a truly phenomenal effort.\n\n\"Of course, the hard work has only just begun - there are many, many more people to vaccinate yet and a lot of second doses still to give.\"\n\nHe said it showed the UK Government had \"ensured Wales has had the vaccines available to protect the most vulnerable in our society and meet this target\" and hoped Wales could soon reopen its economy.\n\nHowever he added there was a still a \"long way to go\" with 80% of the population yet to be offered the vaccine.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth, said it was thanks to NHS staff and volunteers \"that Wales has been able to accelerate the vaccination effort to its current levels\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth added his party would continue to call for \"those in all care settings, not just the elderly, to be vaccinated as a matter of priority, and for key workers in schools, the emergency services and public transport to be brought in to the priority system sooner.\"", "A study of 250 species of Himalayan songbirds has revealed how their feathers evolved for higher altitudes.\n\nThe birds in colder, more elevated environments had feathers with more fluffy down - providing them with thicker \"jackets\".\n\nThe insight reveals how feathers provide the tiniest birds with such efficient protection from extreme cold.\n\nIt also provides clues about which species are most at risk from climate change, the scientists say.\n\nThe study, in the journal Ecography, was inspired by a tiny bird lead researcher Dr Sahas Barve saw during an icy day of fieldwork in the Himalayas, in 2014.\n\n\"It was -10C,\" said the researcher from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in Washington DC.\n\n\"And there was this little bird, a goldcrest, which weighs about the same as a teaspoon of sugar.\n\n\"It was just zipping around catching bugs.\"\n\nDr Barve's fingers went numb as he tried to take notes.\n\nBut he remembers being \"blown away by the little goldcrest\".\n\n\"To survive, this bird has to keep its heart at about 40C,\" he said.\n\n\"So it has to maintain a difference of 50C in that little space.\n\n\"I was like, 'OK, I really need to understand how feathers work.'\"\n\nFortunately, Dr Barve's home institution has one of the largest bird collections in the world.\n\nExamining the feathers of nearly 2,000 individual birds, in microscopic detail, he noticed a pattern linked their structure to their habitat.\n\nOnly the tip of the feather is visible on much of a bird's body but there is a down portion beneath\n\nEach feather has an outer part and a hidden downy portion.\n\nAnd Dr Barve's measurements revealed those living at higher elevations had more of the lower fluffy down.\n\n\"They had fluffier jackets,\" he said.\n\nSmaller birds, which lose heat faster, also tend to have longer feathers in proportion to their body size, revealing the little goldcrest's secret.\n\nDr Carla Dove, who runs the museum's Feather Identification Lab and contributed to the study, said she was excited to use the Smithsonian's collections in a new way.\n\n\"Having them all in one place, as opposed to having to go to the Himalayas and study these birds in the wild, obviously makes a big difference,\" she said.\n\nThe Smithsonian has one of the world's largest bird collections, with specimens dating back to the 1860s\n\nDr Barve said: \"It would take me a decade to go out, find the birds and study their feathers.\n\n\"We've been using down jackets for a long time.\n\n\"But we haven't understood how those feathers work on a bird.\n\nSmaller birds also have longer feathers to insulate their bodies\n\n\"We don't know what discoveries our specimens will be used for down the line.\n\n\"That's why we have to maintain them and keep enhancing them.\n\n\"These specimens from the past can be used to predict the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC was given video footage believed to have been taken in January at an Orthodox Jewish wedding in London\n\nA senior rabbi in London's strictly Orthodox Jewish community has condemned those holding large celebrations, after police broke up a 150-strong wedding party in the area last month.\n\nThe BBC has been sent a video of guests dancing at another wedding in Stamford Hill, also believed to be last month.\n\nResearch shows the community has one of the world's highest past Covid rates.\n\n\"Weddings should not go on under these circumstances,\" Rabbi Herschel Gluck told the BBC.\n\nHigh rates of Covid-19 in the community have been partly blamed on misleading legal advice that has been circulating in community newsletters, which says celebrations can have \"as many guests as one likes\".\n\nCommunity leaders told the BBC they hope media attention following January's police raid on a wedding at a school in the Stamford Hill area of north London, will have reduced the number of gatherings.\n\nAsking to remain anonymous, a senior source from the community said weddings were widespread apart from on religious festivals and on the sabbath or Shabbat: \"When the custom allowed it, weddings were happening every single night.\"\n\nRabbi Gluck, president of Shromrim, a neighbourhood watch group in Stamford Hill, confirmed: \"Weddings are very central in Judaism.\n\n\"In the Torah the first commandment is 'be fruitful and multiply'.\n\n\"It goes to the very core of the Jewish experience. Therefore there is a great need and a great urge to have weddings - but we need to put the brakes on,\" he said.\n\nLegal advice was distributed to thousands of homes in the community and could have convinced some they could continue because it said \"simchos\", or celebrations \"have a communal prayer element\".\n\nOne edition, dated 10 December, wrongly said this sort of event \"can have as many guests as one likes\".\n\nCommunal worship is allowed under the current lockdown, with strict social distancing.\n\nBut weddings are banned apart from in exceptional circumstances, and with no more than six people.\n\nThe human rights barrister and expert on coronavirus restrictions Adam Wagner said the advice had \"hit the wrong tone\".\n\n\"It was really about getting around the rules rather than keeping to the rules because of the danger of the virus,\" he said.\n\nHuman rights lawyer Adam Wagner said the advice had wrongly focused on getting round the rules\n\nThe guidance has since been revised and a senior representative of the strict Orthodox community said the overwhelming majority were making sacrifices every day to comply with the restrictions.\n\nJoel Friedman, director of public affairs at the Interlink Foundation, a representative body for ultra-Orthodox organisations, said: \"We have worked consistently throughout lockdown with local authorities to promote the guidance and are all disappointed when we hear about actions that put lives at risk.\"\n\nSeveral sources said a large traditional wedding captured in a video sent to the BBC, had taken place in early January with dancing, and little evidence of social distancing or mask wearing.\n\nThe UK went into national lockdown on 6 January, but even before that large events were banned.\n\nAfter we emailed a representative of a senior figure who appeared to have attended the event, an audio message was circulated on WhatsApp groups in North London warning that the BBC had video of the event.\n\n\"Friends we have to do something here,\" the message said, referring to \"the wedding last month\".\n\n\"This is no joke mail, most of all, we need to kill this,\" it said.\n\nLondon's ultra-Orthodox community took part in a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which showed it had a past infection rate of 64%, nine times higher than the UK average of 7%.\n\nThis means the Stamford Hill community's infection rate is \"among the highest reported anywhere in the world,\" researchers said.\n\nMany families in the community are larger than average and prayer is an important part of the daily routine, with worshippers going to their local synagogue several times a day, increasing the risk of transmission of the virus.\n\nThe government has decided not to close places of worship, and in many Orthodox areas they remain open, with prayers throughout the day and evening.\n\nLegally there are no limits on numbers, and though risk assessments should be done, there is no requirement to publish them.", "More than 15 million people in the UK have now had their first coronavirus vaccine, in what Boris Johnson described as a \"significant milestone\".\n\nThe PM hailed the \"extraordinary feat\", reached just over two months after the first jab was given on 8 December.\n\nIt comes as the government is expected to announce on Monday it has met its pledge to offer a jab to everyone in the top four priority groups in the UK.\n\nThe rollout is now being expanded to over-65s and the clinically vulnerable.\n\nIn a video, Mr Johnson praised a \"truly national, UK-wide effort\", adding that in England the jab had been offered to all those in the top four priority groups.\n\nWales has also met the target.\n\nBut \"no-one is resting on their laurels,\" Mr Johnson said. \"We've still got a long way to go to. And there will undoubtedly be bumps in the road. But after all we've achieved, I know we can go forward with great confidence.\"\n\nSunday's daily coronavirus figures show 15,062,189 people have now received an initial vaccine dose - after 505,362 first jabs were given out on Saturday.\n\nA further 258 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, taking the death toll by that measure to 117,166. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThere were 10,972 new cases reported, bringing the total number of recorded infections to 4,038,078.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said the 15 million milestone was a \"remarkable shared achievement\" - reached 10 weeks after the first vaccine was administered in the UK.\n\n\"The NHS vaccination programme is the biggest and fastest in Europe - and in the health service's history - and that is down to the skill, care, and downright hard work of our fantastic staff, supported by local communities, volunteers and the armed forces,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it meant one in every four adults was now \"starting to receive protection from this dreadful disease\".\n\nBut he cautioned: \"There is so much more to do and I urge anyone eligible to step forward and take up their appointment. The vaccine is our route to freedom - we will beat this virus jab by jab.\"\n\nSo far the vaccination programme has been aimed at the top four priority groups, including NHS frontline staff, care home residents and workers, over-70s, and people deemed clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThese groups have accounted for 88% of the UK's Covid-19 deaths so far, according to the Department of Health and Social Care and are estimated by the JCVI to be some 15 million people.\n\nA small number of the 15 million to receive a jab will have been outside these priority groups.\n\nRuth Rankine, director of the NHS Confederation's PCN Network of GP practices, paid tribute to the \"incredible accomplishment\" but added that \"until everyone is protected, no one is protected\".\n\n\"There is still work to do to administer first doses to all the remaining people from the first four cohorts, as well as moving down the cohorts until everyone has at least been offered a jab, not to mention beginning the work of administering second doses,\" she said.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said ministers needed to \"lock in the gains of vaccination\" and introduce further measures to reduce the spread of the disease.\n\nThis included increased financial support for those who have to self-isolate, updated guidance on masks and help to make workplaces Covid secure.\n\nIt is undeniable the vaccine programme has overall been a success - only Israel and the United Arab Emirates have done more jabs per head.\n\nBut as well as pushing ahead with the under-70s, efforts need to continue to reach out to those not yet vaccinated in these first groups.\n\nThere have been reports of housebound patients still waiting, while some have questioned whether enough has been done to reach out to those who have concerns and have not taken up the offer.\n\nThe fear is uptake may be lowest in some of the most vulnerable communities and that risks widening health inequalities.\n\nPeople will also ask what this means for unlocking. Those offered the jab account for around five in six deaths but just over half of hospitalisations.\n\nThat leaves a lot of vulnerable at risk - and with the numbers in hospital still above the peak in the first wave, the NHS isn't yet out of the woods.\n\nFrom Monday, the vaccination programme enters a new phase, with over-65s and the clinically vulnerable being invited to book a jab.\n\nThe JCVI defines clinically vulnerable people as those with conditions including chronic respiratory disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, and severe asthma.\n\nSome regions have already started vaccinating people aged 65 to 69, with NHS England having previously said that people in this age group could get a vaccine if GPs had supplies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: \"You can't get ahead of the evidence\"\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab rejected calls from MPs in his party to put a date on when England's lockdown measures will be eased, saying the government will be \"cautious\".\n\nOn Saturday, the prime minister said he was \"optimistic\" he will be able to set out plans later this month for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown, citing \"huge progress\" made with the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe UK is currently administering doses of two vaccines approved by the medicine regulator - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and the one developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine, made by US company Moderna, has been approved but supplies are not expected to be available until spring.\n\nThe UK is also lined up to receive at least three other vaccines if they are approved for use.\n\nIts vaccination rate is the third highest in the world, behind only Israel and the UAE.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple has said.\n\nHarry and Meghan are preparing to welcome a brother or sister for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who turned one last May.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple said they were \"overjoyed\".\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family \"are delighted and wish them well\".\n\nHarry and Meghan shared a black and white picture of themselves under a tree, with Harry resting his hand on Meghan's head as she cradles her bump.\n\nTheir child will be eighth in line to the throne.\n\nMeghan's due date has not been revealed, but her bump appeared prominent in the photograph.\n\nThe news comes after the duchess said in November that she had suffered a miscarriage last July, writing in an article of feeling \"an almost unbearable grief\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said: \"We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child.\"\n\nMisan Harriman, a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the photographer who took the photo that accompanied their pregnancy announcement, tweeted: \"Meg, I was there at your wedding to witness this love story begin, and my friend, I am honoured to capture it grow.\n\n\"Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on this joyous news!\"\n\nHarry and Meghan married at Windsor Castle in May 2018\n\nArchie was born on 6 May, 2019\n\nThe Valentine's Day announcement comes just five days after the royal family celebrated the arrival of Princess Eugenie's first child - a baby boy.\n\nHarry and Meghan's second child will be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's 10th or 11th great-grandchild depending on whether he or she arrives before or after Zara Tindall's baby, which is also due in 2021.\n\nThey will follow the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Harry, and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor in the line of succession.\n\nBut they will not be entitled, at this stage, to be an HRH nor a prince or a princess due to rules set out more than 100 years ago by George V.\n\nThe baby is entitled to be a Lord or a Lady.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nHarry and Meghan met on a blind date, arranged by a mutual friend, and got engaged 16 months later.\n\nThe duchess had first found fame as an actress, playing Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, but gave up her career when she got married.\n\nThe Sussexes married in May 2018 in a ceremony at Windsor Castle and then a year later welcomed their first child, Archie, who was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nMeghan and Harry quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nThis week, Meghan won a privacy case against Associated Newspapers (ANL), saying the damage the publisher had done \"runs deep\". She had brought a claim against ANL, publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, over the publication of extracts from a letter to her father.", "Another 234 cases of the virus have also been notified by the Department of Health\n\nThe Department of Health's Covid-19 related death toll in Northern Ireland has reached 2,000, after four more deaths were reported on Monday.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths has doubled since December, after reaching 1,000 over two months ago.\n\nA further 234 cases of the virus were also announced.\n\nThis brings the total number of positive cases to 109,147. There are 477 Covid inpatients in NI hospitals, with 59 in intensive care.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said it must not be forgotten that \"behind every death will be a family left in grief\".\n\n\"While we are seeing good progress in the rollout of our vaccination programme we must remain cautious and cannot be tempted to get ahead of ourselves,\" said Mr Swann.\n\nThe reduction in transmission needed to be sustained in order to \"preserve life and support our health service\", he added.\n\nThe latest figures from Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout show 397,243 people have received the first dose.\n\nA total of 29,005 people have received both the first and second jab.\n\nIt comes as those who received a shielding letter because they are classed as clinically extremely vulnerable can now book vaccinations over the phone. The online booking system went live on Friday.\n\nAppointments are available at Northern Ireland's seven regional vaccination centres.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme, has urged anyone who is eligible to make an appointment to do so without delay.\n\nThose who have already been contacted by their GP for vaccination are advised against booking a slot.\n\nA lockdown began in Northern Ireland on 26 December with schools closed along with non-essential shops.\n\nThe NI Executive is to review coronavirus restrictions on Thursday.\n\nIt is thought unlikely the lockdown will be eased before Easter, with Health Minister Robin Swann already hinting at this in a previous paper to his executive colleagues.\n\nOfficials say with St Patrick's Day and the Easter holidays around the corner, they do not want to prematurely allow more opportunities for people to mix, which would likely lead to another rise in cases.\n\nThe executive is yet to decide if some or all pupils can return to school on Monday 8 March.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) has said schools - including special schools - are not a major source of transmission of coronavirus.\n\nThe comments were made in a PHA presentation to education officials and some school principals last week, seen by BBC News NI.\n\nNorthern Ireland's reproduction (R) number, which measures how quickly the virus is spreading, has fallen from a peak of about 1.9 in the community last month to about 0.75-0.85.\n\nOn Monday is was announced Northern Ireland is to get a further £300m from the UK government to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.", "Joss Stone was unmasked as this year's winner, Sausage\n\nThe Masked Singer finale was watched by an average audience of 8.6 million viewers, overnight figures show.\n\nThat's the biggest live TV audience for any programme so far this year, outside of news and sport.\n\nThe series culminated on Saturday with a pregnant Joss Stone, who had been cunningly disguised as Sausage, revealed as this year's winner.\n\nThe final attracted 2.2m more viewers than last year's, which saw Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud triumph.\n\nSaturday's finale also more than doubled the audience of the first episode of this series.\n\nWhen asked why she decided to take part in the show, UK soul singer Stone said: \"Why not? Life can be too serious.\"\n\n\"We should just dress up in chips and sausage and have a sing-song!\" she added.\n\nThe Telegraph's Michael Hogan described this year's final as \"a banger\" - sausage pun no doubt intended.\n\n\"It made for an irresistibly compelling climax to the reality phenomenon,\" he wrote. \"This Saturday night hit has been a welcome burst of day-glo entertainment during a grey winter.\"\n\nThe whole series was recorded last September, and it was \"impressive\" therefore, Hogan noted, how the makers kept the big reveal so secret.\n\n\"The lack of tabloid leaks or social media spoilers is testament to how, even in our age of instant information, audiences still appreciate a surprise,\" he said.\n\nSome of this year's Masked Singer contestants in character\n\nThe paper also pointed out how the \"trashily addictive success\" had already been renewed for a third series, with a sister show, The Masked Dancer, on the way too.\n\nJames Jackson of The Times also opted for four stars. He noted how \"the phenomenal success\" of the show has \"no doubt been a symptom of enforced confinement\".\n\n\"The image of a bored nation slumped recumbent, accepting any imbecilic nonsense, is hard to disregard,\" he wrote. \"But perhaps this show really is - whisper it - great, silly entertainment in the grand tradition of music hall.\"\n\nHe added that while the programme probably \"won't have done much for the nation's IQ\", it will have made for \"a happy living room\" for many families. \"You could hardly ask for more during our winter of discontent.\"\n\nThe Evening Standard's Katie Rosseinsky, meanwhile, labelled The Masked Singer as \"one of the most chaotic but ingenious formats ever to grace the weekend TV schedule.\"\n\nThe Masked Singer originated in South Korea and has also since been a hit on US TV.\n\nIt sees famous contestants don elaborate costumes and sing in front of a celebrity panel, who attempt to guess their identity.\n\nJonathan Ross, Rita Ora, Mo Gilligan and Davina McCall made up the panel for this series, and were joined by Roberts, last year's winner, for the final.\n\nThe five detectives were tasked with guessing the identities of the three remaining singers, before a small socially-distanced studio audience voted on the winner.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by The Masked Singer UK This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by The Masked Singer UK\n\nHidden under the sausage-and-fries costume was Stone, who managed to fool all of the judges throughout, with renditions of Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody and Rise Up by Andra Day.\n\nRoberts was convinced Sausage was actually former X-Factor contestant Stacey Solomon. Others had said they thought it was Sheridan Smith, which the actress and singer herself appeared to enjoy on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sheridan Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I do very much love eating chips & sausage with gravy,\" she joked.\n\nStone - not Smith then - beat the Robin and Badger characters to the crown. The bird turned out to be Aston Merrygold from the boyband JLS, who finished third. Badger, meanwhile, was un-masked as the Grammy-winning US singer Ne-Yo, who attempted to put everyone off the scent with a mockney accent.\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said in a statement: \"In these testing times, we're delighted that The Masked Singer has brought some escapist joy and light relief to so many viewers at home.\n\n\"At the end of a long week in lockdown we're all coming together and trying to guess who's dressed as a giant sausage, and quite frankly, it's been a brilliantly entertaining tonic.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Masked Singer: The most Covid-safe show of 2020?", "Nottinghamshire Police filmed the rescue on its drone\n\nTwo 11-year-old girls were \"extremely lucky to be unharmed\" after becoming trapped on a frozen section of the River Trent, police said.\n\nThe girls were rescued in Clifton on Saturday afternoon after a passer-by raised the alarm.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the friends were \"extremely cold\" and treated by the ambulance service.\n\nIt captured the rescue on a drone and reminded people not to enter the river, especially when icy.\n\nThe force said one of the girls had fallen through ice into the water while the other had made it onto an island surrounded by frozen water but had become stranded.\n\nThey were brought to safety with the help of police and firefighters at about 16:45 GMT using an inflatable piece of equipment called a pathway to help them back across the frozen water.\n\nThe girls were rescued from an area close to Clifton Grove Nature Reserve\n\nCh Insp Duncan Southall said: \"The girls are extremely lucky to have been unharmed.\n\n\"If it hadn't been for the person raising the alarm there could have been tragic consequences. It was getting dark at the time and was freezing cold.\n\n\"I hope this serves as a stark reminder to others that it is not safe to play on the ice as it can easily crack and put people in great danger.\"\n\nDavid Stevenson, from Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, reiterated the dangers, adding: \"Luckily for us, the girls were rescued and are OK, however this will not be the case for everyone.\n\n\"You can very quickly develop hypothermia from cold weather conditions. We cannot emphasise enough that cold water shock can turn into tragedy very quickly.\"\n\nThe girls were rescued close to Beeston Weir where 12-year-old Owen Jenkins died in July 2017 trying to rescue two friends from the water.\n\nHis mother Nicola Jenkins founded the Open Water Education Network safety programme in his memory and urged parents to talk to their children about the dangers of playing near water and ice.\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 chairman of JD Wetherspoon is calling for pubs to reopen at the same time as non-essential shops.\n\nTim Martin warned that the pub industry was \"on its knees\" and needed to reopen to save jobs.\n\nHe said pubs made a massive contribution to the economy, with the Wetherspoons chain paying about £10 of tax for every pound of profit it made.\n\nHis call comes after the boss of rival pub chain Young's said pubs should be reopened by April.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants across most of the UK are currently closed, although they can offer takeaway food and drink within certain restrictions. Scientists have said talk of reopening them is premature.\n\nBut Mr Martin argued that pubs and restaurants were \"Covid-secure environments\", having invested in safety measures such as plastic screens in front of tills, table service-only and floor markings to illustrate one-way systems around pub venues.\n\n\"Surely it is possible for the hospitality industry to reopen at the same time as non-essential shops, now that a vaccine exists, on the basis of the social distancing and hygiene regulations,\" he said.\n\nHe also suggested that various lockdown measures imposed on pubs since March last year could spell a \"disaster\" for the public finances.\n\nIn the financial year to July 2019, before the coronavirus crisis started, JD Wetherspoon, its customers and employees generated £764m of taxes, he said.\n\n\"The amount of tax paid by Wetherspoon is replicated, according to the size of the company, throughout the pub industry, and shows just how important pubs are to the economy,\" he said.\n\nPubs in England can no longer sell alcohol to take away, only for delivery\n\nOn Sunday, the chief executive of the Young's pub chain, Patrick Dardis, accused the prime minister of a \"lack of respect\" for the sector and of basing the decision to close pubs on \"unproven\" science - a claim that experts dispute.\n\nHe said major pub chief executives, including himself, were leaving an industry forum set up by small business minister Paul Scully. He declined to name the executives.\n\nHe said the industry needed a \"road map\" to reopening with social distancing restrictions in place, but that these should only last for a few months.\n\nMr Dardis suggested during an interview with the BBC's World at One programme on Monday that pubs should reopen for Easter weekend, \"accepting that there would be social distancing\" measures in place.\n\nHowever, Dr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter medical school, said talk of reopening pubs by April was premature.\n\n\"What the executives of pubs need to know is that failure to get it right equals back to square one. And back to square one equals much more pain economically, much more hardship.\"\n\nHe said people drank alcohol to relax and \"one of the consequences of relaxing is that you drop your guard\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said he is \"optimistic\" he will be able to set out plans on 22 February for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown - despite scientists' warnings against measures being rolled back too quickly.\n\nOn Saturday, he said \"huge progress\" had been made with the rollout of vaccines, with ministers hopeful that schools can reopen from 8 March.\n\nAfter this, the government would look to open non-essential shops, followed by the hospitality sector, he said.\n\nUK Hospitality boss Kate Nicholls recently warned that a May restart would be later than had been expected and that there could be \"very little\" left to reopen if closures last that long.\n\nIndustry figures released last week show the plight the sector is facing, with a net loss of almost 6,000 licensed premises last year, triple the tally in 2019.\n\nWith the pub and restaurant industry one of the hardest-hit sectors during the pandemic, Wetherspoons last year slumped to its first annual pre-tax loss since 1984.\n\nMr Martin also sold more than £50m worth of shares in the company in January.\n\nIt came amid \"significant buying interest\" following a previous share placing announced by Wetherspoons, the company said. Some of those funds will go towards buying new pubs, which it expected to produce higher returns when they are allowed to reopen.", "People must be \"optimistic but patient\" about the coronavirus situation in the UK and the end to restrictions, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM hailed the vaccine rollout, but warned that now was not the time to \"relax\".\n\nHe said there were still more people in hospital than at the peak of the first wave, and steps taken to ease lockdown should be \"cautious but irreversible\".\n\nHe is to set out a roadmap next week for lifting England's restrictions.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that it had met its pledge to offer at least one Covid vaccine dose to everyone in the top four priority groups in the UK. More than 15 million people have received a first dose, according to the latest government figures.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's Downing Street briefing, Mr Johnson hailed the \"unprecedented national achievement\" of hitting the target, but warned the threat from the virus remained \"very real\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the government did not have all the \"hard facts\" about how the vaccine impacted infections and that there were still more people in hospital with Covid-19 than in April - with admissions running at 1,600 a day across the UK.\n\n\"We have to keep our foot to the floor,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said no decisions were being taken before he unveiled his roadmap for ending England's restrictions, but that the government wanted this lockdown \"to be the last\", with \"cautious but irreversible\" progress.\n\nHe added his plan next week would set out \"as much as we possibly can about the route to normality, even though some things are very uncertain\".\n\nAlthough he said he was \"increasingly optimistic\" he admitted he could not give \"an absolute cast-iron guarantee that we won't face further difficulties\".\n\n\"I don't want people to think I'm not optimistic. There's been a big change - science is now in the ascendency over the disease,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson also said the government was looking at introducing rapid lateral flow testing for venues such as nightclubs and some theatres that were unable to open last year.\n\n\"I think that, in combination with vaccination, will probably be the route forward,\" he said.\n\nMichael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association, said the \"acknowledgement\" would give late night businesses \"the opportunity to deliver pilot schemes which will substantiate the ability for this sector to open safely at the appropriate time\".\n\n\"But more importantly we will be able to plan and prepare for that opportunity,\" he added.\n\nCould this be the last lockdown?\n\nThat is, of course, a huge shared hope and the government's stated aim.\n\nIt will soon be exactly a year since the first lockdown was brought in.\n\nWho knew then that we'd be in a third period of national restrictions 12 months later?\n\nBoris Johnson has been accused, at times, of over-promising and under-delivering during this crisis.\n\nToday, again, he's urging caution - even as case rates fall and the vaccine rollout goes well.\n\nThat's because ministers really don't want to lift restrictions only to reimpose them again on a weary nation.\n\nIt comes after more than 60 Conservative MPs wrote to Mr Johnson over the weekend, calling for a commitment to a \"free life\" and the ending of lockdown measures before May.\n\nSteve Baker, the deputy chair of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Research Group (CRG) of Tory MPs leading the call, said schools should return on 8 March, hospitality should reopen by Easter and all other elements should be back to normal by 1 May - when all people in the top nine priority groups have been offered a vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: 'We want progress to be cautious but also irreversible'\n\nEarlier, No 10 said the intention was to \"start getting\" pupils back into school on 8 March, but was not ruling out the possibility that they could be sent back in stages.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said it was \"important\" the planned review of restrictions was carried out this week, with details to be set out in Mr Johnson's road map on Monday.\n\nThe spokesman said he would not \"pre-empt\" what the road map might contain, but added: \"It remains our priority to get kids back to school and we always said we want that to start from 8 March, if the science and evidence allows.\"\n\nThe government is hoping to offer a jab to everyone in the first nine priority groups - including everyone over the age of 50 - by the end of April, Mr Johnson said.\n\nThis would run alongside giving second doses within the 12-week window to those in the top four priority groups, who have already had a first dose.\n\nAll those aged between 16 and 64 with underlying health conditions, as well as adult carers, are being contacted with the offer of a vaccination.\n\nWith every day that passes, it becomes clearer and clearer that the UK is winning its fight against Covid.\n\nScience, as Boris Johnson said, is in the ascendancy.\n\nIt is easy to forget this virus only emerged just over a year ago.\n\nBut now the UK has approved three vaccines for use - two of which have already started to be rolled out at speed. Another two are being assessed by the regulator after promising trial results.\n\nThere is confidence the mutations, while presenting a challenge, can be overcome. Plans are already being made to update the vaccines if needed to work better against new variants.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and some people may choose not to take it. That's why advances in treatment are vital, too.\n\nA cheap steroid, dexamethasone, is being widely used to improve the survival rates of the sickest patients. And last week it emerged an arthritis drug, tocilizumab, could also further improve survival chances.\n\nThere is still a long way to go, but there is a cautious belief in both Westminster and among scientists that each step made from now on should be forward not back.\n\nSpeaking at the same Downing Street briefing, NHS England's chief executive Sir Simon Stevens described the vaccine rollout as \"two sprints and a marathon\".\n\nHe said the UK had passed the \"finishing line of the first sprint\" and now had a \"second sprint between now and 30 April\" to extend the vaccine rollout to higher risk groups.\n\nThe \"marathon\" will involve vaccinating everybody in the country who is eligible, alongside the winter flu campaign and further booster shots if needed, Sir Simon added.\n\nMeanwhile, on Monday, the UK recorded another 9,765 new coronavirus infections, according to the latest government figures. It is the first time the daily cases figure has been under 10,000 since 2 October.\n\nA further 230 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also recorded. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Mondays due to a reporting lag over the weekend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he will set out \"as much detail\" as he can give in his lockdown road map on 22 February\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"optimistic\" he will be able to set out plans later this month for a \"cautious\" easing of England's lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister said \"huge progress\" had been made with the rollout of vaccines, with ministers hopeful that schools can reopen from 8 March.\n\nAfter this, the government would look to open non-essential shops and then later the hospitality sector, he said.\n\nIt comes as scientists warned against easing lockdown measures too quickly.\n\nMr Johnson will set out his \"road map\" out of lockdown on 22 February.\n\nSo far, more than 14.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, according to Saturday's government figures.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a first jab to everyone in the top four priority groups - about 15 million people - by Monday.\n\nThe figures also show a further 612 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 116,908.\n\nSpeaking at a visit to the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies plant in Billingham, Teesside, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm optimistic, I won't hide it from you. I'm optimistic but we have to be cautious.\"\n\nSetting out the government's priorities, he said: \"Our children's education is our number one priority, but then working forward, getting non-essential retail open as well and then, in due course, as and when we can prudently and cautiously, of course we want to be opening hospitality as well.\n\n\"I will be trying to set out as much as I possibly can in as much detail as I can, always understanding that we have to be wary of the pattern of disease.\n\n\"We don't want to be forced into any kind of retreat or reverse ferret,\" the PM added.\n\nHe also echoed comments made earlier by Health Secretary Matt Hancock that Covid-19 could become an illness that we live with - like the flu - by the end of the year.\n\n\"A nasty disease like this will roll through. A new disease like this will take time for humanity to adapt to, but we are,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"I do think that in due time it will become something that we simply live with. Some people will be more vulnerable than others - that's inevitable.\"\n\nMr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that he hoped new drugs by the end of 2021 could make Covid a \"treatable disease\", and one that we live with \"like we do the flu\".\n\nThis suggested that he was ruling out a \"zero Covid\" strategy, aimed at eliminating the virus entirely from the UK.\n\nHowever, scientists said coronavirus mutations were getting \"more dangerous\" and \"more infectious\" and warned against treating it like the flu.\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, a virologist at the University of Brighton, told the BBC: \"It's not a type of flu. It's not the same sort of virus. It doesn't cause the same sort of disease, it's very, very nasty.\"\n\nShe added: \"The mutations, the variations, that we're seeing are becoming more infectious, not less infectious and a bit more dangerous, not less dangerous.\"\n\nProf Steven Riley, a member of the SPI-M modelling group, told BBC Radio 4 Today: \"If for some reason we were to choose to just pretend it (coronavirus) wasn't here anymore, then there is the potential to go back to a wave that is a similar size to the one that we are in now.\"\n\nAdam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said vaccines were \"doing what we wanted them to do\", particularly among the very elderly and vulnerable, who were among the first to receive the jab.\n\nAlthough acknowledging that it was \"desperately important\" for schools to return and society to reopen, he cautioned against getting into a cycle \"where we are constantly opening up and then closing down again and everything is very unstable\".\n\n\"It's worse to open up, have another wave of pandemic, another bunch of hospitalisations and have to close down again than to be able to progressively normalise things,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nNHS Confederation chairman Lord Victor Adebowale said 8 March for schools could still be too soon, adding that the NHS workforce was \"on its knees\".\n\n\"I understand the pressure to open schools. We need to do so very safely. I think mid or late March is when we should be reassessing.\n\n\"We have had a number of false dawns when we have set dates, taken the action, then find ourselves having to row back very quickly,\" Lord Adebowale told Today.\n\nBut the prime minister is facing calls from some MPs in his party to ease restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Hospitality said for every week the hospitality sector remains shut down more companies are being placed in jeopardy and millions of jobs across hospitality and the supply chain are being put at risk.\n\nThe trade association's chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"That is why we urge the prime minister to work with us on delivering a safe, swift and sustainable exit from lockdown for hospitality.\"", "Scenes such as this one - in Odessa, Texas - are unusual for the state\n\nTexas is known for its sprawling deserts and excruciating heatwaves - but right now, it's blanketed in a thick layer of ice.\n\nThe state is seeing some of its coldest temperatures in more than 30 years, with some areas breaking records that are more than a century old.\n\nParts of Texas hit 0F (-18C) on Sunday, and weather warnings are going to stay in place through the week.\n\nSo why is this normally boiling state suddenly freezing over?\n\nAccording to the US National Weather Service (NWS), this is down to an \"Arctic outbreak\" that originated just above the US-Canada border, bringing a winter snow storm as well as plummeting temperatures.\n\nCold air outbreaks such as these are normally kept in the Arctic by a series of low-pressure systems, the NWS said. However, this one moved through Canada and spilled out into the US last week.\n\nTemperatures in the city of Dallas for example will reach a high of 14F (-10C) on Monday when it should be more like 59F (15C) at this time of year.\n\nFor the first time in the US state, all 254 counties are under a winter storm warning, US media report. The temperature in Dallas is already colder than in Anchorage, Alaska, CBS News reports.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday night, President Joe Biden declared an emergency in Texas, which authorises US agencies to co-ordinate disaster relief in the state.\n\nRotating power outages have been initiated by the state's power grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot), early on Monday, to reduce demand on the electricity system.\n\n\"Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power,\" it added in a tweet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt has also issued a level-three energy emergency alert, urging consumers to reduce electricity use.\n\nNearly 120 car accidents were reported on Sunday, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña tweeted.\n\nHundreds of flights in and out of the state have also been cancelled.\n\nThe weather has already proved deadly. On Thursday, icy roads led to a massive crash involving more than 100 vehicles in Fort Worth, killing six people and leaving dozens more needing hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a deadly crash with over 100 cars began on an icy Texas highway\n\n\"The expansive dome of sub-freezing temperatures across the northern tier of the country has laid the foundation for winter storms to wreak havoc from coast to coast, not only going into this weekend, but also into next week,\" the NWS said in a statement released on Friday.\n\nWeather warnings for severe winter conditions are going to remain in place until at least Tuesday, when the weather system will begin to move north.\n\nAmarillo will see a high temperature of just 2F (-17C), breaking the city's previous record of 12F (-11C) that was set in 1895, a forecaster from the service's Weather Prediction Centre, Marc Chenard, told Reuters news agency.\n\nThese are some of the state's coldest temperatures for more than 30 years\n\nSimilarly, Lubbock will only reach a high of 9F (-13C). These temperatures are \"40 to 50 degrees [Fahrenheit] below average\", Mr Chenard said.\n\nParts of Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle are predicted to see as much as a foot of snow this week, while Dallas will have four inches.\n\nMr Chenard warns of more dangerous road conditions in Houston, caused by sleet and freezing rain.", "The village of Bonmahon in County Waterford in the Republic of Ireland has been showered in sea foam.\n\nIt follows several days of high winds.", "Vanessa Bryant has criticised rapper Meek Mill over a song that references her late husband, the basketball star Kobe Bryant.\n\nDon't Worry (RIP Kobe) contains the lyric: \"If I ever lack, I'm goin' out with my chopper, it be another Kobe.\"\n\nBryant was killed along with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash last year.\n\nAddressing Meek Mill on Instagram, Vanessa said the line was \"extremely insensitive and disrespectful\".\n\n\"I am not familiar with any of your music, but I believe you can do better than this,\" she wrote on her Instagram story on Monday.\n\n\"If you are a fan, fine, there's a better way to show your admiration for my husband. This lacks respect and tact.\"\n\nShe also shared a message of support from basketball star Candace Parker, who wrote: \"I'm sorry you and your girls continually have to deal with [expletive] like this. It's not fair it's not right.\"\n\nMeek Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, appeared to respond on Twitter, writing: \"[Expletive] your feelings\".\n\n\"I don't think we on the same signal y'all... I don't see what y'all see.\"\n\nHe subsequently clarified that these tweets were not aimed at Bryant and her family.\n\n\"I apologised to her in private earlier today not to the public,\" he wrote. \"Nothing I say on my [Twitter] page [is] directed to an internet viral moment or the family of a grieving woman! If you care about someone grieving, change the subject!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not clear how the track leaked, and it has now been deleted from social media and YouTube.\n\nThe rapper initially suggested his lyrics had been misinterpreted.\n\n\"Somebody promo a narrative and y'all follow it…. y'all internet antics cannot stop me,\" he wrote. \"They paying to influence y'all now … its almost like mind control 'wake up.'\"\n\nThe rapper previously petitioned the National Basketball Association to change its logo to a silhouette of the Black Mamba to honour Bryant.\n\nThe sportsman, a five-time NBA champion, played for the LA Lakers throughout his career and is considered one of the greatest players in the game's history.\n\nHe was on his way to a tournament in Thousand Oaks last January when the helicopter he was in crashed into a hill just north of Los Angeles.\n\nEarlier this month, US safety investigators said the pilot had probably become disorientated amid fog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alicia Keys and Lizzo lead tributes to Kobe Bryant at the Grammys\n\nIn its official finding, The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Ara Zobayan, who also died in the crash, told air traffic controllers the helicopter was climbing out of heavy cloud when it was actually descending.\n\n\"This manoeuvre is consistent with the pilot experiencing spatial disorientation in limited visibility conditions,\" said NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt.\n\n\"We are talking about spatial disorientation where literally the pilot may not know which way is up or down, whether he or she is leaning left or right.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA primary school teacher has described feeling \"utterly helpless\" as a pupil's parent had a seizure while he taught a class of 18 children online.\n\nAnthony Cannon-Jones was teaching his Year 4 class at Holton Primary School in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nHe said the boy's face \"turned ashen and he started shaking\" as he realised his father was unwell.\n\nThe teacher's efforts to keep children calm and help the boy and his father were \"heroic\", the head teacher said.\n\n\"The dad walked past in the background and gave a wave, as the parents often do,\" recalled Mr Cannon-Jones, originally from Shropshire.\n\n\"Then the child's face just turned ashen and he started shaking.\n\n\"I said 'are you alright? Then he uttered the words that we never really want to hear on an online lesson: 'My dad is having a seizure.\"\n\nMr Cannon-Jones was delivering a lesson over Zoom for pupils at Holton Primary School in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nMr Cannon-Jones lives in Cardiff, a 30-minute drive from where the boy, Rhys, lives.\n\n\"I felt utterly helpless because I'm so far away, but I had to do something,\" he explained.\n\n\"First, I asked Rhys to remain calm. At this point I could hear dad in the background was having difficulties breathing.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nMr Cannon-Jones' attention then turned to making sure the other children on the call, watching a \"show and tell\", could not see or hear what was going on.\n\nHe asked Rhys if he could call any family living nearby, and called the school himself to see if staff were available to go to the boy's home.\n\n\"As the situation developed, they had managed to get hold of grandpa who had come around and was assisting,\" said Mr Cannon-Jones.\n\n\"Then about five minutes later or so, the child came back on the video call to say dad was okay, they had managed to get him on the sofa, he was comfortable and was breathing normally.\"\n\nHe added: \"That was a huge relief.\"\n\nAsked how he managed to remain calm, Mr Cannon-Jones said: \"Honestly, I don't know. In the moment my teacher brain activated - the calm kicked in and I just did what I felt like I had to do.\"\n\nTeachers have been using video call technology to deliver lessons since schools closed were shut in December amid a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, with the youngest children returning to classrooms on Monday in a phased reopening of schools.\n\nDean Williamson with wife Claire and sons Rhys (l) and James\n\nThe episode, on February 10, was not the first time Rhys's father, Dean Williamson, has had a seizure, having developed epilepsy following surgery for a brain tumour in 2018.\n\nMr Williamson said the last thing he remembered was being on his knees looking for a card.\n\n\"My eldest son said, 'I'm going to ring my mum', but she wasn't answering. Then James tried his nanny. She said she would ring his bampy [grandfather] and luckily he was doing some work at my cousin's house which is near here.\"\n\nJames said he had done his best to help his father when he collapsed.\n\n\"I managed to lift him up, then I kept on trying to call my mum,\" he said.\n\n\"I felt like I was able to do it but I think Rhys felt way too scared to come [too close].\"\n\nMr Williamson was full of praise for his sons and everyone who helped that day, reserving special mention for the school.\n\n\"The boys were amazing and the school have been fantastic. They looked after James and Rhys the next day as they went into school.\n\n\"The headmaster called [my wife] Claire and said they were looking to recognise how Mr Cannon-Jones reacted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The American space agency has released stunning video of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars.\n\nNasa sent Perseverance to Mars festooned with cameras, seven of which were dedicated to recording the landing.\n\nTheir imagery represents vital feedback for engineers as they look to improve still further the technologies used to put probes on the surface of the Red planet.", "The Duke of Edinburgh is being treated for an infection and is not expected to leave hospital for several days, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip was admitted to London's King Edward VII's Hospital last Tuesday as a precaution after feeling unwell.\n\nThe 99-year-old husband of the Queen is \"comfortable and responding to treatment\", the palace said.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex said his father was feeling \"a lot better\" and appreciated \"lovely messages\" from the public.\n\nPrince Edward told Sky News: \"He's looking forward to getting out, which is the most positive thing, so we keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nBoth the duke and the Queen, 94, received Covid-19 vaccinations last month. Prince Philip's admission to hospital was not related to coronavirus.\n\nThe couple, who celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary last November, have been spending lockdown at Windsor Castle with a small household staff.\n\nA palace source previously said that the duke, who turns 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nPrince Charles visited his father for around 30 minutes on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said Prince Charles returned to his Highgrove residence in Gloucestershire after the visit.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, the Duke of Cambridge said his grandfather was \"OK\" and that doctors were \"keeping an eye\" on him.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have continued with their official duties, with the Queen knighting a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor on Thursday.\n\nPrince Philip retired from royal duties in 2017 in a move supported by the Queen.\n\nKnown for off-the-cuff remarks at public events, Prince Philip joked at the time that he was the \"world's most experienced plaque unveiler\".\n\nIn his time as a working royal, he attended over 22,000 solo engagements and gave more than 5,000 speeches.\n\nThe duke has received treatment for various health conditions over the years, including a blocked coronary artery in 2011, a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.", "For Antonio Caraballo and his son Sami, home is a hotel room for 10 days\n\nA father wants the Scottish government to reconsider its Covid quarantine rules after his son was told he had to isolate in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nAntonio Caraballo's 10-year-old son Sami, who lives with his mother in Finland, flew to Edinburgh on Saturday to see his father.\n\nMr Caraballo expected Sami to self-isolate at the family home and filled out pre-flight paperwork accordingly.\n\nBut on arrival, border officials insisted he had to isolate in a hotel.\n\nBecause he is a child, Mr Caraballo has had to quarantine with him, at a total cost of more than £2,400.\n\nThe Scottish government said children under 11 were exempt from having to be tested for Covid-19 on arrival to Scotland, but not from having to stay in a quarantine hotel.\n\nThe rule means that Sami will spend 10 days of his 14-day visit in a hotel room, and Mr Caraballo, who is a key worker at an oil and gas firm, has to do his work from there.\n\nMr Caraballo told BBC Scotland: \"Sami lives in Finland with his mother and usually we see a lot of each other, but because of the pandemic, he has not been here since last summer. We didn't see him at Christmas.\n\n\"We had to balance the risks of my son travelling from a country with a low number of cases to a country with a high number of cases.\n\n\"But we brought him for his own wellbeing. Now I am so frustrated for him.\"\n\nSami is spending the majority of his visit in hotel quarantine\n\nSami's parents had organised an extra week off school to add to his week-long half term break known as the \"ski holiday\" in Finland. The school were happy to let him spend time with his family.\n\nMr Caraballo arrived at the airport to collect his son on Saturday but instead of taking him home to isolate there, ended the day in a quarantine hotel.\n\n\"I got a call from the border agent,\" he said. \"He said he didn't need a Covid test but he had to go to the hotel. They said because my child is underage an adult would have to go with him. We had to try to book the quarantine hotel online and then my wife and Sami's sister Amelia, who is three, only saw him for five seconds as the two of us were escorted away.\"\n\nMr Caraballo was given a scrap of paper with a number on it to appeal his case by hotel staff, but the number did not exist\n\nMr Caraballo has tried to appeal against the decision and was given a helpline to call by the hotel staff. Unfortunately this turned out to be an invalid number.\n\nHe is finding it difficult to speak to anyone who can help.\n\n\"The most frustrating thing is that there doesn't seem to be anyone who is accountable,\" he said. \"There is no-one to call, no-one to speak to at the hotel.\"\n\nCoronavirus restrictions on travel and visiting other households in Scotland carry an exemption for shared parenting. People are allowed \"to travel to participate in or facilitate shared parenting or between two parts of an extended household\".\n\nMr Caraballo feels that when a child is visiting a parent, there should be an exemption, or the ability to self-isolate at home.\n\nHe said: \"We thought we were doing the right thing flying him into Edinburgh. If we had him arrive in another part of the UK there would have been a loophole.\"\n\nDifferent rules set by the UK and Scottish governments mean that arrivals to airports in England who travel on to Scotland, do not have to quarantine in a hotel unless they arrive from a country on the red list.\n\nThe Doubletree Edinburgh Airport is where Mr Caraballo and his son have to quarantine for 10 days\n\nFor the moment all plans are on hold and Sami will have just three days with his family after the hotel stay.\n\nMr Caraballo said Sami was bored and frustrated but is resilient.\n\nHe added: \"It's just a shame. The whole point of bringing him here was to cheer him up.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"We understand how difficult this is for families with children, but to manage the risk of importing new variants and to give vaccine deployment the best chance of bringing us closer to normality these limits on international travel are necessary.\n\n\"The clinical advice is clear that a comprehensive system of managed quarantine is essential to minimise the impact of new Covid-19 variants. This means children must enter managed isolation regardless of whether they are accompanied or unaccompanied. We must restrict how many exemptions are in place otherwise the policy will not be effective.\"\n\nAre you currently in hotel quarantine? 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 government should buy more British food for schools and hospitals, Sir Keir Starmer has said in a speech to the National Farmers Union (NFU).\n\nThe Labour leader also denied that his party was anti-countryside, calling the idea \"more perception than reality\".\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said leaving the EU provided the chance to end \"50 years of an anti-innovation\" approach imposed by the bloc.\n\nThe NFU's conference was its first since the EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nThe virtual get-together happened on the same day that Brussels asked for the full ratification of the agreement to be delayed until the end of April - to which the UK government agreed.\n\nSome businesses have complained of more friction at borders and an increase in bureaucracy in recent weeks since the deal came into force, with the Britain leaving the European single market and customs union.\n\nThere are also concerns about trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBut Ms Truss was keen to talk up the future of UK agriculture, telling NFU members it would continue to \"lead the world in food and drink\" and had quality and safety standards which were \"second to none\".\n\nIn a press conference afterwards, she admitted that there \"continue to be issues to work through\", but ministers would work to \"make sure that trade continues to flow\".\n\nAnd Environment Secretary George Eustice said that following Brexit, farmers would be rewarded for \"farming more sustainably, creating space for nature on their land, enhancing animal welfare and reducing carbon emissions\".\n\nDuring his speech, Sir Keir said more of the government's catering budget should go on British produce.\n\nHe also argued that money from his proposed Covid Recovery Bond scheme could go towards helping rural communities, for example by investing in long-term flood protection.\n\nA 2014 government report said the public sector spent about £2.4bn on food for schools, hospitals and the armed forces.\n\nSir Keir's appearance at the NFU conference was the first by a Labour leader since Tony Blair in 2008 and he used the opportunity to tackle perceptions of a \"distance that has grown\" between his party and rural communities.\n\nHe argued that Labour had strong connections to the countryside, citing its support for protecting British food standards.\n\nSir Keir said: \"No party can claim to represent the country if we don't represent the countryside.\"", "WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so.\n\nTheir account will be listed as \"inactive\". And inactive accounts can be deleted after 120 days.\n\nCalls and notifications will still function for \"a short while\" but, TechCrunch reported, probably only a \"few weeks\".\n\nThere was a backlash among many users who thought it meant the company was planning to change the amount of data it shared with its parent company, Facebook.\n\nIt later clarified this was not the case - the update is actually aimed at enabling payments to be made to businesses.\n\nWhatsApp already shares some information with Facebook, such as the user's IP address (a sequence of numbers attached to every device which connects to the internet, it can also be used to pin down its location) and purchases made via the platform.\n\nBut this is not the case in Europe and the UK, where different privacy laws exist.\n\nFollowing the initial announcement, platforms such as Telegram and Signal saw a huge surge in demand as WhatsApp users sought alternative encrypted-messaging services.\n\nWhatsApp delayed the initial rollout and has now changed the way it is notifying users of the changes.", "The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a \"roadmap\" to lift England's lockdown restrictions in stages - starting with the reopening of schools. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said there will be a \"progressive easing\" of its rules.\n\nOver the course of the past year, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has advised the authorities on the pandemic, assessing the risks of transmission of coronavirus in many areas of daily life.\n\nThis advice looks at how closing or opening certain sectors could affect its spread - although with varying degrees of confidence, as the precise impact of each measure is difficult to assess.\n\nScientists are still trying to understand the full impact of the vaccines and the new variants of coronavirus. These have not been factored in yet in the assessments from Sage, which have been publicly released.\n\nWe have looked at what they say about the risks in a number of areas.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that schools have a \"moderate\" impact on transmission.\n\nThe phased opening of schools has already started in Wales and Scotland. In England, the prime minister says all schools will reopen on March 8.\n\nBut the role schools have played in the spread of the virus is not clear-cut.\n\nOne report from Sage notes, perhaps unsurprisingly, that cases were highest among children when schools fully reopened in September 2020.\n\nThere is no clear evidence that schools are the driving force behind broader community spikes.\n\n\"It is difficult to quantify the size of this effect and it remains difficult to quantify the level of transmission taking place specifically within schools compared to other settings,\" Sage reported in November.\n\nIts evidence suggests that primary school children are \"less susceptible to infection than adults,\" but the risk increases among older children.\n\nSage concluded that closing secondary schools was \"more effective\" than closing primary schools due to this.\n\nIn fact, some recent research from the University of Warwick concludes that there is no hard evidence that primary schools spread the virus.\n\nWhen announcing the reopening of schools in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The key risk in reopening schools is not transmission of the virus within schools; instead, the risk comes from the increased contact that the reopening might spark among the wider adult population.\"\n\nThis could include parents gathering at the school gates, or people returning to work.\n\nAll recent Sage documents agree that the risk of serious illness to children is very small compared to adults over 60.\n\nSage has said (with \"high confidence\") that outdoor gatherings have a low impact on transmission.\n\nWales is relaxing its outdoor rules and small outdoor gatherings will be allowed in England from March 29 and in Scotland from March 15.\n\nCurrently, you are only able to exercise outdoors with one other person.\n\nSage has long been confident that small outdoor gatherings have a lower impact on transmission because coronavirus \"does not persist in well-ventilated outdoor areas for long\" and the virus's \"survival on surfaces is reduced under UV light [the sun]\".\n\nBut despite being considered low-risk, the virus is still able to spread outdoors. This is why when a lot of people had the virus in January, the government stopped gatherings outside.\n\nAnd, as ever, the closer you are to someone - for example, standing close to them and chatting - the higher the chance of droplets passing between you. So social distancing measures will still be encouraged.\n\nSage has said (with \"low-moderate\" confidence) that retail has a low impact on transmission.\n\nMost non-essential retail, such as clothes stores, is due to reopen in England from April 12 - at the earliest.\n\nPeople in Scotland will need to wait until at least the end of April for this.\n\nBefore the first lockdown was lifted, Sage recommended that \"opening non-essential retail safely would require a significant effort to ensure that environments are appropriate to minimise transmission (for example social distancing and hygiene measures, ventilation)\".\n\nThis follows the idea that contacts between people are more dangerous indoors as particles in the air are replaced less slowly with clean air.\n\nSage estimated that opening non-essential retail such as clothes shops would see a 10% increase in indoor contacts between people.\n\nThis is why when shops reopened we saw crowd control, one-way systems and designated spaces for people to queue.\n\nSage thinks that in general non-essential retail is \"low risk\" when these measures are in place and masks are worn.\n\nBut once again, if coronavirus is already highly prevalent in a community as it was in December, these \"low risk\" actions can become riskier as more people have the virus to begin with.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that hospitality has a moderate impact on transmission.\n\nWithout restrictions, the hospitality sector can see people from different households mixing indoors for long periods of time.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, Sage has said:\n\nSage has also noted that alcohol can have an impact on people following social distancing measures.\n\nBecause of these risks, hospitality is being opened up in stages.\n\nOn April 12 - at the earliest - customers in England will be able to drink or eat outside.\n\n\"Allowing customers to sit outside only [is] likely to be much lower risk,\" Sage reports.\n\nThis will be followed by groups being allowed to meet indoors as early as May 17.\n\nAnother restriction previously implemented in England was a 10pm closure for hospitality, but as Reality Check has previously reported, the evidence-base for this was minimal. This curfew has now been scrapped.\n\nPeople will need to wait until at least the end of April for hospitality to open in Scotland.\n\nSage has not issued specific advice on the risk of transmission in this sector.\n\nSelf-catering accommodation or holiday lets will be allowed from April 12, a full month before other types of holiday accommodation. This hasn't been announced in Scotland.\n\nIn the past, Sage has briefly mentioned the need for greater understanding of \"travel patterns and existing levels of seeding (or spreading from one region to another)\" before making conclusions on restricting travel between UK nations and between regions within them.\n\nLast year, Reality Check looked at whether large gatherings of tourists on Bournemouth beach had an impact on case numbers, but found no evidence of it leading to a spike.", "Simon Bowes-Lyon was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years\n\nA Scottish earl has been jailed for 10 months for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nA sheriff told Bowes-Lyon - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - that his victim still suffered nightmares as a result of the assault.\n\nBowes-Lyon was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nSheriff Alastair Carmichael told Bowes-Lyon, 34, that he had repeatedly ignored his victim's pleas during the attack.\n\nThe sheriff said: \"Even now - one year on - she still, occasionally, has nightmares and feels panicked because of being sexually assaulted by you.\n\n\"This has also had an impact on her emotional wellbeing.\"\n\nHe said that the sentence \"must reflect the gravity of the crime\" and that a community disposal \"would not meet these requirements.\"\n\nDundee Sheriff Court was told previously that Bowes-Lyon repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nThe court heard that the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nJohn Scott QC, defending, said his client, who reports said was a medium risk of reoffending, had shown \"genuine remorse\".\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Former Scotland, Manchester United and Leeds United defender Gordon McQueen has been diagnosed with vascular dementia, his family have confirmed.\n\nThe 68-year-old, whose career began at St Mirren, played 30 times for Scotland and won the English First Division with Leeds and FA Cup at Manchester United.\n\nMcQueen went on to manage Airdrie and coach at Middlesbrough, before working as a television pundit.\n\nHis family said that the former centre-back was formally diagnosed in January.\n\n\"As a family we felt it was important to let people know, particularly if raising awareness can help others in similar situations,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"Whilst as a family we've found it hard to come to terms with the changes in dad, he has no regrets about his career and has lived life to the full.\n\n\"He had unforgettable experiences in his playing days with Scotland, Manchester United and Leeds United, and also took so much from his coaching and TV work in more recent times.\"\n\nVascular dementia is estimated by the NHS to affect around 150,000 people in the UK. They say it is caused by reduced blood flow to the brain, and leads to gradual changes and damage to the organ.\n\nThe family statement, attributed to McQueen's wife Yvonne, daughters Hayley and Anna, and son Edward, said that McQueen \"wants footballers of today's generation to know there may be risks with persistent heading of the ball\".\n\nMcQueen's former Leeds team-mate Jack Charlton died with dementia last year and it was confirmed in recent months that Sir Bobby Charlton has been diagnosed with the disease. Three more members of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad have also been found to have dementia.\n\nDr Willie Stewart, the neurosurgeon who led research into football's links with dementia has warned the issue is \"not just for older-era footballers but modern-era footballers as well\".\n\n\"Dad scored some important goals in his career and memorable headers but used to stay back in training, heading the ball to the goalkeeper for practice over and over,\" said the McQueen family. \"He does wonder if this has been a factor in his dementia as his symptoms appeared in his mid-60s.\n\n\"He is fully aware of his friends and family still and his memory of all things football is sharp, but his cognitive functions are not the same.\n\n\"We don't want people to be surprised by his condition or continue to ask him for media interviews or autographs which he is not able to do any more.\n\n\"Whilst he is looking forward to seeing people again after lockdown and getting the social aspect of life back, we know people will see a big difference in his health so wanted to be transparent.\n\n\"We thank everyone in advance for their understanding and hope sharing this news will help dad to face the future in a positive way.\"\n\nMcQueen moved from Paisley to Elland Road in 1972, winning the English top flight two seasons later and reaching the European Cup final in 1975, where Leeds were beaten by Bayern Munich.\n\nHe joined Manchester United in 1978, claiming the FA Cup five years later, before finishing his career at Hong Kong side Seiko SA.\n\nThe defender scored five goals in his 30 Scotland appearances, and was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2012.\n\nThe Football Association is currently supporting two independently led research studies examining former professional players for early signs of neurocognitive degeneration.\n\nThe FOCUS study by the University of Nottingham is being funded by the FA and Professional Footballers' Association, while the HEADING study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is being funded by the Drake Foundation.", "Holiday firms and airlines have reported a surge in bookings since the plan for easing lockdown was unveiled.\n\nDespite questions over the return of international travel, the UK's biggest holiday firm, Tui, said bookings for foreign trips jumped 500% overnight.\n\nThe owner of UK-based holiday firms Hoseasons and Cottages.com said it sold a record 10,000 breaks.\n\nThe government said a decision on easing international travel would not happen until mid-May at the earliest.\n\nBut Tui said its bookings for July-onwards had soared with Greece, Spain and Turkey the most popular destinations.\n\nAmid uncertainty over when foreign travel will be allowed, some holidaymakers have their sights set on a UK break.\n\nSimon Altham, group chief commercial officer at Awaze, the company behind Hoseasons, said: \"Last year following similar announcements we saw bookings peak at one every 11 seconds, but this time demand has exceeded our expectations and comfortably broken that record.\"\n\nNat Sommers told the BBC she had booked a family trip to Yorkshire after Boris had announced his plans to ease lockdown.\n\n\"We'd been keeping our eye on a few places over the last few weeks in anticipation of lockdown being eased,\" she said.\n\n\"We just decided to go for it an book it in the hope that things would be back to relative normality come August.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said a global travel taskforce would put forward a report by 12 April on how to return to international travel.\n\nThe government would then make a decision on removing restrictions on international travel, but not before 17 May at the earliest.\n\nAs the government has said dates could move for the start of international travel, Tui has said that anyone due to travel between 17 May and the end of June can change their booking to a later date without a fee.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director for Tui UK and Ireland, described the government's steps as \"positive\".\n\nThomas Cook said traffic to its website was up over 100% on Monday from 15:00 GMT onwards, with bookings \"flooding in\" for countries such as Greece, Cyprus, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.\n\n\"The government's announcement today is good news for those of us desperate to get away on holiday,\" said Thomas Cook's chief executive Alan French.\n\n\"While we await more details, it's clear that the government's ambition is to open up international travel in the coming months and hopefully in time for the summer holidays.\"\n\nThere was a big leap in family bookings for the summer holidays, especially for August, as well as people booking for the October half term and Christmas, a Thomas Cook spokesman said.\n\nCrete has seen a surge in bookings, according to EasyJet\n\nEasyJet reported a 337% surge in flight bookings and a 630% jump in holiday bookings for locations such as Alicante, Malaga, Palmo, Faro and Crete.\n\nThe airline's chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said Boris Johnson's announcement had \"provided a much-needed boost in confidence\" for its UK customers.\n\n\"We have consistently seen that there is pent up demand for travel and this surge in bookings shows that this signal from the government that it plans to reopen travel has been what UK consumers have been waiting for,\" he said.\n\nTour operator and airline Jet2 also reported a 1,000% increase in bookings in the 24 hours following the prime minister's announcement. Popular destinations include Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, with a notable spike in demand from July onwards.\n\nIts chief executive, Steve Heapy, said: \"The government's announcement is the news [holidaymakers] have been longing for, and the continued surge in bookings shows how ready our customers are to get away to the sunshine on a real package holiday.\"\n\nWhile bookings are high, there are still plenty of questions about how international travel will resume - and no guarantees that it will start again in mid-May.\n\nThe industry has seen restrictions put on top of restrictions over the last few months, with visitors from entire continents banned, the introduction of quarantine hotels and multiple tests required.\n\nRemoving them will take some careful unpicking.\n\nThe government has said that any removal will depend on the location of concerning variants, progress of vaccine rollouts here and abroad as well as death rates and hospital admissions.\n\nIt's also not just about us. Other countries will need to agree to allow British tourists in. But after fears they could be left off the roadmap, the travel industry is keen to make this plan and these dates work.\n\nAmanda Matthews, managing director and owner of Ramsbottom-based luxury travel agency network Designer Travel, said her firm had seen double the number of enquiries and new bookings for the summer.\n\n\"But we've also had hundreds of calls from people who've got bookings for travel in March, April, May and June - still very uncertain about whether they will be travelling or not,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Because there's no concrete date yet for the reopening of international travel, as a travel agent, we can't answer our existing clients' questions about holidays they've already booked for spring and summer. We've got no idea.\"\n\nDesigner Travel owner Amanda Matthews says her firm saw double the usual number of enquiries on Monday\n\nWhile the roadmap has provided hope for summer holidays, retail expert Kate Hardcastle said there was also \"huge disappointment\" for the travel industry - particularly among domestic overnight accommodation providers such as mobile home holiday parks and holiday cottage providers.\n\n\"Easter is obviously a critical part of the travel calendar for travel agencies and the industry, so it's a lost opportunity, one less holiday to be able to sell within,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I also know a lot of families are dependent on Easter holidays as it tends to be cheaper and more cost effective than the summer holidays. It would be awful to think that some people are completely priced out of a holiday this year.\"\n\nBut data from hotel technology company Avvio suggests a heyday for upmarket UK hotels, with August revenue for 4- and 5-star hotels more than tripling as would-be holiday makers bank on domestic breaks being more likely.\n\nOn Tuesday, global hotels group InterContinental Hotels, which owns the Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands, said the sector was unlikely to see a recovery until later this year, dependent on vaccine rollouts.\n\n\"2021 has begun with many of these challenges still in place,\" chief executive Keith Barr said, as the company unveiled a $260m (£185m) loss.", "Emma Coronel Aispuro stayed loyal to her husband, attending nearly every day of his trial in 2019\n\nThe wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán has been arrested in the US on suspicion of drug trafficking, US authorities say.\n\nEmma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was detained at Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC.\n\nShe is charged with participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.\n\nGuzmán is currently serving a life sentence in Colorado for drug trafficking and money laundering.\n\nThe 63-year-old is a former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which officials say was the biggest supplier of drugs to the US.\n\nHis trial in 2019 heard shocking revelations about his life, from drugging and raping girls as young as 13 to carrying out the cold-blooded murders of former cartel members and rivals.\n\nMs Coronel Aispuro appeared via video link before a federal judge at a court in Washington DC on Tuesday and was ordered to remain in detention for the time being.\n\nEmma Coronel Aispuro appeared during a virtual hearing at a federal court in Washington DC on Tuesday\n\nProsecutor Anthony Nardozzi said Ms Coronel Aispuro had \"worked closely\" with members of the Sinaloa cartel and had possessed the \"financial means to generate a serious risk of flight\".\n\nAs well as facing drug trafficking charges, she is also accused of conspiring with others to help her husband escape from prison in Mexico in 2015.\n\nHe was sprung from Mexico's maximum-security Altiplano prison after his sons bought a property near the prison and a GPS watch smuggled into the prison gave diggers his exact location. He escaped by riding a specially adapted small motorcycle through the tunnel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCourt documents said Ms Coronel Aispuro was allegedly involved in planning another prison escape for her husband before he was extradited to the US in January 2017.\n\nShe has not commented on the charges.\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the arrest was \"a matter that the United States will decide\" but added that he hoped the US would share more of the details.\n\nMs Coronel Aispuro is a dual US-Mexico citizen, a former beauty pageant winner and journalism student, and the mother of twins with Guzmán. According to previous interviews gave to US media, she first met Guzmán at a dance when she was 17 and he was 49.\n\nShe attended nearly every day of her husband's three-month trial in New York, during which she heard not only grim accounts of murder and rape, but also claims he had spied on her and other mistresses.\n\nShe came under the media spotlight during that trial. In one instance, she appeared to laugh during the tearful testimony of one of Guzmán's mistresses. On another day she and Guzmán wore similar velvet jackets, which many people interpreted as a show of solidarity.\n\nShe remained supportive of Guzmán throughout, saying at the end of the trial: \"I don't know my husband as the person they are trying to show him as, but rather I admire him as the human being that I met, and the one that I married.\"\n\nGuzmán came from a poor family in Sinaloa state, north-west Mexico. His organised crime business grew so big that he entered Forbes' 2009 list of the world's richest men at number 701, with an estimated worth of $1bn (£709m).", "Hayley Arceneaux, a cancer survivor, will achieve a number of firsts when she goes to space this year\n\nThe first bone cancer survivor to become an astronaut. The first person with a prosthetic body part to visit space. And the youngest American ever to orbit Earth.\n\nThese are the impressive firsts that could soon be attributable to 29-year-old Hayley Arceneaux.\n\nIn January, the physician assistant was picked to join the crew of the world's first all-civilian space mission.\n\nMs Arceneaux was ecstatic but, at first, she had to keep her lips sealed.\n\n\"I've held onto the biggest secret of my life for a month and a half. So now I get to share it with the world,\" she told the BBC.\n\nHer selection for the historic mission was announced on Monday by the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where Ms Arceneaux was once a cancer patient as a child and now works.\n\nLater this year, she will launch from Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket made by SpaceX, the company founded by business mogul Elon Musk.\n\n\"I think this mission is going to inspire people in so many ways,\" Ms Arceneaux said. \"It shows them that anything is possible.\"\n\nMs Arceneaux works as a physician's assistant in the hospital where she was a patient\n\nThere will be no professional astronauts on board the spacecraft.\n\nRather, Ms Arceneaux will be joined by two contest winners and flight commander Jared Isaacman, a 38-year-old billionaire who is paying for the entire mission.\n\nThe mission is the pet project of Mr Isaacman, who announced on 1 February that he had bought the rocket launch.\n\nMr Isaacman is aiming to use the flight to raise $200m (£142m) for St Jude, half of which he said he will donate himself.\n\nOf the four available seats on the spacecraft, one was offered to a member of staff at the hospital.\n\n\"From the start, we wanted a crew member that represented the mission's spirit of hope,\" Mr Isaacman said. \"I can't think of a better person than Hayley to fulfil that responsibility.\"\n\nFor Ms Arceneaux, the flight will be the realisation of a feat she never thought was possible.\n\nAt the age of 10, Ms Arceneaux was a bone cancer patient at St Jude.\n\nAs part of her treatment at the hospital, Ms Arceneaux had chemotherapy and surgery to replace some of her leg bones with artificial ones.\n\nMs Arceneaux was diagnosed with bone cancer as a child\n\nIn a different era, Ms Arceneaux's prosthetic leg bones would have grounded her ambitions for space travel as a Nasa astronaut, because of the agency's strict medical requirements.\n\nBut the emergence of private space missions in recent years has enabled more of us to reach for the stars.\n\n\"Until this mission, I could have never been an astronaut,\" Ms Arceneaux said. \"This mission is opening space travel to people who are not physically perfect.\"\n\nMs Arceneaux was at home in Tennessee when she got the \"out of the blue\" call on 5 January asking if she would join the mission.\n\nHer response? \"Immediately, I said, 'yes, yes please'.\"\n\nAfter checking with her family to \"make sure they were not adamantly opposed\", and her brother and sister-in-law who - as aerospace engineers - \"really reassured me how safe space travel is\", she agreed to join the crew.\n\nMr Isaacman is planning to select and reveal the remaining two crew members by March.\n\nOne will be the winner of a sweepstake competition, whose proceeds will be donated to St Jude.\n\nThe other will go to the winner of a contest which asks entrepreneurs to design an online store using software made by Shift4, Mr Isaacman's payment technology company.\n\nMr Isaacman will be the commander of the spacecraft\n\nOnce selected, the crew will undergo a rigorous, months-long training programme, including mission simulations in zero gravity.\n\nMs Arceneaux - the flight's medical officer - has already tried on her space suit. It was \"so cool\" but \"heavier than I expected\", she said.\n\nShe will presumably get used to it by the time the rocket lifts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, sometime at the latter end of 2021.\n\nThen, Ms Arceneaux will be wearing the suit for several days as her spacecraft - a SpaceX Dragon capsule - circles the globe.\n\nAt the end of the mission, the Dragon will re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a soft-water landing off the east coast of the US.\n\nMs Arceneaux said she hoped her space mission would inspire people with cancer\n\n\"I'm really not nervous. I've met the lead engineers for every aspect of this mission. I really trust them.\"\n\nCompared to what she went through as a child, space travel should be no problem.\n\n\"Getting to represent cancer patients and survivors is an incredible honour. It really wasn't that long ago that I was in their shoes,\" she said.\n\n\"When you're going through cancer treatment, you're so focused on the day-to-day. It can be really difficult to look toward the future. I hope that this mission will allow them to imagine their future.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Tim Peake's tips on becoming an astronaut", "Mr Salmond has named people he alleges were attempting to damage his reputation\n\nThe Scottish Parliament has published a revised version of submissions from Alex Salmond after the Crown Office raised \"grave concerns\" about it.\n\nMr Salmond's papers named people he alleges were part of a \"malicious\" attempt to remove him from public life.\n\nThe parliament later removed one of the documents and republished it in another form.\n\nIt came after MSPs on the parliament's corporate body met to discuss a letter that was sent by the Crown Office.\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office said: \"In all cases where the Crown becomes aware of issues of potential contempt, these will be considered carefully and action will be taken if considered appropriate.\"\n\nThe documents were published ahead of Mr Salmond's scheduled appearance before the inquiry that is investigating the Scottish government's botched handling of harassment complaints against him.\n\nMr Salmond's submission included claims from the former first minister that there had been a \"complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and the prosecution authorities\".\n\nAnd he alleged that there was \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned.\"\n\nThe people named by Mr Salmond in his submissions include Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell, who is the chief executive of the SNP, and Ms Sturgeon's chief of staff, Liz Lloyd.\n\nMr Salmond has also accused Ms Sturgeon, who succeeded him as first minister and SNP leader, of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code.\n\nMs Sturgeon has denied the allegations and told BBC Scotland that there was \"not a shred of evidence\" to back up his claims of a conspiracy.\n\nMs Sturgeon says claims of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond are untrue\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers said the parliament's decision to withdraw and then republish a revised version of his submission was a \"significant surprise and concern\" and could have \"a material bearing on whether he is able to attend\" the evidence session on Wednesday.\n\nThey added: \"As matters stand, we have advised him that the apparent intervention from the Crown suggests that there has to be a material risk to him in speaking to his submission. He cannot be placed in legal jeopardy.\"\n\nScottish Labour interim leader Jackie Baillie called for the Lord Advocate - who is both head of the Crown Office and a member of the Scottish government - to make a statement in parliament.\n\nShe added: \"Given the significant public interest, I have asked the presiding officer to publish the letter from the Crown Office to the parliament, so that we can better understand the restrictions placed on the corporate body.\n\n\"Too much time and money has been spent on this sordid tale. The committee must be able to get on with its work, unobstructed and without information being inappropriately withheld.\"\n\nThe inquiry committee has been examining what went wrong with the government's internal investigation into sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond that were made by two female civil servants.\n\nThe government had to pay legal expenses of more than £500,000 to Mr Salmond after it admitted it had acted unlawfully during the investigation.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial last year.\n\nAlex Salmond's submissions to the Holyrood inquiry lay out his version of events.\n\nThey were paving the way for him to appear in front of the committee and give evidence in person - something Mr Salmond had said he would not do that unless his evidence was published.\n\nHe wants his side of the story put on the record and is concerned because unless the statements are published the committee cannot refer to them in their findings.\n\nThe committee has published a revised version. Now Mr Salmond is considering whether it is enough for him to give evidence tomorrow.\n\nMr Salmond also claims in his written submission that the Crown Office - Scotland's prosecution service - is \"not fit for purpose\" under its current leadership.\n\nAnd he said there had been a \"complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and indeed the prosecution authorities in any country which abides by the rule of law.\"\n\nHe added: \"The real cost to the Scottish people runs into many millions of pounds and yet no-one in this entire process has uttered the simple words which are necessary on occasions to renew and refresh democratic institutions - 'I Resign'.\n\n\"The committee now has the opportunity to address that position.\"\n\nMSPs on the inquiry committee previously voted against publishing Mr Salmond's submission, before the parliament's corporate body later concluded that \"on balance\" it would be possible for the document to be published.\n\nMs Sturgeon's husband, Peter Murrell, is among those Mr Salmond has accused of attempting to damage his reputation\n\nResponding to the publication of the documents on Monday night, a Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) spokesman said it took seriously its responsibility to uphold the law and to protect the dignity and rights of \"all those who come into contact with COPFS\".\n\nHe added that Scotland's prosecutors had acted \"independently and in the public interest at all times\" in relation to the case.\n\nAn additional written submission to the inquiry by Ms Lloyd said she rejected the conspiracy allegation in \"its entirety\" and was not \"substantiated by any evidence and is founded on a number of claims, that are false\".\n\nAn SNP spokesman said: \"This is just more assertion without a shred of credible evidence.\n\n\"Several of the women have already made clear how utterly absurd it is to suggest they were part of a conspiracy to bring him down. And yet Alex Salmond is still making these ridiculous and baseless claims and lashing out at all and sundry.\"", "Gareth Williams was found dead in his London Flat in 2010\n\nThe death of an MI6 agent whose naked body was found inside a locked holdall at his London flat is to be reviewed.\n\nMetropolitan Police investigators said new information about Gareth Williams, who died in 2010, had come to light.\n\nThe body of Mr Williams, from Anglesey, was discovered at his Pimlico flat, and a coroner later concluded he was unlawfully killed.\n\nA year later, in 2013, the Met concluded the 31-year-old had died as a result of an accident.\n\nAt the 2012 inquest into Mr Williams' death, coroner Fiona Wilcox reached her conclusion based \"on the balance of probabilities\".\n\n\"[However] most of the fundamental questions in relation to how Gareth died remain unanswered,\" she said.\n\nDNA profiling of a hair found at Gareth Williams' flat might be key to explaining how he died\n\nThe Sunday Times has now reported a scientist believes DNA profiling advances meant it may now be possible to get fresh information from a single hair found at the flat where Mr Williams was discovered dead, on August 23, 2010.\n\n\"There is an established review process for investigations whereby new information and/or forensic opportunities are considered,\" a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.\n\n\"At this stage no forensic review has been commissioned.\n\n\"However, the MPS is reviewing this new information and will assess whether there are any new investigative opportunities in this case.\"\n\nIn 2013, Mr Williams' family said they stood by the coroner's findings.\n\n\"We are naturally disappointed that it is still not possible to state with certainty how Gareth died and the fact that the circumstances of his death are still unknown adds to our grief,\" they said, in a statement at the time.\n\n\"We consider that on the basis of the facts at present known, the coroner's verdict accurately reflects the circumstances of Gareth's death.\"\n\nLater that year the Met concluded a three-year investigation into Mr Williams' death.\n\nAt that time, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said he was satisfied it was \"theoretically possible\" Mr Williams could have padlocked the bag from the inside, although \"many questions remain unanswered\" as to the circumstances of his death.\n\nBut he said there was no evidence the MI6 officer had intended to take his own life or his death was connected to his work.\n\nThere were 10 to 15 DNA traces in the flat from which it was not possible to gain full profiles, but all other DNA profiles and fingerprints had been eliminated, said DAC Hewitt.\n\nHe acknowledged the coroner, having studied \"all the evidence available at that stage\", had made \"the logical inference that it was more likely someone else was involved in Gareth's death\".\n\n\"At the end of our investigation, based on the evidence, or where we have been unable to find positive evidence, we believe that it is a more probable conclusion that there was no other person present when Gareth died,\" Mr Hewitt said.\n\n\"But the reality is that for both hypotheses, there exist evidential contradictions and gaps in our understanding.\"\n\nHamish Campbell, the detective who led the initial inquiry, told the Sunday Times he suspects Mr Williams' death was linked to his private life and not connected to his work.", "Mr Depardieu denies the accusations, his lawyer has said\n\nFrench actor Gérard Depardieu has been formally placed under investigation over accusations that he raped an actress at his home three years ago.\n\nThe woman accuses him of raping and assaulting her in Paris in August 2018.\n\nHis lawyer told French news agency AFP that Mr Depardieu \"totally dispute[d]\" the allegation, and the investigation should not have been made public.\n\nThe arts world in France has been shaken by a series of accusations of sexual abuse against leading figures.\n\nMr Depardieu, 73, is one of the country's most famous actors, known for films including Jean de Florette, Green Card and Cyrano.\n\nAn initial investigation into the rape allegations was dropped in 2019, with prosecutors citing insufficient evidence, but was reopened last summer. Prosecutors formally placed Mr Depardieu under investigation in December 2020.\n\nHe is free but under judicial supervision.\n\nThe woman's lawyer, Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon, told AFP she hoped her client's \"private sphere\" would be respected as the case unfolded.\n\nAble to combine bearish physicality with emotional delicacy on screen, he has appeared in some 170 films, getting his big break in 1973 with Les Valseuses (Going Places).\n\nHe won the best actor award for Cyrano at Cannes in 1990, and was nominated for an Oscar for the same role.\n\nGreen Card, an English-language comedy made the same year, brought him further acclaim outside the French-speaking world.\n\nOff-screen, he made headlines in recent years for attacking French tax laws, moving to Belgium in protest.\n\nIn 2013, he took Russian citizenship, with his decree of naturalisation signed personally by President Vladimir Putin.", "Hillary Clinton co-wrote State of Terror together with crime writer Louise Penny\n\nHillary Clinton has written her first novel, a thriller featuring a US government \"dangerously out of touch\" amid a series of terror attacks.\n\nState of Terror, which follows a novice secretary of state, will be released on 12 October 2021.\n\nMrs Clinton, a former presidential hopeful, secretary of state and first lady, penned the book in partnership with author Louise Penny.\n\nIt explores a world of \"high stakes diplomacy and treachery\" she said.\n\nThe novel's protagonist has \"joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage\".\n\nIt features a series of terrorist attacks which throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to \"unravel the deadly conspiracy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Clinton served as US secretary of state under the Obama administration for four years from 2009 to 2013, before losing against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race.\n\nPublishers promise behind-the-scenes drama \"informed by details only an insider could know\".\n\nMrs Clinton, the author of numerous non-fiction works, described writing with Penny as \"a dream come true\".\n\n\"Now we're joining our experiences to explore the complex world of high stakes diplomacy and treachery. All is not as it first appears.\"\n\nCanadian crime author Penny, known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, said it was \"an incredible experience to get inside the State Department, inside the White House, inside the mind of the secretary of state as high stake crises explode\".\n\nHillary Clinton worked as secretary of state for the Obama administration\n\nShe added: \"Before we started we talked about her time as secretary of state. What was her worst nightmare? State Of Terror is the answer.\"\n\nMrs Clinton is not the first in her family to turn her hand to fiction. Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, teamed up with novelist James Patterson for The President Is Missing - a thriller about a president forced to go off-grid for his own safety.\n\nState of Terror will be published jointly in the US by St Martin's Press and Simon & Schuster and in the UK and rest of the world by Pan Macmillan.\n\nIt follows a series of memoirs from Clinton, most recently 2017's What Happened, also published under Simon & Schuster, that attempted to explain why she failed to become president.\n\nThe book sold 300,000 copies in the US in a week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Security guards stand at the gates of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre in Huocheng County in Xinjiang\n\nCanada's House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to declare China's treatment of its Uighur minority population a genocide.\n\nThe motion - which passed 266 to 0 - was supported by all opposition parties and a handful of lawmakers from the governing Liberal Party.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau and most members of his cabinet abstained.\n\nThe motion makes Canada just the second country after the United States to recognise China's actions as genocide.\n\nLawmakers also voted to pass an amendment asking Canada to call on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing \"if the Chinese government continues this genocide\".\n\nChina responded late on Tuesday, saying it condemned and rejected Canada's motion, according to a Reuters report. It quoted foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin as saying that China had lodged \"stern representations\" with Canada.\n\nMr Trudeau has so far been hesitant to label China's actions against the Uighur minority in Xinjiang a genocide, calling the term \"extremely loaded\" and saying further examination was needed before a decision could be made.\n\nJust one member of his cabinet, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau, appeared in parliament for the vote. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Garneau said he had abstained \"on behalf of the government of Canada\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of the vote, opposition leader Erin O'Toole said the move was necessary to send a \"clear and unequivocal signal that we will stand up for human rights and the dignity of human rights, even if it means sacrificing some economic opportunity\".\n\nIn an open letter to Mr Trudeau earlier this month asking him to \"stand up to China\", Mr O'Toole noted the recent banning of BBC World News from China - a decision that followed a BBC report alleging systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture in China's \"re-education\" camps in Xinjiang.\n\nMonday's non-binding motion marks the latest escalation in Canada-China relations, which have soured over recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth reports from Xinjiang, where all filming and reporting by foreign media is tightly controlled (from 2018)\n\nChina's ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu had earlier told the Canadian Press that the motion was \"interfering in [China's] domestic affairs\".\n\n\"We firmly oppose that because it runs counter to facts,\" he said. \"There's nothing like genocide happening in Xinjiang at all.\"\n\nRights groups believe that China has detained up to a million Uighurs over the past few years in what the state defines as \"re-education camps\".\n\nBBC investigations suggest that Uighurs are being used as forced labour.\n\nCanada's symbolic motion does not lay out next steps, but says the Canadian government needs to follow the lead of its US neighbours.\n\nBoth the current and former US Secretaries of State, Anthony Blinken and Mike Pompeo, have declared that China's policies against Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang region constitute genocide.", "Belfast's SSE Arena will run as a vaccination centre in parallel with regional centres and GP clinics\n\nBelfast's SSE Arena will be used as a mass vaccination centre for Northern Ireland's adult population, Health Minister Robin Swann has confirmed.\n\nIt is expected the arena will open in April as a facility for those aged 60 and under who have not already been vaccinated.\n\nRegional centres and GPs' clinics will still offer vaccines.\n\nFour more people died with Covid-19 in Northern Ireland in the past day, according to the latest statistics.\n\nDepartment of Health figures, released on Monday, take the Covid-19-related death toll to 2,036.\n\nAnother 187 positive cases have also been confirmed in the past day.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, there has been one more death linked to Covid-19 and 686 new cases in the past day.\n\nA total of 156 people with Covid-19 are in hospital intensive care units.\n\nMeanwhile, a total of 488,826 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe figure comprises 458,030 first doses and 30,796 second doses.\n\nAs the vaccine roll-out continues in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health said plans were underway to allow community pharmacies to offer the jab.\n\nThe car park of the SSE Arena is already being used as a drive-through Covid-19 test centre.\n\nMr Swann said it was \"yet another significant step forward\" in the vaccination rollout.\n\n\"The programme is continuing at pace and we are likely to being vaccinating priority group seven, followed quickly by all other priority groups starting in early April,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see everyone 60 and under being offered the vaccine - a monumental next step in a population-wide vaccination programme.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Department of Health said Northern Ireland's vaccination programme had been \"making good progress and is ahead of schedule\".\n\nIt came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said all UK adults should be offered a first dose of the vaccine by the end of July, compared to a previous target in September.\n\nUnder the accelerated vaccination target announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, all UK adults aged 50 and over would be offered their first vaccination by 15 April.\n\nIn addition, all UK adults at higher risk due to underlying health conditions would also be given the option of receiving a first jab by the same date.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations each have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations and have different lockdown rules and vaccination programmes.\n\nSlightly more than 23% of NI's population have received their first dose of vaccine, which is slightly behind Wales (26.8%), Scotland (25.7%) and England (25.4%).\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann announced that all carers over the age of 18 could now book a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre.\n\n\"There are many elderly or disabled people who rely on carers to look after them and their welfare would be a risk if their carer took ill,\" he said.\n\n\"We must continue to protect the most vulnerable from the effects of Covid. That includes doing the right thing and waiting your turn.\"\n\nThe current restrictions were imposed on 26 December to manage the spread of Covid-19\n\nThe executive is due to publish a pathway to recovery for coming out of lockdown.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme the NI executive had been watching what other parts of the United Kingdom were doing.\n\nShe said she would be looking at the impact the reopening of schools in Scotland and Wales had on the reproduction (R) number.\n\nShe also said she would follow England's plan closely as \"our transmission rates are probably similar to theirs and we will want to take that into account\".\n\n\"What I must do is make sure that we don't go back into lockdown again and that of course is a balancing act,\" she said.\n\n\"We have to do it in a way that makes sure that we don't step back again.\"", "More than 70 people died following the fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017\n\nThe use of a company's cladding at Grenfell Tower was \"an accident waiting to happen\", one of its bosses has agreed at a public inquiry.\n\nClaude Schmidt said \"maybe yes\" to a barrister's description of the risk.\n\nMr Schmidt, Arconic's French president, was giving his fifth day of evidence to the Grenfell Tower public inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry heard that even after the fire, an \"error\" on a draft product certificate for the cladding suggested it could be used on tall buildings.\n\nMr Schmidt was being questioned by Richard Millett QC, the inquiry's senior counsel, about the weeks after the fire on 14 June 2017, which led to 72 deaths.\n\nArconic's cladding panels had quickly emerged as a likely cause of the swift spread of flames across Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, west London.\n\nOn 26 June, Arconic withdrew the product from the market for buildings taller than 18m, claiming that it had realised it was being \"incorrectly used\", including on Grenfell.\n\nMr Millett asked him \"isn't the reality that Grenfell, as far as the use of Reynobond PE 55 [cladding] was concerned, that it was an accident waiting to happen and only then did you withdraw it from the market\".\n\nMr Schmidt's response, as translated from French, was \"maybe yes.\"\n\nBut he said the company \"were among the only ones to withdraw the product from the market. It was because we couldn't control the supply chain.\"\n\nArconic's case is that it realised after the fire it could not be sure customers would use its flammable polyethylene version of the cladding safely.\n\nMr Millett said \"wasn't that all the more reason to stop selling\".\n\nHe said that the decision not to sell the cladding for high-rise buildings was not made because it was \"inherently dangerous\" but said it did \"have certain characteristics which, if it is used incorrectly, can increase the risk of fire spread\".\n\nThe inquiry says the cladding was a major cause of the rapid spread of flames during the disaster and this phase of its hearings are determining why it was used.\n\nThe inquiry has heard, and Mr Schmidt also agreed, that for 12 years before the Grenfell fire, Arconic failed to reveal poor fire test data for the cassette form of its cladding to an important British building industry body.\n\nThe British Board of Agrément had issued a standards certificate for the product, relied on by the industry, which suggested all versions of the cladding met British standards.\n\nThis document was sent to the contractors for Grenfell. They selected the Arconic cladding, and a design which would use it in exactly the cassette configuration which the tests suggested would allow fires to spread.\n\nEven after the fire, a redrafted BBA certificate continued to claim better fire test data than the company had.\n\nIt also emerged at the inquiry that a BBC investigation into Arconic in 2018 prompted the Board to challenge the cladding firm about what information it had been given.\n\nThe BBC had discovered the series of poor fire tests reports, commissioned by Arconic, which have been at the heart of this phase of the inquiry.\n\nThey were carried out in France, but were not published in the UK, and not passed to the British Board of Agrément.\n\nIn March 2018 the BBC shared them with the Board, which confirmed the information, crucial to the product certificate, had not been handed over.\n\nChallenged by the BBA, Mr Schmidt said he was \"happy\" to send them. Brian Moore, from the BBA, responded that it was \"concerning\" to hear that Arconic had the reports.\n\nBut despite this exchange of emails, they were never handed over, due to legal advice, Mr Schmidt said.\n\nBy this point, the inquiry, and the police had begun in-depth investigations.", "It's a route map, but it's only big enough to get to the starting point.\n\nMany businesses have been asking when they will be allowed to reopen. Now they have some rough indication, pencilled in to the calendar, but far from all of them, and with distancing still required.\n\nIn contrast with Boris Johnson's approach for England, Nicola Sturgeon's statement at Holyrood was not a route map to a late summer of socialising, concerts, sports and travel.\n\nThe plan is far more cautious. Nicola Sturgeon's idea of release, maybe by late April, is to get through the doors of a restaurant or bar.\n\nBoth leaders had said they were putting data ahead of dates, but it was the prime minister's dates that the public notice, remember and plan on. Travel bookings soared on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nScotland's first minister is warning that dates are not much better than \"a finger in the wind\", and depend on a lot of data variables to reach each point. Scotland's travel and tourism industry isn't being given much to plan on.\n\nSo by the final week of April, the mainland and most islands may be allowed to ease off, but only to level three.\n\nThat should mean pubs and restaurants can reopen, but with tight constraints.\n\nWhen does it mean you can book a holiday in another part of Scotland? We don't know, but we do know the answer will vary around Scotland. Unlike England, it's returning to regions and council areas to determine where rules can be relaxed and where they can't.\n\nWhat about a foreign holiday? There's nothing in the new plan that even indicates an end to hotel isolation for inbound travellers.\n\nCan Scotland's events sector get to work with planning festivals? Not for \"a considerable period ahead\", according to the Scottish government framework, and it promises to work with sector representatives to get to their own route map.\n\nIt's only after running through the educational, health and social priorities for easing lockdown that the Scottish government's strategy reaches business support. Funding continues, in grant schemes funded through Holyrood and councils.\n\nIncome support schemes, including furlough, are expected to get another lease of life from Rishi Sunak in his Westminster budget next week.\n\nGrants for firms forced to close in Scotland are to be run four weeks past their reopening day, and some may be further tapered after that.\n\nBusiness bosses complain, however, the grants don't go far enough and furlough comes with employer costs.\n\nTo continue burning through cash will be a severe stretch for many firms, still looking into a cloudy and uncertainty future beyond April.", "The Welsh Government spells out how it will strengthen day to day businesses post-Covid\n\nTown centres are to be the focus of the Welsh Government's \"mission\" for post-Covid economic recovery.\n\nAn extra £270m is to be made available to offer long-term financial help to businesses.\n\nHowever firms that are given government support will be expected to reduce carbon use and be fair employers.\n\nDeputy Minister Lee Waters said Wales must set out a \"green, prosperous and a fairer\" economic recovery from the pandemic.\n\nIn its Economic Resilience and Reconstruction Mission, the Welsh Government has spelt out how it aims to strengthen businesses and help those firms that innovate, to offer skilled jobs.\n\nEmployers will be encouraged to show how their organisations are reducing their impact on the environment and promise permanent work.\n\n\"If businesses want support from the government they have to sign up to give something back as well - an economic and social contract which respects fair work, respects the environment and can harness and support workers mental health, I think that's a fair deal,\" said Mr Waters.\n\nMore public sector money will be encouraged to be spent within Wales\n\nWith high streets in Wales already changing, the mission said Covid has increased the speed of that change - as seen with the closure of Debenhams and Topshop stores, among others.\n\nThe Welsh Government said different departments are working to help towns have a new future, by repurposing buildings and encouraging hubs where people can work closer to home rather than commuting.\n\nThe public sector in Wales spends around £6bn a year and the plan is for more to be spent within Wales, to help jobs and prosperity.\n\nNHS Wales, for example, spends £22m a year on food - 48% of which is being spent with businesses outside Wales.\n\nLast decade's progress to reduce unemployment has been partly reversed by efforts to combat Covid\n\nHowever, the Welsh Government claimed efforts to combat Covid and effects of Brexit have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing unemployment and economic inactivity.\n\nYoung people, women, disabled people and ethnic communities are being hit hardest with job losses and working fewer hours because of Covid, ministers say.\n\nThe mission also wants business success to be measured by the percentage of people in permanent employment, narrowing the gender pay gap, household incomes, air pollution levels, greenhouse gas emissions and the percentage of companies carrying out research and development.\n\nWelsh Conservative economy spokesman, Russell George MS, welcomed the additional support but said it is \"disappointing Labour ministers continue to drag their heels\" on extending the business rates holiday.\n\n\"We now face a huge challenge to rebuild Wales after the pandemic, and Welsh Labour's dismal track record has stifled economic growth to the extent where ministers have admitted they don't know what they've been doing on the economy,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's economy spokeswoman, Helen Mary Jones, said the Welsh Government's plan was \"a pale imitation\" of her party's £6bn Welsh Green Deal, which claims to see 60,000 jobs created.\n\n\"Twenty years of a Labour government in Wales has been characterised by a failure of delivery,\" she said.", "Dr Christine Tait Bukard, expert in infection and immunity at the University of Edinburgh, describes the Scottish government's approach as \"very sensible\".\n\nShe also says ministers must remain cautious and ensure that the downward trend of infections continues.\n\nAsked about vaccine passports, Dr Tait Bukard told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime they are not \"absolutely essential\".\n\nShe says: \"What we've seen so far is that the vaccine actually stops spread of disease which means we probably don't need a 100% vaccination of the community to actually get some level of herd immunity.\n\n\"As we know vaccine passports actually support inequality.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US plane engine fire: \"I just knew something was wrong\"\n\nOne of the fan blades in the plane engine that failed shortly after take-off in Denver showed signs of metal fatigue, investigators say.\n\nThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the blade would undergo further examinations.\n\nFlight 328 was able to make an emergency landing at Denver airport on Saturday, but parts of the engine fell on homes. No-one was hurt.\n\nBoeing has recommended grounding all its 777 aircraft with the same engines.\n\nIt said 128 jets should be suspended until inspections had been carried out. United Airlines, Egyptair, and operators in Japan and South Korea have all said they will not be flying their Boeing-777s.\n\nThe NTSB said late on Monday that two fan blades on Flight 328's Pratt & Whitney engine had broken. One of them showed signs of metal fatigue, and investigators believe it broke off and chipped the second blade.\n\nNTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the blades would be flown to a Pratt & Whitney laboratory for further examination by NTSB safety inspectors.\n\n\"Our mission is to understand what happened and why it happened so that we can keep this from happening again,\" he said.\n\nUnited Flight 328 was carrying 231 passengers bound for Honolulu when it suffered a failure in its right-hand engine. Passengers on board the Denver flight described a \"large explosion\" shortly after take-off and the plane began shaking violently and losing altitude.\n\nOne fan blade broke off and is believed to have chipped the other\n\nFortunately the plane was able to return safely to Denver airport but debris from the engine was found scattered over a residential area in nearby Broomfield town. Fragments were found on a football field and what appeared to be the front of an engine-casing landed in the front garden of a home.\n\nOn the same day as the Denver incident, an engine failure on a 30-year-old Boeing 747 freighter saw debris fall on a town in the Netherlands. Parts of what appeared to be turbine blades landed on the town of Meerssen, with one blade found embedded in a car roof, according to Reuters. Two people on the ground, one a child, were slightly injured.\n\nThe aircraft, which had left Maastricht bound for New York, landed safely in Liege in neighbouring Belgium.\n\nAircraft engine failures are rare. Uncontained failures, where debris can erupt from the engine in any direction are mercifully very rare indeed. But an uncontained failure is also much more dangerous.\n\nA modern twin-engine airliner is designed to be able to fly safely for hours using a single engine.\n\nThe shrapnel from an uncontained failure, however, can cause serious damage to the rest of the plane, and if it passes through the cabin, it can be lethal. Experts say the failure in the Denver incident appears to have been uncontained, but the damage to the aircraft itself was thankfully minor.\n\nAlso worrying is that the incident itself appears to have a number of similarities with another failure that occurred on a United Airlines flight in 2018.\n\nIf the cause in this case is found to be the same - and remember, it may not be - that would raise questions about why the response to that incident from the manufacturer and regulators was unable to prevent a repeat.\n\nSaturday's engine failures are another blow for Boeing after its 737 Max aircraft was grounded for 18 months following two aviation accidents that left 346 people dead.\n\nDebris from the engine was found scattered in a residential area\n\nLast December a Japan Airlines 777 flight was forced to return to Naha Airport due to a malfunction in the left engine - the plane is the same age as the 26-year-old United Airlines plane from Saturday's incident.\n\nIn 2018, the right engine of a United Airlines plane broke shortly before it landed in Honolulu. Following an investigation, the NTSB said the incident was caused by a full-length fan blade fracture.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the full statement by Boris Johnson on England's roadmap out of the Covid-19 lockdown\n\nA new four-step plan to ease England's lockdown could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nShops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April in England under plans set out by the PM.\n\nFrom 17 May, two households might be allowed to mix in homes, while the rule of six could apply in places like pubs.\n\nIt requires four tests on vaccines, infection rates and new coronavirus variants to be met at each stage.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs the plan aimed to be \"cautious but irreversible\" and at every stage decisions would be led by \"data not dates\".\n\nThere was \"no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain nor indeed a zero-Covid world\", he said.\n\nMr Johnson later told a Downing Street news conference the coming spring and summer would be \"seasons of hope, looking and feeling incomparably better for us all\".\n\nHe described the plan as a \"one-way road to freedom\" but said he could not guarantee it would be irreversible \"but the intention is that it should be\".\n\nIt comes as the first data on the UK's coronavirus vaccine rollout suggested it was having a \"spectacular\" impact on stopping serious illness.\n\nAs part of the first step of the plan for easing lockdown in England:\n\nSecondary school pupils can access tests and will be required to wear face coverings in classrooms and shared spaces like corridors.\n\nThere will be a gap of at least five weeks between each of the plan's subsequent steps to allow for the impact of changes on infection rates and hospital admissions to be assessed.\n\nThe second step from 12 April would see major parts of the economy permitted to reopen:\n\nBut wider social contact rules will continue to apply in all settings - meaning no indoor mixing between different households will be allowed.\n\nMr Johnson confirmed the end of hospitality curfews - and requirements to eat a substantial meal alongside alcohol.\n\nHe said a review of international leisure travel restrictions would be announced by 12 April at the earliest.\n\nFunerals continue with up to 30 people, and weddings with up to 15 guests.\n\nThe third step will come from 17 May - if the data allows - and will see the \"rule of six\" abolished for outdoor gatherings, replaced with a limit of 30 people:\n\nUp to 30 people will be able to attend weddings, receptions, funerals and wakes.\n\nMr Johnson said this step would also \"consider the potential role of Covid status certification\" - which could refer to so-called \"vaccine passports\" - in helping indoor venues to reopen safely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty explains the length of gaps between each stage of reopening\n\nBefore the fourth step, ministers will carry out a review into social distancing and other \"long-term measures\" designed to reduce transmission, including the \"one metre plus\" rule and the wearing of face coverings.\n\nThey will also consider whether to lift the \"work from home\" guidance, which the government says people should continue to follow until the review has been completed.\n\nThe fourth step from 21 June will potentially see all legal limits on social contact removed, with the final closed sectors of the economy reopened - such as nightclubs.\n\nThe government hopes that - from this date - restrictions on weddings and funerals will also be abolished.\n\nMusic and events leaders called for more financial support for the sector, with the boss of one live music trade body saying his industry is \"at the back of the queue to re-open\" once restrictions are lifted.\n\nMPs will vote on the roadmap in late March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the plan but said certainty was needed over the future of the government furlough scheme for both businesses and workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance says home-working and mask-wearing measures may continue until next winter\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, said he thought the roadmap struck the \"right balance\" - but warned reopening schools risks increasing the number of cases reported each day.\n\nSpeaking later at the Downing Street briefing, UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it was \"very important\" to leave a gap of five weeks between the changes in the roadmap to avoid \"flying blind\".\n\nSir Patrick also said \"baseline\" measures - such as face coverings in certain situations, hand washing, and self-isolation - may be necessary next winter.\n\nThe vaccines are working well and infection levels have fallen to a fifth of what they were since the start of the year.\n\nSo why, many may ask, is there such caution?\n\nThe answer lies in the mountain of data published by the government as it unveiled its roadmap.\n\nAmong the documents was modelling done by Imperial College London.\n\nIt showed a rapid easing of restrictions could lead to surge in deaths over the summer and a total of 80,000 deaths by the middle of 2022.\n\nThere is much uncertainty about scenarios like this - for one thing it did not take into account any seasonal impact that the warmer weather could bring by reducing spread of the virus.\n\nThe gradual lifting could, by comparison, reduce that to around 30,000. That would bring it in line with the sort of deaths we could see during a bad flu winter.\n\nUK chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty says that should be the context in which we judge Covid now.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions but have largely moved in the same direction, though at different speeds, during the pandemic.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland would return to a tiered system of restrictions when lockdown measures are eased.\n\nIt means different parts of the country could be under different rules. Ms Sturgeon added that she would set out the likely phases for a gradual lifting of restrictions on Tuesday.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he hopes the \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster wants its executive to discuss the reopening date for schools following Mr Johnson's announcement in England.\n\nThe prime minister addressed the 1922 backbench committee of Conservative MPs tonight.\n\nHe faced criticism of what some saw as slow progress in removing restrictions.\n\nOne participant suggested he was talking \"gibberish\" when he compared his routemap to a motorway journey.\n\nAnother said the PM had been \"rattled\".\n\nWhat annoyed some MPs was an apparent lack of flexibility in the plan with restrictions not being lifted \"before\" certain dates.\n\nHe was urged to keep open the possibility of bringing these dates forward if data allowed but there was \"no backtracking\" on the five-week wait between steps.\n\nThe prime minister also said that \"a debate had to be had\" on domestic vaccine passport certificates.\n\nIt came as a further 10,641 coronavirus cases were reported on Monday, alongside another 178 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMore than 17.7 million people across the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, according to latest government figures.", "First Minister Arlene Foster wants the Stormont executive to \"revisit\" its discussion about the reopening date for schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe was speaking after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his lockdown exit plan, with 8 March set for the return all schoolchildren in England.\n\nIn NI, only children in preschool. nursery and primaries one to three will return to school on that date.\n\nSome principals have questioned Mrs Foster's call to reconsider that date.\n\nMrs Foster said Education Minister Peter Weir's preference was for all children to return to back at school on 8 March.\n\n\"Unfortunately our health advisors didn't think that that was the right way forward,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand that we have to take a safe and sustainable way forward but I hope that we can now revisit that again because I know full well from my own experience the kitchen table is no substitute for a classroom.\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader added: \"I'm not a teacher - teachers are professionally trained and therefore it is vital that we get our young people back into schools as soon as possible.\"\n\nArlene Foster says the progress made by the vaccination programme is giving a sense of optimism\n\nHowever Sinn Féin's education spokesperson said \"nothing has changed since last Thursday\".\n\n\"The [chief medical officer] told us last week that the reopening of schools completely would lead to a rise in the R number by between 0.3 and 0.7,\" Pat Sheehan told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\"If the R rate at the minute is sitting around 0.75, even if we only hit that lowest number, it brings us back above one and we're back in the exact same situation again.\"It's disappointing that Arlene wants to go and make policy on the hoof in interviews on the TV last night.\"You would think by now that the DUP would have learned not to hitch their wagon to Boris.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, speaking before the prime minister's announcement on Monday, said Northern Ireland's health officials had advised a slow and steady approach to schools.\n\nShe believed the executive had taken a \"very responsible approach\" in relation to a phased return to school.\n\nBut she added \"we're not out of the woods yet\" and insisted it was important to be honest with the public that it will be a \"slow and steady approach\" to lifting lockdown.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Maeve O'Lynn, whose son is a primary six pupil, said the uncertainty was \"creating a lot of anxiety and a lot of stress\".\n\nSome school principals are questioning Arlene Foster's call to reconsider the return-to-school date\n\n\"We were only being told last week that following the scientific advice... it was only safe to have the youngest children in,\" she said.\n\n\"Then suddenly the children in England are going back in and our first minister is saying to us late yesterday: 'Actually, we need to look at this again.'\n\n\"It leaves you feeling very unsure, very uncertain and not sure if you can trust what is being said.\"\n\nDiane Dawson, the principal of Braniel Primary School in Belfast, said children had to get back to school but the decision about how soon to allow that should be based on evidence from Northern Ireland's health officials.\n\n\"It can't be done because Boris Johnson makes an announcement five days after our executive have made a decision based on our science,\" she said.\n\n\"It is not good enough to make a decision... and not consult with us to respond fully and communicate properly to our parents, and now to say it's going to be revisited - on the basis of what?\n\n\"Someone needs to start talking to school leaders.\"\n\nWhiteabbey Primary School principal Keith Wysner said there needed to be \"sensible caution and we need to progress in a sustainable way\".\n\nMaire Thompson, the principal of Hazelwood Integrated College in Belfast, said that having pupils return to classrooms in phases was a \"much better approach to this\".\n\nStormont ministers are due to review the existing lockdown measures next Monday and discuss the next steps in their response to the pandemic.\n\nThe plan for schools in Northern Ireland is for students doing courses for GCSEs, AS, A-levels (in years 12 to 14) and other vocational qualifications like BTec will return to face-to-face teaching from 22 March.\n\nAll school pupils in England are to return to the classroom on 8 March\n\nBut pupils in years four to seven in primary school and years eight to 11 in post-primary schools will not be back in classrooms until after the Easter break at the earliest.\n\nMrs Foster said Health Minister Robin Swann confirmed the Covid-19 vaccination programme was making good progress and offered cause for hope.\n\n\"He confirmed to me that over 32% of our adult population have now been vaccinated - nearly 500,000 vaccines have been deployed here in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\n\"I very much hope that we can give optimism next Monday.\n\n\"The brighter days are coming - people do feel a sense of optimism not least because of our vaccination programme.\"", "P1 pupils Grace Lee (left) and classmate Grace McKeeman, both aged five, arrive for their first day back at Inverkip Primary School\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are returning to the classroom for the first time since the Christmas break.\n\nIt is stage one in a phased reopening of schools which have been closed to all but a minority of pupils since the beginning of January.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney insisted \"detailed clinical analysis\" assured him it is safe.\n\nBut concerns have been raised about the measures in place to reduce risk of transmission.\n\nMr Swinney told BBC's Good Morning Scotland that case prevalence data would be closely monitored to determine the impact of the phase one return.\n\nBut he said Scotland would not be following England, where all pupils are due to return to school on 8 March.\n\nAsked if it would be \"dangerous\" to send everyone back on that date, Mr Swinney said: \"I wouldn't have clinical authorisation to do that.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister added: \"We will move as quickly as we possibly can do but we have to do it within the scientific and clinical advice that is available to us.\"\n\nMr Swinney also urged parents to act responsibly during the first phase of lockdown easing.\n\nHe added: \"The biggest threat to the opening of schools is not outbreaks in schools. It is community transmission.\"\n\nEpidemiologist Dr Deepti Gurdasani told BBC Scotland at the weekend there was some evidence from England that younger children could bring infections back into homes.\n\nBut Prof Devi Sridhar, chairwoman of global public health at Edinburgh University, said the return of schools was about balancing the \"risks and benefits\".\n\nShe told BBC Good Morning Scotland: \"There will likely be cases emerging in schools over the next few weeks but the vast majority of schools should be fine, and that we have to keep perspective on.\"\n\nShe said the majority of scientific evidence was that there is an \"age gradient\" in infections - with very few outbreaks in nurseries but with teenagers and university students much more prone to infection.\n\nProf Sridhar added: \"I think what we have to do is work back up through that gradient. We are doing that starting with primaries and early years - the approach Denmark has also taken.\"\n\nOn Sunday the deputy first minister pointed to documents prepared by a government expert advisory group which states that younger children are less likely to catch or pass on the virus than older children and adults.\n\nAre you a parent or a teacher? How do you feel about children returning to school? 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\nPlans to reopen schools have been welcomed by opposition parties but the Scottish Conservatives have urged the government to publish plans for helping pupils catch-up with schooling they have missed.\n\nAs well as the youngest children returning to school, a small number of senior secondary pupils will be allowed into school buildings on a part-time basis to complete work for national qualifications.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home and it is unlikely they will return to the classroom before 15 March at the earliest.\n\nIn primary schools measures to minimise the spread of the virus include regular hand-washing, open windows, and 2m physical distancing between adults, and between adults and children.\n\nStaff will also be offered regular lateral flow tests.\n\nResources to support learners, teachers and parents during lockdown.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, the national clinical director, has written to parents asking them to play their part in the safe return.\n\nAppealing to parents not to relax the rules elsewhere, he reminded them that indoor play dates are not allowed - though children can play together outside.\n\nAnd he said parents should continue to work from home if they are able to do so.\n\nMr Swinney's safety assurance came after an epidemiology expert raised concerns about the knock-on effects of sending children back to school.\n\nDr Deepti Gurdasani, of Queen Mary University of London, said data from England showed primary school children were two times more likely to be the first Covid case in a household, and once infected were two times more likely to infect their contacts.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, she said children aged six and above should wear masks in schools and more attention should be paid to ventilation.\n\nThe EIS teaching union has also raised concerns about school safety and have said a blended learning model - with about half of pupils in classes at any one time - would be more appropriate.", "Scientists say climate change had an impact on bush fires in Australia in recent years\n\n\"Climate change is a threat to our security,\" Boris Johnson told world leaders as he chaired a United Nations Security Council session.\n\nIt is the first time a British PM has chaired such a meeting since 1992.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the Security Council this month and hosts the COP26 climate summit in November.\n\nThe summit in Glasgow will be attended by dozens of world leaders and is likely to be the most significant round of talks since the global Paris Agreement to tackle climate change was secured in 2015.\n\nAt the council meeting, Mr Johnson said some would argue \"all this green stuff from a bunch of tree-hugging tofu-munchers\" is not a suitable subject for a UN meeting.\n\n\"I couldn't disagree more profoundly,\" he said adding that the council need to act to protect \"peace, security and stability\" around the world.\n\n\"Whether you like it or not it is a matter of when, not if, your country and your people will have to deal with the security impact of climate change,\" he said.\n\nHe also highlighted measures the UK was taking to reduce emissions and stressed the importance of helping vulnerable countries \"adapt and build resilience\".\n\nA Greenpeace spokesperson accused the PM of \"weapons-grade hypocrisy\" for demanding action while \"planning new coal mines at home and stripping funds for carbon-cutting energy efficiency measures\".\n\n\"Until the government starts taking the prime minister's advice, his climate leadership will lack any credibility,\" they said.\n\nThis is the latest in a series of prime ministerial rallying calls on climate change.\n\nThe year is providing a remarkable stage for Boris Johnson's ambition on the topic - from the Security Council to the chairmanship of G7 in June, culminating in the vital Glasgow climate summit in November.\n\nBut as he bestrides the global stage, the PM is under fire for his performance at home.\n\nHis crucial project to cut emissions from home heating - the Green Homes Grant - is in disarray, with the chancellor pulling out funds.\n\nHis government is building the high-speed rail HS2, which is likely to be adding to carbon emissions until the back half of the century. And he's promoting a £27bn road-building programme.\n\nWhat's more, the PM is risking his international reputation by permitting a new coal mine in Cumbria while urging other nations to relinquish coal.\n\nEnvironmentalists say it's time for him to match words with deeds.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the meeting, Sir David said climate change posed \"threats to security of a new and unprecedented kind\".\n\nHe said changes in patterns of weather would \"turn forests into deserts and drown great cities\".\n\nAnd he warned that the world is \"perilously close to tipping points that once past will send global temperatures spiralling catastrophically higher\".\n\n\"If we continue on this path we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security - food production, access to water, ambient temperatures and ocean food chains,\" he said.\n\nHowever he also said the COP26 conference, new technologies and public support for change offered \"grounds for hope\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change could destroy \"entire cities\" in a matter of decades, says Sir David Attenborough\n\nMs Elsaim - who chairs the UN's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change - told the meeting that her country of Sudan was top of the list \"when it comes to climate instability\".\n\nShe said drought and food insecurity would lead to large-scale migration making \"conflict inevitable\".\n\nThe UN Security Council is made up of five permanent members - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms.", "Christopher Pekny's brother Peter called it the \"freakiest of freak accidents\"\n\nA father-to-be from New York state has died after a device he was building for his child's gender-reveal party exploded, according to police.\n\nChristopher Pekny, 28, was assembling the device in the town of Liberty when it exploded just before noon on Sunday.\n\nPolice said the blast killed Mr Pekny and injured his brother Michael Pekny, 27, who was taken to hospital.\n\nGender-reveal parties are celebrations announcing whether expecting parents are going to have a girl or a boy.\n\nPolice have not specified what device caused Sunday's explosion. New York's state police department and its bomb disposal unit are investigating the incident.\n\nA spokesman for state police told the New York Times the device consisted of some kind of pipe, without giving further details.\n\nSpeaking to the newspaper, Mr Pekny's oldest brother, Peter Pekny Jr, described what happened as \"the freakiest of freak accidents that I could ever imagine\". He did not know what had set off the explosion.\n\nThe death is the latest in a string of catastrophes to be linked to gender-reveal parties in recent years.\n\nThey can include prediction games, with the \"big reveal\" being made with fireworks and coloured smoke grenades.\n\nBut several large-scale parties have gone wrong, even resulting in several deaths.\n\nA man from Michigan was killed earlier this month after he was struck by shrapnel from \"a small cannon type device\" fired during a baby shower, police said.\n\nTwo other gender-reveal parties were blamed for sparking wildfires in California in September 2020, and Arizona in April 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe El Dorado fire in California burned more than 19,000 acres, destroyed houses, and forced hundreds to flee their homes.", "Alex Salmond walked free from court in March 2020 having been acquitted of sexual assault charges\n\nScotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has made accusations of a \"malicious and concerted\" attempt to remove him from public life.\n\nThe claim appears in papers published ahead of his appearance at a Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish government's mishandling of complaints against him.\n\nMr Salmond names people he alleges to have been part of moves to damage his reputation.\n\nNicola Sturgeon insisted any accusation of a conspiracy was \"not true\".\n\nShe told the BBC that there was \"not a shred of evidence\" that Mr Salmond could show to prove his claims.\n\nOn Monday evening the Scottish Parliament's committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints made Mr Salmond's submission public.\n\nIn it he said: \"The inescapable conclusion is of a malicious and concerted attempt to damage my reputation and remove me from public life in Scotland.\n\n\"It is an attempt which would, in fact, have succeeded but for the protection of the court and jury system and in particular the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary.\n\n\"However, underlying all of this and perhaps the most serious issue of all is the complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and indeed the prosecution authorities in any country which abides by the rule of law.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon is expected to give evidence to MSPs next week\n\nMr Salmond is due to face questions from members of the Holyrood committee when he goes before them on Wednesday.\n\nThe inquiry was established after the government conceded an internal investigation of two harassment complaints against the former first minister had been \"unlawful\".\n\nHe was awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses following the judicial review case, and was subsequently acquitted of charges of sexual assault in a separate High Court trial.\n\nMr Salmond names people he believes helped to damage his reputation - including Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell and her chief of staff, Liz Lloyd. He also described the Crown Office as \"not fit for purpose\" under its current leadership.\n\nIn the published document he asserts: \"I leave to others the question of what is, or is not, a conspiracy but am very clear in my position that the evidence supports a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned.\n\n\"That includes, for the avoidance of doubt, Peter Murrell (chief executive), Ian McCann (compliance officer) and Sue Ruddick (chief operating officer) of the SNP together with Liz Lloyd, the First Minister's Chief of Staff.\n\n\"There are others who, for legal reasons, I am not allowed to name.\"\n\nHe added: \"The real cost to the Scottish people runs into many millions of pounds and yet no-one in this entire process has uttered the simple words which are necessary on occasions to renew and refresh democratic institutions - 'I Resign'.\n\n\"The committee now has the opportunity to address that position.\"\n\nMr Salmond believes his successor has misled parliament and breached the ministerial code. The code states ministers who knowingly mislead parliament would be expected to resign.\n\nMSPs previously decided against publishing the submission the former first minister made to a separate inquiry, which is considering whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) then concluded \"on balance\" it would be \"possible\" for the document to be published.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"What we have not seen is a shred of evidence to back these wild claims up.\n\n\"Now, in front of the parliament, the burden of proof is on Alex Salmond. It is time for insinuation and assertion to be replaced with actual evidence.\"\n\nA Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) spokesman said it took seriously its responsibility to uphold the law and to protect the dignity and rights of \"all those who come into contact with COPFS\".\n\nHe added that Scotland's prosecutors had acted \"independently and in the public interest at all times\" in relation to the case.\n\nAn additional written submission by Ms Lloyd said she rejected the conspiracy allegation in \"its entirety\" and was not \"substantiated by any evidence and is founded on a number of claims, that are false\".\n\nAn SNP spokesman said: \"This is just more assertion without a shred of credible evidence.\n\n\"Several of the women have already made clear how utterly absurd it is to suggest they were part of a conspiracy to bring him down. And yet Alex Salmond is still making these ridiculous and baseless claims and lashing out at all and sundry.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Healthy rivers are essential for fish to thrive\n\nA report has warned of a \"catastrophic\" decline in freshwater fish, with nearly a third threatened by extinction.\n\nConservation groups said 80 species were known to have gone extinct, 16 in the last year alone.\n\nMillions of people rely on freshwater fish for food and as a source of income through angling and the pet trade.\n\nBut numbers have plummeted due to pressures including pollution, unsustainable fishing, and the damming and draining of rivers and wetlands.\n\nThe report said populations of migratory fish have fallen by three-quarters in the last 50 years.\n\nOver the same time period, populations of larger species, known as \"megafish\", have crashed by 94%.\n\nThe report, The World's Forgotten Fishes, is by 16 conservation groups, including WWF, the London Zoological Society (ZSL), Global Wildlife Conservation and The Nature Conservancy.\n\nDead fish in the water near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\n\nIn UK waters, the sturgeon and the burbot have vanished, salmon are disappearing and the European eel remains critically endangered.\n\nAccording to the WWF, much of the decline is driven by the poor state of rivers, mostly as a result of pollution, dams and sewage.\n\nIt has called on the government to restore freshwater habitats to good health through proper enforcement of existing laws, strengthening protections in the Environment Bill and championing a strong set of global targets for the recovery of nature.\n\nDave Tickner, from WWF, said freshwater habitats are some of the most vibrant on earth, but - as this report shows - they are in catastrophic decline around the world.\n\n\"Nature is in freefall and the UK is no exception: wildlife struggles to survive, let alone thrive, in our polluted waters,\" said the organisation's chief adviser on freshwater.\n\n\"If we are to take this government's environmental promises seriously, it must get its act together, clean up our rivers and restore our freshwater habitats to good health. \"\n\nLarge fish such as sturgeon are dying out faster\n\nCarmen Revenga of The Nature Conservancy said freshwater fish are a diverse and unique group of species that are not only essential for the healthy functioning of our rivers, lakes and wetlands, but millions of people, particularly the poor, also depend on them for their food and income.\n\n\"It's now more urgent than ever that we find the collective political will and effective collaboration with private sector, governments, NGOs and communities, to implement nature-based solutions that protect freshwater species, while also ensuring human needs are met,\" she said.\n\nCommenting, Dr Jeremy Biggs, of the Freshwater Habitats Trust, said to protect freshwater biodiversity, we need to consider both large and small waters, and to protect all our freshwaters: ponds, lakes, streams and rivers.", "DJ Jo Whiley has said her sister Frances \"would like to say a huge thank you\" to everybody who has helped her after she contracted coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC Radio 2 presenter's sister, who has a learning disability and diabetes, was taken to hospital after an outbreak at her Northamptonshire care home.\n\nWhiley said her family had gone from discussing palliative care last week to \"drinking cups of tea\" with her sister.\n\n\"It doesn't end here though,\" the broadcaster posted on Twitter.\n\nShe added: \"Covid has brought with it further complications.\n\n\"We're now dealing with worrying diabetes and high blood pressure issues, and my parents are exhausted beyond belief.\n\n\"It's so hard observing from behind a visor and mask, helpless doesn't cover it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Whiley on her disabled sister's Covid: \"It's been the worst week of our lives\"\n\nWhiley also posted a video of Frances, 53, giving a thumbs-up and a round of applause.\n\nShe said her sister \"would like to say a huge thank you to everybody who has helped her, especially the amazing doctors and nurses of the NHS, and her many MANY well-wishers.\"\n\nThe DJ said it was \"hard to believe\" that they had been discussing palliative care on Friday night but were now able to sit on her sister's \"favourite bench drinking cups of tea\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Whiley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe renewed her call for people with learning disabilities to be prioritised in the vaccine rollout.\n\n\"Not everyone has been as lucky as us,\" she said.\n\n\"So many have died or are suffering from long Covid because simply they were not protected.\n\n\"We need to show them that they are not forgotten, and we care.\"\n\nWhiley previously questioned why she was offered the vaccine before her sister, who has the rare genetic syndrome Cri du Chat.\n\nPeople with diabetes and those with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability are in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and the elderly.\n\nThe Department of Health previously said the NHS was \"working hard to vaccinate those most at risk, as quickly as possible\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A yellow warning for heavy rain is in place until 18:00 Wednesday\n\nTwo flood warnings were in place and number of flood alerts following heavy rain in parts of Wales.\n\nIt came after areas of north Wales were hit by power cuts, including one triggered by high winds snapping an electricity pole.\n\nThere had been warnings of heavy rain and strong winds gusting up to 70mph (113km/h).\n\nPart of Wrexham had been affected by a power cut on Wednesday, SP Energy Network said.\n\nPower cuts had previously affected \"a large number of properties in a widespread area\" in the Caernarfon postcode area on Tuesday.\n\nThe flood warnings were for the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Pwllheli, Gwynedd, and the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPolice reported the A499 between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog was impassable due to flood water and advised drivers to avoid the area.\n\nA Met Office yellow heavy rain warning covering a large area of north Wales was due to end at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn earlier wind warning had covered the counties of Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Anglesey.\n\nBBC Wales weather presenter Derek Brockway said the strongest winds were in Capel Curig, Conwy (76mph/ 122km/h), Aberdaron, Gwynedd (63mph/ 101km/h) and RAF Valley, Anglesey (62mph/ 99.7km/h).\n\nHouses in the Dinorwic and Llanberis areas, along with those in Caernarfon, Gwynedd postcode areas, had been left without power on Tuesday, SP Energy Networks said.\n\nThere was also an emergency shutdown for safety in Conwy because of a snapped electricity pole.\n\nA third area affected was Denbigh, Denbighshire, in Prion and Peniel.\n\nThe Met Office had previously warned of \"strong south to south-westerly winds\" between 50 and 60mph at times, with potential for even stronger gusts.\n\nThe warning for \"heavy and persistent\" rain covered Conwy, Anglesey, Gwynedd and Powys, with \"flooding of a few homes and businesses likely\", as well as some travel disruption.", "The jovial Dr Julius Hibbert first appeared in 1990\n\nThe Simpsons actor Harry Shearer is to be replaced as the voice of Dr Hibbert, after the show said white cast members would stop portraying characters from other ethnic backgrounds.\n\nKevin Michael Richardson, known for his voice work on Family Guy and American Dad!, will take over in an episode that will air in the US this weekend.\n\nShearer had voiced the jolly medic, among other characters, since 1990.\n\nHe will continue to play Mr Burns, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner.\n\nKevin Michael Richardson (left) will take over from Harry Shearer\n\nThe decision comes eight months after the show said white actors would no longer provide the voices of non-white characters, following particular criticism of Hank Azaria's voiceover of Apu.\n\nAzaria had already said he was stepping down from playing the Indian-American shopkeeper. His replacement has not yet been revealed.\n\nLast September, Azaria was also replaced as the voice of Homer Simpson's black workmate Carl Carlson. Actor Alex Désert took over that role.\n\nLast year, white actors also stopped voicing non-white characters in other animated US shows including Family Guy, Central Park and Big Mouth.", "Oatly, the plant-based milk company started in Sweden, is planning a stock exchange listing in the United States.\n\nThe move comes as the firm has been pushing to expand, amid the booming popularity of alternative milks.\n\nLast year, it raised $200m (£160m), drawing investment from celebrities including Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman.\n\nThe firm, which is sold in more than 20 countries, did not say how much money it hoped to raise in the listing.\n\nBut over the last 12 months, investors have shown strong appetite for shares of companies making their publicly-traded debuts. Market valuations for firms such as Airbnb, dating app Bumble and food delivery platform Doordash have soared.\n\nOatly, an early oat milk pioneer, is said to be seeking a value of as much as $10bn, compared to the $2bn value suggested by July's investment round.\n\nFounded in the 1990s, previous investors include the state-owned China Resources and Verlinvest, a Belgium-based investment firm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If you're going to be ethical, you need to back it up\"\n\nWhen it launched in the US in 2016, the product was so popular it suffered shortages. It now boasts partnerships with retail giants such as Starbucks and has expanded its products from milk to ice cream and yogurt and is eyeing growth in China.\n\nResearchers have predicted that the market for dairy alternatives could almost double over the next five years, as increased dairy allergies and concerns about dairy's environmental impact push shoppers to look for plant-based options.\n\nIn the US, almond milk is the top seller, but oat passed soy last year to claim the second most popular spot.\n\nOatly, which reported more than $200m in sales in 2019, has cast itself as a champion of plant-based milks, which it says are better for the planet.\n\nBut the firm has been challenged by the traditional dairy industry and faces competition as companies such as PepsiCo's Quaker Oats and dairy giant HP Hood launch their own brands. New milk alternatives, made from products like peas, have also gained in popularity among consumers.", "The employment rate in Scotland also fell in the three months to December\n\nScotland's unemployment rate has fallen to 4.5% over the last quarter, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe UK rate rose in the three months to December and is now at 5.1%, its highest level for nearly five years.\n\nThe employment rate among those aged 16 to 64 in Scotland fell slightly over the same period to 73.7%.\n\nThe Scottish government said the figures did not reflect the full impact of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSeparate HMRC early estimates for January 2021, also published on Tuesday, show there were 2,331,000 payrolled employees in Scotland - an increase of 8,000 from December 2020.\n\nHowever, the figure is 68,000 lower than a year ago.\n\nIt's hard to get an accurate count for unemployment when more than four million people across the UK are thought to be on furlough.\n\nMany more are also not seeking work, but they're under-employed - not working the hours they normally would.\n\nBut this latest data from the Office for National Statistics give some sense of the jobs market last year: Scottish unemployment up 26,000 and those in work down 43,000.\n\nBy year's end, the jobless rate was 4.5%: the UK, 5.1%.\n\nThe number claiming benefit because of no or low pay is 83% - up on January last year, and a higher rate than the UK.\n\nUnemployment is set to rise when furlough is withdrawn, although with business restrictions continuing well into summer, it is expected the Westminster budget next week will see furlough extended.\n\nReacting to the figures, Scotland's Business Minister Jamie Hepburn said they did not reflect the full impact of coronavirus or the outlook for employment.\n\nHe said: \"The Job Retention Scheme continues to play an important role in supporting employers and employees and, combined with the huge economic uncertainty caused by Brexit, this remains an extremely uncertain time for the economy and jobs.\n\n\"We have repeatedly called on the UK government to extend the Job Retention Scheme for as long as required - which will be beyond the current end date of April.\n\n\"The Scottish government continues to support employers, allocating over £3bn to help businesses since the start of this pandemic.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"I know how incredibly tough the past year has been for everyone, and every job lost is a personal tragedy.\n\n\"That's why throughout the crisis, my focus has been on doing everything we can to protect jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"At the Budget next week, I will set out the next stage of our Plan for Jobs, and the support we'll provide through the remainder of the pandemic and our recovery.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said the figures reflected continuing challenges as a result of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe added: \"The UK government has taken quick and decisive action to support jobs and businesses across all parts of the UK.\n\nOur £280 billion support package which includes furlough, business loans and self employed schemes have so far protected nearly one million jobs and 100,000 businesses in Scotland.\"\n\nStuart McIntyre, head of research at the Fraser of Allander economic institute, said: \"With the prime minister announcing that the UK will be eased gradually out of lockdown, it seems inevitable that Rishi Sunak will need to keep his economic support measures - including furlough - in place for longer still.\n\n\"Lifting these support measures too early runs the risk of precipitating a sharp rise in unemployment.\n\n\"Given that we have come so far with this public health crisis, an extra few months of support makes clear economic sense.\"", "One of three men accused of assassinating investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty.\n\nVincent Muscat admitted involvement on Tuesday in the car bombing that killed the reporter.\n\nMany suspect it was ordered by top Malta establishment figures.\n\nCalled a \"one-woman Wikileaks\", Caruana Galizia uncovered networks of corruption in the country and abroad.\n\nMuscat changed his plea on Tuesday in a dramatic turn of events and agreed to provide information about the murder. He must also pay €42,000 ($51,000; £36,300) in court expenses.\n\nThe two other defendants, brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio, who are also in their 50s, were also in the courtroom on Tuesday but did not speak.\n\nThe three men were charged with planning the assassination and triggering the bomb that killed Caruana Galizia near her home in October 2017. They were arrested in December the same year. The Degiorgio brothers have stuck to not guilty pleas.\n\nAccording to the Times of Malta newspaper, Muscat reached a plea bargain with prosecutors in the case, offering up information about the killing and renouncing his right to appeal.\n\nA fourth person, Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, has also been charged with complicity over the killing - an allegation he denies.\n\nMr Fenech, who was arrested as he tried to sail away from Malta on a yacht in November 2019, is awaiting trial.\n\nCaruana Galizia, who was 53 when she died, spent 30 years as a journalist and relentlessly accused Maltese politicians and other officials of corruption in her popular Running Commentary blog.\n\nShe was a harsh critic of government and effectively triggered an early election in 2017 by publishing allegations linking the then-prime minister to the Panama Papers scandal.\n\nJoseph Muscat, who is not related to the suspect, denied the corruption allegations. He later resigned as prime minister in December 2019 after an investigation implicated his close associates in the murder.\n\nAfter her assassination, her son Paul hit out at what he called the country's \"mafia state\", saying his mother had been killed \"because she stood between the rule of law and those who sought to violate it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Galizia's son, Paul, in 2018 called for a public inquiry over his mother's death\n\nFollowing the sentencing on Tuesday, the journalist's family said in a statement they hoped \"this development will begin the road for total justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia\".\n\nHer killing \"destroyed her right to life and removed her right to enjoy her family and grandchildren who were born after her murder\", it added.", "The band won a Grammy for album of the year in 2014\n\nDaft Punk, who were responsible for some of the most influential dance tracks of all time, have announced their retirement after nearly 30 years.\n\nThe duo broke the news in a typically-enigmatic video, titled Epilogue.\n\nIn the clip, musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, dressed in their iconic robot costumes, bid each other farewell in the desert, before one of them self-destructed.\n\nThe band's longtime publicist confirmed the split to the BBC.\n\nFormed in Paris in 1993, the group brought the French underground house scene into the charts with hits like One More Time, Da Funk and Around The World.\n\nTheir debut album, Homework, is considered a landmark in dance music; while they scored a worldwide hit in 2013 with the retro-disco single Get Lucky, featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.\n\nThe song was taken from their most recent record, Random Access Memories, which won the Grammy for album of the year in 2014.\n\nSince then, the band have kept a relatively low profile - although they collaborated with R&B star The Weeknd on two tracks, Starboy and I Feel It Coming, in 2016.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFamously publicity-shy, the musicians were seldom seen in public without their robot headgear, and used processed, computerised vocals on almost all of their biggest hits.\n\n\"We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features,\" de Homem-Christo once told Rolling Stone magazine, \"but the robots are exciting to people.\"\n\nAs they called time on their career, dozens of artists recognised Daft Punk's impact on dance music.\n\n\"Eternally grateful,\" wrote Christine and the Queens on Twitter. \"Thank you Daft Punk for everything! We will miss you!\" added Swedish DJ Alesso.\n\n\"Thankful to be a part of the journey,\" said The Weeknd on his Instagram Story.\n\nBangalter and de Homem-Christo met at school in Paris, and began making music together as teenagers alongside Laurent Brancowicz - later of the indie band Phoenix.\n\nOriginally called Darlin', the trio released some incredibly basic garage rock songs on a UK compilation album, Shimmies In Super 8, in 1993.\n\nA review in Melody Maker called the music \"a daft punky thrash\" - indirectly christening the band's second incarnation.\n\nPretty soon, they had abandoned rock for dance music. A subsequent Darlin' song called Untitled 18 sampled David Bowie's Starman and marked their first experimentation with robotic vocals.\n\nA year later, they passed a cassette of their music to Stuart MacMillan, co-founder of the Scottish techno label Soma, at a rave in Disneyland Paris. On it was the first official Daft Punk song - The New Wave, an uncompromising techno assault on the senses which Soma released in 1994.\n\nBut it was Da Funk's infectiously zany mix of G-funk and acid house that really put them on the map.\n\nOriginally pressed in a limited run of 2,000 12-inch records, it was virtually ignored until The Chemical Brothers started playing it in their DJ sets. By the end of 1995, it had sold 30,000 copies and as voted song of the year by French club magazine Soda.\n\nA record label bidding war ensued, with the band eventually signing to Virgin Records and releasing Homework - recorded in Bangalter's bedroom - in 1996.\n\nThere was something cartoonish about the band's early singles that compensated for the anonymity of the men behind them. It was an idea compounded by Michel Gondry's mesmerising video for Around The World, where every instrument is represented by a groups of dancers (skeletons represent the guitar line, mummies act out the drum pattern and synchronised swimmers are the synths).\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 Partizan 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 2 by Partizan Official\n\nIt took three years for the band to record a follow-up, during which time Bangalter also scored a major hit - Music Sounds Better with You - with his side project Stardust.\n\nDiscovery, released in 2001, was almost wilfully anti-cool, steeped in references to 70s disco and 80s crooners. At one point it even samples Barry Manilow's Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed.\n\nBut the band chopped, spliced, filtered and filleted those sounds to create audacious new songs, with a sense of fun and showmanship that dance music often lacks. If you can listen to the ridiculous guitar arpeggios of Aerodynamic or the party-starting chants of Crescendolls without cracking a smile, they seemed to be saying, maybe it's you who's the robot.\n\nThe album's most enduring song, however, is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.\n\nBased entirely around Edwin Birdsong's Cola Bottle Baby, a forgotten 70s funk track, it adds a simple vocal line (\"Work it harder, make it better / Do it faster, makes us stronger\") that is twisted and manipulated in increasingly inventive ways until it's barely recognisable as anything but signal noise.\n\nKanye West later lifted the track and used it as the basis for his own song, Stronger. Daft Punk were unaware of the sample until they heard it on the radio in Los Angeles.\n\n\"The DJ had made an edit of our song at the beginning and then it turned into his song,\" de Homem-Christo told Billboard in 2007.\n\n\"Our song had a good sound, but when he put Kanye's record on, the sound was really fat. It sounds really big. It's not a collaboration in the studio, but the vibe of the music we do separately connected in what he did with the song.\"\n\nAnother four years passed before the release of their third and least essential album, Human After All, after which they wrote the soundtrack to Disney's sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy.\n\nA rare photo of the band from 1995, before they adopted their masks. Guy-Manuel is on the left, with Thomas on the right\n\nThey returned to form with 2013's Random Access Memories - a lush, opulent tribute to the music they grew up with, recorded entirely on live instruments, and featuring guest appearances from Chic's Nile Rodgers, Muppets composer Paul Williams and disco innovator Giorgio Moroder, who narrated his own life story over nine minutes of interlocking dance grooves.\n\nThe album, which cost more than a million dollars to make, was preceded by the hit single Get Lucky. Speaking to NPR, Bangalter said the song represented the record's theme of connecting the past, present and future of dance music.\n\n\"It was somehow maybe a child's dream to possibly one day be able to make music with one of the musicians we really love,\" he explained.\n\n\"So Get Lucky is really about this encounter between Nile [Rodgers] and also Pharrell Williams, [who] we've been friends with and which we've worked with in the past, but about really teaming up and getting outside of our home studio and really reaching out to other musicians and performers and making music and having fun in the studio making music together.\"\n\nThe album brought the duo to a whole new audience, but now it also appears to be a full stop. The end point in their disco odyssey.\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 3 by Daft Punk This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe video announcing their split was based on an excerpt from their 2006 film Electroma.\n\nAs one of the robot bodies disintegrated, a caption appeared stating \"1993 - 2021\". The clip closed with one of the musicians walking into the sunset, accompanied by the song Touch, including the choral refrain: \"Hold on. If love is the answer you're home.\"\n\nThe band's publicist Kathryn Frazier offered no explanation for the break-up - but fans flooded social media with tributes.\n\nFrench media tracking service Visibrain said there were 27 tweets posted every second about the band on Monday afternoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Visibrain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPharrell Williams was among them, simply posting the phrase: \"Forever legends\".\n\n\"Daft Punk left the game with a flawless legacy. I would say enviable but impossibly unattainable is more appropriate,\" said Mark Ronson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mark Ronson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProducer Erol Alkan wrote, \"Respect to Thomas and Guy-Man. Farewell\"; while Dutch DJ Don Diablo thanked the duo \"for inspiring me to make music when I was a kid\".\n\n\"THE greatest to EVER do it,\" said UK dance act Disclosure. \"Words can't describe the inspiration & knowledge we gained from listening to the 2 robots over the years. Wishing them nothing but good energy & positivity for the future.\"\n\n\"As a French producer its hard to describe the huge impact Daft Punk had on my life, my music and career,\" added DJ/producer Habstrakt. \"Thank you for forever changing the landscape of music.\"\n\n\"Daft Punk's Discovery album was critical to my development.\" said Maurice Peebles, editor-in-chief of Complex magazine. \"[It] opened up an entire universe I didn't know existed. forever grateful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The chief executive of a live music trade body has said the industry is \"at the back of the queue to re-open\" once coronavirus restrictions are lifted.\n\nThe comments come after Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out his four-step plan to release England from lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said on Monday he hoped step four would see the end of all legal limits on social contact.\n\nBut Greg Parmley, chief executive of Live, said his sector \"could be months behind the rest of the economy\".\n\n\"The chancellor must acknowledge our extended closure in the budget and provide the economic support needed to ensure the jobs and livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of people that work in our industry exist as we come through this pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe proposed step two, from no earlier than 12 April, could see the return of outdoor hospitality, including drive-in cinemas.\n\nStep three, which would follow at least five weeks later, on 17 May at the earliest, could allow limited indoor mixing.\n\nThat would mean cinemas, theatres and other indoor entertainment attractions could operate with social distancing.\n\nMark Davyd, chief executive of the Music Venue Trust, welcomed the timeline for the return of socially distanced events, but said he now hoped to see \"sector-specific financial support to mitigate the damage being done to businesses and people's lives, careers and families right across the live music industry\".\n\nTheatres could operate with social distancing as part of step three\n\nJon Morgan, director of The Theatres Trust, said it \"supports the Government's cautious approach to easing lockdown restrictions\".\n\n\"We want to play our part in helping keep people safe and we do not want to be in a situation where theatres reopen too early only to be forced to close again after a short period,\" he said.\n\nMichael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association trade body, said: \"We are pleased to hear within the Prime Minister's statement the inclusion of a timeline for night-time economy businesses, in particular some of the hardest-hit businesses, many of which have been closed since March 2020, like nightclubs, bars and casinos.\"\n\nHe added: \"The sector urgently needs additional clarity on reopening and critical financial support from the Chancellor if we are to avoid economic and social damage that will last a generation.\"\n\nLast summer, the government announced the roll out of its £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund to help tackle the crisis facing cultural organisations and heritage sites. But culture secretary Oliver Dowden admitted that the cash could not save all artists and venues.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Keighlie Holt has not been able to work as a hairdresser and is retraining as a social media analyst\n\nThe unemployment rate has risen to its highest level in almost five years, with younger workers bearing the brunt of the job losses, official figures show.\n\nThe UK's jobless rate rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, with the number of people on company payrolls down 726,000 on pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAlmost three-fifths of these were younger than 25 years.\n\nThere were, however, some early signs of stabilisation in the jobs market.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there was a small increase in the numbers of employees paid through payroll over the past couple of months, with 83,000 more people on the books in January compared with the previous month.\n\nAverage pay rose, too, by 4.7% including bonuses, although this was said to be a statistical quirk rather than a sign of lasting wage growth,\n\nStatisticians said this was partly because of the disproportionate fall in the number of young, typically lower-paid workers. Adjusting for this, the ONS said underlying wage growth was \"likely to be under 3%\".\n\nThe ONS said 1.74 million people were unemployed in the October to December period, up 454,000 from the same quarter in 2019.\n\n\"Our survey shows that the unemployment rate has had the biggest annual rise since the financial crisis,\" said Jonathan Athow, ONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics.\n\n\"However, the proportion of people who are neither working nor looking for work has stabilised after rising sharply at the start of the pandemic, with many people who lost their jobs early on having now started looking for work.\"\n\nDespite this, Mr Athow told the BBC's Today programme that the true underlying picture was not yet clear due to the high number of people still on furlough.\n\nHe said figures from early February suggested that about six million people were currently furloughed, adding: \"There is a huge amount of uncertainty about what will happen to them when that scheme ends.\"\n\nThe Bank of England is forecasting that the unemployment rate will rise sharply, peaking at an estimated 7.8% later in the year.\n\nKeighlie Holt is a 20 year-old hairdresser from Blackpool, which has the highest youth unemployment in the UK. The impact of covid on her industry means she has has only worked for a fraction of the year.\n\nShe is now retraining as a social media analyst: \"Last year I did what felt like, literally, three months of work.\n\n\"December wasn't anywhere near what it's like on any other December, that's normally our busiest time. And then it just wasn't going to go back to normal. No one wanted to get their hair done. No, I wasn't going anywhere.\"\n\nToday's labour market figures show that pay was up by an average of nearly 5% compared with a year ago - a much bigger pay rise than has been typical for most of the past decade.\n\nIf you're an employee you may not recognise that figure as anywhere near your own pay rise; a big part of it is because it is an average figure.\n\nIf you remove nearly 730,000 workers from employers' payrolls, many of whom have been in low-paid occupations such as accommodation and food services - where pay rises have been modest or non-existent - then it flatters the average.\n\nHowever, even allowing for those \"compositional\" effects, the Office for National Statistics estimates that there was still pay growth of 3% overall - far more than inflation at 0.7%.\n\nAnd in some sectors it was better than that: according to the ONS, pay in health and social work rose by an average of 6.2% - some modest compensation, perhaps, for the risks those workers have been taking.\n\nThe Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is preparing for next week's Budget, which is expected to set out further plans to help the labour market.\n\n\"I know how incredibly tough the past year has been for everyone, and every job lost is a personal tragedy,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"At the Budget next week I will set out the next stage of our Plan for Jobs, and the support we'll provide through the remainder of the pandemic and our recovery.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, claimed some businesses were \"throwing in the towel\" because the government was taking too long to confirm what business support would be available to them over the next six months.\n\nMs Dodds criticised the government for announcing its roadmap to ending lockdown \"without the clarity of business support\". She told the BBC ministers \"may relish the theatre of budget\" but it was \"wrong to put decisions off until the Budget\", as some businesses had decided to \"give up\".", "A montage of photographs of the 17,300-year-old kangaroo rock painting (left) and an illustration of the artwork (right)\n\nAustralian scientists have discovered the country's oldest known rock art - a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo.\n\nThe artwork measuring 2m (6.5ft) was painted in red ochre on the ceiling of a rock shelter.\n\nIt was found in Western Australia's Kimberley region, known for its Aboriginal rock paintings.\n\nIts age was determined by radiocarbon-dating ancient mud wasp nests. The findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.\n\nMud wasp nests were used to date the artwork\n\nResearcher Damien Finch, who pioneered the mud wasp dating technique, said it was rare to find mud wasp nests both on top and underneath a single artwork.\n\nBut the team was able to sample both types to establish the artwork's minimum and maximum ages.\n\n\"We radiocarbon dated three wasp nests underlying the painting and three nests built over it to determine, confidently, that the painting is between 17,500 and 17,100 years old; most likely 17,300 years old,\" said Dr Finch, a geochronologist from the University of Melbourne.\n\nScientists say this estimation makes the artwork the oldest known intact painting in Australia.\n\nThe painting was found within this rock shelter in Kimberley\n\nThe study's co-author Dr Sven Ouzman, from the University of Western Australia, added there could be a link between the kangaroo painting and the ancient art from other regions.\n\n\"This iconic kangaroo image is visually similar to rock paintings from islands in South East Asia dated to more than 40,000 years ago, suggesting a cultural link - and hinting at still older rock art in Australia,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this year, researchers found the world's oldest animal cave painting, a 45,000-year-old life-sized depiction of a pig, on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.\n\nIn South Africa, a hashtag-like doodle created 73,000 years ago is believed to be the oldest known drawing.\n\nCissy Gore-Birch, chair of the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, noted the significance of the kangaroo rock art discovery for Aboriginal people and Australians.\n\n\"It's important that Indigenous knowledge and stories are not lost and continue to be shared for generations to come,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cave paintings as old as those found in Europe have been found in Indonesia, raising new questions about early mankind and the development of art in prehistoric times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK “cannot be discriminatory” against those people who are unable to take a Covid vaccine, says the prime minister\n\nThere are \"deep and complex issues\" with using vaccine passports or certificates to prove someone's Covid \"status\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAnnouncing a review of the proposal, he said using certificates to allow visits to venues such as pubs and theatres was a \"novelty for our country\".\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"very optimistic\" most Covid restrictions in England can be lifted on 21 June.\n\nVaccine passports have been discussed by countries, including Greece, and operators such as Saga Cruises, as a way to safely reopen international leisure travel.\n\nBut ministers have frequently appeared to dismiss introducing a similar scheme domestically within the UK for hospitality or leisure activities.\n\nIt comes as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said - if all goes to plan - she expects to see a phased but significant reopening of the Scottish economy in the last week of April.\n\nA further 8,489 coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Tuesday and 548 more people have died within 28 days of a positive test - taking the total by that measure to 121,305.\n\nMore than 17.9 million people across the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, according to latest government figures.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a south London school, Mr Johnson said the UK had \"never thought in terms of having something that you have to show to go to a pub or a theatre\".\n\nHe said there were \"ethical issues\" about the role of government \"in mandating… or banning people from doing such a thing\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't be discriminatory against people who can't have the vaccine, there might be a medical reason, or some people may genuinely refuse to have one - I think that's a mistake.\"\n\nBut the prime minister said it was possible to consider the issue at the same time as the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nIt is understood the review will not just consider vaccination history alone, with the possibility of negative Covid tests being recorded to gain access to some events or services, if required by the organisers.\n\nOne option could see the NHS app used to record both, with an individual then able to show their status on the app if required.\n\nThe government previously said it would consider how to facilitate Covid certificates for people who needed to travel to other countries which demanded them.\n\nThe review's findings are hoped to be available before the final stage of England's lockdown easing on 21 June, the earliest date by which ministers hope most Covid measures can end.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jessica Parker said the review marked a change of position from ministers but that, with businesses already looking at ways they could keep workers and customers safe, the government was looking to get ahead of things.\n\n\"The conversation was just happening anyway. Businesses were looking at ways to make their workplaces safe, organisations were looking at ways to try to make their customers safe and the government risked not being part of that conversation but eventually being brought into it anyway,\" she said.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said an international consensus needed to be built on how to allow greater foreign travel, which the UK was seeking to achieve via the G7 and other multilateral discussions.\n\n\"It will be for different countries to determine their own regimes in relation to the quarantine and who they want to allow in, and we want to try and work together to get some sort of international framework,\" he said.\n\nGreek tourism minister Haris Theoharis told the BBC last week that early technical discussions were under way with UK officials about how a potential passport scheme might work.\n\nSaga Cruises announced last month it would require all travellers to prove they had received two vaccine doses before departure.\n\n\"You will be required to bring the vaccination document and/or evidence with you as proof at the time of boarding,\" its website said.\n\nHolidays in the UK or abroad are not currently permitted under coronavirus restrictions.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said a review of how to return to international travel while managing risk from imported cases and virus variants would report on 12 April.\n\nMeanwhile, holiday firms and airlines have reported a surge in bookings since plans for easing lockdown in England were unveiled on Monday.\n\nLabour shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC a review of vaccine passports was \"sensible\" but said it should be \"conclusive\" and consider all the evidence available.\n\nChristopher Dye, professor of epidemiology at Oxford University, told the BBC that vaccine passports would \"certainly be helpful in releasing the lockdown\" but they should not \"make things worse for people of lesser means\".\n\nMr Johnson said his roadmap for easing lockdown measures, laid out on Monday, was \"a cautious but irreversible approach\".\n\nDue to the vaccine programme, the country could \"look at that 21 June date with some optimism\".\n\nMr Johnson said each phase of unlocking restrictions - such as children going back to school - would be \"adding to the budget of risk\".\n\nThis is why time was needed between measures to \"observe\" the impact, he added.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he wanted measures to become a \"matter of personal responsibility and social norms\" that could see people choosing to wear masks on public transport.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions.\n\nOutlining her own roadmap, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped to end stay at home restrictions from 5 April in Scotland.\n\nMeanwhile in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he hopes the country's \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster wants its executive to discuss the reopening date for schools following Mr Johnson's announcement in England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"He [Alex Salmond] appears to be suggesting some kind of conspiracy or concerted campaign against him, without a shred of evidence.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has challenged Alex Salmond to prove there was a conspiracy against him, saying he has made claims \"without a shred of evidence\".\n\nMr Salmond is due to give evidence to the Holyrood inquiry into the government's mishandling of harassment complaints against him later this week.\n\nHe says he has \"documentary evidence\" of a \"malicious and concerted\" attempt to remove him from public life.\n\nBut the first minister said any claims of a conspiracy were \"not true\".\n\nAnd she said Mr Salmond had an \"obligation\" to \"replace the insinuation and assertion we have heard over several months now with evidence\".\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry was established after the government conceded an internal investigation of two harassment complaints against the former first minister had been \"unlawful\".\n\nHe was awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses following the judicial review case, and was subsequently acquitted of charges of sexual assault in a separate High Court trial.\n\nIn a written submission published on Monday, Mr Salmond said there had been \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned\".\n\nHe said the government and SNP \"felt threatened\" by the judicial review case, and said he had \"documentary evidence\" that there was a \"fishing expedition to recruit potential complainants\".\n\nIn other letters to the inquiry he has described the behaviour of the government as a \"disgrace\", accusing it of concealing key evidence from his legal team and of leaking information to the media to damage him.\n\nHe has also accused Ms Sturgeon of \"repeatedly\" misleading parliament over her meetings with him, making statements which are \"simply untrue\", and of breaking the ministerial code.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March 2020 having been acquitted of sexual assault charges\n\nMr Salmond is to give evidence to the inquiry on Wednesday, with Ms Sturgeon expected to face MSPs the following week.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped Mr Salmond would \"turn up to the committee and bring the claims he has been making out into the open\".\n\nShe said: \"He appears to be suggesting some kind of conspiracy or concerted campaign against him, without a shred of evidence.\n\n\"This is his opportunity - because the burden of proof of that lies on him, to replace the insinuation and assertion we have heard over several months now with evidence.\n\n\"I don't believe he can do that, because I know what he is claiming about a conspiracy is not true.\n\n\"If he can't substantiate it, it's time for him to stop making these claims - because it's not fair to women first and foremost who came forward with complaints, or the other people who have given years of loyal service to Alex Salmond who he appears to be directing those claims to.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she still had full confidence in her top civil servant, Leslie Evans\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, the first minister said she would \"stand by what I said in parliament\" about her meetings with Mr Salmond, saying she would \"relish the opportunity\" to go into detail.\n\nShe said: \"I will set out what I knew and I will set out my recollection of all these things, and answer questions for as long as the committee wants to hear about that.\n\n\"This is a situation where I and others were faced with a really difficult scenario - allegations against someone I had been very close to. I dealt with that to the best of my ability and I think I made the right judgements overall.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government \"did make a mistake in the application of its procedure\" for handling complaints, and said it would \"reflect on the lessons of that\".\n\nBut she insisted the new policy had been drawn up in response to \"the global MeToo movement\", not Mr Salmond.\n\nThis echoes evidence given to the committee by Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans - Scotland's top civil servant - who told MSPs that the government was not out to \"get Alex Salmond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she still had full confidence in Ms Evans, and that she expected her to remain in post for the duration of her current contract.", "Alex Salmond will not give evidence on Wednesday to the inquiry into how the Scottish government handled complaints against him.\n\nA Scottish Parliament spokesperson said the former first minister had told the committee he would not be attending.\n\nHe has now offered to appear before MSPs on Friday.\n\nThe move came after the parliament withdrew and then republished a revised version of one of Mr Salmond's submissions to the inquiry.\n\nThe Crown Office had raised \"grave concerns\" about its publication.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had described the parliament's decision as a \"significant surprise and concern\" which could have \"a material bearing on whether he was able to attend the evidence session on Wednesday.\n\nThe committee now plans to meet in private \"to discuss the implications of Mr Salmond's response and the next steps for its work\".\n\nMr Salmond's submission included claims that there had been a \"complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and the prosecution authorities\".\n\nThe former first minister alleged there was \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned\".\n\nThe people named by Mr Salmond in his submissions include Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell, who is the chief executive of the SNP, and Ms Sturgeon's chief of staff, Liz Lloyd.\n\nMr Salmond has also accused Ms Sturgeon, who succeeded him as first minister and SNP leader, of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code.\n\nMs Sturgeon has denied the allegations and told BBC Scotland that there was \"not a shred of evidence\" to back up his claims of a conspiracy.\n\nThe inquiry committee has been examining what went wrong with the government's internal investigation into sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond that were made by two female civil servants.\n\nThe government had to pay legal expenses of more than £500,000 to Mr Salmond after it admitted it had acted unlawfully during the investigation.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial last year.\n\nThe former first minister had been expected to appear before the inquiry on 9 February, but this was cancelled when the committee voted, along party lines, not to publish one of his written submissions.\n\nMr Salmond insisted he could not live up to an oath to \"tell the whole truth\" without being able to refer to this document.\n\nAfter a legal clarification, the committee referred the matter to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body which concluded that \"on balance\" it would be possible for the document to be published.\n\nThe submission was finally published on Monday evening, but it prompted the Crown Office to raise \"grave concerns\".\n\nThe parliament later removed one of the documents and republished the submission in another form, which in turn led to Mr Salmond announcing he could not appear at the evidence session scheduled for Wednesday.", "An FFP3 mask, not the brand being withdrawn by the Department of Health\n\nA million high-grade masks used in the NHS may not meet the right safety standards and have been withdrawn.\n\nThe Department of Health told the BBC there are 1.12 million of these masks either in use or in hospital stores and has told staff to stop using them.\n\nDistribution of some gloves has also been suspended because they may not meet technical requirements.\n\nThe Department of Health said safety of frontline staff was an absolute priority.\n\nIts warning concerns a specific brand of FFP3 mask, which are more sophisticated than surgical masks and are worn in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that can generate aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThe British Medical Association appealed last month for staff on general wards to be given this type of mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) alert last week warned that a certain type of FFP3 - branded \"Fang Tian\" and marked as FT-045 - may not meet the required technical specifications.\n\nIt advised health and care providers to check to see if their stock included the product and to stop using them until further investigation.\n\nThe alert said the masks were provided by Polyco Healthline, but the manufacturer Suzhou Fangtian Industries told the BBC it had never supplied the firm.\n\nThe BBC has approached Polyco Healthline for comment but has not heard back.\n\nThe DHSC told BBC News the affected 1.12 million masks was a very small proportion of its overall stocks.\n\nThese masks make up approximately 4% of its overall stock, the department said, and about 1.7% of the masks used every day.\n\nA spokesman said there was a \"resilient supply\" of FFP3 masks to ensure staff had access to the PPE they needed.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has withdrawn the masks over safety concerns\n\nThe DHSC also issued an alert about \"nitri-hand\" non-sterile nitrile examination gloves - 27 million of these have been supplied by Full Support Group since June last year.\n\nThe packaging for the gloves is understood to say they had not been tested for resistance to virus.\n\nBut the supplier, Full Support Group, told BBC News they had in fact passed the test and the packaging should have been amended.\n\n\"We are confident that the gloves in question, having been checked and confirmed that they meet the requirements, will be released from quarantine as soon as the administrative process has been completed,\" a spokesman from the supplier said.\n\nHe added that Full Support had successfully supplied the NHS since 2002.\n\nThe DHSC said the batch of gloves represented a very small proportion of overall supply.\n\nBut Rob Harwood, BMA consultants committee chairman, said it was \"unacceptable if staff's safety is still being jeopardised by inadequate PPE\" a year into the pandemic.\n\n\"Healthcare staff working on the frontline do so facing the grave risk of contracting Covid, and deserve the best protection from this deadly virus,\" he said.\n\n\"Many will be incredibly concerned to learn that some masks designed to offer enhanced protection, as well as gloves, may not meet standards, potentially placing them at greater risk.\"\n\nHe said it was \"good\" to see immediate action but \"urgent clarification\" was needed to explain \"how they entered the supply chain\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Our priority is providing frontline staff with quality PPE that meets robust quality requirements, and we have delivered nearly eight billion items so far.\n\n\"We carry out extensive due diligence on all PPE items before release, and where an issue is identified we act quickly to isolate the relevant product and conduct the appropriate investigations.\"\n\nBBC News has been investigating the purchase of PPE for NHS staff since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nIt has previously revealed how millions of face masks bought by the UK government could not be used in the NHS as intended.\n\nLast week the High Court ruled that Health Secretary Matt Hancock had acted unlawfully when his department did not reveal details of contracts it had agreed during the pandemic within 30 days of them being signed.\n\nUpdate: The DHSC originally told the BBC 12 million face masks had been affected. It has since said this figure is incorrect, and the number is 1.12 million.", "Tamils, Muslims and Christians held a major rally for rights this month, marching from the east to the north\n\nSri Lanka is facing a new UN resolution calling on it to hold human rights abusers to account and deliver justice to victims of its 26-year civil war.\n\nBritain and others have circulated a draft of the resolution among UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) member states.\n\nIt is expected to be adopted at the end of the four-week UNHRC spring session in Geneva, which began on Monday.\n\nSri Lankan forces and Tamil rebels were accused of atrocities during the war, which killed at least 100,000 people.\n\n\"The victims from all communities of Sri Lanka's brutal civil war are, a decade later, still awaiting justice for loved ones murdered or missing, and dealing with the repercussions of violence and conflict,\" said Lord Ahmad, Britain's minister of state for South Asia and the Commonwealth.\n\nGermany and Canada are among the six countries in the Britain-led Core Group on Sri Lanka.\n\nLord Ahmad said the resolution was a vital step towards reconciliation and peaceful relations among all of Sri Lanka's diverse communities and faith groups.\n\nThe UN estimates that up to 40,000 people, mostly civilians from the minority Tamil community, were killed in the final stages of Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil Tiger rebels, who were crushed in May 2009. Other reports put the figure higher. The UN human rights office accused both sides of atrocities during the conflict.\n\nAn estimated 150,000 civilians were trapped on the coast at the end of the war\n\nThousands went missing during the war and the Sri Lankan security agencies are blamed for the disappearance of Tamil rebels who either surrendered or were captured.\n\nSince then, the families of Tamils who were killed or went missing have demanded justice and accountability. The Sri Lankan government has consistently denied targeting civilians and rejects all allegations it is guilty of enforced disappearances.\n\nFollowing international pressure, the then Sri Lankan government in 2015 committed to investigate violations and hold war crimes trials supported by foreign judges, as part of a consensus resolution at the UNHRC.\n\nBut current Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa withdrew from the UN resolution in February 2020, months after he was elected on a nationalist platform by voters from the Sinhala majority. Last year he reassured his supporters of an end to the \"era of betraying war heroes\" - referring to legal action against soldiers accused of rights abuses.\n\nMr Rajapaksa led the war effort as the powerful defence secretary under his elder brother Mahinda, who was president from 2005 to 2015. He rejects allegations that war crimes were committed on his orders.\n\n\"The Sri Lankan government is not resisting any form of accountability within our constitution. Our constitution does not provide [options] for foreign judges,\" the current foreign minister, Dinesh Gunawardena, told the BBC as the UNHRC session was about to begin.\n\nGotabaya Rajapaksa has also set up a three-member commission to look into what the government described as \"political victimisation\" of government officials by the previous government.\n\nIn a scathing report released last month, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said: \"Nearly 12 years on from the end of the war, domestic initiatives for accountability and reconciliation have repeatedly failed to produce results, more deeply entrenching impunity, and exacerbating victims' distrust in the system.\"\n\nMs Bachelet's report will be submitted to the UN Council meeting later this week.\n\nBut the Sri Lankan foreign minister rejected the report, saying: \"The ground situation is totally different to what the commissioner's report is. That's why Sri Lanka disagreed with her, with documents, evidence and detailed reports and answered her draft report.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody war\n\nRights groups say under the current government, activists and those seeking justice for abuses committed during the war face threats and intimidation.\n\n\"If you go to the north and the east [Tamil areas], the surveillance is very high. Civil society organisations are visited regularly [by security agencies] and it is a form of harassment,\" Bhavani Fonseka, a human rights lawyer, said.\n\nThousands of Tamils and members of the Muslim and Christian communities held a massive rally earlier this month. They marched from the east to the north - despite a ban because of Covid - to highlight their grievances.\n\nWhile the Tamil community called for accountability and justice for the crimes committed during the civil war, Muslims complained about the forced cremation of Covid victims by the government, which they say is against Islamic practices.\n\nTamils say the reconciliation process and accountability are being systematically undermined by the current government.\n\nFor example, they point out that last year President Rajapaksa pardoned a soldier, Sunil Ratnayake, who'd been sentenced to death for killing eight Tamil civilians, including a five-year-old and two teenagers, in the village of Mirusuvil in northern Jaffna region in 2000.\n\nMany Tamils say they still have no news of their missing loved ones\n\nIt was one of the few convictions from the civil war era, and the UN said the pardon was \"an affront to victims\".\n\nMs Bachelet's report also pointed out that after assuming power, President Rajapaksa had appointed senior military officials who were implicated in United Nations reports into alleged war crimes during the final years of the conflict.\n\nFor people like Asha Nagendran, a Tamil from the north-eastern city of Trincomalee, justice appears further away than ever.\n\nSri Lankan security forces took her 25-year-old son for investigation in 2008. She has not heard from him since.\n\n\"The UN should not give any more time to the Sri Lankan government,\" Ms Nagendran said. \"A body set up by international representatives should investigate and address our plight.\"", "The first results of the UK vaccination programme suggests it is having a \"spectacular\" impact on preventing serious illness.\n\nResearch led by Public Health Scotland found at four weeks after the first dose, hospital admissions were reduced by 85% and 94% for the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs respectively.\n\nIt is the first sign of the real world impact of vaccination in the UK.\n\nFigures for England are expected to be released later.\n\nAmong the over 80s, there was an overall 81% reduction in the numbers admitted to hospital.\n\nThe researchers did not look at the impact on transmission - whether people who were vaccinated passed it on - or whether immunity waned over time.\n\nThe preliminary data from the EAVE II project covers 1.14 million vaccinations given in Scotland between 8 December and 15 February.\n\nThe study looked at the numbers being admitted to hospital with Covid among this population and compared it to those admitted who were not vaccinated.\n\nIn total, there were just over 8,000 people who ended up in hospital, but only 58 were among the vaccinated group after the four-week mark.\n\nLead researcher Prof Aziz Sheikh said the results were \"very, very\" impressive and both vaccines were working \"spectacularly\".\n\n\"These results are very encouraging and have given us great reasons to be optimistic for the future.\"\n\nTrials of both vaccines had suggested they would have a significant impact at preventing hospitalisations.\n\nBut for the Pfizer vaccine studies, that had involved a second dose being given after three weeks.\n\nThe UK has adopted a policy of delaying the second jab of both vaccines by three months, which had led some to question whether the approach would give sufficient immunity.\n\nThe trials of the AstraZeneca looked at a longer dosing interval so there was more confidence about that vaccine.\n\nDr Josie Murray, of Public Health Scotland, said the findings were \"brilliant news\" and suggested the vaccine programme was working.\n\nScotland is a good place to do this kind of observational study of how the vaccines are working in the real world.\n\nIts population size and use of individual patient identifiers (known as CHI numbers) enable scientists to track data from the entire population and get results quickly. And while it's still early days, the data indicates that a first dose of either vaccine prevents most people becoming seriously ill.\n\nThere are limitations of course. The study only tracked those who were admitted to hospital and whether they had had a vaccine or not.\n\nIt didn't count anybody who had died from Covid in a care home, for example. And it didn't look at transmissibility, only the risk of becoming seriously ill.\n\nOther similar studies are being conducted across the UK but this data will be seen as extremely encouraging.", "Lisa Dawn Fisher was jailed for 16 weeks and ordered to pay £75 costs\n\nA woman who deliberately coughed at police investigating a breach of coronavirus restrictions has been jailed for four months.\n\nLisa Dawn Fisher was verbally abusive when the officers called at a flat in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on 30 January.\n\nThe 31-year-old, of Westbourne Grove, admitted two counts of assault against an emergency worker.\n\nFisher was sentenced at Scarborough Magistrates' Court on 17 February.\n\nShe was also ordered to pay £75 compensation.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said there had been an increase in assaults against emergency service workers.\n\nOfficers made 104 arrests in connection with emergency worker assaults in the six months to the end of January 2020.\n\nThat figure rose to 150 in the six months to the end of January 2021.\n\nCh Insp Rachel Wood said: \"Police officers are human, they have families, they choose to do a job that puts them in harm's way for the good of the community.\n\n\"Assaults on them will not be tolerated and anyone who deliberately tries to use coronavirus to harm them can expect a swift trip to the cells.\"\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.", "Mask-wearing, hand hygiene and working from home could be expected to continue until next winter, the government's chief scientific adviser has said.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance said to expect \"baseline\" measures, though not the same ones we have now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hancock: 'This is on everyone to act together'\n\nEverybody has to \"play their part\" to meet the dates for England's lockdown to be eased, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nBut it is currently \"too early\" to say how long social distancing will be in place, the health secretary said.\n\nThe aim is for measures like masks to become a \"matter of personal responsibility\", rather than law, in the future.\n\nBoris Johnson has outlined a strategy that could see restrictions lifted by 21 June - if strict conditions are met.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is to reveal plans to ease restrictions in Scotland later.\n\nShe has said Scotland will return to a tiered system, meaning different parts of the country could be under different rules.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC it is \"vital\" that \"everybody plays their part\" to make sure \"that we hit these dates and get out of this as soon as we possibly can, safely\".\n\nPeople should be able to hug friends and family from 17 May, when the most vulnerable groups have had two coronavirus vaccine jabs, he said.\n\nMr Hancock said eradicating Covid-19 completely is \"not going to be possible\" and that everyone would have to \"learn to live with it\", as we do with flu.\n\nHe said he wanted measures to become a \"matter of personal responsibility and social norms\" that could see people choosing to wear masks on public transport, for example.\n\nThere is already evidence that the vaccines were working, with the number of deaths \"coming down really sharply\", he added.\n\nHe urged people to take up their vaccine offer, amid warnings the virus could persist in inner city communities where uptake is low.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, reader in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases at the University of Warwick and member of government advisory group SPI-M, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme this was a \"real concern\".\n\n\"It's really important that we get the vaccines out to those deprived communities to prevent a potential wave of infections occurring as we do unlock,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock said it is \"absolutely on all of us\" to get the vaccine when invited.\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show coronavirus deaths continue to decline. In the week of 12 February, there were 17,136 deaths registered in the UK, down by 1,710 on the previous week.\n\nDeaths are still running above usual levels for this time of year, however. They were 26% higher than the average for the same week over the past five years.\n\nIn the first step of the prime minister's roadmap, all pupils in England's schools are expected to return to class from 8 March, with mass testing and wider use of face masks in secondary schools.\n\nThere will be a further easing on 29 March, with groups of up to six people or two households allowed to gather in parks and gardens.\n\nShops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality, as well as self-contained holiday accommodation, could reopen on 12 April. A review of international leisure travel restrictions will be completed by this date.\n\nFrom 17 May, two households or a group of six may be able to meet indoors in a pub or other hospitality venue such as restaurants.\n\nCinemas, museums, hotels, performances and sporting events will also reopen, with up to 30 people able to attend weddings, receptions, funerals and wakes.\n\nThe final step from 21 June will potentially see all legal limits on social contact removed, with the final closed sectors of the economy reopened - such as nightclubs.\n\nProgressing along the schedule will depend on four tests: the success of the vaccine rollout, evidence of vaccine efficacy, an assessment of new variants, and keeping infection rates below a level that could put unsustainable pressure on the NHS.\n\nThere will be a gap of at least five weeks between each of the plan's subsequent steps to allow for the impact of changes on infection rates and hospital admissions to be assessed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the full statement by Boris Johnson on England's roadmap out of the Covid-19 lockdown\n\nOn Monday, Mr Johnson told a Downing Street news conference he could not guarantee his plan would be irreversible \"but the intention is that it should be\".\n\nHe added that the coming spring and summer would be \"seasons of hope, looking and feeling incomparably better for us all\".\n\nAs part of its plans, the government wants to determine whether offering \"Covid status\" certificates, which could be used by people to demonstrate they had received a vaccine or a negative coronavirus test, could help venues open again.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged there were \"clearly some quite complex issues, some ethical issues\" but later told a meeting of his own MPs that \"a debate had to be had\".\n\nMPs will vote on the roadmap in late March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the plan but said certainty was needed over the future of the government furlough scheme for both businesses and workers.\n\nLabour shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that without clarity on business support - like the VAT reduction and the business rates holiday - \"many businesses are simply throwing in the towel now and we cannot afford that in the UK when we've already had record redundancies\".\n\nConservative MP Steve Baker, deputy chair of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory lockdown-sceptics, said the \"pace of change will be a hammer blow\" to industries such as aviation, hospitality and the arts.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he hopes the \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster wants its executive to discuss the reopening date for schools following Mr Johnson's announcement in England.\n\nA further 10,641 coronavirus cases were reported on Monday, alongside another 178 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMore than 17.7 million people across the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, according to latest government figures.\n\nHow will you be affected by the plan to ease Covid restrictions? 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.", "Front-line health workers, the elderly, and people with chronic diseases are being prioritised in Lebanon Image caption: Front-line health workers, the elderly, and people with chronic diseases are being prioritised in Lebanon\n\nThe World Bank has threatened to suspend financing for Lebanon’s Covid-19 vaccination programme amid allegations that people are receiving shots without registering or waiting their turn.\n\nLebanon launched the programme on 14 February with 28,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines purchased with some of the $34m (£24m) in aid it has been allocated .\n\nTo ensure fair and transparent distribution, the government asked everyone to register with an online platform, whose algorithms prioritise recipients based on agreed criteria. Health workers, the elderly, and people with chronic diseases are meant to be vaccinated first.\n\nHowever, it was not long before complaints about “violations” emerged in a country where corruption and mismanagement have been blamed for an unprecedented economic crisis and the devastating explosion at Beirut’s port last August.\n\nAfter several members of parliament were vaccinated on Tuesday, World Bank regional director Saroj Kumar Jha warned of consequences if people were found to be queue jumping.\n\nHe added that the World Bank had asked monitors to verify that vaccination centres were adhering to the rules, adding the hashtag “#NoWasta”. “Wasta” is an Arabic term for nepotism or influence.\n\nParliament’s Secretary-General, Adnan Daher, told the National News Agency that the lawmakers had been registered and that “their turn had come” .", "The driver stopped at services close to Peterborough and noticed people in his lorry, police said\n\nEighteen people have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry at a motorway service area.\n\nThe driver noticed people on board when he stopped at the Haddon services on the A1(M) near Peterborough, at about 11:30 GMT, police said.\n\nOfficers said paramedics were sent after the driver alerted police, and none of the 18 people were injured.\n\nThere were no arrests and those on board have been handed to the immigration services.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said the driver who telephoned them \"had noticed the people on board and was concerned for their welfare\".\n\nIn October 2019, 39 Vietnamese migrants overheated and suffocated in a sealed refrigerated lorry that was not turned on.\n\nLast week three men were rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in Brampton, Cambridgeshire, after telephoning police to say they were \"suffocating\" inside.\n\nOfficers asked people to look out for the \"warning signs\" of potential trafficking including hearing banging from the inside of a lorry, things being thrown from lorries in order to grab the attention of other motorists, or groups of people trying to get in to lorries, or emerging from them.\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.", "Tech giants Google and Facebook have too great a share of the UK online advertising market, the boss of the UK's competition watchdog has said.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would like regulatory changes to deal with that market dominance, its boss Andrea Coscelli told the BBC.\n\nGoogle and Facebook have faced criticism from competition and other regulators in the past.\n\nFacebook said it faces \"significant competition\" online from rival firms.\n\nGoogle has also been approached for comment by the BBC.\n\nWhen questioned by the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan, Mr Coscelli said that the two tech giants have a \"duopoly\" in the UK when it comes to digital advertising, which can often be bad for competition.\n\nGoogle and Facebook have about an 80% share of the UK's £14bn digital advertising market, which is \"not an ideal situation\", Mr Coscelli said.\n\n\"We think it would be good if we got to a situation where others had a bigger share of the market,\" he said.\n\nHe also described the fact that Google holds about 90% of the UK's £7.3bn search advertising market as a \"problem\".\n\nFacebook currently has a more than 50% share of the £5.5bn display advertising market in the UK, which is too much, Mr Coscelli said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Competition and Markets Authority would like regulatory changes to deal with the 'imbalance of power'\n\n\"When companies have too much economic power, that creates a number of distortions, first for competitors, secondly for consumers, and at some level potentially in terms of the political process as well, in some cases,\" he said.\n\n\"We, in general terms, like to see markets more competitive, with more players, with more diversity of players, because we think that delivers better outcomes.\"\n\nA Facebook spokesman said its platform \"gives millions of people and businesses in the UK the opportunity to connect and share.\"\n\nHe added: \"Advertisers can and do freely move their [advertising] spending between TV, radio, print, outdoor and online.\n\n\"And in online advertising itself, we face significant competition from the likes of Google, Apple, Snap, Twitter and Amazon, as well as new entrants like TikTok, which keeps us on our toes.\"\n\nMr Coscelli stopped short of saying that Facebook and Google should be broken up.\n\n\"Our current proposal is not to break them up, it's to have pro-competitive regulation to deal with some of the issues, but it would allow the companies to maintain all the current activities that they have,\" he said.\n\nThe CMA said in December it plans to issue Facebook, Google and the other tech giants a set of rules customised to each firm to rein in \"anti-competitive behaviour\" and give consumers \"more control over how their data used\".\n\nIt is set to create a Digital Markets Unit within itself to draw up the rules and govern compliance, although legislation is required which may not be introduced until 2022.\n\nSilicon Valley firms have recently faced increasing scrutiny from other regulatory bodies around the world.\n\nBefore the UK's exit from the European Union, competition regulation for global or pan-European companies was done through Brussels.\n\nGoogle has been hit with a number of competition fines by the European Commission over the years, including a €1.49bn (£1.28bn) fine in 2019 for blocking rival online search advertisers.\n\nFacebook is also facing competition action in the United States from federal regulators and more than 45 state prosecutors who are accusing the social media company of taking illegal action to buy up rivals and stifle competition.", "Imagine if, at the first coronavirus briefing in Downing Street last year, Boris Johnson had said that he would put limits on our lives and the economy for 15 months.\n\nImagine that he had, a week later, instead of saying that the tide could be turned in 12 weeks, said we should prepare for kids to be out of school, that most shops would be closed on and off for months, that families who don't live near each other might not be able to see each other either, that some of the most vulnerable would have to shield at home, from the disease, for all of that time.\n\nYou would hardly have believed it. He would hardly have believed it either.\n\nThe prime minister's trademark used to be optimism - accused often of bluffing over detail to hope for the political best.\n\nYet as Mr Johnson tries to steer the country towards the exit in the second year of this pandemic, that habit is not much in evidence.\n\nHe has accepted, at the insistence of the chief medical officer, there will be long gaps between the steps out of lockdown.\n\nAlso, despite the remarkable progress, and excited rhetoric around the vaccine, there was an important acknowledgement from Mr Johnson too, that it will never reach everyone.\n\nThe \"significant minority\" who will never take the vaccine will still therefore pose a risk.\n\nAnd while he has repeatedly promised the steps out of lockdown will be \"irreversible\", inside government of course there is an awareness that is just not the case.\n\nEveryone fervently hopes this is the last time but an aggressive and unforeseen variant of the disease could interrupt that plan.\n\nSome massive upset with the vaccine rollout could knock things off course.\n\nEven the limited easing up will lead to an increase in cases, and if that is more dramatic than hoped, the brakes could of course go back on.\n\nDramatic changes in the public's behaviour could also make a difference in the wrong way.\n\nAnd the government also retains the right to bring back aggressive local lockdowns if infections surge in particular areas.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's strongest motivation for the go-slow is the determination that this national lockdown can, should, and will be the last.\n\nWith a belief too that much of the public will be perhaps not content, but willing, to wait that bit longer for a drink with friends if it means children can go back to school and stay there.\n\nAll schools in England are going back from 8 March with schools able to decide a phased return during that week.\n\nHis calculation is that people, after all this time, will prefer certainty over haste.\n\nThat's why the prime minister won't be persuaded to go faster by some of his own restless backbenches.\n\nThat's why other parts of government, even those eager to pull back restrictions, worried about the costs of all this, concede to hurry would be wrong this time.\n\nAnd that's why Mr Johnson, right now at least, is playing the role of a leader for whom caution is number one.\n\nA mantle this long pandemic has lent him - a political persona that also, would have been almost impossible to imagine last year.\n\nP.s. A huge amount of information did emerge today about the road ahead for England, but there were also really big gaps.\n\nThere was no firm advice on when the millions of people who have been working at home will be expected to go back into the office.\n\nNo solid expectations of when foreign travel will come back, when the social distancing rules could be relaxed, or whether the government might really introduce some kind of vaccine certification after all (despite previous suggestions that they would not).\n\nAlongside the plans are several reviews that will shape much of what happens in the next few months.\n\nThe government, as well as Holyrood, Belfast and Cardiff, still has many big decisions to take.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods is \"awake and responsive\" following surgery on serious leg injuries suffered in a car crash in Los Angeles on Tuesday.\n\nThe 15-time golf major champion, 45, had to be \"extricated from the wreck\" by firefighters and paramedics.\n\nThe American suffered \"open fractures affecting the tibia and fibula bones\" in his lower right leg \"stabilised by inserting a rod into the tibia\".\n\nInjuries to his foot and ankle have been stabilised with screws and pins.\n\n\"He [Woods] is recovering in his hospital room,\" added a statement, published on Woods' Twitter account.\n\nAnish Mahajan, chief medical officer of the Harbor UCLA Medical Centre where Woods is being treated, said the open fractures were comminuted, meaning broken in more than two pieces.\n\nMahajan added: \"Trauma to the muscle and soft tissue of the leg required surgical release of the covering of the muscles to relieve pressure due to swelling.\"\n• None Is this the end of Woods' career or will he win his biggest battle?\n\nWoods 'not able to stand'\n\nWoods was \"fortunate to be alive\" said a deputy from the LA County Sheriff's Department, who was first on the scene of the accident at 07:18 local time on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes.\n\nCarlos Gonzalez said the golfer was \"not able to stand under his own power\" before being removed from the vehicle which had sustained major damage.\n\nHe said that the American was wearing his seatbelt and was \"still calm and lucid\" when he told him his name.\n\n\"It's very fortunate that Mr Woods was able to come out of this alive,\" he added.\n\nLA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that Woods' car \"crossed the centre-divider to the point that it rested several hundred feet away\" and \"that indicates they were going at a relatively greater speed than normal\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Villanueva said no charges were expected to be filed against Woods.\n\n\"This remains an accident,\" he said. \"Accident is not a crime. They do happen, unfortunately.\"\n\nHe added: \"However, because it is downhill, it slopes and curves, that area has a high frequency of accidents. It is not uncommon.\"\n\nHe said the car hit a kerb, a tree and rolled over several times. Villanueva added \"there was no evidence of impairment\" with Woods.\n• None Tiger Woods: The triumphs and troubles of a golf superstar\n\nFormer US president Barack Obama , tennis great Serena Williams, basketball star Stephen Curry and singer Mariah Carey were among the many celebrities who posted their messages of support on social media.\n\nWorld number three Justin Thomas is one of Woods' best friends on the PGA Tour and expressed concern for his compatriot.\n\n\"I'm sick to my stomach,\" an emotional Thomas said. \"You know, it hurts to see one of your... closest friends get in an accident.\n\n\"Man, I just hope he's all right. Just worry for his kids, you know. I'm sure they're struggling.\"\n\nA statement from PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said: \"On behalf of the PGA Tour and our players, Tiger is in our prayers and will have our full support as he recovers.\"\n\nWoods, who had been recovering from a fifth back surgery in January, was in Los Angeles to host last week's Genesis Invitational PGA Tour event and was driving one of the tournament cars when he crashed.\n\nWoods was involved in a car crash in November 2009 which eventually led to admissions of infidelity and the breakdown of his marriage. He then took a break from golf but returned shortly afterwards.\n\nFollowing five wins in 2013, Woods started just 24 events in the next four years because of chronic back pain and multiple surgeries.\n\nIn 2017 Woods was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence when he was found asleep at the wheel of his car. He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving.\n\nHe had five prescription drugs in his system as he recovered from the spinal fusion surgery that ultimately gave him a second golfing career.\n\nWoods ended an 11-year wait to claim a 15th major title when he won the Masters at Augusta National for a fifth time in 2019.\n\nHe jointly holds the record for most PGA Tour wins at 82 with Sam Snead and is three behind Jack Nicklaus' mark of 18 major titles.\n\nWoods recently said he had hoped to recover from his back surgery in time to play in this year's Masters in April.\n\nHe ended 2019 sixth in golf's world rankings but is now 50th.\n\n'A very serious situation for his career'\n\nTiger Woods has had this extraordinary life which has had such massive highs on the golf course but some extraordinary lows in his personal life.\n\nThis is now a very serious situation for his career.\n\nHe was on American television on Sunday. A lot of observers were concerned at how hesitant he was about the nature of the progress that was being made in terms of his recovery and whether or not he would be fit for the Masters.\n\nAll thoughts of that now go completely out of the window and are no longer a priority.\n• None The boys are back and wondering when Peter was at 'peak Crouch'", "Most secondary school pupils will not return until after the Easter break\n\nReopening schools to all pupils at the same time is \"not safe\", the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford defended Wales' gradual re-introduction of classroom lessons after he was criticised by the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nIn England all schools go back on 8 March, but some secondary pupils in Wales will not return until after Easter.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said schools were his government's top priority and that it was following scientific advice.\n\nUnder 7s in the foundation phase are going back to school this week, with other primary school children and older secondary students due back on 15 March.\n\nMr Drakeford's remarks are at odds with the UK government plans for schools in England.\n\nThere 21 June has been given as a date to end lockdown, but Wales' Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Chris Jones has said it is \"impossible\" to give such a date.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has said her \"preference\" is for the final age groups, including years seven to nine, to return after the Easter holidays. The summer term starts on 12 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first minister has previously suggested self-catering accommodation could reopen in time for Easter and non-essential retail could resume on 15 March.\n\nAt first minister's question time, Welsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"How can you allow, if there's any headroom going through the month of March, for schoolchildren to remain out of school and [also] be opening up other parts of the economy by lifting the restrictions?\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"We will return students to schools as fast as it is safe to do so. The advice we have is that it would not be safe to do what he is suggesting.\n\n\"Now if it is the policy of the Conservative Party in Wales to return children to conditions that are not safe for them or for their staff, then let him say so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Schools return with pupils 'excited to see friends'\n\n\"This government will not do that. We will follow the science, whatever happens elsewhere.\n\n\"The science is you must return children in tranches and you must pause between each one.\"\n\nUK government scientific advisers have said re-opening schools would raise the R number, which measures who quickly coronavirus is spreading.\n\nThe Welsh Government's own advisers have said a \"phased and gradual\" approach would allow time to monitor the impact of changes \"and if necessary to re-impose changes\".\n\nOn Monday the Welsh Conservatives called for a Welsh roadmap out of lockdown, in the model of the plans for England.\n\nMinisters in Cardiff have set out some time-scales, including a potential date for easing stay at home restrictions in March, but has declined to give definitive dates for several sectors.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said it does not want to raise people's hopes too early.\n• None Secondary school pupils may go back after Easter", "Around 80,000 people in England will be offered urgent tests for the South Africa coronavirus variant after cases with no links to travel were found.\n\nResidents aged 16 and over in eight areas across Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall are being asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms.\n\nThe health secretary said the UK must come down \"hard\" on the variant .\n\nPrevious cases in the UK were connected to South Africa.\n\nBut random checks found 11 cases that could not be linked to international travel.\n\nMatt Hancock told a Downing Street news conference on Monday that there was \"currently no evidence\" to suggest the South African variant was \"any more severe, but we need to come down on it hard, and we will\".\n\nThe neighbourhoods being targeted for testing are:\n\nAppealing to residents of these postcodes, Mr Hancock added: \"It is imperative that you stay at home, and that you get a test, even if you don't have symptoms.\n\n\"This is so important so that we can break the chains of the transmission of this new variant, and we've got to bring this virus to heel.\"\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said a \"real effort\" should be made to try to \"eliminate\" the South African variant before it took hold.\n\nProf Jim McManus, the director of public health for Hertfordshire, said if every single case was detected, it might be \"possible\" to eradicate the variant within two weeks.\n\nHe warned that officials \"may find this has spread beyond that, so it may take three weeks or more, but we will give this everything we have got,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAsked about the effectiveness of vaccines against the South African strain, Dr Susan Hopkins, strategic response director at Public Health England, said: \"Three of the vaccines that have been used to date in the trials have shown that they've been effective against the South African variant at a level greater than was set as the minimum standard by the WHO.\n\n\"We expect all other vaccines to have a similar level of effectiveness, particularly in reducing hospitalisation and death.\"\n\nAlmost 9.3 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: UK \"must come down hard\" on South Africa variant\n\nMeanwhile, a further 18,607 new infections were recorded in the UK as of Monday, as well as another 406 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn total, 105 cases of the South African variant have been identified.\n\nThe 11 cases are not tied to people who had travelled to South Africa, or to the other known cases, prompting fears they may have caught it in the UK.\n\nAnd the government has now advised local authorities to begin mass testing in a number of neighbourhoods where these cases have been identified.\n\nIn some areas, home testing kits are also being sent to households.\n\nPositive cases will be analysed to see if they are caused by the South African variant.\n\nThis development sounds alarming - with just a handful of cases prompting a massive effort to get tens of thousands of people tested.\n\nBut as always context is needed.\n\nThis variant is - like the UK one - more contagious.\n\nBut there is no evidence that it causes more serious illness.\n\nAnd data suggests the vaccines will work against it, although maybe not quite as well as they do against the original one.\n\nSo the logic of public health officials is to stop or at least slow the spread.\n\nWe are at a crucial point with the vaccine being rolled out quickly and immunity being built up by significant numbers of vulnerable people.\n\nAnything that interferes with that will slow our escape from lockdown and, ultimately, the pandemic as well as increasing risk to the population.\n\nSo the aim is to hit it hard and early.\n\nThe fact the UK is the world leader in sequencing - the process of analysing positive cases in detail - means officials have been able to identify the early signs of community transmission, giving the country a fighting chance of stamping down hard on this variant.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, of Public Health England, urged people to come forward in these areas.\n\n\"We are trying to contain this so it does not spread,\" she said.\n\nKent County Council said police staff would be among those going door-to-door to offer residents in the ME15 area tests \"there and then\". In Hertfordshire, residents in the EN10 area will receive a letter offering tests at mobile screening units, to collect at a local library, or through the post, the county council said.\n\nPublic Health England has been analysing around 5% to 10% of all positive cases in more detail, allowing it to identify new variants in the community.\n\nIn December, the discovery of the new strain prompted a ban on foreign nationals travelling into the UK from South Africa and later from southern African countries.\n\nUnder current restrictions, people arriving into England from anywhere outside the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man need to isolate at home for 10 days and provide a negative Covid test result before travel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We will be living with Covid for a while to come\"\n\nA new system of quarantine requiring those arriving from countries under travel bans to isolate in hotels is due to be introduced in the coming weeks.\n\nThere are signs the South African variant makes vaccination a little less effective.\n\nStudies are underway into how the vaccines work against the new variants, with some early results suggesting the Pfizer jab protects against them.\n\nData on two new vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - show that they appear to offer some protection against the variant.\n\nMeanwhile, early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson said vaccines would still give a high degree of immunity nonetheless, adding the vaccines could be adapted to deal with new variants if necessary.\n\n\"The fact is we are going to be living with Covid for a while to come in one way or another,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"I don't think it will be as bad as the last 12 months, or anything like, of course.\n\n\"But it's very, very important that our vaccines continue to develop and to adapt - and they will.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson said that, if things go well, he would be \"optimistic\" about the chances of Britons enjoying a summer holiday this year.\n\nThe success of the vaccine rollout and level of Covid cases would be factors taken into consideration, he said.\n\nIt came as the NHS announced that a Covid vaccine has been offered to all older residents at eligible care homes in England.\n\nNHS England said more than 10,000 care homes with older residents had been offered jabs, hailed as a \"significant milestone\".", "The UK has ordered an extra 40 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine from the French pharmaceutical company Valneva, that should become available later in the year and into 2022.\n\nThe government says it will give flexibility should people need revaccinating next winter or beyond.\n\nThe UK has secured 407 million doses of different coronavirus vaccines - more than enough for the entire population.\n\nValneva's jab is still being tested in trials.\n\nAlthough those will take time to satisfy regulators before it can be rolled out, manufacturing at a site in West Lothian, Scotland, has already begun.\n\nThe site is already supporting 100 new highly-skilled local jobs for scientists and technicians.\n\nThe jab is expected to be given as two doses and contains a dead version of coronavirus that cannot cause disease, but should teach the body's immune system how to fight it.\n\nThe government said it signed a deal to almost double its initial order for 60 million doses.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: \"This latest deal is yet another weapon in our national arsenal against this terrible disease, and will ensure we have sufficient supplies to protect the British public in 2021 and beyond.\n\n\"Backed with major investment from the UK government, Valneva's site in Scotland will be a vaccine production powerhouse, working flat out to ensure we can quickly deploy jabs across the UK if their candidate is approved, while supporting top quality, local jobs.\"\n\nVaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said any surplus vaccine could be distributed globally.\n\n\"If approved, Valneva's vaccine will not only help tackle Covid-19 here in the UK, but aid our mission to ensure there is a fair supply of vaccines across the globe.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"", "The Duke of Cambridge has called for racist abuse aimed at footballers to stop, calling it \"despicable\".\n\nManchester United forward Marcus Rashford was the latest player subjected to racist abuse this weekend after a series of incidents.\n\nOn Sunday, Greater Manchester Police began an investigation into the abuse.\n\nAnd writing on Twitter , Prince William, who is also the president of the Football Association, praised those who had spoken out.\n\nHe said: \"Racist abuse - whether on the pitch, in the stands, or on social media - is despicable and it must stop now.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility to create an environment where such abuse is not tolerated, and those who choose to spread hate and division are held accountable for their actions. That responsibility extends to the platforms where so much of this activity now takes place.\n\n\"I commend all those players, supporters, clubs and organisations who continue to call out and condemn this abuse in the strongest terms.\"\n\nThe abuse aimed at Rashford on Saturday followed similar treatment of team-mates Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial.\n\n\"A number of these comments have been reported to us and we are liaising with those involved to provide support and we will be investigating these crimes thoroughly,\" said a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) statement.\n\nRashford described the abuse as \"humanity and social media at its worst\".\n\nThe 23-year-old, who was awarded the MBE for his work fighting child food poverty, received multiple racist messages on Instagram on Saturday.\n\nThey were sent to the England striker after United's 0-0 draw with Arsenal.\n\n\"I'm a black man and I live every day proud that I am,\" he said on Twitter.\n\n\"No-one, or no one comment, is going to make me feel any different. So sorry if you were looking for a strong reaction, you're just simply not going to get it here.\n\n\"I'm not sharing screenshots. It would be irresponsible to do so and as you can imagine there's nothing original in them.\n\n\"I have beautiful children of all colours following me and they don't need to read it. Beautiful colours that should only be celebrated.\"\n\nGMP said they were aware that a number of Manchester United players had suffered abuse on social media between Wednesday and Saturday.\n\nThey added: \"Nobody should be subject to such abuse and it is deeply upsetting not only to those who suffer it, but to all those who come across this awful language too.\n\n\"These hateful words have no place anywhere in our society whether online or otherwise.\"\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, also released a statement after Rashford's abuse. It said: \"We have taken action in this case by removing accounts and comments and are continuing to investigate.\"\n\n'Be nice and be good humans'\n\nKaren Carney, who won 144 England caps, deleted her Twitter account in January following online abuse she received after a tweet by Leeds United questioned her comments as a pundit.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live pundit Carney, 33, said the abuse sports personalities were receiving was \"horrible and brutal\".\n\n\"If you wouldn't say it to someone's face, don't say it on social media and hide behind a platform,\" said Carney. \"It's really upsetting and we need to do something about it, especially in a pandemic. It's really tough at the moment.\n\n\"I would just urge people to be nice and be good humans. The people that receive this, it bothers them and upsets them.\n\n\"The people posting on social media would see Marcus Rashford and ask him for a photo. He's a human being and what I love about him is he didn't rise to it.\n\n\"Any person that receives abuse, if they say something back [online] they get the abuse 10 times over. We urge the government to do something about it because it's getting beyond a joke. I worry about people's mental health.\"\n\nSpeaking on Match of the Day, former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright said the authorities and social media companies needed to do more to identify the perpetrators.\n\nHe said: \"It seems to be a fact if a black player plays poorly - or they think they did - they come with all the emojis and whatever. There are ways of being able to catch people. They're not vigilant enough - nowhere near.\n\n\"It should be something they're doing hand in hand [authorities and social media sites]. But how much do they care deep down?\"\n\nFormer Tottenham, Newcastle and England midfielder Jermaine Jenas added: \"The platforms, I need them to show me these people and say they're doing everything they can to bring some justice. For those asking why we are still taking the knee, there you go.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha felt people on social media were \"energised\" to post abuse because the social media companies were not doing enough to stop it.\n\n\"When it happened to Axel Tuanzebe, you think it's a big talking point and nothing can happen like that again, but there's something happening again and again,\" said Onuoha on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Groups of people feel energised and can do it again and say whatever they want to say. We're relying on technology giants to solve a situation they have created themselves.\n\n\"Some people go on there with anonymity and feel they can say anything whether to do with race or sexuality and it's completely unacceptable. How do you police a billion people on social media?\n\n\"The things that are being said are a disgrace and I want change. Lots of people want change and we need change but until there's that level of accountability, people will feel energised to say whatever they want.\"\n\nPFA calls for players to be protected\n\nPlayers' union the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) says action should have been taken earlier.\n\n\"Players have repeatedly raised this issue publicly and still the abuse persists,\" said a PFA statement. \"While none of us have the power to eradicate racism from society, social media companies must do their part and eliminate it from their platforms - over which they do have control.\n\n\"Enough time has been given to the networks to demonstrate a willingness to act. We have been at crisis point with this issue for two years. Racism causes trauma, and online abuse presents a significant risk to people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Last week we met with Cabinet ministers to discuss discrimination in football with players sharing first-hand accounts of their experience of racist abuse online.\n\n\"Following the meeting, the government committed to introduce new laws around online abuse and launch a fan-led review of football governance. While we welcome these steps, finding a way to protect players from ongoing racist abuse cannot wait.\"\n\nThe Football Association had reiterated its commitment to clamping down on discrimination of all kinds earlier on Saturday.\n\n\"We are united with all of football in our abhorrence of any racist abuse,\" read an FA statement. \"This is not acceptable in any part of society.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the rest of the game, the government and social media platforms to remove this - and all elements of - discrimination from our sport.\"\n\nOn Friday Chelsea said they were \"disgusted\" after right-back Reece James was racially abused on social media.\n\nOn Saturday a man was arrested after a racist message was sent to West Brom midfielder Romaine Sawyers.\n\nTuanzebe and Martial were racially abused on social media after Manchester United's defeat by Sheffield United on Wednesday.\n\nThe PFA statement added: \"Over the past five days, we have seen another spate of disgusting racial abuse aimed at black professional footballers.\n\n\"Axel Tuanzebe, Anthony Martial, Romain Sawyers, Reece James and Marcus Rashford should not have to put up with being racially abused because some 'fans' don't like the results of a football match. These players are at work and racist abuse should not be tolerated as part of any profession.\n\n\"We have been very clear that social media platforms are an extension of a professional footballer's workplace. Every effort must be taken to protect them - and all other users - from racist abuse while using social media.\n\n\"Offline consequences for online hate crimes must be pursued whenever possible.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK government held talks with current and former footballers about tackling discrimination and abuse.\n\nOn Friday a spokesperson for Facebook said: \"There is no place for racism on Instagram and we are committed to removing it when we find it. We know there is more to do and we will continue to work closely with clubs, players and football authorities to investigate instances of discrimination and collectively tackle this issue.\"\n\nTwitter said in a statement: \"Racist behaviour has no place on our service and when we identify accounts that violate any of the Twitter Rules, we take enforcement action.\n\n\"We have proactively engaged and continue to collaborate with our valued partners in football to identify ways to tackle this issue collectively and will continue to play our part in curbing this unacceptable behaviour - both online and offline.\"\n• None Fresh off a series victory Jimmy Anderson has a very special guest\n• None Female inspirations, online trolls and her relationship with Shia LaBeouf", "The deal does not include the brands' stores\n\nThousands of jobs remain at risk after online fashion retailer Asos struck a £295m deal to buy four brands from failed retail group Arcadia.\n\nAsos is buying the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands, but not the shops.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia group fell into administration in November last year, casting doubt over the future of its brands and 13,000 jobs.\n\nAsos is paying £265m for the brands and a further £30m for the stock.\n\nAbout 300 people currently employed by the brands in design, buying and retail partnerships will transfer to Asos, but a question mark hangs over thousands more jobs.\n\nAbout 70 stores with 2,500 employees are expected to close.\n\nWithin the past few weeks 50 stores have already closed, with the loss of about 2,000 jobs.\n\nOne Topshop worker who wanted to remain anonymous said he had found out about the Asos deal from a Tweet by the fashion retailer on Monday.\n\n\"I woke up this morning, and just went on my phone, and it was the first thing that I saw on Twitter,\" he said. \"That was the first word we had, we didn't hear anything properly from the Arcadia side of things for a good hour and a bit afterwards.\"\n\nHe said that it was a part-time job for him while studying and \"I feel worse for the people who work there full-time for their careers.\"\n\n\"There's lots of people who've been there for many years, and obviously, when [Asos] is just taking the digital side of it, there's so many people that work in the stores. It's really sad for company.\"\n\nHe said that while coronavirus \"hasn't helped\" the closure of physical stores would \"leave a big gap\".\n\n\"People still want to shop in person. It is good doing online shopping, but what then replaces the High Street? There's going to be nothing left, eventually, if all these companies keep buying up [brands].\"\n\nAsos chief executive Nick Beighton said: \"The acquisition of these iconic British brands is a hugely exciting moment for Asos and our customers and will help accelerate our multi-brand platform strategy.\n\n\"We have been central to driving their recent growth online and, under our ownership, we will develop them further, using our design, marketing, technology and logistics expertise, and working closely with key strategic retail partners in the UK and around the world.\"\n\nMr Beighton told journalists on a conference call that acquiring the brands would accelerate Asos's mission to become \"the number one destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings throughout the world\".\n\n\"This deal makes perfect sense for us on every level,\" he added.\n\nIn a separate BBC interview, he said: \"There was a lot of competition and we're really pleased we eventually came through and won the brands.\n\n\"We think we're the natural owners for these brands. We know these customers and we know this market. We have the best designers in London and really I think these brands sit naturally on the Asos platform.\"\n\nAdministrators Deliotte said the deal was expected to complete on 4 February.\n\nHowever, neither Asos nor the administrators made any mention of the people who worked in the brands' store networks.\n\nAsos said it had acquired \"strong consumer-facing brands\" and saw \"a significant opportunity\" to drive further growth for them globally.\n\nIt added that the brands would benefit from \"investment into customer engagement and brand positioning in line with our existing model\".\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for the brands that it has acquired.\n\nAsos' purchase of the four main Arcadia brands leaves the thousands of staff employed in the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT shops facing a desperately uncertain future. They are unlikely to keep their jobs. It is hard to see a buyer emerging at the right time to keep them employed.\n\nThere are also 10,000 members of the Arcadia pension scheme who face a possible hit to their retirement benefits. The scheme has an estimated deficit of £350m and is being assessed by the Pension Protection Fund, the government-backed lifeboat scheme for orphan pension plans.\n\nCouncil leaders all over the country will also be fretting at the rapid exodus from the High Street. Topshop once had 300 shops - only 70-odd are still operating - and Debenhams' 124 High Street stores are expected to close from next month. This is a double blow to town centres, which will now look much emptier when pandemic trading restrictions are lifted.\n\nLandlords will be wondering who might be their new tenants. As one retail observer has noted, there is only so much street food and crazy golf that a single postcode can take. Many councils will hope a conversion of empty premises into flats will make the difference. However, the British Property Federation is warning that new government plans to fast-track the re-purposing of retail premises risk making matters worse.\n\nAnother of Sir Philip Green's brands, Evans, was bought by Australia's City Chic in December for £23m.\n\nOther brands in the Arcadia stable that have not yet been sold are Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton.\n\nIt emerged last week that online fashion retailer Boohoo was in \"exclusive\" talks to snap up those brands.\n\nAlso last week, Boohoo sealed a deal to buy the Debenhams brand and website for £55m. However, the price tag did not include any of the retailer's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce, resulting in up to 12,000 job losses.\n\nOn Monday retailer Aldi said that workers affected by the collapse of Arcadia and Debenhams should apply for one of the 4,000 jobs it aims to create in the UK this year.\n\nSupermarkets have seen high demand for groceries since March 2020 as restaurants and pubs have been hit by lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions.\n\nAldi is currently opening one store per week \"as we continue to try to meet the huge demand\", said Aldi UK recruitment director Kelly Stokes.\n\n\"That means finding around 4,000 new Aldi colleagues this year and, if we can do that while also helping those who have recently lost out due to closures elsewhere, we will do,\" she said.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year, the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nProf John Colley, associate dean of Warwick Business School, described the Asos deal as \"another nail in the High Street's coffin\",\n\n\"Meanwhile. landlords will have to try to re-let the properties and there will be few takers in the current climate,\" he said.\n\n\"With retail values collapsing, it is likely that many of these properties have to be converted for other uses. In that sense, we can see Covid-19 accelerating and crystallising trends which have been developing for many years.\"", "Two men were found tending to a barbecue when police officers were called to Primrose Close in Haydon Wick\n\nPartygoers who travelled across the country to attend a birthday barbecue have been fined by police for breaching Covid-19 lockdown restrictions\n\nPolice responded to reports of a gathering at a property in Primrose Close in Haydon Wick, Swindon.\n\nOfficers found a party with loud music, alcohol and two men cooking food on a barbecue at 21:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe homeowner said it was his party and attendees had travelled from as far as Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire.\n\nWiltshire Police's chief constable Kier Pritchard said it was \"astounding\".\n\nOfficers broke up the gathering and ordered people to return home.\n\nThe homeowner and partygoers were given fixed penalty notices of £800 for participating in a gathering of more than 15 people in a private dwelling.\n\nMr Pritchard said: \"It is astounding to me that people still believe it is acceptable to travel across the country to attend a birthday party.\n\n\"I cannot fathom the thinking behind a decision to host or attend a house party.\"\n\nHe added: \"I have been clear that our policing response must continue to be robust, fair and consistent and this enforcement action is exactly what I would expect my officers to be doing with such a flagrant breach.\"\n\nLast week Wiltshire Council revealed it had fined a Trowbridge bar's licensee £1,000 after repeated breaches of coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Osborne's new firm has just 13 staff - but a big presence in corporate takeover deals\n\nGeorge Osborne, the former UK chancellor known for having an eclectic range of jobs since leaving office, is taking up a full time role at a small investment bank, Robey Warshaw.\n\nIt will mean leaving jobs at London's Evening Standard newspaper and BlackRock, the powerful financial firm.\n\nAt Robey Warshaw, Mr Osborne, chancellor from 2010 to 2016, will specialise in big takeover deals.\n\nHe said he was \"proud to be joining... the best of the best\".\n\nMr Osborne had been editor of the Evening Standard. Last year he became editor-in-chief of the London free-sheet when Emily Sheffield took over as the day-to-day editor.\n\nBBC media editor Amol Rajan said he leaves the paper \"at a time when its business model, depending on heavy commuter footfall in London, is broken\".\n\nMr Osborne was a key lieutenant in David Cameron's Conservative government, pushing through policies to reduce Britain's deficit in an austerity drive that divided popular opinion.\n\nShortly before leaving Parliament he took up an advisor role at fund manager BlackRock, a one-day-week job that reportedly paid £650,000 a year.\n\nHe also had jobs in academia and at the McCain Institute, a think-tank founded by the late Republican senator John McCain.\n\nMr Osborne joins Robey Warshaw as a partner in April. The boutique investment bank specialises in mergers and acquisitions, and its clients include Centrica, Vodafone, and BP.\n\nThe firm is thought to have only about 13 staff, but has advised on some major deals, most recently the London Stock Exchange's $27bn takeover of Refinitiv, a data company.\n\nMr Osborne said: \"Robey Warshaw is the best of the best, advising great businesses on how to grow, and I'm proud to be joining this first-rate team.\"\n\nHe will remain as chairman of the advisory board of Exor, the holding company through which Italy's billionaire Agnelli family manages its investments.\n\nLast year Sajid Javid, who served as chancellor from 2019 to 2020, took an advisory role at US investment bank JP Morgan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMyanmar woke to the news on Monday that the military was seizing control of the country.\n\n\"I guess I'll be live tweeting a coup now,\" former Reuters journalist Aye Min Thant wrote on Twitter shortly before 07:00 local time (00:30 GMT).\n\n\"Things are still pretty quiet for now, though people are awake and scared. I've been fielding calls since 6am from friends and relatives. The internet is in and out and my sim card no longer works.\"\n\nThe takeover was announced in a statement aired on a military-owned television station.\n\nIt said the top army commander was in charge and a one-year state of emergency had been declared. The country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, had been detained, along with other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nThe move followed a landslide win by Ms Suu Kyi's party in an election in November that the army claims was marred by fraud. Ms Suu Kyi has urged her supporters to \"protest against the coup\".\n\nMyanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the armed forces from 1962 until 2011, when a new government began ushering in a return to civilian rule.\n\nOne resident of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, told the BBC she was ready to head out for an early morning walk when she received a message from a friend telling her of Ms Suu Kyi's detention.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, immediately logged on to social media.\n\n\"Waking up to learn your world has been completely turned upside down overnight was not a new feeling, but a feeling that I thought that we had moved on from, and one that I never thought we'd be forced to feel again,\" she said, reflecting on her childhood under military rule.\n\n\"What really hit me was seeing how our regional ministers were all detained. Because this meant that they really took everyone, not just Aung San Suu Kyi,\" she added.\n\nThe arrest of regional lawmaker Pa Pa Han was livestreamed on Facebook by her husband.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pa Pa Han was escorted out of her home by soldiers\n\nPolitical activists, including filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, were also reported to have been detained.\n\nThe Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) in Myanmar told the BBC it had documented the arrests of at least 42 officials, and 16 civil society activists.\n\nIt said the process of verifying names was ongoing, while noting that some detainees had been released later in the day.\n\n\"We woke up with the news of the military coup in the early morning and some of our friends were detained,\" a local activist, who we are keeping anonymous, told the BBC's Newsday programme.\n\n\"The internet connectivity is not there anymore... I can't go out and use my phone, there is no data at all. This is what's happening right now. There are military cars roaming around the city,\" she said.\n\nLocal journalist Cape Diamond tweeted that in the capital, Nay Pyi Daw, there had been no signal from 04:00 to 11:15 local time. \"No call, No Wifi,\" he later wrote on Twitter.\n\nAs the military took hold of power, internet disruption affected large areas.\n\nThe restrictions began at 03:00 on Monday local time. Internet connectivity dropped to 50% of normal levels of internet connectivity by 08:00.\n\nThe data shows disruptions impacting networks operators including state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) and an international operator Telenor, according to internet monitoring service Netblocks.\n\nNetblocks say its findings indicate a \"centrally ordered mechanism of disruption… progressing over time as operators comply\".\n\nBy midday, internet connectivity appeared to be back up to 75%.\n\nThe Myanmar government has restricted the internet before, especially in areas in Rakhine and Chin states, where the army is fighting local groups.\n\nArticle 77 of Myanmar's Telecommunications Law passed in 2013 permits the government to cut off telecommunications during a national emergency.\n\nHowever, human rights groups have called for the law to be amended to protect freedom of expression.\n\nInternational and domestic TV channels, including the state broadcaster, went off air.\n\nThe bright red flags of the NLD were taken off of homes and businesses in Yangon.\n\n\"My neighbour just took down his NLD flag... The fear of violence is real,\" journalist and researcher Annie Zaman wrote on Twitter.\n\nShe later shared a video of a flag being removed at a local 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 Annie Zaman အန်နီ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople stocked up on essential supplies and queued at ATMs. Banks suspended services because of poor internet connections but said they would resume from Tuesday.\n\nBBC Burmese Service journalist Nyein Chan Aye said the mood in Yangon was of \"fear, anger and frustration\".\n\nHe said that after rushing out to buy staple supplies, like rice, many people were staying indoors waiting to see what happens next.\n\nQueues formed at banks and ATMs following the announcement\n\nIt has been a tough time economically for many in Myanmar, and the arrival of a coup has had many fearing for basics.\n\nMa Nan, a trader in Yangon, told the BBC: \"I'm worried if the price [of goods] will go up. I am worried because my daughter hasn't finished her school [education]. It's only halfway. Also this is the time of a pandemic.\"\n\nHousewife Than Than Nyunt was also worried that the price of goods would rise and \"people will revolt\", adding: \"I hope that Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues will be freed sooner rather than later.\"\n\nThe fears are real if this coup means a return to the kind of life under the military rule of the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nThe bloody crackdown of 1988 led to more than two decades of military rule\n\nThe military had staged a bloody coup in 1988, with thousands dying as a student-led uprising against a Soviet-style one-party rule was put down.\n\nMs Suu Kyi rose to prominence at the time and battled military rule and human rights abuses for two decades, after the military had refused to accept her election win of 1990.\n\nLife was punctuated by corruption, fluctuating prices, repression of daily life, chronic malnourishment in some areas and ethnic strife in others. Many are now concerned about what will come next.\n\n\"We are currently trying to tell ourselves that we will move on because we've moved on from worse before,\" the 25-year-old in Yangon told the BBC. \"But I wish we didn't have to do that, I wish we didn't have to tell ourselves to be strong.\"\n\nSome military supporters, however, celebrated the coup, parading through the city blasting patriotic music.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Aye Min Thant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGriffin Hotchkiss, an American expat who has lived in Myanmar for about six years, said he saw a \"caravan of pro-military civilians blasting loud music and 'celebrating' - while people (whom I know to be NLD supporters) on my street were visibly angry\".\n\nSome were surprised that the immediate fallout was not more extreme.\n\nOn a trip into Yangon, Mr Hotchkiss said that \"besides some army vehicles in the City Hall compound nothing looked out of the ordinary\".\n\nSupporters of Myanmar's military drove through Yangon in celebration\n\nLater in the day, Mr Hotchkiss noticed that while there were \"far fewer people\", many shops appeared to be open and doing business.\n\nMichael Ghilezan, who lives in Yangon with his Burmese wife, said he had \"expected to see people marching down the streets in protests, and military vehicles stationed around the city. But none of that happened\".", "The military in Myanmar has seized power and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of her governing party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).\n\nDuring early morning raids, soldiers arrived at the homes of politicians to arrest them for \"election fraud\".\n\nPa Pa Han, who is a regional member of parliament was escorted out of her home by soldiers.\n\nHer husband, Ye Lin Naing, who is also an MP, live streamed it on Facebook, saying about 15 soldiers were at their home.", "Business leaders have called on the government to work with them on a roadmap out of lockdown to unlock investment for a post-Covid recovery.\n\nIn a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, the Confederation of British Industry says the time to plan for re-opening the economy in England is now.\n\nFirms are \"in the dark\" about planning for the months ahead, the employers' group said.\n\nA government spokesperson said lockdown would be lifted as soon as possible.\n\nBut the CBI, which speaks on behalf of about 190,000 businesses, said there is an opportunity to \"use time wisely\" to prepare for a safe re-opening of the economy.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Kwarteng, CBI director-general Tony Danker, writes: \"With health teams rightly in crisis management mode, we in business along with the economic ministries can use this time to plan for a successful re-opening of the economy when the moment is right to do so.\n\n\"Businesses are currently completely in the dark when planning for the weeks and months ahead and this is hindering investment. We can provide more clarity and do the prep work now to enable them to plan for reopening and growth.\"\n\nMr Danker will also be writing to the devolved nations' governments next week.\n\nThe CBI calls for clarification on what will be considered low, medium or high-risk economic activity, so that businesses can understand what will open sooner or later.\n\nMr Danker also wants to know whether or not there will be a return to tiering, as part of a gradual re-opening.\n\nHe also wants the creation of bespoke, detailed plans for the harder-to-open sectors of the economy, such as testing regimes for international travel, or the conditions for activities such as hospitality and live events to return.\n\nThe CBI wrote to Mr Kwarteng on Monday, and will write to to the devolved nations' governments next week.\n\nMr Danker says in the letter: \"The Prime Minister has set out the initial parameters for reopening as a country, which was a big help for businesses. Clearly, the precise dates will be determined by data, so let's use this time wisely to get the roadmap right together for when lockdown ends.\n\n\"A common framework with devolved administrations must also be possible and help to minimise differences in approach.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is working on a recovery plan, expected to be published ahead of next month's Budget. That plan will, according to reports, focus on jobs and investment.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As the prime minister has made clear, we will lift restrictions as soon as we can, but by lifting them too soon we run the risk of placing our NHS under even greater pressure and having to re-impose restrictions at a later date.\"\n\nThe spokesperson pointed out that the government had invested more than £280bn during the pandemic to protect jobs and businesses, adding: \"By mid-February we will be in a better position to lay out the next steps for the economy without risking renewed pressure on our NHS.\"", "Under Covid-19 rules only locals are allowed to ski at Austria's resorts\n\nAustrian police say 96 foreigners, including Britons, have been caught breaching Covid-19 lockdown restrictions by taking a skiing holiday.\n\nThey are suspected of using loopholes to stay at the St Anton am Arlberg resort. Some registered local addresses or said they were seeking work.\n\nEach could now face a fine of up to €2,180 (£1,921; $2,633).\n\nAustrian ski slopes remain open for locals, but not for foreign tourists.\n\nPolice said the foreigners included Danes, Swedes, Germans, Irish, Romanians, Poles and Australians. All of them must also show coronavirus PCR tests.\n\nThe police checks took place at 44 hotels and chalets in the resort on Friday.\n\nAustria has imposed quarantines and strict rules on entering the country, in large part to discourage skiers, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Vienna.\n\nCommenting on the police operation, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said \"whoever fails to obey the Covid-19 rules and stays in our country without justification must be fined\".\n\nTyrol regional governor Günther Platter said there would be \"zero tolerance\" for violators of the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere in the Tyrol, avalanches killed four people over the weekend, AFP news agency reports.\n\nA man and woman - both Austrians - were buried in one on Saturday in the Sellrain area. The other two fatalities were a 16-year-old German boy in the Kühtai area and an Austrian man near Axamer Lizum.\n\nCORRECTION 2 February 2021:Our initial report said all 96 foreigners had been placed in quarantine. We now understand this was not the case.", "Nintendo has sold about four million more Switch consoles than those of its 3DS\n\nSales of Nintendo's Switch gaming consoles have surpassed those of their predecessor - the 3DS - despite being available for a much shorter period.\n\nThe firm said 79.87 million units had been sold since its March 2017 launch.\n\nThe figures accompanied the Japanese firm's financial results, which saw it declare a record 377bn yen ($3.6bn) profit for the April-December period.\n\nAnalysts attribute the Switch's success to the popularity of Animal Crossing, among other family-friendly exclusives.\n\nSuper Mario 3D World - which goes on sale on 12 February - is expected to provide it with a further boost.\n\nNintendo ended production of its 3DS handheld in September 2020 and says it sold 75.94 million units over its nine-and-a-half year lifetime.\n\nUp to four players can take part in the forthcoming Super Mario title\n\nThe Switch first went on sale in 2017, and was joined by a lower-cost model - the Switch Lite - in 2019, which is also included in the tally.\n\nThe firm said demand for the machines was 35.8% up on the same period the previous year, with a total of 24.1 million units sold over the last nine months of 2020.\n\nNintendo's president Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company had sufficient components to continue producing the devices - despite wider industry shortages - and it now expected to sell 26.5 million of the consoles over the financial year as a whole. That represents 10% more than its previous guidance.\n\nHe added that there were no plans to launch a successor in the near term. However, there is continued speculation the company will unveil a \"pro\" version of the Switch before the end of 2021.\n\n\"The sales success of the Switch justifies Nintendo's decision to stick with its product strategy of combining unique and innovative dedicated games hardware with compelling first-party games,\" Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis told the BBC.\n\n\"Sometimes this approach misses the mark - see the Wii U for example - but when it works it tends to result in very successful products.\n\n\"Clearly the stand out hit is the 30-million-selling Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a gentle, sociable game that will be synonymous with lockdown for many people.\"\n\nAnimal Crossing: New Horizons has provided a distraction from the Covid pandemic for its millions of players\n\nDespite the Switch's success, it still has some way to go before overtaking sales of four of the firm's other consoles:\n\nIf ever it was needed, the Nintendo Switch is proof that you don't need the highest-resolution graphics or fastest processor to make great games.\n\nSometimes people just want a cute, relaxing experience - and to be several thousand bells in debt to an entrepreneurial Japanese raccoon dog.\n\nAnimal Crossing has always been a best-seller for Nintendo's consoles, but New Horizons has surpassed expectations, shifting about 31 million copies.\n\nIts blend of relaxing island life and home decoration have provided some much-needed escapism during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts social features also helped friends connect, chat and visit one another's homes - at least virtually - during lockdown restrictions.\n\nCritics say New Horizons is not that dissimilar from previous games in the series.\n\nIndeed, some of the best-selling games for the Switch - such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - are pretty much re-releases from the flop Wii U console.\n\nBut Nintendo seems to have found a winning formula with the Switch that shows no signs of slowing down.", "\"Traumatised\" and \"exhausted\" medical staff need time to recover before tackling an NHS backlog, says the group representing hospitals in England.\n\nMany staff could resign if their wellbeing is not factored into plans to cut waiting lists, NHS Providers said.\n\nThe number of people waiting more than a year for surgery rose 1,613 to 192,000 during the Covid pandemic.\n\nNHS Providers said demand for hospital beds is easing, but the pressure on intensive care units is still intense.\n\nThere are currently 34,783 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK. At the peak of the first wave in April 2020, there were 21,684 Covid patients in hospital.\n\nAccording to latest government data, there are 3,832 people on ventilators.\n\nNHS Providers estimates that it is going to be at least a month before the NHS gets back to normal winter pressures, and trusts are concerned about the transition into the next phase of the pandemic.\n\nCritical work that has been postponed, including a small number of urgent cancer cases, will be a priority, but there remains a need to tackle a wider backlog of routine operations alongside the vaccination programme.\n\nNHS Providers said trusts will work as fast as possible to tackle the backlog, but leaders cannot do so at the expense of staff burnout.\n\nLast month, a study suggested that many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. One in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nTalk to any NHS manager, doctor, nurse or other member of frontline staff and you will get the same message - people are stressed, fatigued and in danger of burnout.\n\nMorale is low and it does not feel to staff as if there are signs of any let-up.\n\nThat's why NHS Providers, representing hospitals and other trusts in England, has warned that just because Covid patient numbers are easing, there should not be any expectation of a return to normal service any time soon.\n\nThere is a large backlog of postponed routine operations and procedures - 192,000 in England have waited more than a year for non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut NHS Providers says staff welfare must be the priority.\n\nRecovery time and leave have to be factored in before any plan to cut waiting lists is drawn up.\n\nThere is a coded warning to ministers that more funding will be needed.\n\nIt all adds to another warning that the NHS faces many months of serious challenges, however quickly the Covid challenge recedes.\n\nOn Sunday, Rupert Pearse, from the Intensive Care Society, said it was going to be \"another very hard year\" and warned of the mental health impact on NHS staff.\n\n\"I've never been in the Army but I imagine it's a little bit like a second tour of duty,\" Prof Pearse, a consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, a Covid vaccine has been offered to residents at every eligible care home in England, the NHS has announced, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson describing the achievement as a \"crucial milestone\".\n\nIt came as a record 598,389 first jabs were given across the UK on Saturday.\n\nNearly nine million people have received the first dose of a vaccine, with around 490,000 having received two jabs.\n\nA further 587 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported on Sunday.\n\nIt takes the UK's total by that measure to 106,158, although the number of reported deaths tends to be lower over the weekend.", "Consultants have warned that Covid patients needing intensive care remain high in Wales\n\nHospitals are still full, despite the number of new cases of coronavirus falling in many communities across Wales, a leading doctor has warned.\n\nWales' average Covid case rate has fallen from more than 650 per 100,000 people before Christmas to 141.2.\n\nHowever, rates in Wales' most infected county are double the national average.\n\nDr Giri Shanker, of Public Health Wales (PHW), said there were signs community transmission was going down, but warned the NHS was still struggling.\n\nDr Shanker, who is leading PHW's response to the coronavirus pandemic, said: \"As much as it is welcome news the translation of that effect into our NHS and health care is yet to be seen.\n\n\"The hospitals are still full, critical care is full and sadly the number of people dying and is still where above where we'd like it to be.\"\n\nMany hospitals have already cancelled some non-urgent procedures amid rising pressures as the number of Covid patients needing treatment more than doubled the April peak in December.\n\nAfter record numbers at the start of January, the number of Covid patients in Wales' hospitals had fallen to 2,570 on 31 January, according to the latest statistics.\n\nThese are the lowest daily averages for nearly a month, although patient numbers in Betsi Cadwaladr health board are still among the highest seen in north Wales since the pandemic began.\n\nThere were 371 patients with Covid on Sunday, down from the peak of 383 seen last Wednesday.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr also has the highest number of patients in critical care or on ventilation - 34- although in most other areas, numbers have fallen back from those seen in the first week of January.\n\nIn all of south Wales' health boards, the proportion of Covid patients compared to other patients is still about 40%.\n\nThe number of patients who are recovering from Covid but still too sick with the effects of the virus to be discharged has also continued to rise.\n\nIt stood at 1,192 on Sunday - the highest number since the patients started to be counted at the end of May - and 44% of all Covid patients in hospital.\n\nSome 192,912 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Wales since the start of the pandemic - with 630 people testing positive in the latest 24-hour period.\n\nOn Monday, PHW confirmed a further 21 people had died with coronavirus, taking the total death toll to 4,775.\n\nNine of 10 of the most infected local authorities in the UK in one week in December were in Wales, some with case rates above 1,000 per 100,000 people - prompting a strict lockdown on 19 December.\n\nSix weeks on, Covid infection rates in Wales are falling.\n\nWhile case rates have fallen in Wrexham, it remains the area with the highest infection rate in Wales, with 385.4 cases per 100,000 people - which is more than twice Wales' average of 141.2\n\nTravel is currently limited to essential purposes in Wales, such as for work and caring responsibilities, and international travel is barred.\n\nBut, after a tough year with the pandemic, many people will be dreaming about a holiday in 2021.\n\nWhile bookings for UK staycations are \"coming in thick and fast\", some people are gambling on a foreign trip in the hope restrictions will ease later this year.\n\nUse this form to tell us about your plans.\n\nIn some cases your comments will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Iceland's Skaftafellsjokull is a spur from the nation's Vatnajokull ice cap, which is Europe's largest glacier.\n\nIn 1989, photographer Colin Baxter visited the glacier during a family holiday and took a picture of the frozen landscape.\n\nColin's son, Dr Kieran Baxter, returned to the exact location 30 years later.\n\nA modern web browser and internet connection are required to view the image slider Drag the button to see how the glacier has changed over time\n\nIt had dramatically retreated, with scientists estimating it had shrunk by about 400 square kilometres, which is about the size of the Isle of Wight, as a result of climate change.\n\n\"I grew up visiting these amazing places and inherited an understanding of the quiet power of these landscapes,\" said Dr Kieran Baxter, a lecturer at the University of Dundee.\n\n\"It is personally devastating to see them change so drastically in the past few decades.\n\n\"On surface appearances, the extent of the climate crisis often remains largely invisible but here we can see clearly the gravity of the situation that is affecting the entire globe,\" Dr Baxter observed.\n\nThe rate of decline of the glacier over a 30-year period is \"personally devastating\", says Kieran Baxter (R)\n\nGlobally, the world's glaciers are considered to be among the most visual indicators of how the world's climate is warming.\n\nAccording to US scientists, glaciers have - on average - lost the equivalent of a 24m-slice of ice since 1980.\n\nMeasuring the actual decline of glaciers is difficult on a global scale as there are a range of factors that affect the rate of melting, such as altitude, precipitation, exposure to the elements, like wind and sunlight.\n\nGlaciers' ages also differ vastly. Some are just a few centuries old, whereas other have been in existence for hundreds of thousands of years.\n\nThe longevity of glaciers provide a valuable record of past climates, and how the current situation compares with past events.\n\nThese images of Breiðamerkurjökull glacier taken in 1989 (top) and in 2019 (bottom) show how much ice was lost over this period\n\nScientists drill into the glaciers' ice and extract a \"core\". These cores provide a continuous \"proxy\" year-by-year record of past climates.\n\nBy analysing components of the ice, such as trapped air bubbles within the ice, researchers can build up a picture of past atmospheric characteristics, such as how much CO2 was in the air, temperature variations, vegetation.\n\nThis allows scientists to build up a picture of past climates, how it has changed and what we can expect in the future.\n\nThe demise of glaciers around the world serves as a double whammy. Not only are regions losing vital sources of drinking water, and irrigation for agriculture, but the world is losing forever a valuable scientific history of the planet's climates.\n\nOur Planet Now & Then is a monthly feature that shows how our planet is changing in a warming world, running until the UN's climate summit in Glasgow in December", "Emma Launder balances her main job as a farmer with caring for seven clients in the area\n\nSelf-employed carers are helping tackle the challenge of providing social care in the most remote areas of Wales.\n\nCare companies are not always able to provide a service in some rural areas of the country because staff can spend more time travelling than caring.\n\nIn response, Powys council has implemented a scheme to enable local people to become self-employed carers.\n\nEmma Launder, from Llanerfyl, balances her main job as a farmer with caring for seven clients in her area.\n\nIn the past year, about 20 people have cared for 50 clients across the Powys council area, one of the most sparsely populated in the UK.\n\nProgrammes - where the carers have a mentor known as a \"community catalyst\" - have been operating in England for a decade, but they are less common in Wales.\n\nAs well as the project in Powys, there is a new scheme in Wrexham and a more established one in Pembrokeshire, where 11 self-employed carers serve 40 people.\n\n\"I get up early, go to bed late. I work very hard but I enjoy working hard,\" said Ms Launder.\n\n\"I love farming and I love supporting people, so I feel like I'm getting the best of every single aspect of my life really - it's the best decision I've ever made, and I've never been so happy.\"\n\nPowys project leader - or community catalyst - Heather Maling said it was not always cost-effective for companies to send carers into the most remote areas.\n\n\"To have local care for local people seems to be the way forward for Powys and other rural communities,\" she explained.\n\nMs Maling said the carers invoice their clients directly at the end of each month.\n\nFor those needing care, there is a benefit in having someone they know nearby if they need them, says Myfanwy Alexander, Powys council's cabinet member for social services.\n\n\"Geography is one of our biggest challenges,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need to do is to find ways of reducing the miles that our carers travel and also provide the service users with somebody perhaps closer to home, emotionally, as well as geographically.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils in the UK could stand to lose an average of £40,000 each in lifetime earnings from lost time in school because of Covid, a report suggests.\n\nAny effects are likely to be concentrated among children from disadvantaged backgrounds, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.\n\nParent groups say the four UK nations must \"do more... to avoid a generation of children being left behind\".\n\nThe IFS says the £1.5bn invested so far in \"catch up\" services is not enough.\n\nThe leading economic research group said \"there is much that is good\" with the plans to help pupils being put in place across the UK but the funding allocated to date was \"tiny in comparison with the scale of problem\".\n\nUK schools are currently closed to pupils other than children of key workers and those classified as vulnerable in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nBy mid-February, children will have lost half an academic year - as much as 5% of their school career - in learning time.\n\nThe IFS says its report contains an \"illustration, rather than a precise prediction\" of what could happen.\n\nBut it suggests that despite remote learning, some children may leave school with fewer or poorer qualifications.\n\nThe IFS says the reduction in face-to-face teaching could potentially result in a total of £350bn in lost lifetime earnings for the UK's 8.7m schoolchildren, adding this would hit future tax revenues.\n\nThe institute refers to findings by the World Bank that a year of schooling increases an individual's earnings by an average of 8% a year in an advanced economy such as the UK.\n\nFor anyone earning the average yearly wage in the UK, the IFS estimates, this would translate to a potential £40,000 loss in income across a lifetime, leading it to warn that \"the long-run costs of the pandemic will fall disproportionately on today's children\".\n\nThe IFS says even if \"much weaker assumptions\" are made, there could still be £90bn in lost lifetime earnings.\n\nSchools in England and Northern Ireland will remain closed to most pupils until at least 8 March.\n\nIn Wales, some primary-school children may start to return after the half-term break, while the Scottish government has ruled out a mid-February reopening.\n\nThe Department for Education has pledged an extra £300m in the next financial year for catch-up services in England, in addition to its existing funding allocation of £1bn.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said \"the prime minister was clear last week that extended schools closures have had a huge impact on pupils learning, which will take more than a year to make up.\n\n\"The government will work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long term plan to make sure pupils have the chance to make up their learning over the course of this parliament.\"\n\nThe National Tutoring Programme helped almost 70,000 children in England during the autumn term and will benefit from a portion of the additional government funding to assist disadvantaged pupils.\n\nComfort Oghenesuvwe, a single mother of two boys, who lives in Kent, told BBC News: \"If something is not done to help my boys catch up when things return to normal, I worry for their future.\"\n\nBoth of Ms Oghenesuvwe's children - Jason, 11, and Jeffrey, 10 - have learnt from home during England's first and third nationwide lockdowns.\n\n\"Jason has been particularly affected as he has additional learning needs and would normally require a teacher to come to his table to double-check he understands everything, but that's not possible over Zoom.\n\n\"Back in April, we only had one laptop before we bought an extra one and Jason's learning had to be prioritised, so Jeffrey had to sit and colour, or just read a book at times.\n\n\"I've definitely seen Jeffrey's momentum for wanting to learn and read, which he used to enjoy, drop off as a result.\"\n\nSchools in all four home nations are currently closed to most pupils\n\n\"What's going to come out of this experience is an entire patchwork of new inequalities layered on old inequalities,\" said Luke Sibieta, the IFS researcher behind the report.\n\nYounger children from disadvantaged families, who may have not had access to the right equipment for remote learning, will feel the impact most, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"They were probably the furthest behind to begin with,\" he said.\n\nThe government's plan for a \"catch-up\" service will \"cushion\" the impact, he said, \"however it just doesn't match up to the scale of the problem\".\n\n\"The scale of the policy response needs to be larger than it is at the moment.\"\n\nThe IFS estimates that half a year of schools spending is more than £30bn across the UK and says \"correcting a loss on this scale certainly requires a massive injection of resources\".\n\nJohn Jolly, chief executive of charity Parentkind, told BBC News: \"The government must do more and invest more to close the educational divide and to avoid a generation of children being left behind.\"\n\nJames Turner, chief executive of the Sutton Trust educational charity, echoed the IFS call for extra funding. He said: \"It is absolutely crucial that this is targeted towards disadvantaged pupils who have been the worst-hit by the pandemic.\n\n\"As a start, the pupil premium should be boosted this year to help schools catch up, through allocating an additional £400 to every low-income student.\"\n\nThe IFS report outlines options including extending the school year, lengthening the school day, mass repetition of entire school years, or summer schools to help children catch up.\n\nMs Oghenesuvwe said she would be open to these options for her children but said she worried about burnout among teachers.", "Eddie Izzard completed her marathon challenge with the virtual support of George Clooney\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard has completed her 31-day virtual marathon run by raising over £200k for charity.\n\nSpeaking from her treadmill after Sunday's double marathon, she said she felt \"very honoured\" by the support.\n\nThe livestreamed runs, held across different virtual cities, are part of her Make Humanity Great Again goodwill initiative.\n\nActor George Clooney helped Izzard cross the finish line in London and urged people to stay Covid-safe.\n\n\"Remember, we're almost through this everybody, hang tight!\" he said.\n\n\"Wear a mask, stay distanced, we're almost there.\"\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 eddieizzard This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Hollywood star joined a host of celebrities including Russell Brand, Michael Palin, Dame Judi Dench and Ewan McGregor, who supported Izzard through video calls during her daily runs.\n\nThe comic's day 24 run through a virtual Brussels, in conversation with Radio X DJ Chris Moyles, ended in dramatic fashion when gatecrashers attempted to enter the studio - threatening the Covid-secure bubble.\n\n\"Please, please you have to go, I am sorry. Do not... it is Covid-safe, please stay out,\" said Izzard.\n\n\"Two guys tried to get in, we've got the doors open to let the air in from inside and they came in!\" she told a concerned looking Moyles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eddie Izzard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany of the runs were followed by stand-up comedy sets, also livestreamed for charity.\n\nIzzard, who is gender fluid and currently uses she/her pronouns, launched her crowdfunded Make Humanity Great Again campaign in a call for unity.\n\nShe said: \"There is too much talk of division in the world. Too much talk designed to pull us apart. In my life I try to look for the opposite - to look for what brings us together, which helps make us all stronger.\"\n\nCharities that will benefit include Fareshare, Walking With the Wounded, Care International, United to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Covenant House homelessness shelter in New York.\n\nThe month-long marathon pledge is not Izzard's first fundraising effort through distance running.\n\nShe completed 43 marathons in 51 days for BBC Sport Relief in 2009, before running 27 marathons in 27 days across South Africa for the charity in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eddie Izzard: \"Thank you to everyone... this was tough\"\n\nLast February, she managed 29 marathons in 29 days, one in each European capital, plus a final additional date in London, raising £140,000 for charity.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "We've looked into some of the most widely shared false vaccine claims - everything from alleged plots to put microchips into people to the supposed re-engineering of our genetic code.\n\nThe fear that a vaccine will somehow change your DNA is one we've seen aired regularly on social media.\n\nThe BBC asked three independent scientists about this. They said that the coronavirus vaccine would not alter human DNA.\n\nSome of the newly created vaccines, including the one now approved in the UK developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, use a fragment of the virus's genetic material - or messenger RNA.\n\n\"Injecting RNA into a person doesn't do anything to the DNA of a human cell,\" says Prof Jeffrey Almond of Oxford University.\n\nIt works by giving the body instructions to produce a protein which is present on the surface of the coronavirus.\n\nThe immune system then learns to recognise and produce antibodies against the protein.\n\nClaims that Bill Gates plans to use a vaccine to \"manipulate\" or \"alter\" human DNA have been widely shared\n\nThis isn't the first time we've looked into claims that a coronavirus vaccine will supposedly alter DNA. We investigated a popular video spreading the theory back in May.\n\nPosts have noted that messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology \"has never been tested or approved before\".\n\nIt is true that no mRNA vaccine has been approved before now, but multiple studies of mRNA vaccines in humans have taken place over the last few years. And, since the pandemic started, the vaccine has been tested on tens of thousands of people around the world and has gone through a rigorous safety approval process.\n\nLike all new vaccines, it has to undergo rigorous safety checks before it can be recommended for widespread use.\n\nIn Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials, vaccines are tested in small numbers of volunteers to check they are safe and to determine the right dose.\n\nIn Phase 3 trials they are tested in thousands of people to see how effective they are. The group who received the vaccine and a control group who have received a placebo are closely monitored for any adverse reactions - side-effects. Safety monitoring continues after a vaccine has been approved for use.\n\nNext, a conspiracy theory that has spanned the globe.\n\nIt claims that the coronavirus pandemic is a cover for a plan to implant trackable microchips and that the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is behind it.\n\nThere is no vaccine \"microchip\" and there is no evidence to support claims that Bill Gates is planning for this in the future.\n\nThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told the BBC the claim was \"false\".\n\nOne TikTok user created a video about being \"microchipped\" and called a vaccine the \"mark of the beast\"\n\nRumours took hold in March when Mr Gates said in an interview that eventually \"we will have some digital certificates\" which would be used to show who'd recovered, been tested and ultimately who received a vaccine. He made no mention of microchips.\n\nThis led to one widely shared article headlined: \"Bill Gates will use microchip implants to fight coronavirus.\"\n\nThe article makes reference to a study, funded by The Gates Foundation, into a technology that could store someone's vaccine records in a special ink administered at the same time as an injection.\n\nHowever, the technology is not a microchip and is more like an invisible tattoo. It has not been rolled out yet, would not allow people to be tracked and personal information would not be entered into a database, says Ana Jaklenec, a scientist involved in the study.\n\nThe billionaire founder of Microsoft has been the subject of many false rumours during the pandemic.\n\nHe's been targeted because of his philanthropic work in public health and vaccine development.\n\nDespite the lack of evidence, in May a YouGov poll of 1,640 people suggested 28% of Americans believed Mr Gates wanted to use vaccines to implant microchips in people - with the figure rising to 44% among Republicans.\n\nWe've seen claims that vaccines contain the lung tissue of an aborted fetus. This is false.\n\n\"There are no fetal cells used in any vaccine production process,\" says Dr Michael Head, of the University of Southampton.\n\nOne particular video that was posted on one of the biggest anti-vaccine Facebook pages refers to a study which the narrator claims is evidence of what goes into the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. But the narrator's interpretation is wrong - the study in question explored how the vaccine reacted when introduced to human cells in a lab.\n\nConfusion may have arisen because there is a step in the process of developing a vaccine that uses cells grown in a lab, which are the descendants of embryonic cells that would otherwise have been destroyed. The technique was developed in the 1960s, and no fetuses were aborted for the purposes of this research.\n\nMany vaccines are made in this way, explains Dr David Matthews, from Bristol University, adding that any traces of the cells are comprehensively removed from the vaccine \"to exceptionally high standards\".\n\nThe developers of the vaccine at Oxford University say they worked with cloned cells, but these cells \"are not themselves the cells of aborted babies\".\n\nThe cells work like a factory to manufacture a greatly weakened form of the virus that has been adapted to function as a vaccine.\n\nBut even though the weakened virus is created using these cloned cells, this cellular material is removed when the virus is purified and not used in the vaccine.\n\nWe've seen arguments against a Covid-19 vaccine shared across social media asking why we need one at all if the chances of dying from the virus are so slim.\n\nA meme shared by people who oppose vaccination put the recovery rate from the disease at 99.97% and suggested getting Covid-19 is a safer option than taking a vaccine.\n\nA meme using images of rapper Drake has been used to promote false vaccine claims\n\nTo begin with, the figure referred to in the meme as the \"recovery rate\" - implying these are people who caught the virus and survived - is not correct.\n\nAbout 99.0% of people who catch Covid survive it, says Jason Oke, senior statistician at the University of Oxford.\n\nSo around 100 in 10,000 will die - far higher than three in 10,000, as suggested in the meme.\n\nHowever, Mr Oke adds that \"in all cases the risks very much depend on age and do not take into account short and long-term morbidity from Covid-19\".\n\nIt's not just about survival. For every person who dies, there are others who live through it but undergo intensive medical care, and those who suffer long-lasting health effects.\n\nThis can contribute to a health service overburdened with Covid patients, competing with a hospital's limited resources to treat patients with other illnesses and injuries.\n\nConcentrating on the overall death rate, or breaking down the taking of a vaccine to an individual act, misses the point of vaccinations, says Prof Liam Smeeth of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It should be seen as an effort by society to protect others, he says.\n\n\"In the UK, the worst part of the pandemic, the reason for lockdown, is because the health service would be overwhelmed. Vulnerable groups like the old and sick in care homes have a much higher chance of getting severely ill if they catch the virus\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We will be living with Covid for a while to come\"\n\nA Covid vaccine has been offered to all older residents at eligible care homes in England, the NHS has announced.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described the achievement, expected to be confirmed by official figures on Monday, as a \"crucial milestone\".\n\nA target of 15 February has been set for the UK to vaccinate care home residents and carers, people over 70 and frontline care workers.\n\nNearly nine million people in the UK have had their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nNHS England said more than 10,000 care homes with older residents had been offered jabs, although a \"small remainder\" of homes had visits deferred by local public health directors for safety reasons during local outbreaks.\n\nThese will be visited by vaccinators as soon as NHS staff are allowed to do so, it said.\n\nIn Scotland, 98% of older people in care homes and 88% of care home staff have had the jab.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has ordered an extra 40 million doses of a vaccine from the French pharmaceutical company Valneva, which should become available later in the year and into 2022.\n\nMr Johnson said vaccines were the \"route out of the pandemic\" but warned there will be \"difficult moments to come\" with the number of cases and people in hospital still \"dangerously high\".\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a vaccination centre in Batley, West Yorkshire, he said \"virtually all\" elderly care home residents had received their first vaccine or been given an appointment for it.\n\nHe said he was \"confident that we have the supplies\" to ensure that people would receive their second jab within the government's 12-week timetable.\n\nSocial Care Minister Helen Whately said the vaccine had been offered to every care home in England where it was possible for teams to go in.\n\n\"Any care home that hasn't been contacted, just let me know and I will personally follow up,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAsked whether care home workers should be compelled to have the vaccine, she said \"at the moment\" the government was trying to educate, encourage and reassure people who had reservations.\n\nShe also said there were no plans to give care home residents their second jab quicker to allow visiting but the government was working on \"what we can do to enable visiting\" again.\n\nAsked if care home visits would have to wait until residents had received both doses, she told BBC Breakfast: \"I'm not saying that\", before adding that \"at the moment it's too soon\" to allow indoor visiting as it takes time \"to build up immunity\".\n\nOn Saturday, a record 598,389 first jabs were given across the UK.\n\nCare UK chief executive Andrew Knight said almost all the company's residents had been offered a jab and \"the majority of our colleagues\" had been vaccinated.\n\nHowever, some care home staff have refused to have the vaccine due to \"cultural issues\", according to the National Care Association's executive chair Nadra Ahmed.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We have to convince people that this vaccine is for them. That it's for the staff to protect them and therefore protect the services they work in.\"\n\nSam Monaghan, chief executive of leading care home group MHA, said the government's decision to increase the gap between the first and second doses of the vaccines to 12 weeks had been \"difficult\" and he hoped the second dose could be accelerated \"so that we can look at reuniting residents with their relatives\".\n\nHe also called for the government to provide \"clarity\" on what would be possible in care homes once people have had both doses of the vaccination, adding: \"People have been separated for such a long time.\"\n\nMichael Blakstad says he hasn't been given any more visiting rights to see his wife Tricia in her care home in Hampshire despite both of them having received the vaccine - he has had both doses, while Tricia has had her first.\n\n\"It hasn't made any difference at all to our ability to meet up and hold hands and see each other properly,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:\n\n\"I'm still visiting her through a screen, distanced and with a mask on, so we're really in the same situation we were in back in October.\"\n\nThe spread of the UK variant means the care home is still \"petrified\" of getting Covid, he said, adding that he could \"understand completely\" and the \"rules are the rules\".\n\nAsked if the care home should consider breaking the rules for him, he said: \"Frankly, I think where Tricia is concerned the damage has been done... she doesn't really recognise me anymore.\n\n\"I'm just hoping lessons will be learnt for the future.\"\n\nFiona Carragher, director of research and influencing at Alzheimer's Society, said it was \"great\" the milestone had been met but she remained concerned that the staff vaccination rollout \"has not been nearly so effective\".\n\n\"The most pressing question now is how and when can care homes restart safe, meaningful visits. Combined with PPE and testing, isn't one jab enough? If not, what else needs to be in place? Another 12-week wait is unacceptable for people dying of loneliness,\" she said.\n\nLiz Kendall, shadow social care minister, said it was \"very good news\" that vaccines had been offered to all elderly care home residents but ministers \"must leave no stone overturned to vaccinate all social care staff within the next two weeks\".\n\nLabour has previously called for teachers to be moved up the vaccination priority list and said February half-term should be used to vaccinate teaching staff.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation, which sets which groups are prioritised, has said early vaccination of certain professions should be considered - but only once those in the top nine priority groups have been offered a first jab.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease expert who advises the government, said that if the UK continues the current pace with vaccinations - and jabs are shown to prevent transmission, not just severe infection - measures could begin to be eased in March.\n\n\"We need to be very careful,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme . \"Hopefully by the summer we can get back to something pretty close to what we have seen before the pandemic as normal.\"\n\nVaccines would need to be \"pretty good\" at blocking transmission \"to avoid a resurgence\" of the virus when measures are eased, Dr Tildesley added, with research due on this over the next month.\n\nA further 587 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported on Sunday.\n\nIt takes the UK's total by that measure to 106,158, although the number of reported deaths tends to be lower over the weekend.\n\nWill your vaccine appointment be the first time you have left home in a long while? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A school in the Wirral has been helping families that are struggling to survive during lockdown.\n\nEgremont Primary provides food parcels and clothes to those who are finding it difficult to get by.", "Mark Ellison (second from right) welcomed people back into his pub just after midnight\n\nCovid social distancing rules on the Isle of Man have been scrapped by the government following a 25-day lockdown.\n\nRestrictions were lifted at 00:01 GMT after the island recorded 20 days without an unexplained community case.\n\nHealthcare services have returned to normal, all schools have reopened, and all shops and pubs have been allowed to welcome customers again.\n\nManx Chief Minister Howard Quayle said the ending of Covid-19 restrictions was \"a moment for relief and celebration\".\n\nThe island is now the only place in the British Isles with no social distancing measures in place after Guernsey entered lockdown on 23 January.\n\nMr Quayle said the lifting of the \"circuit breaker\" restrictions was a result of \"collective determination, sense of duty, and community spirit of the Manx people\".\n\nHowever, he urged people to \"remain vigilant\" since the virus could again return.\n\nStrand Street in Douglas was busy with shoppers again\n\nThough on-island restrictions have been completely lifted, the border remains closed to non-residents except for key workers and those with a compassionate exemption.\n\nAfter more than six months without the need for social distancing measures, a cluster of positive coronavirus tests was detected and the Isle of Man went into its second lockdown on 7 January.\n\nLockdown came as a shock to the people of the Isle of Man after more than six months of relative normality, aside from the ongoing border restrictions.\n\nBut there was a feeling of defiance, too. The island had beaten back the virus during the first wave and there was a sense it could be done again.\n\nNow, three weeks after the latest shutdown, that indeed has proved to be the case and normal life has once again returned.\n\nIt's been 20 days since an unexplained case of Covid has been detected here and the government is confident it has eradicated the virus for a second time.\n\nAnd that regained freedom certainly feels like a weight off the shoulders, with no more need to worry about the virus circulating in the community.\n\nIt wasn't without its sacrifices, of course. Businesses shut their doors, losing much-needed income, and Manx residents showed their commitment to social distancing, mask-wearing and sticking with their own households.\n\nThe rewards have been well worth it.\n\nLandlord Mark Ellison, who opened his Douglas bar just after midnight as restrictions were lifted, said he was \"more than proud\" that the island had eliminated Covid-19 for a second time.\n\nThe 25-day lockdown had been \"absolutely terrible\" for his business, he said, adding that it was \"marvellous\" to be able to serve customers again.\n\nJoseph Butler felt tentative about leaving lockdown but was happy it had ended\n\nJoseph Butler, 21, said he had been \"slightly tentative\" about leaving lockdown but was \"glad it has ended\".\n\n\"I'm pleased to see that people have taken it rather seriously, which has allowed us to go back to the way things were,\" he added.\n\n\"I did not mind having to stamp it out and get rid of it early on,\" he continued.\n\nKhesi Chauke was relieved to be out of lockdown again\n\nKhesi Chauke, 35, said it was a \"relief\" to return to normal life.\n\nHe added that going back into lockdown after so long felt like a \"kick in the teeth\" but he agreed with the restrictions.\n\n\"People I have known have passed away from Covid-19 and I would not want to have that happen here,\" he continued.\n\nDeborah Tipping said she was looking forward to returning to work\n\nDeborah Tipping, 47, said it was \"nice to be out again\" and she was looking forward to returning to her job at a pub.\n\nOriginally from Balbriggan in the Republic of Ireland, she added that it had been \"pretty tough\" not being able to visit her family after her father died in July but she wanted the border to remain closed to non-residents.\n\n\"It is for our safety,\" she continued.\n\nPhilip Brearley said it felt 'fantastic' to be out of lockdown again\n\nPhilip Brearley, who is in his 70s, said it felt \"fantastic\" to able to mix with people again.\n\nThe short lockdown was \"good thing to do, I felt happy about it and I felt safer\", he added.\n\nThere have been a total of 434 cases of coronavirus on the Isle of Man, 15 of which remain active.\n\nSome 25 people have died on the island after contracting the virus.\n\nWhy not follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and Twitter? 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 gun battle between militant Islamists and Somali security forces at a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, is now over.\n\nAt least five people were killed in the attack at the Afrik Hotel, which began with a car bomb on Sunday.\n\nAl-Shabab said it was responsible. The group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, regularly carries out attacks against the government.\n\nAt least four attackers also died - according to AFP news agency three were shot and one blew himself up.\n\nA car hit the hotel's front entrance and detonated before gunmen stormed the building, according to officials and others at the scene.\n\n\"The blast made the hotel tremble as we sat inside and were talking. We were panicked, confused,\" eyewitness Ahmed Nur was quoted by Reuters as saying.\n\n\"The operation is over now. Nine people, including four attackers, died and over 10 civilians were injured. There is no electricity,\" a police spokesman told reporters from the scene and via Facebook.\n\nPrime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble said in a statement that among those killed was a former military general, Mohamed Nur Galal.\n\nAmbulances have been pictured near the scene of the bomb attack\n\nThe militants targeted the Afrik Hotel despite the fact that it is in a heavily guarded area near the city's main airport, the BBC's Bella Sheegow reported from Mogadishu.\n\nThe hotel is known to be a gathering place for Somali government officials. A local police captain said a number of lawmakers and senior military officials were inside at the time of the attack.\n\nFootage on social media showed large plumes of smoke rising across the city earlier on Sunday.\n\nOur reporter says it was one of the most devastating recent attacks in Mogadishu. Al-Shabab also targeted the beachside Elite hotel last year resulting in a seven-hour battle with police and security in which 17 people were killed.\n\nThe violent siege comes just weeks after former US President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of some 700 troops who had been supporting local security forces against militant groups, including al-Shabab.\n\nThere are fears the withdrawal could lead to further instability in the country, which is due to hold elections next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hope and fear as Somalia marks 30 years of civil war", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The Duke of Sussex has accepted an apology and \"substantial damages\" from the publishers of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over claims he \"turned his back\" on the Royal Marines.\n\nTwo articles alleged Prince Harry had not been in touch with the Marines after stepping down as a senior royal.\n\nIn a statement to the High Court, a lawyer for Harry called the allegation \"baseless, false and defamatory\".\n\nHe will donate the damages to the Invictus Games Foundation, she said.\n\nHarry sued Associated Newspapers for libel over two \"almost identical\" articles published in the newspaper and online last October.\n\nThey claimed he had \"not been in touch by phone, letter nor email since his last appearance as an honorary Marine\" in March.\n\nThe prince's lawyer told the court that Harry had in fact made \"repeated and concerted efforts\" to support the Royal Marines and other parts of the armed services - even though he had been forced to step back from his ceremonial roles.\n\nIn a short statement at the remote hearing on Monday, the duke's lawyer Jenny Afia said Associated Newspapers had accepted the allegations were false, \"albeit after considerable damage was already done\".\n\nShe said Harry was \"proud to have served in the British armed forces for 10 years in Her Majesty's name\" and \"has maintained active links with those forces ever since and will continue to do so in the future\".\n\nPrince Harry was appointed Captain General of the Royal Marines in 2017\n\n\"The duke's commitment to the men and women who have put their lives on the line, to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and to military families, is steadfast and unquestionable,\" said Ms Afia.\n\n\"For this reason, the baseless, false and defamatory stories published in the Mail on Sunday and on the website Mail Online constituted not only a personal attack upon the Duke's character but also wrongly brought into question his service to this country.\"\n\nMs Afia added that Harry was donating his damages to the Invictus Games Foundation \"so he could feel something good had come out of the situation\".\n\nA previous version of the duke's statement, due to be read in court following the settlement, was criticised by a judge for being \"unduly tendentious\".\n\nIn a costs order, Mr Justice Nicklin said the process of giving a statement in open court was not a \"platform for collateral attacks\" and should not be \"misused\".\n\nHe said the duke's original statement included criticisms of Associated Newspapers, which had, by agreement, been removed or amended.\n\nOn 27 December, the Mail On Sunday printed an apology, accepting the duke had been in touch with the Royal Marines, and said it had made a donation to the Invictus Games Foundation, which runs the competition for wounded, injured or sick servicemen and women set up by Harry in 2014.\n\nBut Ms Afia criticised the apology, saying it \"used wording which significantly underplayed the seriousness of the accusations made against him\". She also said the Mail on Sunday offered to directly donate the duke's damages, but Harry wanted to do it himself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan and Harry’s last event as senior royals\n\nIn a separate statement after the hearing, a spokesman for Harry said his commitment to the military community was \"unquestionable\".\n\nHarry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, formally stepped down as senior members of the Royal Family at the end of March last year.\n\nPrince Harry has long had an uneasy relationship with the media, having grown up aware of the impact the intense media interest had on the life of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nIn 2016, the prince accused the media of subjecting Meghan - then his girlfriend - to a \"wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nThe couple have filed several lawsuits against newspapers, and last year told the UK's tabloid press they were ending all co-operation with them.\n\nThis lawsuit is separate to the case brought by Meghan against the publishers of the Mail Online and Mail on Sunday over articles that reproduced parts of a private handwritten letter to her father. That case is still ongoing.", "People living in Wales and England have been urged to download the government's contact-tracing app\n\nPeople in Wales who are told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 phone app can now apply for a £500 payment, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nUntil now it has only been available to low-earners who have been asked to isolate by either Test, Trace, Protect or their child's school.\n\nPeople need to contact their council to access the scheme.\n\nThe Conservatives said it was confusing and said people should be able to have payments backdated.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said payments would not be backdated for anyone who had been told to self-isolate by the app before the latest announcement.\n\nPeople will also have to show evidence their income will be reduced by isolating.\n\nIt is available to people who are employed or self-employed and unable to work from home.\n\nThe applicant or their partner must be currently receiving universal credit, working tax credit, income-based employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income support, housing benefit or pension credit.\n\nSome will have their application accepted under the discretionary element of Self-Isolation Support Scheme.\n\nPeople living in Wales and England have been urged to download the contact-tracing app.\n\nNHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate if it detects they were near to someone who has the virus.\n\nThe Housing and Local Government Minister Julie James said the Welsh Government was \"committed to protecting people's health and well-being\".\n\n\"We will continue to support the people of Wales during this difficult time,\" she said.\n\n\"The £500 payment has already provided financial security to those asked to self-isolate, helping to break the cycle of transmission and ensure no-one has to choose between feeding their family or going to work and potentially spreading the virus.\"\n\nShe said local authorities had \"once again risen to the challenge\" of ensuring all those who need financial support throughout receive it while developers amend the process so people can apply for help directly through the app.\n\nAngela Burns, the Welsh Conservative health spokeswoman, criticised the fact that \"applications still cannot be backdated to September, meaning people in Wales who need this £500 payment - and who are likely to fall into the financially vulnerable category - cannot access it and are therefore badly disadvantaged\".\n\nTravel is currently limited to essential purposes in Wales, such as for work and caring responsibilities, and international travel is barred.\n\nBut, after a tough year with the pandemic, many people will be dreaming about a holiday in 2021.\n\nWhile bookings for UK staycations are \"coming in thick and fast\", some people are gambling on a foreign trip in the hope restrictions will ease later this year.\n\nUse this form to tell us about your plans.\n\nIn some cases your comments will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Tony Bennett has revealed that he has been living with Alzheimer's Disease for the last four years.\n\nThe crooner, who is 94, made the announcement in AARP Magazine, which focuses on issues affecting people over the age of 50.\n\nThe article conveys how the condition has affected Bennett's memory and ability to recognise everyday objects.\n\nHis wife Susan told the magazine that the star is \"not always sure where he is or what is happening around him\".\n\nHowever, Bennett has so far been spared many of the worst characteristics of the disease - including the disorientation that can cause patients to wander from home and episodes of terror, rage or depression.\n\nIn an Instagram post directing fans to the article, Bennett wrote: \"Life is a gift - even with Alzheimer's. Thank you to Susan and my family for their support, and @AARP The Magazine for telling my story.\"\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 itstonybennett 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\nBennett has been a star since 1951, scoring hits with songs like I Left My Heart In San Francisco and The Shadow Of Your Smile.\n\nSome of his biggest successes have come in the last decade, including the chart-topping duets album with Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek, which won a Grammy in 2015.\n\nThe article says that the singers have recently completed a follow-up, which is due for release this year. It was recorded over two years, with Bennett sometimes \"lost and bewildered\" during the sessions.\n\nHowever, singing often helps to subdue the symptoms of Alzheimer's and Bennett continues to rehearse twice a week with his longtime pianist Lee Musiker.\n\nThe singer's neurologist Gayatri Devi, told AARP that, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bennett's touring schedule \"kept him on his toes and also stimulated his brain in a significant way\".\n\n\"Singing is everything to him. Everything,\" added his wife. \"It has saved his life many times.\"\n\nLady Gaga and Tony Bennett have recently completed a follow-up to their award-winning duets album\n\nHowever, the decimation of the live music industry has \"been a real blow from a cognitive perspective,\" said Devi.\n\n\"[Bennett's] memory, prior to the pandemic, was so much better. And he's not alone. So many of my patients are negatively affected by the isolation, the inability to do the things that matter to them,\" she said. \"For someone like Tony Bennett, the big high he gets from performing was very important.\"\n\nHowever, Devi stressed that Bennett was still \"doing so many things, at 94, that many people without dementia cannot do.\n\n\"He really is the symbol of hope for someone with a cognitive disorder,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment a ballerina with Alzheimer's returned to Swan Lake\n\nAlzheimer's disease is a condition which affects the brain, and is by far the most common cause of dementia.\n\nMemory loss is the most common feature of dementia, particularly the struggle to remember recent events.\n\nOther symptoms can include changes to behaviour, mood and personality, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nBoth Alzheimer's disease and dementia can affect people of all different ages, but usually affect much older people.\n\nAccording to the Alzheimer's Society, last year there were about 850,000 people in the UK with dementia.\n\nOne in 14 people over 65 will develop dementia, and the condition affects one in six people over 80. The number of people with dementia is increasing because people are living longer.\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. Prof Susan Hopkins: \"We have to relax things really quite slowly\"\n\nEnding the current coronavirus lockdown must happen \"very slowly, very cautiously\", Public Health England's Covid strategy chief has said.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins said the focus should be on getting people vaccinated and preventing another wave of infections.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"I hope that this summer will be similar to last summer... and that will allow us to do things that feel more normal.\"\n\nBut the health secretary warned of a \"a tough few months\" as national restrictions continue across the UK while vaccinations are administered.\n\n\"We have to follow the data, we have to see the impact of the vaccine on the ground. It's a difficult balance: we've got to move as fast as we can but in such a way that keeps people safe,\" he told BBC Politics East.\n\nA record 598,389 first vaccinations were given on Saturday, UK government figures show, taking the total number of people who had received their initial jab to 8,977,329.\n\nA further 21,088 positive coronavirus cases were identified on Sunday and a further 587 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded - death figures tend to be lower at the weekend.\n\nDr Hopkins said that, while final decisions are taken by politicians, restrictions should be relaxed \"really quite slowly so that if cases start to increase we can clamp down quite fast\".\n\nShe added: \"The NHS is going to be under pressure until the end of March, as normal in winter, but even more so with the amount of inpatients they still have with Covid-19.\n\n\"Any releases that we have will have to happen very slowly, very cautiously, watching and waiting as we go with a two-week period to watch and see the impact of that relaxation because it takes that [time] to see what's happening in the population.\"\n\nNational restrictions in England will last until at least 8 March - the soonest schools could reopen to all pupils\n\nDr Hopkins said every effort must be made to avoid another wave of infections similar to that experienced during the current winter period.\n\n\"It is better to be cautious, let's get the population vaccinated,\" she added.\n\nThe latest data indicates 8.98m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose, with experts saying all current vaccines should show at least 50% effectiveness against emerging new variants, such as the one first identified in South Africa.\n\nDr Hopkins described the news that two new vaccines - produced by Novavax and Janssen - are at least 60% effective against the South African variant as \"reassuring\".\n\nEngland's current lockdown will continue until 8 March, when it is hoped schools could begin to reopen. National restrictions are also in place across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt came as International Trade Secretary Liz Truss guaranteed there will be no disruption to Pfizer vaccines being supplied to the UK from within the EU after a dispute over exports.\n\nShe told the Marr programme: \"The prime minister has spoken to the president of the European Commission, she has assured him that there will be no disruption of contracts that we have with any producer in the EU.\"\n\nShe said it was \"too early\" to say when the UK would send vaccine doses abroad amid predictions there will be a surplus of jabs here.\n\nThe UK would \"work with friends and neighbours... [and] developing countries because we're only going to solve this issue once everybody in the world is vaccinated,\" she added.\n\nA paper modelling how and when coronavirus restrictions might be lifted once the most vulnerable are vaccinated suggested that releasing measures suddenly could lead to \"substantial additional deaths\".\n\nScientists predicted that continuing measures, such as social distancing, for a longer period - at least until all adults are vaccinated - may be key to controlling infections.\n\nDr Sam Moore, an epidemiological modeller at Warwick University who led the study, warned that even if vaccines do significantly reduce infections the impact will not be seen \"for some time to come\".\n\nHe said restrictions should \"relax slowly\", and added \"we're going to have to be patient\".\n\nAsked whether social-distancing measures would be in place for the rest of the year, Ms Truss said autumn \"is a very long time away\" with the focus now being on the vaccine rollout.", "Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, has issued a warning that criminals are selling fake negative Covid-19 test certificates.\n\nThe fear is this could enable people to cheat travel restrictions.\n\nIt comes as an investigation by BBC News has found falsified NHS certificates for sale online.\n\nThere are also ones from clinics in Nigeria sold in forums used by organised crime groups.", "Last summer people flocked to Cornwall to enjoy the summer weather\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says he is \"optimistic\" people will be able to have summer holidays this year - but it depends on certain things going well.\n\nAsked about tourism in the UK, he said he did not want to give \"concrete\" dates for such trips but would set out more details on 22 February.\n\nThe success of the vaccine rollout and level of Covid cases would be factors taken into consideration, he added.\n\nNearly 9.3 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nA vaccine has been offered to all older residents at eligible care homes in England, the NHS announced earlier - an achievement Mr Johnson described as a \"crucial milestone\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer all care home residents and carers, people over 70 and frontline care workers a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nFigures released on Monday show a further 18,607 Covid cases have been recorded. There have also been a further 406 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Johnson, speaking during a visit to Batley, West Yorkshire, said: \"I don't want to give too much concrete by way of dates for our summer holidays. I am optimistic - I understand the reasons for being optimistic - but some things have got to go right.\n\n\"The vaccine programme has got to continue to be successful.\n\n\"We have got to make sure we don't get thrown off course by new variants, we have got to make sure that we continue to keep the disease under control and the level of infections come down.\"\n\nHe added that once he gives more details in the last week of February \"people should certainly be able to plan on that basis\".\n\nHis comments come after Health Secretary Matt Hancock predicted \"a happy and free Great British summer\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced it is to carry out urgent door-to-door testing in parts of England for a new variant of coronavirus originally identified in South Africa, after cases were found with no known links to travel or previous cases.\n\nAll of the UK is currently under a lockdown, with people only allowed to travel abroad for essential purposes; such as work that cannot be done from home, medical appointments or educational reasons. These are the same \"reasonable excuses\" that apply to domestic travel.\n\nMr Johnson said there were signs the lockdown measures were working but it was too early to \"take your foot off the throat of the beast\" by easing restrictions.\n\n\"We are starting to see some signs of a flattening and maybe even a falling off of infection rates and hospitalisations,\" he said.\n\n\"But don't forget that they are still at a very high level by comparison with most points in the last 12 months, a really very high level.\"\n\nRules around international travel were tightened last month, meaning all travellers must self-isolate for 10 days when they return to the UK, while people returning to England from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in government-provided hotels.\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to make a declaration on why they need to travel, which will be checked by carriers prior to departure, Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced.\n\nSome UK holiday providers have since reported a boom in domestic bookings for this summer.\n\nThe boss of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, said he is expecting \"a strong return\" for European beach holidays this summer thanks to the vaccination programme.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease expert who advises the government, suggested that if the UK continued the current pace of vaccinations - and jabs were shown to prevent transmission, not just severe infection - measures could begin to be eased from March.\n\n\"We need to be very careful,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme . \"Hopefully by the summer we can get back to something pretty close to what we have seen before the pandemic as normal.\"\n\nVaccines would need to be \"pretty good\" at blocking transmission \"to avoid a resurgence\" of the virus when measures are eased, Dr Tildesley added, with research due on this over the next month.\n\nThe UK government announced on Monday that it had ordered an extra 40 million doses of a vaccine from the French pharmaceutical company Valneva, that should become available later in the year and into 2022.\n\nThat takes the total number of different vaccines the UK has secured to 407 million doses - more than enough for the entire population.\n\nHowever, the prime minister's official spokesman said it was too soon to say when \"surplus\" vaccine doses could be donated to other counties, such as European Union member states.\n\nHe said the priority remained getting the vaccine to the most vulnerable in society by the spring.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: UK \"must come down hard\" on South Africa variant\n\nThe UK must \"come down hard\" on the South African coronavirus variant, the health secretary has said, after cases with no links to travel were detected.\n\nAbout 80,000 people in England will be offered urgent tests for the variant.\n\nResidents aged 16 and over in eight areas across Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall are being asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms.\n\nPrevious cases in the UK were connected to South Africa.\n\nBut random checks found 11 cases that could not be linked to international travel.\n\nMatt Hancock told a Downing Street news conference on Monday that there was \"currently no evidence\" to suggest the South African variant was \"any more severe, but we need to come down on it hard, and we will\".\n\nMobile testing units and home kits are being sent to the following neighbourhoods:\n\nAppealing to residents of these postcodes, Mr Hancock said: \"It is imperative that you stay at home, and that you get a test, even if you don't have symptoms.\n\n\"This is so important so that we can break the chains of the transmission of this new variant, and we've got to bring this virus to heel.\"\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, of Public Health England, told the same briefing that three of the vaccines that had been used in trials had proven effective against the South African variant.\n\nShe said officials expected other vaccines to have \"a similar level of effectiveness, particularly in reducing hospitalisation and death\".\n\nDr Hopkins added that further testing was taking place involving the South African variant so that predictions could be made with \"greater robustness\".\n\nProf Jim McManus, the director of public health for Hertfordshire, told the BBC that if every single case was detected, it might be \"possible\" to eradicate the variant within two weeks.\n\nAsked how confident the government was that the new variant could be contained, Mr Hancock warned it was \"not straightforward... there may be further cases we don't know about yet\".\n\nHe added it was \"absolutely vital\" that people in the affected areas \"minimise all social contact and get a test when the opportunity arises\".\n\nWhy have 11 cases caused such alarm? It is because of the precarious position we are in currently.\n\nVaccination is being rolled out quickly and many vulnerable people are building up immunity.\n\nAnything that interferes with that at this point will have significant consequences. But once vaccination is complete and there are significant levels of immunity across the population, the impact of mutations becomes much more diluted.\n\nThis is why there needs to be maximum vigilance now, but in the long-term we can still be confident we can get on top of this pandemic.\n\nViruses mutate, so what is happening is not surprising.\n\nBut coronaviruses - certainly compared to the flu which sees different strains circulating every year - tend to be relatively stable.\n\nSo that means, even with the mutations we are seeing, the vaccines that have been developed still offer a very good degree of protection, even if that protection is not quite as high as it was against the original form of the virus.\n\nWhat is more, it is relatively straightforward with this generation of vaccines to re-engineer them to work better against the mutations that have been seen.\n\nAlmost 9.3 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMeanwhile, a further 18,607 new infections were recorded in the UK as of Monday, as well as another 406 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn total, 105 cases of the South African variant have been identified - with all but 11 linked to travel in South Africa.\n\nMr Hancock said testers would be going door-to-door in the areas being targeted for surge testing.\n\nKent County Council said police would be among those going door-to-door to offer residents in the ME15 area tests \"there and then\".\n\nIn Hertfordshire, residents in the EN10 area will receive a letter offering tests at mobile screening units, to collect at a local library, or through the post, the county council said.\n\nPositive cases will be analysed to see if they are caused by the South African variant.\n\nPublic Health England has already been analysing around 5% to 10% of all positive cases in more detail, allowing it to identify new variants in the community.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said vaccines could be adapted to deal with new variants if necessary.\n\n\"The fact is we are going to be living with Covid for a while to come in one way or another,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nStudies are under way into how the vaccines work against the new variants, with some early results suggesting the Pfizer jab protects against them.\n\nData on two new vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - show that they appear to offer some protection against the variant. Meanwhile, early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We will be living with Covid for a while to come\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did this peace icon end up at a genocide trial?\n\nShe was once seen as a beacon for human rights - a principled activist who gave up her freedom to challenge the ruthless army generals who ruled Myanmar for decades.\n\nIn 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while still under house arrest, and hailed as \"an outstanding example of the power of the powerless\".\n\nIn 2015, she led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years. But she was deposed by a coup in 2021 when the military took control and arrested her and the political leadership around her.\n\nWhile her image had suffered internationally due to her response to the crisis that befell Myanmar's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, she remains hugely popular with the country's Buddhist majority.\n\nMs Suu Kyi spent nearly 15 years in detention between 1989 and 2010. Her personal struggle to bring democracy to then military-ruled Myanmar (also known as Burma) - made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.\n\nDespite her landslide victory in 2015, the Myanmar constitution forbade her from becoming president because she has children who are foreign nationals. But Ms Suu Kyi, now 75, was widely seen as de facto leader.\n\nThe Obama administration lifted sanctions on Myanmar in return for democratic reforms\n\nHer official title was state counsellor. The President until the 2021 coup, Win Myint, was a close aide.\n\nIn 2020, her NLD once again won a landslide majority, getting even more votes than in the 2015 vote.\n\nThe still powerful military disputed the results, claiming election fraud. On the day parliament was to a sit for the first time, the military arrested Ms Suu Kyi along with many other political leaders.\n\nIt then declared a state of emergency, handing power to the military for a full year.\n\nMs Suu Kyi was later charged with illegally importing communications equipment. Police said they found seven walkie-talkie radios in her home which she was not authorised to possess.\n\nMs Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San.\n\nHe was assassinated when she was only two years old, just before Myanmar gained independence from British colonial rule in 1948.\n\nIn 1960 she went to India with her mother Daw Khin Kyi, who had been appointed Myanmar's ambassador in Delhi.\n\nFour years later she went to Oxford University in the UK, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. There she met her future husband, academic Michael Aris.\n\nAfter stints of living and working in Japan and Bhutan, she settled in the UK to raise their two children, Alexander and Kim, but Myanmar was never far from her thoughts.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi with Michael Aris and son Alexander in London in 1973\n\nWhen she arrived back in Yangon in 1988 - to look after her critically ill mother - Myanmar was in the midst of major political upheaval.\n\nThousands of students, office workers and monks took to the streets demanding democratic reform.\n\n\"I could not as my father's daughter remain indifferent to all that was going on,\" she said in a speech in Yangon on 26 August 1988. She went on to lead the revolt against the then-dictator, General Ne Win.\n\nInspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King and India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections.\n\nBut the demonstrations were brutally suppressed by the army, which seized power in a coup on 18 September 1988. Ms Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest the following year.\n\nThe military government called national elections in May 1990, which Ms Suu Kyi's NLD convincingly won - but the junta refused to hand over control.\n\nMs Suu Kyi remained under house arrest in Yangon for six years, until she was released in July 1995.\n\nShe was again put under house arrest in September 2000, when she tried to travel to the city of Mandalay in defiance of travel restrictions.\n\nShe was released unconditionally in May 2002, but just over a year later was imprisoned after a government-backed mob set upon her entourage in the north of the country. She escaped because of the swift action taken by her driver, but many of her supporters were savagely beaten and a number died.\n\nHuge crowds greeted Aung San Suu Kyi on her release from house arrest in 2010\n\nShe was later allowed to return home - but again under effective house arrest.\n\nAt times she was able to meet other NLD officials and selected diplomats, but during the early years she was often in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to see her two sons or her husband, who died of cancer in March 1999.\n\nThe military authorities had offered to allow her to travel to the UK to see him when he was gravely ill, but she felt compelled to refuse for fear she would not be allowed back into the country.\n\nMs Suu Kyi was side-lined from Myanmar's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later. Her son Kim was allowed to visit her for the first time in a decade.\n\nAs the new government embarked on a process of reform, Ms Suu Kyi and her party re-joined the political process.\n\nThey won 43 of the 45 seats contested in April 2012 by-elections, in an emphatic statement of support. Ms Suu Kyi was sworn in as an MP and leader of the opposition.\n\nThe following May, she left Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confidence that its new leaders would allow her to return.\n\nThe NLD swept to victory in November 2015\n\nSince becoming Myanmar's state counsellor, her leadership has been partly defined by the treatment of the country's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.\n\nIn 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh due to an army crackdown sparked by deadly attacks on police stations in Rakhine state.\n\nMyanmar now faces a lawsuit accusing it of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), while the International Criminal Court is investigating the country for crimes against humanity.\n\nMs Suu Kyi's former international supporters accused her of doing nothing to stop rape, murder and possible genocide by refusing to condemn the still powerful military or acknowledge accounts of atrocities.\n\nA few initially argued that she was a pragmatic politician, trying to govern a multi-ethnic country with a complex history.\n\nBut her personal defence of the army's actions at the ICJ hearing in the Hague was seen as a new turning point for her international reputation.\n\nAt home, however, \"the Lady\", as Ms Suu Kyi is known, remains wildly popular among the Buddhist majority who hold little sympathy for the Rohingya.\n\nDuring her time in power Ms Suu Kyi and the NLD government also faced criticism for prosecuting journalists and activists using colonial-era laws.\n\nWhile there was progress in some areas, the military continued to hold a quarter of parliamentary seats and controlled key ministries including defence, home affairs and border affairs.\n\nIn August 2018, Ms Suu Kyi described the generals in her cabinet as \"rather sweet\" and Myanmar's democratic transition, analysts said, appeared to have stalled.\n\nThe 2021 military coup came as the country was facing one of South East Asia's worst Covid-19 outbreaks, putting new strains on an already impoverished healthcare system as lockdown measures devastate livelihoods.\n\nThe coup triggered widespread demonstrations and Myanmar's military has cracked down on pro-democracy protesters, activists and journalists.\n\nIn December 2021, Ms Suu Kyi was found guilty of inciting dissent and breaking Covid rules in the first of a series of verdicts that could see her jailed for life. UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet called it a \"sham trial\" that would only \"deepen rejection of the coup\".\n\nMs Suu Kyi faces 11 charges in total and denies them all.\n\nYet Ms Suu Kyi remains popular. A 2020 survey by the People's Alliance for Credible Elections, a watchdog, found that 79% of people had trust in her - up from 70% the previous year.\n\nDerek Mitchell, former US Ambassador to Myanmar told the BBC: \"The story of Aung San Suu Kyi is as much about us as it is about her. She may not have changed. She may have been consistent and we just didn't know the full complexity of who she is.\n\n\"We have to be mindful that we shouldn't endow people with some iconic image beyond which is human.\"", "Airbus workers in Flintshire have voted to reduce their working week by up to 10% in a bid to save jobs.\n\nThe proposal came after the firm announced last year it was looking to shed 1,435 posts at its Broughton plant.\n\nA ballot of up to 3,500 members of the Unite union was carried out at the site, which employs 6,000.\n\nAirbus said it was delighted members had supported the proposal which was \"rooted in helping save jobs\".\n\nThe Unite union said voting in favour of the change had removed the possibility of compulsory redundancies.\n\nIt is understood many workers have opted for schemes including voluntary redundancies, but between 350 and 400 posts are still under threat.\n\nBroughton head of plant Jerome Blandin said: \"The shorter working week increases our flexibility and will help us manage the downturn in demand we are facing.\n\n\"We look forward to continuing to work in partnership with the trade union on the implementation of the new working arrangements at the appropriate time.\"\n\nUnite said members had voted \"overwhelmingly in favour\" of the plan.\n\nRegional secretary Peter Hughes said: \"Whilst it is not ideal that our members have had to commit to a shorter working week, this decision should be viewed against the background of an unprecedented crisis in global aviation.\n\n\"This solution to the crisis faced by Airbus is one that could be deployed to other manufacturing sites across Wales in order to avoid large scale redundancies. These unprecedented times require creative solutions.\"\n\nThe vote means workers will see a reduction in working hours of between 5% and 10% each week.\n\nUnion sources previously said Airbus would make up a third of the shortfall in salaries, although workers would lose about 6.6% of their pay.\n\nThe 12-month arrangement would be implemented when the UK government furlough scheme comes to an end.\n\nIn April, 3,200 staff were placed on the furlough scheme.\n\nDaz Reynolds, Unite convenor at Airbus, said: \"Coronavirus has been devastating for the aerospace sector and the past year has been extremely difficult for the site.\n\n\"After losing almost 1,000 jobs through voluntary redundancy today's result is extremely welcome for all our members.\"\n\nThis is the first time in Wales we have seen employees from a large company vote to take a pay cut to save their jobs.\n\nThe fact that the vote was overwhelming is a clear illustration of how anxious they are, not just about the immediate impact of the pandemic, but about the long-term future of the massive plant.\n\nIt sends a very clear message to Airbus executives at the company's headquarters in France that its Welsh workforce will work with them to continue to make the wings factory a success.\n\nIt also is evidence that the shop floor workers and the company are working together.\n\nThe pandemic has hit a severe blow to the whole airline industry at a time when development was beginning into the company's next model.\n\nTo work on the new design of plane, Broughton will have to fight off competition from other plants in other countries.\n\nMore than 80% of the Unite members at the plant voted and 75% of them supported the pay cut. It means a 10% cut in working hours and a 6.6% cut in pay until Christmas and a 5% cut after that.\n\nThis might not be the only Welsh workforce to vote for a pay cut in 2021.", "Israel's vaccination programme is showing signs of working to drive down infections and illness in the over-60s.\n\nThe fall appears to be most pronounced in older people and areas furthest ahead in their immunisation efforts.\n\nThis suggests it is the vaccine, and not just the country's current lockdown, taking effect.\n\nIsraeli Ministry of Health (MoH) figures show 531 over-60s, out of almost 750,000 fully vaccinated, tested positive for coronavirus (0.07%).\n\nAnd far fewer fell ill, with 38 becoming hospitalised with moderate, severe or critical disease - a tiny proportion.\n\nThe MoH assessed the medical records of almost a million people in total - 743,845 of whom were over the age of 60 - until at least seven days after they received a second dose of the vaccine.\n\nThere were three deaths in vaccinated over-60s - although it is possible they contracted the infection earlier, before their immunity had time to build.\n\nBefore the vaccine had time to take effect, more than 7,000 infections were recorded, just under 700 cases of moderate to critical illness and 307 deaths.\n\nThe MoH data suggests infections and illnesses fell consistently from 14 days after receiving the first jab onwards.\n\nWhile the biggest fall observed was in people seven days after their second dose of the vaccine, this cannot be used as evidence for or against the wisdom of the UK's strategy of delaying second doses.\n\nIsrael has consistently given people their first and second doses no more than three weeks apart, but the first dose isn't expected to provide protection for at least two weeks.\n\nSo it is not possible by looking at this data to untangle the impact of the second dose from the first dose starting to kick in.\n\nThe first dose takes longer to show any effect as it primes the immune system to start recognising and fighting off the virus.\n\nIsrael has delivered five million doses of the vaccine to a population of about nine million - and about one million people have received two doses.\n\nThe jury's still out on whether the vaccine completely stops people from carrying, and passing on, the virus.\n\nSo for now, while many people remain unvaccinated, those who have had the jab are still being told to socially distance and wear masks.\n\nThe MoH's data only looked at infections and illness in vaccinated people - it did not involve a control group of unvaccinated people as a clinical trial would.\n\nBut a team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel-Aviv University, and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - have attempted to pin down whether the observed fall in cases is down to the vaccine rather than just the effect of lockdown restrictions.\n\nProf Malka Gorfine, Hagai Rossman, Prof Eran Segal, and Dr Uri Shalit analysed national data by age and city.\n\nThey identified bigger falls in infections and hospitalisations both in the over-60s, who were vaccinated first, and in the cities which vaccinated the largest proportion of their populations earliest.\n\nThese relative changes were not seen in earlier lockdowns.\n\nThis gives early but encouraging signs the falls can be linked to the vaccine, and not just to current restrictions.\n\nSeparately, Israel's second-largest healthcare provider Maccabi published figures showing 66 people out of a group of 248,000 vaccinated (0.03%) caught the Covid-19 virus, more than a week after receiving the second dose of the vaccine.\n\nOf those 66, all had mild symptoms and none were hospitalised.\n\nUnlike the MoH, Maccabi compared the infection rate with 900,000 unvaccinated people with a similar demographic profile. In this group during the same time period, 8,250 caught Covid - more than 30 times as many.\n\nThey estimated the vaccine was 92% effective when used in a population - very similar to the 95% Pfizer found in a controlled clinical trial.", "Online working for students to continue in Wales until after Easter\n\nStudents in Wales are set to continue having online lectures and seminars from home until after Easter.\n\nUniversities Wales said only a small number of health and practical courses had returned to face-to-face teaching after the Christmas break.\n\nThe organisation - which looks after universities' interests - said the decision had been made \"to provide students with certainty\".\n\nThe National Union of Students said the decision could have been made earlier.\n\nUniversities UK said universities would tell staff and students of any changes to plans - and will continue to follow Welsh Government guidance.\n\nSwansea University has asked students not to return to campus until the end of the current term on 26 March, while Cardiff University confirmed the majority of its teaching would remain online until the same date.\n\nNUS Wales president Becky Ricketts said: \"This decision has been taken with safety in mind, but it could have been made earlier in the year to help students plan with more certainty.\n\n\"Rent rebates for students unable to access their term-time address must be extended until the end of term. This must apply to all students, including those in the private rented sector.\n\n\"It would be fundamentally unfair for any student to be paying rent and bills for housing they can't live in for four months.\"\n\nA Universities Wales spokesman said: \"It is important to note students on a range of courses have already returned to in-person teaching, including many courses with practical or placement requirements.\n\n\"We anticipate a small number of additional students will be returning to campuses before Easter where this is required for completion or to meet learning outcomes, including through access to facilities and resources.\"\n\n\"This is a difficult time for everyone. Student and staff well-being remains a key priority for universities in Wales and we would encourage any student experiencing difficulties or hardship to talk to their institution.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped the announcement could offer students and staff \"certainty\" during \"difficult times\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Universities continue to follow the latest Welsh Government guidance to deliver services safely whether it's for students returning to face-to-face learning or for those needing to access campus facilities.\"\n\nTravel is currently limited to essential purposes in Wales, such as for work and caring responsibilities, and international travel is barred.\n\nBut, after a tough year with the pandemic, many people will be dreaming about a holiday in 2021.\n\nWhile bookings for UK staycations are \"coming in thick and fast\", some people are gambling on a foreign trip in the hope restrictions will ease later this year.\n\nUse this form to tell us about your plans.\n\nIn some cases your comments will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joelinton shared a picture of himself with Tom Baxter on Friday from what is believed to be a garage\n\nA barber who cut a footballer's hair in breach of lockdown had been warned by a council before about possible breaches.\n\nTom Baxter, who was pictured in his North Shields garage with NUFC striker Joelinton, has accepted a prohibition notice from North Tyneside Council.\n\nNewcastle City Council said it had issued him with a warning in November and a prohibition notice in January for his Newcastle salon.\n\nMr Baxter said he was unaware of the Newcastle issues and will appeal.\n\nA Newcastle City Council spokesman said: \"Following complaints about Mr Baxter still operating his High Heaton barbershop a week after national lockdown measures began in November 2020, we wrote to advise that the premises were not permitted to open.\n\n\"The letter warned that if Mr Baxter did not cease trading and comply with Covid restrictions designed to protect public health, a prohibition notice would be served.\"\n\nThe council previously said a second warning was issued in December, but it has now said that was incorrect.\n\nMr Baxter said his salon was closed throughout November and he had installed numerous Covid measures when it reopened under tier three rules in December.\n\nTom Baxter said he spent £20,000 making his salon Covid secure\n\nAfter the picture of Mr Baxter and Joelinton was shared online last week, North Tyneside Council said it would issue a prohibition notice of its own as it had \"received complaints about an individual operating a barber service\" from a property in the borough \"in contravention of Covid regulations\".\n\nNorthumbria Police previously said it would contact the celebrity stylist and Joelinton and \"consider further action\".\n\nNewcastle United said it would take \"appropriate action\", while Mr Baxter said on Saturday he \"shouldn't have done it\".\n\nHair salons and barbers in England are currently closed under lockdown regulations.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"We are aware of a social media post involving a 24-year-old man and a 35-year-old man who may be in breach of coronavirus restrictions.\n\n\"We will be speaking to those involved and consider any further action under the coronavirus legislation.\"\n\nJoelinton was on the bench for Newcastle's 2-0 win at Everton on Saturday.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona say they will take \"appropriate legal action\" against Spanish newspaper El Mundo after it published details of forward Lionel Messi's £492m contract.\n\nBarcelona denied \"any responsibility for the publication of this document\".\n\nAccording to El Mundo, Messi's four-year contract was worth a possible 555,237,619 euros until 30 June, 2021.\n\nIt means the 33-year-old would be receiving up to £123m a season.\n\nBarcelona said in a statement that they \"regret\" its publication, adding: \"FC Barcelona categorically denies any responsibility for the publication of this document, and will take appropriate legal action against the newspaper El Mundo, for any damage that may be caused as a result of this publication.\n\n\"FC Barcelona expresses its absolute support for Lionel Messi, especially in the face of any attempt to discredit his image, and to damage his relationship with the entity where he has worked to become the best player in the world and in football history.\"\n\nArgentina international Messi joined Barcelona at 13 but handed in a transfer request in August.\n\nThere remains uncertainty if he will remain with the club when his contract runs out in the summer.\n\nMessi is Barcelona's record goalscorer and has won 10 La Liga titles, the Champions League four times and the Ballon d'Or - awarded to the world's best player - six times.\n\nHis controversial summer request to leave followed clashes with club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, who resigned in October.\n\nMessi, who described Bartomeu's reign as \"a disaster\", said in December: \"I don't know what I'm going to do yet.\"\n• None Who's behind revamping some of the world's most powerful cars?\n• None Female inspirations, online trolls and her relationship with Shia LaBeouf", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins: \"We have to relax things really quite slowly\"\n\nA record 598,389 people were given their first coronavirus vaccination in one day across the UK on Saturday, government figures show.\n\nAs of Saturday a total of 8,977,329 people had received a jab, and 491,053 of those have had a second dose.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"delighted\", adding each vaccine \"brings us one step closer to normal\".\n\nHowever, a further 587 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported on Sunday.\n\nIt takes the UK's total by that measure to 106,158, although the number of reported deaths tends to be lower over the weekend.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter Mr Hancock said he was \"so grateful to everybody who's involved in making this happen\", and said it meant three-quarters of those aged 75 to 79 and four-fifths of those over 80 had now been vaccinated.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust and a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), described the volume of vaccinations as a \"staggering achievement\".\n\nEarlier, the health secretary predicted \"a happy and free Great British summer\" but warned of a \"a tough few months\" as national restrictions continue across the UK while vaccinations are administered.\n\nHis comments came after Dr Susan Hopkins, Public Health England's Covid strategy chief, warned that ending the current coronavirus lockdown must happen \"very slowly, very cautiously\".\n\n\"It is better to be cautious, let's get the population vaccinated,\" she told the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nEngland's current lockdown will continue until 8 March, when it is hoped schools could begin to reopen, while national restrictions are also in place across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe vaccines record comes after a week which had seen a row with the European Union over vaccine distribution.\n\nTaoiseach Micheál Martin said there were \"a lot of lessons to be learnt\" after Brussels reversed its threat to put checks on the Irish border - a move which had been widely condemned.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen had assured Prime Minister Boris Johnson that \"there will be no disruption of contracts that we have with any producer in the EU\".\n\nMeanwhile, the situation in hospitals has \"stabilised\", according to intensive care doctor Prof Rupert Pearse, who said it was going to be \"another very hard year\" for NHS staff.\n\nHis comments came before it was announced that charity fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore, 100, had been admitted to hospital with coronavirus.", "Is the South African variant more likely to cause serious illness?\n\nFinally the scientists are asked about the South African variant and whether it is more likely to cause serious illness. Dr Hopkins says it has \"similar transmissibility\" to the variant that was first found in Kent but there is not evidence it is causing more severe disease than other variants circulating in the UK. However, she adds that it has slightly more mutations in the spike protein which is perhaps causing vaccines to have \"diminished effectiveness\" although they still work very well. She says the government wants to prevent viruses with mutations acquiring more mutations which is why breaking the chains of transmission for the South African variant is essential. Hancock adds that the UK's flu vaccination programme is upgraded every year to make sure it is as effective as possible against new variants. He says he hopes the government will be able to get the coronavirus jab to the same place and it will become \"something people have as standard\".", "Captain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for the NHS\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's family are with him in hospital after he was admitted with coronavirus, the hospital has said.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital on Sunday after requiring help with his breathing.\n\nIn a statement released with his daughters' consent, Bedford Hospital said it continued to care for him.\n\n\"At this time, members of Captain Tom's family are with him,\" it added.\n\nThe statement concluded with a request for \"space and privacy\" for relatives.\n\nCapt Sir Tom had been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and last week tested positive for Covid-19, his daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, said on Twitter on Sunday.\n\nShe added he needed help with his breathing and was being treated on a ward, but not in ICU.\n\nBedford Hospital states on its website that visitors are not permitted due to current restrictions, unless there are exceptional circumstances.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore spent Sunday night in Bedford Hospital where his family have joined him\n\nCapt Sir Tom had not yet received a Covid-19 vaccine because of the medication he was taking for pneumonia, a family spokesperson had said previously.\n\nThe family statement issued at the weekend said: \"The medical care he has received in the last few weeks has been remarkable and we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible.\n\n\"We understand that everyone will be wishing him well.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that his thoughts were with Capt Sir Tom and his family. \"You've inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery,\" Mr Johnson wrote.\n\nThe Army veteran, originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, before his 100th birthday during the first national lockdown.\n\nHe was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nNHS Charities Together, which benefited from the millions raised, said he was an \"inspiration to the country\" and had also inspired many others to raise money for the same cause.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 by repeatedly walking an 82ft (25m) loop of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5m supporters.\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.", "Pippa Hamshaw says the costs and worry of fire-safety regulations have left her in tears\n\nThousands of flat owners are facing large bills for fire-safety improvements demanded following the Grenfell disaster. Labour says they're not getting enough help, but the government insists it's taking appropriate action.\n\n\"The building should never have been signed off in the first place,\" says Pippa Hamshaw. \"The flats are all valued at nothing. Mortgage companies won't offer mortgages on any of them.\"\n\nPippa, 31, is also expecting a £70,000 bill for her share of renovations on her block of flats in Leeds.\n\n\"I go from being really angry with the situation to being in tears,\" she tells BBC 5 live's Naga Munchetty. \"It's taken over my life.\"\n\nPippa is one of thousands of people facing large payments for safety renovations required following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, in west London, in which 72 people died when flames spread via combustible exterior cladding.\n\nMany fire-safety concerns have come up in inspections since then, but those not relating to cladding - such as missing fire breaks and flammable balconies - are not covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nAnd a report by MPs has said that the £1.6bn the government has allocated for removing dangerous cladding is insufficient - with the real cost nearer £15bn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"Three and a half years after Grenfell, most people would not believe this is the situation we are in\"\n\nFixing safety faults has seen costs surge for leaseholders like Pippa, whose monthly service charge has risen from £240 to £630.\n\n\"I just feel totally let down by the whole system,\" she says. \"The government could do something right now... I feel like everyone's winning bar the leaseholder.\"\n\nAfter Grenfell, round-the-clock fire patrols known as \"waking watches\" were put in place in hundreds of buildings, costing groups of leaseholders tens of thousands of pounds every month.\n\n\"I don't feel any safer,\" says Pippa. \"I don't see how they are going to be much use. They literally have to go and knock on every door of the flats to tell you that the building is on fire. We've got 10 floors in my property. Are they really going to be able to knock on every door?\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is accusing ministers of offering \"half-baked solutions\" to the problems exposed by Grenfell and has called for a national cladding taskforce, modelled on a similar body set up in Australia.\n\nHe argues this would \"drive forward\" work on funding the removal of dangerous cladding, while pursuing \"those responsible for the cladding scandal\", protecting residents from costs and ensuring they can sell their properties.\n\nJenny Garrett, who bought her flat in Sheffield in 2019, says that, when the survey was carried out, \"absolutely nothing\" wrong was found. Only later did she find out the building's cladding was flammable.\n\n\"The whole situation is quite overwhelming because there's the issue of feeling unsafe,\" she says. \"On top of that, there's the issue about the financial pressure and worrying about what's coming down the road.\"\n\nResidents have seen insurance costs on buildings with fire safety problems rocket.\n\nFlat owners in one Cheshire development had their combined premiums rise from £34,000 in 2018 to more than £500,000. Some are now paying almost £2,000 a year for building insurance.\n\nMeanwhile, data released last month shows that cladding removal and repair work has been completed on only 58% of social housing blocks and 30% of private sector buildings.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers says the slow pace of getting buildings fixed means means high policy prices reflect risks accurately.\n\n\"For the last two or three years, a lot of our lives have been completely ruined,\" says Giles, a flat owner from Manchester. \"We're living in fear and limbo. All we've been told so far is the government wants us to pay sums running into the tens of thousands of pounds, simply to make our homes safe.\n\n\"It's all got even worse over the last year, because we're trapped in our homes for 23 hours a day during the pandemic. We almost feel safer outside than inside.\"\n\nPeople attended a commemoration to mark the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2020\n\n\"We all want to see homes made safer, as quickly as possible... we are making good progress on remediating unsafe homes,\" a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman says.\n\n\"Leaseholders shouldn't have to worry about the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects in high-rise buildings that they didn't cause - and should be protected from large-scale remediation costs wherever possible,\" he adds.\n\n\"The Building Safety Bill is the appropriate legislative mechanism for addressing these issues and will be brought forward in due course.\"\n\nThe House of Commons backed a Labour motion calling for further action on cladding on Monday by 263 votes to none.\n\nThe Conservative leadership asked its MPs to abstain and the result is not binding on the government.", "The Muslim Council of Britain has elected its first female leader.\n\nZara Mohammed said it was an \"honour\" to be appointed as the new secretary general after winning the most votes in a poll of affiliate groups of the UK's largest Muslim umbrella organisation.\n\nShe succeeds Harun Khan, who completed a maximum of four years as the head of the MCB.\n\nThe 29-year-old from Glasgow said she hoped more women and young people would be inspired to seek leadership roles.\n\nShe said: \"I think women sometimes hesitate to take on leadership roles even though they are more than qualified to do so.\n\n\"It is really important to engage young people, engage more women and diversify the organisation and the work we are doing.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that Ms Mohammed's appointment was \"terrific\".\n\nMr Khan said: \"I wish the very best of success to Zara Mohammed - may she continue to lead this organisation to greater heights for the betterment of our communities across the country.\"\n\nMs Mohammed is a masters graduate in human rights law and a training and development consultant.\n\nShe said that she aimed to \"continue to build a truly inclusive, diverse and representative body\", driven by the needs of British Muslims \"for the common good\".\n\nShe previously served as an assistant secretary general for the MCB.", "A total of 416,000 people in Wales have had a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine\n\nA watchdog has expressed concerns over the roll-out of vaccinations in Welsh care homes after a minister said a key target had been reached.\n\nMental Health Minister Eluned Morgan said all care homes had been offered jabs by the end of January.\n\nBut older people's commissioner Helena Herklots said it was disappointing a \"significant number\" of care home residents had not had the jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government said homes with no active cases had received vaccines.\n\nLatest statistics show 75.1% of care home residents - 12,836 people - have had a first dose, although there is a lag between the time a dose is administered and when it appears in the statistics.\n\nThe target was one of a set of pledges laid out in the Welsh Government's vaccination strategy.\n\nBaroness Morgan told a press conference that all care homes for older people \"have either received visits from vaccination teams, or have visits planned.\"\n\nHomes that have had live Covid cases in the past 20 days have not had visits, the minister said.\n\nShe said vaccination teams would visit those places \"as soon as the public health advice allows\".\n\nAs of Sunday night, a total of 416,306 people in Wales have had their first jab, more than 13% of Wales' population.\n\nFigures released on Monday also showed 74.5% of people over the age of 80 - 136,186 people - have now had a first jab.\n\nMinisters missed a pledge to reach 70% of over-80s by 25 January and blamed the snow in some parts of Wales.\n\nThe commissioner said \"it is disappointing and concerning that, based on the latest published figures available, a significant number of older people living in care homes in Wales - around a quarter - appear to still be waiting to be vaccinated\".\n\nShe said that was despite care home residents being at the very top of the priority list.\n\nShe was also disappointed that despite confirming that visits to care homes had been planned, \"the Welsh Government did not provide any information about when vaccines would actually be delivered to residents\".\n\nMs Herklots added: \"I have written to the Welsh Government to raise my concerns about this delay, and have asked them to provide me with a detailed timeline that sets out when they expect all older people living in care homes to have received their first dose of vaccine.\n\n\"I am also seeking assurance that this delay will not impact upon the roll-out of the vaccine to other priority groups or the rollout of people's second doses.\"\n\nBaroness Morgan said the roll-out meant care home visits would be allowed to resume soon.\n\n\"With the vaccine being rolled out in care homes now, in a few weeks' time it will be easier for us to allow people to visit,\" she said.\n\nBut the minister urged families to err on the side of caution for the time being, until the vaccines have had time to take effect.\n\nMary Wimbury, chief executive of Care Forum Wales which represents homes and other service providers, said: \"We do need to have an element of caution in this\".\n\nShe said people were \"still waiting for the second dose\" of a Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It is going to be a gradual change in terms of visiting,\" she told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBaroness Morgan encouraged everybody who was eligible for a vaccine to take it up.\n\nThere have been reports that some care home staff in England have refused to be vaccinated, although Baroness Morgan said the Welsh Government was not at the point of making it mandatory.\n\nHowever, she said vaccines were \"particularly important in care homes because of the vulnerability of the people who are living there\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"All care homes where there were no active cases and those with small outbreaks where others could be vaccinated safely have received the vaccine.\"\n\nShe said health boards had records of all those not yet vaccinated and had plans to provide one \"as soon as it is safe to do so\".\n\nShe added: \"We have met our aim to reach all the older people care homes that it was possible to reach by the end of January.\n\n\"Not all residents will have received their vaccination yet, for different reasons...\n\n\"Where a care home has positive cases within the last 20 days the local health hoard have to determine whether it is safe for residents, staff and vaccinators to enter homes and administer vaccinations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has died from cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old was best known for playing Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US sitcom about a group of high school friends and their headmaster.\n\nHe had recently completed a first round of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung cancer last month.\n\nHis condition had deteriorated fast in the last week, said agent Roger Paul.\n\n\"Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful,\" he said on Monday.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and was a global hit series.\n\nMario Lopez, known to fans of the show as AC Slater, said: \"Dustin, you will be missed my man. The fragility of this life is something never to be taken for granted. Prayers for your family will continue on.\"\n\nTori Spelling, who starred in a few episodes alongside Diamond, described him as being \"an icon to me, personally and professionally\" as she reminisced about him being her first on-screen love.\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 torispelling 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\nMark-Paul Gosselaar, who played Zack Morris, tweeted that Diamond was \"a true comedic genius\" and Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond dies at 44said he \"will miss those raw, brilliant sparks that only he was able to produce\".\n\nTiffani Thiessen , who played Kelly Kapowski, posted that she was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\n\"Life is extremely fragile and it's something we should never take for granted. God speed Dustin,\" she wrote.\n\nThe cast of Saved by the Bell in 1993\n\nLark Voorhies, who played Lisa Turtle in the show, said in a statement given to Entertainment Weekly: \"Words cannot express the grief that I am feeling right now. Dustin and I had a warm and special friendship, he was a caring gentleman, and my memories of him will always be cherished.\n\n\"I am so very sorry he is gone. But it's exceptionally sad for his close loved ones who have to deal with his tragic death and their own great loss. My heart goes out to them at this trying time.\"\n\nElizabeth Berkley Lauren, who appeared in the show as Jessie Spanno, wrote that Dustin \"was a truly gifted talent\".\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 elizberkley 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\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nDiamond served three months in jail after he stabbed a man during an altercation at a bar in Wisconsin in 2014.", "Steve Todd says he has been fined £3,000 for breaching coronavirus regulations\n\nAn unrepentant gym owner who has been fined three times for ignoring Covid-19 regulations is still refusing to close.\n\nSteve Todd, owner of Reps Gym in Preston, received his latest £1,000 fixed penalty notice on Friday.\n\nHe was given a prohibition notice, ordering the gym to stay shut during the national lockdown, on 15 January.\n\nDespite being visited 11 times by police, Mr Todd told the BBC he was remaining open for customers \"desperate to train for their mental health\".\n\nUnder current lockdown rules in England designed to reduce the spread of coronavirus, all gyms must remain closed until further notice.\n\nPreston City Council warned that serious breaches could lead to prosecution.\n\nAnd Lancashire Police confirmed it has been to the gym a number of times and issued a total of 24 fixed penalty notices to the owner and customers.\n\nThe force added it would \"continue to work with partners to address issues with those who flout the restrictions\".\n\n\"People are really struggling with their mental health and the gym massively helps,\" said Mr Todd, who has owned the gym for more than 30 years.\n\n\"This isn't about the money, because I'm not charging,\" added the 55-year-old.\n\n\"I could close and claim a business grant from the government but there is more to life than money.\"\n\nMr Todd said that while he shut the doors of his gym at Roman Way industrial estate during the first lockdown, he felt unable to do so again.\n\n\"Some of my members are desperate to train for their mental health. So I told them not to worry - they can still come free of charge.\n\n\"Lives are more important than money.\"\n\nPeter Moss, deputy leader of Preston City Council, said the local authority was aware of a \"small number of businesses who continue to break [restrictions] and put the health and safety of staff and customers at risk by remaining open\".\n\n\"Businesses that continue to disregard this and put the safety of others at risk will face formal regulatory action leading in more serious cases to prosecution,\" he added.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police in this respect and encourage members of the public who have information about businesses breaking restrictions to share this with us.\"\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.", "Boris Johnson has condemned the coup in Myanmar, where armed forces have seized power and detained the country's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nThe PM criticised the \"unlawful imprisonment of civilians\" and of Ms Suu Kyi and called for their release.\n\n\"The vote of the people must be respected,\" he said.\n\nMyanmar's military is alleging election fraud in November's democratic vote, won in a landslide by Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.\n\nShe urged her supporters \"not to accept\" the military's intervention and to \"protest against the coup\".\n\nAll authority has been given to the top army commander Min Aung Hlaing and a one-year state of emergency declared, a statement on Myanmar's military TV said.\n\nIn a tweet, the UK prime minister joined other world leaders from countries including the US and Australia in condemning the \"unlawful imprisonment of civilians\".\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\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also criticised the coup, saying: \"The democratic wishes of the people of Myanmar must be respected, and the National Assembly peacefully re-convened.\"\n\nA government spokesman said the UK was calling on Myanmar's military to \"respect the rule of law and human rights\".\n\nMyanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the armed forces until 2011, when democratic reforms spearheaded by Ms Suu Kyi ended military rule.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"The democratic rights of the people of Myanmar must be upheld.\n\n\"All political prisoners should be released and the UK government should consider further sanctions against the Burmese military.\"", "Captain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for the NHS\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore has been admitted to hospital with coronavirus, his daughter said.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital after requiring help with his breathing, Hannah Ingram-Moore said on Twitter.\n\nShe said he had been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and last week tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMrs Ingram-Moore said her father was not in intensive care.\n\nA spokeswoman for the family said Capt Sir Tom had not yet received the Covid-19 vaccine due to the medication he was on for pneumonia.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore has spent the night in Bedford Hospital where he is not in intensive care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: \"My thoughts are very much with @CaptainTomMoore and his family. You've inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery.\"\n\nThe Army veteran, originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, before his 100th birthday during the first national lockdown.\n\nHe was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nIn December, he went on a family holiday in Barbados after British Airways paid for his flight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Mrs Ingram-Moore's tweet, she said her father had been at home with the family until Sunday when he \"needed additional help with breathing\".\n\nShe said the medical care he had received in the past few weeks had been \"remarkable\".\n\n\"We know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully [he will] return home as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen in July\n\nNHS Charities Together, which benefited from the millions raised, said he had been an \"inspiration to the country\" and had also led to many other people raising money and doing \"crazy different things to support the charity and give extra support to the NHS\".\n\nChief executive, Ellie Orton, said: \"If it wasn't for him and the remarkable fundraising her has done, we wouldn't be able to [provide] the extra support that we give to the NHS.\n\n\"It's been phenomenal, the funds that he has raised are making a significant difference in the NHS right now and these funds are additional to what the NHS and the government are able to give.\"\n\nShe said it was being used for extra mental health support and wellbeing rooms and gardens for NHS staff as well as iPads for patients isolated from their families and bereavement counselling.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of well wishes for the centenarian on social media.\n\nThe Twitter account for England's national football teams said: \"We're very sorry to hear this. We are thinking of you all and hoping Captain Sir Tom makes a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock also sent his \"best wishes\", while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the whole nation was wishing him well, adding: \"You've been an inspiration to us all throughout this crisis.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan thanked the NHS for the care the veteran had received and said he hoped he would have a \"speedy recovery\" and be \"back home with his family soon\".\n\nBBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker posted: \"Come on Captain Tom\", while actor and singer Michael Ball - who recorded a charity single with Capt Sir Tom - sent \"love and prayers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Captain Tom Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by repeatedly walking an 82ft (25m) loop of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5m supporters.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Teachers should be vaccinated against Covid once the most vulnerable have received their doses, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves has said.\n\nShe added that Labour wanted the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation (JCVI) to look at the evidence on prioritising key workers.\n\nLabour has argued vaccinating teachers could help reopen schools.\n\nBut International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said \"the most important thing is protecting lives\".\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Ms Truss said: \"For every person you vaccinate who isn't in the most vulnerable group, that is somebody in the most vulnerable group who isn't getting their vaccine and who is more likely to die in the next few weeks and months.\"\n\nShe said it was right that the JCVI - an independent body of experts - looked at these issues.\n\nThe vaccinations committee has said early vaccination of certain professions should be considered - but only once those in the top nine priority groups have been offered a first jab.\n\nThe first four priority groups cover those aged over 70 and care home residents and workers. The government aims to offer vaccines to everyone in these groups by mid-February.\n\nThe next five groups include people over the age of 50 and those between 16-64 with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe committee is expected to look at the next priority groups for vaccination in the coming month.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for all school staff to be vaccinated during the February half-term, saying they should receive doses alongside priority groups five to nine.\n\nHowever on Friday, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford - a Labour politician - said he would prioritise teachers for vaccinations only if advised to do so by the JCVI.\n\nLabour later clarified that moving teachers up the queue was a decision for the JCVI - something that had not been made explicit when the Labour leader first announced the policy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachael Reeves: \"It would take just a couple of days to get our teaching staff vaccinated\"\n\nAnd speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Ms Reeves reiterated that Labour wanted the JCVI to look at the evidence but added that using the February half-term to vaccinate school staff would be \"the sensible thing to do\".\n\n\"The government say that getting our kids back to school is a priority - Labour agree but the government have no plan to achieve this.\"\n\nShe said children will have had \"the best part of a year\" out of school and that although online learning exists \"there is no substitute for being in the classroom with a qualified teacher.\"\n\n\"It would take just a couple of days to get our teaching staff vaccinated so the JCVI should look at this,\" she said.\n\nHer position was supported by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said there was a \"very strong case\" for teachers to be vaccinated before schools reopen.\n\nBut Conservative Party Chairwoman Amanda Milling MP said Labour had \"abandoned the science and is playing politics with the vaccine\".", "Violet Adams, 78, was first in the queue to receive her vaccine at Aberdeen's P&J Live centre\n\nAlmost every elderly care home resident in Scotland and 80% of the over-80s in the community have received the first dose of the Covid vaccine.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said 98% of older people in care homes and 88% of care home staff have had the jab.\n\nShe told the government's daily coronavirus briefing that the NHS is \"ahead of schedule\" to complete first doses for all over-80s by Friday.\n\nIt came as two mass vaccination centres opened in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.\n\nVaccination of the over-70s is now under way, with Ms Sturgeon saying that 14% of people aged 75-79 have had the jab.\n\nThey are among more than 575,000 people in Scotland to have been vaccinated, Ms Sturgeon said.\n\nHowever, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the daily vaccination figures for Sunday were \"the lowest yet\".\n\n\"When we're in a race against the virus, why are the SNP running backwards?\" he said.\n\n\"The SNP are failing to deliver a seven-day service and the first minister seems to have no plans for getting the vaccine out to GPs faster.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would look into the issue and wanted to make sure the vaccine rollout was continuing at the same pace seven days a week.\n\nIn November, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman had outlined hopes that one million Scots could get the jab before the end of January.\n\nChallenged on the disparity, Ms Sturgeon pointed out that there were no approved vaccines in November.\n\n\"There were assumptions being made at that point that have had to be, for all countries across the UK, refined on the basis of the actual supply, not just the totality of those supplies but the actual phasing of those supplies over the period,\" she added.\n\n\"We'll continue to look to pick up pace, look to address issues where we don't think it's going as fast as it needs to... but we're cracking on with this just as quickly as we are able to do.\"\n\nThe Louisa Jordan vaccination centre has been carrying out between 1,000 and 5,000 vaccinations a day\n\nThe Scottish government has said everyone in the next stage of the vaccine rollout should receive their first jab by the middle of the month, subject to supplies.\n\nInitially, the new centres will be able to vaccinate 27,000 people a week.\n\nOver-70s will also receive jabs at smaller centres such as village halls.\n\nSome GP surgeries have already begun the vaccinations for that priority group, which also includes people who are clinically extremely vulnerable and over-16s on the shielding list.\n\nLetters started going out a week ago and the Scottish government is urging everyone to take up their appointments.\n\nRosemary McGlone receives her vaccination at Fernhill Community Centre in Rutherglen\n\nThe site at the Edinburgh EICC will be able to vaccinate more than 21,000 people a week, while the Aberdeen facility at P&J Live will vaccinate about 6,000 every week.\n\nThe Louisa Jordan mass vaccination centre in Glasgow has been operating since 8 December.\n\nIt has been carrying out between 1,000 and 5,000 vaccinations daily and has the capacity to move to 10,000 a day.\n\nThe Scottish government said the scale of operations at the mass vaccination centres meant letters would also start going out next week in Lothian, Grampian and Greater Glasgow and Clyde to those aged between 65 and 69 - the next group on the priority list.\n\nIt said the programme for first doses for care home residents, front-line health and social care workers and those aged 80 and over would be completed by 5 February.\n\nThe Army helped to set up the mass vaccination centre at P&J Live facility in Aberdeen\n\nThe Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, which was published on 14 January, said vaccination facilities would also open in Bathgate, Musselburgh and Motherwell. However, no specific dates have been given.\n\nNHS Lothian has told BBC Scotland that the Bathgate and Musselburgh sites will be able to carry out about 14,000 and 8,000 vaccinations per week respectively when they are fully operational.\n\nThe virus programme was boosted on Saturday as NHS Lanarkshire opened the doors in East Kilbride to any over-80s who had not yet received their first dose.\n\nThe health board advertised extra appointments at its vaccination centre at the Alistair McCoist Complex for patients of GP practices in the area who were eligible.\n• None Covid-19- How the vaccine will reach your arm - BBC News", "Pubs, cafes and high streets are all re-open on the island.\n\nCovid social distancing rules on the Isle of Man have been scrapped by the government following a 25-day lockdown.\n\nRestrictions were lifted at 00:01 GMT after the island recorded 20 days without an unexplained community case.\n\nRead more: Isle of Man ends second lockdown", "Daniel Kinahan, originally from Ireland, moved to Dubai in 2016\n\nA suspected crime boss is still working at the top of world boxing, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.\n\nDaniel Kinahan has no criminal convictions but has been named in the Irish courts as the head of one of Europe's most prominent drug cartels.\n\nThe suspected gangster helped set up boxing management business MTK Global - but it was announced last year he was stepping away from the sport.\n\nBut the company has now confirmed he still advises some of its boxers.\n\nPanorama has spoken to several boxing insiders who have expressed concerns about Mr Kinahan's power and influence in the sport.\n\nFormer world champion Barry McGuigan said there was an element of terror around the Kinahan name.\n\n\"There is no doubt that there is an intimidation effect, there is no question about that,\" he said. \"If we were to believe what we believe, this is a very dangerous man.\n\n\"Someone has got to look out for this sport. They really need to look at this situation very carefully, because it's bloody dangerous.\"\n\nThe courts in Ireland have accepted the Kinahan Organised Crime Group is involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and gangland executions.\n\nMr Kinahan moved to Dubai in 2016 and police believe the Kinahan family is now running the drugs gang from there.\n\nHis role in world boxing caused an outcry in June last year when it emerged he had been working as a personal adviser to world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury ahead of his much-anticipated title fight with fellow British champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nFury thanked Daniel Kinahan for brokering a deal that would allow him to fight Joshua\n\nMr Kinahan's involvement in boxing was raised in both the British and Irish parliaments, but the criticism fizzled out when it was announced he was stepping away from the sport.\n\nThe Panorama investigation shows this has not happened.\n\nLawyers for MTK Global told the programme: \"It is true that Mr Kinahan provides some personal advice to a number of boxers managed by MTK Global and we are instructed that Mr Kinahan also provides such advisory services to boxers who are managed by other worldwide boxing management companies too.\"\n\nThey said Mr Kinahan had never owned, controlled or been an employee of MTK Global.\n\nPanorama asked Fury whether Mr Kinahan was still his personal adviser, but he did not respond.\n\nMore than 30 people linked to the Kinahan cartel have already been jailed in Ireland.\n\nPanorama understands the Irish authorities are going to try to get other gang members deported from the United Arab Emirates.\n\nJohn O'Driscoll, an assistant commissioner from the Irish police, said they had been successful in identifying members of the cartel - but declined to confirm any names.\n\nPanorama also understands the American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) may be investigating the gang.\n\nThe DEA said it was not able to comment on the activities of the Kinahan cartel because it is part of an ongoing investigation.\n\nMr Kinahan's lawyers said he has no criminal convictions and the allegations about him running a violent cartel are false and have no evidential basis.\n\n\"He is proud of his record in boxing to date. He has operated on the basis of honesty and with a commitment to putting fighters' needs first,\" they said.\n\n\"Mr Kinahan is a successful and independent advisor in the boxing industry in his own right. It is a matter of public record that he has exited the business of MTK.\"\n\nPanorama, Boxing and the Mob is on BBC One on Monday 1 February at 21:00 and BBC iPlayer.", "The situation in hospitals has \"stabilised\" and staff are no longer having to plan for extra capacity, an intensive care doctor says.\n\nBut Rupert Pearse, from the Intensive Care Society, said it was going to be \"another very hard year\" and warned of the mental health impact on NHS staff.\n\n\"I've never been in the Army but I imagine it's a little bit like a second tour of duty,\" he said.\n\nThe second wave has seen higher numbers of Covid patients in UK hospitals.\n\nThere are currently 34,783 people in hospital in the UK. In the peak of the first wave in April 2020 there were 21,684 Covid patients in hospital.\n\nThere are 3,832 people on ventilators, according to the latest government data.\n\nProf Pearse, a consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Breakfast the situation had \"stabilised in most areas\", calling it a \"big step forward\".\n\n\"We are no longer having to plan to build extra capacity - extra ICU beds, extra ward beds, and we can focus all that mass of energy on building extra capacity on improving the standards of care for the patients that we've already got,\" he said.\n\n\"And as time gradually progresses, new hospital beds, new ICU beds, become available as patients get better and go home, so the system gets less strained as we move forwards and as you can imagine it's always easier walking downhill.\"\n\nProf Pearse said the UK's first wave of coronavirus lasted about eight weeks before \"calming down\", but the second wave has gone on \"for more than three months now\" and it could be a further three months before admissions \"settle\".\n\nHe said it had been an \"endless struggle\" to maintain high standards of care for hospital patients as a result of the pressure put on the NHS during the current wave of Covid infections.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients were being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nProf Pearse added that he was worried about the long-term impact on health workers, saying: \"We're so busy trying to look after the patients that we have in hospital - we don't have time to pause and think about ourselves just yet.\"\n\nA study has suggested that many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience.\n\nThe UK government said on Saturday that a further 1,200 people had died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there were another 23,275 cases recorded.\n\nA total of 8,378,940 people have received their first dose of a vaccine.", "The teenager admitted 12 terrorism offences and is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey\n\nThe teenage leader of a neo-Nazi group has become the youngest person in the UK to have committed a terrorist offence.\n\nThe boy from Cornwall had admitted 12 offences, two of dissemination of terrorist documents and 10 of possession of terrorist material.\n\nAt 13 years old he downloaded his first bombmaking manual and later that year joined online forum Fascist Forge.\n\nThe sentencing hearing of the now 16 year old will continue on 8 February.\n\nThe court heard he was the leader of the British version of a now banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation.\n\nBetween 2018 and July 2019, he collected a significant amount of far right material and expressed racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on online platforms.\n\nHe talked about \"gassing\" Jewish people, hanging gay people and wanting to \"shoot up their parades\".\n\nProsecuting, Naomi Parsons, said his home, where he lived with his grandmother, was searched and police found a Nazi flag and racist slogan on the garden shed, as well as several manuals about making weapons and instructions on how to kill people on his phone and computer.\n\n\"The age is the alarming factor and his conduct betrays a maturity beyond his chronological age,\" she added.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be identified, was in touch with an Estonian boy, who founded a now-banned group called Feuerkrieg Division.\n\nThey used encrypted messages to discuss their hatred of particular groups.\n\nThe defendant then set up FKD GB and recruited British members from online platforms, such as Paul Dunleavy, a teenager from Rugby, who was jailed last year for preparing a terrorist attack.\n\nThe group wanted to enact \"white jihad\" and the genocide of non-white people, the court heard.\n\nIn mitigation Deni Matthews said the defendant had a \"simply dreadful childhood\" and that everything he did was in order to \"seek approval\" from others online.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Terry Davies (left) took his own life in 2018 despite seeking help for his depression\n\nA man whose father took his own life is calling for more mental health support amid fears more people are struggling because of Covid restrictions.\n\nDion Davies' father Terry took his own life in 2018.\n\nSuicide rates in England and Wales remain at a 20-year high with fears lockdowns are increasing known risk factors like loneliness.\n\nOfficial figures show more people have reported symptoms of depression since the pandemic began.\n\nModerate to severe depressive symptoms are estimated to have almost tripled for 16 to 39 year olds.\n\nMr Davies, 21, who lives in Aberystwyth and has raised money for mental health charities, has called for more help to be made available to those having suicidal thoughts.\n\n\"I think losing anyone you love is the hardest thing any person can go through,\" he said.\n\n\"Me and my dad were close and I considered him the person I loved the most. He was my everything.\n\n\"He was and is the person I look up to. He was so funny and inspiring to me and still is.\n\n\"The world was a better place with him in it.\"\n\nMr Davies said his father, who worked as a map conservationist at the National Library of Wales, had been getting help for his depression from mental health charities and his GP.\n\nMr Davies said although there had been improvements to suicide prevention since his father's death, more was still needed.\n\n\"I don't think there will ever be enough done, there will always be people who fall through the cracks no matter how much of a support system you set up,\" he said.\n\nExperts fear suicide risk factors such as loneliness and depression will be made worse as the UK is plunged into continued lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProf Ann John, who advises the Welsh Government on its suicide prevention strategy, warned suicide risk factors were likely to be increased.\n\n\"Tackling known risk factors that are likely to be exacerbated by the pandemic is crucial,\" she said.\n\n\"These include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, hopelessness, feelings of entrapment and burdensomeness, substance misuse, loneliness, domestic violence, child neglect or abuse, unemployment, and other financial insecurity.\"\n\nIn 2019, three-quarters of those who took their own lives in England and Wales - a total of 4,303 - were men.\n\nThis was the highest figure since 1981 and highest rate - 17 per 100,000 - since 2000.\n\nMales made up for three-quarters of suicides in in England and Wales in 2019\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, which has contributed to the deaths of more than two million people worldwide, measures have been implemented which have forced people to remain in their homes and limit social connections.\n\nIn June 2020, nearly one in five adults was likely to be experiencing some form of depression during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe numbers of people reporting moderate to severe symptoms of depression has doubled since the start of the pandemic.\n\nSimon Jones, from mental health support charity Mind Cymru, said: \"These are challenging times for us all, especially when restrictions are put in place which might prevent us being able to do the things that normally help us stay well, like seeing loved ones.\n\n\"But there are self-care techniques which can help improve your wellbeing and even prevent mental health problems developing or worsening, alongside help and support that can be accessed through mental health services.\"\n\nMr Jones highlighted connecting with others electronically, through services like Zoom and Skype, as a good coping method along with the importance of getting enough sleep.\n\n\"Mental health and sleep are closely linked - having poor mental health can affect your sleep, and not sleeping well can affect your mental health.\n\n\"We also know that having sleep problems can affect your mental health by causing feelings of anxiety and depression or affecting your ability to concentrate, for example.\"\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or please click on this link to access support services.", "The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) - a group of scientists which advise government - have classed a variant first identified in Bristol - the Kent variant with a mutation - as a \"variant of concern\".\n\nIt’s not surprising that officials are adding this new version of coronavirus to their \"variants of concern\" list.\n\nTargeted testing is already under way to spot any new cases linked to the 21 that have already been found, mostly in the south west of England.\n\nThis new incarnation of the virus is the Kent variant \"plus\". It has the same N501Y mutation as the one that triggered lockdown - a genetic change that scientists say lets the virus spread more easily. But it also has an extra mutation called E484K.\n\nE484K is what experts are worried about for vaccine efficacy. It is also seen in the South Africa and Brazil variants of concern.\n\nA cluster of another variant in Liverpool is different again. It has got the E484K mutation but is an iteration of an earlier version of the pandemic virus rather than the Kent one.\n\nInevitably, more variants will continue to emerge. The challenge is to make sure vaccines are a good match to keep us ahead in this race against the virus.\n\nExperts are confident that the vaccines being used today will still save lives and stop severe illness from Covid.", "A man has been charged in Lanarkshire in connection with an offensive social media tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nSir Tom died in Bedford Hospital last Tuesday, aged 100, after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe had captured the nation's hearts with his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown, raising more than £30m for NHS charities.\n\nThe 35-year-old man is due to appear in court later this week.\n\nWorld War Two veteran Sir Tom's family said the last year of his life was \"nothing short of remarkable\" and that he had \"experienced things he'd only ever dreamed of\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"On Friday 5 February 2021, we received a report of an offensive tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore who died on Tuesday 2 February.\n\n\"A 35-year-old man has subsequently been arrested and charged in connection with communication offences and is due to appear at Lanark Sheriff Court on Wednesday 17 February.\"", "Daniel Kinahan said his success in boxing has led some people to campaign against him\n\nA suspected crime boss has confirmed he is still involved in \"planning multiple world title fights\" in boxing.\n\nDaniel Kinahan insisted that allegations of criminality are part of \"a campaign\" against him.\n\nHis continued involvement at the top of the sport was revealed last week by BBC One's Panorama, leading to calls for tighter regulation.\n\nMr Kinahan has no criminal convictions, but was named in Irish courts as the head of a prominent drug cartel.\n\nThe suspected gangster helped set up boxing management business MTK Global - but it was announced last year he was stepping away from the sport.\n\nHowever, the company told Panorama that he still advises some of its boxers, and Mr Kinahan himself has now issued his own statement, telling Talksport that he was innocent, and that he continued to work at the very top of the sport.\n\n\"I have dedicated myself to my work in boxing for over 15 years. I am proud to say today that I have helped organise over a dozen major world title fights,\" Mr Kinahan said.\n\n\"I continue to be involved in planning multiple record-breaking and exciting world title fights.\"\n\nMr Kinahan said he believed that his success in the world of boxing \"has led to an increase in the campaign against me\".\n\n\"I am not a part of a criminal gang or any conspiracy. I have no convictions,\" he said.\n\nMr Kinahan's role in world boxing caused an outcry in June last year when it emerged he had been working as a personal adviser to world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury ahead of a much-anticipated £200m mega-fight later this year with fellow British champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nPanorama asked Fury whether Mr Kinahan was still his personal adviser, but he did not respond.\n\nDaniel Kinahan's role in boxing came under scrutiny after Tyson Fury thanked him for organising a bout with Anthony Joshua\n\nThe BBC team that produced the programme has received an unspecified threat from unnamed criminal elements since it was broadcast, but Mr Kinahan has denied being involved.\n\n\"Last week it was inferred that I had threatened a reporter. I have full respect for journalism. I have worked with journalists and I value their role,\" he said in his statement.\n\n\"I have never threatened a reporter or journalist or asked anyone to do that for me. I never have and I never would.\"\n\nLast week Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told the BBC that the film had raised \"very worrying allegations\".\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control has said it is powerless to stop Kinahan advising boxers as it does not regulate such roles and he is not licensed with them.\n\nEddie Hearn - who promotes Joshua - said he anticipated \"no impact\" on the fight with Fury, and insisted that no sponsors or broadcasters had expressed concern to him since the programme was aired. Last year, the Irish government called on broadcasters to boycott the planned world title fights.\n\nLawyers for MTK Global told Panorama that while Mr Kinahan \"provides some personal advice to a number of boxers managed by MTK Global\", he had never owned, controlled or been an employee of the company.\n\nMr Kinahan's lawyers also told the programme he has no criminal convictions and the allegations about him running a violent cartel are false and have no evidential basis.\n\n\"He is proud of his record in boxing to date. He has operated on the basis of honesty and with a commitment to putting fighters' needs first,\" they said.\n\n\"Mr Kinahan is a successful and independent adviser in the boxing industry in his own right. It is a matter of public record that he has exited the business of MTK.\"", "Four cases of the Kent variant of the virus have been discovered in Manchester\n\nSurge testing for coronavirus is to be introduced in parts of Manchester after four cases of a new mutation of the Kent variant of Covid were confirmed.\n\nMore than 10,000 tests are planned after cases of the E484K mutation were found in two unconnected households.\n\nTesting will take place in the Fallowfield, Hulme, Moss Side and Whalley Range districts, with extra testing centres opening.\n\nManchester City Council said volunteers would go house-to-house offering tests.\n\nThe council said it was working with Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace and everyone in the designated areas would be given a PCR swab test with results coming back within days.\n\nThe surge testing will begin on Tuesday, targeting people who do not have symptoms but live or work within the testing boundary area.\n\nSurge testing is the rollout of additional community testing of people who do not have any coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIt aims to help scientists and public health officials learn more about mutated Covid-19 variants.\n\nIt will also help reduce the spread of infection by finding asymptomatic cases and prompting people to self-isolate.\n\nDavid Regan, Director of Public Health, Manchester City Council, said: \"We all know that the virus will change over time and it's important that we investigate new strains to understand how they might spread.\n\n\"This is exactly what we're doing with the intensive testing in parts of Manchester, with local testing units and people going door-to-door to offer people tests.\n\n\"There is no evidence that this variant will be resistant to the vaccines or causes a more severe illness, and it is not yet known if the strain can be passed more easily between people, but it is really important that everyone who lives in the boundary area and is over the age of 16 plays their part and gets a test.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, the council's executive member for adult health and well-being, said: \"It's understandable that some residents in the area may be concerned by all this, but we need to remember that it's very normal for viruses to mutate.\n\n\"We are following the public health approach to react to the new variant and we will be working... to ensure as many people as possible know how to get a test so we can understand more about this version of the virus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dramatic video captures an avalanche as it buries a group of snowmobilers in eastern Utah.\n\nOn the same day, another slide in Millcreek Canyon killed four skiers while four survivors had to be airlifted to safety.", "Cyberpunk 2077 has been beset by delays and glitches\n\nThe maker of popular video game Cyberpunk 2077 has been hacked in a ransomware attack.\n\nCD Projekt Red said hackers had accessed its internal network, digitally scrambled some of its data servers and tried to blackmail it.\n\nThe perpetrators claim to have stolen source code for several of the firm's games which they said they would leak unless a payment was made.\n\nBut the Polish games company said it would not negotiate.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, CD Projekt Red posted a copy of the ransom note which said the hackers had copied code from Cyberpunk 2077, Gwent, and Witcher 3, including an unreleased version of the latter.\n\n“We have also dumped all of your documents relating to accounting, administration legal, HR, investor relations and more!” the note added.\n\n\"Dumping\" means copying the information to an external source.\n\n“If we will not come to an agreement, then your source codes will be sold or leaked online and your documents will be sent to our contacts in gaming journalism,” read the note, giving a deadline of 48 hours.\n\nSource code is the human-readable version of a computer program before it is transformed for use. Releasing it could make it easier for people to write hacks for the titles or even publish their own altered versions, as well as reveal some of their development secrets.\n\nIn a statement, posted by the game developers on Twitter, it said it has secured its “IT infrastructure and begun restoring the data” from back-ups.\n\n“We will not give in to the demands or negotiate with the actor,” it said, adding that no personal data had been compromised in the breach.\n\nThe company has informed law enforcement and data protection authorities, while it investigates the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is the latest in a series of bad news for the developers after the release of Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed several times, only for users to then experience glitches in the game.\n\n\"This will be frustrating for users of the game, but as consumers are generally very sympathetic when something like this happens,\" said Louise Shorthouse, senior gaming analyst at Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"This comes after a string of recent ransomware attacks on games companies, including Capcom and Ubisoft late last year.\n\n\"Fixes and updates for Cyberpunk 2077 may take a backseat for a while, as mitigating the effects of the ransomware attack becomes the priority.\"\n\nThis probably couldn't have come at a worse time for the embattled games studio.\n\nHowever, its response has been extraordinary and is already being praised by the cyber-security world.\n\nIn one Tweet, the company has demonstrated a new gold standard response to dealing with ransomware.\n\nThe company is being transparent about the attack but also says it is not negotiating with the cyber-criminals and instead relying on well-managed back-up systems.\n\nCD Projekt Red has even released a screen grab of the ransom note which will be invaluable for researchers.\n\nIt doesn't sound like much and there will be questions about how the firm was able to be breached in the first place.\n\nBut in a world of empty press releases and companies secretly paying criminals huge ransoms, CD Projekt Red has shown what can and, in the eyes of many, should be done to deal with the growing problem of ransomware hacking.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A number of Gardai (Irish police) checkpoints were operating along the border on Monday\n\nPeople driving from NI into the Republic of Ireland are being turned back at the border if they do not have an essential reason for travel.\n\nNI residents face fines from Monday if they are caught crossing the border without \"a reasonable excuse\".\n\nThe unprecedented step has been taken by the Irish government in a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAnyone engaged in cross-border travel in breach of Ireland's Covid-19 restrictions will be fined €100 (£88).\n\nA number of Garda (Irish police) checkpoints were operational along the border from 07:00 local time.\n\nAt a checkpoint near Emyvale in County Monaghan, Insp Adrian Durcan said some people had \"turned back\" when requested.\n\n\"We have engaged with a few people who have not had essential reasons and on the advice of the guards, they have turned back,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it was three so far this morning.\"\n\nA checkpoint was set up near Emyvale on the Tyrone-Monaghan border\n\nInsp Durcan said fines would be issued to those not complying with the regulations.\n\n\"They will receive the fine and have 28 days to pay the fine, failure to pay that fine will result in a court appearance,\" he said.\n\n\"If they don't pay it we will issue a summons in respect of the offence and we will follow through on that summons.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland residents who have to cross the border for essential work or essential purposes, such as seeking medical treatment, will be exempt from fines.\n\nPublic health guidance in NI says people \"should not travel in or out of Northern Ireland except where it is essential to do so\".\n\nIrish police have new enforcement powers which include the right to fine people engaged in non-essential travel\n\nThe new rules are the latest in a series of decisions aimed at reducing travel to and within the Republic of Ireland, but it is the first time that people from Northern Ireland will face financial penalties for non-essential cross-border travel.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland is currently in the highest level of lockdown, known as \"level five\" in the government's five-stage plan for managing Covid-19.\n\nLevel five measures include a strict travel ban which means residents in the Republic of Ireland are temporarily prohibited from going more than 5km (3 miles) away from their home.\n\nThere are exceptions to the 5km limit for people who have to travel further for essential work; medical reasons; caring responsibilities; and other essential purposes such as shopping for necessities like food.\n\nSince January 2021, gardaí have new enforcement powers which include the right to fine people engaged in non-essential travel.\n\nAnother checkpoint on Monday - this time near Drogheda\n\nUntil now, Ireland's travel restrictions did not apply to people living in Northern Ireland, although Garda checkpoints a short distance from the border during earlier lockdowns did cause some tailbacks for cross-border traffic.\n\nThe new cross-border fines follow recent amendments to the Irish government's Covid-19 health legislation.\n\nThe regulations now state that \"any other person who is not ordinarily resident in the state shall not travel within a relevant geographical location without reasonable excuse\".\n\nGardaí said if they stop a car with a driver and two adults who should not be crossing the border, all three will receive a €100 fine. Cyclists and pedestrians will also be liable for fines.\n\n\"Travelling to an airport or port to take a holiday abroad is not an essential journey,\" they also warned.\n\nAny adult who is detected travelling to an Irish airport or port for a non-essential trip or holiday abroad currently faces a €500 fine.\n\nA Garda spokeswoman confirmed holidaymakers from Northern Ireland who are stopped by gardaÍ on their way to an airport will be liable for both that €500 fine and the €100 cross-border fine.", "The mining company behind the project said it would provide hundreds of jobs\n\nPlans for a controversial coking coal mine in Cumbria have been suspended by the county council.\n\nCouncillors will reconsider the planning application for a site near Whitehaven in light of concerns about climate change.\n\nThe council granted planning permission to West Cumbria Mining back in October, and the government decided recently not to challenge the decision.\n\nBut now the council has said it will re-assess the permission.\n\nGuidance from the government's advisory Climate Change Committee (CCC) in December recommended that the use of coking coal should be curbed by 2035, whereas the council have granted permission to dig until 2049.\n\nA council statement said: \"In light of this the council has decided that the planning application should be reconsidered by the Development Control and Regulation Committee.\"\n\nThe decision may prove a relief for the prime minister who has been under pressure to halt the mine as he aspires to lead the world away from the fossil fuels that are heating the climate.\n\nThe mine has divided opinion in Cumbria, with many in favour of the well-paid manual jobs it would bring, but others warning of the risks of climate change - especially in an area prone to severe flooding.\n\nGreenpeace said: \"This decision could prevent Boris Johnson's climate credentials being buried under a tonne of coal.\"\n\nThe CCC, many green groups and scientists have been pressed the prime minister to overturn the council's decision to grant permission for the mine.\n\nAlok Sharma, who will head this year's climate summit on behalf of the UK, was said to be apoplectic that the mine had been given the go-ahead, and the Lib Dems wrote to him urging him to resign unless the government stopped the project.\n\nBut local Conservatives, including Copeland MP Trudy Harrison and Copeland mayor Mike Starkie, have been supportive of the mine, especially as some of its produce will be able to be used by the UK steel industry.\n\nThey said they were \"dismayed\" by the county council's move and added the area \"needs\" the £160m of private investment and 500 jobs the mine was set to bring.\n\n\"The decision has been made time and again, based on the forensic details the planning committee had in front of them, and the decision has repeatedly been to approve this important development.\n\n\"The project fully accords with the UK's green industrial commitments and includes legal conditions that production will not go beyond 2049 and the highest levels of greenhouse gas emission mitigation.\"\n\nSupporters have claimed the mine would rejuvenate the Whitehaven economy\n\nLabour's Shadow Business Secretary, Ed Miliband, said the party welcomed the decision to take the application back to the planning committee.\n\n\"The government now has a second chance to do the right thing and call it in. The UK cannot claim to be a climate leader whilst opening a new coal mine and ministers must realise that by doing so they undermine our credibility both at home and abroad.\n\n\"A new mine is neither the answer for climate change nor the answer for our steel industry. Indeed, 85% of the mine's production is due for export.\n\n\"People in Cumbria deserve good, secure jobs and there are so many crying out to be done in the green industries of the future.\"\n\nHowever, the South Lakes Action on Climate Change group said it was sceptical planning officers would \"change their minds and advise councillors to refuse this time\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Cumbria County Council will almost certainly be seeking to justify a further decision to approve, as a way of defending themselves from a judicial review.\n\n\"It is possible that the committee meeting will be on the 19th February, and objectors will have little more than a week to prepare further objections and apply to speak at the committee.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU's threat to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland has opened a \"Pandora's Box\" regarding post-Brexit arrangements, Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe told MPs an urgent \"reset\" was needed to the Northern Ireland protocol governing checks on GB-NI trade.\n\nThe agreement was \"not working\" and NI businesses and families were suffering too much \"disruption and interference\".\n\nWhile the UK did not want to \"ditch\" it, it \"reserved the right\" to do what it must to protect Northern Ireland.\n\nUnionist parties in Northern Ireland have called for the protocol - which came into force on 1 January - to be scrapped, saying it has created a border down the Irish Sea and threatened NI's place within the UK.\n\nThe protocol was designed to avoid checks along the border between Northern Ireland - which unlike the rest of the UK is continuing to follow many of the EU's rules - and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the EU.\n\nBut after checks were introduced on goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain, some exporters have scaled back deliveries or stopped fulfilling orders altogether, blaming the additional paperwork and costs involved.\n\nAnd following last month's vaccine row, graffiti opposing the Irish Sea border appeared in some loyalist areas of Northern Ireland, while some staff involved in inspecting goods were stood down over security fears.\n\nCabinet Office minister Mr Gove said the EU's threat to invoke Article 16 of the protocol to control shipments of vaccines from the continent to Northern Ireland - amid concerns of a shortage in Europe - had been a mistake.\n\nThe European Commission, he said, owed its members an explanation why it didn't follow the dispute mechanism procedures in the protocol and consult with other member states, particularly Ireland, before acting.\n\nAsked by Tory MP David Jones whether the \"bad blood\" between the two sides would cause long-term damage, Mr Gove said it would be \"better\" if the EU revoked the regulation in place allowing it to invoke Article 16 in future.\n\n\"The Pandora's Box has been opened and that is concerning,\" he told the European Scrutiny Committee.\n\n\"One of the consequences of opening that Pandora's Box has been the unfortunate effects we referred to on the ground in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nAsked by a number of Conservative MPs whether the EU's actions were a reasonable cause for the UK to seek to suspend the protocol or to axe it entirely, Mr Gove said while it was not functioning smoothly, it could be \"made to work\".\n\nWhile he said progress in the Joint EU-UK Committee on the protocol's implementation had not been as fast as he had liked, he hoped for better in talks with his EU counterpart Maros Sefcovic in London on Thursday.\n\n\"There are disruptions and difficulties faced by Northern Ireland citizens in their daily lives,\" he said. \"They can be resolved within the context of the protocol. We don't need to ditch it.\n\n\"But as the prime minister has spelt out, if we can't make progress in resolving those issues, then the UK government has to reserve its rights.\"", "Premier Inn is one of the UK's biggest hotel chains with more than 800 hotels\n\nHotel chain Premier Inn has said it is investigating an allegation that staff broke Covid-19 lockdown rules by having a party at one of its hotels.\n\nA photo showing 10 people lined up in a restaurant area has been published in a newspaper in Wales.\n\nThe Daily Post said it understood the photo was taken at a leaving party at the Premier Inn in Holyhead, on Anglesey, on 29 January.\n\nThe company said its Welsh hotels are shut in line with government guidance.\n\nPremier Inn said it had \"clear safety procedures in place for our team members to follow\".\n\nAll hotels closed when Wales went into a national lockdown before Christmas.\n\nWales is under the strictest lockdown restrictions where people are required to stay at home and only mix with their household or support bubble.\n\nThe image printed in the newspaper shows people seemingly not adhering to social distancing rules.\n\n\"We are investigating the circumstances surrounding this gathering and speaking with the team members involved,\" said a Premier Inn spokesman.\n• None What are the latest Covid rules for Wales?", "NBA legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a 2020 helicopter crash alongside his daughter, and seven other people\n\nThe pilot of the helicopter which crashed killing basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, his young daughter, and seven other people had probably become disorientated amid fog, US safety investigators have said.\n\nThe helicopter smashed into a hillside near Calabasas, California, on 26 January 2020.\n\nPilot Ara Zobayan was among the dead.\n\nInvestigators also said Zobayan may have felt \"self-induced pressure\" to complete the flight for Bryant.\n\nThe US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has been investigating the circumstances around the crash, and met on Tuesday to vote on the probable cause. It is an independent federal agency with no enforcement powers.\n\nIn its official finding, the NTSB said the main cause of the crash was most likely the pilot's decision to keep flying in inclement conditions, \"which resulted in the pilot's spatial disorientation and loss of control\".\n\nDuring the flight, Zobayan told air traffic controllers the helicopter was climbing out of heavy cloud when it was actually descending.\n\n\"This manoeuvre is consistent with the pilot experiencing spatial disorientation in limited visibility conditions,\" said NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt.\n\n\"We are talking about spatial disorientation where literally the pilot may not know which way is up or down, whether he or she is leaning left or right.\"\n\nThe NTSB added that \"inadequate review and oversight\" of safety management processes by the helicopter charter company, Island Express, may have also contributed to the crash.\n\nHowever, the board did not find that the Sikorsky S-76B had experienced any mechanical problems. The helicopter was not required to have \"black box\" recorders, which capture flight data and voices in the cockpit, and was not carrying any.\n\nZobayan violated federal rules and went against his own flight training by flying into thick clouds, safety officials said.\n\nKobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna attend an NBA game weeks before the crash\n\nThe pilot \"was flying under visual flight orders or VFR which legally prohibited him from penetrating the clouds\", but he did so anyway, said Mr Sumwalt.\n\nInvestigators also criticised Zobayan for banking the helicopter to the left, instead of bringing the aircraft straight up while trying to escape the bad weather.\n\nZobayan was an experienced pilot who had often flown for Bryant. The widely respected pilot had logged more than 1,200 hours in the Sikorsky-76 helicopter.\n\nDisorientation can set in when pilots can't see the sky or landscape, making it harder to judge an aircraft's altitude and acceleration.\n\nInvestigators also said that the close relationship between Bryant and Zobayan may have compelled the pilot to fly even in unsafe conditions.\n\nIn text messages on the eve of the crash released by the NTSB, Zobayan wrote that the forecast seemed to be \"not the best\". The next morning, he wrote that the conditions were \"looking ok\".\n\nAt the time of the crash, retired NBA legend Bryant, 41, was travelling to a youth basketball tournament with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, two of her teammates, and several other friends.\n\nThe fatal crash prompted a global outpouring of support for the NBA star and his family - as well as a number of lawsuits.\n\nBryant's wife, Vanessa Bryant, sued Zobayan and the companies that owned and operated the helicopter for alleged negligence and wrongful death. Families of the other victims sued the helicopter companies - but not Zobayan.\n\nIn September, Ms Bryant sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after officers shared unauthorised photos of the crash site. California now has a state law prohibiting first responders from taking unauthorised pictures of people who died at the scene of an accident or crime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Helton grew up with the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant", "Dan and Dorothy Kearns say their son thought he had caused \"impending financial disaster\"\n\nThe parents of a man who killed himself last year have filed a lawsuit against trading app Robinhood over his death.\n\nThe lawsuit, first reported by CBS News, said 20-year-old Alex Kearns mistakenly believed he owed $730,000 (£530,000) when he took his own life.\n\nDan and Dorothy Kearns say their son was unable to get help or support from customer services before he died.\n\nRobinhood said in a statement to the BBC they were \"devastated\" by Alex's death and had made improvements.\n\nThe app, which allows anyone to buy and trade stocks, says on its website that it is \"on a mission to democratise finance\" and is currently running an advertising campaign under the slogan of \"We are all investors\".\n\nIt recently made headlines for limiting sales of some shares to users after US retailer GameStop saw its stock surge.\n\nSpeaking to CBS, the parents of Alex Kearns say he began using Robinhood just before he graduated high school.\n\nMr and Mrs Kearns say they did not know the app had also approved him to buy and sell options - a risky financial instrument - despite a lack of financial experience.\n\nThey say their son realised on 11 June 2020 that his account had been restricted by Robinhood amid what appeared to be a negative balance of more than $700,000 on his account.\n\nCBS reports the student received an automated email at 03:26 early the next morning asking him to take \"immediate action\" to pay more than $170,000 within days.\n\nThe family accuse the company of having no \"meaningful customer support\" when he needed it\n\nThe family say the 20-year-old emailed customer service several times asking for support and help understanding the figures on his trading account, but only received stock response messages saying they would get back to him.\n\n\"They provide no mechanism through a telephone call, through live email service, to get live answers to questions,\" a lawyer for the family told CBS.\n\nHis parents were told by police later that day, on 12 June, that Alex had died.\n\n\"He thought he blew up his life. He thought he screwed up beyond repair,\" Mr Kearns said in the interview, in which he said his son had \"just needed a little help\".\n\nHis parents say an email from Robinhood, received the day after his death, clarified that trading restrictions had been lifted and the trade resolved.\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in California state court, said the loss had been covered by other options in his account and accuses Robinhood's \"misleading communications\" of leading to \"panic and confusion\".\n\nSome officials have called for greater regulation of trading apps\n\nThe wrongful death lawsuit accuses Robinhood of unfair business practices and negligent infliction of emotional distress, US media report.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Robinhood said they have made improvements to their \"options offering\" since June including how they display buying power and providing more educational materials and revised experience requirements for users.\n\n\"In early December, we also added live voice support for customers with an open options position or recent expiration, and plan to expand to other use cases,\" a spokesperson said. \"We also changed our protocol to escalate customers who email us for help with exercise and early assignment.\n\n\"We remain committed to making Robinhood a place to learn and invest responsibly,\" they added.\n\nFrom Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911. You can contact the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can call the Samaritans on 116123\n\nFor support and more information on emotional distress click here.", "The company that made Grenfell Tower's cladding would \"by default\" sell flammable materials to construction projects, including high-rise buildings, a sales manager has said.\n\nDeborah French told the public inquiry into the June 2017 west London blaze that Arconic could have sold a fire-retardant product.\n\nBut she said it saw the UK market as preferring a slightly cheaper version, albeit with a greater fire risk.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell Inquiry concluded that cladding put on the tower block during refurbishment fuelled the fire.\n\nStatements from a series of Arconic managers shown to the inquiry on Tuesday said the \"UK was generally a 'PE market'\" - PE referring to polyethylene, which is used as the core material of the panel and is highly flammable.\n\nCombustible cladding is the major cause of the building safety crisis now affecting millions of flat owners.\n\nGiving evidence, Ms French, the company's UK sales manager, said a type of product called Reynobond PE panels were 4 to 5 euros cheaper per square metre than the fire-retardant version.\n\nIn June 2014, she sent an email listing large construction projects to which she was hoping to sell cladding sheets.\n\nThey include a major development, Pendletons in Salford, Greater Manchester, on which Reynobond PE was used, as well as towers in Swansea and London.\n\nSmaller projects listed by Ms French included Grenfell Tower, which was listed as awaiting an order for cladding, with just the colour to choose.\n\nShe told the inquiry \"the discussions never came up about requiring anything other than a PE core\".\n\nWhen asked by inquiry lead barrister Richard Millett QC if Arconic would \"by default sell them PE\", she replied: \"That's right, yes.\"\n\nMs French said it was \"very, very, very rare\" for customers to ask about fire safety.\n\n\"It was not something that was discussed,\" she said. \"The majority of what I dealt with was colours, availabilities and those types of things.\"\n\nSales of Reynobond PE cladding were encouraged by a certificate issued by the independent British Board of Agrement.\n\nIt said that the flammable panels \"may be regarded\" as meeting a British fire performance standard known as Class 0.\n\nHowever the cladding had not passed the relevant British laboratory test, and had failed several of the European tests on which the certificate was based.\n\nMr Millett asked Ms French: \"If you were selling that product based on claims made about its fire performance [...] do you agree that you would be tending to mislead buyers?\"\n\n\"Yes, I wouldn't knowingly have done that, but inadvertently I would have been,\" she said.\n\nMs French insisted throughout her evidence that she was not a technical expert and passed detailed questions on to a technical manager, Claude Wehrle, based in France.\n\nMr Wehrle is one of three potential witnesses to the inquiry who have refused to give evidence on legal advice that, if they did so, they could incriminate themselves under a law in France.\n\nThe so-called French Blocking Statute prevents its citizens taking part in some foreign legal cases.\n\nAll three worked for Arconic. Mr Wehrle and fellow potential witness Gwenaelle Derrendinger live in France, while the third, Peter Froehlich, is based in Germany.\n\nMr Millett said \"the refusal of these witnesses to come and give evidence is unreasonable\".\n\nThe inquiry was also told that Arconic refused to disclose documents to the inquiry and only did so following a criminal European Investigation Order requested by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe police force is investigating potential corporate manslaughter, fraud, and breaches of health and safety law.", "The rule of thumb in the cinema is that the original is invariably better than the sequel.\n\nBut then you get The Dark Knight getting far more acclaim than Batman Begins. Or Godfather 2 being better than the first movie - and personally I thought Toy Story 3 was the best. And don't get me started on Star Wars.\n\nSo, what should we expect from Impeachment II, Incitement of Insurrection, coming to a TV screen near you this week?\n\nSome very general and obvious observations.\n\nThe plotlines in this second impeachment will be much easier to follow than the original.\n\nA presidential call to his Ukrainian counterpart asking questions about an obscure energy company on which Joe Biden's son had served as a director, does not have the immediacy of the events of 6 January when a Trump supporting mob stormed Congress after listening to a speech delivered by the president.\n\nWhat is not in question is that the MAGA-mob tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Five people died following the mayhem. There will not be an American who doesn't have a view on what unfolded.\n\nThe other quick observation I would make is this - the chamber where the Senate trial will unfold is also the crime-scene; the epicentre of this assault on America's most sacred democratic sanctum. And the corollary of that is that some of the people who will be 'trying' the former president will have felt themselves to be victims of the crime that unfolded.\n\nSo what chance is there that Donald Trump will get a fair trial?\n\nWell, the first thing I would say about that is though the language of impeachment is replete with quasi-judicial terminology, the jurors are the 100 Senators - Republican and Democrat. This is political.\n\nHow many of those who will weigh the evidence for and against Donald Trump will be swayed by the evidence presented? I find it hard to imagine there will be a single one.\n\nDemocrats, I would guess, will vote as a block to convict. Republicans are split three ways - and this is a political split, not a schism based on the evidence.\n\nThere are those Republicans who remain firmly behind Donald Trump, and will not now, not ever, vote to find him guilty of \"incitement of insurrection\", the three words on the article of impeachment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The policeman in a MAGA hat during the Capitol riots. What’s the real story?\n\nThere are those who would love nothing more to see the former president slip away from the national consciousness, and feel that he has been a corrosive force on the democratic norms and values of US democracy - but don't want to pick a fight with him for fear of the consequences. Their worst nightmare is Trump rallying support behind a Republican rival the next time they're up for election.\n\nAnd there is a smaller number of Republicans who are ready to very publicly say they believe that the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan needs to be rid of the Trump legacy, that it is a cancer that needs to be cut out.\n\nIn other words, this will all be about political calculation. And the second order calculation will be how these senators will explain the decision to their voters.\n\nWhich brings us to this next question, how will this play itself out?\n\nDemocrats will make a case that evokes the drama of the day and the fears some of them had - they thought their lives were in danger as they cowered in offices while the mob went room to room. The blame for that will be laid squarely at the defendant's door.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The terror of being trapped in the US Capitol - three eyewitness accounts of politicians\n\nThe Trump defence will take two forms.\n\nOn the substance of the \"incitement of insurrection\" charge, his lawyers will argue that he was exercising his free speech, First Amendment rights - and they will point out that in that address on 6 January, the president told his supporters to march on Congress \"peacefully and patriotically\".\n\nBut the speech was notable for all its \"We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\" And telling his supporters that they have to be tough and not weak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday - but what's it all about?\n\nAnd his case is not helped by the tweets and messaging around this time - urging his supporters to come to Washington on 6 January because it was \"going to be wild\".\n\nIn a video released on the night of the riots, Donald Trump told the mob that had descended on Congress that he loved them and they were special people. He tweeted that evening - seemingly to justify the actions of the insurgents - that this is what happens when you steal the result of the election.\n\nHe repeatedly claimed he had won the election by a landslide. There is no evidence for that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lies in honour at US Capitol\n\nHe repeatedly claimed that the election had been stolen. Judge after judge - many appointed by Donald Trump - rejected those legal arguments put by his campaign lawyers.\n\nAnd the charges of fraud - again promoted by Mr Trump - were dismissed by the president's own Attorney General William Barr; the head of election security - another Trump appointee - also said the election had been fair.\n\nSo don't expect the president's words to be the backbone of the defence.\n\nInstead it will focus on the constitutionality of impeaching a president once he's left office. The lawyers will argue that the weapon of impeachment is only to be used for a serving politician, not a private citizen (as Donald Trump now is).\n\nHow can you use the sanction of removing someone from office when they've already left office? And this is I suspect the justification (fig-leaf, I feel sure Democrats will insist) that Republicans will reach for as their justification for acquitting Donald Trump.\n\nOf course, Democrats will point out the offence took place while he was president, and you don't get a free pass just because you've left office. Or as James Corden put it on his Late, Late Show, it's like being pulled over by a traffic cop for speeding, and saying to the officer \"I might well have been going at 50mph back then, but now as I speak to you I am stationary, so you can't charge me now…\"\n\nImpeachment II will get big, big TV audiences - though they'd have been far greater if the president had testified, as Democrat impeachment managers had wanted.\n\nBut the outcome - and here I feel the need to issue a spoiler alert - is almost certainly going to be the same as Impeachment I.", "Travel company Tui has said it expects to run 80% of its normal capacity for this summer, with 2.8 million customers already booked for its holidays.\n\nThe statement follows optimism from other travel firms that the industry is set for recovery as coronavirus vaccination programmes advance.\n\nDespite the upbeat mood, summer bookings for 2021 are down 44% so far compared with last year, the firm said.\n\nBoss Fritz Joussen said the UK market had \"a special significance\" for Tui.\n\n\"We see an impressive pace and ambitious targets for vaccinations there.\"\n\nHe added: \"We should do everything we can to quickly return to basic freedoms and make travel possible again.\"\n\nAverage prices for holidays are 20% higher than for summer 2019.\n\nAlthough demand for breaks appears to be building, England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said on Monday it was \"too early to say\" whether people would be able to have holidays as normal this summer.\n\nTui's predictions for the summer season came in a trading statement that underlined the scale of the collapse in the tourism market due to Covid curbs.\n\nThe firm's winter bookings fell 89% compared with a year ago, with November and December hardest hit.\n\nIncome in the three months to the end of 2020 fell 87.8% year-on-year, from €3.86bn (£3.4bn) to €468.1m.\n\n\"With strict cost discipline and the realignment of the group, which is being driven forward at full speed, we succeeded in reducing the loss in the past quarter,\" Mr Joussen said.\n\n\"As expected, customers will book their summer holidays much later this year than in normal years. However, demand remains strong, people want to travel - this is shown by the already good number of bookings for the summer.\"\n\nTui also disclosed that it had agreed a third coronavirus financing package with banks, shareholders and the German government's Economic Stabilisation Fund, created to support companies hit by coronavirus.\n\nThis raised €1.8bn, including €500m from shareholders in a rights issue, which it hopes will tide it over until conditions improve.\n\n\"The travel sector has been hammered by the global coronavirus pandemic, with revenues falling off a cliff-edge as travel restrictions have scuppered any holiday plans for consumers,\" said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.\n\n\"Investors will be eager to see if vaccinations can give the business the shot in the arm it desperately needs, having already secured three bailouts from the German government.\n\n\"Regardless, Tui needs to reduce its costs and take advantage of the millions of consumers desperate to go on holiday as soon as the restrictions are eased.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJames Anderson and Jack Leach bowled England to a famous 227-run victory against India on the final day of the first Test in Chennai.\n\nAnderson inspired England with 3-17 and Jack Leach took 4-76 as England inflicted just a second home defeat on their hosts in eight years.\n\nIndia made a decent start in their pursuit of a world record 420, before Anderson swung the game in devastating fashion when introduced.\n\nHe bowled Shubman Gill and Ajinkya Rahane in an incredible over of reverse swing and had the dangerous Rishabh Pant caught soon after.\n\nVirat Kohli held England up in the afternoon session with 72 but he was bowled by one that scuttled low from Ben Stokes.\n\nLeach claimed the key wicket of Cheteshwar Pujara at the start of the day and saw off Ravichandran Ashwin, who put on 54 with Kohli.\n\nJofra Archer sealed the win by having Jasprit Bumrah caught behind 35 minutes before tea.\n\nEngland, heavy underdogs before the series began, take a 1-0 lead into the second match of the four-Test series, which begins on Saturday at the same ground.\n\nThey have also jumped to the top of the standings in the World Test Championship but must win the series 3-1, 3-0 or 4-0 to reach this summer's final.\n• None Ruthless England off to best possible start but India still dangerous - Agnew\n• None 'Take a bow, GOAT' - Anderson produces one of the great overs for England\n• None TMS podcast: 10 out of 10 for England\n\nThis victory must rank as England's greatest in recent years in Test cricket.\n\nThere have been landmark successes: the Ben Stokes-inspired victory in the 2019 Ashes, a historic win in Cape Town 13 months ago and a fine comeback against Pakistan last summer.\n\nBut this is India in India. Kohli's side had lost one of their last 35 home Tests, a run going back to their last series defeat on home soil - England's victory under Alastair Cook in 2012.\n\nThere were questions about the tourists' tactics on the fourth day, and Kohli delayed things for a while, but Anderson and Leach ensured those whispers were irrelevant.\n\nIn truth, it was almost the perfect performance from England, who are unbeaten in 11 Tests under Joe Root's captaincy. Root has also equalled Michael Vaughan's record of 26 Tests wins as England captain, doing so in 47 Tests as opposed to Vaughan's 51.\n\nThere were stand-out performances from experienced players like Root, whose first-innings 218 set up the win, Stokes and Anderson but also contributions from their emerging young players.\n\nOpener Dom Sibley made a crucial 87 on day one, Dom Bess, although disappointing on the final day, took 4-76 in the first innings and Archer bowled well on a tired pitch.\n\nAnderson and Leach take England to victory\n\nAn India win was always unlikely but when Gill and Kohli were batting in the morning session, it was not out of the question. A draw was a decent bet.\n\nLeach had removed Pujara 25 minutes in with a fine ball that turned and bounced, but Gill was eye-catching in making 50 from 81 balls while Kohli exerted his authority with positive play.\n\nWhat followed, 50 minutes into proceedings, was one of the great overs in recent memory.\n\nAnderson's second ball bowled Gill, his fourth saw Rahane narrowly survive an lbw appeal and a fifth sent the India vice-captain's off stump cartwheeling as Gill's had moments before.\n\nThey were three perfect inswingers that capitalised on uneven bounce and reverse swing.\n\nEngland had batted on during day four, perhaps wary of the attacking talents of Pant, but Anderson removed him too. This time he cleverly bowled a cutter and had the left-hander miscue to extra cover.\n\nLeach had been targeted by Pant earlier in the match with a brutal onslaught but he responded in impressive fashion.\n\nHe bowled accurately all day and was the main spin threat with Bess regularly bowling full tosses.\n\nIndia lost a crucial toss but England out-batted, out-bowled and out-fielded them.\n\nRahane looks to be struggling for form and there will be calls for changes to the back-up spin bowlers - wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav is a possible replacement for Shahbaz Nadeem for the second Test.\n\nKohli batted well on the final day and looked to be finding form after a period out for the birth of his first child. Spinner Ashwin will also be boosted by nine wickets in the match.\n\nIndia showed during their recent series in Australia they can respond to adversity. There they were bowled out 36 in losing the first Test and recovered to take the series 2-1.\n\nThey must do so again now to maintain their run of 12 home series wins in a row.\n\nWhich over was better - Flintoff or Anderson?\n\n\"Ponting\" was trending on social media on Tuesday with cricket fans comparing Anderson's over to one bowled by Andrew Flintoff to former Australia captain Ricky Ponting during the 2005 Ashes. Vote for whichever you think was best below.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"The England team have got something going. They're playing the right way. Now the pressure is on because we expect it every week and it probably won't be possible in the next few weeks in these conditions.\n\n\"They have worked out a formula to play Test cricket. This has been a 10/10 performance.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"This win will be right up there. It was always important to start well, India will have been full of confidence on the back of their achievements in Australia and are at fine team at home but for us to perform like we did was exceptional.\n\n\"I don't think we were were perfect, we could do things slightly better and that's an exciting place to be.\"\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli: \"We didn't put enough pressure on England. At the end of the day it is the mindset of if you feel good, you can bat well and bowl well, and that is something we need to get back into. There will be hiccups, but we are always a side that are looking to improve. We'll be looking to bounce back.\"\n• None What role has an alleged drugs boss had in arranging Britain's biggest ever bout?\n• None A deeply personal film following Katie Price and her son Harvey as he enters adulthood", "Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday, almost a year after his first.\n\nHe’s accused of inciting the 6 Jan attack on the Capitol by a crowd of his supporters. But members of his Republican party are mostly standing by him.\n\nWhat’s the case against him and what are the chances of a conviction?", "The boss of one of Britain's big retailers says Brexit has turned out to be \"considerably worse\" than he feared.\n\nPeter Cowgill, chairman of JD Sports, said the red tape and delays in shipping goods to mainland Europe meant \"double-digit millions\" in extra costs.\n\nHe told the BBC JD Sports may open an EU-based distribution centre to ease the problems, which would mean creating jobs overseas and not in the UK.\n\nThe government said it is providing businesses with support.\n\nMr Cowgill's criticism echoes that from exporters and importers across the UK.\n\nNew UK-EU trade rules came into operation on 1 January. But since then, there has been growing concern from businesses as diverse as seafood exporters from Scotland and food suppliers shipping products to Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Cowgill told the BBC's World at One that there is no true free trade with the EU, because goods that JD Sports imports from East Asia incur tariffs when they go to its stores across Europe.\n\nHe said: \"I actually think it was not properly thought out. All the spin that was put on it about being free trade and free movement has not been the reality.\n\n\"The new system and red tape just slows down efficiency. The freedom of movement and obstacles are quite difficult at the moment. I don't see that regulatory paperwork easing much in the short term,\" Mr Cowgill said.\n\nOpening a big warehouse distribution centre in mainland Europe \"would make a lot of economic sense,\" he said. He estimated such a facility would employ about 1,000 people.\n\nWhile JD Sports' existing warehouse in Rochdale would not close, \"it would mean the transfer of a number of jobs into Europe,\" Mr Cowgill said.\n\nHe also warned that the UK needed a complete overhaul of business rates and rents if the High Street was to survive. \"It is basic economics,\" he said. \"Bricks and mortar retailing is becoming uneconomic.\"\n\nMr Cowgill had particular criticism for the government's decision-making on forcing non-essential shops to close, while allowing essential shops to stay open.\n\nIn reality, that meant supermarkets could sell clothes, while firms such as JD Sports had to shut. \"Some essential retailers have been making hay out of selling clothes, whilst clothing retailers have been closed. It is bizarre,\" he said.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement: \"We know that some businesses are facing challenges with specific aspects of our new trading relationship, and that's why we are operating export helplines, running webinars with experts and offering businesses support via our network of 300 international trade advisers.\n\n'We will ensure businesses get the support they need to trade effectively with Europe and to seize new opportunities as we strike trade deals with the world's fastest growing markets and explore our newfound regulatory freedoms.\"\n\nLast weekend, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) said exports to the EU had fallen as much as 68% since 1 January due to Brexit border hold-ups.\n\nBut the government has said freight movements are now close to normal levels, despite the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nOn Monday, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told a committee of MPs that the RHA's claims were \"erroneous\" and \"based on a partial survey\".\n\nHe added that \"truer figures\" were published on the Cabinet Office website, adding that the port of Dover saw 90% of normal levels of traffic on Monday.\n\nMr Gove acknowledged that traders faced issues with exports and imports to and from the EU, but said it was \"important to put it in context\".", "Artwork: It's seven months since Hope left Earth\n\nHistory beckons for the United Arab Emirates as it seeks on Tuesday to place a probe around Mars.\n\nThe Hope spacecraft, launched from Earth seven months ago, is about to reach the decisive moment in its long journey - orbit insertion.\n\nCurrently moving at over 120,000km/h (75,000mph), it must fire its braking engines for 27 minutes to be sure of being captured by the planet's gravity.\n\nSuccess would enable Hope to begin its mission to study Mars' climate.\n\n\"We're entering a very critical phase,\" said project director, Omran Sharaf. \"It's a phase that basically defines whether we reach Mars, or not; and whether we'll be able to conduct our science, or not.\n\n\"If we go too slow, we crash on Mars; if we go too fast, we skip Mars,\" he told BBC News.\n\nHope is the first of three missions to arrive at the Red Planet this month. On Wednesday, the Chinese Tianwen-1 orbiter will also try to make it into orbit, while the Americans turn up on the 18th with another big rover.\n\nFor Hope, everything rides on Tuesday's orbit insertion manoeuvre. In the past couple of months, engineers have trimmed the spacecraft's trajectory so that it reaches the planet at precisely the right moment in space and time to begin the braking burn.\n\nMission control at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) in Dubai will have some data streaming back on the performance of Hope's thrusters, but there is nothing anyone can do to intervene if something goes awry.\n\nMars and Earth are presently separated by 190 million km, meaning it would take a radio command fully 11 minutes to reach the probe - too long to make a difference. Hope must rely on autonomy to complete the manoeuvre.\n\n\"It's definitely going to be nerve-racking; just thinking about it gives me goose-bumps,\" said propulsion engineer Ayesha Sharafi. \"But we do have a fault-protection system in place that can compensate for any problems that might happen during the burn, so I think we're in a good position for Mars obit insertion to happen successfully.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How long does it take to get to Mars and why is it so difficult?\n\nThe confirmation signal that the braking burn has started should be received at Earth just after 19:40 Gulf Standard Time (15:40 GMT). This will come through the US space agency's (Nasa) Deep Space Network of radio dishes.\n\nHope carries roughly 800 kilos of fuel. About half this mass will be consumed by the six thrusters involved in the 27-minute-long manoeuvre.\n\nShortly after the engines shut down, the spacecraft will disappear behind Mars as its trajectory bends into the planned initial orbit. Once again, there will be an anxious wait at the MBRSC while the team hangs on Nasa's dish network re-acquiring Hope's signal.\n\nIf Tuesday's efforts are successful they will be rewarded with some fascinating science in the months ahead.\n\nThe 150m-high Dubai Frame has been lit up in Red to mark Hope's arrival\n\nHope can be described as a kind of weather or climate satellite for Mars.\n\nMore specifically, it's going to study how energy moves through the atmosphere - from bottom to top, at all times of day, and through all the seasons of the year.\n\nIt will track features such as lofted dust which on Mars hugely influences the temperature of the atmosphere.\n\nIt will also look at what's happening with the behaviour of neutral atoms of hydrogen and oxygen right at the top of the atmosphere. There's a suspicion these atoms play a significant role in the ongoing erosion of Mars' atmosphere by the energetic particles that stream away from the Sun.\n\nThis plays into the story of why the planet is now missing most of the water it clearly had early in its history.\n\nTo gather its observations, Hope will take up a near-equatorial orbit that stands off from the planet at a distance of 22,000km to 44,000km.\n\nMission controllers will be monitoring closely the performance of Hope's thrusters\n\nThis means we will get spectacular images of the whole of the Red Planet on a routine basis.\n\n\"Any image we got of Mars would be iconic but I just can't imagine what it's going to feel like to get that first full-disk image of Mars, once we're in orbit,\" said Sarah Al Amiri, the Emirati minister of state for advanced technology and chair of the UAE Space Agency.\n\n\"And for me also, it's getting that science data down and having our science team start analysing it and finding artefacts that haven't been discovered before.\"\n\nThe excitement across the nation is palpable. Buildings are being lit up in red. The UAE is banking on this mission being an inspiration to its youth and Arab youth in general to take up STEM subjects in school and at higher education levels.\n\nHope weighs 1,350kg. About 800kg of this is fuel, half of which will be used on Tuesday\n\nThe mission was initiated six years ago to come to fruition at the time of the UAE's golden jubilee (The federation was founded on 2 December 1971). Having only recently started (2009) flying satellites at Earth, the nation didn't have the full skill-set to mount an interplanetary mission.\n\nThe Emiratis therefore approached a number of US research institutions to engage them in a mentoring role. The American institutions include the University of Colorado at Boulder; Arizona State University; and the University of California, Berkeley.\n\n\"It's been fun on a personal level, it's been fun on a technical level, and seeing everybody's personal abilities grow has been tremendously fulfilling,\" said Pete Withnell, the Hope programme manager at Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.\n\n\"There are now personal friendships that will go forward long after this mission.\"", "The annual TV licence fee is to increase by £1.50, from £157.50 to £159, from 1 April 2021.\n\nIt is the final - and lowest - annual increase under a deal between the BBC and the government that has seen the fee rise in line with inflation every year since 2017.\n\nThe government must decide how much a TV licence will cost from 2022 onwards.\n\nThe increase comes eight months after about three million over-75s lost their entitlement to free TV licences.\n\nThe new fee works out at £3.06 per week or £13.25 per month.\n\nIn 2019-20, it raised about £3.5bn to pay for BBC services.\n\nLicence-fee evasion rose from 6.57% to 7.25% last year, according to the latest statistics.\n\nThe government had been considering whether non-payment should stop being a criminal offence.\n\nLast month, it decided not to go ahead with decriminalisation - but that it would \"remain under active consideration\".\n\nAlso last month, new BBC chairman Richard Sharp said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC.\n\nBut he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future.\n\nAnd it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.", "Twenty-two people were killed in the Manchester Arena blast\n\nA counter-terrorism training drill a year before the Manchester Arena bomb was \"quite a disaster\", the head of the inquiry into the attack has suggested.\n\nThe inquiry into the May 2017 bombing heard a mock terrorist attack highlighted major communication issues between emergency services.\n\nCommunication \"did not run smoothly\" in the drill, a senior fire officer said.\n\nTwenty two people died in the terror attack by Salman Abedi at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe public inquiry heard of failings in communication in an exercise a year before the arena bomb\n\nGiving evidence to the public inquiry, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) station manager Michael Lawlor said 2016's Exercise Winchester Accord \"did not run smoothly from the perspective of GMFRS and [North West Ambulance Service] NWAS\".\n\nBoth were expecting a call from the Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) force duty officer or a tactical firearms commander to attend a pre-agreed forward control point and have an \"over the bonnet\" conversation about the risks involved in sending resources into the various zones.\n\nMr Lawlor said: \"In the end the tactical firearms commander had to be directed to make contact with other agencies by the police exercise co-ordinator.\"\n\nHe said it resulted in a delay of an hour and a half in fire and ambulance deploying into the Trafford Centre.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said: \"It was a bit of a disaster. You arrived an hour and a half late, so that's quite a disaster.\"\n\nThe fire officer replied: \"It didn't unfold as we expected.\"\n\nMr Lawlor, a senior national interagency liaison officer who was based at GMP headquarters, said he and a colleague decided multi-agency briefing awareness sessions were needed so \"all emergency responders are on the same page\".\n\nSessions took place in January and February 2017, the inquiry heard.\n\nSir John said: \"That seems a long time to be trying to sort out what were fundamental problems with Winchester Accord.\"\n\nMr Lawlor replied \"co-ordinating diaries\" of senior officers and developing and delivering training \"takes some time... so in reality it doesn't happen quickly\".\n\nSir John asked: \"At a time when the terrorist threat was severe?\"\n\nMr Lawlor said that \"was the reality at that time\".\n\nThe inquiry also heard communications between the three services was still a concern following a \"table-top exercise\", Exercise Hawk River, in March 2017, again involving a scenario with an armed terrorist.\n\nA force duty officer on that exercise said they would not have time to \"open up a tri-service call... giving a running commentary\" during an incident because of their workload and the number of tasks they had to undertake.\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.", "Five Chinese regulators have summoned Tesla over quality and safety issues as it ramps up production of its latest model in its Shanghai factory.\n\nChina is Tesla's largest market after the US and the electric carmaker sold 120,000 units there in 2020.\n\nAuthorities have recently received complaints about abnormal acceleration and battery fires, according to a statement released on Monday.\n\nTesla said it will strengthen self-inspection and its internal management.\n\nChina is the world's largest car market and its government has been heavily promoting the adoption of electric vehicles. This helped Tesla sell 15,484 locally-made vehicles there last month, according to the China Passenger Car Association.\n\nBut Tesla now faces a setback from Chinese consumer watchdogs who have asked Tesla to improve internal management, comply with Chinese law and regulations and to protect consumers' rights.\n\nTesla Shanghai said it \"sincerely accepted the guidance of government departments\" and that it had \"deeply reflected on shortcomings\" in a statement.\n\nTesla is already facing quality issues in the US and is to recall large numbers of Model S and Model X cars over failing touchscreens.\n\nAll Teslas have built-in screen displays, which in some models are now failing\n\nThe timing couldn't be worse for the world's most valuable car company as it faces growing competition from Chinese rivals.\n\nChinese electric-vehicle startup NIO unveiled a fourth production model last month while Li Auto and XPeng have new models in production.\n\nElon Musk's car firm won approval for its Shanghai factory in 2018, becoming the first foreign automaker to operate a wholly-owned plant in China.\n\nOn Monday, Tesla threw its weight behind Bitcoin after revealing it bought $1.5bn (£1.1bn) of the cryptocurrency in January and expects to start accepting it as payment in future.", "The targets bring Wales in line with the UK's commitment to \"net zero\" emissions by 2050\n\nNew targets to eliminate the gases driving climate change from Wales' economy and way of life are to become law.\n\nThe Welsh Government said \"business as usual\" was no longer an option.\n\nChanging weather patterns are already \"wreaking havoc\" and acting now is \"the right thing to do for our children and grandchildren\", it says.\n\nThe move brings Wales into line with the UK push for \"net zero emissions\" by 2050.\n\nHowever, environment minister Lesley Griffiths said she wanted to \"get there sooner\".\n\nIt will mean huge upheaval - from replacing hundreds of thousands of gas boilers in people's homes, to potentially finding new ways of making steel at Port Talbot without burning coal.\n\nBut the process will lead to new green jobs, and improvements to people's health while meeting international obligations to try and avoid a dangerous rise in global temperatures, the government said.\n\nIt will publish a revised action plan ahead of the major UN climate change conference - COP26 - in Glasgow later this year.\n\nOne way these targets may be met could be finding a way to manufacture steel without coal\n\nAdvisers at the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) have already warned Wales is not on track to meet existing, less stringent goals to slash emissions.\n\nBy 2018 - the latest year for which data is available - Wales had seen a 31% fall in greenhouse gas emissions compared with 1990 levels.\n\nNew legal targets will force a 63% reduction by 2030 and 89% by 2040, with Wales reaching 'net zero' - effectively a 100% cut - by 2050.\n\nAny gases still produced then would need to be very limited and strictly managed - for example, they would need to be entirely soaked back through carbon capture technologies, trees or peatbogs.\n\nThe government said it was accepting the recommendations made by the CCC in a report to Welsh ministers in December.\n\nIt had described the 2020s as a \"crucial decade\" if targets were to be achieved.\n\nThe advisers said a net zero Wales was possible with action on uptake of low-carbon vehicles and boilers, while industry in south Wales needed to work together to move away from fossil fuels or install carbon capture and storage technology by the mid 2030s.\n\nLow carbon electricity generation needed to shift from 27% now to 100% by 2035, and buildings better insulated so less power was used and wasted.\n\nBy 2030, 43,000 hectares of mixed woodland must be planted, the advisers said, increasing to 180,000 hectares by 2050 - to soak up emissions.\n\nAction was needed at both a UK and Welsh government level, according to the CCC.\n\nNick Pidgeon, professor of environmental psychology at Cardiff University, said the announcement was \"hugely significant\".\n\nIndustry, transport, housing and agriculture were all big contributors to Welsh emissions, he said, and would require \"sustained attention over the next few years\".\n\n\"And it needs to start now - although we think about the 2050 target... greenhouse gas emissions stay up in the atmosphere for a long time,\" he said.\n\n\"So, the sooner you start on that journey to net zero the better - because you will then be putting less up over the next 20 to 30 years.\"\n\nBiologist and broadcaster Lizzie Daly told BBC Radio Wales that reducing carbon emissions was \"one of the biggest challenges of our time\".\n\nShe said: \"A lot of our land in Wales is farmland, so working with people who have that land and use it to create better environmental outcomes is crucial.\n\n\"We need to see bigger changes in our transport around cities, Cardiff and Swansea are doing lots to help minimise the impact of vehicle emissions and help with air quality.\n\n\"If we are to meet these goals we have to get a move on.\"\n\nEnvironment minister Lesley Griffiths said she wants to Wales to get to the net zero admissions sooner\n\nMs Griffiths said the global climate outlook was \"grave\", and \"as with Covid, climate change will impact us all, but the stark reality remains that our most vulnerable communities will be hit the hardest.\"\n\n\"Through Covid we have shown a Team Wales effort that has saved lives and protected our NHS, and I am calling on everyone to use the same spirit to build the Wales we want for our future generations.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's shadow minister, Delyth Jewell, said the party would implement a £6bn \"green economic stimulus\" if it gains a majority in this year's Senedd elections.\n\nShe said: \"To tackle climate change we have to be ambitious. It's been two years since the Welsh Government declared a climate emergency but empty words have been followed by little action.\"", "Could Senedd elections take place on a different day to PCC elections?\n\nVoting in the Senedd elections could take place over two days or longer if the polls are delayed from 6 May.\n\nThere are no plans to delay the election, but Senedd members are discussing a new law to allow a postponement of up to six months.\n\nThe Welsh Government has now amended it to allow for early voting, which is used in the US and elsewhere.\n\nBut the UK government says early voting would be unnecessary and would require additional resources.\n\nWelsh ministers say the UK government's view and coinciding elections for police and crime commissioners means it would be \"impossible\" to hold early voting on the original election date.\n\nInstead, the Welsh Government has amended the emergency legislation on an election delay, allowing it to propose extra polling days if an election is delayed and the commissioner elections are not held at the same time.\n\nSenedd members approved the change on Tuesday, ahead of a vote on the full legislation on Wednesday.\n\nThe 2021 election will decide who will sit in the Welsh Parliament for the next term\n\nWelsh ministers say the election should take place on 6 May, but argue the legislation is needed if it is not safe to hold the election at that time, because of Covid.\n\nBut the UK government has not suggested that its own elections set for the date would be moved, and last week confirmed the PCC polls will go ahead as planned.\n\nIt potentially means the Senedd election could be delayed but the PCC elections would continue to be held on the same day.\n\nUnder the amended law, extra days for voting would need to be held in the seven days ahead of the new election date.\n\nA spokesman for the Welsh Government said: \"We strongly support measures to make voting easier, particularly given the circumstances caused by the pandemic and would have favoured putting in place early voting - as happens in many countries across the world - for the Senedd election on 6 May.\n\n\"This proved impossible, given the fact that on current plans, the Senedd election and the PCC elections will take place on the same day and the UK government - which is responsible for the PCC elections - opposes early voting.\n\n\"The amendment would enable Welsh voters to benefit from the opportunity to cast their ballot on more than one day if the election were to be postponed and was not held concurrently with the PCC elections.\"\n\nThe UK government said it had confirmed that the PCC elections in Wales will go ahead on 6 May.\n\nIts delivery plan for the elections said early voting was \"unnecessary given voters can already vote early by post, and the additional resources required to staff early polling stations would make the elections harder to deliver given Covid-19 staffing pressures\".\n\n\"Local authorities are able to contact all clinically extremely vulnerable people in their areas to make them aware of the options to use a proxy or postal vote and they will be supported in their efforts by targeted communications from the Electoral Commission.\"\n\nSenedd members voted the amendment into the election bill on Tuesday afternoon - 37 for, 13 against, with 1 abstention - during a series of votes on proposed changes to the bill.\n\nJulie James, presenting the amendment, said early voting would \"encourage more voters to participate, but also make the election safer by spreading footfall from one day to several\".\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives voted against the idea - Conservative Senedd member Mark Isherwood said an election held over multiple days \"raises security concerns over the integrity of the election\", including over how ballot boxes would be secured.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said early voting could be a way of enabling people to cast their vote during the pandemic.\n\nPlaid supported the amendment, but Mr ap Iorwerth said there was a \"lot of work to be done\" on on how it would be delivered.\n\nConservatives say they will abstain on the bill after their amendments were rejected.\n\nThe Tories said the election should only be postponed if Wales is in alert level 4 - the most serious level of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBut the proposal was voted down, as was an attempt to stop the election being delayed beyond 9 September.\n\nFinal votes on the legislation will be held on Wednesday, which would also enable a delay to the dissolution of the Welsh Parliament - the date at which the institution formally breaks up.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies, said: \"Barring any dramatic change in circumstances, I have every confidence that election officials across Wales will also be able to carry out a safe and secure Senedd election, learning from the vast number of elections that have taken place around the globe during the pandemic.\n\n\"The Welsh Labour Government should now focus all energy on ensuring the people of Wales are able to have their say on the future of our country on 6 May.\"\n\nA Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said \"urgent clarity\" was needed on what is \"legally permitted in terms of campaigning activity against each alert level\".\n\nShe also called for the publication of \"pre-dissolution and dissolution period guidance with the requirement for any postponement proposal to be initiated by the first minister by 7 April at the latest\".", "A man who left a negative review of a legal firm on the TrustPilot website has been ordered to pay £25,000 in libel damages.\n\nPhilip James Waymouth engaged London law firm Summerfield Browne online to provide advice but was unsatisfied with the service he received.\n\nHe then left a review accusing the firm of being \"another scam solicitor\", according to court documents.\n\nThe firm took legal action, stating that this was untrue and defamatory.\n\nThe number of business enquiries it received had dropped since the publication of the review, Summerfield Browne said.\n\nMr Waymouth had not engaged with Summerfield Browne's complaints procedure before leaving the review, the High Court in London heard.\n\nHe did not attend the online hearing or send a legal representative.\n\nHe previously said he had offered to remove the review in exchange for a refund of the £200 fee (plus VAT) he had paid but claimed the firm had not responded.\n\nIn the review, Mr Waymouth alleged: \"I paid upfront for a legal assessment of my case.\n\n\"But what I got was just the information I sent them, reworded and sent back to me.\"\n\nFinding for the firm, judge Master David Cook said it was \"beyond any dispute\" the words in the review \"had a clear tendency to put people off dealing with the claimant firm\".\n\nAnd Mr Waymouth had \"never fully articulated\" why he was unhappy with Summerfield Browne's work.\n\nOther reviewers are now leaving TrustPilot reviews on the firm's page, in an attempt to support Mr Waymouth.", "Princess Eugenie, the Queen's grand-daughter, has given birth to a baby boy, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nThe royal baby, who is the Queen's ninth great-grandchild and 11th in line to the throne, was born at 08:55 GMT on Tuesday at the Portland Hospital in central London, weighing 8lbs 1oz.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said the Queen and Eugenie's parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, were \"delighted\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said Jack Brooksbank was at his wife's side for the birth.\n\nThe baby's name has not yet been announced.\n\nThe palace said in its statement: \"The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Mr and Mrs George Brooksbank have been informed and are delighted with the news.\"\n\nIt added: \"Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall tweeted their congratulations beside a picture of the new parents' wedding day.\n\nPrincess Eugenie posted a picture on Instagram following the birth\n\nPrince Andrew, the Duke of York, and his ex-wife Sarah became step-grandparents last year when their eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice married.\n\nAs 11th in line to the throne, the newborn takes the place of the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward - the Queen's youngest son - who has moved down to 12th place.\n\nEven though his mother is a princess, Master Brooksbank will not be an HRH nor hold a title, unless the Queen decides otherwise. This is because he was born down the female line of the Royal Family.\n\nThe new line of succession to the throne is:\n\nThe couple got married in 2018\n\nEugenie, 30, and Jack Brooksbank, 34, married in October 2018 at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nRoyal Family members, including the Queen and Prince Philip, were joined at the ceremony by 850 guests, including singer Robbie Williams and model Cara Delevingne.", "Higher rates of enforcement in Wales have been suggested as a factor in the survey statistics\n\nPolice in Wales have been assaulted more often during the coronavirus pandemic than their colleagues in England, a survey suggests.\n\nThe Police Federation found Welsh officers were more likely to have been insulted, threatened, hit or kicked.\n\nMore than a third had been insulted at least once a week, a quarter were threatened and 17% were attacked.\n\nThe Federation's Welsh lead said it was possible a higher rate of Covid rule enforcement had made a difference.\n\nThe demand, capacity and welfare survey is carried out every two years.\n\nA total of 888 Welsh officers took part, with 35% saying they were verbally insulted at least once a week, 24% reporting verbal threats at least once a week and 17% were physically attacked without a weapon.\n\nThe responses taken across seven weeks in October and November showed a higher response of six or seven percentage points than among English officers.\n\nThe Federation's lead in Wales said the \"tirade of abuse and assaults\" was concerning.\n\n\"The survey was carried out while police forces were battling to enforce the Covid regulations,\" said Mark Bleasdale.\n\n\"It is possible that as Welsh forces were more stringent with enforcing rules and travel bans they were subjected to more unacceptable abuse\n\n\"While the reasoning for the higher figures is not clear, what is crystal clear and, always has been, is that abuse of any sort towards police officers, is totally unacceptable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party\n\n\"These people work tirelessly to protect the public at times they are most vulnerable and they should not be subject to any form of physical or verbal assault.\"\n\nThe survey also found that while fewer officers in Wales (42%) took sick leave than in England (49%), a higher proportion were doing so for stress, anxiety or depression - 34% compared to 31%.\n\nA total of 70% of Welsh officers had gone to work while physically unwell and 71% had done so while mentally unwell, compared to 65% in both categories in England.\n\nThirty per cent viewed their job as very or extremely stressful.", "Sven Badzak was chased and then stabbed repeatedly\n\nA teenager has been arrested over the murder of an aspiring lawyer who was attacked as he went to buy a bagel.\n\nSven Badzak, 22, died after being stabbed in Kilburn, north-west London, on Saturday.\n\nA 16-year-old also suffered multiple stab injuries but managed to escape into a shop, and is currently in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nPolice said a 17-year-old male was being held at an east London police station.\n\nOn Monday Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Badzak's mother \"and her family in mourning the loss of her son\".\n\nMr Badzak, who was working for his father's construction company and hoped to do a law conversion course, was waiting outside a bagel shop with a friend when the pair were attacked.\n\nAs they were chased they became separated and Mr Badzak fell to the ground and was stabbed.\n• None Stabbing victim 'could have been prime minister'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ministry of Justice said it is taking \"precautionary measures\" and \"will continue to closely monitor the situation\"\n\nAn outbreak of Covid-19 at a prison has caused England's smallest county to have the highest infection rates in the country, officials have said.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed cases at HMP Stocken in Rutland.\n\nOn Monday, statistics showed the county had 199 new cases in the week up to 4 February, giving it a rate per 100,000 people of 498.4.\n\nRutland and Melton MP Alicia Kearns said she understands \"around half\" of cases in the county were in the prison.\n\nThe rate in the week up to 28 January was 162.8, with 65 new infections.\n\nThe category C prison - which can hold up to 950 inmates - had been free of the virus for 11 months, according to the Prison Service.\n\nMike Sandys, director of public health for Leicestershire County Council and Rutland, said Rutland's small population of just under 40,000 residents meant its infection rate was more susceptible to spikes.\n\nHe said the outbreak at Stocken probably involved \"tens of cases\", but urged people to maintain social distancing and other preventative measures to \"stop the virus spreading\".\n\n\"It doesn't take so many cases, given the small size of Rutland's population, for that to make a really big difference to the rate,\" he said.\n\n\"There is at least some reassurance for local people - it isn't that we're seeing a massive increase in community transmission, it is contained within the prison setting.\"\n\nDespite the prison outbreak Mr Sandys said infection rates in Rutland had been following a downward trend, with rates across the East Midlands \"coming down steadily\" in recent weeks.\n\nAs well as lateral flow tests for staff, the prison has organised mass testing for those on affected wings\n\nMs Kearns, the Conservative MP for the county, said she believed \"around half of all cases\" in Rutland were in the prison.\n\nBut she added the governor had her \"full support and confidence\" to get the outbreak under control.\n\nOfficials confirmed mass testing for all staff and everyone housed on four of its seven wings which are affected by the virus.\n\nThe MoJ has not confirmed how many positive cases have been identified at the prison, but said it is taking \"precautionary measures\" and \"will continue to closely monitor the situation\".\n\n\"Our priority is to limit the spread of the virus and protect the lives of those who live and work in our prisons,\" a statement said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon Luca says she has \"the brunt of everything\" as she tries to juggle work and home-schooling\n\nGovernment policies have \"repeatedly skewed towards men\", a committee of MPs has said in a report on the impact of coronavirus on men and women.\n\nCommittee chair Caroline Nokes said the government had \"repeatedly failed to consider\" the labour market and caring inequalities faced by women.\n\nThe report makes 20 recommendations including making it easier for staff to get flexible working arrangements.\n\nThe government said it had spent over £200bn on job support schemes.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic this government has done whatever it takes to protect lives and livelihoods, and will continue to do so,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nSharon Luca from Warwickshire works from home, running a clothing business and a charity raising money to help parents of stillborn children.\n\nHer husband also works full time and so cannot help with homeschooling.\n\nBecause she is helping her son do school work, Sharon says she has \"barely had anytime to focus on my business or the charity\".\n\nThis has meant losing \"a big chunk\" of her earnings she says, adding: \"My income is my only independence.\"\n\nSharon thinks women are bearing the brunt of homeschooling.\n\n\"I know a lot of mums who work from home or have small businesses like myself and all of them are saying that they've been affected by homeschooling.\n\n\"They really don't have the time now to put in the energy to earn a living from their small business - homeschooling overtook everything.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic, Clare has struggled to find work that will accommodate her child care responsibilities\n\nClare Jeffries, a single mother from Banbury, was made redundant from her job in HR during the pandemic and now can't find a role that's flexible enough to accommodate childcare - despite lots of searching.\n\nShe worries this is a problem that largely impacts on those with caring responsibility and \"disproportionately affects women\".\n\nShe says \"inclusion is a choice\" and that employers \"need to think about the choices they're making\".\n\n\"Things like flexible working need to be a right for everybody.\"\n\nShe also wants the government to fund more childcare \"so that we can actually get back into work easier\".\n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee has examined some of these problems and says the government needs to \"start actively analysing and assessing the equality impact of every policy\".\n\nIts chair Ms Nokes said: \"Government policies have repeatedly skewed towards men - and it keeps happening.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, she said although ministers had not \"deliberately designed policies to be sexist,\" there had been \"institutional thoughtlessness\" about their particular impact on women.\n\nThe Conservative MP - who lost her job as immigration minister when Boris Johnson entered Downing Street - also said the opinions of female cabinet ministers were \"not being played into debates and decisions\".\n\nShe told the programme there was a \"very blokey mentality at the top\" of government, which had suffered from \"the predominance of single-sex education round the cabinet table\".\n\nThe report notes that during the pandemic, women spent more time on caring duties than men, yet \"furlough was not clearly articulated as a right for those with caring responsibilities\".\n\nOn sick pay, the report cites evidence that women were less likely to qualify for statutory sick pay, in part due to caring responsibilities, which meant their wages were too low to be eligible for the support,\n\nMaking over 20 recommendations, the committee said the government should:\n\nThe MPs also urged the Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss to be \"much more ambitious\" in getting other government departments to consider inequality when designing policies.\n\nResponding to the report, Labour's shadow women and equalities secretary, Marsha de Cordova, called for a \"gendered response to the crisis\".\n\nShe added: \"The unequal impact of coronavirus on women is huge - women are more likely to work in low-paid sectors, to work in sectors which are currently shutdown such as retail and hospitality, and have taken on more caring responsibilities.\n\n\"The government cannot continue to deny and dismiss the reality of gender inequality across society.\"\n\nJoeli Brearley, CEO and founder of the campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed, said \"policy decisions have repeatedly ignored the specific needs of women\", adding: \"We are currently witnessing a generational roll back in maternal employment that will take us decades to repair.\"\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce co-executive director Claire Walker said that a national focus was needed to help parents and carers.\n\n\"Employers value the skills women bring to the workplace and the evidence shows that businesses with a diverse and inclusive workforce perform better.\"\n\nShe added: \"Economic growth will depend on access to high quality, affordable childcare.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it had spent over £200bn on schemes \"safeguarding people's jobs\" including the Self Employment Income Scheme helping the 1.7 million self-employed women in the UK.\n\n\"Covid-19 is prompting a culture shift with more people than ever before working flexibly, and the government wants to harness that as we recover.\n\n\"By doing so, we could see more equal sharing of care work by parents, and more flexibility from employers, enabling us to unleash the potential of everyone across the country.\"", "The £20 weekly increase in Universal Credit must be extended for at least a year to avoid impoverishing hundreds of thousands of people, MPs have warned.\n\nThe measure, which has been called a lifeline for struggling families, is in place until the end of March.\n\nThe Commons Work and Pensions Committee said keeping the higher rate until April 2022 must be the \"bare minimum\".\n\nThe government has signalled it is looking at a range of options for support ahead of next month's Budget.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Work and Pensions Minister Will Quince criticised what he described as \"unhelpful scaremongering\", saying discussions \"remained ongoing\" with the Treasury.\n\nHe said Chancellor Rishi Sunak had a \"proven record of stepping up to protect the poorest, the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in our country throughout this pandemic and I have no doubt he will continue to do so\".\n\nAbout six million families have benefited from the top-up, worth more than £1,000 a year, since it was introduced at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs said a decision was needed now on extending it and warned against it being replaced by a one-off payment.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed recently that a single payment was one of the options under consideration but was not one of her department's \"preferred approaches\".\n\nIn its report, the committee said that removing the top-up in April would force hundreds of thousands of families below the breadline and drag those already in poverty \"down into destitution\".\n\nThe MPs acknowledged that keeping the top-up would come at a substantial cost, with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimating it could cost about £6.4bn in 2021-2022.\n\nBut the committee said the actual amount could be much lower if government plans to support people back to work were successful in reducing the number of people who depend on the welfare system.\n\n\"Removing the extra payment in March would represent a failure by government - failure to recognise the reality of people struggling,\" said Stephen Timms, the Labour MP who chairs the committee.\n\n\"Without regular support, hundreds of thousands of families will be swept into poverty or even destitution. government must end the uncertainty and commit to extending this lifeline.\"\n\nThe MPs said charities and anti-poverty campaigners were alarmed by the possibility of it being replaced by a larger single payment - potentially of up to £500 - believing it could destabilise people's budgets, push some claimants over the threshold for other support and increase the risks of fraud.\n\nGiven the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and its economic impact, they said a regular, steady stream of money would be far more beneficial.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation said removing the £20 would be a \"terrible mistake\" at a time of rising unemployment and those claiming legacy benefits, who have not yet moved to Universal Credit, should be eligible.\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.", "Sister Andre said she wasn't afraid of having Covid\n\nA French nun who is Europe's oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday.\n\nLucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus on 16 January but didn't develop any symptoms.\n\nShe told local media she \"didn't even realise I had it\".\n\nShe isolated separately from other residents in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, but is now considered fully recovered.\n\nSister Andre, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, is now looking forward to celebrating her birthday on Thursday - although she is going to mark the occasion with a smaller group of residents than usual.\n\n\"She has been very lucky,\" David Tavella, spokesman for the Sainte Catherine Labouré retirement home, said.\n\nHe told Var Matin newspaper: \"She didn't ask me about her health, but about her habits. For example, she wanted to know if meal or bedtime schedules would change.\n\n\"She showed no fear of the disease. On the other hand, she was very concerned about the other residents.\"\n\nSister Andre was born on 11 February 1904. As well as being Europe's oldest person, she is also the second-oldest living person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group's (GRG) World Supercentenarian Rankings List.\n\nWhen asked by French broadcaster BFM if she was scared of having Covid, Sister Andre said: \"No, I wasn't scared, because I wasn't scared to die.\n\n\"I'm happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else - to join my big brother, and my grandfather and my grandmother.\"\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. The PM says vaccines being used in the UK are “effective in delivering a high degree of protection” against serious illness and death\n\nBoris Johnson says he is \"very confident\" in the Covid vaccines being used in the UK, amid concerns about the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab's effectiveness against the South Africa variant.\n\nThe vaccines are effective in delivering a high degree of protection against serious illness, the PM said.\n\nA small study found the Oxford jab gave \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant.\n\nBut scientists are confident it will protect against serious disease.\n\nSome 147 cases of the South Africa variant have been found in the UK.\n\nHowever, the Oxford vaccine has shown to provide good protection against the so-called Kent variant, which remains the dominant strain in the UK.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"We're very confident in all the vaccines that we're using.\n\n\"It's important for people to bear in mind that all of them, we think, are effective in delivering a high degree of protection against serious illness and death, which is the most important thing.\"\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, told a Downing Street briefing that initial data from Pfizer-BioNTech, Novavax and Janssen - all of whose vaccines the UK has ordered - suggested they had a \"substantial effect at reducing serious illness\".\n\nHe said the latest study of the Oxford vaccine in South Africa did not change his view that the Oxford vaccine would be \"rather likely\" to have an effect on severe disease.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Van-Tam: \"Do not delay, have the vaccine that protects you against the current threat\"\n\nProf Van-Tam said headlines about the study have been \"a bit scary\" but his advice to anyone \"on the edge\" about whether they should wait to get vaccinated would be: \"Do not delay, have the vaccine that will protect you against the current threat.\"\n\n\"Early data\" suggested the South Africa variant did not have any advantage over the Kent variant, so it was unlikely to become dominant in the UK in the short term, he said.\n\n\"There is no reason to think the South Africa variant will catch up or overtake our current virus in the next few months.\"\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are currently being rolled out in the UK, where nearly 12.3 million people have been given a first dose according to the latest figures - almost one in four adults.\n\nAnother 14,104 confirmed cases were reported on Monday and a further 333 deaths were recorded within 28 days of a positive test, bringing the total to 112,798. But the numbers in hospital remain higher than the previous peak in April last year, at 29,326.\n\nMr Johnson said the vaccines \"remain a massive benefit to our country\" and he has \"no doubt that vaccines generally are going to offer a way out\".\n\n\"Yes we're doing everything we can to contain new variants but we're also increasingly confident that science, medicine, is gaining the upper hand over coronavirus and all its variants,\" he added.\n\nDr Katherine O'Brien, director of immunisation at the World Health Organization, said it was \"really plausible\" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine might still have a a \"meaningful impact\" on the South African variant, especially in preventing serious illness and death.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the NHS would issue booster jabs against variants if necessary, and had placed a new order for 50 million doses with vaccine company CureVac.\n\nThe deal is intended to rapidly develop vaccines, including using the mRNA technology already deployed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, in the UK \"so we will be prepared for whatever the future might bring\", Mr Hancock said.\n\nApproving revised vaccines for booster shots would take \"a matter of weeks rather than a matter of months\", Prof Van-Tam added.\n\nMr Hancock also said the government had ordered 20 million more rapid tests so it could expand workplace testing to all businesses with more than 50 employees in sectors that are currently open.\n\nViruses mutate - so what is happening is not surprising.\n\nThe mutations seen in South Africa change the part of the virus that the vaccines target.\n\nIt means all the vaccines that have been produced so far are likely to be affected in some way.\n\nTrials for Novavax and Janssen vaccines that were carried out in South Africa showed less effectiveness against this variant. Both are currently before the UK regulator.\n\nTherefore the news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca does not come out of the blue.\n\nThe fact it now only has \"minimal\" effect according to reports is concerning - the other vaccines showed effectiveness in the region of 60% against the South African variant.\n\nBut we should be careful about rushing to judgement. The study was small so there is only limited confidence in the findings.\n\nWhat is more, there is still hope the vaccine will prevent serious illness and hospitalisation.\n\nWhat this once again illustrates is the pandemic is not going to end with one Big Bang. Vaccines are likely to have to change to keep pace with the virus.\n\nProgress will be incremental. But vaccines are still the way out of this - and as things stand they remain very effective against the virus that is dominant in the UK.\n\nIn South Africa, where the variant - known as 501.V2 or B.1.351 - accounts for 90% of new coronavirus cases in the country, the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been put on hold awaiting further advice.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the South Africa variant is the \"single biggest risk\" in the pandemic at the moment, but added that the government was taking too long to introduce controls at the border, \"leaving a back door open at a vital stage in the battle against the virus\".\n\nMr Johnson said border controls could play a greater role against new variants once infection rates are further reduced in the UK.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease expert who advises the government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"it's very possible\" the South Africa variant could already be quite widespread in the UK.\n\nThe \"surge testing\" taking place in certain areas in England \"really needs to be effective\" to halt its spread, he said, but \"sadly we may be in a similar situation to the Kent variant\", which eventually spread across the whole country.\n\nAdditional surge testing is taking place in a number of areas in England where the South Africa variant has been found, including parts of Surrey, Bristol, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Walsall, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.\n\nOn Monday evening the Department of Health announced that surge testing would also be deployed in parts of the M14, M15 and M16 postcode areas in Manchester.\n\nSouth Africa's suspension of the rollout of the vaccine is only \"temporary\" at this stage and the \"context is a little bit different\" to the UK where the Kent variant is the dominant strain, he added.\n\nThe new study of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, involved about 2,000 people who were on average 31 years old.\n\nA spokesman for the pharmaceutical company said it had not yet been able to properly establish whether the jab would prevent severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the South Africa variant because those involved in the study had predominantly been young, healthy adults.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Sarah Gilbert said the new version of the vaccine \"will be available for the autumn\"\n\nBut the company expressed confidence the vaccine would offer protection against serious cases, because it created neutralising antibodies similar to those of other coronavirus vaccines.", "Most children have been learning remotely from home this term\n\nExtra hours of academic learning - as well as sport, music and drama - will be needed to help England's pupils make up ground following the pandemic, the new education catch-up tsar says.\n\nSir Kevan Collins told the BBC it was important to \"act quickly\" on making arrangements for the summer and he said that summer schools \"had promise\".\n\nSir Kevan said the most disadvantaged had lost up to seven months' progress.\n\nBut he also stressed that children were \"amazingly resilient\".\n\nIn his first media interview, he said the youngest children would \"need to learn to play together\" and to develop the language and social skills needed for school life.\n\nThe government is considering options including shorter summer holidays, summer schools and extended school days, with initial catch-up plans due to be announced in late February.\n\nAs well as lost learning, the mental health of children has been one of the major concerns of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sir Kevan says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Secondary school student Najeem explains how catch-up tutoring has helped him\n\nHe says the response must not just be about adding extra hours of study, but that children's broader needs must be taken into account.\n\n\"I think we need to think about the extra hours not only for learning, but for children to be together, to play, to engage in competitive sport, for music, for drama because these are critical areas which have been missed in their development.\"\n\nBut he stressed that \"we're going to have to ask teachers to increase learning time for children\" and to go back over earlier content children might have missed.\n\n\"If you're going to secondary school in the next couple of years, it's vital you're reading at the level you will need.\n\n\"We need to step in to support children in some of these critical areas of learning.\"\n\nSir Kevan told the BBC it was not for him to tell schools what to do and he said trusting teachers would be at the heart of his approach.\n\nHis first task will be to oversee the existing £1.3bn catch up programme in England's schools, including the national tutoring programme.\n\nNajeem, a Year 10 pupil from the City of Leicester College, is receiving some extra tuition from one of the companies approved for the programme, My Tutor.\n\nNajeem's school is in an area of Leicester which has been badly effected by Covid-19.\n\nThe whole city spent extra time in lockdown last year and some pupils had to self-isolate several times on top of that.\n\n\"I'm really happy that I have tuition, especially because I can freely ask questions that I need help or I'm struggling with - it's really helped me a lot.\n\n\"In maths I was struggling on a few questions. I asked my tutor if she could help and now I'm doing good on it.\"\n\nNajeem says the extra tuition has boosted his confidence\n\nHis father, Najibullah, is pleased with the tutoring as a short term solution.\n\n\"Tutoring has boosted his confidence and he is a lot better and feels a lot freer to ask questions.\"\n\nBut he says a longer plan is also needed.\n\n\"They have missed not only on education but also on social interaction and how to become resilient - they are definitely need a long term plan - one year out of education can affect ten years.\"\n\nNajeem's tutor, Annabelle Hondier says it can be very challenging for children to keep up with schoolwork if they are on their own at home.\n\n\"I've noticed that a lot of them are really, really keen to make progress in their learning and to catch up.\"\n\nHarriet Hurdley-Lees, assistant head teacher at the school, which has 1,700 pupils aged 11 to 18, wants to see long-term thinking, with schools able to make their own decisions.\n\n\"To have any extra forced onto the school, rather than us choosing what we want, the things we think will help our particular cohort, would not be helpful.\"\n\nThe impact of the pandemic will be rippling through schools for years to come.\n\nIt is likely for example that the content of GCSEs in 2022 will have to be slimmed down to match what teenagers have actually been able to learn, Sir Kevan says.\n\nHe agrees a long term plan is needed, but says the pandemic has also shown how well schools have embraced innovation.\n\nTechnology would continue to have a greater role in education, he added.\n\nSir Kevan was, until recently head of the Education Endowment Foundation, which examines evidence for what works in education.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy snowfall and temperatures as low as -16.7C led to warnings of \"tough\" driving conditions in parts of Scotland.\n\nThe Met Office forecast of up to 20cm (8in) of snow in parts of central Scotland. An amber weather warning expired at 21:00.\n\nTransport Scotland said Covid rules meant people should not be travelling unless it was for essential purposes.\n\nThe temperature dropped to -16.7C in Altnaharra in Sutherland overnight.\n\nIt was the lowest temperature recorded in the UK since December 2010.\n\nPolice helped with the recovery of an HGV on the A68 south of Pathhead in Midlothian\n\nThe previous low of 2021 so far was -13C at Braemar.\n\nThere has been widespread disruption across Scotland, including:\n\nA car hit a lamppost after sliding down Cleveden Road in Glasgow's Kelvindale area\n\nA police vehicle crashed off the road and into a ditch in the west mainland of Orkney\n\nScotRail said heavy snowfall had caused \"significant disruption\" on its Edinburgh to Glasgow routes.\n\nThe rail company tweeted that it had a \"bumpy start\" to the day as road conditions delayed staff travelling to work.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was working to fix a number of points failures, particularly in the Central Belt, and urged people to check before they travelled.\n\nThe amber weather warning initially covered Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, West Lothian, East Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe Tomintoul Road has been closed\n\nIt was later extended to include Dundee and southern Angus, Edinburgh, the Lothians and northern Borders.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said all Covid vaccinations were going ahead as planned despite the travel difficulties.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scotland News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the Caird Hall vaccination centre in Dundee had to close early on Tuesday evening due to the poor weather conditions.\n\nNHS Tayside said the vaccination team would contact the remaining people to rearrange their appointments and apologised for any inconvenience caused.\n\nThere is also a yellow warning of snow in place for much of the rest of Scotland until late on Wednesday night. The warning extends from Shetland and down the east coast of Scotland.\n\nA snowplough was at the site of a road accident on the M90 at Dunfermline\n\nThe Caird Hall vaccination centre in Dundee had to close early on Tuesday evening due to the poor weather conditions\n\nTransport Scotland said road temperatures, including wind chill, dropped to -18C overnight at Bannockburn.\n\nSpokesman Stein Connolly said: \"There were temperatures of -7C and -8C throughout the country last night so we had challenges everywhere.\n\n\"We've got all the operating companies working in a multi-agency response team - working very closely with the Met Office - and we will be working all day today until we get clear of this.\"\n\nBear Scotland said snow showers across the network were \"making driving conditions tough\".\n\nMost of Fife, including Dunfermline, was left under a blanket of snow\n\nBraemar Mountain Rescue team have been helping SSEN engineers in Upper Deeside\n\nMidlothian Council said it had redeployed 80 staff from other departments to help clear paths and pavements.\n\nSome parts of Scotland had already seen heavy snowfalls.\n\nDepths of 26cm (10in) were recorded at Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, 18cm (7in) at Aviemore and 15cm (6in) at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, in the Highlands on Monday morning.\n\nUpper Deeside has been among places to see heavy snowfalls\n\nBraemar Mountain Rescue Team has been helping engineers from energy company SSEN restore supplies in Upper Deeside in Aberdeenshire following power and communication failures caused by heavy snow.\n\nThe wintry conditions are associated with cold air from Russia and Eastern Europe.\n\nThe weather has been nicknamed the Beast from the East Two, following the 2018 Beast from the East which brought widespread snow to Scotland.\n\nWhiteout in The Meadows in Edinburgh\n\nDeep snow near Grantown on Spey in the Cairngorms", "Head teachers' leaders have warned against \"gimmicks\" in plans to help pupils in England catch up for lost learning in the pandemic.\n\nGeoff Barton said speculation about longer school days and shorter holidays was \"misconceived and unhelpful\" - and it would not help to try to \"grind out more hours from tired children\".\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb told MPs he was \"open to all ideas\" on catching up.\n\n\"We just have to leave no stone unturned,\" said Mr Gibb.\n\nMr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, also cast doubt on whether penalty fines would really be imposed on parents for not sending their children to classes in the summer holidays, should they be made compulsory.\n\nLast week the prime minister announced that Sir Kevan Collins would be an \"education recovery commissioner\" - in charge of helping pupils to catch up after the disruption caused by the pandemic.\n\nAmong the ideas under discussion have been extended school days and a reduced summer holiday, along with existing plans for personal tutors.\n\nSir Kevan also suggested the importance of sport, drama and music.\n\nBut Mr Barton said it was \"quality and not quantity\" that would be important for how children were helped to make up for lost time in the classroom.\n\nHe said many schools already ran after-school activities and summer holiday clubs - and that any \"blanket requirement\" to force children to stay in school for longer would have \"diminishing returns\".\n\nAppearing before the Commons Education Select Committee on Tuesday, Mr Gibb said he was \"open to all ideas\" on how to help pupils in England catch up in the wake the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAsked whether he preferred the proposal of extending the school day or shortening the summer holidays, Mr Gibb said: \"We just have to leave no stone unturned in making sure that we can help those young people catch up from the lost education.\"\n\nMr Gibb told MPs that Sir Kevan would be looking at all the \"ideas and potential proposals for how we can ensure that young people catch up.\"\n\nHe added that further details on how the extra £300m fund for catch-up will be allocated would be announced \"shortly\".\n\nHe also suggested the funding would not be tied rigidly to only academic tutoring.\n\nSchools were told to close for most pupils at the start of January\n\nMr Gibb added: \"As a government, we are absolutely determined that no child or young person will have detriment to their life chances as a result of this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said that while schools had successfully provided a remote education for pupils, this was \"never as good\" as being with their teachers and friends in class.\n\nNick Brook of the National Association of Head Teachers said there were \"better methods to help pupils than lengthening the school day\".\n\nHe warned against \"loud calls for superficially attractive schemes\".\n\nMr Gibb was appearing before MPs to give evidence about what the Department for Education was doing to help left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nHe said the issue of poor academic achievement in this group was about poverty, not ethnicity, and that it was \"poverty that then translates into low expectations\".\n\n\"Whatever the level of poverty is in society, there should not be a poverty of low expectations,\" he said.\n\n\"And the way you break the cycle of poverty is to make sure young people, whatever their background, leave school well educated and able to fulfil their potential.\"\n\nHe told MPs the challenge was to overcome \"fatalistic assumptions\" about low achievement.\n\nBut Conservative MP Tom Hunt said there was evidence of a \"specific issue\" with underprivileged white pupils doing worse in schools than disadvantaged children from other backgrounds.\n\nLabour's Ian Mearns suggested there needed to be more attention to different regional patterns in underachievement - including areas with a higher proportion of disadvantaged white children.\n\nJonathan Gullis also asked why if this underachievement was \"just about poverty and income\" why white children on free school meals were \"not keeping pace\" compared with similarly disadvantaged children from ethnic minorities.\n\nThe MP for Stoke-on-Trent North said the way that ministers \"aren't addressing specifically white working class pupils feels that this is part of the problem. It's a taboo subject\".", "Black people in England have been no more likely than white people to die of Covid-19 in the second wave of the pandemic, official data shows.\n\nDuring the first wave, people belonging to ethnic minorities experienced higher death rates than white people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that, for black people, this gap had closed.\n\nBut Bangladeshi and Pakistani people still experienced three times the risk.\n\nResearchers from the ONS, University of Oxford, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and University of Leicester said widespread reports that people belonging to ethnic minorities were disproportionately affected by Covid-19 may have raised awareness.\n\nBut for South Asian people, particularly from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds, the raised mortality rate remained \"alarming\".\n\nThe study used official data on 28.9 million people aged between 30 and 100 living in private households in England between the first wave (from January until the end of August 2020) and the second wave (from September to the end of December 2020).\n\nIn the first wave, people from a black African background had the highest age-standardised Covid-19 mortality rates - with the rate for black African men almost five times higher than the rate for white British men.\n\nBut in the second wave, black people were not at higher risk of dying than white people, as they had been during the first wave.\n\nThe researchers said this showed \"ethnic inequalities in Covid-19 mortality can be addressed\".\n\nHowever, South Asian people had up to about a five-times greater risk of death with coronavirus compared with white British people - ranging from a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of dying for Pakistani men to 1.6 times higher for Indian women.\n\nThe findings were presented in a preprint but have not been formally published yet.\n\nA number of different factors have been suggested for why some ethnic groups have been hit harder than others by the pandemic:\n\nThese factors will be different for different groups - but they also appeared to change during the pandemic.\n\nDuring the first wave, \"geographical factors explained a large proportion of the differences in Covid-19 mortality,\" said the team, lead by Vahé Nafilyan at the ONS and Nazrul Islam at the University of Oxford.\n\nIn other words, people from minority ethnic groups were more likely to live in areas harder hit by the virus.\n\nBut this was not the case in the second wave - and even after they adjusted for factors like health status, income and deprivation, the risk of dying of Covid remained \"substantially higher\" for people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds.\n\nThis suggested, the paper said, that \"focusing on treating underlying conditions, although important, may not be enough in reducing the inequalities in Covid-19 mortality.\"\n\nIt said \"a focused public health policy as well as community mobilisation and a participatory public health campaign involving community leaders may help reduce the existing and widening inequalities.\"", "Officials said \"at no time was there a significant adverse effect on the water being treated\"\n\nA computer hacker gained access to the water system of a city in Florida and tried to pump in a \"dangerous\" amount of a chemical, officials say.\n\nThe hacker briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide (lye) in Oldsmar's water treatment system, but a worker spotted it and reversed the action.\n\nLye is used in small amounts to control acidity but a large amount could have caused major problems in the water.\n\nOldsmar Mayor Eric Seidel said: \"There's a bad actor out there.\"\n\nNo arrests have yet been made and it is not known if the hack was done from within the US or outside.\n\nA plant operator saw an attempt to access the system in the morning but assumed it was his supervisor, the Tampa Bay Times reported.\n\nBut another attempt was made early in the afternoon and this time the hacker accessed the treatment software and increased the sodium hydroxide content from 100 parts per million to 11,100 ppm.\n\nThe operator immediately reduced the level to normal.\n\nSodium hydroxide is the chief ingredient in liquid drain cleaners. It is very corrosive and can cause irritation to the skin and eyes, along with temporary loss of hair.\n\nSwallowing it can cause damage to the mouth, throat and stomach and induce vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea.\n\nPinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said: \"I'm not a chemist. But I can tell you what I do know is... if you put that amount of that substance into the drinking water, it's not a good thing.\"\n\nBut he added: \"At no time was there a significant adverse effect on the water being treated. Importantly, the public was never in danger.\"\n\nThe Oldsmar plant provides water to businesses and about 15,000 residents.\n\nThe remote access programme to the water system has been temporarily disabled.\n\nImagine the horror as this worker watched their own mouse cursor being moved around the screen by an invisible hand. Then seeing it click open and adjust the electronic dials to poison the water.\n\nPerhaps more terrifying is that this isn't the first time it's happened.\n\nIn 2016, a security report from Verizon detailed a similar attack on another unnamed US water facility. And in 2020 there were multiple unsuccessful hacks on Israeli water supplies.\n\nThis latest attack in Florida will do nothing to calm cyber-security experts who've been warning for years that so called \"critical national infrastructure\" facilities are being targeted.\n\nWater, electricity, nuclear plants and transport are being probed for weaknesses all the time not just because of the potential for mass disruption but also because they are often running on out-of-date and vulnerable IT systems.\n\nSo far all attacks on water supplies have been averted.\n\nBut as Mayor Seidel put it in his press conference, this is an event that \"puts everyone on notice: these types of bad actors are out there and this is happening\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody", "Trump wants to live at Mar-a-Lago, as an employee\n\nTrump is facing legal troubles in Washington, and at home in Palm Beach, Florida, too. He bought his ocean-side property, an estate called Mar-a-Lago, in 1985, and spent part of his winters there. Then, after leaving the White House, he moved in. Some of his neighbours want him out, saying he will bring down property values, and have talked about evicting him. They say an agreement that was reached nearly 30 years ago, one that turned the estate into a private club, does not allow anyone to live there on a permanent basis unless they work on the premises. Trump, through a lawyer, has argued that he should be allowed to stay, as an employee. The issue is being discussed at a Palm Beach Town Council meeting on Tuesday. One of his former employees, Wes Blackman, a former project director at Mar-a-Lago, says that Trump will see the designation as an employee not as a demotion, but as an opportunity, a loophole that will allow him to stay where he is. The designation as an employee is \"convenient and expedient\", says Blackman. \"It gets him out of a tight situation.\" Besides, says Blackman, the fight with his neighbours in Florida is not the biggest problem Trump is facing today. Over the course of the day, Blackman has been watching the impeachment trial in Washington, wondering how his old boss will fare.", "Last updated on .From the section Wrexham\n\nHollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have completed their takeover of Wrexham.\n\nDeadpool actor Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator McElhenney have invested an immediate £2m into the National League club.\n\nBoosting women's football is also among their plans for the Wrexham area.\n\n\"It is a special day for the two of us to become the latest stewards in the long and storied history of Wrexham AFC,\" said Reynolds and McElhenney.\n\n\"Together with the players, the staff, the fans and the local community, we can now pursue our goal to grow the team and return it to the EFL in front of increased attendances, and in an improved stadium, while making a positive difference to the wider community in Wrexham.\n\n\"Wrexham AFC is only in a position to thrive because of the incredible efforts of the Wrexham Supporters Trust. Their members are a fitting reflection of the integrity and spirit of the town and they will always have an important role at the club.\"\n\nThe pair signalled the announcement in advance by adding the letter W to the start of their names on social media accounts. Reynolds, who has over 17 million followers on Twitter, and McElhenny also used the platform to add their own brand of humour to the completed takeover.\n\nIn November Wrexham Supporters Trust voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal, which has since gained approval from football authorities and the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nReynolds and McElhenney have pledged four guiding principles to protect the club's heritage, reinforce community values, help promote the club at home and abroad and create a winning culture.\n\n\"The work has already begun with Gemma Owen and Steve Dale in the community team on a new women's football initiative,\" they added.\n\n\"We are also committed to investing in current and identifying future members of the first-team squad as we build towards a promotion challenge.\n\n\"In addition, we are in the process of developing an outstanding team off the field by combining the know-how of the committed club staff and volunteers with new hires and experienced advisors. Our CEO search is progressing and we expect to have someone in place before the end of the season.\n\n\"All of these people will help us create the kind of commercial opportunities that the third oldest club in the world deserves, and we will reinvest that revenue back into Wrexham AFC and the community.\n\n\"2020 was a difficult year and there are likely to be further public health challenges in the months ahead, but we hope to be cheering the team on from the stands as soon as it's safe to do so in 2021.\"\n\nThe takeover was completed on the night the club won 2-1 at Altrincham to climb into the play-off zone.\n\nContracts were exchanged in January but McElhenney and Reynolds donated money to the club to strengthen the squad before the transfer deadline while waiting for the takeover to be approved by the FCA.\n\nFormer Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore, who has taken on an informal role advising the actors, said that they are \"in it for the long term\".\n\nMoore said he received assurances about the \"authentic and genuine\" intentions behind the deal during conversations with the screen stars.\n\nThe completion of the takeover has received an overwhelmingly positive reaction from supporters.\n\nOne fan, based in America, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he believes the investment will improve the team and raise the profile of his home town.\n\nDyfed Avalon-Thomas, originally from Wrexham but now living in Pullman, Washington State told the programme:\n\n\"I think they'll attract the higher calibre of player, people who maybe wouldn't have wanted to come up to Wrexham are going to be tempted now.\n\n\"This is literally putting Wrexham on the map, I no longer have to say I'm from North Wales slash near Liverpool, I can just say I'm from Wrexham.\"\n\nEarly 2020: Wrexham director Spencer Harris is approached by an intermediary about a potential change in ownership of the club.\n\nSummer 2020: Harris and his fellow directors agree to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the interested parties, not realising the need for secrecy was due to the prospective investors being Hollywood stars.\n\n23 September 2020: Members of the Wrexham Supporters Trust (WST) vote overwhelmingly to allow talks that could lead to an entire takeover of the club to go ahead at a special general meeting.\n\n24 September 2020: Reynolds and McElhenney are announced by Wrexham as the potential investors.\n\n8 November 2020: Reynolds and McElhenney present their vision for the club to the Wrexham Supporters Trust over Zoom, saying they want to turn the club into \"a global force\".\n\n16 November 2020: Over 98% of supporters vote in favour of the takeover.\n\n22 November 2020: Wrexham boss Dean Keates reveals he has spoken to Reynolds and McElhenney and predicts they will \"take the club to the next level\".\n\n30 November 2020: Former Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore says he is to work as an adviser at Wrexham.\n\n15 December 2020: Moore tells BBC Sport Wales that Reynolds and McElhenney are \"in it for the long haul\".\n\n19 January 2021: Wrexham announce that the board have concluded negotiation of the Share Purchase Agreement and have exchanged contracts.\n\n27 January 2021: Reynolds and McElhenney donate money to strengthen the Wrexham squad despite the takeover not being complete.\n\n5 February 2021:The Financial Conduct Authority approves the proposed takeover of Wrexham by McElhenney and Reynolds.", "Spider crab is to be sold as Cornish King crab\n\nFishermen are to rename two of their biggest exports in a bid to attract British consumers after post-Brexit difficulties selling to the EU.\n\nMegrim sole is to be sold as Cornish sole, with spider crab being rebranded as Cornish King crab.\n\nIt is being driven by the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation (CFPO) after research with chefs and consumers.\n\nPaul Trebilcock from the CFPO said: \"There is something about the names that has negative connotations.\"\n\nBoth species primarily rely on exports to Europe, which he explained that \"in the current climate is not a pleasant experience\".\n\n\"The two species are particularly under-loved in this country but really popular with some of our export markets.\"\n\nPadstow is one fishing town that could benefit from the name changes\n\nEach year about 1,000 tonnes of megrim sole is brought into Newlyn, Cornwall's biggest fish market, with 98% exported.\n\nAbout 85% of spider crab is exported, mainly to Spain.\n\nTrade has been disrupted this year by the extra paperwork and border checks required after Brexit.\n\nChef Jack Stein said megrim sole had a taste similar to plaice\n\nMr Trebilcock said: \"Our investigation revealed that simply by calling it Cornish sole, straight away more people were willing to to try it and were more interested in finding out where it came from.\"\n\nJohnny Murt, a shell fisherman off Padstow, said: \"It can only be a good thing.\"\n\n\"It is a hard sell but if the rebranding can just get people to taste it, they will immediately realise just how good spider crab is,\" he said.\n\nStein's chef director Jack Stein is the son of restaurateur Rick Stein\n\nChef Jack Stein agreed and said spider crab and megrim sole were both \"good value and delicious\".\n\nHe said spider crab was very sustainable with \"amazing quality meat and there is just so much of it in the summer\" but lots of it was sold in the EU.\n\nSimilarly megrim sole had a \"lovely taste\" similar to plaice, he said.\n\n\"With a bit of a rebrand and a bit of a publicity drive we might be able to eat more of it in this country,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 35 people are believed to be trapped in the tunnel\n\nEmergency teams are working round the clock to rescue up to 35 people believed to be trapped in a tunnel in northern India.\n\nThe tunnel was blocked after a huge flood in the state of Uttarakhand on Sunday in which 28 people have been killed, and as many as 150 are missing.\n\nA piece of a Himalayan glacier is believed to have fallen into a river and triggered the deluge.\n\nThe main rescue effort is focused on an 8.3km (5.1-mile) long tunnel.\n\nIt is one of two tunnels connected to the Tapovan Vishnugad hydro power project and is meant to transport water. The other 3.8km long tunnel is to flush silt from the power project downstream on the Dhauliganga river.\n\nPeople were apparently trapped inside the two tunnels when the torrent of icy water swept down the valley, carrying rocks and earth as it gathered speed. Debris blocked the openings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deluge washed away hydro and bridge infrastructure\n\nTwelve workers have been rescued from the smaller tunnel. But Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that about 35 people are still stuck inside the main tunnel.\n\n\"We're trying to drill and make our way via rope to reach them,\" he told news agency ANI.\n\nThe hydro power project is under construction and was scheduled to be completed by 2023.\n\nEmergency teams who ventured inside the tunnel have returned because of water and \"heavy accumulation of slush inside\", according to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, which is helping in the rescue work.\n\nThere has been no contact with the workers since Sunday, and officials say it is hard to tell where in the tunnel they are and whether they are together.\n\nHundreds of troops, paramilitaries and military helicopters have been sent to the region to aid rescue efforts.\n\nRescue workers and locals have been using shovels and mechanical diggers to try to clear the entrance to the tunnel.\n\nAn investigation is continuing into what caused the suspected glacial burst.\n\nSpeaking from hospital, one man described the moment the smaller tunnel flooded.\n\n\"We heard screams, 'get out, get out'. We didn't know what was happening. We started running to escape when the force of the water gushed in through the mouth of the tunnel. We couldn't get out because of that,\" he said.\n\n\"We held on to the [roof] of the tunnel. We held on for about an hour. As the water receded, we slowly climbed onto the big rocks that flowed in, to take a breath. We had lost hope. We didn't think we would survive.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ANI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUttarakhand police said an avalanche struck at about 11:00 local time (05:30 GMT) on Sunday, destroying a dam known as the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project.\n\nSenior police officials said a bridge in the Tapovan area that connected 13 villages was washed away in the avalanche. Food packets have been air dropped in some of these villages.\n\nUttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, is prone to flash floods and landslides.\n\nSome 6,000 people are believed to have been killed in floods in June 2013 which were triggered by the heaviest monsoon rains in decades.", "The grocery landscape worldwide is changing \"for good\", online supermarket Ocado has said, after a year in which the global pandemic forced many people to buy online for the first time.\n\nOcado's comments came as it reported a 35% jump in sales over the past year.\n\nAmid rocketing demand the UK-based firm, which is 21 years old this year, narrowed losses from £214.5m to £44m.\n\nThe company said many customers were saying they were unlikely to revert to pre-crisis shopping habits.\n\nOcado's chief executive, Tim Steiner, said he wanted to \"pay tribute to the remarkable work of our colleagues in exceptionally challenging circumstances\".\n\nLockdown has thrown up challenges for all supermarkets and Ocado itself has struggled to deliver smoothly at all times.\n\nThe firm, which previously delivered for Waitrose, had to cancel some orders when its new partnership with Marks & Spencer launched on 1 September, angering customers.\n\nThat move was its most notable in the UK, but Ocado has been expanding around the world, spurred by demand for its advanced technology and robot-operated warehouses.\n\nIt has tie ups with Kroger in the US, Casino in France and Aeon in Japan, and is also planning three new warehouses in the UK this year, which will boost capacity by 40%.\n\nOcado has been one of the best-performing shares in the FTSE 100 in the past year, roughly doubling in value since last March.\n\nIt is in the perfect position to benefit from the restrictions put in place to control the coronavirus, with shoppers clamouring for online deliveries in order to avoid a trip to the supermarket.\n\nThese results - for the 12 months to the end of November, so not including the most recent national lockdown in England - show grocery sales up 35% to £2.2bn.\n\nYou might have thought that jump in sales would have sent the shares up, but in fact they were down - 4% - in early trading.\n\nInvestors have looked past the headline sales number to see another pre-tax loss for the year - £44m. That is not so surprising in itself, but shareholders would also have noted the projected increase in capital spending, which will rise to £700m in the coming year.\n\nOcado is spending heavily not only on technology, but also new warehouses. Shares in Ocado have always priced in the promise of future profits, and today's numbers made that promise seem that much further off.\n\nOcado said in its full year statement on Tuesday: \"The pandemic has accelerated the rate of channel shift to online.\n\n\"Online grocery market share in the UK has nearly doubled over the last year to 14%, according to Kantar. Similar trends are observable in the United States as well as many other countries around the world.\"\n\nRoss Hindle, from research firm Third Bridge, said: \"These are not just results, these are remarkable results. Ocado couldn't have asked for better trading conditions.\n\n\"The M&S partnership has, so far, proved positive for Ocado, with management highlighting that access to M&S products is now higher than the benchmark Waitrose set.\"", "Elon Musk's car firm Tesla has said it bought about $1.5bn (£1.1bn) of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in January and expects to start accepting it as payment in future.\n\nThe news caused the price of Bitcoin to jump 17% to $44,220, a record high.\n\nTesla said it was trying to maximise returns on cash that is not being used in day-to-day running of the company.\n\nIt comes days after Mr Musk added \"#bitcoin\" to his Twitter profile page, which drove up the price.\n\nHe removed it days later, but has continued talking up Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, including Dogecoin, which jumped 50% after his endorsement.\n\nIn a stock market filing, Tesla said it \"updated its investment policy\" in January and now wanted to invest in \"reserve assets\" such as digital currencies, gold bullion or gold exchange-traded funds.\n\nIt said it had already bought $1.5bn of Bitcoin and could \"acquire and hold digital assets\" in the future.\n\n\"Moreover, we expect to begin accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis,\" it said.\n\nMr Musk said a week ago in a tweet that Bitcoin was \"on the verge\" of being more widely accepted among investors.\n\nSome analysts said Tesla's investment could be a game-changer for the cryptocurrency.\n\n\"I think we will see an acceleration of companies looking to allocate to Bitcoin now that Tesla has made the first move,\" said Eric Turner, vice-president of market intelligence at cryptocurrency research firm Messari.\n\n\"One of the largest companies in the world now owns Bitcoin and by extension, every investor that owns Tesla, or even just an S&P 500 fund, has exposure to it as well.\"\n\nBut Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com, warned that Bitcoin was a \"very volatile\" cryptocurrency.\n\n\"Tesla is now starting to take on big [foreign exchange] risk - this may not worry a lot of investors, but some conservative types might be concerned,\" he said.\n\nBitcoin, which has hit record highs in recent months after a rollercoaster ride over the past decade, has also drawn support from major financial institutions this year.\n\nThe world's biggest money manager, Blackrock, recently changed a handful of investment mandates to allow some of its funds to invest in the currency.\n\nIn October, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments, pointing out that investors should realise its price was extremely volatile.", "The romantic gesture - overlaid with neon lights in 2008 - had formed part of the city's skyline since 2001\n\nA graffiti marriage proposal which became a symbol of a city has been removed by developers.\n\nJason Lowe's public display of affection was spray-painted on a bridge at Park Hill, Sheffield, in 2001.\n\nHis bid to woo girlfriend Clare Middleton formed part of the city skyline, inspired a track by singer Yungblud and appeared on a t-shirt worn by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner.\n\nUrban Splash said the graffiti was removed for \"essential repair work\".\n\nSam Feeley, who lives in one of the renovated flats, said he noticed the writing - I Love You Will U Marry Me - had been removed on Sunday.\n\nDescribing it as \"a piece of Sheffield history\", he said: \"It means a lot to the people of the city, so I was quite surprised to see it had gone.\"\n\n\"I would class it as a piece of artwork and famous artwork fades over the years.\n\n\"[Leonardo] da Vinci paintings fade and people touch them up and restore them, I wouldn't see why this isn't any different really.\"\n\nAlex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys sported a t-shirt bearing an image of the graffiti during gigs\n\nAlthough Mr Lowe and his girlfriend never married, his romantic gesture has formed part of the city's skyline since, with many considering it an \"iconic\" piece of history.\n\nIn a BBC radio documentary, Mr Lowe explained how he braved his fear of heights to make a public show of proposing to Ms Middleton, who he had had been dating for a year.\n\nHe said: \"You used to be able to see it from the Odeon cinema.\n\n\"I took her there, she thought she was going to see a film and I said: 'I've got something to show you'. I told her to look up and she read it.\n\n\"She said 'yeah'. She thought I was mad.\"\n\nThe pair split up three months later and Ms Middleton died in 2007 from cancer.\n\nWhen Urban Splash started renovation of the flats in 2008, they decided to immortalise Mr Lowe's words.\n\nNeon lights were placed over the writing and it formed part of the developer's marketing campaign.\n\nYungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, from Doncaster, described the graffiti as \"a quirky act of romance\" in his song I Love You, Will You Marry Me.\n\nAlex Turner, lead singer of Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys, has also worn the slogan on a T-shirt during gigs.\n\nSurriya Falconer, speaking on behalf of the developers, said there were \"some structural issues\" which meant the words had to be removed so a coating could be put on the bridge.\n\nShe said Mr Lowe would be involved in deciding upon a replacement and the meaning would \"continue to be celebrated\".\n\n\"I understand people may feel a sense of loss but we're talking about new futures and celebrating a piece of history. It's still going to be there but it needs to be safe,\" she said.\n\nThe renovation of the flats was one of the six short-listed projects for the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers having to stay in quarantine hotels in England will be charged £1,750 for their stay, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.\n\nThe measures, which come into force on Monday, apply to UK and Irish residents returning from 33 red list countries.\n\nThose who fail to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel for 10 days face fines of up to £10,000.\n\nMeanwhile, all travellers arriving into Scotland from abroad by air will have to go into quarantine hotels.\n\nPeople travelling from red list countries to Wales and Northern Ireland will be required to book and pay for quarantine in England, as neither destination currently has any direct international flights.\n\nTravellers arriving into England who lie on their passenger locator forms about visiting a red list country face a fine of £10,000 or up to 10 years in jail.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 12,364 confirmed cases of coronavirus and a further 1,052 deaths within 28 days of a positive test - bringing that total to 113,850. More than 12.6 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nDelivering a statement in the Commons, Mr Hancock said 16 hotels have been contracted for the programme, with 4,600 rooms secured.\n\nThe health secretary also confirmed a new \"enhanced testing\" regime for all travellers arriving into the UK would begin on Monday, with two tests required during the quarantine process.\n\nThey will be required to get a test on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine period, whether they are isolating at home or in a hotel. The tests, conducted by NHS Test and Trace, will cost travellers £210.\n\n\"People who flout these rules are putting us all at risk,\" the health secretary told MPs.\n\nAirlines and travel companies will be legally required to make sure travellers have signed up for the new measures before they depart, with fines for companies and passengers if they fail to comply, he said.\n\nThe penalties include a £1,000 fine for travellers who fail to take mandatory tests and a £2,000 fine for failing to take the second mandatory test - along with a 14-day extension to quarantine.\n\nFailing to quarantine in a designated hotel carries a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nAsked when the travel rules would be relaxed, Mr Hancock said: \"We want to exit from this into a system of safe international travel as soon as practicable and as soon as is safe.\"\n\nPassengers required to stay in a quarantine hotel will need to reserve a room online in advance using a booking system that opens on Thursday.\n\nThe £1,750 fee for an individual includes the hotel, the cost of transport and testing. The additional rate for one extra adult or a child aged over 12 is £650, and for a child aged five to 12 it is £325.\n\nThese travellers will only be allowed to enter the UK through a \"small number of ports that currently account for the vast majority of passenger arrivals\", Mr Hancock added.\n\nResponding to Mr Hancock's statement, Labour's shadow health secretary said the public wanted the government to \"go further\" on border quarantine measures.\n\nJonathan Ashworth told the Commons: \"Our first line of defence is surely to do everything we can to stop (new variants) arising in the first place. That means securing our borders to isolate new variants as they come in.\n\n\"He's announced a detailed package today but he hasn't announced comprehensive quarantine controls at the borders.\"\n\nMr Hancock later said the red list was kept \"under review\".\n\nAnnouncing Scotland's tougher measures, which apply to arrivals from all countries, Scottish Transport Secretary Michael Matheson said the \"targeted, reactive approach\" of the UK government was \"no longer sufficient\" to deal with the threat from coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains how to fly safely during a global pandemic\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said he also wanted to see \"a stronger set of defences at our borders\" and said the UK government's measures were \"the bare minimum of what needs to be done\".\n\nEnforcement fines and prison sentences over quarantine breaches are still \"under review\" in Wales. A Welsh government spokesperson also said the country was working to determine when it will need its own quarantine hotels, if the red list expands or if international flights resume.\n\nAlthough the 4,600 rooms secured so far in England would only allow for around one Boeing 747's worth of passengers per day, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said discussions were under way to add more capacity.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's World at One that separate security teams contracted by the government would be responsible for enforcing the quarantine, while hotel staff focused on giving people the \"best possible experience in what are very difficult circumstances\".\n\nThe £1,750 fee includes three meals, tea, coffee and water, Ms Nicholls said, but other items will be available at an extra cost through room service.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK - whether by boat, train or plane - are already required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThis test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling, and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500, with Border Force officials carrying out spot checks.\n\nThey must also provide contact details and their UK address. They can then travel - by public transport if necessary - to the place where they plan to self-isolate.\n\nAll travellers - including British nationals - must self-isolate for 10 days when they get to the UK.\n\nThe \"test to release scheme\" - where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five - will remain under the new testing rules.\n\nPassengers will be expected to use the gold-standard and more expensive PCR tests.\n\nLockdown rules mean people must only travel abroad for essential reasons. These are the same as the \"reasonable excuses\" for domestic travel, including:\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to make a declaration on why they need to travel, which will be checked by carriers prior to departure.\n\nThe new measures come after England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was too soon to say to what extent people could begin to start planning summer holidays.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing, he said: \"The more elaborate your plans are for summer holidays, in terms of crossing borders, in terms of household mixing, given where we are now, I think we just have to say the more you are stepping into making guesses about the unknown at this point,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't give people a proper answer at this point because we don't yet have the data. It is just too early to say.\"\n\nAfter the announcement of the travel rules, aimed at preventing the spread of new variants of coronavirus, government advisers designated another \"variant of concern\" - a version of the virus which was revealed last week to have been found in Bristol.\n\nIt's not surprising that officials are adding this new version of coronavirus to their \"variants of concern\" list.\n\nTargeted testing is already under way to spot any new cases linked to the 21 that have already been found, mostly in the south west of England.\n\nThis new incarnation of the virus is the Kent variant \"plus\". It has the same N501Y mutation as the one that triggered lockdown - a genetic change that scientists say lets the virus spread more easily. But it also has an extra mutation called E484K.\n\nE484K is what experts are worried about for vaccine efficacy. It is also seen in the South Africa and Brazil variants of concern.\n\nA cluster of another variant in Liverpool is different again. It has got the E484K mutation but is an iteration of an earlier version of the pandemic virus rather than the Kent one.\n\nInevitably, more variants will continue to emerge. The challenge is to make sure vaccines are a good match to keep us ahead in this race against the virus.\n\nHave you recently travelled into the UK? What was your experience at the UK border?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Frost calls for \"different spirit\" from Brussels\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator has criticised the EU for its actions since the trade deal agreed by the two sides came into force six weeks ago.\n\nLord David Frost said the relationship had been \"more than bumpy\" and more \"problematic\" than he had hoped.\n\nHe told a committee the EU's threat to increase controls on vaccine exports to Northern Ireland, as well as \"niggling border issues\", were two examples.\n\nLord Frost called for \"a different spirit\" from Brussels going forward.\n\nAsked about his thoughts on the situation, Cabinet Officer Minister Michael Gove compared it to a bumpy start to a flight, saying: \"We all know that when an aeroplane takes off, that is the point where you sometimes get an increased level of turbulence.\n\n\"But eventually, you then reach a cruising altitude and the crew tell you to take your seatbelt off and enjoy a gin and tonic and some peanuts.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are not at the gin and tonic and peanut stage yet, but I am confident we will be.\"\n\nThe post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU came into force on 1 January after negotiations came to a rushed end on Christmas Eve.\n\nLord Frost said the UK wanted \"friendly cooperation between sovereign equals as our vision of the future\", but said: \"I don't think it has been quite the experience of the last few weeks, if we are honest about it.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think the EU is still adjusting somewhat, as we thought they might, to the existence of a genuinely independent actor in their neighbourhood.\"\n\nLord Frost - who now acts as the prime minister's representative on Brexit, after his offer to be National Security Adviser was taken back - listed a number of issues that had arisen in the first few weeks of the deal being in place.\n\nSpeaking to a Lords committee on the EU, he said a threat from the EU to control vaccine exports to Northern Ireland - which was later revoked - had created \"political difficulties... which played back into the broader relationship\".\n\nHe said criticism of the Oxford AstraZenica vaccine by EU figures - including French President Emmanuel Macron - and the bloc's decision to introduce an indefinite ban on UK shellfish added to the problems.\n\nAnd an ongoing row about the diplomatic status of ambassadors to the UK and EU \"obviously does not help the good conduct of business\", along with a possible request from Brussels to extend the timetable for the European parliament to ratify the deal.\n\nLord Frost led the negotiations for the UK throughout 2020\n\n\"None of those things are in themselves dramatic, although some have been very, very serious,\" said Lord Frost.\n\n\"I think it has been more than bumpy in the last six weeks, I think it has been problematic.\n\n\"I hope we will get over this. It is going to require a different spirit, probably, from the EU, but I am sure we are going to see that and some of this subside as we go forward.\"", "The government has been hit by a backbench rebellion over plans to ensure Britain's future trade partners are not committing genocide.\n\nMPs backed a government proposal to give select committees a greater role in examining allegations of genocide.\n\nBut a number of Tory MPs rebelled and the government saw its working majority of about 80 slashed to just 15.\n\nThose pressing the UK to take a tougher stance on human rights abuses in China have vowed to carry on the fight.\n\nA total of 31 Conservative MPs voted against the government on Tuesday, several accusing ministers of playing \"appalling\" parliamentary games to avoid defeat.\n\nMPs were expecting to vote on a plan to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nBut the government, which opposed the plan, used a procedure to prevent a vote and instead backed a separate move giving Parliament greater say.\n\nThis passed by 318 votes to 303 but peers will seek to overturn this and re-insert a clause empowering British courts into the Trade Bill when it returns to the House of Lords later this month.\n\nThe government was heavily defeated on the issue in the Lords last month and independent peer Lord Alton has said he will resurrect his amendment in the hope MPs will get the chance to vote on it.\n\n\"Denying them that right makes a mockery of democracy,\" he said.\n\nMPs were prevented from having their say on it on Tuesday after ministers used a parliamentary procedure to lump it together with a Labour proposal which required ministers to determine whether a prospective trade partner has committed crimes against humanity.\n\nDowning Street argues it's \"common practice\" to package certain amendments together during parliamentary ping-pong but developments have undoubtedly provoked anger on the Conservative backbenches.\n\nSome MPs view what's happened as pure \"parliamentary chicanery\" on what is a very important and emotive issue.\n\nAnd, looking to the longer term, there are claims that the episode has \"hardened\" attitudes against the government, a government, it's said, that had been getting \"very twitchy\" on the numbers following a big whipping operation.\n\nAnother backbencher described that operation as \"heavy, full-on stuff\" and an exercise which had revealed the extent of a potentially \"stonking\" rebellion.\n\nWhat's more, it appeared that some newer MPs were gearing up to rebel for the first time. That is a habit any government doesn't want its backbenchers to get into.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs criticised the government's tactics, Nusrat Ghani saying \"she was appalled at the parliamentary games being played over such a grave issue\".\n\nThe UK, she said, should not be \"using its newfound post-Brexit freedoms to trade with states which commit and profit from genocide...Britain is better than that\".\n\nTrade Minister Greg Hands said a committee could trigger a Commons debate and vote if it decided there were \"credible reports\" that genocide had been committed by a state with which the UK was negotiating a trade deal.\n\n\"This approach rightly puts Parliament, not the courts, in the driving seat on the issue of who generates a debate in Parliament,\" he told MPs.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Sir Ian Duncan Smith said there was a reason why matters of huge public importance, such as public inquiries into tragedies and scandals, were overseen by judges.\n\n\"I have my own differences with judges but when we need an impartial taking of evidence and a judgement, we turn not to select committees but judges. Why do we do that?\n\n\"One, because we assume they are impartial. Two because they are trained to take evidence and deal with evidence. We are not here.\"\n\nAnd Labour's Emily Thornberry accused the government of \"shameful, shabby and shifty\" behaviour.\n\nCampaigners want British courts to hear genocide cases so that persecuted minorities, such as the Uighurs in Xinjiang, China, can have their situation considered by a court of law.\n\nA legal opinion by senior barristers at Essex Court Chambers has already concluded there was a \"very credible case\" that the Chinese government was committing genocide against the Uighurs.", "Mary Wilson, who co-founded The Supremes and remained a member of the group until they split up, has died at the age of 76.\n\nThe singer passed away at her home in Henderson, Nevada, her publicist Jay Schwartz announced, but he did not confirm the cause of death.\n\nThe Supremes were known for hits such as Baby Love and You Can't Hurry Love.\n\nThe group was founded in Detroit as The Primettes in 1959, when Wilson was 15 years old.\n\nLead singer Diana Ross tweeted: \"My condolences to Mary's family, I am reminded that each day is a gift, I have so many wonderful memories of our time together. The Supremes will live on, in our hearts 💕.\"\n\nThe founder of Motown Records, Berry Gordy, said in a statement: \"I was extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family, Mary Wilson of the Supremes.\n\nMary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross made up The Supremes\n\n\"The Supremes opened doors for themselves, the other Motown acts, and many, many others... I was always proud of Mary. She was quite a star in her own right and over the years continued to work hard to boost the legacy of the Supremes. Mary Wilson was extremely special to me. She was a trailblazer, a diva and will be deeply missed.\"\n\nVocalist Patti LaBelle, who rose to fame alongside Wilson in the 60s, added: \"I am deeply saddened by the passing of the beautiful Mary Wilson! She was a legend and an icon and what she contributed to the world cannot be overstated. I send my deepest condolences and prayers to her family, loved ones and fans❤.\"\n\nSinger Beverley Knight said: \"Mary Wilson along with Florence Ballard and Diana Ross changed the game permanently. Hit after hit after hit, on regular rotation to this day. A Supreme Titan may have left us but that legacy will never be surpassed.\"\n\nIn recognition of her ground-breaking influence with the group, the foundation of late civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King tweeted in tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Martin Luther King, Jr. Center\n\nA funeral for Wilson will be held privately due to Covid-19 restrictions, her family said, but a celebration of her life will take place later this year.\n\nWilson was an original member of the group alongside Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin.\n\nMartin left the group before they became successful, and The Supremes continued as a trio. The Supremes became Motown's most successful act of the 1960s scoring 12 number one singles in the US.\n\nWilson released a memoir in 1986 titled Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme\n\nTheir first number one was 1964's Where Did Our Love Go, which was soon followed by Baby Love, Come See About Me and Stop! In the Name of Love.\n\nBaby Love was the only single to reach number one in the UK, but several of their singles hit the top 10 including You Keep Me Hangin' On and You Can't Hurry Love.\n\nIn 1967, Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong and Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross and the Supremes.\n\nThree years later, Ross left to pursue a solo career. After her departure, Wilson was left as the only original member of the group.\n\nTwo days before her death, Wilson announced she was working on new solo material\n\nWilson continued performing with Cindy Birdsong and Jean Terrell as the \"new\" Supremes, better known today as the \"70s Supremes\".\n\nWilson became a New York Times bestselling author in 1986 with the release of her autobiography, Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme.\n\nThe Supremes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInterest in the group's legacy was renewed after the release of the film Dreamgirls in 2006, which starred Beyoncé Knowles and Jennifer Hudson.\n\nThe movie was based on the story of The Supremes, although Wilson said it did not depict their true story.\n\nIn 2019, Wilson took part in Dancing With The Stars, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nJust two days before her death, Wilson uploaded a video on YouTube announcing that she was working on releasing new solo material.\n\nWilson took part in the 2019 series of Dancing With The Stars\n\nPaul Stanley of Kiss tweeted: \"I was just on a Zoom call with her Wednesday for about an hour and never could have imagined this. So full of life and great stories. Absolutely shocked. Rest In Supreme Peace Mary.\"\n\nBroadcaster Tony Blackburn said: \"So sorry to hear the wonderful Mary Wilson has passed away. She was a very great singer and a very nice person. R.I.P.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Emilie de Bruijn says increasing numbers of people are asking for help from her baby bank\n\nThe boot of the red car lifts up to reveal a sea of plastic bags. Inside each one are the essentials for bringing up young children: nappies, wipes, baby food and shampoo, as well as sanitary items for their mums - all free to those in need.\n\nWithin a minute or two, the first customer arrives. Soon followed by another, and another. Since the first lockdown, on every Thursday Emilie de Bruijn runs this \"baby bank\" out of the back of her car in Hartlepool.\n\nCovid has put paid to the indoor space she used in normal times. It's also increased demand amongst families now suffering real and deepening hardship.\n\nHer parking spot is beside a church which doubles up as a food bank. On the freezing Thursday we visited, almost 100 people queued in the cold for several hours for the food parcels on offer there. Among them were parents with pushchairs and young children, who stepped out of the queue to collect some baby basics before rejoining it as it crept towards the church door.\n\n\"It's just getting harder and harder,\" Emilie told me. \"We are increasingly finding people who have been furloughed or laid off work coming to us and saying, 'I'm so sorry. I never thought I'd see myself in this position. Can you help me?'\"\n\nEmilie says parents who have lost their jobs due to Covid are turning to the baby bank for help\n\nEmilie recalls how one mother got in touch to ask for help after being put on furlough since the end of her maternity leave.\n\n\"She cried on her doorstep because I gave her nappies, wipes and winter clothes for her child. I went away with a lump in my throat.\"\n\nA report from London-based baby bank charity Little Village and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, seen first by BBC Newsnight, outlines the scale, depth and persistence of poverty in families with children aged under five across the UK.\n\nIt finds one-third (34%) of these children live below the poverty line - meaning their family lives on less than 60% of the median household income in the UK.\n\nThat equates to 1.3 million under-fives, according to the analysis. Two in five of these families have seen a reduction in their earnings as a result of the ongoing Covid crisis.\n\nLondon has the worst rates of poverty in the UK for children in this age group. The North East of England runs the capital a close second, which doesn't surprise Kay - one of Emilie's regulars.\n\nMum of four Kay says she has had to go without food and clothes herself to provide for her children\n\nKay moved to Hartlepool from London in search of cheaper rents and a better life for her young children. She's worked in supermarkets but is now a single parent with four children, aged between seven months and seven years old. Struggling on benefits, and after housing costs, Kay's left with around £600 for the month.\n\n\"That's got to pay your gas, your electric, your water, your council tax and any other bills that may pop up,\" she says. \"And your food. So within a week my money's gone.\n\n\"I've gone without meals, without clothes. I have one meal a day providing my children have three. It's basic chicken nuggets and chips, fish fingers and chips. The diets are really poor because the money's not there to buy fresh food, to cook fresh meals.\"\n\nLittle Village founder Sophia Parker, who wrote the report, says Covid had made things \"much worse\" for families who were already struggling.\n\n\"People have used up savings. People have gone to their families and friends and borrowed what they can,\" she says. \"As a result, we're seeing families who are falling into rent arrears. We're seeing families who are having to rely on high-cost loans.\n\n\"We're just very worried about where this is going to land for families that are already in a difficult situation.\"\n\nOne mother says she is left with £10 a month after paying her bills\n\nRachel, not her real name, is a trained nursery practitioner who spent six months in a refuge after fleeing an abusive relationship.\n\nShe now lives in cramped temporary accommodation with her three-year-old son and nine-month-old daughter. She is employed for a few hours a week by Little Village, but relies for now on universal credit.\n\n\"When we came out of the refuge, I looked for full-time work but I couldn't make it pay because of childcare costs,\" she tells me. \"My rent is so high, after bills I'm left with £10 a month for us to live on. I don't drink, smoke or buy clothes.\n\n\"If my son is invited to a child's birthday party, I die, as I know I have to say no. I can't afford a present. It's very embarrassing to keep asking for help. Little Village did our Christmas. Otherwise there would have been nothing under the tree.\n\n\"The pandemic has made things more expensive. We're always home, so electric and gas costs more. Food shopping online costs more too. My children are my reason for everything. But I can't see a way out. I am stuck in a trap.\"\n\nThe government said it was committed to \"making sure every child gets the best start in life, and this is central to our steadfast determination to level up opportunity across the country\".\n\nA spokesman said it had targeted its support to families most in need by raising the living wage and spending hundreds of billions to safeguard jobs.\n\n\"Additionally, we have boosted welfare support by billions, introduced the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme to help children and families during the coldest months, and in April we will be increasing the value of our Healthy Start vouchers by over a third to help those in need with young children.\"", "The surgical gowns in the contract are believed to be similar to these\n\nThe use of ten million surgical gowns, bought by the UK government, has been suspended for frontline NHS staff because of how the items were packaged.\n\nSterile gowns were bought for £70m from a US firm last year, but safety concerns were raised when they arrived in one layer of protective packaging.\n\nThe contract had not requested double packaging, as used in sterile settings.\n\nThe government says all PPE is quality assured, but Labour has called for an inquiry into the awarding of contracts.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating the purchase of PPE - or personal protective equipment - for NHS staff since the beginning of the pandemic. It has already been revealed how millions of face masks bought by the UK government cannot be used in the NHS as intended.\n\nMany of the contracts dated back to last Spring, when the government was scrambling to deal with PPE shortages in hospitals and care homes at the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, officials at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) continued to sign large PPE contracts after the first wave of infections was over, in a bid to avoid a repeat of shortages.\n\nOne of those contracts was a £70m deal, signed in June, for the supply of 10.2 million sterile surgical gowns from a US firm called Saiger LLC.\n\nThe BBC understands Saiger delivered the gowns on time but their use was suspended because of concerns about the way they were packaged.\n\nA court document obtained by the BBC shows NHS infection control experts were concerned the gowns were only single wrapped, when in their view they should have been double wrapped if they were to be used in sterile care settings.\n\nThe document shows there was no requirement - either in the government's published specifications or in its contract with Saiger - for the gowns to be double wrapped.\n\nLabour has called for an inquiry into the UK's contracts for PPE\n\nThe gowns came from the same firm that paid millions of pounds of UK taxpayer cash to a Spanish businessman to source PPE for the NHS.\n\nLast November, the BBC revealed Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson was paid $28m (£21m) in UK government cash by Saiger to find PPE as part of two deals.\n\nFor his work on the £70m contract for the surgical gowns - which was separate to those earlier deals - he was in line to be paid a further $16m (£12m).\n\nHowever, documents filed in a US court allege that he then stopped doing any work for Saiger, leaving the firm \"scrambling\" to fulfil its contracts by other means. It's not clear whether Mr Andersson received any of the money for this deal.\n\nThe parties have since agreed for the legal action to be dismissed.\n\nIn response, Saiger said: \"The government could not have been clearer that we delivered the goods in accordance with the contracts and to the technical specifications requested, that we delivered them on time, and that we delivered them at good value.\"\n\nThe government's decision to award the £70m contact for the gowns is currently being challenged in a separate case in the English courts by the campaigning organisation, the Good Law Project.\n\nJolyon Maugham, the project's director, said the government needed to know what it was buying. \"It should be buying from those who are experienced in the complicated business of supplying medical-quality PPE.\n\n\"And it also needs to be keeping a careful check on the prices it is paying so that intermediaries aren't able to make tens and tens of millions at public expense.\"\n\nYou can listen to File of 4's Unmasked: Stories from the PPE frontline on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday 9 February or on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe government is also facing questions over contracts it signed for millions of face masks, which now can't be used as intended in the NHS.\n\nIn April, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) signed a contract with Pestfix - a small Sussex-based family firm - for £168m to supply three types of mask. They included FFP3 particle filtering masks.\n\nThe BBC has found 17 million FFP3 masks supplied to the Department of Health by Pestfix will not be used as intended because they failed testing.\n\nThe masks came with ear loops, which the government says now should not be used because of safety concerns. It stopped the use of masks with ear loops in May last year, following discussions with the safety watchdog.\n\nThe government bought millions of masks with ear loops, similar to the one pictured\n\nHowever, the government had already bought millions of masks with ear loops. Pestfix told the BBC these masks never entered the NHS supply chain.\n\nThe BBC has also seen an internal document prepared by the safety watchdog showing another type of FFP3 mask - this time with headstraps on - put forward by Pestfix also failed tests.\n\nThe document says \"headstraps on several samples snapped\" and \"nosebands fell off on nearly all samples from the first batch\".\n\nPestfix said these were alternative, prototype masks that were provided as a potential replacement. The firm said DHSC did not proceed with the product.\n\n\"We are proud of our role in sourcing PPE from Chinese manufacturers to help meet massive shortages in the NHS during the pandemic, with 94% of the 282 million items of PPE we supplied meeting contracts standards,\" the company said.\n\n\"Pestfix is working with the government and the Chinese manufacturers responsible for the small percentage of items that did not enter the NHS supply chain to ensure the best possible result for taxpayers.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves has called for an inquiry into the awarding of PPE contracts.\n\n\"This area of procurement is one of the ways in which this government has really let people down, particularly our frontline workers during the course of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\n\"There should be an inquiry, a rapid review right now into the lessons that we can learn because if we learn lessons we can save lives, and this virus isn't going away.\"\n\nIn a statement, DHSC said PPE is only distributed in the NHS if it meets the relevant standards: \"We have been working tirelessly to deliver PPE to protect our health and social care staff on the frontline, with over 7.6 billion PPE items delivered so far.\"", "Artwork: Hope will study how energy moves through the atmosphere of Mars\n\nThe United Arab Emirates is celebrating its first mission at Mars.\n\nIt has put a probe called Hope in orbit around the planet, making it only the fifth spacefaring entity to do so after the US, the Soviet Union, Europe and India.\n\nThe spacecraft, which left Earth seven months ago, had to make a braking manoeuvre to be sure of being captured by Mars' gravity.\n\nUAE scientists can now look forward to studying the planet's atmosphere.\n\nTheir satellite carries three instruments that will observe, among other targets, how neutral atoms of hydrogen and oxygen - remnants from Mars' once abundant water - leak into space.\n\nIn the process, Hope will return spectacular, high-resolution, full-disk images of the planet.\n\nTuesday marked the most critical phase in the mission.\n\nHope had been approaching Mars at over 120,000km/h (relative to the Sun) and needed to execute a precise 27-minute burn on its braking engines to scrub some of that speed or risk skipping off into ever deeper space.\n\nThe manoeuvre, performed by six thrusters on the probe, commenced at about 19:30 GST (15:30 GMT), with confirmation received at Earth some 11 minutes later - the delay being the time it took for radio signals to traverse the 190-million-km separation between Mars and Earth.\n\nA socially distanced crowd had gathered in Dubai's Burj Park to follow events on a big screen\n\nThe official announcement on the burn's completion when it came was calm, and the applause relatively restrained. Perhaps it was the relief speaking after a nerve-shredding wait for the positive telemetry.\n\n\"Mars orbit insertion was the most critical and dangerous part of our journey to Mars, exposing the Hope probe to stresses and pressures it has never before faced,\" said Omran Sharaf, the Hope mission's project director at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre\n\n\"With this enormous milestone achieved, we are now preparing to transition to our science orbit and commence science data gathering.\"\n\nIlluminations on the Burj Khalifa had been counting down to orbit insertion\n\nThe past few days have witnessed tremendous enthusiasm for Hope and its mission, with public monuments, buildings and heritage sites across the federation all lit up in red.\n\nDubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest human-made structure on Earth, had been flashing a countdown to Tuesday's big moment.\n\nHope is regarded as a triumph for a small gulf nation that dared to think seven years ago that it could inspire the next generation by launching the first Arab interplanetary space mission.\n\n\"We wanted to arrive at Mars; (I'm) really grateful, and it's like a weight of seven years has been lifted from my shoulders,\" said Her Excellency Sarah Al Amiri, UAE minister of state for advanced technology and chair of the UAE Space Agency.\n\n\"On arriving at Mars. I'm now truly looking forward to the scientific discoveries. And I truly hope this mission will impact an entire generation to strive to do things that are even bigger,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe Hope probe weighed 1,350kg at launch, much of that fuel\n\nHope is now running in an initial ellipse around Mars that comes as close as 1,000km from the planet and goes out to almost 50,000km. Over the course of the next few weeks, this will be trimmed to a 55-hour, 22,000km-by-43,000km orbit that is inclined to the equator by about 25 degrees.\n\n\"It depends on what that initial orbit looks like but we would need around three manoeuvres to get into our science orbit,\" said propulsion engineer Ayesha Sharafi.\n\nThis path is very different to those of previous satellites which have tended to operate with greater proximity to Mars to facilitate high-resolution imagery of the surface and communications with landed robots.\n\nBut it's from this high perch that Hope plans to carry out some novel research. It's going to trace how energy moves through the atmosphere from the very bottom to the very top.\n\nOne of the slogans for the mission has been \"Impossible is possible\"\n\nA key influencer in this respect is dust which can on occasions blow up into storms that envelop the entire planet.\n\n\"Dust plays a hugely important role in the Martian atmosphere. There are a few places on Earth where the atmosphere can be that dusty, but they're localised and maybe for short times,\" explained Prof David Brain, a University of Colorado at Boulder planetary expert who is working with the UAE team.\n\n\"Dust absorbs a lot of energy; it can become very warm and radiate energy. And so when you're talking about energy transport, dust is a much larger part of the big picture at Mars.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How long does it take to get to Mars and why is it so difficult?\n\nHope is leading a wave of missions to Mars this February.\n\nOn Wednesday, it will be the turn of China with its Tianwen-1 orbiter. Like Hope, it must complete a braking manoeuvre to be captured by the planet's gravity.\n\nTianwen-1 is carrying a rover that will be despatched to the surface, most likely in May.\n\nNext week, on Thursday 18 February, the Americans will arrive at Mars with another of their big rovers. The Perseverance robot is being aimed at a crater that once held a giant lake. It will look for signs of fossilised life.", "Billy Monger said training had provided a goal to focus on during lockdown\n\nA racing driver who had both legs amputated after a crash is to walk, cycle and kayak 140 miles (225km) in four days for Comic Relief.\n\nBilly Monger was critically injured in an accident in 2017 aged 16, but was back behind the wheel within a year.\n\nHe is set to start on 22 February, finishing at the Brands Hatch circuit.\n\nThe 21-year-old, from Charlwood, in Surrey, said the journey would be the \"toughest physical challenge I've ever had to take on in my life\".\n\n\"Learning how to walk and becoming a double amputee was hard enough, but tackling something to this scale... I'm pushing myself quite hard to say the least,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore training began in December, he had not ridden a bike since his accident and had not walked more than 6km (3.7 miles) at a time, he said.\n\n\"Now I've got to do a marathon distance in a walk, so I'm upping the game here a bit for me.\"\n\nMonger had never used a kayak before training began for the Comic Relief challenge\n\nTraining for the three-sport event had provided a welcome goal to focus on during lockdown, he said.\n\n\"In a lot of ways it's been the absolute perfect scenario,\" he said.\n\n\"Not being able to compete and race during 2020, and what's looking like 2021 potentially as well due to the pandemic, it's been really tough to not have that focus.\n\n\"This is going to put me in the best shape I've ever been in my life.\"\n\nMonger returned to racing in 2018 after appealing to motorsport's international governing body, the FIA, to change its regulations restricting disabled drivers.\n\nHe won the Euroformula series Pau Grand Prix in 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Approaching two million people have been told to self-isolate by the app\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has told 1.7 million people in England and Wales to self-isolate to date.\n\nHealth ministers have also revealed they believe it has prevented about 600,000 cases of the disease.\n\nIn a further disclosure, internal data indicates that about 16.5 million people are currently actively using its contact-tracing tool.\n\nThat figure is 24% below the app's latest download tally, which is the government's preferred measure.\n\nThe discrepancy is likely to be down to people uninstalling the app, turning off its contact-tracing capabilities, or simply failing to have activated it in the first place.\n\nEach handset actively taking part sends a digital \"heartbeat\" once a day to the Amazon computer server involved, allowing the current usage figure to be calculated.\n\nAnd while the number of total downloads has slowly grown from 20.2 million to 21.7 million over the past two months, the number of phones pinging the server has been more or less flat.\n\nThis represents the first detailed data released about the app's use since it was made widely available to people in England and Wales in September.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey and Gibraltar have their own separate apps.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, executive chair of the NHS Test and Trace programme, had been under pressure to release the figures for months, and the BBC unsuccessfully attempted to obtain some of the figures via a Freedom of Information request in November.\n\nThe app could reduce the number of infections once lockdowns end and people spend more time outside their homes\n\nThe intention in releasing the data now is to reassure the public that the app can save lives, and in doing so encourage more people to both install it and follow its advice ahead of lockdowns being eased.\n\n\"People who are not following the app's instructions are risking themselves and their colleagues and their families,\" Baroness Harding told the BBC.\n\n\"The more you follow the instructions of the app, the fewer outbreaks you'll have in your workplace and the safer it will be.\"\n\nA spokeswoman added that these instructions include circumstances in which it is recommended to pause the contact-tracing function.\n\nThe app uses Bluetooth logs to retrospectively warn users if they were at high risk of contagion from someone infected with the virus, who was recently in their vicinity.\n\nAlerts can be served within 15 minutes of an infected person approving use of their positive test result. But the system's decentralised nature means neither the person who triggered the warning, nor the authorities, can identify who receives the notifications.\n\nSome anonymised data is, however, collected.\n\nFor the first time, it has been revealed that:\n\nRestaurants are among venues each to have been given a unique QR barcode\n\nScientists from The Alan Turing Institute and Oxford University worked to provide further analysis of the app's impact\n\nThey estimate that 594,000 cases have been averted because of the technology.\n\nAnd they forecast that for every additional 1% of the population that uses the app, the number of Covid cases should fall by 2.3%.\n\nThe academics have benefited from the fact that the app was retooled in October to take account of the tier system introduced at the time in England, which operated on a local authority basis.\n\nThis allowed anonymised usage data to be compared between two neighbouring council areas where the spread of the pandemic was similar, but uptake of the app differed.\n\nThe researchers took account of other factors - including poverty levels - to calculate the degree to which suppression of the virus's spread could be linked to the app.\n\nHowever, they acknowledge that they cannot be certain that usage of the app caused all of the effects being attributed to it. And while they are publishing their work, it has yet to be peer-reviewed.\n\nEven so, the firm involved in developing the app said confidence was growing that it is indeed making a difference.\n\n\"The data suggests that we have made a dent in the overall infection rate,\" Wolfgang Emmerich, chief executive of Zuhlke UK, told the BBC.\n\n\"What we really have to do now, particularly as we're preparing to come out of lockdown, is to drive that adoption rate back up and to get people to switch [the app] back on again.\"\n\nMr Emmerich also revealed that his team had put plans to extend the app to older iPhone models on the back burner, in order to prioritise other new features, but declined to say what they are.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSoon after the NHS Covid-19 app was launched last September, we learned one important piece of data - that over 20 million people had downloaded it.\n\nThat was a pretty good result compared with take-up of similar apps elsewhere, but what we didn't know until now was something far more important - did it work?\n\nNow these figures do appear to show that plenty of people have been pinged by the app and sent into isolation.\n\nMore impressively, research appears to show that in areas where take-up of the app was high, the infection spread more slowly than in places where it was lower.\n\nBut other scientists will want to drill down for themselves into whether other factors were at play in the link between high take-up and low infection rates.\n\nPlus the private nature of the app means there are some key questions that can't be answered:\n\nStill, using a Bluetooth app to trace people who might be infected with Covid-19 was always an experiment with an untested technology.\n\nAnd the scientists who have been working on this project for many months now feel they've proved that it has made a significant contribution to the fight against the virus.", "All travellers entering the UK will be required to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining in an attempt to prevent variants entering the country.\n\nArrivals will be required to get a test on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine period, whether they are isolating at home or in a hotel.\n\nThe Department of Health said the move would enable authorities to track new cases more effectively.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out more details in the Commons later.\n\nIt is in addition to the current rules which require travellers arriving in the UK - whether by boat, train or plane - to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThis test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling, and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500, with Border Force officials carrying out spot checks.\n\nTravellers must provide contact details and their UK address. They can then travel - by public transport if necessary - to the place where they plan to self-isolate.\n\nThe new testing policy comes amid concern about new variants entering the country that are more resistant to existing vaccines.\n\nEarly trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine suggest it offers \"minimal protection\" against mild disease from the South Africa variant. There have been 147 cases of the variant have found in the UK.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the results were \"expected\" because the virus is \"introducing mutations... to allow it to still transmit in populations where there's some immunity.\"\n\n\"As long as we have enough immunity to prevent severe disease, hospitalisations and death, then we're going to be fine in the future in the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said the South African variant did not appear to have a \"transmissibility advantage\" over the one first identified in Kent, which has spread across the UK.\n\nIt was therefore unlikely to \"overrun\" the Kent variant, he told Monday's coronavirus briefing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains how to fly safely during a global pandemic\n\nFrom 15 February, UK residents and Irish nationals arriving from certain countries will have to quarantine in hotels.\n\nPassengers will have to stay in their rooms for 10 nights, with security guards accompanying if they go outside.\n\nThe rules will apply to UK nationals and residents arriving from 33 \"red list\" Covid-19 hotspots - mostly in South America and Africa - where it's feared Covid variants may have already spread. Passengers will be expected to pay for the cost of the accommodation.\n\nNon-UK travellers who have been in these countries in the 10 days before travelling are banned from entry.\n\nAll travellers - including British nationals - must self-isolate for 10 days when they get to the UK.\n\nThe \"test to release scheme\" - where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five - will remain under the new testing rules.\n\nPassengers will be expected to use the gold-standard and more expensive PCR tests.\n\n\"As we have said all along, a robust testing regime is the way to open up travel again but it has to replace or at least shorten quarantine,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as Prof Van-Tam warned it was too soon to say to what extent people could begin to start planning summer holidays.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"The more elaborate your plans are for summer holidays, in terms of crossing borders, in terms of household mixing, given where we are now, I think we just have to say the more you are stepping into making guesses about the unknown at this point,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't give people a proper answer at this point because we don't yet have the data. It is just too early to say.\"\n\nLockdown rules mean people must only travel abroad for essential reasons. These are the same as the \"reasonable excuses\" for domestic travel, including:\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to make a declaration on why they need to travel, which will be checked by carriers prior to departure.\n\nHave you recently travelled into the UK? What was your experience at the UK border?\n\nSpeaking about the new testing plans, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said it was \"important the government continues to take the necessary steps to protect people and save lives\".\n\nHe added: \"Enhancing our testing regime to cover all arrivals while they isolate will provide a further level of protection and enable us to better track any new cases which might be brought into the country, and give us even more opportunities to detect new variants.\"", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? 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.", "Temperatures dropped to -16.7C in parts of Scotland on Tuesday morning\n\nFurther travel disruption from snow and ice has hit the UK as the temperature plummeted to its lowest in a decade.\n\nA temperature of -16.7C was recorded in Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands on Tuesday morning - the lowest reading in the UK since December 2010.\n\nMore snow is on the way with warnings in place for parts of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland until Wednesday.\n\nHundreds of schools and some Covid vaccination centres remain shut. Police have warned people not to travel.\n\nBiting winds from the east are contributing to the sub-zero temperatures, and forecasters say it could be even colder overnight and into Wednesday morning, particularly in the north of England and Scotland.\n\nHeavy snow on Monday left 29cm (11in) of snow on the ground in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, and up to 26cm (10in) in parts of the east of England.\n\nMore heavy snow is expected in Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Stirling and surrounding areas of Scotland, where an amber weather warning for snow is in place until 21:00 GMT on Tuesday. Up to 20cm (8in) more snow could fall on higher ground in these areas.\n\nThere have been several road accidents in Scotland as well as \"significant disruption\" to rail routes, including from Edinburgh to Glasgow.\n\nPolice are urging people only to make essential journeys in the hazardous conditions\n\nNHS workers Danielle Howlett and Nikki Brooks built a snowman on their break, for a patient who was sad to be missing out on the snow at the James Paget hospital in Norfolk\n\nThe Met Office said strong easterly winds have made the UK \"bitterly cold\" because of a \"glancing blow\" from Storm Darcy, which has been crossing northern Europe.\n\nSpokeswoman Nicola Maxey said temperatures could drop further on Wednesday night but that conditions across the UK are set to get milder at the weekend.\n\nYellow warnings - meaning there could be travel disruption and a slight chance of power cuts or communities being cut off - include:\n\nThere were also 18 flood warnings and 100 flood alerts across England, as of 19:15 on Tuesday.\n\nNational Rail advised passengers to check for disruption before making their journeys.\n\nSnow and ice have caused disruption across the Greater Anglia rail network, including between Norwich and London, while Southeastern has closed some lines in England.\n\nMany schools have been closed including more than 20 in the Falkirk area (pictured)\n\nSnow angels: The 1.4C sea temperature didn't stop these swimmers from enjoying themselves in Thorpe Bay, Essex\n\nThe AA said \"treacherous driving conditions\" had caused \"numerous\" accidents on Monday, with some roads closed in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Hertfordshire.\n\nPolice in Norfolk warned of \"blizzard-like conditions\" with snowdrifts and blockages on many roads.\n\nSuffolk Police also urged people only go out if necessary and to slow down if driving.\n\n\"Keep the roads as clear as possible for the essential workers and keep yourself safe,\" a spokesman said.\n\nSome coronavirus vaccination centres which closed due to the conditions on Monday remained closed on Tuesday, including in Essex and Suffolk.\n\nUnder national Covid restrictions, only children of critical workers and vulnerable children have been attending school in person, but more than 380 schools in Norfolk and 200 schools in Suffolk are closed to all pupils.\n\nDozens of schools were also closed in Scotland, including more than 40 in the Aberdeenshire area.\n\nNo schools in Northern Ireland were closed on Tuesday.\n\nCoronavirus vaccine appointments at Gainsborough Sports and Community Centre in Ipswich have been cancelled for a second day\n\nThe heavy snow - as seen in Victoria Park, Glasgow - has been brought by air from Russia and eastern Europe, the Met Office said\n\nPublic Health England has issued a cold weather alert for the whole nation through to Wednesday.\n\nPHE's Dr Owen Landeg said it was \"crucial\" people looked out for those who may be vulnerable during the current cold snap, calling on the public to make sure those at risk have enough food and drink to stay warm and well.\n\nHow are you trying to keep warm in the cold weather? Have you been affected by the adverse weather? 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.", "NHS vaccination cards remind people to have their second jab - but do not act as a passport\n\nCovid-19 vaccine passports are \"feasible\" but not until we know more about how long immunity lasts, experts have said.\n\nAnd they have the potential to discriminate against the young, pregnant or those who can't have the jab for medical reasons.\n\nThis must be factored into any such scheme before launching, according to a Royal Society report.\n\nIt sets out 12 tests which should be met by any vaccine passport plan.\n\nThe criteria include having a way of accommodating \"changes in vaccine efficacy against emerging variants\".\n\nAnd a vaccine passport would need to meet ethical and legal standards including around data protection, human rights and equality and discrimination laws.\n\nIt is also vital to be clear about what the passports would be used for, whether that's international travel or greater domestic freedoms, the report outlined.\n\nThe main scientific issues are around how long immunity lasts and whether vaccines will protect against new variants.\n\nIt's difficult to say how long a vaccine passport should be valid for if it's not known how long the protection conferred by the jabs hang around for.\n\nAnd it will need to be clear whether all the vaccines in use protect against every new variant - especially if people are travelling to parts of the world where the dominant strain is different from the one in their home country.\n\nThe vaccine is proving to be very good at protecting people from becoming ill with coronavirus.\n\nBut there are still questions around how much it stops people carrying the virus and transmitting it to others.\n\nUnderstanding this will be important if vaccination status becomes a pass to mix more freely with others, Prof Christopher Dye, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford who contributed to the report, explained.\n\nHe said the only vaccine currently mandated for travel around the world is yellow fever - and there is only one type of vaccine available, it's highly effective, and confers lifelong protection.\n\nThe Covid-19 vaccines are not currently in such a \"comfortable\" spot, he said.\n\nAs well as scientific concerns, there are also legal and ethical considerations, according to the report's lead author Prof Melinda Mills.\n\n\"What would it be used for - getting a job or attending a football match or buying milk?\" she questioned.\n\n\"What if we start barring people from essential goods and services?\"\n\n\"There is a risk of unjustly discriminating in hiring, attending events, insurance, housing applications, you can think of many examples,\" Prof Mills explained.\n\nIf a passport scheme was rolled out before everyone in the country has been offered a jab, this could unfairly disadvantage young people or people living in certain parts of the country.\n\nEven then, some people are unable to or are not recommended to take the vaccine, for medical reasons or during pregnancy unless they are at particular risk, for example.\n\nAnd, \"people of different ethnicities have different levels of vaccine hesitancy,\" Prof Mills said, which opens up the potential for discrimination against people's \"religious or political beliefs\" - or where this hesitancy is linked to a long history of racism and marginalisation.\n\nIf employers implement \"no jab, no job\" policies - where the requirement to be vaccinated is written into workers' contracts - equality laws would need to be balanced with legal duties of care, Prof Mills said.\n\nFor example, the right of individuals working in care homes to choose not to be vaccinated would have to be balanced against the imperative to protect the vulnerable in their care.\n\nSome countries have already developed passport schemes, including Estonia, Denmark and Israel.\n\nThe 12 tests outlined by the Royal Society recommend that a vaccine passport should:", "UK government borrowing hit £8.8bn last month, the highest January figure since records began in 1993, reflecting the cost of pandemic support measures.\n\nIt was the first time in 10 years that more has been borrowed in January than collected through tax and other income.\n\nJanuary is usually a key revenue-raising month as it is when taxpayers submit their self-assessment returns.\n\nTax income fell by less than £1bn, but the government spent £19.7bn more than last year on measures such as furlough.\n\nGovernment borrowing for this financial year has now reached £270.6bn, which is £222bn more than a year ago, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which published the data.\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has estimated that borrowing could reach £393.5bn by the end of the financial year in March. That would be the highest amount in any year since the Second World War.\n\nThe borrowing figure was lower than expected but that \"should not be interpreted as a signal that the economy is withstanding the third lockdown relatively well\", said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\n\"A sharp £2.1bn year-over-year decline in interest payments, and the vanishing of contributions to the EU's budget, which totalled £2.2bn in January 2020, helped,\" he pointed out.\n\nThe increase in borrowing has led to a steep increase in the national debt, which now stands at £2.11 trillion.\n\nThe UK's overall debt has now reached 97.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) - a level not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nThe ONS warned that although the impact of the pandemic on the public finances is becoming clearer, \"its effects are not fully captured\" in the current data, and that its estimates of tax receipts and borrowing are \"subject to greater than usual uncertainty\".\n\nIt is an almost unbroken rule - January is a time when the Treasury coffers fill and more is paid in than is spent.\n\nBut for the first time since the financial crisis, the Government had to borrow money in January to make up the gap between what it spent and what it raised in taxes.\n\nThis near £9bn deficit though was actually better than expectations of £25bn of January borrowing. Receipts from taxes on workers and businesses held up on last year.\n\nThe borrowing was mainly about £8bn extra spending on things like vaccines, protective equipment and testing, and support for jobs and wages up £5bn on last January.\n\nOver the course of this financial year the public finances are heading for borrowing of around £350bn - less bad than forecasts closer to £400bn, but still a peacetime record.\n\nThis is the backdrop to the chancellor's budget in a fortnight, where he vows to be open and honest with the public about this challenge, suggesting tax rises at some point. The immediate focus though will have to remain on supporting the economy, as it is cautiously reopened.\n\nHospitality companies have been excused from paying business rates and home buyers have had a break from paying stamp duty since July. Both these factors meant a drop in revenue for the government.\n\nBut alcohol duty has risen by a quarter and self-assessed income tax receipts were £1.4bn higher.\n\nOverall, tax income fell about 1% to £80.3bn.\n\nSome of the self-assessed income tax gain probably came from the government's policy of allowing some later payments that were due from July, the ONS noted.\n\nIn the 10 months to January, self-assessed income tax receipts were £26.3bn, £2bn less than in the same period a year earlier.\n\nMore than has been £46bn spent covering salaries as part of the furlough scheme, and tens of billions of pounds on guaranteeing loans to businesses.\n\nIn all, the Government has launched more than 40 schemes across the UK to help households and businesses through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Since the start of the pandemic we've invested over £280bn to protect jobs, businesses and livelihoods across the UK - this is the fiscally responsible thing to do and the best way to support sustainable public finances in the medium term.\"\n\nIn his Budget on 3 March, \"the Chancellor likely won't shy away from setting out plans for borrowing to remain very high in 2021/22, probably close to 10% of GDP,\" said Mr Tombs.\n\nHe predicted that the chancellor will also be able to avoid setting out future tax rises for 2022 and beyond, if the OBR maintains its upbeat view on the amount of long-term scarring caused by the recent downturn.\n\nBut he warned that upward pressure on spending will increase over the coming years as the population ages and the Conservatives invest more to \"level up\" the country.\n\n\"As a result, big tax rises eventually will have to be announced, with 2022 likely to be the worst year,\" said Mr Tombs.\n\nThe Budget will aim to secure the recovery, not to fix the public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said earlier this week. That means substantial tax rises should not be part of the coming Budget, it said.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak needs to strike a balance between continuing support for jobs and businesses harmed by lockdowns, and weaning the economy off blanket support which will impede necessary economic adjustment,\" said Paul Johnson, IFS director.\n\n\"For now, Mr Sunak needs to focus on support and recovery. A reckoning in the form of big future tax rises is highly likely, but not as yet inevitable.\"", "The UK is to launch a \"high-risk\" science agency to look for ground-breaking discoveries.\n\nThe agency, Aria, will be run along the lines of US equivalents that were instrumental in the creation of the internet and GPS.\n\nAria, which has £800m funding over four years, will have a \"higher tolerance for failure than is normal\", the government said.\n\nLabour said the government needed to clarify what the agency would do.\n\nThe new body - the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (Aria) - would fund \"high-risk, high-reward\" scientific research, the government said.\n\nBut the amount of funding it will get is a fraction of the money pumped into existing government research bodies such as UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).\n\nFor 2020-21 alone, the government has allocated £10.36bn for its research programmes and bodies.\n\nNevertheless, the government said that Aria would \"help to cement the UK's position as a global science superpower\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the new agency would \"drive forward the technologies of tomorrow\" by \"stripping back unnecessary red tape\".\n\n\"From the steam engine to the latest artificial intelligence technologies, the UK is steeped in scientific discovery. Today's set of challenges - whether disease outbreaks or climate change - need bold, ambitious and innovative solutions.\n\n\"Led independently by our most exceptional scientists, this new agency will focus on identifying and funding the most cutting-edge research and technology at speed,\" Mr Kwarteng said.\n\nBoris Johnson's former senior adviser Dominic Cummings was a prominent supporter of \"blue-sky\" thinking by small groups of scientists, saying in 2019 funding should be given to \"high-risk high-payoff visions\".\n\nIt was the sale of the UK's artificial intelligence startup DeepMind to Google in 2014 which apparently got Dominic Cummings thinking.\n\nThe man who was to become Boris Johnson's chief advisor became obsessed with the idea that the UK was giving away its technological crown jewels.\n\nThe answer, he decided, was to create a British version of Arpa, the American agency credited with funding the development of the internet and GPS.\n\nDespite Mr Cummings' departure from Downing Street, the government has opted to go ahead with Aria, an agency designed to make big bets on risky projects.\n\nIt will have a tiny fraction of the budget of the existing research agency UKRI, which will carry on doing its job.\n\nBut Aria will apparently be independent, freed from bureaucracy and imbued with a Silicon Valley culture where failure is not to be feared.\n\nThe test, of course, will be whether there are also successes to celebrate.\n\nAria will be modelled on the influential US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa), which supported research that led to the internet and GPS, and its successor Darpa, which funded the precursors to today's coronavirus vaccines.\n\nScience and innovation minister Amanda Solloway said: \"To rise to the challenges of the 21st Century, we need to equip our R&D community with a new scientific engine - one that embraces the idea that truly great successes come from taking great leaps into the unknown.\"\n\nRecruitment for a chief executive and chair for the agency will begin in the coming weeks.\n\nMatthew Fell, CBI UK chief policy director, said the UK had \"a unique opportunity to play to its strength\" with the new agency, to help create jobs, raise productivity and tackle the biggest challenges facing the country.\n\n\"Key to Aria's success will be strong business engagement to make sure the brilliant ideas developed can make it through to market,\" he added.\n\nSir Jim McDonald, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: \"Engineering is central to an ambitious innovation agency of this kind, forming the bridge between research and innovation to enable technological and commercial breakthroughs.\"\n\nBut Labour shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said the agency needed to have a clear mandate and to be subject to Freedom of Information laws, to ensure transparency of funding.\n\n\"Labour has long called for investment in high ambition, high risk science,\" he said. \"But government must urgently clarify the mission and mandate of this new organisation, following strong engagement with the UK's science base - those closest to the work.\"\n• None AI used to 'predict the next coronavirus'", "Some dental practices could close as a result of the pandemic, the British Dental Association (BDA) Scotland and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) has warned.\n\nThe number of patients dentists can treat has been cut by rules to stop the virus from spreading.\n\nThe RCSEd has warned that for NHS work the government was \"providing very little towards treatment\".\n\nBut the Scottish government said the sector has had \"unprecedented support\".\n\nProf Philip Taylor, of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at RCSEd, said that for NHS work the government was \"providing very little towards treatment\".\n\nFees are complex and can vary with each patient, but a dentist who fits a new metal crown for a back tooth on the NHS may receive a fee set by government of £80 to £100 - with the patient paying most of that.\n\nHowever, if the work was done privately, the RCSEd said the dentist could charge £300 to £400.\n\nDentists whose businesses rely on NHS patients have warned that they are struggling to stay afloat with so few patients coming through the door.\n\nUnder strict Covid protocols, treatment rooms must be thoroughly cleaned between patients and need to be left empty for a period of time after some procedures.\n\nThis has cut the number of patients dentists can see, and those who rely on slim margins from NHS patients have warned that they may close their practices.\n\nProf Taylor warned that practices closing down would create an access problem for patients.\n\nMany of those that closed were likely to be the ones most dependant on NHS fees - often in poorer parts of big cities - he added.\n\nOne dentist told BBC Scotland the number of patients his practice could see in a day had been cut from 100 to 20.\n\nFewer patients, he said, meant less income.\n\n\"I think we are in a dental health crisis,\" said David McColl, of BDA Scotland.\n\n\"You might see more practices saying we can't afford to run a service like this with NHS funding and turn private.\n\n\"Then you'd have a two-tier system where if you can afford it you can get the treatment, if you can't, you won't.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want to get back to treating our patients and have a fair system that is not target-driven.\n\n\"None of us wants this two-tier system - we need universal access for all\".\n\nBut the Scottish government has said it is committed to ensuring all NHS patients who want to access NHS dental services continue to receive treatment.\n\nScotland's chief dental officer, Tom Ferris, said that from 1 November all NHS treatments had been allowed again.\n\nHe said: \"If an NHS patient has been offered or provided with private dental treatment then their dentist must be able to confirm that all available and appropriate NHS alternative treatments have been discussed with the patient and informed consent obtained.\"\n\nMr Ferris added that where a dentist had decided to reduce or altogether withdraw their NHS dental service, then suitable alternative arrangements would be put in place for patients.\n\nOn the funding the government had made available to dentists during the pandemic, he said: \"The government is continuing to provide an unprecedented amount of financial support to ensure the continuity of NHS dental services.\"\n\nHe said payments worth up to £12m per month were being made to support the incomes of NHS dental practices.\n\n\"As well as deploying the Scottish government budget for NHS dental services, we are investing an additional £2.75m per month.\"\n\nHe added that dentists had been receiving a guaranteed income of 80% of gross fees during the pandemic, which had been increased to 85% from 1 November.\n\nPPE for dentists providing NHS care has also been provided through public money, where they previously provided this themselves.\n\nMr Ferris added that in December a 2.8% pay rise for dentists would be backdated to April.\n\n''We are working to ensure NHS dental services emerge from this crisis well placed to care for the oral health of the population and will continue to work collaboratively with the dental sector in developing a new model of care,\" he added.", "Homeschooling has been paused for the half-term holiday in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut for those navigating school days at the kitchen table, it'll be a week off that may look very similar to a week on.\n\nSo how are we managing mid-term when tight coronavirus restrictions are in place?\n\nBBC News NI speaks to families about their plans.", "There has been a \"strong decline\" in levels of coronavirus infections in England since January, say scientists tracking the epidemic.\n\nImperial College London's React study found infections have dropped by two-thirds across England since lockdown began, with an 80% fall in London.\n\nBut virus levels are still high, with one in 200 testing positive between 4 and 13 February.\n\nThis is similar to levels seen in late September 2020.\n\nAlthough these are interim findings, based on more than 85,000 swab tests from randomly selected people, they suggest social distancing and restrictions are having an impact.\n\nProf Paul Elliott, director of the programme at Imperial, said the drop in infection rates was \"really encouraging\".\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to receive new data on the effect of vaccines on the spread of coronavirus, ahead of Monday's publication of a roadmap for easing the lockdown in England.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday he said it was \"absolutely right\" to take a \"data not dates\" approach to leaving lockdown, and stressed England would ease measures \"cautiously\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have agreed to extend lockdown restrictions to 1 April, although children in primary 1 to primary 3 (aged four to seven) will go back to school on 8 March.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will make an announcement next week on whether some pupils will return to school.\n\nThe Welsh government is due to given an indication of its plans for coming out of lockdown on Friday.\n\nA further 12,057 Covid cases have been reported in the UK, and there have been another 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. Last Thursday, 13,494 cases and 678 deaths were reported.\n\nThe total number of people to have received the first dose of vaccine now stands at 16,423,082 - a daily rise of 482,110.\n\nAccording to the Imperial College London team, during early-to-mid-February 0.51% of people in the study tested positive in England, down from 1.57% in early January. In London, positive tests fell from 2.83% to 0.54% over six weeks.\n\nThe study's author Prof Steven Riley described the fall in cases in London as \"dramatic\" and said there had been \"a strong downward trend since January - better than many hoped for\", which is equivalent to a halving of infections every 15 days.\n\nThe researchers estimated the R number - the average number of people one infected person will pass the virus on to - was around 0.72.\n\nBut more than 20,000 Covid patients are currently in hospital in the UK, and although new daily cases and hospital admissions are falling, they are still relatively high.\n\nNHS England figures show 80% of critical care beds were occupied in the week to 14 February, a slight fall from 83% the week before.\n\nThere are just under 4,800 patients in critical care, with 6,000 beds available.\n\nProf Elliott told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Nobody wants to be in lockdown any longer than they have to be but a note of warning - the prevalence rates are still very high. They are as high as they were in September when they were on the increase and the numbers of people in hospital currently are at a level that they were in the first wave so we really have to be cautious.\"\n\nWhile the virus is declining in all nine English regions, and substantially in the capital, South East and West Midlands, it is falling less steeply in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nThis could be linked to tougher lockdown rules being introduced earlier in London and south-east England after a pre-Christmas surge in cases related to the more transmissible virus variant first discovered in Kent.\n\nThe latest Public Health England surveillance data also shows case rates have fallen in every region.\n\nThe East Midlands has the highest rate, 177 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 14 February, but this is down from 228 the previous week.\n\nThe React report found falls in infections across all age groups, with 18 to 24-year-olds and five to 12-year-olds currently having the highest virus levels - although still below 1%.\n\nIt estimates the over-65s have the lowest levels of virus at 0.3%.\n\nMore young children have been attending school during this lockdown than in the last one, which may have helped keep virus levels slightly higher in these age groups.\n\nBut the researchers stressed opening schools to all children was a high priority and there would have to be a \"trade-off\".\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said in a tweet that the results of the React study made \"the strongest case for a phased reopening of schools\".\n\nA \"big bang\" reopening with the current high rates of infection and hospitalisation would \"jeopardise full and sustained school reopening\", she added.\n\nThe study identified groups that were more likely to test positive - including people of Asian ethnicity, those working in healthcare or care homes, people living in the most deprived areas and those in larger households.\n\nProf Elliott said the study had not seen an impact from the vaccination programme on infections yet, with all age groups seeing a drop in rates, but said the team would keep a \"close eye\" when it had an effect on transmission.\n\nThe researchers say signs may be visible by the time the final report is released in a matter of weeks, when a larger proportion of people will have been given protection.\n\nThe report is yet to be peer-reviewed or published.", "Lord Wharton's appointment has already faced accusations of \"cronyism\"\n\nEngland's new university regulator is facing questions about a potential conflict of interest.\n\nLord Wharton has been appointed chair of the Office for Students (OfS) but is also a paid adviser to a firm Aquind, which wants to build a cable linking the UK and French electricity grids.\n\nThe £1.2bn project would be built through the University of Portsmouth, which is strongly opposed to the route.\n\nThe OfS says protections are in place to prevent conflicts of interest.\n\n\"Where there is a conflict related to an individual higher education provider we would expect the relevant board member to exclude themselves from any decisions directly related to that provider,\" said a spokesman for the OfS university watchdog.\n\nBut the OfS declined to say whether that would specifically apply to the University of Portsmouth and its incoming chair, Conservative peer, Lord Wharton.\n\nThe University of Portsmouth says any \"perceived conflict of interest\" needs to be \"transparently managed\".\n\nAquind director Alexander Temerko has made financial donations to Conservative politicians\n\nThe electricity cable \"interconnector\" plan has prompted much local protest in Portsmouth - with both Labour and Conservative MPs in the city opposing its digging through such a densely-populated area.\n\nThe city council's planning officials said the prospect of it being pushed through with the compulsory acquisition of land was \"draconian\" and an \"interference with human rights\".\n\nThe University of Portsmouth, whose land it would run through, is concerned about disruption to sporting facilities and says it would have a \"huge negative impact\" and leave it facing financial losses.\n\nAquind firmly rejects the university's claims, saying the impact would be \"minimal\", work would be carried out in a way that reduced disruption and the route of the \"underground cable corridor has been amended and refined\" in response to earlier feedback.\n\nBut the university will now face Lord Wharton both as someone working for Aquind, on the opposing side in this commercial dispute, and also the chair of the regulator, which has powers to impose fines and sanctions on universities such as itself.\n\nWhile there is no suggestion of impropriety in either role, as paid private adviser or incoming publicly-funded watchdog, there are questions being asked about an overlap.\n\nPortsmouth South MP, Stephen Morgan, questioned whether Lord Wharton could appear to be impartial.\n\n\"We know Aquind has links to Tory donors. But to be advising a firm responsible for this project while it is being challenged by a university Wharton is set to regulate, raises serious red flags about his impartiality, particularly if he keeps the Conservative whip.\n\n\"These revelations cast fresh doubt over Lord Wharton's suitability for this key role,\" said Mr Morgan, Labour's shadow minister for the armed forces.\n\n\"The potential conflicts of interest keep on mounting for Lord Wharton of Yarm,\" said Jo Grady, leader of the UCU lecturers' union.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown, there were protests in Portsmouth against the Aquind construction project\n\nThe Department for Education says there is an \"extensive code of guidance\" to guard against a conflict of interest and that as chair, \"Lord Wharton would not be involved in individual regulatory decisions about universities\".\n\nIt has also rejected accusations made by Labour about \"cronyism\", where his appointment had been linked to his political connections, saying the process was \"in line with the governance code on public appointments\".\n\nAn Aquind spokesman says its adviser Lord Wharton had no part in \"determining the location of the underground cables or in the ongoing engagement with Portsmouth University\".\n\nHis work for Aquind has been recorded in the House of Lords register of interests.\n\nThe backers of the electricity scheme have also attracted attention. A director of Aquind is Alexander Temerko, a Ukrainian-born businessman who has become a prominent financial donor to Conservative MPs.\n\nMr Temerko's website shows the businessman with Lord Wharton at conferences and events\n\nIt also shows him with senior politicians, including Education Secretary Gavin Williamson\n\nMr Temerko's website has numerous pictures of himself with Aquind adviser Lord Wharton at his side, at conferences, fundraisers and social events with other prominent Conservatives, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for whom Lord Wharton was a manager of his leadership campaign.\n\nThe photos on Mr Temerko's website also show the businessman with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, who appointed Lord Wharton to chair the Office for Students earlier this month.\n\nLord Wharton's links with Mr Temerko go back before his role as Aquind's adviser. Records from the Electoral Commission show Mr Temerko made four donations to him, amounting to £25,000, between 2013 and 2016, when he was a Conservative MP.\n\nThe Office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, said Lord Wharton's work for Aquind's \"subsea electricity connector\" would be \"part-time, paid, strategic adviser to the company - acting as a sounding board for the company's ideas and future plans/ strategy of the business\".\n\nThe University of Portsmouth is concerned about a \"huge negative impact\" from the cable going through its land\n\nThis was in August 2017 when he had stopped being an MP and minister and was seeking their advice over taking up his new job with Aquind.\n\nThe business secretary will make the decision later this year on whether the Aquind interconnector gets the go-ahead.\n\nThe previous secretary of state, Alok Sharma, whose local constituency party had received a donation from Aquind of £10,000, had to recuse himself from any part in the decision-making process.\n\nConservative MP David Morris, another recipient of a donation, had to apologise to the House of Commons for a breach of paid advocacy rules after asking a question in support of the Aquind cable project.\n\nAquind says that all of its political donations have \"complied with the relevant legislations\".\n\nLocal campaign groups opposed to putting the Aquind cable through Portsmouth have complained of the threat to the environment and the disruption caused by the construction.\n\nThe university says it is not against the principle of the project, but its objections are about what it will mean in practice.\n\n\"The objections relate to the impact on the operation of the site and future development potential. The current plans will cause disruption to the provision of facilities to students and the local community, which together will impact the university's business,\" said a university spokesman.\n\n\"We are continuing our dialogue with Aquind to try to reach a resolution and find a route which does not have the huge negative impact on the university as is currently proposed.\n\n\"Lord Wharton's appointment does not change the basis of our objection and we have full confidence in him acting in his new position. We hope that any perceived conflict of interest on this matter will be able to be appropriately and transparently managed by all those involved.\"\n\nBut Aquind says it has already made changes to \"minimise any impact on open spaces\" and to respect environmental concerns.\n\nThe energy firm says that the interconnector link would provide cheaper and greener electricity for consumers in the UK.\n\nThe Office for Students said its new chair Lord Wharton did not want to comment.", "Dental students have been unable to get face-to-face patient contact during the pandemic\n\nScotland's dental schools will not admit new students in September due to existing trainees having to repeat the academic year.\n\nIt was announced last week that dental students had not been able to gain sufficient clinical experience during the Covid pandemic.\n\nGraduations of final year students were postponed and all others were told they would have to repeat a year.\n\nUniversities Scotland said this would mean no new students this year.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Dentistry is an area which has been particularly badly hit by the Covid pandemic, due to the risk of spread of the virus via aerosol transmission. This has severely limited clinical training.\n\n\"All applicants who interviewed for September 2021 entry will still receive a final decision on their interview by 20th May 2021 but any offers made this year will be for a deferred start date of September 2022.\n\n\"Our sympathies go out to these incoming students who, like so many people, are having their life plans severely disrupted.\"\n\nScotland's dental schools previously said students had not been able to gain sufficient clinical experience of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) which can result in droplets being thrown into the air, creating the potential for Covid-19 to spread.\n\nAGPs, involving the use of high-speed instruments, represent the majority of dental treatments.\n\nGraduation for dental students at Dundee and Glasgow universities will be deferred until summer 2022 with all current year groups repeating the academic year.\n\nThe same will happen at Aberdeen but final year students will only be deferred until Christmas.\n\nSavanna Joyce, 28, from Orkney, is a final year dental student at the University of Aberdeen.\n\nHer graduation has been deferred until December - it's a decision she said she knew was coming.\n\nThe reality, however, was still overwhelming.\n\n\"Everybody in our year understands that patient safety is the priority, and despite being disheartened we all agree it's the right decision,\" she said.\n\nShe conceded that the dental school being closed \"did have quite an impact\" on learning, as practical work was not possible.\n\nAnd there had been a financial impact too - she ran out of money this year, and had to take on a job alongside her degree. \"Without the promise of support, I wouldn't have been able to stay on,\" she said.\n\nMs Joyce said: \"I wouldn't have felt safe going out this year. Covid has impacted us so much - we've had far less clinical experience so I'm glad that it's extended.\n\n\"We are all very accepting of the decisions,\" she added.\n\nThe British Dental Association Scotland had warned the lack of new students could lead to far more competition for training places.\n\nThey said it could translate into major problems for the NHS workforce that could be felt for years to come.\n\nDavid McColl, from the British Dental Association, said it would be very disappointing for people hoping to take up a place at dental school this year.\n\n\"What we said to the Scottish government was that we need to put something in place,\" he said.\n\n\"We just can't defer them for a year without them being included within dentistry in some shape or form.\n\n\"If they are keen we want to keep them involved in dentistry.\"\n\nAt Friday's lunchtime coronavirus briefing, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said it was an \"inevitable and pragmatic decision\" to extend the training programme of existing dental students.\n\nHe said: \"I am confident there will be the ability for new dental students to be able to secure places and to be able to take forward their dental training.\"\n\nMr Swinney said he would be discussing the issues with the dental schools and the British Dental Association.", "Mr Ross was later reunited with his wedding ring which he lost while dropping rubbish off on Valentine's Day\n\nA man has told how his \"heart sank\" when his wedding ring fell into a pile of rubbish at a tip on Valentine's Day.\n\nJames Ross was dropping off cardboard at North Shields recycling centre when it flew off his finger and disappeared 10ft (3m) into a container.\n\nIt was found \"caked in rubbish and grime\" by staff, who have been described as \"life savers\".\n\nMr Ross, 38, from Cullercoats, said his wife Lara, 40, thought he had made up an \"elaborate\" story.\n\nThe couple, who have two daughters, aged nine and five, have praised the staff for their heroics.\n\n\"It was a container where you push the rubbish through an opening,\" said Mr Ross.\n\n\"My hands were cold and, as I was shaking out the box, suddenly the ring was just gone. I don't know if it caught the edge of the box, but my heart just sank.\"\n\nAfter alerting staff, four workers went to help with the search on Sunday.\n\nMr Ross added: \"I was losing hope and dreaded the thought of going home to my wife on Valentine's Day and telling her my ring was lost.\n\n\"It wasn't what it cost - it was laser engraved with my wife's handwriting and the date we got married in 2009. It was irreplaceable.\n\n\"The team had to pull out a huge pile of rubbish and shove it all behind them and check it over and over again.\"\n\nThe team said it was like trying to find \"a needle in a haystack\" and initially thought the lost ring was a washer\n\nThe team was said to be close to giving up when after 20 minutes, plant operator Jordan Cooper, 22, spotted it in a puddle of mud under a 10ft pile of waste.\n\n\"It was like looking for a needle in a haystack as there was a huge mound of waste to search through and we had the added difficulty of ensuring we kept our distance and followed the Covid guidelines,\" he said.\n\n\"We were just about to give up when I spotted it, I was over the moon.\"\n\nSite supervisor, Phil Cooper, was one of the four who went in to search for the ring alongside Adam McGregor and Brian Hellens.\n\nHe said: \"The lads were on their break when they shouted for us on the radio and asked us to shut down the machinery so we could enter the container and take a look.\n\n\"It was lying in a puddle of mud and was all scruffy. It looked like a washer at first glance but when you looked closely, it was all engraved inside and was obviously something very special.\n\n\"The guy was ecstatic when we handed back his ring. If it had fallen into a bag, it would have been gone.\"\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.", "It would be \"reckless\" to bring back all pupils in England to school together on 8 March, says a joint statement by teachers' unions.\n\nRather than risk another \"spike\" in infections, they are calling for a more \"cautious\" and \"phased\" return.\n\nNine teachers' and head teachers' unions have urged the government to commit to that date only if scientific evidence is clear that it is safe.\n\nThe prime minister will announce the plan for reopening schools on Monday.\n\nThe collective statement from education unions says they are committed to bringing children back into the classroom as soon as possible - but have concerns it may lead to another surge in the virus.\n\nThey say they are \"increasingly concerned that the government is minded to order a full return of all pupils on Monday 8 March\".\n\nThat has been the target since the prime minister announced the date in January.\n\nThe teachers' unions argue that uncertainty about the role that schools play in the transmission of the virus should mean a more cautious approach.\n\nA full return would mean 10 million pupils and staff travelling to and from school each day, says a statement from signatories including the biggest classroom union the National Education Union.\n\nThey call for an \"opening phased over a period of time\", similar to the \"approach being taken in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"It allows public health experts to assess the impact of the first phase before moving to the next,\" say the teachers' unions.\n\nThe decisions on England's return to school will be announced on Monday, when the prime minister will set out his \"road map\" for reopening after lockdown.\n\nThis is expected to be accompanied by a series of announcements on schools in the following days - with funding for catch-up classes, details of how testing will work and how cancelled GCSEs and A-levels will be replaced this summer.\n\nThere have been suggestions that after initial Covid tests in school, testing will be carried out at home by parents.\n\nThere will be new guidance on face masks, which could see them being worn in secondary schools where social distancing is not possible.\n\nThe nine unions signing up to the joint statement are the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), GMB, National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), NASUWT, National Education Union (NEU), National Governance Association (NGA), Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA), Unison, and Unite.\n\nOn Thursday, the ASCL head teachers' union had warned that it would not be practical to carry out Covid tests on all secondary pupils if they arrived back together.\n\nIn response, England's Department for Education said: \"We know schools, parents and pupils need clarity on plans as soon as possible, which is why we have committed to providing two weeks' notice for them to prepare.\n\n\"The prime minister is due to set out plans for schools reopening on 22 February, and pupils will return from 8 March at the earliest.\"\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, younger primary school year groups will begin to return from 22 February. Older primary pupils in Wales could begin to return from 15 March.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, younger primary pupils will return to classrooms on 8 March.\n\nThey will then go back to remote learning on 22 March, with the return then of secondary pupils in exam years until the Easter holidays.", "Evidence submitted by Alex Salmond will be published next week\n\nAlex Salmond is to appear before MSPs on Wednesday, the BBC understands.\n\nSources say that the former first minister has accepted an invitation to appear before a committee investigating how the Scottish government handled harassment complaints against him.\n\nEvidence submitted by Mr Salmond is expected to be published early next week.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament's corporate body ruled on Thursday that it was possible to publish the submission.\n\nMr Salmond had previously said he would not appear at the inquiry unless this was done, so that he could refer to it in his oral evidence.\n\nThe committee had previously refused to publish the document, citing legal concerns.\n\nThe submission accuses Mr Salmond's successor, Nicola Sturgeon, of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Eardley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Holyrood inquiry is examining what went wrong with the Scottish government's investigation of two internal harassment complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe government conceded its process had been \"unlawful\" and paid the former SNP leader more than £500,000 in legal expenses after he launched a judicial review action in the courts.\n\nMr Salmond had initially been expected to appear before the inquiry on 9 February, but this was cancelled when the committee voted, along party lines, not to publish one of his written submissions.\n\nA majority of MSPs argued there were legal reasons why the paper could not be published.\n\nMr Salmond has insisted he could not live up to an oath to \"tell the whole truth\" without being able to refer to the document.\n\nLast week, judge Lady Dorrian clarified a court order - dating back to Mr Salmond's criminal trial, in which he was acquitted of sexual assault charges - to ensure MSPs know what they can and cannot publish.\n\nThe committee met again on Wednesday and decided by five votes to four not to publish the submission, but also referred the matter to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body for a final decision.\n\nIt decided on Thursday that \"on balance it is possible\" to publish the submission.\n\nThe inquiry had already agreed to invite Mr Salmond to appear on 24 February, and the former first minister was said to have \"cleared his diary\".\n\nMs Sturgeon is expected to appear the following week, and has previously said she is \"relishing\" the prospect of putting her side across and rebutting \"conspiracy theories\".", "The Nasa rover, Perseverance, has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, seven months after leaving Earth.\n\nIts landing, on the Jezero Crater, means work can now begin on searching for evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet.\n\nTo do this, the robot will drill and collect samples of rock and soil for analysis at a later date.", "Crucial government policies have been held up too long by the Covid crisis, ministers have been told.\n\nSenior MPs say new laws, including on post-Brexit environmental standards and sentencing reform, should be put back on the agenda.\n\nIt comes after debating time for non-Covid topics was scaled back to make way for emergency laws and statements.\n\nBut select committee chairs said it was time for delayed bills to return.\n\nThe demand has been made by the powerful cross-party liaison committee, which includes the heads of each Commons select committee.\n\nIn a letter to Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, the committee's chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin said the pandemic had \"understandably impacted\" time for new bills.\n\n\"But now that this is closer to being under control, we would urge the government to deliver on its commitments to and demands from select committees on other vitally important legislation,\" he added.\n\nThe Conservative MP called on the government - which sets time for almost all new laws - to give \"due priority\" to certain bills over the next year.\n\nHe added that this legislation, whose next stage in Parliament has yet to be set by the government, included:\n\nSir Bernard added that the reintroduction of the Environment Bill should be a \"government priority,\" to fill a \"gap\" in regulations since the UK left the Brexit transition period.\n\nCampaigners have reacted angrily to repeated delays to the legislation, which was first launched back in July 2018 and sets new targets for protecting nature.\n\nHe said he was also keen for MPs to hold initial debates on draft government bills for reforming the rental market and overhauling England's planning system.\n\nHe also called on ministers to publish legislation to ban \"gay conversion therapy\" and on tougher sentences for dangerous driving, where they have promised action but legislation has not yet been published.\n\nAnd he added that bills put forward by MPs, including one on regulating forensic science, were unlikely to pass before the current session ends.\n\nThis is because Friday sittings - when this type of bill is usually debated - have been suspended in a bid to reduce the risk of Covid to MPs and their staff.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The Queen's Speech will outline the legislative programme for the next session in the usual way.\n\n\"The government welcomes scrutiny from select committees and will bring forward its legislative commitments when parliamentary time allows.\"\n\nOn gay conversion therapy, the government's equality hub spokesperson: \"Conversion therapy is an abhorrent practice that this government will take action on to stop.\n\n\"We will outline our proposals in due course.\"", "The Treasury is looking at ways of taxing services provided by gig economy firms such as Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit.\n\nIt is concerned that tax rules are not up-to-date enough to cover these type of tech platforms.\n\nThe gig economy has grown rapidly and is expected to be worth £140bn by 2025.\n\nNot charging VAT means the the Treasury loses out on revenue, at a time when it is facing a huge hole in public finances due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHowever, its concerns about the \"sharing economy\" predate the start of the pandemic.\n\nOn Thursday, the Treasury published a consultation paper called VAT and the Sharing Economy to call for feedback on the issue.\n\nWhen self-employed contractors carry out the service booked on a platform such as Uber, Airbnb or Task Rabbit, they often individually fall below the £85,000 VAT registration threshold.\n\nBut if they were employees and the service was provided by the platform company, consumers would have to pay the tax.\n\nThe review is part of the government's aim of \"ensuring fair competition and a level playing field for all businesses, whether operating in the sharing economy or as a traditional business, regardless of their size and location\".\n\nBased on the predicted size of the gig economy by 2025, it would equate to a loss of up to £28bn a year in VAT for the Treasury.\n\nThe consultation document highlighted examples of the business practices it wanted to investigate for action where \"no VAT [was] being charged where it might have been in the traditional economy\".\n\nThese included car-booking rides where \"the drivers at this firm are all self-employed\".\n\nThe Treasury added that the review was designed to \"test the government's view of the VAT challenges the sharing economy creates\".\n\nLast month's spending review by the Office for Budget Responsibility revealed there was a £40bn a year hole in the public finances.\n\nAnother issue is defining what is consider part of the sharing economy as definitions differ.\n\nThe Treasury says it should cover \"any digital platform which facilitates the supply of services between two or more unconnected parties.\"\n\nThis would include labour for household repairs, renting out an apartment and a driver offering passenger transport using their personal car.", "Zara Mohammed was elected to lead the Muslim Council of Britain at the end of January\n\nThe BBC has said Woman's Hour host Emma Barnett asked a Muslim leader about \"legitimate\" issues, after complaints that she had been \"strikingly hostile\".\n\nThe broadcaster promised to \"reflect on\" the concerns raised after Barnett's interview with the first woman to lead the Muslim Council of Britain.\n\nMore than 100 prominent figures signed an open letter about Zara Mohammed's \"mistreatment\" on Radio 4.\n\nThe show said it would \"think hard\" about how to reflect Muslim women.\n\nDirector general Tim Davie said he agreed with the programme's response to the letter, and that the BBC has \"a responsibility to explore and debate issues within all communities\".\n\nThe open letter, published on Wednesday, was signed by a range of politicians, writers, academics and other public figures.\n\nIt said Barnett \"appeared intent on re-enforcing damaging and prejudicial tropes about Islam and Muslim women\", and that the corporation \"needs to address its engagement with and representation of Muslim women\".\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour in January 2021\n\nIn particular, the letter took issue with the host for \"persistently\" asking how many female imams there are in Britain.\n\n\"Despite Mohammed's repeated claims that religious adjudication was not within the parameters of her role leading a civil society organisation, Barnett asked the question about female imams four times, each time interrupting Mohammed's answer,\" it said.\n\nThe interview \"mirrored the style and tone of an accountability interview with a politician, rather than authentically recognising and engaging in what this represented for British Muslim women\", the letter added.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the programme said: \"While we appreciate that people can sometimes have very differing responses to our live interviews and discussions, we believe it was legitimate for the programme to seek to explore some of the issues facing Muslims in the UK.\n\n\"Woman's Hour however has always been a programme that listens to feedback and learns from the responses we receive; we will reflect on the issues and concerns you raise in this open letter.\n\n\"We always endeavour to reflect the experiences and issues impacting Muslim women as well as think hard about how we do so, and we will continue to do that.\n\n\"We commit to returning to this on air soon and to deepen our engagement with the issues that matter most to Muslim women, as well as looking at representation across Woman's Hour as part of the BBC's plans to more accurately reflect the society we serve.\"\n\nTim Davie: \"Improving the representation of our staff is a key priority for me and my executive team\"\n\nThe open letter said part of the problem was that Muslim voices were \"underrepresented at every level\" within the BBC, especially in production arm BBC Studios, which makes the long-running Radio 4 programme.\n\nMr Davie acknowledged that the proportion of Muslim staff at the BBC is lower than the national average, but added: \"It is not as low as you suggest.\"\n\nHe said: \"Improving the representation of our staff is a key priority for me and my executive team.\"\n\nHe invited the writers of the letter to \"meet with some senior colleagues at the BBC to talk through the issues that you raise in your letter\", in order to understand BBC plans to \"improve representation across our programmes and within our teams\".\n\nBut the letter's authors Mariam Khan and Yassmin Abdel-Magied said Mr Davie and Woman's Hour had \"failed to engage with the specifics of our concerns over the content of the interview\".\n\nThey also said it was \"frustrating\" that the director general had chosen to quote statistics for Muslim employees across the BBC, and that representation in the TV and radio production departments of commercial arm BBC Studios was \"negligible and requires urgent addressing both at staff and leadership levels\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils have mixed opinions about returning to school, with some \"excited\" and others preferring learning at home.\n\nThe youngest, aged three to seven, are to be phased back into schools from Monday, with some older students returning to the classroom from 15 March.\n\nOne pupil said it has been \"really hard studying from home\", while another said she was excited to get back to school because \"it is easy to procrastinate at home\".\n\nAnother student, who said he is not looking forward to going back to school, said: \"We could stagger the return to school, so that people who are struggling with home learning could go back to school full time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says a new bond for money savers would provide a way for \"people to invest in the future of their country\"\n\nMillions of savers would be given a chance to invest in the UK's recovery from the coronavirus crisis, under proposals set out by Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Labour leader's British Recovery Bond scheme is the centrepiece of his alternative plan for \"national recovery\", ahead of 3 March's Budget.\n\nHe also proposed start-up loans for 100,000 new small firms, especially in areas outside the South-East.\n\nThe Conservatives said Sir Keir had stolen most of his ideas from them.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will set out the government's plans to haul the UK economy out of the deepest recession in 300 years in his Budget speech next month.\n\nBut Sir Keir said the Conservatives were \"incapable of seizing this moment\", adding: \"All we can expect from this government is more of the same. Labour would choose a different path.\"\n\nThe government said it has spent £280bn to help the economy through the pandemic, including tax breaks, grants and wage support for workers.\n\nBut Sir Keir told the BBC people would have to \"judge the government on its record\", with 10 years of \"weakening of our foundations, the pulling money out of our public services, the underfunding of the NHS and the failure to fix care homes\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor, Vicki Young, the Labour leader said: \"You can't clap your keyworkers during a pandemic, then go back to business as usual and that is where this government will head.\n\n\"The first step has to be a recovery and a thriving economy, and if you put taxes up or you go for austerity, you will throttle that [before] you have even got to first base.\"\n\n\"We have been through too much here and there is a parallel with [World War Two], where people have been through sacrifice and solidarity and they want a better future, and that is what I am setting out the path to.\"\n\nConservative Party co-chair Amanda Milling, accused Labour of stealing her party's policies, adding: \"After 10 months of Keir Starmer, all Labour has to offer is others' ideas, empty rhetoric and calling for things the government is already doing.\"\n\nThe main policy the Labour leader put forward was a British Recovery Bond.\n\nA Labour government would offer people a savings account with the government at a competitive interest rate - similar to the previous National Savings and Investments bonds.\n\nThe cash raised would then be spent on rebuilding the country post-Covid.\n\nIt comes off the back of figures from the Bank of England, which showed households had accumulated over £125bn in excess savings by November 2020 - estimated to hit £250bn by June 2021 - but with only around 5% of the savings expected to be spent, with much of the rest sitting in savings accounts.\n\nSir Keir said this money could be used to \"invest in local communities, jobs and businesses\", as well as providing security for savers and giving \"millions of people a proper stake in Britain's future\".\n\nThe Conservatives said the policy was the same as one proposed by the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs, although that group's \"Northern Recovery Bond\" plan is not government policy.\n\nBut speaking to the BBC, Sir Keir said the chancellor was instead \"pinning a lot of hope on the idea that those who have saved during the pandemic... are going to spend all that money in the short term\".\n\nHe added: \"I don't think that is realistic and I don't think the Bank of England does. What the bond does is provide a way for people to invest in the future of their country in a secure way, and obviously then releases money for infrastructure projects.\"\n\nThe pandemic has blurred political lines over the last year.\n\nThe Conservatives have been forced to become big-spending big government.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has been stuck between being criticised for being too supportive and, when it has been critical, being accused of carping from the sidelines.\n\nThe point of this speech was to take voters out of the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic and remind them of the party politics of before.\n\nAlthough, of course, not exactly those politics, as this was also an opportunity for Sir Keir to address some of the pressure to start setting out his vision for Labour.\n\nSo, there was a promise of continuing with significant government intervention in the economy but also of financial responsibility and of making business \"pivotal\".\n\nThe big policy reveal of the speech - British Recovery Bonds - neatly sums ups the aims Sir Keir set out of long-term investment, partnership and giving people a stake in society.\n\nBut it relies on those who have been left better off from the pandemic, rather than the many who have not.\n\nSaving bonds are also known for being pretty low risk.\n\nThe choice of this as a policy to unveil is unlikely to pacify those who would like to see Labour being more radical.\n\nSir Keir also proposed to provide an extra £1bn of funding for the Start Up Loans Company, which provides finance for people wanting to launch their own businesses.\n\nThe Labour leader said the scheme had offered less than 9,500 loans per year since it started in 2012, with nearly £1 in £4 going into London - compared to just 5.7% going to the North East.\n\nSir Keir said targeting existing funding and tweaking the scheme would help to create 100,000 small businesses across the country.\n\nThe Labour leader also reiterated his party's calls for the government to:\n\nA Budget had been expected to take place in autumn last year, but it was delayed until next month because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCovid restrictions have prompted the government to spend billions in unprecedented interventions aimed at keeping the economy afloat during the crisis.\n\nThis has pushed up UK debt to £2.13 trillion, equivalent to 99.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) - a level not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nThe chancellor is under pressure from MPs and industry groups to extend support measures, but also to spell out when and how the UK's debts can be paid down.\n• None Under the radar: Labour's search for direction", "Three in 10 care home staff have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 despite being in the top four priority groups, according to data from NHS England.\n\nMore than 435,000 workers in care homes for older adults are eligible in England, but only 304,600 have received a first dose.\n\nIn London, only 52% of staff have had a jab, rising to 75% in the South West.\n\nThe UK target of vaccinating 15 million people was met at the weekend.\n\nBut these figures, up to 14 February, suggest there are large groups of care workers, who are in the top four priority groups, who have still not come forward.\n\nSome care home staff have previously said they refused the vaccine because of \"cultural issues\", but organisations representing care providers say they must be convinced to have one - to protect them and the services they work in.\n\nSome 95% of care home residents in England - who are also prioritised - have been vaccinated, with all regions above 93%.\n\nFour groups - care home workers and residents, frontline health workers, the over-70s and clinically extremely vulnerable people - have been prioritised for vaccines since the UK's mass vaccination programme started in December.\n\nThis data shows that 1.02 million health workers in England have been vaccinated with a first dose.\n\nThis figure, which does not include agency staff, is equivalent to 88% of patient-facing staff.\n\nAnd 1.8 million of those at very high risk of serious illness from Covid-19 (deemed clinically extremely vulnerable) have also been given a vaccine.\n\nPeople in this group have specific health conditions or are undergoing certain types of treatment which increases their risk from coronavirus.\n\nA total of 2.2 million people in England are currently in this group which has been asked to shield, although an extra 1.7 million are expected to be added to the list based on other factors.\n\nA campaign to persuade people belonging to ethnic minorities to have a Covid vaccine is being shown across the UK on TV channels on Thursday. Official figures suggest they are less likely to be vaccinated.\n\nThe latest evidence comes from a study of GP records looking at vaccine take-up.", "Ruth Williams was killed by her husband of almost 50 years at their home\n\nA group of MPs are calling for the case of a man who killed his wife in lockdown to be reviewed because of its \"unduly lenient\" five year sentence.\n\nLabour's Harriet Harman, Jess Phillips and Alex Davies-Jones have all written to the attorney general to look at Anthony Williams' case.\n\nWilliams, 70, was jailed for the manslaughter of his wife Ruth, 67, at their home in Cwmbran, Torfaen.\n\nHe admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility, saying \"I flipped out\".\n\nHowever, he was found not guilty of murder after a trial at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nAll three are asking the attorney general Suella Braverman for the case to be passed to England and Wales' most senior court, the Court of Appeal, and expressed concern about the use of Williams' depression in his defence against the more serious charge of murder.\n\nMs Harman, a former solicitor general and minister for justice, tweeted she would ask the attorney general to refer it to the Court of Appeal as an \"unduly lenient sentence\".\n\nHarriet Harman was the first MP to call for the sentenced to be reviewed\n\nThe former solicitor said she hoped it would lead to an increase in Williams' sentence and criticised what she said was a \"loophole\" in the law which allowed Williams' defence barrister to argue his depression was a defence against being convicted of murder.\n\n\"If he went out in the street and killed a neighbour, there would be no question of him facing a murder charge,\" she said.\n\n\"You get a discount for it being your wife and you get a discount for it being in her own home where she should feel safe.\"\n\nJess Phillips said is a concern that Williams will only serve half his sentence\n\nMeanwhile, Jess Phillips tweeted her support for Ms Harman, expressing concern that Williams may only serve half his sentence.\n\nThe MP for Birmingham Yardley said: \"We're looking at somebody serving around 18 months in prison when there is a woman who is dead.\n\n\"The areas in which I think this case needs to be examined are the difference between how men and women pleading such a defence of diminished responsibility are managed, and the way that plays out, specifically in cases of alleged domestic murder.\n\n\"I want some assurances as somebody who is always seeking to improve criminal justice outcomes for victims of domestic violence, about how this case was managed both by the courts, but also by the Crown Prosecution Service.\"\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, also wrote on Friday to the attorney general, urging her to intervene and refer the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIn the letter she posted on Twitter, she said she was \"horrified\" that Williams was \"given such a lenient sentence at a time where so many are struggling with the mental strain of the pandemic\".\n\nShe wrote that the UK government's Domestic Abuse Bill was a \"landmark piece of legislation,\" but added: \"Sadly, there are cases such as Mr Williams' whereby the law is failing victims.\"\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\nShe added that she was worried the sentence could \"act as a catalyst\" and that \"we're going to see even more extremes happening, with perpetrators thinking they have an excuse or a cover\".\n\nMs Davies-Jones also said she was concerned that Ms Braverman is due to go on maternity leave this month, with the UK government yet to announce a replacement for her.\n\nWilliams' daughter had told the court he was \"spiralling out of control\" with worry during the lockdown\n\nDuring his Swansea Crown Court trial, the jury heard how Williams strangled his wife of 46 years after an argument on 28 March, days after the start of the first lockdown began.\n\nWilliams had not slept for several days after the start of restrictions in March because he was worrying over money, coronavirus and his health.\n\nA psychiatrist told the court the defendant's mental health had dramatically deteriorated after retiring in 2019, and the coronavirus pandemic had made things worse.\n\nNo evidence was heard during the trial that Williams had a history of domestic abuse.\n\nMrs Williams was found slumped in the porch of their home with keys in her hand - she was later pronounced dead at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.\n\nWhile being driven to the police station, Williams told officers: \"It wasn't murder and I didn't mean to murder her.\n\n\"I just flipped, it wasn't me. I wouldn't hurt a fly, it wasn't me, I'm not like that and I don't know what came over me.\"\n\nAs he sentenced Williams, Judge Paul Thomas said: \"The overwhelming greatest tragedy is that a lady of 67 years who was in good health had her life ended at the hands of a man she had loved for nearly 50 years.\"", "The Duke of Edinburgh has been spending a third night in hospital after being admitted on his doctor's advice.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, was earlier said to be in \"good spirits\" after being taken to King Edward VII Hospital in central London as a precaution on Tuesday.\n\nHis stay is not related to coronavirus and is expected to last for a few days.\n\nThe Queen, 94, has remained at Windsor Castle and performed her first face-to-face event of the year on Thursday when she knighted a royal aide.\n\nVice-Admiral Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\n\nSir Tony, a former Royal Navy officer, runs a department that handles official and private entertaining and hospitality across all royal residences.\n\nPolice officers guard the entrance to the King Edward VII Hospital where Prince Philip is being cared for\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge carried out several virtual conversations with front-line NHS staff on Thursday, while the Princess Royal held a virtual meeting in her role as patron of the Scottish Rugby Union.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have also continued official duties.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video message for a virtual meeting hosted by the British Asian Trust, Prince Charles said on Thursday it was a \"tragedy\" not everyone was benefitting from the \"extraordinary achievement\" of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nAfter feeling unwell, Prince Philip was advised to go into hospital by his doctor - though the exact reason for the admission is undisclosed.\n\nA palace source said the duke had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nLast month, the palace announced that Prince Philip and the Queen had received Covid vaccinations from a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple have been spending the recent lockdown in England at Windsor Castle with a small household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip released a photograph for their 73rd wedding anniversary last November\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip celebrated Christmas quietly at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional family gathering at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nIn December 2019, the duke, who turns 100 in June, was admitted to the same hospital - King Edward VII Hospital - as a \"precautionary measure\" for treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nHe was discharged on Christmas Eve after four nights and driven to Sandringham, where he spent Christmas with the Queen.\n\nPrince Philip's most-recent official engagement saw him hand over his role of colonel-in-chief of The Rifles in a ceremony at Windsor to the Duchess of Cornwall, who received the role separately.\n\nLast November, the Queen and Prince Philip marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph of themselves opening a card made for them by their great-grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.", "Millions of people are out of pocket on flights they were unable to board due to coronavirus restrictions, according to consumer group Which?.\n\nHolidaymakers prevented from flying by travel restrictions or lockdowns may not be entitled to a refund.\n\nMore than two million people have not got their money back, Which? said.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place in the UK, with travellers arriving from \"high-risk\" countries having to stay in quarantine hotels.\n\nMost of the people who were unable to take flights were hit by circumstances which meant they reasonably, or in some cases, legally, could not travel to their destination, Which? said.\n\nIt is warning people to be wary of booking flights for this summer and to wait until the situation around international travel becomes clearer.\n\nThe consumer group said in the longer-term booking a package holiday rather than a flight-only booking should give stronger passenger protections. People should only book with a trusted provider with a generous and flexible booking policy, it said.\n\nRebecca Howe said Ryanair would not refund her family's flights\n\nTravel restrictions introduced at the Spanish border on Christmas Eve meant the Howe family couldn't take their trip to Lanzarote.\n\nThey were able to cancel their accommodation free of charge, but it was a different story with their flights.\n\n\"We asked for a refund, but was told as the flight was still operating, we weren't entitled,\" Rebecca Howe told the BBC.\n\nIt has left the family £980 out of pocket, and they're far from alone in losing cash paid for flights.\n\nHopeful holidaymakers have been prevented from travelling because of local or national lockdowns and restrictions preventing entry at their destination, or the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office advising against non-essential travel.\n\nBut in cases where the airline did not cancel the flight, customers may not be legally entitled to a refund or guaranteed a successful claim through their travel insurance or bank.\n\nWhich? said passengers in these circumstances would often have only been given the choice of rebooking their flight or losing their money.\n\nRebecca Howe said she was offered the choice to rebook her Ryanair flights for free up until the end of March, but that was no good.\n\n\"For one thing all the Ryanair flights to Lanzarote between Christmas and the end of March were less than half the price as we paid a premium to travel over New Year.\n\n\"If we'd accepted a cheaper flight, we would have lost the difference.\"\n\nBut with the only practical date available for the family to go was February half-term, even that was no good.\n\n\"Someone at my work had already it booked as annual leave so I couldn't take the time off as we are only allowed one person out.\"\n\nThey're now trying to reclaim the money via a chargeback request through their bank, \"But there's no guarantee it'll be successful so at the moment we're accepting we have lost the money.\"\n\nDonna Smullen and her husband were left £500 out of pocket after Ryanair declined to refund them\n\nDonna Smullen and her husband from Cheshire had booked flights to Spain with Ryanair in September 2019, long before the start of the pandemic.\n\nThey were due to travel in August 2020, but at the end of July, the FCDO warned against non-essential travel to Spain. That warning invalidates most travel insurance.\n\nA two-week quarantine was also introduced for flights returning from mainland Spain. Due to their jobs, quarantining was not an option for the couple.\n\n\"We were told by Ryanair we could change the date of our flights for a fee of €30 to €90 (£26 to £78) per person per flight, as long as we travelled before the end of 2020,\" she said.\n\nThat meant rebooking would have been more expensive than the flights themselves, so they took the hit and were left more than £500 out of pocket.\n\nRyanair said that passengers who book non-refundable flights are not entitled to refunds if they choose not to travel on flights which have operated.\n\nHowever, passengers can avoid being out of pocket by \"availing of Ryanair's change facility, even for bookings which were made prior to any Covid-19 flight restrictions being introduced.\"\n\nWhich? has shared its findings with the CMA to aid an investigation into whether airlines have breached consumers' legal rights by failing to offer cash refunds for flights they could not lawfully take.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"With non-essential travel currently illegal, airlines must play their part in protecting public health by ensuring no-one is left out of pocket for abiding by the law and not travelling.\n\n\"All airlines should allow passengers the option to cancel for a full refund, as well as fee-free rebooking options, while these restrictions remain in place.\"", "Matt Hancock is the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care\n\nMatt Hancock acted unlawfully when his department did not reveal details of contracts it had signed during the Covid pandemic, a court has ruled.\n\nA judge said the health secretary had \"breached his legal obligation\" by not publishing details within 30 days of contracts being signed.\n\nThe public had a right to know where the \"vast\" amounts spent had gone and how contracts were awarded, he added.\n\nThe government said it fully recognised the \"importance of transparency\".\n\nBut Labour claimed the government's awarding of contracts was \"plagued by a lack of transparency, cronyism and waste\".\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has struck deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCampaign group the Good Law Project and three MPs - Labour's Debbie Abrahams, Green Caroline Lucas and Lib Dem Layla Moran - took legal action against the department over its \"wholesale failure\" to disclose details of the contracts agreed.\n\nUnder the law, the government is required to publish a \"contract award notice\" within 30 days of the awarding any contracts for public goods or services worth more than £120,000.\n\nThe Good Law Project also claimed that the government breached its own transparency policy, which requires the publication of details of public contracts worth more than £10,000.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish contract award notices within 30 days of the award of contracts.\n\n\"There is also no dispute that the secretary of state failed to publish redacted contracts in accordance with the transparency policy.\"\n\nThe judge said the health secretary had spent \"vast quantities\" of public money on Covid-related goods and services during 2020.\n\n\"The public were entitled see who this money was going to, what it was being spent on and how the relevant contracts were awarded,\" he added.\n\nHe said this was important so that competitors of those awarded contracts could understand whether the obligations had been breached.\n\nThe judge also said publishing the details allowed bodies such as the National Audit Office, as well as Parliament and the public, to \"scrutinise and ask questions about this expenditure\".\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain acknowledged that the situation faced by the DHSC during the first few months of the pandemic had been \"unprecedented\".\n\nHe said it was \"understandable that attention was focused on procuring what was thought necessary to save lives\".\n\nBut he added that the DHSC's \"historic failure\" to publish details of contracts awarded during the pandemic was \"an excuse, not a justification\".\n\nHowever, the judge dismissed the Good Law Project's argument that there had been a department-wide \"policy of de-prioritising compliance\" with the law and guidance.\n\n\"This judgement is a victory for all of us concerned with proper governance and proof of the power of litigation to hold government to account,\" the Good Law Project said in a statement.\n\n\"But there is still a long way to go before the government's house is in order.\"\n\nThe DHSC said the government had been \"working tirelessly\" to deliver what was needed to protect health and social care staff during the pandemic.\n\n\"This has often meant having to award contracts at speed to secure the vital supplies required to protect NHS workers and the public.\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"We fully recognise the importance of transparency in the award of public contracts and continue to publish information about contracts awarded as soon as possible.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves called the judgement \"troubling and unsurprising, and a perfect example of how this government believes it is one rule for them another for the rest of us\".\n\nShe added: \"This government's contracting has been plagued by a lack of transparency, cronyism and waste and they must take urgent steps to address this now - by winding down emergency procurement, urgently releasing details of the VIP fast lane, and publishing all outstanding contracts by the end of the month.\"", "Gay people were prevented from working at MI6 until 1991\n\nThe chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, has publicly apologised for its historic treatment of LGBT people.\n\nRichard Moore said a security bar on LGBT staff until 1991 had been \"wrong, unjust and discriminatory\".\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter 30 years after the ban was lifted, he said it had also been counter-productive.\n\nMI6 \"deprived ourselves of some of the best talent Britain could offer\", he said.\n\nThe MI6 chief has chosen LGBT History Month to offer both praise and contrition to those who were wronged by the ban.\n\nMr Moore, who is the only publicly identifiable member of MI6, said thousands of patriotic people were wrongly denied the chance to work in intelligence.\n\n\"The ban did mean that we, in the intelligence and diplomatic services, deprived ourselves of some of the best talent Britain could offer. Ready to serve but denied that opportunity,\" he said.\n\nSame-sex relationships were decriminalised in Britain in 1967, but it took a further 24 years before the ban on hiring LGBT staff across government was lifted.\n\nBefore then it was wrongly thought that they would be vulnerable to blackmail and subversion, Mr Moore said.\n\nLGBT people who declared their sexual orientation at that time were asked to leave government service. Thousands more who wanted to join were prevented from doing so.\n\n\"Committed, talented, public-spirited people had their careers and lives blighted because it was argued that being LGBT+ was incompatible with being an intelligence professional,\" Mr Moore said.\n\n\"Because of this policy, other loyal and patriotic people had their dreams of serving their country in MI6 shattered. This was wrong, unjust and discriminatory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe MI6 chief, who rarely makes any public statement, used his official Twitter account to broadcast his message.\n\nIn a separate video, Mr Moore thanked all LGBT staff for their contribution to Britain's security as he appeared alongside the actor Sir Ian McKellen, who recalled some of the homophobic discrimination he had encountered in the 1980s.\n\nSir Ian suggested the lifting of the ban in 1991 put MI6 in the \"vanguard\" and helped change the way society thought about LGBT people.\n\n\"Having so boldly accepted there had been injustice in the past within its own organisation, it gave heart for people to think 'well, perhaps you could spread that principle of honesty and equality to other areas of life',\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has ministerial responsibility for MI6, also paid tribute to the courage of LGBT colleagues, past and present, saying the UK was safer because of their dedicated service.", "A picture taken by the Viking 2 lander on Mars Image caption: A picture taken by the Viking 2 lander on Mars\n\nBefore the era of robotic spacecraft, scientists and authors alike speculated that Mars might be home to intelligent life with advanced civilisations.\n\nBut when the American Mariner 4 spacecraft flew by Mars in 1965, it returned pictures of a dry, cratered, seemingly barren world.\n\nIt was becoming clear that any life on the Red Planet must be a godawful small affair, as David Bowie once sang.\n\nThus, when Nasa launched its two Viking landers to Mars in 1975, the spacecraft carried experiments designed to detect signs of microbes in the Martian soil. The results from one of these tests, known as the labelled release (LR) experiment, remains a source of controversy to this day.\n\nA sample of Martian soil was picked up and placed in a small tube to which a squirt of radioactive carbon was added. Were any Martian micro-organisms present, the hope was that they would recognise the nutrient, \"eat\" it and give off radioactive gas.\n\n\"No-one, including me, was very hopeful this would work on Mars,\" the experiment's chief scientist Gil Levin said in a 2014 interview with SPIE TV.\n\n\"Surprisingly, as soon as the first squirt of radioactive nutrient hit that Martian soil, we got a big bulge of gas coming out. And it came out for the entire seven days, or Martian sols, of the experiment. That was astounding.\"\n\nLevin and colleagues also ran a \"control\", to exclude the possibility that chemicals in the Martian soil could react to produce the gas. The results again pointed to microbial production, according to Levin.\n\nBut another experiment on Viking had found no native organic matter in the Martian soil.\n\nHow could life exist without organic matter? This discrepancy led to the labelled release experiment being judged inconclusive. But a few advocates, such as Dr Levin, continue to believe in the results.", "Nearly 20 major healthcare bodies are appealing to the PM for better personal protection against coronavirus.\n\nThey say at least 930 health and care workers have died of Covid-19 and more are experiencing long-term effects.\n\nIn a letter, they say measures to stop airborne spreading are \"inadequate\" and call for urgent improvement in masks and other defences against variants.\n\nThe government said it was monitoring evidence on airborne transmission and would update advice \"where necessary\".\n\nThe organisations involved represent a wide range of health professionals, from doctors and nurses to dieticians and physiotherapists.\n\nTheir approach to Downing Street follows repeated efforts to raise the issue with others in government.\n\nWith health and care workers at three to four times greater risk of becoming infected than the general public, the plea to Boris Johnson is to make an \"urgent intervention to prevent further loss of life\".\n\nIt says current policies focus on contaminated surfaces and droplets - for which the best defences are hand hygiene and social distancing - but not on airborne transmission by tiny infectious aerosols.\n\n\"There is now no scientific doubt,\" the letter states, \"that Covid-19 spreads via the airborne route.\"\n\n\"The evidence is clear - and lives continue to be put at risk.\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that nurses needed better protection when working with patients outside of intensive care units - such as in homes and open wards.\n\n\"While we've taken care of one area, people are unnecessarily exposed,\" she said.\n\n\"We need a different approach that recognises the evidence. There is no point in [the UK's four chief medical officers] saying that 'we're writing this guidance all together' if the guidance doesn't adequately protect the people that are working on the front line day in and day out, and we believe it doesn't.\"\n\nOne of the organisations involved, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, says its members routinely have to spend time close to Covid patients.\n\nChief executive Kamini Gadhok told BBC News: \"I'm shocked. I feel quite distraught from it all.\n\n\"People are dying - and there is this stonewalling in the context of this being a life-threatening virus.\n\n\"Not being heard for so long is incredibly distressing.\"\n\nIt's hard to keep track of the number of appeals and letters leading healthcare organisations have produced in their efforts to secure safer conditions.\n\nAnd it's not often seasoned health professionals end up in tears when talking about this.\n\nBut months of trying to persuade the powers that be to routinely allow a higher grade of personal protection equipment (PPE) for all staff dealing with Covid patients have got nowhere.\n\nOne result is an increasing sense among front-line staff of fear about the dangers they face, and of alienation from those deciding the policy on infection control.\n\nAnother is that all over the UK, there are growing numbers of hospitals and ambulance trusts quietly going their own way, providing better equipment regardless of the official guidelines.\n\nThere's a more fundamental point as well - with a division between those who insist the virus can be held at bay mainly by hand hygiene and droplet control, and those who look at the research into aerosols and judge enough is known to recognise a real risk.\n\nInitially, the concern was many of the staff's tasks - assessing the ability to swallow, for example - were likely to cause coughs and therefore aerosols.\n\nBut as the pandemic unfolded, and more research emerged into how the virus could spread, a broader worry surfaced about being in poorly ventilated rooms for long periods protected by only a surgical mask.\n\nA government spokesman said the safety of NHS and social care staff is a priority and that because good ventilation can reduce the risk, there's guidance on it for businesses and health and care settings.\n\n\"The government will continue to closely monitor new and emerging evidence on airborne transmission, and update our advice where necessary,\" he said.\n\nGroups to have signed the letter include:", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to spend the weekend finalising his \"roadmap\" for easing Covid restrictions in England and opening up the economy.\n\nThe government is \"crunching the numbers\" ahead of Monday's announcement, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said.\n\nNew data is expected to suggest vaccines have cut transmission rates.\n\nBut Downing Street has refused to comment on the likely contents of the unlocking plan amid press speculation.\n\nThe prime minister has said his top priority will be the re-opening of schools.\n\nThe government has long planned to get all pupils in England back to the classroom on 8 March - but teachers' unions say the return may need to be \"staggered\" to allow for Covid testing.\n\nMinisters are also under pressure to re-open pubs, restaurants, shops and the tourism industry - but scientists are warning against a swift return to relative \"normality\".\n\nTravel for holidays in the UK, and abroad, is currently banned\n\nMr Cleverly told BBC Breakfast the prime minister would set out plans for easing restrictions \"in as much detail as he is able\" in his long-awaited \"roadmap\" statement to Parliament on Monday.\n\n\"But we cannot give guarantees, because that is not how viruses work,\" he added. \"Ultimately we want to open up society, the economy, as much as we are able, but only on the condition that it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Cleverly would not be drawn on whether the government could allow holidays to take place at home and abroad this summer, saying: \"We are assessing the numbers.\"\n\nThe devolved nations of the UK have the power to set their own restrictions, and have been moving at different speeds:\n\nNow that more than 16 million of the UK's most vulnerable have been vaccinated, the next step is to find out the impact.\n\nLess than 10 weeks after the programme began, there are hints in data on over-80s in England that deaths in that age group are falling more quickly than in other age groups.\n\nThis was always the hope - that vaccines would prevent people dying and becoming seriously ill in the oldest first, reducing pressure on hospitals and protecting those most at risk.\n\nThe impact of vaccines on numbers infected may not change for a while yet though - that depends on how good the vaccines are at stopping the spread of the virus, which was always more uncertain, although the signs from early studies are promising.\n\nIn any case, lockdown restrictions appear to be having their own impact with infections falling every two weeks.\n\nWhen analysed alongside how hospitals are coping and figures on new variants, politicians will then have the difficult task of deciding on the path ahead.\n\nA further 12,057 Covid cases were reported across the UK on Thursday, down from a daily peak of more than 60,000 in January.\n\nAnother 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported, from a high of more than 1,800 in January.\n\nAnd more than 17 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines.\n\nBut concerns are high over the rapid spread, worldwide, of new coronavirus strains.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph is reporting that government figures - due to be published soon - will show the jabs have cut UK transmissions and infections by two thirds.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the first English lockdown, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK could be \"a very different country\" by the end of May.\n\nHe added: \"We will still have rules in place but… I think society will be a lot more normal.\"\n\nProf Ferguson said two key bits of data - the infection rate and the effectiveness of vaccines - were \"looking promising\", but it would take \"quite a long time\" to assess the situation fully.\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said it was still not clear what effect injections were having on overall coronavirus transmission.\n\nMost people immunised so far were \"elderly\", he said, and \"not mixing that much within the population\".", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Finance Minister Conor Murphy led the NI Executive press conference\n\nLockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 1 April, the Stormont Executive has agreed.\n\nBut children in primary 1 to primary 3 (aged four to seven) will go back to school in Northern Ireland on 8 March.\n\nThey will then resume remote learning on 22 March to enable the return of years 12 to 14, until the start of the Easter holidays.\n\nHealth officials have said they want to avoid a possible rise in cases around St Patrick's Day on 17 March.\n\nThe restrictions were imposed on 26 December to manage the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAnother review of the measures will take place on 18 March.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said Northern Ireland knew \"from experience what looks like success is hard-won, but also fragile\".\n\n\"We need decisions to be safe and sustainable, with a proper sequencing of actions.\"\n\nThe executive will publish its pathway-to-recovery blueprint for Northern Ireland on 1 March, she said.\n\nIt is not expected to include indicative reopening dates and Mrs Foster said she would be focused on \"data, not dates\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to receive new data on the effect of vaccines on the spread of coronavirus, ahead of Monday's publication of a roadmap for easing the lockdown in England.\n\nMrs Foster also said the executive was concerned about a growing prevalence of the more transmissible Kent variant of coronavirus, telling a press conference that up to 70% of cases in Northern Ireland are now linked to it.\n\nA further six Covid-19 linked deaths and 342 new cases were reported on Thursday by Northern Ireland's health department, bringing its death toll to 2,021.\n\nThis decision will not exactly come as a surprise.\n\nWhile the rate of infection continues falling, the numbers remain higher than when restrictions were initially eased after the first lockdown.\n\nThe executive unanimously backed Health Minister Robin Swann's proposal and it's clear the parties all agree (for now), that any reopening will have to be careful and gradual.\n\nIf the measures do end up staying in place until 1 April, that means NI will have been in lockdown for 14 weeks in total - a high price paid for Christmas easing.\n\nMinisters are also urging people not to get ahead of themselves when it comes to Easter yet, though it's not clear why restrictions weren't extended over Easter weekend.\n\nThe key message from Stormont remains that the fight to suppress coronavirus must continue, with hope for a way out starting later in the Spring.\n\nCarers aged 50 and over can now book the Covid-19 vaccine at a regional vaccination centre after the scheme was again extended.\n\nOn Thursday, Health Minister Robin Swann said he hoped to expand Northern Ireland's vaccine programme to carers of all ages soon.\n\nEarlier this week he announced that carers aged 60 to 64 and more people with underlying health conditions would be included in the programme.\n\nThe executive also agreed to a proposal from Education Minister Peter Weir at Thursday's executive meeting, allowing for a phased return of schools.\n\nPre-school and nursery children and pupils in primary 1 to 3 will return to school for two weeks from 8 March.\n\nThese children will then return to remote learning from 22 March until the Easter break.\n\nThe executive says this is to ensure that two large cohorts are not back in school together before Easter.\n\nStudents doing qualifications like GCSEs, AS, A-levels (in years 12 to 14) and other vocational qualifications will return to face-to-face teaching from 22 March.\n\nIt is planned that pre-school, nursery and primary schools pupils in primary 1 to 3 will then return to full-time face-to-face teaching after the Easter holidays, along with years 12-14.\n\nMrs Foster said the intention was to get all pupils back to school as soon as is achievable, after Easter, with the option of a separate phased return for primary 4 to primary 7 pupils and the remaining non-qualification years of post-primary.\n\nThe aim is \"dependent on the health situation at the time\", Mrs Foster added.\n\nIt is planned that a limited number of year groups will go back to class on 8 March\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Michael Allen, principal of Lisneal College in Londonderry, welcomed the announcement but said planning was needed.\n\n\"We need to make sure that the examination boards, particularly the CCEA, that their timing is perfectly aligned with the pupils returning on the 22nd,\" he said.\n\n\"Otherwise you have a real risk that you have 30 year 12 to year 14 pupils in every class staring at the teacher not knowing what to do and teachers staring back still none the wiser in terms of the evidence required for the centre determined grade.\"\n\nTullygally Primary School principal, Kirsty Andrews, said the logistics would be difficult for schools.\n\n\"I don't like the idea of it being only two weeks then out again, back to remote learning - we all know the children need to be back in school for face-to-face teaching,\" she said.\n\nStormont ministers have also agreed slight changes to click-and-collect services for some retailers.\n\nThose services will resume from 8 March for baby equipment shops, clothing shops, footwear shops and electrical goods shops.\n\nFrom that date, the number of people allowed to meet outdoors in a public space will increase to 10 people from two households.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy said he did not want the executive to cause \"confusion\" over whether people can meet up during the Easter holidays, which begin on 2 April.\n\n\"The advice would be not to be booking anything for Easter weekend, but there will be a review - I think the way the advice has been given today shows it's a gradual pace, there's no rapid reduction,\" he said.\n\n\"This is going to be a more slow re-entry into normal life, this side of Easter there won't be any reopening into normal life.\"\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\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds tweeted that she was hopeful of a \"safe and sustainable\" reopening of sectors.\n\nThe chief executives of Hospitality Ulster, Belfast Chamber, Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and Retail NI described the changes to click-and-collect services as \"positive steps\".\n\nBut they warned that the impact of repeated lockdowns would be \"severe and long-standing\".\n\nIt came in response to a large spike in the number of coronavirus cases, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe restrictions have meant non-essential retailers have been closed, family gatherings have been prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nThe number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 has reduced in recent weeks\n\nIt was initially imposed for six weeks but on 21 January ministers reviewed the measures and extended them until 5 March at the earliest.\n\nMeanwhile, latest figures from Stormont's Department of Health show 427,569 people have received their first coronavirus vaccine in Northern Ireland.\n\nSome 30,012 have received both their first and second.", "Leaders of the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy and Japan held a virtual summit\n\nG7 leaders have pledged to intensify co-operation on Covid-19 and increase their contribution to the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative.\n\nIn a joint statement released after a virtual summit on Friday, G7 leaders raised their overall commitment to $7.5bn (£5.3bn).\n\nWealthy countries are facing growing pressure to make sure lower-income nations get fair access to vaccines.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has pledged $4bn in US aid to the fund.\n\nAn initial $2bn will be donated in 2021, with an additional $2bn coming over the next two years.\n\nGermany pledged an additional $1.2bn with Chancellor Angela Merkel telling journalists: \"I stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe EU also increased its commitment on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Covax scheme is aiming to get at least 1.3bn vaccine doses to vulnerable populations worldwide in the coming months.\n\nCovax is co-led by Gavi, known as the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday he was grateful for the new commitments but emphasised that more was needed to address the world's vaccination imbalance.\n\n\"Vaccine equity is not just the right thing to do, it's also the smart thing to do,\" he said at the annual Munich Security Conference, also held virtually on Friday.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron is among world leaders calling for further action to address the world's vaccine imbalance - saying Europe and the US should urgently send up to 5% of their supplies to developing nations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on the need for a worldwide effort on vaccinations\n\nThe new commitments come days after UN Secretary General António Guterres criticised the distribution of vaccines so far as \"wildly uneven and unfair\".\n\nHe said just 10 countries had administered 75% of all vaccinations worldwide, while 130 countries had not yet received a single dose.\n\nFriday's online meeting was the first gathering of G7 leaders since April 2020, and the first international meeting for new US President Joe Biden.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, this year's G7 chair, has said that the UK will donate much of its surplus vaccine supply to poorer nations.\n\nTo date, at least 110 million people have been infected with the virus worldwide and more than 2.4 million have died, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIn the global scramble to secure vaccines against Covid-19 many wealthy countries - which funded a lot of the research - have ended up buying more supplies than they need.\n\nNew figures from the anti-poverty pressure group, the One Campaign, reveal that Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK, the US and the EU have already secured more than 3bn doses - 1.2bn more than they need to give their entire populations two doses.\n\nThe UK has also given £548m to Covax - the UN-led attempt to get vaccines out to poorer countries.\n\nBut campaigners say they want hard facts on how many actual doses Britain will now be donating to the mechanism.\n\nSome 130 countries in the world haven't done any vaccinations at all and healthcare workers in those countries remain at high risk.\n\nAnd even if the Covax plan works, it's only designed to cover 20% of each nation's population - far short of the herd immunity expected in wealthy countries.", "The couple have four children together\n\nKim Kardashian has filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West, according to reports in the US media.\n\nThe couple have been married for almost seven years and have four children together.\n\nThe news was broken by celebrity news website TMZ after months of rumours of marital difficulties.\n\nReports in US media suggest the reality star, 40, has requested joint legal and physical custody of their children. Neither has publicly commented.\n\nThe couple are among the most recognisable stars in the world and are both hugely successful in their own right.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Kim had been over the marriage for a long time\": Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton comments on the reported split\n\nKim first found fame in 2007 as the star of an E! Television reality series about her family. Keeping up with the Kardashians has remained hugely popular since, with its 21st and final series due to air next year.\n\nThe reality star has found success in many other areas of business, from mobile apps to make-up, and Forbes estimates her personal wealth to be about $780m (£556m).\n\nKnown for huge international hits like Gold Digger, Kanye West has been one of the biggest names in rap music for over 15 years. The Grammy-winning musician has also found success as a fashion designer.\n\nKardashian and West got together after her divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries\n\nThe pair were friends for years before they got together and West first appeared on her family's reality show in 2010.\n\nTheir first daughter, North, arrived in June 2013.\n\nWest famously hired the San Francisco Giants' baseball stadium and an orchestra to propose to her in front of her family, and their show's cameras, later that year.\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 kimkardashian 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\nThey got married in Italy in May 2014 and a photograph of them kissing on their wedding day became, at the time, Instagram's most liked post ever. By this point she and her sisters had turned social media into an art form, with their online followings propelling their business success and fame ever further.\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 kimkardashian 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\nKardashian gave birth to the couple's first son, Saint West, the following year. They went on to have two other children, Chicago and Psalm, through a surrogate after the reality star suffered from health complications during her previous pregnancies.\n\nThe couple have rarely been away from tabloid headlines since, most notably when Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris in 2016.\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 kimkardashian 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\nLast year, West unsuccessfully ran for US president. During his campaign, a series of erratic public appearances and online postings by the rapper sparked concern and led Kardashian to speak out.\n\nShe said her husband had bipolar disorder, was a \"brilliant but complicated person\" and called for greater empathy surrounding his mental health from the public and the media.\n\nRumours of their divorce have been around for months amid speculation Kardashian had hired well-known lawyer Laura Wasser.\n\nPage Six reported the filing was imminent in January, claiming West spent the festive season away from the California-based family at his Wyoming ranch.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe American space agency is expected to release new photos from its Perseverance rover shortly.\n\nThere was huge excitement at Nasa when its one-tonne robot touched down in Mars' Jezero Crater on Thursday.\n\nSatellites have since been flying over the ($2.7bn/£1.9bn) vehicle to pull off data to relay back to Earth.\n\nAmong all this information should be further views from the rover - of its surroundings, and some pictures it took during the descent to the surface.\n\nPerseverance is sitting almost bang in the middle of its targeted landing zone, about 2km to the southeast of what remains of an ancient river delta that formed at the edge of a lake.\n\nEngineers were delighted to see that hazard-avoidance systems had steered the rover away from tricky terrain in the last moments before wheels down.\n\nThe first picture looks forward. The shadow comes from the rover's robotic arm\n\nThe coming days will be consumed by getting Perseverance properly commissioned. Nasa will want to check over the hardware to be sure nothing was damaged during what would have been a rough ride to the ground.\n\nPerseverance's mast, with its main camera system, must be raised. The software that got the vehicle to Mars's surface must also now be exchanged for a software system that enables the robot to drive across that surface.\n\nBut it's going to be the pictures that will enthral the public, of course.\n\n\"For the first time, we're going to see ourselves in high-definition video landing on another planet,\" said deputy project manager Matt Wallace.\n\n\"We think we've captured, hopefully, some pretty spectacular video. And they come with a microphone as well.\"\n\nTOP: The rover touched down about 2km from the targeted delta feature in Jezero. BOTTOM: The rover's onboard computers successfully diverted the landing to the smoothest ground (blue) and avoided more hazardous ground (red)\n\nThe Perseverance team was still revelling in the excitement of the landing hours after it had happened.\n\nSwati Mohan is the guidance, navigation and controls (GNC) operations lead on the project. She was given the honour of calling the rover down as the telemetry came back to Earth.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I was so focused on what I needed to hear in order to know what I needed to say that it wasn't until after I called 'touchdown confirmed' and people started cheering that I realised, 'oh my gosh, we actually did this. We are actually on Mars. This is not a practice run. This is the real thing'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nasa's Adam Steltzner said the moment of landing was \"do or die\"\n\nStrict coronavirus protocols mean Nasa is currently having to limit the number of people at its mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.\n\nGoing forward, this means that much of the management of the rover and its activities will be spread across other centres, and even in people's homes on their laptops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Mars landings that did (and didn't) go to plan\n\n\"Normally, we would all be together in Pasadena, ready to dive right in, but it's been tough, you know, getting this mission going through the pandemic,\" explained Briony Horgan from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.\n\n\"But Nasa has done a fantastic job diverting resources to make it all happen. And on the science team, I think we've really learned how to work together remotely and that's going to be incredibly important in the months to come.\"\n\nPerseverance pulled off its tricky landing with aplomb\n\nOne near-term objective will be to run a helicopter experiment. Perseverance carried with it a mini-chopper that will attempt to make the first powered flight in another world - what might be described as a \"Wright Brothers moment\" for Mars.\n\nOnly after this will the robot get on with the serious business of its mission, which is to seek signs of past microbial life. It will head first to Jezero's ancient delta system.\n\nDeltas are built by rivers as they push out into a wider body of water and dump their sediment. Scientists are hoping that incorporated into the material that built Jezero's delta are the tell-tale signatures of ancient micro-organisms.\n\nPerseverance will sample the base of the delta and then move towards the rim of the crater. It's at the rim that satellites have detected carbonate rocks, which on Earth are particularly good at trapping biological activity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A helicopter the size of a Chihuahua will explore Mars\n\nPerseverance has a suite of instruments that will examine all these formations in detail, down to the microscopic level.\n\nSample rocks displaying the rover's most intriguing findings will be deposited in small tubes that will be left on the floor of the crater. These will be picked up by later missions to be returned to Earth.\n\nClick here to see how Nasa and Esa will bring rocks from Mars to Earth.", "A new rover built by Nasa and named Perseverance will land on Mars in February 2021 using the \"sky crane\" method. A giant parachute and rocket motors will slow the mission's descent before the rover is lowered to the surface using cables.\n\nPerseverance - a six-wheeled robotic machine with 23 cameras and a drill - will seek signs of ancient life in a large crater called Jezero. It will collect rock and soil samples that look like they may have been altered by contact with micro-organisms.\n\nThe rover will store its samples in metal canisters - but leave them behind on the Martian surface to continue its mission. Perserverance's plutonium-based power supply could keep the rover trundling around Mars for 10 years or more.\n\nLater this decade - after 2026 - a second, smaller rover, to be built by the European Space Agency (Esa), will arrive on Mars. This \"fetch rover\" will travel across the surface picking up the sample canisters left behind by Perseverance.\n\nThe canisters will be loaded into a protective container and placed into a small rocket - the Mars Ascent Vehicle or MAV. This will blast into the sky, placing the container into orbit around Mars.\n\nThe sample container will be met in orbit and caught by a European satellite. This \"return orbiter\" will act like a cargo ship, bringing the precious rock and soil specimens back to Earth.\n\nWe don't expect the satellite to arrive home until at least 2031, by which time the sample container will have been packaged in a heavily protected capsule, to be sent into Earth's atmosphere to land in North America.\n\nScientists will then study the rocks and soil using advanced techniques, including some that have yet to be invented because there should be enough material to investigate for decades ahead. The samples will shed light on Mars' history and whether it has ever supported microbial lifeforms.", "Monthly tests have found no traces of coronavirus, including new variants, in air samples and swabs of London's Tube trains, buses and stations.\n\nBut this does not mean none is circulating or commuters can let down their guard, the researchers, at Imperial College London, say.\n\nThere has been extra cleaning through the pandemic, to combat spread from contaminated surfaces and breath.\n\nBut commuters should continue to wear face coverings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Imperial College London is testing for coronavirus on London's transport network\n\nEvery month, since October, the researchers swab heavily touched areas, such as ticket barriers, stop buttons on buses, rails and handles on Tube trains and escalator handrails, from:\n\nAnd a machine that draws in about 300 litres (66 gallons) of air per minute checks for airborne virus.\n\nThe samples are sent the same day to Prof Wendy Barclay's lab so her team can study the genetic make-up of any coronavirus to detect any of the variants found elsewhere in the UK.\n\nHaving undergone changes to their spike protein, the part of the virus that attaches to human cells, these seem to be better at infecting cells and spreading.\n\nAnd they may be mutating in ways that could make vaccines less effective against them.\n\nThere is no evidence they cause much more serious illness for the vast majority infected.\n\nAs with the original version, the risk is highest for people who are elderly or have significant underlying health conditions.\n\nBut some research suggests the new variant identified in the UK may be associated with a 30% higher risk of death.\n\nAnd the government has stepped up screening in areas where variants have been found, offering people door-to-door tests.\n\nBut the work by the team at Imperial suggests even with new variants circulating in the UK, the risk of infection can be mitigated.\n\nDr David Green, senior research fellow at Imperial, said: \"During the early stage of the pandemic, everybody was very concerned about washing their hands and touching surfaces.\n\n\"As we've moved on, we are much more convinced that the routes of transmission tend to be through the air - through breathing, through being in confined environments, not maintaining social distancing or not wearing masks.\n\n\"If you think about the London Underground environment and other transport networks, they are being cleaned very regularly and very thoroughly at the moment.\n\n\"The occupancy level is much lower.\n\n\"And everybody is wearing masks.\n\n\"All of these things will reduce the chances of the virus being spread in these environments.\n\n\"Once a month, we do a journey that we feel reflects the type of journey that a commuter would take.\n\n\"So we travel from one Tube station to another.\n\n\"And we get on a bus and travel.\n\n\"We tend to do the same route every month.\n\n\"So we get an idea of how things change over time, rather than try a scattergun approach across the entire network.\n\n\"All of the results have been negative so far, which is very reassuring for everybody travelling.\n\n\"But if we did get a positive result, then we could do further investigations into which particular variant it was.\"", "Millions of users flocked to other messaging platforms in January\n\nWhatsApp is pushing ahead with controversial changes to its terms of service, but altering the way it notifies users following a backlash.\n\nAfter its first announcement in January, millions of users downloaded apps from WhatsApp's competitors.\n\nThe Facebook-owned platform previously said it had been the victim of \"misinformation\" around the change.\n\nBut WhatsApp now says it has \"reflected\" on how it could have explained the changes better.\n\nThe phrasing of the warning in the initial push led to widespread fears that it was going to share large amounts of WhatsApp data with Facebook.\n\nIn reality, very little had changed in that area - and almost all users had previously accepted the type of data sharing involved.\n\nAs part of its second attempt to convince users, WhatsApp will begin displaying a banner alert within the app in the coming weeks.\n\nThe in-app banner will lead to more detailed explanations for users\n\nIt encourages users to learn more about the update and what is - and is not - changing.\n\nMessages informing users of the update will also be displayed in the status section of the app.\n\nThe new terms are scheduled to come into effect on 15 May.\n\nWhatsApp says the data it shares with its parent company does not include messages, groups or call logs.\n\nInstead, it says the new terms focus on changes to allow users to message businesses.\n\nWhatsApp already shares information with Facebook, such as your IP address and information about your phone, as well as purchases made via the platform.\n\nHowever this does not apply in Europe and the UK, where different privacy laws exist.\n\nBut privacy experts say the saga highlights how unaware users are of how their data is being used.\n\n\"In its efforts to clarify that [it] isn't doing anything wrong, Whatsapp has in fact inadvertently highlighted that it was already harvesting huge amounts of data for Facebook,\" said Ray Walsh, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\nThat \"vindicates\" those who decided to leave Whatsapp, he said.\n\n\"The biggest takeaway from all of this is that Whatsapp was already harvesting device level identifiers, IP addresses, and purchase info on behalf of Facebook - and that until recent media attention, the general public was largely unaware.\"\n\nWhatsapp said it had \"reflected on what we could have done better here\".\n\n“We want everyone to know our history of defending end-to-end encryption, and trust we’re committed to protecting people’s privacy and security.\"\n\nIt also said it will \"be doing much more\" to be clear about changes in the future.\n\nIn January, government officials in India asked the messaging giant to withdraw its planned changes.\n\nThe country is currently WhatsApp's largest market with more than 340 million users.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Armed police can be seen breaking down a door and making arrests\n\nCocaine weighing 2,300kg and with an estimated value of £184m has been found inside a consignment of bananas that arrived in the UK from Colombia.\n\nThe haul of cocaine was intercepted in Portsmouth and the drugs were removed, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nThe pallets were then loaded with dummy packages and delivered to Tottenham Industrial Estate in north London.\n\nTen people were arrested over the haul, which represents one of the UK's biggest ever drugs seizures.\n\nThe NCA said three people had been charged.\n\nThe raid was a joint operation between the NCA and the Met Police and was the culmination of a week-long investigation, following intelligence received by detectives.\n\nThe consignment is equivalent to more than half the quantity of cocaine seized in an average year\n\nOfficers tracked the shipment of drugs on 41 pallets as it arrived in Portsmouth, where UK Border Force officers removed the cocaine.\n\nThe pallets were then delivered to Tottenham. Police moved in once enough evidence had been gathered from a surveillance operation at the site.\n\nBody-worn footage showed armed officers breaking into storage units where the drugs had been due to be delivered.\n\nThe Met's Det Supt Simon Moring believes officers have cost organised criminals more than £100m in profits.\n\nHe said: \"By the time that's divided down into deals we could be talking about five million drug deals.\n\n\"That's five million deals taken off the streets of the UK - that will have a profound effect on the price in the UK and the criminals involved.\"\n\nJohn Coles, head of specialist operations at the NCA, said: \"Illegal drugs are a corrosive threat and those who deal in cocaine are often violent and exploitative.\n\n\"Cocaine supply is directly linked to the use of firearms, knife crime and the exploitation of young and vulnerable people.\"\n\nThe consignment is equivalent to more than half the quantity of cocaine seized in an average year.\n\nAbout 4,200kg of the drug was intercepted in the year to March 2020.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oliver Lewis is a former ally of Dominic Cummings\n\nBoris Johnson's main adviser on keeping the UK together has departed, saying his position was made \"untenable\" by others within Downing Street.\n\nOliver Lewis, an ally of the prime minister's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, was a key part of the campaign for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nHis departure comes as the Scottish National Party is calling for another referendum on independence.\n\nMr Lewis was confirmed in his role just two weeks ago.\n\nFollowing Mr Lewis's departure, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted: \"Disunity in the Union unit. Or maybe just despair at realising how threadbare the case for it is.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald claimed Mr Johnson's \"taxpayer-funded anti-independence campaign is completely falling apart\".\n\n\"As support for independence grows, the Tories are losing advisers like rats on a sinking ship,\" she said.\n\n\"People in Scotland have a right to determine their own future in a post-pandemic referendum.\"\n\nAside from the pandemic, protecting the union is one of Boris Johnson's key challenges in the coming months.\n\nThe SNP will demand another referendum if they win the Holyrood election in May - while the impact of the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland is still playing out.\n\nOliver Lewis was appointed head of the Union unit at the start of the month and was seen as an important player in Number 10 who had Mr Johnson's ear.\n\nSo his departure a fortnight later shows all is not well in Downing Street. Far from it.\n\nSources say Mr Lewis was the victim of a(nother) power struggle - after personnel changes at the heart of government last week.\n\nIn particular, it seems Mr Lewis found it hard to work with another special adviser, Henry Newman, who was brought into the Number 10 operation last week.\n\nMr Newman is extremely close to the prime minister's fiancée, Carrie Symonds.\n\nAround Westminster, these power struggles are fascinating.\n\nBut the fear some around Mr Johnson have is that they keep happening - and it shows an operation where the ship is still not particularly steady.\n\nIn the words of one source: \"Everything just needs to settle down in there.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said another referendum on Scottish independence - following the last one in 2014 - should not happen, describing it as a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nMr Lewis was research director of the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU membership referendum, writing its manifesto.\n\nHe joined the UK government as an adviser on Brexit policy before taking up his role defending the union.\n• None What next for PM's Union plan as second adviser quits?", "The Duke of Edinburgh is likely to remain in hospital for observation and rest into next week, a Buckingham Palace source has told the BBC.\n\nIt follows consultation with his doctor, who is acting with \"an abundance of caution\", the source said.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, remains in good spirits after being taken to King Edward VII Hospital in central London as a precaution on Tuesday.\n\nThe exact reason for his admission has not been disclosed.\n\nHowever, his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nA palace source previously said the duke, who turns 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nLast month, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip and the Queen had received Covid vaccinations from a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple have been spending the recent lockdown in England at Windsor with a small household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThe Queen, 94, performed her first face-to-face event of the year on Thursday, when she knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at her Berkshire residence.\n\nPolice officers are guarding the entrance to the King Edward VII Hospital where Prince Philip is being cared for\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge carried out several virtual conversations with front-line NHS staff on Thursday, while the Princess Royal held a virtual meeting in her role as patron of the Scottish Rugby Union.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have also continued official duties.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video message for a virtual meeting hosted by the British Asian Trust, Prince Charles said on Thursday it was a \"tragedy\" that not everyone was benefitting from the \"extraordinary achievement\" of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip released a photograph for their 73rd wedding anniversary last November\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip celebrated Christmas quietly at Windsor, instead of the traditional family gathering at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nIn December 2019, the duke was admitted to the same hospital - King Edward VII Hospital - as a \"precautionary measure\" for treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nHe was discharged on Christmas Eve after four nights and driven to Sandringham, where he spent Christmas with the Queen.\n\nPrince Philip's most-recent official engagement saw him hand over his role of colonel-in-chief of The Rifles in a ceremony at Windsor to the Duchess of Cornwall, who received the role separately.\n\nLast November, the Queen and Prince Philip marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph of themselves opening a card made for them by their great-grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.", "Facebook's decision to block news content from its platform in Australia was \"bullying\" and \"staggeringly irresponsible\", the chairman of the Commons media committee has said.\n\nConservative MP Julian Knight told the BBC the move represented \"the worst type of corporate culture\", coming in the middle of the Covid pandemic.\n\nFacebook was responding to a proposed law requiring it pay for news content.\n\nThe UK News Media Association said stricter regulation might be required.\n\nAustralians on Thursday woke up to find that Facebook pages of all local and global news sites were unavailable. People outside the country are also unable to read or access any Australian news publications on the platform.\n\nFacebook says the proposed legislation \"fundamentally misunderstands\" the relationship between the platform and publishers, adding that its commitment to combat misinformation had not changed.\n\nMr Knight, who chairs the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, told Radio 4's PM programme it was a \"crass move\" by the company.\n\nHe said: \"I think it's staggeringly irresponsible - at a time when we are facing a plethora of fake news and disinformation in relation to the Covid vaccine.\"\n\nMr Knight added: \"This is not just about Australia. This is Facebook putting a marker down, saying to the world that 'if you do wish to limit our powers… we can remove what is for many people a utility.'\"\n\nHe said the events highlighted the need for competition rules to apply to social media firms in the UK, adding: \"The problem that I see is... that these platforms make enormous sums of money, and they make them from other people's work, and they aren't returning any equitable value to those people.\"\n\nSearch giant Google is also opposed to the Australian law, but it has in recent days signed payment deals with major media outlets in the country.\n\nIn the UK, Facebook has agreed partnership deals with publishers including the Daily Mail Group, Financial Times, the Guardian, Sky News and Telegraph Media Group. And the Competition and Markets Authority has announced it will enforce a new code aimed at preventing tech firms from abusing their market dominance over advertising.\n\nBut in a statement, Henry Faure Walker, chairman of the News Media Association which represents UK media organisations, echoed Mr Knight's comments, describing Facebook's ban as \"a classic example of a monopoly power being the school yard bully, trying to protect its dominant position with scant regard for the citizens and customers it supposedly serves\".\n\nHe said: \"Facebook's actions in Australia demonstrate precisely why we need jurisdictions across the globe, including the UK, to coordinate to deliver robust regulation to create a truly level playing field between the tech giants and news publishers.\"\n\nThe Guardian Media Group also said it was deeply concerned by Facebook's move \"at a time when facts and clarity are sorely needed\".\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"Dominant online platforms are now a key gateway to news and information online.\n\n\"We believe that public interest journalism should be as widely available as possible in order to have a healthy functioning democracy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe American space agency has released an astonishing image sent back from Mars by its Perseverance rover.\n\nIt shows the robot heading down to the ground on Thursday to make its landing. It was acquired by the rocket cradle that placed the vehicle on the surface.\n\nPerseverance has a large amount of data in its memory banks which it is gradually offloading to Earth.\n\nAmong other pictures is a view from a satellite that captures the rover in the parachute phase of its descent.\n\nThis also represents an immense technical achievement because the satellite - the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - was approximately 700km from Perseverance at the time and traveling at about 3km/s.\n\nNasa is promising more in the next few days.\n\nThis offering will include short movies shot during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) sequence - with sound.\n\nPerseverance has been put in a near-equatorial Martian crater known as Jezero where it will search for signs of past microbial life.\n\nThe overflying Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to see the descending rover's parachute\n\nAdam Steltzner, the Perseverance rover's chief engineer, said the downward-looking view on to the robot would become an iconic image in the history of space exploration.\n\n\"This is an image of the rover Perseverance slung beneath the descent stage, its propulsion backpack, as it is being lowered to the surface of Mars,\" he explained.\n\n\"You can see the dust kicked up by the engines. We're probably about 2m or so above the surface of Mars.\n\n\"You can see the mechanical bridles that hold the rover underneath the descent stage - three straight lines heading down to the top deck. And then the curly electrical umbilical that is taking all of the electrical signals from the descent stage down to the computer inside the belly of the rover, [including] the ones and zeros that represent this image.\"\n\nA forward view from the rover on Mars. The shadow comes from the robot arm\n\nEngineers report Perseverance to be in good health, as they gradually commission its systems.\n\nAll the hardware needs to be assessed to be sure nothing was damaged during Thursday's plunge through the Martian atmosphere to the ground.\n\nOne tonne of high technology: Seven instruments, multiple cameras, microphones and a big drill\n\nThe most detailed pictures of Jezero Crater will come next week after Perseverance has raised its navigation mast which carries the main science cameras.\n\n\"Once the mast is successfully deployed, which will be on Saturday, we will proceed by taking lots of images. We'll do a deck panorama of the rover. And we're also going to do a full panorama of our landscape around us,\" said Pauline Hwang, Perseverance's surface strategic mission manager.\n\nScientists are already starting to analyse the rocks on the ground\n\nPerseverance's landing technologies put it down almost bang on the targeted touchdown zone, about 2km to the southeast of what remains of an ancient river delta that formed at the edge of a lake.\n\nIt is sitting on a flat piece of ground at the boundary of two geologic units - a smooth unit under the wheels of the rover that contains dark volcanic rocks; and a rougher unit that has rocks with a lot of the mineral olivine in them.\n\nThe science team was itching to start exploring the crater, said deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan.\n\nEven now, with just this limited first release of pictures, there were fascinating rocks to discuss, she told reporters.\n\n\"We're picking out different colours and tones and textures, to try to figure out what these rocks might represent and what depositional process might have put these rocks on the surface of Mars.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPerseverance's landing spot is in a quadrangle that the science team has informally called Canyon de Chelly after the National Monument in the US State of Arizona. Any rocks the robot investigates in this 1.2km by 1.2km area will also now be given names that relate to the American park, which is famous for its sandstone spire known as Spider Rock.\n\nThe $2.7bn (£1.9bn) robot is the fifth rover to be put on Mars by Nasa.\n\nIts initial mission will last one Martian year (roughly two Earth years), although it's hard to see the agency not extending this if all the hardware remains healthy.\n\nAs well as searching for signs of life, Perseverance's other key objective is to select and package rock samples that can be brought back to Earth laboratories by later missions.", "The High Court must overturn Boris Johnson's decision that Home Secretary Priti Patel did not breach government rules on behaviour, a union says.\n\nThe prime minister decided not to sack Ms Patel last year after a report found evidence of \"bullying\" and \"some occasions of shouting and swearing\".\n\nMr Johnson backed Ms Patel, saying she had not broken the Ministerial Code.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said this reaction had \"undermined\" disciplinary procedures.\n\nAnd Labour called Mr Johnson's decision the \"sign of a broken system\".\n\nHome Office Permanent Secretary Sir Philip Rutnam resigned in February last year, saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\".\n\nHe is pursuing an employment tribunal claim for constructive dismissal.\n\nA report last November by Sir Alex Allan, the prime minister's adviser on standards, said Ms Patel had \"unintentionally\" breached the Ministerial Code, governing conduct.\n\nHe found Ms Patel to be \"action-orientated\" and that she had felt \"justifiably in many instances, frustrated by the Home Office leadership's lack of responsiveness\".\n\nSir Alex added: \"The evidence is that this has manifested itself in forceful expression, including some occasions of shouting and swearing. This may not be done intentionally to cause upset, but that has been the effect on some individuals.\"\n\nHe resigned after Mr Johnson supported the home secretary, saying she retained his \"full confidence\".\n\nThe FDA, of which Sir Philip is a member, is seeking a judicial review of the prime minister's decision.\n\nIn a written submission, general secretary Dave Penman told the High Court that \"civil servants should expect to work with ministers without fear of being bullied or harassed\".\n\nMr Johnson's actions had \"fundamentally undermined\" the disciplinary process, he added, and the prime minister had \"misinterpreted\" the definition of bullying in the Ministerial Code.\n\nThe FDA's Dave Penman said more protection was needed for workplace standards\n\nMr Penman said there was \"bewilderment, dismay and anger among our membership\" and there had been \"serious detrimental effects to workplace relations and confidence in the process for dealing with complaints against ministers\".\n\nHe added that, if Mr Johnson's decision was not \"corrected\" by the court, \"his interpretation of the Ministerial Code will result in that document failing to protect workplace standards across government\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Fleur Anderson said: \"Boris Johnson's assertion that Priti Patel did not break the Ministerial Code is not credible and shows why he should not act as both judge and jury.\n\n\"It is a sign of a broken system when a cabinet minister is found to have bullied their staff and the prime minister ignores the damning findings and protects them.\"\n\nCivil servants should have confidence \"that they are able to challenge ministerial decisions without fear for the consequences\", Ms Anderson added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The prime minister has full confidence in the home secretary and considers this matter now closed. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further on live legal matters.\"", "Jim Ashworth-Beaumont is now running again, six months after the accident that almost killed him\n\nA life-changing accident has left a specialist who spent 20 years building artificial limbs in need of a prosthetic arm himself.\n\nIn a cruel twist of fate, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont lost his arm in a cycling accident in which he almost died.\n\nSix months on, he is back at work and is hoping to be one of the first people in the UK to be fitted with a revolutionary bionic limb.\n\nJim, from Edinburgh, works as a prosthetist and orthotist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London.\n\nA former Royal Marine, he was a competitive athlete and took part in triathlons. On the day of the accident he was training.\n\nAfter almost a decade in the Royal Marines, Jim has always been involved in sport and fitness\n\n\"I popped out for a training session on the bike and headed to Catford in south east London and stopped at traffic lights,\" he said.\n\n\"An articulated lorry stopped beside me and that's when the problems happened.\"\n\nThe 40-ton truck rolled over Jim, severing his arm and almost killing him.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings programme, he said: \"I can remember pretty much everything up until the ambulance arrived. I remember the helicopter landing and that's about it.\n\n\"I was aware of the wheels of the articulated lorry rolling up my arm and I was convinced the next part of my body to be hit would be my head. I was convinced that I was going to die.\"\n\nJim was put into an induced coma. When he came out there was an emerging awareness of how serious things were.\n\nAfter coming out of his coma, Jim slowly came to realise how serious his injuries were\n\nHe said: \"It was only over time I was aware I had spinal fractures, rib fractures, a lot of skin had been taken off my front which needed to be grafted.\n\n\"The situation was a lot more than just my arm. It took a little while to realise just how bad it was.\"\n\nJim contracted sepsis while in the coma on top of his horrific injuries.\n\nHe said: \"MedicaI staff and my wife told me I was constantly on the verge of death. I had sepsis, multiple organ failure, what was left of my liver packed up and then my kidneys, as well. When I came out of the coma I had liver failure and kidney failure to deal with.\n\n\"I was in the critical care unit for about two-and-a-half months, actually conscious for a month of that. When I came out, the Covid pandemic was in full swing so we were pretty much restricted to our beds. I had tubes coming in and out of me so it was a difficult environment to exist in.\"\n\nJim made a remarkable recovery and has now come off dialysis\n\nJim said his background helped him mentally.\n\nHis work involves working on rehabilitation with patients who have suffered limb loss. He said that having that base knowledge, plus his research interest - neuro-rehabilitation and recovery from injury - made sure he knew what he needed to do to return to full function.\n\nLike the athlete he is, Jim's recovery has been fast-paced. His liver is recovering and his kidneys have also bounced back meaning he no longer needs dialysis every two days.\n\nHe has started building his fitness again and even began a Couch-to-5k programme two months before he was even expected to leave hospital.\n\nHe started back at work, from home, at the start of February. But what he wants to do is get back to his old duties.\n\nJim has taken his rehabilitation seriously and is now a para-athlete\n\nHe said: \"My dream is to return to the job I love which is helping people to solve their structural and functional problems, and that's quite a manual job. You need good hand skills to do that.\n\n\"I assess people, collect data and make and fit an artificial limb or orthotic device. So I need a device that will do what I tell it to do and that is the promise of the latest generation of components that are available, but they cost a lot of money.\"\n\nThe limb Jim needs is a functional bionic prosthesis and it is not available on the NHS. Jim needs a titanium post to be fitted into the end of the bone in his arm and then a prosthesis will be anchored into that to make it much more stable and usable.\n\nBut the arm, plus the expertise to fit it will cost more than £300,000. Jim's family is fundraising for \"Jim's Biggest Challenge\" on fundraising sites.\n\nHe believes that in a couple of years, he could be back doing the job he loves, and his experience will give him a new relationship with his patients.\n\nhe added: \"Essentially my life now is a little bit of a struggle every day and I kind of relish that in a way. The fitness hasn't stopped. I am out running, doing pilates.\n\n\"I am not as fit and able as I was, but the challenges are still there and I really believe in going for it every day.\"", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "Boris Johnson is pledging to donate most of the UK's surplus vaccine supply to poorer countries in a speech to a virtual G7 meeting on Friday.\n\nHe urged rich countries to back a 100-day target for the developing new vaccines for future emerging diseases.\n\nThe UK has ordered more than 400 million doses of various vaccines, so many will be left over once all adults are vaccinated.\n\nBut anti-poverty campaigners say the UK is not doing enough.\n\nDecisions on when and how much of the surplus will be distributed will be made later this year, with ministers taking into account the supply chain and whether booster shots are needed in the autumn.\n\nThe prime minister told his fellow leaders: \"Science is finally getting the upper hand on Covid. Around the world [we need to] make sure everyone gets the vaccines that they need, so that the whole world can come through this pandemic together.\"\n\n\"There is no point in us vaccinating our individual populations - we've got to make sure the whole world is vaccinated because this is a global pandemic and it's no use one country being far ahead of another, we've got to move together.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to \"ensure that we distribute vaccines at cost around the world - make sure everybody gets the vaccines that they need so that the whole world can come through this pandemic together.\"\n\nAfter the meeting, the G7 leaders issued a statement committing to \"intensify cooperation on the health response to Covid-19\".\n\nIt reaffirmed the group's support for \"affordable and equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, reflecting the role of extensive immunisation as a global public good.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has told the Financial Times richer countries should send up to 4 to 5% of their current vaccine supplies to poorer nations.\n\nBut Foreign Office minister James Cleverly told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK would be \"looking at a figure significantly greater than that\".\n\nHe promised the government would be a \"global force for good\" in fighting the pandemic and, unlike \"some countries\", the UK would not use the promise of vaccine supplies to other countries as \"short-term diplomatic leverage\".\n\nBut it was \"difficult to say\" at this stage when the sharing would happen, Mr Cleverly added.\n\nA government source said more than half of excess doses would go to Covax, a UN initiative intended to ensure wider access to vaccines.\n\nThe UK government has donated £548m to the scheme, to which the US pledged $4bn (£2.9bn) in December.\n\nAlmost 17 million people in the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, with 573,724 of these receiving two doses, according to the latest figures.\n\nIn the global scramble to secure vaccines against Covid-19 many wealthy countries - which funded a lot of the research - have ended up buying more supplies than they need.\n\nNew figures from the anti-poverty pressure group, the One Campaign, reveal that Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK, and US and the EU have already secured more than 3bn doses - 1.2bn more than they need to give their entire populations two doses.\n\nThe UK has also given £548m to Covax - the UN-led attempt to get vaccines out to poorer countries.\n\nBut campaigners say they want hard facts on how many actual doses Britain will now be donating to the mechanism.\n\nSome 130 countries in the world haven't done any vaccinations at all and healthcare workers in those countries remain at high risk.\n\nAnd even if the Covax plan works, it's only designed to cover 20% of each nation's population - far short of the herd immunity expected in wealthy countries.\n\nMr Johnson used his position as chairman of the G7 group of major economies to push the case for setting a 100-day target for developing vaccines when new diseases strike.\n\nHe also told the group that it was important to \"build back better\" from the pandemic and face the \"great challenges\" of climate change, telling the leaders that he wanted \"to get some great things done\" at the G7 and the forthcoming Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nFriday's virtual meeting is the first gathering of G7 leaders since April 2020, and the first international meeting for new US President Joe Biden.\n\nThe One Campaign, which aims to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, said Mr Johnson's commitment to Covax did not go far enough.\n\nUK director Romilly Greenhill said: \"The virus won't wait on us to be ready before it mutates, so we need to get these vaccines around the world as quickly as possible.\"\n\nAn Ipsos MORI poll of people from 18 countries showed that those in the UK were most likely to support donating surplus doses.\n\nAlmost seven in 10 Britons (69%) want to pass on some of the country's extra doses to be used in other countries, whereas globally just under half (46%) say they would want their country to do this.\n\nA further 12,057 new Covid cases were reported across the UK on Thursday, alongside another 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News revealed that 14 council investigations have been launched into \"organised and complex abuse\" in unregulated homes\n\nUnregulated homes for children in care under the age of 16 will become illegal in England from September.\n\nBBC News investigations revealed that children as young as 11 were being housed in these homes, and young people faced \"organised abuse\" in placements.\n\nThe ban does not affect thousands of placements of 16 and 17 year-olds in unregulated homes.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford said \"every child deserves a stable and loving home\".\n\nUnregulated homes, often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation, are not inspected by a regulator in England or Wales.\n\nBut increasingly, local authorities are placing children in care under the age of 16 in unregulated homes - which are only qualified to offer support and not full-time care.\n\nIn 2019, as part of a series of BBC News investigations into unregulated homes, it was revealed that young people faced \"organised abuse\" while living in these placements.\n\nAt the time, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"The BBC highlighted something that just needed to be changed.\"\n\nMs Ford now says the law will change from September.\n\n\"Children under the age of 16 can no longer be placed in an unregulated children's home\", she said.\n\n\"This will drive up the standard for children under 16 but also we want to drive up the standards for those aged 16 and 17 as well.\"\n\nThe children's minister admitted the change would only affect about 100 children currently under the age of 16 who are on placement inside an unregulated home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One young person described being taken from a care home and then stripped, beaten and stabbed\n\nAbout 6,000 young people over the age of 16 are on placement inside such homes.\n\n\"[For] some 16 and 17-year-olds this journey towards independence can be helped by moving into an independent or semi-independent setting\", Ms Ford said. \"But it's got to be a good setting and so we're going to be introducing new national standards.\"\n\nThe government also says it aims to legislate to give Ofsted greater powers to take enforcement action against illegal unregistered providers.\n\nIn 2019, BBC News revealed that Ofsted had not prosecuted a single provider for accepting placements of children under the age of 16.\n\nEarlier this week, Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield said UK ministers held an \"institutional bias against children\" in her final speech after six years in the role.\n\nHowever, Ms Ford said she \"completely disagrees\" and that vulnerable children have been safeguarded.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic, we've absolutely put vulnerable children at the heart of our response\", she said. \"I'm very proud that we're one of the few countries in the world that kept schools open for vulnerable children throughout.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Looking back at the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak\n\nThe risk posed by foot-and-mouth disease is a \"continual worry\" for Wales' most senior vet, two decades on from the last major outbreak.\n\nChristianne Glossop said 2001 was a year of terrible memories she will \"never forget\".\n\nAcross Wales a million animals were slaughtered, with farming and tourism thrown into crisis.\n\nThere are now \"solid contingency plans\" to minimise the chances of such widespread infection, she explained.\n\nAppointed chief veterinary officer for Wales in 2005 when powers over animal health and welfare were devolved, at the time of the epidemic Prof Glossop was working in private practice.\n\nThe first case was detected at an abattoir in Essex on 19 February 2001.\n\n\"Everybody involved in agriculture would remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on that dreaded day,\" she said.\n\nWithin a week, the virus had reached Anglesey.\n\nPowys and Monmouthshire were also to become among the worst-hit counties.\n\nChristianne Glossop recalls how farmers cried in her arms when she told them their pigs were infected\n\nDistressing scenes of billowing smoke from burning pyres and carcasses being buried in vast pits filled TV news bulletins in a year consumed by efforts to get the outbreak under control - at an estimated cost of £8bn to the UK.\n\nFootpaths were closed, tourism nosedived, major events such as the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show and the Urdd Eisteddfod were cancelled and a general election delayed.\n\nHighly infectious, foot-and-mouth disease causes fever and painful blisters inside the mouth and under the hooves - and can be fatal for young animals.\n\nFor Wales' farmers the fact the 20th anniversary of the crisis coincides with current lockdown restrictions has brought often traumatic memories to the surface.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foot-and-mouth disease caused widespread disruption throughout the UK in 2001.\n\n\"What was very sad and emotional was watching the animals being slaughtered on the farms and then being burnt and the smoke afterwards. It was something that sent a shiver down your back really,\" said Gareth Davies, who runs an upland farm in Cwmgwilym, north of Brecon in Powys.\n\nHis sheep and cattle were shot after signs of infection were found on a neighbouring farm.\n\n\"One day you've got a farm full of livestock and the next day it's empty, like a graveyard,\" he said.\n\nTwenty years ago livestock across the UK were being burned\n\n\"It's a real shock - because we live with these animals, they're part of us - we have a respect and a loyalty and an affection for them.\n\n\"It's no different to the average person in the street with their pet dogs - it's the same emotional feeling you have.\"\n\nSheep were being tested in the Brecon Beacons in 2001 in an effort to control the spread\n\nProf Glossop recalled visiting a pig farm and having to break the news it had been hit by foot-and-mouth to the farmer and his two grown-up sons.\n\n\"We stood in the farmyard and these men, they cried in my arms. It's not something you can ever forget.\"\n\nLessons learned from that time mean Wales and the UK are better placed to respond in future, she believes, pointing to a smaller outbreak in 2007 in Surrey that was quickly contained.\n\n\"A lot of things have changed since 2001. I do believe the plans we have in place are much tighter now, they're more robust and we know what to do.\"\n\nSystems for registering and tracing livestock have improved, particularly for sheep and pigs, so the authorities know where they are.\n\nA six-day standstill rule limits movement of animals on and off farms to allow time to spot signs of disease and prevent its spread.\n\nA UK-wide movement ban would also be introduced immediately in the event of a new outbreak - unlike in 2001 when a delay of several days was blamed for making the situation worse.\n\nAnglesey was the first place in Wales to have a positive test in 2001\n\nProf Glossop believes the devolution of animal health and welfare powers is another step forward, meaning Wales can tailor its own plans to the nature of the farming industry in the country.\n\n\"We have a close working relationship with our farmers and our vets - we can call people together and share messages quickly and widely. I sleep with my phone by my bed and any time of day or night somebody out there could be seeing signs of a notifiable disease.\"\n\nJoint exercises are also carried out across the four UK nations - the last, codenamed Blackthorn, taking place in 2018.\n\nStephen James, chair of the Welsh Government's animal health and welfare framework group, said it was \"so important everyone sticks to the rules\".\n\n\"This applies if you keep hundreds of animals or even just a single pig behind your house - you mustn't keep it under the radar.\"\n\nStrict border controls are also vital, according to John Mercer, who worked for the state veterinary service at the time of the epidemic and is now director of the NFU Cymru farming union.\n\nIt is thought one way the virus could have reached the UK in 2001 was through illegally imported meat, leading to a ban on feeding animals with any catering waste or kitchen scraps.\n\n\"We have excellent protocols in place to stop anything coming in via the legal trade but there's always a risk when it comes to the illegal trade as we know foot-and-mouth is endemic in some parts of the world,\" Mr Mercer explained.\n\nThe events of 2001 had \"really pushed people to the edge\", he said. \"Let's hope we never see that again.\"\n\nWales' final case was identified in Crickhowell, Powys on 12 August 2001, with the country declared free of foot-and-mouth disease in December that year.\n\nSlowly the countryside returned to normality, which Prof Glossop describes as a \"healing in people's hearts and a healing in the land\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Homes could be hit by flooding and power cuts as heavy rain and gale force winds are set to batter parts of south and mid Wales.\n\nThe Met Office's amber warning for rain is in place from 20:00 GMT on Friday until 18:00 on Saturday.\n\nThe forecaster said some communities could be cut off by flooded roads and travel disruption was expected.\n\nA second yellow warning - which is less severe - is in place for almost the whole of Wales until 02:00 on Sunday.\n\nOn Friday and into Saturday some areas could widely see up to up to 2.7in (70mm) of rain, with up to almost 8in (200mm) on the highest ground of the Brecon Beacons.\n\nEleven flood warnings - mainly in mid Wales - and a number of flood alerts have been issued by Natural Resources Wales, with the organisation saying river levels could rise during the prolonged downpours.\n\nAn amber warning is the second most severe alert the Met Office can issue\n\nBlaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea and Torfaen are all covered by the amber warning.\n\nThe Met Office said heavy rain and wind could cause flooding, difficult driving conditions and fast flowing water could cause a \"danger to life\".\n\nThe yellow warning - which means the weather is likely to have some impact - is in place for almost all of Wales, apart from Anglesey and Flintshire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first minister says he’s “keen to learn the lessons” from lifting lockdown restrictions after the first wave of Covid-19.\n\nMark Drakeford says there were things that “worked well then” but “we can do things better.”\n\nHis comments came after he was asked whether more support should be made available for businesses forced to shut for lockdown.\n\n“I know that what businesses in Wales want is not more money from the government - what they want is to be able to open and have a thriving business in the way that they had this time last year.\n\n“I've indicated today that we will be talking with non-essential retail and close personal services that are closed at the moment to see if it's possible for anything to resume in three weeks’ time.\n\n“Last time we opened hairdressers first and then other services of a similar sort - nail bars and so on - followed a couple of weeks later.\"\n\nBut lifting lockdown will not be driven just by figures, Mr Drakeford said.\n\nHe told the coronavirus press briefing that he will take \"a judgment in the round, informed by the advice of our senior clinicians and scientific advisers\".\n\nHe said the government would continue to look at benchmarks such as \"the number of people (with coronavirus) per 100,000\" as well as positivity rates, the R number and the impact of coronavirus on hospitals.\n\n\"We will then look at all of that as a package and take advice from those who are responsible for our health service, and who model for us the way coronavirus is spreading in Wales.\n\n\"And when we take all of that together, the cabinet will make a judgment on what is possible in three weeks' time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet Max the Miracle Dog, the first pet getting the \"animal OBE\"\n\nA therapy dog who has found fame online is being given a top honour by vet charity PDSA.\n\nVideos of Max the Miracle Dog's daily walks in the Lake District are watched by thousands of people.\n\nThe 13-year-old springer spaniel will be the first pet to receive the PDSA Order of Merit, with previous recipients including police and search and rescue animals.\n\nThe dog's owner Kerry Irving said Max saved his life and helps many others.\n\nThe PDSA, which nicknamed the honour the \"animal OBE\", said the \"positive and life-altering impact Max has on the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide is unprecedented\".\n\nA spokesman said Max's popularity on social media \"provides a feel-good factor\", and since 2017 the dog has also met more than 10,000 people and raised almost £300,000 for a number of charities.\n\nMr Irving, who lives in Keswick, met Max while he was suffering depression two years after being seriously injured in a car crash which left him with chronic pain.\n\nHe said Max gave him the motivation to get out and walk, and he later adopted the dog after Max's owners decided to move to a city.\n\nAfter taking on Max, Kerry Irving went on to get two more spaniels called Paddy and Harry\n\nMr Irving said: \"When I was at my lowest, Max became my reason to live and he continues to make me smile every day. Being able to share the support, comfort and joy that Max brings to thousands of people has been a privilege.\n\n\"We receive daily messages from people all over the world, saying how Max's adventures make them smile and bring joy to their life. Each has their own personal story. I have met soldiers who served in Afghanistan who say they used to look at Max's page to remind them of home. I've also received messages from NHS staff working on the frontline during the pandemic, who have found moments of peace and escape with Max.\"\n\nMax has met more than 10,000 people including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nPDSA director general Jan McLoughlin said Max had become a \"true ambassador for the positive impact that animals have on mental health and wellbeing, which is more important now than ever\".\n\nThe PDSA Order of Merit was created in 2014 and since then 32 dogs and horses have been recognised for their work.\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.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 February.\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\nJump start: \"I’ve been wanting to shoot an image like this for a while but you have to wait for the right conditions\", says Will Nangle of his spectacular image of Scott McMorris above Edinburgh.\n\nRise and shine: \"I took this photo of the sunrise in Kildonan, Isle of Arran\", says Lorraine Martin.\n\nWinter wonderland: \"My little girl taking a wander in Selkirk\", says Rachel Steele.\n\nCaught red-handed: A friendly robin at Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian, from Sandy Dodds.\n\nCold snap: \"I took this picture while out for a walk in Palacerigg Country Park, Cumbernauld\", says Matthew McGregor.\n\nFreeze frame: \"Picture taken down from our house in Melvaig at Allt Grisionn\", says Steve Mcdonald. \"The water bubbles had been frozen as the temperatures dropped in the Highlands.\"\n\nAnd... trees frame: \"The Frandy Tree in Glen Devon, taken on a cold, windy, bleak and wintry afternoon\", says Gordon Dochard.\n\nHand out: Frozen fingers were the order of the day in Inverness, courtesy of Anne Watmough.\n\nFly-in saucer: \"Make mine with two sugars and a wee drop milk\", says David May at Abernethy Forest.\n\nCapital project: \"Came across this cool guy on my walk up the Vennel in Edinburgh the other morning\", says Alycia Cook. \"He certainly made me smile!\"\n\nBlue sky thinking: \"Whilst the rest of the country was getting covered in snow, Fort William had blue skies\", says Megan Kirkaldy. \"Looking down Loch Eil on to Ben Nevis\".\n\nSly snack: \"Mrs Fox comes nearly every day and scoffs some food\", says Cathy Aitken. \"Taken in my garden in south Edinburgh.\"\n\nEnjoying a cold one: Wild bathing in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, for Brian McGaw at his croft between blizzards, as photographed by wife Jane McGaw.\n\nCan you dig it? \"My son Callan is seven and this is the first time in his life he has had a proper amount of snow in his own garden in Perth\", says Margaret Roy. \"He was very proud of his snow shovel\".\n\nCatching some rays: \"My wife Sigga on the shores of Loch Carron with a disc of ice\", says Jan Overmeer.\n\nAlone time: \"A Highland cow in Gifford, East Lothian\", from Gus Pirie.\n\nPot luck: \"Decided to have a wander round Arbroath harbour on a nice crisp winter's day\", says Ken le Grice, who then chanced upon these snow-covered lobster pots.\n\nThree's a crowd: \"Will you hurry up and get off our nuts\" is what Eric Neilson thinks these birds are saying in Caulkerbush near Dalbeattie. \"We have put up squirrel boxes but this little chap seems to prefer the birds' log table\".\n\nNot so green: “Frozen and icy greens and fairways at Stonehaven Golf Course”, says Jim Smith.\n\nStrike a pose: \"Cammie, eight, Ellie, five, from Airdrie, building an igloo\", says dad Derek Meehan. \"Proud of their hard work\".\n\nRoom for one: \"My husband built an igloo with the kids in our garden in Edinburgh and the youngest - nine-month-old Villö - enjoyed sitting in it too\", says mum Erzsébet Gyöngy.\n\nJust chilling: \"A Scottish snowman in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, made by Reid, age six and Elise age three, with a little help from dad David\", says Beth Sweeney.\n\nTake a bow: \"We came across this snow sculpture while out for a walk in Kilbarchan\", says Chris Bell. \"The snow had started to melt which caused the ice queen to lean forward\".\n\nIn limbo: \"I had to share this photo of our snowman that my children, Lizzy, six, and Nick, four, helped build\", says Emma Wild in Elgin. \"He's gradually become more and more wonky - I have no idea how it's still standing! He makes us laugh lots so we thought he might help cheer up other people too\".\n\nBoard meeting: \"Jake McGarry flying over Crieff Knock at sunset\", from Geraldine McGarry.\n\nThe eyes have it: \"A picture of a tawny owl I took whilst walking at last light in woods in North East Fife\", says David Riffkin.\n\nMoon landing? \"The A97 near Lumsden, where the drifting snow closed the road, and resembled a moonscape\", says Julie Ballantyne.\n\nAll heart: \"Pixie Stuart aged six made this love heart in the snow for mum Gillian, daddy Craig and young brother Nico for Valentine's Day, in Whiterashes Aberdeenshire.\", sent in by proud gran Meg Auld.\n\nHigh flier: \"My son Ben, aged five, on his sledge at the Toll Park in Burntisland, Fife\", says Mark Durkin. \"Home schooling had finished for the week and he was heading into the weekend on a high\".\n\nSpecial branch: \"This was taken at Wester Balgeddie near Kinross\", says Angie Morrison.\n\nWinter is coming: \"I’d love to share this picture I took of Arthur’s Seat from Blackford Hill with some spectacular snow coming in from the Forth\", says Deborah Sewell.\n\nWho's a pretty sunset then? \"My husband, Stephen, and our parrot, Chuck, watching the sunset in Crieff\", says Valerie Pegler.\n\nMelts the heart: \"My daughter said goodbye to her hamster Brownie Rose this week so she and her big brother made this in her memory\", says Annabel Sharp.\n\n... and here's little Brownie Rose in happier times.\n\nGrand gesture: \"Granny and grandpa live in Uddingston near Glasgow where I grew up too, but I now live in Newcastle upon Tyne\", says Mhairi Duigan. \"We haven't been able to visit since August last year. I just snapped this as my 20-month-old twin daughter rushed to give them a 'hug'. This is lockdown\".\n\nBeautifully timed: \"Edinburgh on a snowy sunset\", says Thomas Duffy who clocked this amazing photo opportunity to round off this week's gallery in style. \"February light is amazing as spring approaches\".\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 Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple has said.\n\nHarry and Meghan are preparing to welcome a brother or sister for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who turned one last May.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple said they were \"overjoyed\".\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family \"are delighted and wish them well\".\n\nHarry and Meghan shared a black and white picture of themselves under a tree, with Harry resting his hand on Meghan's head as she cradles her bump.\n\nTheir child will be eighth in line to the throne.\n\nMeghan's due date has not been revealed, but her bump appeared prominent in the photograph.\n\nThe news comes after the duchess said in November that she had suffered a miscarriage last July, writing in an article of feeling \"an almost unbearable grief\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said: \"We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child.\"\n\nMisan Harriman, a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the photographer who took the photo that accompanied their pregnancy announcement, tweeted: \"Meg, I was there at your wedding to witness this love story begin, and my friend, I am honoured to capture it grow.\n\n\"Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on this joyous news!\"\n\nHarry and Meghan married at Windsor Castle in May 2018\n\nArchie was born on 6 May, 2019\n\nThe Valentine's Day announcement comes just five days after the royal family celebrated the arrival of Princess Eugenie's first child - a baby boy.\n\nHarry and Meghan's second child will be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's 10th or 11th great-grandchild depending on whether he or she arrives before or after Zara Tindall's baby, which is also due in 2021.\n\nThey will follow the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Harry, and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor in the line of succession.\n\nBut they will not be entitled, at this stage, to be an HRH nor a prince or a princess due to rules set out more than 100 years ago by George V.\n\nThe baby is entitled to be a Lord or a Lady.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nHarry and Meghan met on a blind date, arranged by a mutual friend, and got engaged 16 months later.\n\nThe duchess had first found fame as an actress, playing Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, but gave up her career when she got married.\n\nThe Sussexes married in May 2018 in a ceremony at Windsor Castle and then a year later welcomed their first child, Archie, who was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nMeghan and Harry quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nThis week, Meghan won a privacy case against Associated Newspapers (ANL), saying the damage the publisher had done \"runs deep\". She had brought a claim against ANL, publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, over the publication of extracts from a letter to her father.", "An illness suffered by soldiers who took part in the Gulf War was not caused by inhaling depleted uranium, according to a scientific study.\n\nInstead, researchers believe Gulf War syndrome may be due to soldiers being exposed to the nerve agent sarin.\n\nThe Royal British Legion said a lack of understanding of the condition has had a \"serious impact\" on veterans.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it has no plans to conduct further studies but would monitor any research published.\n\nResearchers estimate around 250,000 Gulf War veterans could be living with the syndrome - which can cause symptoms such as insomnia and memory problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran Kerry Fuller: \"It would have been far better to be killed in action\"\n\nFormer soldier Kerry Fuller was a fit 26 year old who loved outdoor activities prior to the 1991 war.\n\nHe suffered a stroke at 40 and now says he is so ill, it is hard just to get out of bed.\n\n\"My whole world and way of being changed just like that,\" he told the BBC's Caroline Hawley. \"And there's no going back. The damage is done and my ailments are only getting worse.\n\n\"I think myself and the thousands of other veterans would just like an acknowledgment, and being able to then move forward with the knowledge of what caused things, to access the correct treatment.\"\n\nScientists have been trying to work out for years what could be the cause of Gulf War syndrome.\n\nOne popular theory was that soldiers had become ill after exposure to depleted uranium in tank shells.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 50,000 British troops took part in the Gulf War\n\nResearchers from the University of Portsmouth tested those with the condition to examine levels of residual depleted uranium in their bodies.\n\nThey say their study \"conclusively proves\" that none of them were exposed to any significant amounts.\n\nProfessor Randall Parrish said the results of the study would \"surprise many\" who have long suspected that exposure to the chemical could have contributed to their illness.\n\nResearchers now believe the most likely culprit is exposure to the nerve agent sarin - which was released into the atmosphere when Iraqi chemical weapons caches were bombed.\n\nThey say steps meant to protect the soldiers could have compounded the problem - including anti-nerve agent medication and the extensive use of pesticides.\n\nPesticides were sprayed on tents and other equipment such as uniforms, and were used on skin as an insect repellent during the war to prevent malaria exposure.\n\n\"Being able to debunk the alleged connection between this illness and this radioactive substance allows the medical community to focus more clearly on what the likely causes actually are,\" Prof Parrish said.\n\n\"Finding causes is a nebulous game when you have so many options to blame.\n\n\"The allies' own activities destroying an Iraqi nerve agent cache or spraying pesticides liberally on troops could be seen in hindsight as an inadvertent 'own goal' and one to be avoided in future conflicts.\n\n\"It is important to find causes for conditions like this, even if it takes a long time and the causes might be controversial.\"\n\nThe Royal British Legion said research suggested up to 33,000 UK Gulf War veterans could be living with the syndrome, with 1,300 claiming a war pension for conditions connected to their service.\n\nAndy Pike, head of policy and research at the charity, said: \"Whilst we welcome further research that helps to improve our knowledge of the experiences faced by Gulf War veterans, there has been little meaningful research published in the UK concerning effective treatment for those suffering from Gulf War illnesses.\n\n\"It is likely this lack of understanding has had a serious impact, leaving many veterans living with debilitating conditions 30 years after the end of combat operations.\"\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"We are indebted to all those who served our country in the Gulf wars and have already sponsored significant research into the effects of this conflict on veterans.\n\n\"Although we have no plans to conduct further studies, we continue to monitor any Gulf War research that is published around the world.\"\n\nDid you serve in the Gulf War in 1990-91? What has been your experience of Gulf War syndrome? 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.", "Coronavirus infections are continuing to decrease around the UK, Office for National Statistics data shows.\n\nThe figures, for the seven days up to 12 February, reveal fewer people are testing positive for the virus in the community than in recent weeks.\n\nExperts warn that infection levels remain high however, with about 553,000 people found to have the virus.\n\nAnd another 533 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nIt brings the UK total to 119,920.\n\nDaily figures show there were a further 12,027 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Friday.\n\nMore than 16.8 million people have had their first COVID vaccine dose, while 589,591 have had a second jab, bringing the total number of shots since the rollout began to nearly 17.5m.\n\nThe latest R number, estimated to be between 0.6 and 0.9, also suggests infection numbers are shrinking. It means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 6 and 9 other people.\n\nOther studies of infection rates have shown a similar \"strong\" decline.\n\nThe ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nIn England, there is some regional variation in the infection rate, although it is decreasing in all areas.\n\nNorth-west England had the highest proportion of people of any region in England likely to test positive for coronavirus - at around one in 85 people.\n\nFor London the estimate was one in 100, and for the West Midlands it was one in 110.\n\nElsewhere, the estimates are:\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to receive new data on the effect of vaccines on the spread of coronavirus, ahead of Monday's publication of a roadmap for easing the lockdown in England.\n\nDowning Street has refused to comment on the likely contents of the unlocking plan amid press speculation.\n\nThe Welsh government has already announced some changes. From Saturday, four people from two different households will be allowed to exercise outdoors together. And from Monday, children in Wales aged between three and seven are returning to school - as are young children in Scotland.\n\nExperts say any unlocking should be done slowly and cautiously to avoid a rebound surge in cases. There is still plenty of the virus circulating that people can catch.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose modelling prompted the first lockdown last March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was hopeful more restrictions could be lifted by the end of May.\n\n\"We will still have rules in place but... I think society will be a lot more normal.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said it was wrong to speculate on whether summer holidays will be allowed this year: \"I get how frustrating this is, it's completely natural. We all want to get a break from this, I get that. But it would wrong for me to start speculating now.\n\n\"We are assessing the numbers, we are making a judgment based on the science and we will be making an announcement on Monday. I can't go further than that.\"\n\nA continued fall in new infections is one of the reassuring signs PM Boris Johnson will be considering this weekend, along with advisers, to decide if, when and how to start lifting some restrictions in England.\n\nR is below 1, even with more infectious variants of the virus circulating, which is good news too.\n\nBut within the wider UK figures there are some regional differences that are worth keeping an eye on. Infection rates appear to be higher in some urban areas of England, for example.\n\nLessons from last year tell us that the virus can take off again if you unlock too quickly or too soon. 'One size fits all' may not be the best approach for every type of easing, although a shared priority is to get children back to school.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some certainty has been provided for families as regards pupils going back to school.\n\nBut is there a possibility some pupils may not return after the Easter holidays?\n\nMrs Foster says that there will be a gradual return of young people coming back \"to where they belong - in face to face teaching\".\n\nShe says the executive has looked at the fact that transmissibility is higher among those over 12 years of age and the pressure on secondary children who are in exam years and need to be assessed even though they are not doing exams. She says these are \"competing\" factors.\n\n\"After Easter if we continue to go in the same trajectory as we are now, the rest of the tranches - the p4 to p-7 and the rest of post primary will be back to school\" she says.\n\nShe cites other jurisdictions where a similar pattern is being used.\n\nShe says young people have missed out dreadfully and also knows that home schooling can be a challenge.", "Ski slopes in Poland, such as this one in Szczyrk, reopened last Friday Image caption: Ski slopes in Poland, such as this one in Szczyrk, reopened last Friday\n\nThe South African variant of coronavirus has been detected in Poland as the health minister Adam Niedzielski confirmed a third wave has arrived in the country.\n\nThe first case of the variant was discovered near the city of Suwalki in north-eastern Poland, Niedzielski says. About 10% of Covid-19 cases in Poland are now the UK variant.\n\nNiedzielski says there has been a very dynamic increase in new infections in the past two weeks.\n\n\"Looking at the results it must be said that the third wave of the pandemic is already in Poland,\" he tells a news conference.\n\nThe seven-day average this week exceeded 6,500 cases, he says, 1,000 more than in previous weeks. He also says the number of patients requiring hospital treatment, which had been decreasing, has reversed in the past week.\n\nThe trend reversal comes just a week after Poland allowed ski slopes to reopen, as well as hotels, cinemas and theatres reopening at half capacity. Officials have said restrictions would be reinstated if cases rise significantly.\n\nOn Friday, Poland reported 8,777 new cases in the previous 24 hours and 241 virus-related deaths. The number of new daily cases this week has been the highest in more than a month.\n\nPoland has vaccinated 2.56 million people, equivalent to 6.8% of the population, including 865,884 people who has received both doses, or 2.3% of the population.", "All dental students in Scotland will have to repeat a year after their training was disrupted by Covid.\n\nScotland's dental schools said students had not been able to gain sufficient clinical experience of aerosol generating procedures.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said she understood how disappointing it would be for students across the country.\n\nShe said the Scottish government was determined to support students and was providing extra bursary payments.\n\nThe bursaries will be the equivalent of a student loan award which could be up to £6,750, she said.\n\nMrs Freeman said the decision to make the students repeat a year was a \"tough one\".\n\n\"It is about giving dental students the experience that has been denied them this year because of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to ensure that people studying dentistry can enter the profession as confident fully-qualified clinicians.\"\n\nAberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow Dental Schools have all taken the decision to defer graduations.\n\nThey said the students had not been able to gain sufficient clinical experience of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs), which can result in droplets being thrown into the air, creating the potential for Covid-19 to spread.\n\nAGPs, involving the use of high-speed instruments, represent the majority of dental treatments.\n\nGraduation for students at Dundee and Glasgow Dental Schools will be deferred until summer 2022 with all current year groups repeating the 2020-21 academic year.\n\nGraduation for students in the final year at Aberdeen will be deferred until Christmas 2021 and all other students will repeat the 2020-21 academic year.\n\nProf Phil Taylor, who is dean of the faculty of dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, said he understood and supported the decision taken by Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow dental schools.\n\nHe said: \"Patient safety is always at the forefront of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's actions and this decision supports our efforts in this respect.\n\n\"Dentistry as a profession has been uniquely disadvantaged throughout the pandemic in comparison to other primary care services due to the lack of meaningful support made available for the sector, and this is one of the many resulting knock-on effects.\n\n\"I sincerely hope dental students are able to obtain a high standard of practical training and experience as part of their studies over the course of the coming academic year, which will benefit the dental profession as a whole going forward.\"\n\nStudent leaders also welcomed the bursaries but asked for clarity from the Scottish government to ensure all students could benefit from support.\n\nMatt Crilly, NUS Scotland president, said: \"The marketisation of universities means many students have to pay astronomical fees to access education, it is only right these dentistry students should be given full compensation.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"It is a big blow to people who would have been in their final year and who had been hoping to get into employment very soon.\n\n\"It just shows that we need to look at the impact this is having on the younger generation - those at school, college, university and those who are about to graduate.\n\n\"They are going to be the generation that is really going to feel the effects of this for some time.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said aerosol procedures were common in dentistry placements but unusual in other clinical settings such as medicine, nursing and midwifery.\n\nStudents on those courses will not be required to repeat a year and any extensions to their programmes will be covered by other arrangements.", "Rocks was made by a mostly female crew and cast\n\nA film that cast unknown east London schoolgirls in most of its main roles has been honoured with five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.\n\nRocks won best British independent film, and one of its stars, Kosar Ali, 17, was named both best supporting actress and most promising newcomer.\n\nRocks got glowing reviews when it came out last year and is now on Netflix.\n\nIts other winners included D'Angelou Osei Kissiedu, who was just seven when he played little brother Emmanuel.\n\nHe was named best supporting actor, with a seven-decade age gap between him and the winner of the best actor award - Sir Anthony Hopkins, 83, who was recognised for playing a man struggling with dementia in The Father.\n\nKosar Ali (left) and Bukky Bakray (right) were cast without any acting experience\n\nTo find the young stars of Rocks, director Sarah Gavron and casting director Lucy Pardee auditioned about 1,300 students, most of whom had no acting experience. The chosen cast then improvised much of the film's dialogue.\n\nAfter Thursday's virtual awards ceremony, Ali, who plays Rocks' best friend Sumaya, told the PA news agency the film had made her \"understand myself as a person as well as an actor\"\n\nShe said: \"Before this whole experience I never thought I would be who I am today, winning awards and even pursuing this acting career.\"\n\nProducer Ameenah Ayub Allen said Rocks was a celebration of female film-making. \"We were making this film that really had a truly independent spirit. It had a truly independent methodology,\" she said.\n\n\"When we were filming, we always thought the film was imbued with the spirit of a teenage girl and it is just phenomenal that it has come here and that the spirit of a teenage girl has won best film, with a completely different way of film-making, with all these incredible women.\"\n\nBukky Bakray, 18, who plays the title character, was nominated for best actress. That award went to Wunmi Mosaku for refugee horror His House, which had four wins in total. The Father won three, while psychological horror Saint Maud won two.\n\nActor Riz Ahmed claimed the award for debut screenwriter for Mogul Mowgli, which also won best music, while Ahmed's The Long Goodbye won best short film.\n\nSee the full list of winners and nominees on the British Independent Film Awards website.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine gives people good protection against the new coronavirus variant which is now dominant in the UK, its developers say.\n\nThey found similar efficacy against the B117 \"Kent\" variant to the original virus, based on swabs from volunteers.\n\nIt is still unclear how well the jab works against other variants with more worrying mutations.\n\nBut the Oxford team says it can easily update its vaccine and deploy a new version in the autumn if needed.\n\nVaccine developers say it is a relatively straightforward process to tweak the current recipe to target any new variants, which occur often in viruses and are not unexpected.\n\nScientists behind the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines also say early research suggests their vaccines appear to protect against the dominant new variants in the UK.\n\nThe current vaccines being used in the UK were designed to target earlier forms of the virus circulating over a year ago.\n\nNow that more than 10 million people have been vaccinated, these are the first indications that the Oxford jab still protects most people from getting ill with Covid-19.\n\nOxford researchers say their analysis found similar levels of efficacy against the old variant (84%) and the \"Kent\" B117 one (74.6%), which was spotted in the South East in September and caused a sharp rise in cases before Christmas.\n\nIt is now present across the UK and in other countries.\n\nBut a small number of cases of other, more concerning variants have come to light, which contain the E484K mutation. These have led to the introduction of door-to-door testing in some parts of England to stop their spread.\n\nThe Oxford findings are based on swabs taken from around 500 people taking part in trials of the Oxford vaccine between October and January.\n\nDr June Raine, chief executive of the UK's regulator, the MHRA, said the findings were \"very reassuring\".\n\nDr Peter English, consultant in communicable disease control, said: \"This is excellent news, as it indicates that the vaccine works effectively at preventing illness, even with the variant virus.\"\n\nThe study also indicates the vaccine may reduce transmission of the disease, as another recent study also suggested, as well as preventing serious illness and death from Covid-19.\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert, chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, said the need for a new vaccine had always been expected.\n\n\"Coronaviruses are less prone to mutation than influenza viruses, but we have always expected that as the pandemic continues, new variants will begin to become dominant among the viruses that are circulating and that eventually a new version of the vaccine, with an updated spike protein, would be required to maintain vaccine efficacy at the highest level possible.\"\n\nProf Gilbert said they would continue to monitor the emergence of new variants and work with AstraZeneca to get ready to make changes to the vaccine if necessary.", "A Moroccan man seeking asylum in the UK over alleged mistreatment due to his sexuality has said he faced homophobic abuse while housed in Wales.\n\nAbderrahim El Habachi, 28, said he felt \"unsafe\" living alongside some men from North Africa and the Middle East after he arrived in Cardiff in 2017.\n\nThe Home Office said it required accommodation providers to \"take account of any circumstances and vulnerability\".\n\nMr El Habachi's application for asylum in the UK and a subsequent appeal have been rejected and a new application is pending.\n\nHe said being gay in Morocco was difficult, he felt his life was in danger there, and he was constantly playing a game of \"hide and seek\" with the police.\n\n\"'Who's the man and who's the woman? What's your girl name?' - I heard this daily from the Moroccan police,\" said Mr El Habachi.\n\nIn 2017, he decided to flee Morocco for the UK and ended up in Cardiff, housed with men from a similar culture who he said had the homophobic and transphobic views he had tried to escape.\n\n\"I had fled a country that was dangerous for me, because of who I am, and I was put in an environment that felt more dangerous than the situation that I left,\" he said.\n\nHe was initially housed in accommodation provided by the National Asylum Support Service.\n\n\"I only spent 50 days there, but it felt like a lifetime,\" he said, explaining that being placed alongside some men from North Africa and the Middle East with homophobic views created \"instability\" for him. Mr El Habachi said when he asked about living accommodation for LGBT-asylum seekers and refugees, he was told none existed.\n\n\"I felt so unsafe and vulnerable, I thought I would come here and be able to embrace myself but instead I was feeling very insecure.\n\n\"It was as though there was no effort to make LGBT people welcome, the drop-in centres for asylum seekers and refugees weren't LGBT friendly, they were mainly aimed towards cis men. I was made to feel unwelcome,\" he said.\n\nMr El Habachi was told Morocco was a safe country for LGBT people\n\nMr El Habachi said his interview with the Home Office in relation to his application to remain in the UK was traumatic with lots of \"intrusive\" questions about his sexuality.\n\n\"This added so much more pressure to the interview. Was I saying the right thing? Was I giving enough detail? From a life in Morocco, where I was pretending to not be gay in order to avoid any issues, I was now having to openly talk about my homosexuality in great detail, something I wasn't comfortable with,\" Mr El Habachi said.\n\nHis application was rejected, with Mr El Habachi told Morocco was a safe country for the LGBT community - a conclusion he found unbelievable.\n\n\"I have been persecuted as a gay man in the country, so for them to say I can go back and live openly as a gay man is ridiculous,\" he said.\n\nHis subsequent appeal against the decision was also rejected.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Morocco and victims of abuse and harassment can expect no support from police or the government, human rights groups have said.\n\nOfficial figures show there were 1,212 asylum applications lodged in the UK in 2019 where sexual orientation formed part of the basis for the claim.\n\nOver the past three years, the refusal rate for sexuality-based asylum claims increased from 61% to 71%, according to Home Office figures.\n\nMr El Habachi said he was ready to give up but, with the support from the LGBT community in Wales, he decided to make a new application, which is pending.\n\nHe said his time as an asylum seeker might be \"shrinking\" and he hoped he would get refugee status but he feared the \"nightmares I have of living in persecution, having to hide who I am will become a reality\".\n\nCharity Stonewall Cymru said many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were forced to flee their countries because they experienced \"violence and rejection by their family and society\".\n\n\"They come to the UK looking for safety and to lead a life where they are free to be themselves. Sadly, the harrowing experience of this individual shows that the UK has a long way to go before LGBT+ people seeking asylum get the support and protection they deserve,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nAbderrahim El Habachi arrived in Cardiff after fleeing Morocco in 2017\n\nThe Welsh Refugee Council added: \"We know that those seeking sanctuary who identify as LGBTQI+ face specific challenges when claiming asylum. We continue to press for safe, secure accommodation for all those seeking asylum in Wales.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the UK had a \"proud record\" of providing protection for asylum seekers fleeing persecution.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We provide LGBT+ asylum seekers with details for a range of organisations which can provide support from the point of their claim. We also require our accommodation providers to take account of any circumstances and vulnerability, with two of them offering designated accommodation for LGBT+ asylum seekers.\n\n\"Every asylum claim is considered carefully, sensitively and on its individual merits by caseworkers who receive extensive training.\"", "Lou Dobbs was named in a defamation lawsuit filled by a voting machine company\n\nUS broadcaster Fox has cancelled the TV programme hosted by Lou Dobbs, a vocal Trump supporter who is accused of using his platform to spread baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election.\n\nThe news emerged a day after Dobbs was named in a defamation lawsuit filed by the voting machine maker Smartmatic.\n\nThe $2.7bn (£2bn) lawsuit claims Dobbs was part of a \"disinformation campaign\" against the company.\n\nFox, which denies the allegations, said the Dobbs decision was not linked.\n\nThe veteran financial journalist, 75, has presented Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network since 2011. He was also an occasional commentator on Fox News, the conservative channel that has been home to several staunch supporters of Mr Trump.\n\nDobbs - who has recently written the book The Trump Century: How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever - said he had no comment.\n\nDespite the cancellation of his programme, Dobbs remained under contract but was unlikely to appear on the network again, the Los Angeles Times reports.\n\nThe Smartmatic lawsuit names Fox Corporation, which is Fox Business Network's parent company, as well as Fox News, Dobbs and two other Fox hosts - Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. It also cites Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, two lawyers who represented Mr Trump.\n\nThe company accused the group of intentionally repeating the false claim that it was \"responsible for stealing\" the election by \"switching and altering votes to rig\" the election for Joe Biden.\n\nSmartmatic claims Dobbs was \"one of the primary proponents and speakers for the disinformation campaign\".\n\nFox said on Thursday the network was \"proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend this meritless lawsuit in court\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A young liberal and a conservative ask if their generation can heal the US\n\nLegal experts say the lawsuit has put enormous pressure on Fox.\n\nDominion, another voting technology maker, has also threatened to sue the network and other conservative media for defamation over their repeated unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\nFollowing the news of Lou Dobbs Tonight's cancellation, Donald Trump issued a statement, saying: \"Lou Dobbs is and was great... He had a large and loyal following that will be watching closely for his next move, and that following includes me.\"", "Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park in Gower said it was inundated with inquiries on Friday\n\nTourism bosses are seeking a \"roadmap\" to help the sector to prepare ahead of any decision to reopen in Wales.\n\nIt comes after First Minister Mark Drakeford said some sections could open by Easter as long as the Covid-19 situation continues to improve.\n\nOne caravan park had 100 bookings on Friday - compared with the usual 25 - after Mr Drakeford's comments.\n\nBut another site with customers mostly from north-west England said they seemed cautious about booking ahead.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it wants businesses to be open and trading \"as soon it is safe to do so\".\n\nWales has been under a level four lockdown since before Christmas with some businesses closed and people ordered to avoid all but essential travel.\n\nTom Beynon, from Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park in Gower, said inquiries \"went around the bend\" on Friday with a lot of customers from Wales looking to holiday closer to home.\n\nHe said daily bookings and inquiries at this time of year had already doubled from 25 to 50 but they shot up to 100 on Friday night \"due to Mr Drakeford's positivity\".\n\n\"Is that people reading between the lines that you can go away but [stay] within Wales?\" he said.\n\nThe park's season traditionally runs between April and October and staff are preparing to reopen as usual \"unless told otherwise\", said Mr Beynon.\n\nThe Welsh coast saw tourists return in their droves when Covid rules eased last year\n\nBarmouth mayor, councillor Katie Price, who also owns a B&B in the Gwynedd town, said a \"roadmap\" was needed so hospitality businesses \"know where they stand\".\n\n\"People may have to make new adaptations to their businesses, but how can they start to put things in place when they have no promise of an income or deadline as to when that needs to be done?\" she said.\n\n\"The process of reopening has to have full community confidence, so people who live here feel safe, as well as our customers.\"\n\nShe said that tourism was \"one of the biggest parts of the economy\" in Barmouth and added that \"from a business point of view\" footfall is needed when hospitality reopens, which should be reflected in travel rules.\n\nMost of Fron Farm Country Holiday Park's customers visit from north-west England\n\nCeri Roberts, from Fron Farm Country Holiday Park, at Hendre, near Mold, Flintshire, said the tourism industry and holidaymakers needed \"certainty, definite dates for people to be able to book with confidence\".\n\nShe said 98% of customers came from over the English border with people \"cautious\" about booking a place at the site due to differing Covid restrictions last year.\n\nMrs Roberts said the business had pledged to offer refunds if cancellations were necessary to give customers confidence.\n\nShe has also called for guidance about what could be allowed to reopen as campers were unable to book a pitch for a time last year when shared amenity blocks had to remain closed due to Covid rules.\n\n\"I'm more positive about taking caravan and static bookings,\" she said.\n\nBerin Jones, of the Shelbourne Hotel, in Llandudno, was \"delighted\" by the news there was a possibility of reopening.\n\n\"We traded for 10 weeks of last year in the last 12 months,\" he said.\n\n\"It's absolutely essential that all the supporting industries, suppliers and everything else, are able to start planning to reopen and get working again.\n\n\"We really need a timetable from (Mark Drakeford) now, we need to understand well in advance when it is he expects to open up campsites, when it is he expects to open up hotels.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd council is planning to hold a summit next month with councillors and Snowdonia National Park Authority officials following \"unprecedented\" visitors to Snowdon since the pandemic began, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nCouncil leader Dyfrig Siencyn told the education and economy scrutiny committee that such \"unsustainable tourism\" could not continue to be accommodated.\n\n\"I've been personally accused of being anti-tourism despite growing up in a home which was let out as a bed and breakfast, and it's right that we remember it's an important industry for us,\" he said.\n\n\"But the pandemic has perhaps shown we're almost wholly reliant on tourism in rural areas such as Gwynedd and have very little choice, which drives us to create a much more varied economy rather than all our eggs being in one basket.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said that restrictions in Wales are kept \"under constant review\" and it will \"always work with sectors to ensure businesses have as much notice as possible\" about changes to Covid rules.\n\n\"The public health situation is improving thanks to everyone's hard work and sacrifices but we all need to stay at home for a while longer to bring levels of the virus down further.\"", "Cardiff council said the rise in recycling during the festive period was exceptionally challenging\n\nA surge in people shopping online and getting home deliveries during lockdown has led to an increase in recycling across Wales, figures have shown.\n\nOver the past seven weeks, people have been told to \"stay home\" as Wales has been in a strict lockdown.\n\nCouncils said it led to people recycling more, with 500 extra tonnes of recycling put out over Christmas in Rhondda Cynon Taf alone.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the recycling improvements were \"heartening\".\n\nWhile all councils normally see an increase in waste over Christmas, this rose \"substantially\" over the latest festive period as people celebrated at home and had presents delivered.\n\nCouncils said it was likely due to more people working from home, schools and pubs shut, and increased packaging from online shopping.\n\nMany authorities said it had been challenging to collect the growing number of bags while dealing with staff sickness due to Covid, as well as disruption due to snow, ice and flooding.\n\nIn Cardiff, the council dealt with an estimated 400 extra tonnes of recycling over Christmas - a 25% annual increase - while Bridgend saw an increase of 410 tonnes.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, one of the areas hit the hardest by the pandemic, staff collected more than 2,770 tonnes of recycling over the two-week festive period - or 692 full bin lorries - an increase of 500 tonnes (18%) on 2019.\n\nThe council praised residents after its \"greenest Christmas ever\", with 450 tonnes collected in just one day, and some residents putting out more than 50 bags.\n\nDespite high numbers of Covid cases in the community, the council said it had \"limited issues with staff shortages\".\n\nFigures show the amount we threw away dropped in the first three months of the pandemic\n\nCouncils in Wales are expected to reach a 70% recycling target by 2024 or face fines of £200 per tonne, with the aim to send no waste to landfill by 2050.\n\nIn 2019-20, more waste was recycled in Wales than ever before - 65.1% - but this was before the start of the first UK-wide lockdown.\n\nHowever, provisional figures from Stats Wales suggest that less recycling was collected during the first few months of the pandemic as many businesses closed and people worked from home.\n\nIn 2019-20, almost 300,000 tonnes of waste - about 4% of all municipal waste - was collected from commercial and industrial premises, including 137,488 tonnes of recycling.\n\nThe amount of waste reused, recycled or composted dropped from 66.8% in April-June 2019 to 64% in the same months in 2020.\n\nHowever, this comes on the back of all waste falling, from 400,000 tonnes to 339,600, with shops, pubs and cafes not generating rubbish, meaning a significant amount less was sent to landfill - 17,325 tonnes compared to 34,667 tonnes in the same three months in 2019.\n\nThis 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Lockdown: Litter and brawling on hottest day of 2020\n\nCouncils say they have been hit with rising amounts of rubbish and increased staff sickness due to Covid-19 or people self-isolating.\n\nDuring the first lockdown from March 2020, household recycling in Cardiff was temporarily sent to an incinerator to be burnt rather than being sorted and recycled, due to staffing issues.\n\nMany councils said they drafted in extra workers and put on extra lorries in a bid to cope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are reports that fly-tipping has been on the increase during the pandemic\n\nIn Vale of Glamorgan, the amount of rubbish being thrown out increased by about 30%, with bin workers making numerous visits to \"catch up\".\n\nCardiff council, which missed the Welsh Government target for 2019-20, said it experienced \"substantial staff shortages\" and hitting the 2020-21 target would be \"extremely challenging\".\n\nThe authority struggled to deal with rising recycling demand over Christmas, with an extra 400 tonnes on the streets - on a normal day it would collect 50 tonnes.\n\n\"Alongside this extra waste, the council has also experienced a 17% reduction in staff in the department due to workers either testing positive for Covid or having to shield, or self-isolate,\" the council said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nStretched council services were faced with another challenge recently - the weather.\n\nStorm Christoph, which left villages underwater, saw collections disrupted in parts of Wales, while snow and icy conditions left crews unable to access some streets.\n\nSteve Jones, chief officer for Street Scene and transportation for Flintshire council, said the pandemic, combined with bad weather, was \"unprecedented\" after the authority was criticised for not collecting plastic and cardboard recycling between Christmas and New Year.\n\nSome criticism led to rows breaking out on social media between council workers and residents, and Mr Jones admitted some staff \"overstepped the mark\", after seeing the criticism when they were working so hard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We've had a lot more complaints... about litter being left in our parks and beaches\"\n\nSome councils also said fly-tipping had risen and litter bins were overflowing due to people dumping their household rubbish in them.\n\nThe Welsh Government has started a consultation on making Wales \"litter free\" after a rise in plastic bottles, face masks and fly-tipping in beauty spots.\n\nIt includes proposals to get businesses to cut down on packaging, potentially increasing fines for littering, and making it illegal to throw litter from cars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff council staff pick up hundreds of bags of litter on the roadside every year\n\nWith more people working from home, some councils, including Pembrokeshire, said bin lorries struggled to get down some streets, with large numbers of cars obstructing pavements.\n\nIn Merthyr, where crews have started earlier in the morning and more vehicles have been used, some call centre staff had suffered abusive calls, but the council said this was no higher than when collections were missed in bad weather.\n\nCouncils say that staff have worked hard to keep services going throughout the pandemic\n\nSome councils have already announced plans to slash services as they try to meet budget demands in the face of the pandemic, putting workers' jobs at risk.\n\nIn Powys, black bin collections could be cut to just once a month, following in the footsteps of Conwy, as part of plans to save £164,000 next year, and to encourage recycling.\n\nThe Welsh Government said councils were working to ensure rubbish was \"re-used, re-manufactured and recycled rather than ending up in landfill, which is particularly challenging given the increased rates of collection seen at individual authorities following the Christmas period\".", "All adults aged 50 and over should have been offered a coronavirus vaccine by May, Downing Street has confirmed.\n\nPreviously ministers had said it was their \"ambition\" to vaccinate the first nine priority groups by the spring.\n\nThe UK had given a first jab to nearly 11 million people as of Thursday and is aiming to reach 15 million vaccinations by 15 February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said a lot of things would \"have to go right\" to hit the May target for all over-50s.\n\nHe said supply was the \"most difficult\" limiting factor in the roll out.\n\nBut he said the government was on track to vaccinate the first four priority groups by the middle of the month, these include the over-70s, frontline health and care workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe top nine priority vaccination groups - which are set by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) - also includes people aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions.\n\nMr Hancock also said it was \"still too early to say\" when restrictions could be lifted and warned the health service was still under pressure.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said, in a Twitter video, that on 22 February he would \"set out the beginnings of our roadmap for a way forward for the whole country as the vaccine programme intensifies and, as more and more people acquire immunity, a steady programme for beginning to unlock\".\n\nHe also warned that these were still \"early days\" and rates of infection in the country were \"still very high\".\n\nIt comes after Mark Harper, chairman of the Covid Recovery Group made up of Conservative MPs who want lockdown to be eased, said it would be \"almost impossible to justify having any restrictions in place\" once the over-50s had been vaccinated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock also spoke about government plans for quarantine hotels to be introduced in England\n\nProf Graham Medley, who is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, earlier said the government should avoid \"setting dates\" for lifting lockdown and focus on criteria, such as case rates, rather than a calendar.\n\nA further 1,014 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Friday, taking the total by that measure to 111,264.\n\nThere have been 19,114 more positive cases of coronavirus recorded, while another 480,560 people received their first dose of a vaccine - taking the total to 10,971,047 across the UK.\n\nCoronavirus cases are showing clear signs of falling across the UK, the latest figures suggest, and the R number - the average number of people that someone with Covid will go on to infect - has dropped slightly to between 0.7 and 1.\n\nIn a press release confirming May's local elections will go ahead, the Cabinet Office said: \"The UK's vaccination programme is planned to have reached all nine priority cohorts by May, meaning that the government can commit to go ahead with these polls with confidence.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said, while the NHS has the staff, volunteers and clinics needed to vaccinate the 15 million people in the next priority groups, vaccine production was a biological process so there were no guarantees about how much could be grown.\n\nBut our correspondent said there was growing confidence in the UK supply chain, with the bulk of supplies now coming from UK-based plants, while the first batches of the Moderna vaccine - of which the UK has ordered 17 million doses - would start to arrive before Easter.\n\nSo far, the falls in Covid cases and hospital admissions (about a fifth in a week respectively) are pretty much exclusively down to the effects of lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut soon, we'll start to see the impact of vaccination too - and we will expect to see more good news, particularly falls in deaths which are heavily concentrated in the over-80s.\n\nWhile deaths mainly occur in the over-80s, about 20% of hospital admissions are in 45-64-year-olds and another 20% in 65 to 74-year-olds. The latest commitment to vaccinate all over 50s could have a massive impact on severe illness and the strain it puts on the health service, too.\n\nBut the situation will remain precarious for a while. Cases, though falling, are still high - and despite a so-far successful vaccination campaign, large swathes of the country may still be unprotected come spring.\n\nThough much rarer, a proportion of younger, healthy people will end up in hospital with Covid, and we're only just beginning to learn about the burden of long Covid on the previously well young.\n\nSo once the groups at highest risk of ending up in hospital and dying have been vaccinated, the government will face difficult questions about what level of risk it is willing to stomach to ease restrictions, while a prolonged lockdown carries its own risks that might be currently difficult to measure.\n\nThe UK's drugs regulator, the MHRA, said the vaccines being distributed in the country were extremely safe, while new research shows the AstraZeneca jab protects well against the new \"Kent\" variant of Covid.\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government also announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac, which Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said would allow the UK to \"swiftly tweak and roll out\" existing vaccines to combat new variants, with 50 million doses placed in an initial order for later this year.\n\nThe government also said no contracts had yet been awarded to hotels to take part in England's new quarantine scheme, which will see all those arriving from 33 Covid hotspots have to stay in a hotel for 10 nights.", "Three journalists who were allegedly working as spies for China were asked to leave the UK last year.\n\nTheir departure, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, came because they had arrived under journalism visas but were believed to be working for the Ministry of State Security, part of China's intelligence apparatus.\n\nTheir departure was low-key and did not come in the past few months.\n\nThe Home Office declined to comment on the reports.\n\nIt is not clear which media organisations they worked for. The Chinese Embassy in London has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe revelation came after Ofcom on Thursday revoked the licence of the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN to operate in the UK.\n\nThe broadcasting regulator said the company that had the licence did not have day-to-day control over the channel which was against the rules.\n\nThe decision was not linked to the reports about the three Chinese journalists.\n\nChina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was \"firmly opposed\" to Ofcom's ruling.\n\nMeanwhile, the US government has said it was \"deeply disturbed\" by a BBC report detailing allegations of systematic rape of Uighur women in Chinese camps.\n\n\"These atrocities shock the conscience and must be met with serious consequences,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nUK government minister, Nigel Adams, told parliament on Thursday that the report showed \"clearly evil acts\".\n\nAccording to estimates, more than a million Uighurs and other minorities have been detained in camps in China.\n\nAn investigation published by the BBC on Wednesday contained first-hand testimony of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture of women detainees by police and guards.", "Dame Julie Andrews said the Oscar-winner was \"an extraordinary man who deeply loved his profession\"\n\nHollywood stars have paid tribute to Christopher Plummer, the Canadian actor who has died aged 91.\n\nDame Julie Andrews, who starred alongside Plummer in The Sound of Music, said he was a \"consummate actor\" and a \"cherished friend\".\n\nThe Oscar winner was also praised as \"an extraordinary man\" and \"completely free, kind and funny\".\n\nPlummer was best known as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, but his career flourished later in life.\n\nHe was nominated for numerous awards. He won an Oscar in 2012 for the film Beginners, and was also nominated in 2010 and 2018.\n\nPlummer also won two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Bafta.\n\nHe died peacefully at his home in Connecticut on Friday with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side, reports said.\n\n\"The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend,\" Dame Julie said in a statement. \"I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humour and fun we shared through the years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Sound of Music This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sound of Music\n\nLou Pitt, his long-time friend and manager of 46 years, described Plummer as \"an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession\".\n\n\"He was a national treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots,\" he continued. \"He touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come.\"\n\nThe actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt described Plummer as \"one of the greats\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joseph Gordon-Levitt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of Plummer's most well-known films include The Insider, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Knives Out, and A Beautiful Mind.\n\nChris Evans, who starred with Plummer in Knives Out, said: \"What an unbelievable loss. Few careers have such longevity and impact.\n\n\"One of my favourite memories from Knives Out was playing piano together. He was a lovely man and a legendary talent,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Pixar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 film's director, Rian Johnson, said Plummer was \"a living legend who loved his craft\" and \"an absolute gentleman\".\n\nIn an Instagram post, Knives Out star Ana de Armas said \"my heart is broken\".\n\n\"Thank you always for your laughter, your warmth, your talent... the vitamins when I got sick, your patience, your partnership and your company,\" she wrote alongside a picture of the pair 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 ana_d_armas 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\nWilliam Shatner, a long-time friend of Plummer who starred with him in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, said he was \"so sad to lose him\".\n\n\"I interviewed him at a theatre... we spent the afternoon laughing and rejoicing in our mutual experiences,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"That afternoon defined my friendship with Chris.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I loved working with Chris on The Insider, he was just impressive,\" Russell Crowe said in a series of tweets. \"It was a travesty that his role didn't receive an Academy Award nomination.\n\n\"I appreciated his candour and wisdom,\" he added. \"Good man. Fine actor.\"\n\nJohn Cusack said: \"[I] was lucky enough to work with him - and all I could think about was I can't believe I'm working with Christopher Plummer. Witty, generous, wildly talented.\"\n\nThe Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, said Plummer had \"beguiled audiences across generations\".\n\nAnd Bafta added its condolences, praising his \"amazing work since the 50s\".\n\n\"We've lost one of our most iconic and beloved actors,\" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. \"[He] gave life to so many characters we love and cherish.\"\n\nHe added: \"On behalf of all Canadians, I extend my deepest condolences to his family, his friends, and his many fans.\"", "Christopher Plummer lit up both stage and screen over seven decades\n\nChristopher Plummer, the distinguished Canadian actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91.\n\nHe won an Oscar in 2012 for the film Beginners and was also nominated for The Last Station in 2010 and All the Money in the World in 2018.\n\nIn the latter film he replaced Kevin Spacey, whose performance as billionaire J Paul Getty was removed.\n\nHis many other films included The Man Who Would Be King and Knives Out.\n\nChristopher Plummer won his Oscar in 2012, and was also nominated in 2018 and 2010\n\nHe was a memorably villainous Klingon in the sixth Star Trek film and played TV anchorman Mike Wallace in 1999's The Insider.\n\nHe also played Sherlock Holmes in Murder By Decree and appeared with Peter Sellers in The Return of the Pink Panther.\n\nAccording to reports, Plummer died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side.\n\nLou Pitt, his long-time friend and manager of 46 years, remembered him as \"an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession\".\n\n\"He was a national treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots,\" he continued. \"Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come.\n\n\"He will forever be with us.\"\n\nSound of Music co-star Dame Julie Andrews said in a statement to the PA news agency: \"The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend.\n\n\"I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humour and fun we shared through the years.\"\n\nThe Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, said he \"beguiled audiences across generations\".\n\nBafta added its condolences, praising his \"amazing work since the 50s\".\n\nThe official Twitter account for The Sound of Music posted its condolences:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Sound of Music This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sound of Music\n\nStar Trek actor George Takei called the actor a \"giant of stage and screen\", adding: \"Rest in eternal music, Captain Von Trapp.\"\n\nActor Eddie Marsan worked with Plummer on the 2016 film The Exception and said: \"It was like watching a master class. He had nothing to prove anymore so he was completely free, kind, funny mischievous and beautiful to watch. RIP.\"\n\nLord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, who worked alongside Plummer on animated film 9, expressed his condolences, adding: \"What a legend.\"\n\nPlummer had a varied career across film, television and theatre, starring in productions on Broadway and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.\n\nThe actor, here in 1965, has drawn many tributes from fellow stars\n\nYet he will be forever known and loved for The Sound of Music, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.\n\nPlummer had ambivalent feelings towards his best-known film, which he famously renamed The Sound of Mucus in interviews.\n\nHe also likened working with Andrews to \"being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day\", though they later became great friends.\n\nHe also became reconciled to the film itself, describing it in his 2008 memoir In Spite of Myself as being \"warm, touching, joyous and absolutely timeless\".\n\nBorn Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer in Toronto in December 1929, Plummer grew up in Montreal as an only child and was exposed to the arts by his mother at an early age.\n\nHe first studied the piano before devoting himself to acting, having decided that playing the piano professionally \"was very lonely and very hard work\".\n\nHe made his debut on the New York stage role in 1954's The Starcross Story alongside the actress Mary Astor. It ran for just one performance - but did not stop him landing more stage work and then leading roles.\n\nPlummer made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, directed by Sidney Lumet. He was nominated for a Tony the following year and eventually won the award in 1974 for playing Cyrano de Bergerac.\n\nHe won his second in 1997 for playing fellow actor John Barrymore in Barrymore.\n\nChristopher Plummer as J Paul Getty in All the Money in the World\n\nIn 2017 Plummer was asked by Ridley Scott to appear in All the Money in the World, which he had already completed with Spacey.\n\nFollowing the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Spacey, the film's makers decided against releasing the film with his original performance.\n\nPlummer shot his scenes in a matter of days and was subsequently nominated for an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe.\n\nScott and his wife Giannina paid tribute to Plummer, telling The Hollywood Reporter: \"What a guy. What a talent. What a life. And I was fortunate enough to work with him less than two years ago and had a wonderful experience. My heartfelt condolences go to [his wife] Elaine. He will be really missed.\"\n\nThe actor was married three times. He and his first wife Tammy Grimes, are the parents of actress Amanda Plummer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Champion boxer Tyson Fury did not respond to Panorama's questions about his links to a suspected crime boss\n\nA BBC Panorama team has been threatened following a programme about a suspected crime boss's influence in world boxing.\n\nNorthern Ireland police have warned of an unspecified threat from unnamed criminal elements.\n\nThe programme investigated the role played by Daniel Kinahan, named in the Irish courts as the head of one of Europe's most prominent drug cartels.\n\nIt led to calls for tighter regulation but some in boxing defend his involvement.\n\nJo Carr, the BBC's head of current affairs, said: \"The BBC places the utmost priority on the safety of our teams, whose journalism plays a vital role in a free society. It is despicable and intolerable if thugs think they can muzzle a free press through intimidation.\n\n\"We will continue to throw light into even the murkiest of corners.\"\n\nThe courts in Ireland have accepted that an organised crime group linked to Mr Kinahan is involved in drug trafficking and execution-style murders.\n\nThe group is also suspected of involvement in a feud with a rival Dublin gang that has resulted in 18 people being murdered.\n\nMr Kinahan's lawyer told the programme he has no criminal record or convictions and the allegations about him being a crime boss are false and have no evidential basis.\n\nThe lawyer said: \"In so far as our client's record in boxing is concerned, he is proud of his record in boxing to date.\"\n\nDaniel Kinahan's involvement in world boxing was investigated by BBC Panorama\n\nMr Kinahan's involvement in boxing caused an outcry last summer when world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury publicly thanked him for setting up a much anticipated title fight with fellow British champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nThe criticism died down after it was announced that Mr Kinahan would no longer negotiate Mr Fury's fights and he was stepping away from boxing.\n\nBut Panorama's Boxing and the Mob programme discovered the suspected crime boss was still advising top fighters in world boxing.\n\nMr Fury did not respond to questions about whether Mr Kinahan was still acting as his personal adviser.", "Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron have discussed co-operation in the global fight against Covid-19 in their first conversation since a vaccine row.\n\nNo 10 said the two leaders agreed that collaboration between governments was vital in defeating coronavirus.\n\nThey also discussed cross-channel relations amid continuing tensions over the UK's post-Brexit arrangements.\n\nThe EU withdrew its threat last week to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland after an outcry in the UK.\n\nBut the dispute, prompted by concerns on the continent over the slow rollout of vaccinations, intensified calls for the post-Brexit rules governing trade between Britain and Northern Ireland to be reviewed.\n\nUnionists in Northern Ireland have urged Mr Johnson to scrap the Northern Ireland protocol, part of the 2020 Brexit Withdrawal Agreement which effectively leaves Northern Ireland in the EU's single market and customs territory and which critics say has created a damaging border down the Irish Sea.\n\nThe French president was criticised last week for questioning the effectiveness of the Astra-Zeneca/Oxford vaccine among over-65s and suggesting exports of vaccines produced on the continent should be controlled amid shortages there and the slow pace of rollout compared with the UK.\n\nIn a statement, Downing Street said the two men had discussed a wide range of subjects over the phone, including the Cop-26 climate summit taking place in the UK later this year, Russia and Iran.\n\nOn vaccines, No 10 said Mr Johnson emphasised the \"important role world leaders will play in ensuring that vaccines are rolled out effectively so that we can defeat the pandemic\".\n\n\"The leaders agreed that a successful global vaccination programme will require a collaborative effort between governments,\" it added.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson had expressed his desire to deepen Anglo-French co-operation now that the UK was fully outside the EU and to take advantage of the \"huge opportunities\" for joint working.\n\nMr Macron has said he continues to believe the UK's departure from the EU is an \"error\", telling journalists last week that \"it has made things much more difficult in many ways\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands of people take part in the largest protest in Myanmar in more than a decade\n\nMyanmar's military rulers have shut down the country's internet as thousands of people joined the largest rally yet against Monday's coup.\n\nA near-total internet blackout is in effect with connectivity falling to 16% of ordinary levels, said the monitoring group NetBlocks Internet Observatory.\n\nPolice with riot shields have blocked the main roads into the city centre.\n\nThe internet shutdown happened hours after the military blocked access to Twitter and Instagram to stop people mobilising for protests. Facebook had been banned a day earlier.\n\nMany users had evaded the restrictions on social media by using virtual private networks (VPNs) but the more general blackout severely disrupted that.\n\nCivil society organisations urged internet providers and mobile networks to challenge the blackout order, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International called the shutdown \"heinous and reckless\" and warned it could put the people of Myanmar at risk of human rights violations.\n\nThe military has not commented. It temporarily blocked access to the internet following the coup on 1 February.\n\nOn Saturday morning, protesters - including factory workers and young students - called for the release of those detained by the army, including elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nThey marched through the streets of Yangon as city buses sounded their horns in support.\n\nBystanders flashed the three-finger Hunger Games salute, which has become a symbol of defiance against authoritarianism, while residents clapped or banged pots and pans on their doorsteps.\n\nMany households have also been displaying red stickers in their windows in support of Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, the BBC's Burmese editor Soe Win Than reports.\n\nProtesters in Yangon received support from thousands of residents, who clapped on doorsteps\n\nPolice with riot shields used barbed wire to block roads and water cannon were put in place in some areas as a precaution, but the demonstration reportedly remained peaceful, with no attempt by protesters to pass police lines.\n\nDemonstrators gave police roses and bottles of drinking water, calling on them to support the people not the new regime.\n\nOne female protester, who asked not to be named, said she would not accept the \"unjust seizing of power\".\n\n\"Because of military dictatorship, many of our lives have been destroyed,\" she said, adding: \"We cannot allow our future generations to meet the same fate.\"\n\nSpeaking from Yangon, Britain's ambassador to Myanmar, Dan Chugg, told the BBC that people were taking to the streets in increasing numbers.\n\n\"The grief and the sadness of the last few days is gradually turning to anger,\" he said, adding: \"Doctors are refusing to work and civil servants have been refusing to work... There's quite a sense around the country of unhappiness at what's happened - and outrage.\"\n\nPolice in riot gear have blocked roads in Yangon\n\nAnother demonstration took place on Saturday in Myanmar's second city, Mandalay.\n\nMyanmar - also known as Burma - has remained mostly calm in the aftermath of the coup, and there were no immediate reports of violence after Saturday's protests. More demonstrations were expected to be held later.\n\nThe military authorities are hunkered down in the capital, Nay Pyi Daw, and have so far avoided direct engagement with the protesters.\n\nThe BBC's Nyein Chan in Yangon says the Burmese know very well the violent crackdowns that the military is capable of. The country was ruled by an oppressive military government from 1962 to 2011.\n\nBut now that people have had time to digest what is happening, they are finding different ways to get their voices heard, our correspondent says.\n\nMs Suu Kyi is under house arrest, according to her lawyer. Police documents show she is accused of illegally importing and using communications equipment - walkie-talkies - at her home in the capital.\n\nThe coup took place as a new session of parliament was set to open, following November's landslide election win by the NLD party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We wish them to fall\": Teachers in the city of Yangon have joined protests against Monday's military coup\n\nMany Burmese watched the events unfold in real time on Facebook, which is the country's primary source of information and news. But three days later, internet providers were ordered to block the platform for stability reasons.\n\nFollowing the ban, thousands of users were active on Twitter and Instagram using hashtags to express their opposition to the takeover. By 22:00 local time (15:30 GMT) on Friday access to those platforms had also been denied.\n\nThere was no official word from the coup leaders but AFP reported it had seen an unverified ministry document that said the two social media sites were being used to \"cause misunderstanding among the public\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Twitter said the ban undermined \"the public conversation and the rights of people to make their voices heard\". Facebook, which owns Instagram, called on the authorities to \"restore connectivity\".\n\nMyanmar is a country of 54 million people in South East Asia which shares borders with Bangladesh, India, China, Thailand and Laos.\n\nIt was ruled by an oppressive military government from 1962 to 2011, either directly or indirectly, leading to international condemnation and sanctions.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi spent years campaigning for democratic reforms. A gradual liberalisation began in 2010, though the military still retained considerable influence.\n\nA government led by Ms Suu Kyi came to power after free elections in 2015. But a deadly military crackdown two years later on Rohingya Muslims sent hundreds of thousands fleeing to Bangladesh.\n\nIt triggered a rift between Ms Suu Kyi and her previous supporters in the international community after she refused to condemn the crackdown or describe it as ethnic cleansing.\n\nBut she has remained hugely popular at home, shown in her party's landslide win in the November election.\n\nHave you been affected by recent events in Myanmar? 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.\n• None What is happening in Myanmar and why?", "Rishi Sunak said the changes would give business more confidence as they emerge from the pandemic.\n\nSmall firms are to get more time to repay state-backed loans taken out to help survive the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe changes include giving companies an option to extend the length of the loan from six to ten years under a \"pay-as-you-grow\" initiative.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the move was to give companies \"breathing space to get back on their feet\".\n\nHe has been under pressure to act amid fears the continuing lockdown will spark a wave of company closures.\n\nAbout £45bn has been borrowed by more than 1.4 million small firms under the Bounce Back Loan scheme, which offers cheap loans of up to £50,000.\n\nUnder the existing scheme, firms get interest-free loans for the first year. But many will start repaying the money in May, when economic recovery is still expected to be weak.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, announced late on Friday, businesses will have the options of:\n\nMr Sunak said the plan allowed firms to \"pay-as-your-grow\", offering flexible repayment options as the economy strengthens.\n\nHe said: \"Businesses are continuing to feel the impact of extended disruption from Covid-19, and we're determined to give them the backing and confidence they need to get through the pandemic.\n\n\"That's why we're giving Bounce Back Loan borrowers breathing space to get back on their feet, through greater flexibility and time to repay their loans on their terms.\"\n\nBanks, which have been processing the loans, will be asked to contact customers from Monday to explain the new options to their business customers.\n\nUK Finance, which represents the banking and finance industry sector, said it was committed to helping businesses \" of all sizes through the crisis\".\n\nConcerns have previously been raised about companies' ability to pay back the cash under the scheme - and about fraud.\n\nA recent report by the National Audit Office said up to 60% of loans made under the bounce back scheme may never be repaid.", "Protests took place across Russia in support of Mr Navalny\n\nRussia has expelled three diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland for joining protests in support of opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who was jailed earlier this week.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said the three took part in \"illegal demonstrations\" on 23 January.\n\nThe diplomats' home countries have condemned the expulsions, as have the UK, France and the EU.\n\nThe expulsions were announced just a few hours after EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people took part in protests in support of Mr Navalny across Russia on 23 and 31 January. Thousands were arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of protesters in Moscow were detained by police\n\nGermany denounced the expulsion as being \"in no way justified\" and said it would not \"go unanswered\" if Russia did not reconsider.\n\nSweden said the claim that its diplomat took part in the protest on 23 January was unfounded and said it reserved the right to an appropriate response.\n\nPoland said the expulsion could lead to the \"further deepening of the crisis in bilateral relations\".\n\nMr Borrell, on behalf of the EU, said he \"strongly condemned this decision and rejected the allegations that they conducted activities incompatible with their status as foreign diplomats\".\n\nHowever, Mr Lavrov said any European sanctions over Mr Navalny's treatment would be illegitimate.\n\nBoth Germany and Poland said they had summoned their respective Russian ambassadors to express concern over the expulsions - a move that could possibly lead to tit-for-tat measures and more diplomats being sent home.\n\nRussia could have expelled these European diplomats any day: the pro-Navalny protest they supposedly joined was two weeks ago. But the foreign ministry chose to make the announcement with Josep Borrell in town.\n\nThe timing was clearly meant to send a message: you can lecture us on human rights and freedom, but we'll do what we want and really don't care what you think. The ministry even had a prepared riposte to condemnation of the mass arrests of protesters: it handed over a video compilation of police violence in the US and Europe.\n\nSergei Lavrov is an old hand at this. He's been communicating indifference and defiance since the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the sanctions that followed. International pressure didn't alter Russia's behaviour there. It's preparing to handle the \"Navalny issue\" the same way.\n\nMr Navalny, 44, is a political activist who has campaigned against corruption and Mr Putin since 2011.\n\nLast August he was poisoned with a nerve agent in eastern Russia and taken to Germany for treatment. He returned home at the end of January, despite warnings from the Russian government that he would be arrested.\n\nHe was then jailed for three-and-a-half years for what prosecutors said was a violation of the terms of a suspended sentence for fraud in 2014. A year was later deducted from his sentence for time served under house arrest.\n\nMr Navalny accuses Mr Putin of running an administration riddled with corruption and of organising the poison attack that nearly killed him.\n\nShortly after his return to Russia, Mr Navalny released a YouTube video featuring an opulent Black Sea palace which, he alleged, was a Russian billionaires' gift to the president. More than 100 million people have watched the video.\n\nMr Putin has denied ownership. Last week Arkady Rotenberg, a billionaire businessman close to Mr Putin, came forward to say he bought the palace two years ago.\n\nMr Navalny will be back in court on 12 February on charges of defaming a World War Two veteran.", "Officers were called to Sunbeam Way in Shard End on Friday\n\nA woman has been found dead after being attacked by a dog at her home, police say.\n\nWest Midlands Police officers were called to Sunbeam Way, Shard End in Birmingham, shortly after 14:00 GMT on Friday by a relative.\n\nA 25-year-old woman was found dead at the scene after suffering serious injuries believed to have been caused by a family dog.\n\nThe dog, believed to be a Staffordshire cross, has been signed over to police.\n\nIt will be humanely put to sleep, the force said.\n\nA spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: \"The death is being treated as a tragic incident, but with no suspicious circumstances.\"\n\nA file will be prepared for the coroner in due course, they added.\n\nThe family have asked for privacy during this \"tragic time\", the force said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the World is set in a bitterly divided America, where racism is rife and the news treated as a form of entertainment.\n\nBlack men are murdered for the colour of their skin, law enforcement agents intimidate innocent people, a viral epidemic is ravaging communities, and undesirable low-lives lurk on every corner.\n\nThe Civil War is over but the fight goes on over the political direction of the country. The hard-working folk of Texas have little time for President Ulysses S. Grant and his abolitionist agenda.\n\nThey're not \"sweatin' and bleedin' for some rich Yankee type\".\n\nUlysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War, before being elected the 18th President of the USA\n\nFeelings are running high down at the Red River community hall, where war veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) is reading snippets from newspapers to the locals who have paid to hear his edited highlights of the latest news.\n\n\"We're all hurting, all of us\", he says soothingly in an attempt to take the temperature in the room down a notch or two.\n\nHe knows the drill. It's the same wherever he goes in his capacity as a wandering public performer, riding from town-to-town and picking out extracts from local and national papers to a largely illiterate audience, proclaiming:\n\n\"I'm here to bring you all the news from across this great world of ours\".\n\nCaptain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (played by Tom Hanks) bringing the news to an enthralled audience\n\nIt's not the most exhilarating existence for an ex-solider, but it puts food in his belly and takes his mind off the dark matters about which he does not speak but are evident from the deep wounds on his back, and battered photograph of a beautiful woman that never leaves his side.\n\nCaptain Kidd's simple life becomes significantly more complicated when he encounters an overturned cart with a blood-soaked path leading to a tree from which hangs the body of a black man.\n\nA little blonde-haired girl (Helena Zengel) suddenly runs past him and into the woods. He pursues the terrified child and promises to take her to safety, a kindly gesture that falls flat because she doesn't speak a word of English.\n\nFortunately, there's a note on the ground that explains her backstory. The girl is called Johanna, she came from a German farming community that was attacked by Kiowa tribe, who kidnapped her having killed her parents and sister. They changed her name to Cicada, made her part of their community where all was super-duper until the army came along a few weeks ago and \"cleared them out\", leaving the traumatised child twice orphaned.\n\n12 year old Helena Zengel has picked up a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress as Johanna Leonberger\n\nAnd thus begins News of the World, a contemporary Western co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass (the Bourne trilogy), which plays more like an odd-couple road movie (horse and cart, rather than Dodge Viper) than a traditional gun-slinging, horse-galloping, whisky-swigging cowboy caper set in the Old West.\n\nHanks is Hanks: rock solid, sure-footed, unrushed and very watchable.\n\nThe rapport he builds with his largely silent young passenger creates an on-screen emotional bond that gives a gun fight half way through the movie a memorable dramatic force.\n\nHelena Zengel more than plays her part as the confused kid with a wild streak and a lost soul.\n\nPaul Greengrass and his Director of Photography, Dariusz Wolski (The Martian) have paid attention to every single visual detail. Some of the landscape shots have the sublime sparseness of a Georgia O'Keefe painting, their muddy brown interiors more reminiscent of Walter Sickert on one of his miserable days.\n\nPretty much every image looks like a gallery-quality painting.\n\nBritish director Paul Greengrass on the film set with Tom Hanks\n\nThere is one major drawback, though.\n\nIt is based on a novel by Paulette Jiles but is a bit thin to carry a full-throated Western movie. Yes, we have a high-speed wobbly wheel on the cart, and a stake-out in the hills, and all the usual stuff you'd expect from the genre. But they are at odds with the more meditative nature of the developing relationship between the old army veteran and young orphaned girl.\n\nThe upshot being, it is neither quite one thing or the other, and therefore ends up falling between the two bar stools at the local hostelry. It's either too slow or too fast, not adrenalin inducing or heart-rending. It isn't bad, in many ways it is excellent, but as a coherent piece of work, it just misses the mark.\n\nI would still recommend watching it (for the performances and cinematography alone) but I doubt it will join the pantheon of classic Westerns.", "A total of 68 positive tests have been recorded at the home since 20 December\n\nTen care home residents have died after a Covid outbreak in Fife.\n\nNHS Fife said 25 residents and 43 staff at Mossview Care Home in Lochgelly tested positive for the virus.\n\nIt was closed to new admissions after the first case was recorded on 20 December. It has now reopened after 14 days without one.\n\nThe home expressed its sympathies to those who died and described recent weeks as \"extremely difficult\"\n\nNHS Fife said its experts worked alongside the Fife health and social care partnership and environmental health to reduce further transmission.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"NHS Fife is aware of a recent cluster of confirmed Covid-19 cases associated with Mossview Care Home in Lochgelly.\n\n\"Sadly, ten people died after contracting Covid-19 and our thoughts are with their loved ones at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe home confirmed the cases were detected during routine testing and those who died were all residents.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are deeply saddened by these losses and we extend our sympathy to the family members and friends of all those who have lost a loved one.\n\n\"Our aim is always to provide the best possible care for our residents, and we pay tribute to our loyal, hard-working and committed employees for continuing to care for our residents at this most difficult time.\"\n\nThe vaccine rollout to care homes began in Scotland on 14 December.\n\nOn 13 January NHS Fife confirmed the first round of vaccinations had been carried out in all of the region's 76 care homes.\n\nThe health board said around 5,000 residents and staff were immunised.\n\nAcross Scotland the latest figures show 99% of residents in older care homes and 93% of all care home residents have now received their first jab.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sumatran tigers are critically endangered with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild. File image\n\nA zookeeper has been killed after two critically endangered Sumatran tigers escaped from a zoo on Borneo island.\n\nThe female tigers, both aged about 18 months, escaped the Sinka Zoo after a landslide caused by days of torrential rain damaged their enclosure.\n\nOn Saturday, one of the animals was captured after it was hit with a tranquiliser dart.\n\nBut the other tiger was shot dead after it behaved aggressively and attempts to tranquilise it failed.\n\nThe 47-year-old zookeeper was found dead close to the tigers' enclosure after the animals escaped late on Friday. He had bite wounds and scratches on his body, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nA number of dead animals, including an ostrich and a monkey, had earlier been found near the enclosure.\n\nThe escape triggered a large-scale hunt in the town of Singkawang, West Kalimantan. Nearby tourist attractions were ordered to close by police and people were told to stay at home.\n\nAnd while officials hoped to catch both animals alive - they said they were forced to shoot one of the tigers.\n\n\"We tried with a tranquilliser gun first but it didn't work, so we were forced to shoot the tiger because it was already behaving very aggressively,\" Sadtata Noor Adirahmanta, the head of a local conservation agency, told AFP.\n\n\"We were afraid it would escape to the nearest neighbourhood,\" he added. \"Although we tried our best to catch it alive, our priority is humans' safety.\"\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Indian government launched ‘Project Tiger’ to save the animals from extinction\n\nA cage filled with animal prey was prepared in an attempt to lure the remaining tiger back to the zoo at feeding time.\n\nDrones were also used to try to locate the tiger in the dense forest surrounding the zoo. \"We had a hard time finding them,\" the local police chief told CNN Indonesia.\n\nBut officials managed to capture it alive after shooting it with a tranquiliser dart. The animal is now being monitored at the zoo by medical experts.\n\nSumatran tigers are critically endangered, with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.", "Residents in the WR3 postcode and parts of WR9 are being asked to get tested\n\nTesting for the South Africa variant of Covid-19 has begun in Worcestershire.\n\nThe county council has set up surge testing in the WR3 postcode, and some parts of WR9, after cases of the variant with no links to international travel were identified.\n\nCouncillor Tony Miller said the area being tested equated to about 6,000 people.\n\nMr Miller said only one positive case of the variant had so far been found in the area.\n\n\"We have done positive tracing and tracking of that person to who they have been in contact with and everybody who has been in contact is self isolating,\" he said.\n\nThe testing site, he said, would initially be in place for a week, possibly two.\n\nThe South Africa variant, one of thousands since Covid-19 emerged, is not thought to be any more dangerous than others circulating in the UK but there are concerns it can spread more readily and vaccines may not work quite as well against it.\n\nCases that cannot be linked to international travel have prompted fears the variant is spreading in communities in England.\n\nTechnical problems caused some delays at the testing centre on Saturday\n\nA mobile testing unit has been set up at The White Hart pub in Fernhill Heath, near Worcester, for adults with no symptoms living within walking distance.\n\nBut technical problems forced those booked for tests before 12:00 GMT on Saturday to rearrange, which Worcestershire County Council said had affected a quarter of bookings on the first day of testing.\n\nA second testing site will open on Monday at Sixways stadium, also for residents from the identified postcodes, and only for people aged over 18 who have no symptoms.\n\nThe council said residents had so far responded \"in their hundreds\" to the request to get tested.\n\nDr Kathryn Cobain, the Director for Public Health in Worcestershire, said:\" I want to thank the residents of these areas for answering our call to get tested, and for fully embracing this testing programme.\n\n\"It is fantastic to see so many residents wanting to do this.\"\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 Pope has appointed a woman as an undersecretary to the Synod of Bishops for the first time.\n\nSister Nathalie Becquart, who is from France, will have voting rights in the body, which advises the pontiff and debates some of the most controversial issues in the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nMs Becquart has worked with the synod as a consultant since 2019.\n\nThe body's secretary-general, Cardinal Mario Grech, said the appointment showed that \"a door has opened\".\n\nHe noted that the decision reflects the Pope's desire \"for a greater participation of women in the process of discernment and decision-making in the church\".\n\nThe BBC's John McManus says the move is not a precursor to ordaining women as priests, although some opponents may regard it as a further step in that direction.\n\nThe Synod of Bishops studies key questions of Catholic doctrine\n\nLuis Marín de San Martín, a priest from Spain, was also named as a new undersecretary of the synod.\n\nIn recent years, the Synod of Bishops has debated topics of doctrine including the treatment of divorced and married Catholics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe news comes less than a month after Pope Francis formally changed the law in the Church to allow women to administer communion and serve at the altar, although the decree stressed that ordained priesthood would remain open to men only.\n\nLast year, meanwhile, the pontiff appointed six women to the council which oversees the Vatican's finances.\n\nMore on Pope Francis and the Vatican:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pope Francis: \"This is not a time for indifference\"", "Three leading trade unions have distanced themselves from a council's account of alleged threats to workers conducting Brexit checks at Larne Port.\n\nMid and East Antrim Borough Council was told by its mayor that unions had raised concerns about \"suspicious activity\", including apparent attempts to record staff car registrations.\n\nHowever, Nipsa, Unite and GMB said they made no such claim.\n\nThe council withdrew workers from Larne port over security concerns.\n\nOn Friday, that decision was overturned and workers returned to duty.\n\nThe trade unions have now written to the council asking for the disputed comments to be withdrawn, Belfast Live has reported.\n\nThe comments were made in a public statement by the mayor, DUP councillor Peter Johnston, during a council meeting on Monday.\n\nIt came as councillors agreed to withdraw 12 staff from the port.\n\nThe unions said their only communication with the council about threats to workers prior to Monday evening's decision was an email from Unite that afternoon about graffiti.\n\nIn a joint letter to the council, written on behalf of the unions by TUS secretary Alan Law, they called for the comments to be \"withdrawn and the official record amended\".\n\n\"As this was an official statement issued on behalf of council at the monthly meeting please would you clarify which trade union made this claim as neither Nipsa, GMB nor Unite did, and we absolutely distance ourselves from these remarks,\" the letter said.\n\nThe letter added that trade unions took \"great exception\" to the council issuing any statement attributing remarks to the unions.\n\nMr Law also wrote to the council's chief executive Anne Donaghy seeking clarification.\n\nThe council was not available for comment on Saturday.\n\nAlliance councillor Danny Donnelly told BBC News NI he was \"very surprised and shocked\" to hear the unions dispute claims that they had reported concerns about suspicious activity.\n\n\"Our priority has always been the safety of the workers on this, but each day more and more serious questions have developed,\" Mr Donnelly said.\n\nDanny Donnelly said councillors want answers from the mayor and the council's chief executive\n\n\"The decision to withdraw staff was unanimous, based on the information we were given at the time, but now questions around the credibility of that threat have arisen and around communication with trade unions.\"\n\nMr Donnelly said elected representatives now need answers about the credibility of the threat and the timeline of events which led up to the decision to withdraw staff.\n\nHe called on the mayor and the council's chief executive to give councillors and opportunity to pose questions and \"have those questions answered in an open and transparent manner\".\n\nMid and East Antrim Borough Council took the decision to withdraw workers last Monday.\n\nThe council said it had carried out its own risk assessment and staff safety was its priority.\n\nPhysical checks were also temporarily suspended on most goods by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) at both Larne and Belfast.\n\nIt followed the appearance of graffiti in Larne on 21 January which referred to those involved in the work as targets.\n\nThere were also claims that staff car registrations had been recorded.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said there was nothing to indicate loyalist paramilitary involvement nor that registrations had been taken.\n\nMembers of the Northern Ireland Assembly were told during the week that former agriculture minister Edwin Poots was central to the decision to temporarily suspend physical checks and that he \"was not convinced that the PSNI had a full understanding of the risk\".\n\nThis article was amended on 8 February 2021 to remove an assertion that the council workers were withdrawn after a threat assessment by police.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"No need for Trump's intelligence briefing\"\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said his predecessor Donald Trump should not be given access to intelligence briefings because of his \"erratic behaviour\".\n\nThe US has a tradition of allowing former presidents to be briefed on the nation's security issues - as a courtesy extended by the incumbent.\n\nBut when asked by CBS News if Mr Trump would receive the same courtesy, President Biden said: \"I think not\".\n\nHe cited Mr Trump's \"erratic behaviour\" as his reason for refusing access.\n\n\"I don't think there's any need for him to have an intelligence briefing,\" Mr Biden said in his first sit-down interview since becoming president.\n\nHe declined to speculate on what his worst fears would be if Mr Trump were allowed to see classified reports, but he suggested the former president could not be trusted to keep confidential information to himself.\n\n\"What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?\" Mr Biden said.\n\nThe move is the first time a former president has been excluded from the tradition of being granted continued access to the briefings, according to the New York Times.\n\nFor weeks after the 3 November presidential election, Mr Trump himself broke with tradition by failing to include his successor in security and intelligence briefings.\n\nMr Trump eventually agreed to allow the formal transition process to take place, but his administration was still accused of blocking Mr Biden's access to intelligence.\n\nMr Trump feuded with the intelligence community throughout his four-year presidency and went through six national intelligence directors.\n\nHe questioned reports by US agencies that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, and assailed intelligence chiefs for being \"extremely passive and naive\" over Iran.\n\nIn 2017, he disclosed highly classified information to Russia's foreign minister about an Islamic State operation in what was seen as a breach of trust by many in the US intelligence community.\n\nDuring his CBS interview, President Biden was asked about the impeachment trial Mr Trump is facing in the US Senate for his role in the riot at the Capitol in Washington on 6 January.\n\nMr Biden said he \"ran like hell to defeat\" Mr Trump in the election \"because I thought he was unfit to be president\", but he would leave the Senate to decide whether the Republican should be barred from ever holding public office again.", "People are being urged to check in on the elderly and vulnerable as cold and snowy weather threatens disruption.\n\nAn amber snow warning - meaning travel issues and power cuts are likely - is in place for parts of east and south-east England until Monday morning.\n\nYellow snow and ice warnings are also in force for much of England, Scotland and eastern Wales.\n\nMet Office weather expert Steven Keates said there would be \"many similarities\" with the Beast from the East in 2018.\n\nIt is due to a combination of cold air from Scandinavia and Russia plus Storm Darcy bringing winds and snow, he said.\n\nAsked whether he thought it was fair to call it the Beast from the East Two, the meteorologist said: \"I think so. The air mass is not quite as cold as it was then, so it's not quite as extreme, but nonetheless this is probably the coldest weather we'll see across the UK as a whole since then.\n\n\"And if you're stepping outside at all through the next few days, it really is going to feel cold. Temperatures [will be] barely above freezing on a thermometer, and when you factor in a strong easterly wind, you'll be feeling many degrees below freezing.\"\n\nPeople enjoy a chilly walk along the Basingstoke Canal in Hampshire\n\nParts of Scotland have already seen heavy snowfall in the past few days, with up to 50cm in some places - but Scotland's amber warning for snow has now expired.\n\nMore snow is expected in eastern parts of Scotland later, with 10 to 15cm possible in some areas, especially above 200m.\n\nOne amber warning is now in place for parts of London, the south-east and the east of England until 09:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThose areas could see between five and 10cm of snow on Sunday - with up to 20cm in some places, the BBC Weather Centre said.\n\nYellow warnings - which mean there could be travel disruption and a slight chance of power cuts or communities being cut off - are also in place for:\n\nParts of Scotland, including Ballater in Aberdeenshire, have seen persistent heavy snowfall and blizzards\n\nMet Office forecasters have warned of \"significant disruptive snowfall\" and gale force winds in the south-east of England, saying up to 30cm of snow is possible in the Kent Downs and more widely on the North Downs.\n\nMeteorologist Sarah Kent said: \"It is a small chance, but the threat is there, up to a foot of snow potentially combined with extremely strong easterly winds. Even inland in that area, gusting could be 45mph and higher than that on the coasts.\n\n\"This could lead to significant drifting of any lying snow and obviously blizzards for the snow coming past you for anyone who is attempting to travel.\n\n\"Sadly there will be people who have to make journeys for the emergency services and there are still lorries that have to go to the ports. It is going to be really disruptive.\n\n\"With that sort of snowfall, you would expect some roads to be closed or blocked by the drifting snow, and long delays or some cancellations of public transport.\"\n\nPublic Health England's Dr Owen Landeg said it was \"crucial\" people looked out for those who may be vulnerable during the current cold snap.\n\nHe called on the public to make sure those at-risk have enough food and drink to stay warm and well.\n\nThe conditions are caused by cold air spreading east from the Arctic Circle, tracking across the relatively mild North Sea to form showers that bring snow and a significant wind chill.\n\nStorm Darcy, which was named by the Netherlands, is bringing an area of low pressure, adding moisture to the cold air to help form the snow.\n\nIn Scotland, parts of which have seen heavy snow and ice since the end of last year, road clearing will be prioritised around Covid vaccination centres, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said.\n\nHe said it was possible weather conditions would create challenges for the vaccination programme.\n\nDrivers in the Highlands reported being stuck after heavy snow drifted\n\nOn Friday, about 20 vehicles were stranded in snow at Loch Droma, north west of Inverness, and emergency services have been assisting a rescue operation, Highland Council said.\n\nThe vehicles became stranded in two-metre snow drifts, said road management organisation Bear Scotland.\n\nNetwork Rail said services have been disrupted on the Highland Mainline despite plough trains being used to clear snow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is another Beast from the East on the way?\n\nAside from icy conditions, there were 52 flood warnings in place as of Sunday morning across parts of England, along the River Severn and the River Thames, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nIn Berkshire, parts of Cookham were left submerged after heavy rain caused flooding at Widbrook Common.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued a flood warning for Greenlaw to Allanton in the Borders.\n\nFlood alerts are in place across England, with roads almost impassable in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire\n\nDrivers are advised to make sure their vehicle is ready for the cold weather amid predictions of an increase in breakdowns.\n\nRAC spokesman Ben Aldous said: \"This means checking oil, coolant and screen wash levels, as well as ensuring the tyres have plenty of tread and are inflated properly.\n\n\"Large amounts of snow on vehicles should be cleared before setting off to avoid it falling on to other road users. And never attempt to use the windscreen wipers to clear an icy or snowy windscreen - you risk damaging not only the wipers but the linkages too, which could be a more costly repair.\"", "A leading surgeon whose work includes helping knife crime victims has a new mission - tackling Covid \"vaccine hesitancy\" in ethnic minority communities.\n\nMartin Griffiths is taking part in a vaccination programme at the Royal London Hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people dead after linked incidents in Kilmarnock\n\nA mother and daughter have been killed in linked attacks in Ayrshire before a man died in a road crash.\n\nEmma Robertson Coupland, 39, was found injured in the car park of University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock at 19:45 on Thursday.\n\nAround 20 minutes later the NHS worker's daughter, Nicole Anderson, 24, was fatally stabbed on Portland Street, about two miles away.\n\nSteven Robertson, 40, died in a road crash south of the town, at 20:30.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incidents - which led to a three-hour lockdown of the hospital - and there was no ongoing threat to the public.\n\nCh Supt Faroque Hussain said: \"A number of locations remain cordoned off as officers continue to conduct inquiries.\n\n\"We are working to confirm the full circumstances of what has happened.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the incidents, which unfolded over a 45-minute period, to come forward.\n\nCh Supt Hussain added: \"Understandably, people will be shocked by what has happened.\n\n\"We are still in the process of establishing the full circumstances, however, I would like to reassure people that there is no wider threat to the community.\"\n\nAn officer guards the scene of the stabbing on Portland Street, Kilmarnock\n\nMs Coupland was treated in the hospital car park but died at the scene.\n\nHer daughter was attacked about 20 minutes later and was taken to University Hospital Crosshouse but later died from her injuries.\n\nThe fatal road crash occurred on the C50, a minor road between the B7036 and the A76, about 12 miles south of Kilmarnock.\n\nMr Robertson was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nAmbulances were diverted to University Hospital Ayr as police dealt with the unfolding events until the three-hour lockdown was lifted shortly before 23:00.\n\nPolice maintained a presence at the hospital on Friday\n\nPolice forensics check drains in Old Kirk Place, near Portland Street in Kilmarnock\n\nPolice at the scene of the fatal road accident\n\nA statement from Ms Coupland's colleagues read: \"Emma was a valued member of the NHS, a wonderful friend, colleague and loving mother. We are all deeply saddened by the loss.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, the hospital's A&E department and main entrance were open and running as normal while two police vans full of officers remained outside with police tape around part of the car park.\n\nDr Crawford McGuffie, the medical director of NHS Ayrshire and Arran, said police had confirmed the risk to patients, staff and visitors to the hospital was minimal.\n\nJohn Burns, the health board's chief executive, acknowledged the professionalism of those who responded to the attacks.\n\nHe said: \"This was a particularly challenging incident, and our staff reacted with care and compassion.\"\n\nMr Burns added that the car park at the physiotherapy department will remain closed until police have concluded their investigations.\n\nRev Jim McNaughtan, of St Andrew's and St Marnock's Parish Church, said the reaction in the town has been one of disbelief.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The staff at Crosshouse Hospital have been working hard this wee while dealing with the Covid outbreak.\n\n\"For something like this to happen in the grounds of the hospital is tragic and shocking and there is great concern for all involved.\"\n\nFlowers were left outside the hospital\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Dreadful news. My thoughts are with the bereaved. Thinking too of everyone at Crosshouse Hospital, already dealing with the tough circumstances of Covid. I'm also grateful to our emergency services. Please continue to follow @policescotland advice.\"\n\nDuring the Scottish government's daily coronavirus briefing, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said his thoughts were also with the family and friends of those who died.\n\nHe added: \"A tragedy like this would be impossible to understand at any time but, after the events of the past year, it is particularly shocking that such an incident has taken place at an NHS hospital.\"\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson also offered his sympathies.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said: \"The prime minister's thoughts are with all those involved and he thanks the police and the healthcare staff for their response.\"\n\nEast Ayrshire Council leader Douglas Reid said he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the tragic events.\n\nHe added: \"In East Ayrshire we are proud of our community spirit and community resilience, but I know the events of last night will have had a devastating impact on several families in our communities and our heartfelt thoughts go out to them this morning.\"\n• None One 'stabbed' as hospital locked down in Kilmarnock\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fourteen adults were issued £11,200 in fines after police broke up the party in Victoria Street, Mansfield\n\nMore than £11,000 in Covid fines have been handed out to 14 adults after they attended a one-year-old's birthday party.\n\nNottinghamshire Police were informed of the celebrations on Thursday after members of the public reported seeing party banners outside the gathering.\n\nOfficers said 24 people, including 10 children, were bunched into \"a small flat\" in Victoria Street, Mansfield.\n\nEach adult was fined £800 for attending the party.\n\nUnder new Covid-19 measures introduced in January, people attending a gathering of more than 15 people at a house party incur a higher fine.\n\nPolice said a number of people travelled from Birmingham to attend the celebrations.\n\nOfficers said the revellers were also having a family barbecue. Police issued £11,200 in fines after breaking up the celebrations at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nPolice were told about the party in Victoria Street, Mansfield, after reports of party banners outside the gathering.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Cooper said: \"Officers are putting their own health, as well as their families' health, on the line by attending these kind of house parties night after night.\n\n\"We would appeal to all local residents to comply with the Covid-19 regulations which are there to protect everyone.\"\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nScotland claimed a first win at Twickenham since 1983 as returning fly-half Finn Russell orchestrated a shock 11-6 Six Nations victory over England.\n\nCapitalising on the hosts' ill discipline, Russell gave Scotland a three-point lead before helping to set up Duhan van der Merwe's try.\n\nDefending champions England clawed back six points and Russell's charge was briefly halted by a yellow card.\n\nBut a resilient Scotland were undeterred and added another penalty.\n\nEngland had been favourites to win the tournament but, with France having opened their Six Nations with a 50-10 defeat of Italy, their chances suddenly seem much slimmer.\n\nScotland, on the other hand, look likely to improve on last year's fourth-place finish with Wales their opponents at Murrayfield next weekend.\n\nThat is one of three home games for the Scots in the 2021 Six Nations, with round three's trip to Paris now looking decisive for their title hopes.\n• None 'The scoreboard might say otherwise, but the Scots won hands down'\n\nThere was no shortage of history surrounding the Calcutta Cup match. It marked the 150th anniversary of the first time England and Scotland played each other and the fact Scotland were without a win at Twickenham in 38 years was a key talking point in the build-up.\n\nAll the players had been confined to coronavirus bubbles in the week before the tournament, with England only allowed to socialise outside or otherwise stay alone in their rooms.\n\nThe joy of breaking free of their confines combined with the sense of occasion meant both sides sprung out onto the Twickenham pitch, but it was Scotland who looked keenest, determined to throw off the shackles of such a long winless run south of the border.\n• None Scotland can do something special - Townsend\n\nEngland, who fielded a relatively inexperienced front row with three experienced props absent, proceeded to concede four penalties in the first five minutes.\n\nThe fourth gave Russell - who was returning to international duty after a shoulder injury - the chance to put Scotland ahead.\n\nEngland's lack of attacking prowess drew criticism in their victorious Autumn Nations Cup campaign and they had promised better in 2021, but it was the visitors who shone in that area as debutant Cameron Redpath made repeated breaks.\n\nFor the hosts, the misdemeanours continued. On the eighth penalty conceded, referee Brace had had enough and sent number eight Billy Vunipola to the sin-bin after catching him offside.\n\nAs England's penalty count entered double digits, the visitors got their just reward.\n\nIt started with Russell and travelled through a who's who of Scotland's backline, the excellent Stuart Hogg, Redpath and hooker George Turner combining to feed Van der Merwe, who stepped inside and powered over near the left corner.\n\nThe celebrations were briefly halted as Scotland gave away a penalty and England captain Owen Farrell sent the ball over from just inside his own half.\n\nAs Farrell lined up a second penalty, he suggested the television match official reviewed a trip by Russell on England scrum-half Ben Youngs - leading to a yellow card for the talismanic 10.\n\nAfter Russell had left the field, Farrell scored his penalty and cut Scotland's lead to two.\n\nLess optimistic Scotland fans might have thought their side would unravel with Russell off the pitch but, after gathering their thoughts at half-time, the visitors continued to look threatening without their main man.\n\nSome had said that at an empty Twickenham and with several England leaders missing, this was Scotland's best chance of a win since 1983.\n\nEngland boss Eddie Jones questioned before the match whether that expectation might become \"heavy\" for the Scots, but they looked to be carrying their lead lightly as the second half wore on.\n\nIn the absence of Russell, Hogg stepped up to show he had his own box of tricks. A sublime kick to the corner meant Van der Merwe came close to another try and, although Scotland did not get five points, they were rewarded with the return of their fly-half.\n\nNot only were Scotland outplaying England in attack, they were outgunning them at their own kicking game with Hogg continuing to make good use of his boot.\n\nEngland's defence managed to avoid further embarrassment by halting a Scotland maul a few metres out and Redpath continued to show his quality.\n\nThe centre - son of former Scotland captain Bryan - surely caught the eye of British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland in the stands as he stole the ball from Tom Curry on the floor, much to the delight of the Scottish bench.\n\nThe Scots did not let up and if anything their pace only became more relentless as the end drew near. Jonny Gray lifted England wing Jonny May off the ground to win a maul, Russell tried for one more drop-goal, but it was not to be.\n\nThe final whistle blew and it could almost have been a Scotland home game. All that could be heard at Twickenham were the cheers of every single member of the travelling Scottish side.\n\n'There's a lot more to come'- what they said\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They played tough, edged the set-piece, won in the air and we just could not get in the game. We were not at the races today.\n\n\"I take responsibility - I didn't prepare the team well enough. We just had one of those days. We don't have many, but we had a bad day today.\"\n\nScotland head coach Gregor Townsend told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There was a calmness on and off the field. I don't know whether it's because there's no crowd.\n\n\"It felt like the players were in control today. We had a bit of defence to do at the end but the players stood up well. I'm very proud of the performance and there's a lot more to come from the players.\"\n\n'One of the best Scotland performances ever' - analysis\n\nFormer Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"That is one of the best performances Scotland have ever put in.\n\n\"There was creativity, physicality, good kicking and an intensity and togetherness - the win was fully deserved.\n\n\"That is as dominant a performance from Scotland against England there has been for over 30 years. It was outstanding, an unbelievably good 80-minute performance.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What a fabulous tournament we are part of. Not winning for 38 years, then to bring a performance like this. I have never seen a Scotland performance like this. Total dominance in all areas, full stop. Scotland fans should quite rightly be celebrating long into the night.\"\n• None Eating With My Ex: Can they settle the score and go again?", "Humphrys is best known as a former presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today show\n\nJohn Humphrys will step down as host of long-running BBC quiz Mastermind at the end of the current series.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Humphrys, 77, said he would be giving up the role in March, after 18 years.\n\n\"Now, after more than 750 shows, it really is time to finish,\" he said in a nod to the show's catchphrase.\n\nHumphrys, who took on the quizmaster role in 2003, said he did not envy his successor - adding Mastermind was a show you tinkered with \"at your peril\".\n\nThe BBC said it wanted to thank Humphrys for his work on the programme. \"He has been a first class presenter and we look forward to working with him on other projects in the future,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThere is currently no word on who might follow in Humphrys' footsteps.\n\n\"When the present series comes to an end in March there will be someone else in the chair,\" the former Today programme presenter wrote in his newspaper column.\n\n\"I wish my successor well - but I'm not sure I envy them, whoever 'they' may be.\n\n\"What are the odds on the first female?\" he added.\n\nHumphrys said when he took on the role of Mastermind host in 2003, the BBC stipulated that he must retain predecessor Magnus Magnusson's much-mimicked coda: \"I've started, so I'll finish.\"\n\n\"Mastermind is one of those programmes you tinker with at your peril,\" he wrote in Saturday's column. \"Allow a contender to choose a light-hearted subject and the cry goes out: 'Dumbing down!' Change the format even slightly and you are 'sexing up'.\"\n\nMagnusson was the first host of Mastermind, which debuted on BBC One in 1972.\n\nThe show features four contenders who each answer questions on a specialist subject of their choice against the clock, followed by a series of general knowledge questions. There are no cash prizes, just kudos.\n\nThe show, which originally aired in a late night slot amid fears it was too highbrow, has become a national institution - and is famous for its black leather chair, in which the contestant sits, and ominous theme tune, aptly titled Approaching Menace.\n\nBroadcaster Humphrys built a reputation as a tenacious interrogator of politicians on BBC Radio 4's Today show, stepping down as a presenter on the show in September 2019, after 32 years.\n\nHe has since taken on a presenting role on Classic FM.", "Homicide detectives are investigating the fatal stabbing on Wisbeach Road\n\nOne man has died and at least 10 others have been injured in a spate of stabbings across parts of south London.\n\nPolice were called to four reports of stabbings in Croydon, Chislehurst and Wandsworth on Friday evening.\n\nNone of the stabbings are being linked by detectives, but Metropolitan Police said extra officers would be deployed in south London.\n\nDet Supt Nicky Arrowsmith described the violence as \"needless and completely abhorrent\".\n\nThe Met said none of the nine wounded on Friday night were now considered to be in a life-threatening condition and added that two people had been arrested.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon a 10th man, aged 24, was stabbed near West Croydon station on Oakfield Road.\n\nOne of two men reported to have been injured at a property in Wisbeach Road, Croydon, was found dead at the scene just after 20:00 GMT.\n\nA resident described seeing police and medical staff trying to save the 22-year-old man.\n\nThe witness, who asked not to be named, said: \"There was blood everywhere, it looked like he was cut in the leg and they tried to stop the bleeding.\n\n\"His mum was here crying and she was in pieces.\n\n\"It is terrifying, my son is 19 and I'm worried for him.\"\n\nHomicide detectives have launched a murder investigation following the Wisbeach Road stabbing.\n\nThe other attacks are being investigated by officers from the South Area Basic Command Unit, the Met said.\n\nThese include a man who was stabbed on Chapman Road, Croydon, at 18:56 and four men who took themselves to hospital with stab wounds following a fight in the Penwortham Road area of Wandsworth.\n\nAnother two men, both in their 30s, also went to hospital after a stabbing on Jay Gardens, Chislehurst, just before 21:00.\n\nPolice said there would be extra patrols in the area over the weekend\n\nPolice are also investigating the stabbing of a man in his 40s who was found wounded on Dingwall Road at 21:12.\n\nThe victim has since been arrested on suspicion of affray and a 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and remains in custody, the Met added.\n\nGold commander Ade Adelekan said: \"While work continues to investigate the motivation and circumstances of these four incidents, I can say that they are being treated as isolated.\n\n\"However, that does not make this series of violent incidents any less shocking and I understand that residents in and around the areas where these incidents occurred will be rightly concerned.\"\n\nLabour MP for Croydon North Steve Reed said in a tweet that the \"absolutely horrific news\" would \"devastate our community\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Carney headed the Bank of England for nearly seven years, up to March 2020\n\nThe world is heading for mortality rates equivalent to the Covid crisis every year by mid-century unless action is taken, according to Mark Carney.\n\nThe former central banker said the investment needed to avert millions of deaths was double current rates.\n\nBut with governments ploughing billions into keeping economies afloat, a question mark hangs over whether the recovery will be green enough.\n\nThe answer lies in smarter investment, Mr Carney said.\n\nMr Carney, who was the Bank of England governor up until last year, and the head of the Bank of Canada before that, is now the United Nations envoy for climate action and finance.\n\nHe told the BBC that while there were parallels between the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, damage to the environment and ecosystems has the potential to cause many more deaths.\n\n\"One of the biggest issues is you cannot self-isolate from climate,\" he said. \"That is not an option. We cannot retreat in and wait out climate change, it will just get worse,\" he told Talking Business Asia: The Climate Change Challenge.\n\n\"When you look at climate change from a human mortality perspective, it will be the equivalent of a coronavirus crisis every year from the middle of this century, and every year, not just a one-off event. So it is an issue that needs to be addressed now.\"\n\nBut governments pouring trillions of dollars into stimulus plans to rescue their ailing economies are mainly addressing job losses and the economic damage inflicted from lockdowns.\n\nVery little of that cash is heading towards reducing carbon emissions, although emissions have fallen in the past year because people aren't travelling as much.\n\nMr Carney, who is tasked with persuading policymakers, chief executives, bankers and investors to focus on the environment, said: \"The scale of investment in energy, sustainable energy and sustainable infrastructure needs to double.\n\n\"Every year, for the course of the next three decades, $3.5 trillion (£2.5tn) a year, for 30 years. It is an enormous investment opportunity.\"\n\nHe said the answer lies in a global pot of $170tn of private capital which, he says, \"is looking for disclosure\".\n\nBanks, investment funds and individuals increasingly want to know how their money will be used.\n\nIt is not just about disclosing the carbon position of companies, he says, but \"where it's going to go tomorrow in order to make these kinds of investment and lending decisions\".\n\nThat pot is bigger than the total economic output of the world for a year, he said. \"The issue is about putting that money to work.\"\n\nChina is part of the solution to lowering carbon emissions\n\nMr Carney said that as the US returns to the world stage in the battle against climate change, there's renewed momentum to the issue, especially as last year China, the world's largest polluter, aimed to become carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nAlthough China continues to build coal-fired power plants, and draws about 70% of its power from fossil fuel, the country is a crucial part of the solution.\n\n\"There clearly are issues in terms of coal in China, and the sooner China moves on that, the better for them and for the world.\n\n\"But China also produces 60% of the global solar photovoltaic panels. It is also the largest producer of electric vehicles. So China has many sides to this.\"\n\nThe US has the \"largest and most sophisticated financial sector\" along with the \"engineering and technological expertise\" to get to net zero emissions, he said.\n\nPart of his role at the UN is to tap into this financial sector.\n\nIt is the \"power of money\" that will ultimately play the biggest role in combating climate change, he said.\n\n\"We're getting the system in a position where, whether it's a bank, or somebody who's investing a small amount of savings in the market, or your pension, they can choose [how it is invested].\n\n\"They have the information and they can choose to be part of the solution, transitioning to net zero, or be part of the problem.\"\n\nYou can watch the full interview with Mark Carney on Talking Business Asia on BBC World News this weekend.", "The government is planning to reverse reforms of the NHS in England introduced under David Cameron in 2012, a leaked document suggests.\n\nThe changes would aim to tackle bureaucracy and encourage health services from hospitals to GP surgeries and social care to work more closely.\n\nThe draft policy paper also says the health secretary would take more direct control over NHS England.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it did not comment on leaks.\n\nA spokesman added that details would be set out in due course.\n\nThe reforms by Mr Cameron's government in 2012 saw the creation of NHS England - to run the health service - and the scrapping of primary care trusts in favour of GP-led clinical commissioning groups to organise local services.\n\nUnder the latest proposals, set out in a leaked document published by health news website Health Policy Insight, there will be \"enhanced powers of direction for the government\" to \"ensure that decision makers overseeing the health system at a national level are effectively held to account\".\n\nInstead of a system that requires competitive tendering for contracts - sometimes involving private companies, the NHS and local authorities will be left to run services and told to collaborate with each other, says the draft White Paper, designed to set out proposed legislation.\n\nThere will also be more focus on GPs, hospitals and social care services working together to improve patient care.\n\nThe paper stresses that the Covid pandemic \"demonstrated plainly that this broader approach to health and care is not only desirable, but essential\".\n\nRichard Murray, chief executive of health charity The King's Fund, said the proposals amounted to \"major reform\", giving ministers more direct control of the NHS and public health.\n\nBut he raised concerns around the timing of such a move.\n\n\"While many might agree with the ultimate objective of more integrated health and care services, there are clear risks in distracting the service when the NHS is still battling Covid-19 and in the midst of the biggest vaccination programme in our history,\" Mr Murray added.\n\nThe trade unions for doctors and nurses, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing respectively, would not comment on the leaked proposals.\n\nA Conservative government headed by Boris Johnson is about to start reversing health reforms in England introduced under David Cameron.\n\nThat in itself is a significant moment, though it has been in the offing for a while.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Act of 2012 was highly controversial.\n\nThe left hated it because of the introduction of competitive tendering which was seen as a vehicle for private companies to undermine the NHS.\n\nMany Conservative politicians came to dislike it because of bureaucratic costs and confused lines of accountability.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, called for a redrafting of legislation to simplify the system.\n\nNow Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is grasping the nettle and will soon publish a government White Paper with plans to give ministers more control over the complex web of health entities in England.\n\nNHS organisations and local authorities will be told to focus on working together for the benefit of their local populations.\n\nBut the detail, as always, will be closely scrutinised.\n\nSome will question why the government has chosen to launch the plans with the pandemic still raging.\n\nOthers may ask whether this is a power grab by ministers which won't necessarily improve patient care.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of health policy think tank the Nuffield Trust, said the reforms should allow GPs, hospitals, community services and social care to \"work better and more effectively together\" in the longer term.\n\nHe told the BBC he hoped \"the changes in the wiring behind the dashboard shouldn't be too noticeable to patients and when it is, it will be in the longer term because the results they're getting are better\".\n\nBut he warned against over-optimism, saying structural change could help but was not \"the magic ingredient\" to better delivery of care.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr John Lister, of campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, said: \"The leaked draft of the White Paper has been interpreted as planning to 'scrap forced privatisation and competition within the NHS', but the draft makes clear that 'there will continue to be an important role for voluntary and independent sector providers'.\"\n\nFormer Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt welcomed the proposed changes.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"Last year was the first year in history where, across the world, there were more over-65s than under-fives, so we are all having to deal with this big change in our health provision of the growth in older people and what that means is you need a lot more joined up care.\"\n\nHe added: \"The structures need to be improved to make that possible and I think that's what these reforms are intended to do, so I think they could be very positive.\"\n\nHowever, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hunt warned against the emergence of \"cosy local monopolies\" and said the reforms needed to include \"a proper accountability mechanism\" - similar to Ofsted inspecting schools, he added.\n\n\"How we make sure that the NHS continues to be held accountable for these huge sums of public money is something that, I am sure, people will want to ask.\"\n\nThe 2012 Health and Social Care Act, brought in by the coalition government led by then-Conservative Prime Minister Mr Cameron, alongside his Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, put NHS England at arms length from the secretary of state.\n\nIt gave more control over budgets to GPs and other clinicians, while greater competition with the private sector was encouraged.\n\nHowever, the changes attracted criticism from professional bodies representing doctors, nurses and other NHS workers as well as opposition MPs.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said the service had come together \"to draw up practical proposals that will make it easier for those delivering health and care to work together to deliver the best possible care for patients, without some of the bureaucracy and fragmentation implicit in the 2012 act\".\n\n\"These proposals were set out publicly in the NHS Long Term Plan in 2019 and further developed last year, drawing on what the best local health systems are already doing,\" they added.", "Homicide detectives are investigating the fatal stabbing on Wisbeach Road\n\nPolice have condemned a night of \"needless and abhorrent\" violence after a man died and nine others were hurt in a spate of stabbings in south London.\n\nOfficers were called to five stabbing incidents in the space of just over two and half hours on Friday evening.\n\nA 22-year-old man was killed in a fight at a block of flats in Wisbeach Road, Croydon, police said.\n\nNone of the attacks is being linked, but police said extra officers would be deployed in south London.\n\nPolice said the dead man was stabbed in an altercation with a group of males and a murder investigation was under way.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon friends and family of the victim, including his mother, laid flowers alongside a police cordon at the scene.\n\nAnd in a separate incident a man in his 20s was found dead in Kilburn in north London at about 17:40 GMT on Saturday. A boy believed to be in his teens has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 22-year-old man died after a fight at a block of flats in Wisbeach Road, Croydon\n\nDet Supt Nicky Arrowsmith said: \"Sadly, tonight [Friday] we have seen a number of needless and completely abhorrent violent altercations, including one that has tragically resulted in a loss of life.\n\n\"We need to hear from anyone who has information about crime, those who carry a weapon, or those who exploit others for gain or revenge, while putting young people's lives at risk - we need this information to help keep London safe.\"\n\nThe man who died was one of two men reported to have been injured at the property in Wisbeach Road.\n\nA resident described seeing police and medical staff trying to save him.\n\nThe witness, who asked not to be named, said: \"There was blood everywhere, it looked like he was cut in the leg and they tried to stop the bleeding.\n\n\"His mum was here crying and she was in pieces.\n\n\"It is terrifying, my son is 19 and I'm worried for him.\" Ch Insp Martin Thorpe, from the Met's Specialist Crime team, said: \"I am aware that this was one of a number of violent incidents in and around the south London area on Friday evening but there is nothing to connect these incidents together at this time.\"\n\nPolice said none of the nine other casualties was now considered to be in a life-threatening condition and added that two people had been arrested.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon a 10th man, aged 24, was stabbed near West Croydon station on Oakfield Road.\n\nThe other attacks are being investigated by officers from the South Area Basic Command Unit, the Met said.\n\nThese include a man who was stabbed on Chapman Road, Croydon, and four men who took themselves to hospital with stab wounds after a fight in the Penwortham Road area of Wandsworth.\n\nAnother two men, both in their 30s, also went to hospital after a stabbing on Jay Gardens, Chislehurst, just before 21:00.\n\nPolice said there would be extra patrols in the area over the weekend\n\nPolice are also investigating the stabbing of a man in his 40s who was found wounded on Dingwall Road at 21:12.\n\nThe victim has since been arrested on suspicion of affray and a 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and remains in custody, the Met added.\n\nLabour MP for Croydon North Steve Reed said in a tweet that the \"absolutely horrific news\" would \"devastate our community\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The grand finale of this season's NFL - the Super Bowl - takes place on Sunday evening, but coronavirus restrictions mean events are a little different this year.\n\nSuper Bowl week normally begins with airport photo opportunities as the teams arrive in the host city, followed by Opening Night - a media extravaganza where reporters from around the globe speak to players and coaches in a packed arena.\n\nBut this year the interviews have been conducted via video conferences, with both teams preparing at home.\n\nThere would usually be concerts and week-long parties for fans, but official festivities have been limited to the Super Bowl Experience - an interactive football theme park which was fully booked before Super Bowl week.\n\nThis year's half-time show will look very different to last year's when Shakira crowd-surfed Image caption: This year's half-time show will look very different to last year's when Shakira crowd-surfed\n\nAll NFL stadiums have been empty or operating at reduced capacity this season and on Sunday there will be 25,000 fans - including 7,500 vaccinated healthcare workers who have received free tickets - along with 30,000 cut-outs.\n\nThe NFL is providing all spectators with PPE kits on arrival at the stadium, and mask-wearing will be mandatory for fans, players and team staff.\n\nBars and restaurants are open in Tampa but Florida state guidelines advise citizens to wear face coverings in public and maintain a six-foot distance, while fans have been asked to keep gatherings small.\n\nAnd what about the coveted half-time show?\n\nThis year it will be performed by Canadian singer The Weeknd, who will perform on a stage constructed in the stands rather than on the field.", "An attempt to stop prosecutors using messages from hundreds of phones that were part of the Encrochat secret communications network in court has been rejected by the Appeal Court.\n\nJudges ruled the messages, obtained by French police by hacking the phones, were not gained by \"interception\".\n\nUnder British law, evidence from interception cannot be used in court.\n\nThe National Crime Agency believes Encrochat was mainly used by criminals, often to trade drugs and guns.\n\nThe judgement will have major implications for cases against suspected organised criminals around the country.\n\nDue to legal restrictions, it is the first time the BBC can report the detail of arguments surrounding Encrochat, which was penetrated by police last summer resulting in more than 1,000 arrests.\n\nThe NCA, which obtained the evidence from France, said it was the biggest breakthrough ever in the fight against organised crime.\n\nSenior officers described it \"as akin to cracking the enigma code\".\n\nThe messages, sent by suspects who did not know they were being monitored, detail alleged drug dealing and murder plots, and include images and videos.\n\nMany of the cases based on \"Encro\" evidence are now going to court, and if this judgement had ruled the messages couldn't be used, some trials may have been abandoned.\n\nUnder long-standing British law, designed to protect intelligence techniques from scrutiny and make criminal trials manageable, intercepted evidence can't be used in court.\n\nIn 2016, Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Act in a massive overhaul of surveillance law. The act introduced a \"double lock\" that requires interception warrants to be authorised by a secretary of state and approved by a judge.\n\nIn a 2015 factsheet on the bill before it became law, the Home Office defined interception as \"making available the content of a communication to someone other than the sender or intended recipient during the course of its transmission. In practice that means listening to a phone call or reading an email\".\n\nBut the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, Lord Justice Edis, and Mrs Justice Whipple dismissed an appeal by lawyers for Encrochat defendants.\n\nThe key legal argument centred on a piece of \"malware\" placed by French experts on Encrochat phones worldwide. It sent copies of every message to a police server.\n\nFrance has refused to say how, what it called \"the implant\", worked, creating legal uncertainty in British courts.\n\nEncrochat was a private messaging service that promised its users secure and secretive communications.\n\nAs well as the Encrochat messaging app, the company developed a modified version of the Android operating system and sold altered smartphones known as \"carbon units\" to run its software.\n\nSwitched on by pressing just the power button, the phones would load a \"dummy\" Android homescreen.\n\nBut activated another way they would boot into Encrochat mode.\n\nGetting hold of an Encrochat phone was not cheap, and the subscription charges were more than £200 a month.\n\nMessages sent between handsets were end-to-end encrypted: scrambled as they travelled across the internet, making them practically impossible to decode if intercepted.\n\nBut in June 2020, the company warned its users that an attack had comprised its handsets and advised them to \"physically dispose of your device immediately\".\n\nIf the implant had collected the messages as they were being transmitted, this would amount to interception of the communications.\n\nThe defence lawyers claimed the implant was taking messages from the phones' memory, milliseconds before being sent to their wifi or mobile data transmitters and therefore the data was \"in transmission\".\n\nBut the judges decided the data was in fact being stored temporarily on the devices as it was processed, before being transmitted.\n\nThey said this was evident because during the actual transmission the message were encrypted, and therefore couldn't have been read, as they were by the police.\n\nThe data collected also included crucial username information from the phone's storage memory, which is not sent as part of the transmission.\n\nIn Friday's judgement they compared the process with that of sending a letter: \"The process involves the letter being written, put in an envelope, a stamp being attached and then the letter being placed in the post box.\n\n\"Only the last act involves the letter being transmitted by a system, but all the acts are essential to that transmission.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works\n\nFamilies of those arrested during the fall-out from the Encrochat penetration have been arguing online that the NCA broke the law by accessing and reading messages \"in real time\", as they were being sent.\n\nThey say British law enforcement agencies effectively allowed a foreign power, France, to hack the phones of 9,000 UK Encrochat users.\n\nPolice claimed that in general, using an Encrochat phone, which cost thousands of pounds to own and operate, demonstrated a likely involvement in criminal activity.\n\nBut suspects' supporters say innocent family members were caught up in a race to make use of the Encro messages, because police feared they would be criticised if they were not seen to take action.\n\nHowever the decision of the Appeal Court was that the evidence was collected lawfully.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "On 17 October 2019 Boris Johnson was in ebullient form.\n\nHe had just sealed the Brexit withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nAt a Brussels press conference, the prime minister hailed the agreement as marking the beginning of a \"very exciting\" time for the UK.\n\n\"I want to stress that this is a great deal for our country, for the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"And what it means is that we in the UK can come out of the EU as one United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, together.\n\n\"And it means we can decide our future together, we can take back control, as the phrase goes, of our money, our borders, our laws, together.\"\n\nMeanwhile civil servants were doing the work of turning the deal into domestic UK law - what would become the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill.\n\nJust four days after Mr Johnson's Brussels triumph, the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) had produced an analysis of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\nIt is that piece of work which shows that the problems with the Irish Sea border were foreseen virtually from the moment the deal was signed.\n\nThe DExEU civil servants produced a prescient study that almost precisely describes the issues which have come into sharp focus over the past week.\n\nBoris Johnson vowed that his Brexit deal would lead to a \"very exciting\" time for the UK\n\nThe Northern Ireland part of the deal - the Protocol - keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and EU customs rules are enforced at its ports.\n\nThat is to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland but at the expense of a new trade border within the UK.\n\nThe DExEU report was clear about what this meant: \"Goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will be required to complete both import declarations and Entry Summary Declarations because the UK will be applying the EU's custom code in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"This will result in additional administrative costs to businesses.\n\n\"Businesses that do not currently trade outside the EU will incur familiarisation costs as they have not had to engage with customs processes.\"\n\nIt went on to explain that the heaviest burden would fall on small businesses.\n\n\"The proposals will have an effect on all UK businesses that move goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, irrespective of the business's size.\n\n\"Economic theory suggests that a 'one size fits all' approach for business trade requirements is likely to have a disproportionate effect on small and micro businesses (SMBs) in particular.\n\n\"There would be both fixed and variable costs for firms as a consequence of the Protocol, consequently these costs are likely to be a larger proportion of SMBs' operating costs and therefore disproportionately affect them.\"\n\nIt is the trade in food and plant products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland that has faced the greatest disruption since 1 January.\n\nThe problems with the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland were predicted by the government\n\nThe DExEU report devotes a lengthy section to that issue and again spelled out the implications.\n\n\"There will be additional documentation required on all agri-food goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to ensure that they comply with the necessary regulations,\" it stated.\n\n\"These could include Export Health Certificates for products of animal origin, fish and live animals; and phytosanitary certificates for plants.\n\n\"This would result in an additional administrative cost to businesses moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\"\n\nDExEU was not the only government department with a clear view of what was coming.\n\nDuring the 2019 UK general election campaign the Labour Party released a leaked Treasury presentation.\n\nThe language in the document was even blunter.\n\nIt said: \"The Withdrawal Agreement has the potential to separate Northern Ireland in practice from whole swathes of the UK's internal market.\"\n\nIt also correctly anticipated the way in which the Protocol would be perceived by many unionists: \"Northern Ireland symbolically separated from the union/economic union undermined.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is of little interest to most voters or journalists in Great Britain so the issue sank without trace during the election campaign.\n\nAfter winning that election, the government did act to mitigate the looming impacts of the Protocol.\n\nSome potential requirements for new processes on Northern Ireland-Great Britain trade were negotiated away in further talks with the EU.\n\nAbout £500m is being spent on a Trader Support Service to help with customs and a Movement Assistance Service to help with the certification costs of agri-food goods.\n\nThere are \"grace periods\", meaning some of the new processes are being phased in.\n\nBut the fundamental character of the Protocol has not changed since those DExEU officials explained it all more than 15 months ago.", "Bethany died after the car she was travelling in hit a wall\n\nA woman who died in a car crash which left three other teenagers injured has been named.\n\nBethany Ovenden Gumm, 18, was a passenger in a Ford Fiesta which left The Mead in Westbury, Wiltshire and hit a garden wall and a tree on Friday.\n\nThe driver, a 19-year-old man, was seriously injured and remains at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\nTwo other occupants - a woman, 18, and a girl, 17 - have \"significant\" injuries and also remain in hospital.\n\nThe Mead, near the roundabout with the A350, was closed after the accident at about 23:40 GMT on Friday but reopened at about 10:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nInsp Andrew Lemon, of Wiltshire Police, said: \"This is a tragic incident and our thoughts are with the girl's family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"I ask that their privacy is respected and our investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collision is ongoing.\"\n\nPolice said the car Bethany was in crashed into a garden wall and a tree on The Mead\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the scene of the crash in Westbury\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jackie Weaver, who became an internet sensation after a recording of a parish council meeting went viral, says tensions from her now-famous video call haven't \"settled yet\".\n\nBut she told BBC Breakfast she had received some exciting news amid the publicity – an opportunity to meet one of the stars of Strictly Come Dancing.", "Joint Base Andrews is home to the presidential aircraft, Air Force One\n\nThe US Air Force will conduct a global security review after an intruder entered the base that houses the presidential air craft, Air Force One.\n\nOn Thursday, an unarmed man was able to access Maryland's Joint Base Andrews and enter a C-40 aircraft, part of a fleet used by government leaders.\n\n\"Everyone is taking this very seriously,\" said defence department spokesman John Kirby on Friday.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the intruder is linked to extremist groups.\n\nThe suspect was detained by security forces on the base, according to a statement from the Air Force. He was given a federal summons for trespassing and handed over to local law enforcement. No personnel were harmed during the breach.\n\nThe intruder had two outstanding warrants, but no further details were provided.\n\nJoint Base Andrews is located about 15 miles (24km) from the White House in Washington, DC, and is frequently used by the president, vice-president and other US leaders.\n\nPresident Joe Biden flew from the base to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday evening.\n\nJoint Base Andrews is used frequently by the US president and other top officials.\n\nThe Air Force's inspector general will conduct an investigation into the break-in, the Air Force said in its statement. It will also conduct a \"comprehensive review of installation security and trends\" on its bases around the world.\n\n\"The security of our installation is paramount,\" said Col Roy Oberhaus, a commander at Joint Base Andrews in a statement. \"This was a serious breach of security\".\n\nThe break-in comes nearly one month after the 6 January riots at the US Capitol, which has left stricter security protocols in place. Thousands of National Guard troops will remain in Washington until March.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJoe Root scored an imperious double century as England continued their strong start to the first Test against India on day two in Chennai.\n\nEngland captain Root resumed on 128 and serenely compiled 218 to extend his stunning run of form.\n\nHis nine-hour epic helped England close on 555-8, Ben Stokes also making an enterprising 82.\n\nThe loss of four wickets in the evening session halted England's progress slightly but the tourists are still in an impressive position.\n\nThe pitch is offering increasing assistance to the spinners and seamer Ishant Sharma found notable reverse swing late in the day, which will please England's quick bowlers.\n\nRoot overcame all India threw at him until he fell lbw to left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem in the evening session.\n\nHis score - the highest of any batsman in their 100th Test - is the best in India by an England player and the first double hundred by an overseas player in the country since 2010.\n\nA weary India could have wrapped up the innings late in the day but for a horrible dropped catch by Rohit Sharma to reprieve Dom Bess, who ended 28 not out.\n• None TMS podcast: A double ton from the captain as England dominate again\n• None Reaction and analysis from day two in Chennai\n\nRoot's hundred was the fifth double of his career - only Wally Hammond has more for England - and follows scores of 228 and 186 in Sri Lanka last month.\n\nOn day one he was the heavier scorer in a hefty 200-run partnership with Dom Sibley; on day two he allowed Stokes to take on the role of the aggressor in their stand.\n\nBalls spat from the previously docile pitch - something England will want to see when they come to bowl on day three - but Root was rarely troubled.\n\nFor the most part, the 30-year-old was a quiet accumulator before he burst into life by lofting Ravichandran Ashwin, the world's premier spinner, for six over wide long-on to pass 200.\n\nSo focused was Root, it took him a few moments to realise he had reached another landmark.\n\nWhen his innings did end - he missed a straight ball that slid on to his pad from Nadeem - he was greeted with a warm handshake from India's captain Virat Kohli. It was a sign of appreciation from one of the world's other star batsmen.\n\nSri Lanka legend Kumar Sangakkara is the only other player to have made scores in excess of 180 in three consecutive Tests.\n\nIndia battle but do not help themselves\n\nIndia have now been in the field for 180 overs.\n\nTheir fight in the final session was admirable. Ishant, in particular, impressed by bowling Jos Buttler for 30 and Jofra Archer for a first-ball duck in consecutive deliveries that swung in late.\n\nHowever, there were errors throughout the day not befitting of a side at the top of the World Test Championship table.\n\nWith six overs remaining, Bess, on 19, clipped the ball softly to Rohit and he spilled the ball from in front of his face.\n\nThere were drops in the morning session too - Ashwin and Cheteshwar Pujara putting down difficult chances off Stokes early in the all-rounder's morning onslaught.\n\nButtler would also have been dismissed 12 runs sooner had India not earlier wasted their reviews. The umpire missed a faint snick through to the wicketkeeper, with India rightly convinced it was out.\n\nMore disappointingly for India, their bowlers have bowled 19 no-balls so far. It was apt England reached 550 when spinner Ashwin bowled his second.\n\nStokes' innings was his first in red-ball cricket since early August. He missed the final two Tests of the English summer for family reasons and was rested for last month's tour of Sri Lanka.\n\nEngland's star all-rounder began quietly, he and Root locked in an intense early battle with Ashwin and Ishant, before attacking at the first sign of real danger.\n\nNadeem found turn from the foot-holes outside his off stump and Stokes, rather than defend, unleashed reverse and slog sweeps.\n\nHe lived dangerously, and the ball fell into unmanned spaces on occasions, but he dazzled and hit three sixes and 10 fours in his 118 balls.\n\nThe high-risk strategy eventually cost him his wicket - he was caught at fine leg with a top-edged sweep - but he had quickly helped increase England's score from 263-3 to 387-4.\n\n'The win has gone for India' - reaction\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes speaking on Channel 4: \"Joe Root makes me feel rubbish - that's pretty much where he's at, at the moment. He's an amazing player. I'm not too sure we've had an England player play spin so well - with such ease and with such control. He makes it look very easy and it's a pleasure to watch.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on The Cricket Social: \"The win has gone out of the equation for India; I can't see how they get 700 quickly and then bowl England out cheaply. Mentally, that's a challenge for the batsmen.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"Everyone will talk about Root, and rightly so, but I think Stokes was brilliant today. It was a brilliant example of what to do as a left-hander when the ball is causing problems near your off stump. It was unfussy and ruthless. If I had to sit down and watch an innings again tonight, it would be the Stokes innings. It was brilliant.\"\n• None Eating With My Ex: Can they settle the score and go again?", "A \"wonderful, caring\" nurse has died with Covid-19 in the hospital she had worked at for nearly two decades.\n\nEstrella Catalan, 52, died on Friday at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), where she was an emergency department staff nurse.\n\nShe had been receiving treatment in the hospital's critical care complex.\n\nChief executive of NNUH NHS Foundation Trust, Sam Higginson, said Ms Catalan, who had worked at the hospital since 2002, \"will be terribly missed\".\n\nMs Catalan had previously been interviewed by the BBC from her intensive care bed while she was unwell with Covid-19.\n\nMr Higginson said: \"Our deepest and heartfelt condolences are with Estrella's loved ones and friends at this very difficult time and with all those who worked alongside Estrella and knew her.\"\n\nEstrella Catalan had worked at the hospital since 2002\n\nHe called Ms Catalan a \"wonderful person and a caring and conscientious nurse, who loved to teach and mentor students\" and said they would \"formulate a fitting memorial to Estrella\".\n\n\"This is a heartbreaking reminder of the situation we are facing every day to help others and we want to thank our staff for their ongoing courage and commitment during the pandemic,\" added Mr Higginson.\n\nAccording to a GoFundMe page which has raised more than £4,700, Ms Catalan is survived by her husband Melvin and their sons John and Josh, and added that her eldest son Vince died two years ago.\n\n\"She puts the needs of others first before her own,\" the page said.\n\n\"Her selflessness and dedication carried on even when she was on her hospital bed, she still thought and talked about when she could go back to work to help patients and colleagues throughout this pandemic.\n\n\"Estrella promised her family, 'I will be back' when she was taken to the hospital few weeks ago... sadly, a promise that she could no longer physically keep.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Rina Sawayama will now be eligible for this year's Rising Star award\n\nA pop star who was told she was \"not British enough\" to enter The Brits and the Mercury Prize has won a reversal in the awards' eligibility rules.\n\nRina Sawayama was told she could not compete for the prizes last year, because she was not a British citizen.\n\nThe singer, who has lived in the UK for 26 years, has now won the right to compete, after meeting award bosses.\n\nUnder new rules, artists who have been resident in the UK for more than five years qualify for the main prizes.\n\nSawayama holds indefinite leave to remain in the UK, but retains a Japanese passport to maintain ties with her family, including her father, who live in her country of birth.\n\nAs Japan does not allow dual citizenship, she cannot have a British passport. That led to her critically-acclaimed debut album, also called Sawayama, being ruled ineligible for last year's Mercury Prize.\n\n\"It was just heartbreaking,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"I think a lot of immigrants feel this way - where they assimilate and they become part of the British culture... and to be told that we're not even eligible to be nominated is very othering.\"\n\nSawayama first raised concerns about the situation in an interview with Vice last year.\n\n\"All I remember is living here,\" she said. \"I've just lived here all my life. I went to summer school in Japan, and that's literally it. But I feel like I've contributed to the UK in a way that I think is worthy of being celebrated, or at least being eligible to be celebrated.\"\n\nThe hashtag #SawayamaIsBritish trended in the UK shortly after her interview was published.\n\n\"Part of me that worried that I was... going to get blacklisted from the music industry for bringing this up,\" she told the BBC. \"But I'm glad I did.\"\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 RinaSawayamaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe singer subsequently met with the BPI, which organises both the Brits and the Mercury Prize, and convinced them to review their criteria.\n\n\"I'm over the moon to share the news that, following a number of conversations, the BPI has decided to change the rules,\" Sawayama posted on Instagram on Wednesday.\n\n\"Starting this year, artists (like me) will be eligible for nomination even without British citizenship.\"\n\nThe Brit Awards confirmed the change to the BBC, saying it would apply to all its award categories, as well as the Mercury Prize.\n\nArtists will now have to meet one of three criteria to be eligible:\n\nThe change means Sawayama will be eligible for this year's Rising Star award, which recognises up-and-coming talent.\n\nHowever, she will not be able to compete in the main categories - including best British female and best album - as her record did not chart in the Top 40.\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 rinasonline 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\nSawayama has previously benefitted from funding from the BPI Music Export Growth Scheme, a grant that supports and celebrates British musicians, and her album is littered with references about growing up in London.\n\nThe record, which skilfully blends millennial pop and R&B with elements of nu-metal, was one of the best-reviewed new releases of 2020, with an average score of 89% on the review aggregation site Metacritic.\n\nMany publications, including the Guardian and the NME, named it among their best albums of the year; and it took 11th place in the BBC's \"poll of polls\", which combined the year-end lists from 35 influential newspapers, magazines and blogs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWales' first officially-licenced beavers could arrive from Scotland within weeks.\n\nThe mammals were hunted to extinction across Britain in the 16th Century for their fur, meat and scent glands.\n\nHowever the Welsh Beaver Project is hopeful it will be granted a licence to keep as many as six in an enclosure.\n\nThe animals would be housed at Cors Dyfi Nature Reserve, near Machynlleth, Powys, where they would be used to clear willow trees.\n\nIt is hoped the semi-aquatic mammal could restore the three-hectare wetland habitat, boosting other species.\n\nAlicia Leow-Dyke, of the Welsh Beaver Project, said: \"Beavers coppice trees, they feed on the willow bark and barks of other trees.\n\n\"They will fell the trees to get the bark and eat the leaves. That will allow the area to open up and make it easier for people to manage in the future.\"\n\nThat should allow marshland vegetation to emerge - such as bog myrtle, rushes and reeds - which are low growing plants that like wetter areas.\n\nThe beavers will be microchipped and tagged on their ears.\n\nThe area has been difficult for people to clear because of the remains of conifer woodland that once grew there.\n\n\"The hope is that they will breed and form a small family group and manage the whole habitat over five years,\" Ms Leow-Dyke said.\n\n\"If they manage it enough, we can look to extend the enclosure.\"\n\nThe beavers could arrive anytime between March and May if the project, led by Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, is approved by Natural Resources Wales.\n\nBBC Springwatch presenter and naturalist, Iolo Williams, said it would be \"fantastic\" to have them back, adding: \"What you will find is that area, the bio-diversity will go through the roof.\n\n\"It will be brilliant for amphibians, aquatic plants, invertebrates and fish.\"\n\nHe said their dams would retain silt, leaving cleaner water for spawning salmon.\n\n\"People don't see the bigger picture of what's happening when you bring beavers back to an area where they have been absent for a number of years,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Beaver Project's Alicia Leow-Dyke said as many as six beavers could be placed in the enclosure\n\nBeavers were reintroduced to Scotland in 2009 and now enjoy protected status there.\n\nTwo were also released into a Yorkshire forest last year to help stop flooding.\n\nA pair were introduced into an enclosure at Blaeneinion, a conservation project near Machynlleth, in 2008 - before licences were required - where their engineering has been credited with helping flood management.\n\nHowever fisheries expert Professor Ian Cowx, of University of Hull, in a report commissioned by the Angling Trust, said beavers could disrupt fish migration, cause shifts in fish species composition, damage river banks and reduce agricultural production.\n\nMark Owen, of the Angling Trust, said: \"We are very concerned about any impact on salmon, their habitats and their ability to reach spawning grounds, particularly as salmon are getting to be an endangered species.\n\n\"There needs to be careful consideration that we don't release one species that has the potential to impact on another that is so threatened.\"\n\nThe National Farmers' Union has raised concerns of the potential for flooding and farmers being powerless to act if beavers were to be granted protected status and escaped.\n\nThere is some opposition to the plan but television's Iolo Williams gave it a \"thumbs up\"\n\nGareth Wyn Jones farms along the River Dyfi near Llanwrin, about two miles from Machynlleth.\n\nHe questioned whether the beavers might damage the \"fragile\" ecological balance.\n\n\"It would be important to watch their development over time so people have an idea of the environmental impact,\" he said.\n\n\"One thing can make a big difference. We have a duty of care for the environment and the animal.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales said it was still finalising its response to the application from Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust.\n\nThere is a separate application from North Wales Wildlife Trust to release 10 pairs into the River Dyfi as part of a five-year pilot study.\n\nNRW said it was awaiting further information for that application before launching a public consultation.", "The Duke of Edinburgh is being treated for an infection and is not expected to leave hospital for several days, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip was admitted to London's King Edward VII's Hospital last Tuesday as a precaution after feeling unwell.\n\nThe 99-year-old husband of the Queen is \"comfortable and responding to treatment\", the palace said.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex said his father was feeling \"a lot better\" and appreciated \"lovely messages\" from the public.\n\nPrince Edward told Sky News: \"He's looking forward to getting out, which is the most positive thing, so we keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nBoth the duke and the Queen, 94, received Covid-19 vaccinations last month. Prince Philip's admission to hospital was not related to coronavirus.\n\nThe couple, who celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary last November, have been spending lockdown at Windsor Castle with a small household staff.\n\nA palace source previously said that the duke, who turns 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nPrince Charles visited his father for around 30 minutes on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said Prince Charles returned to his Highgrove residence in Gloucestershire after the visit.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, the Duke of Cambridge said his grandfather was \"OK\" and that doctors were \"keeping an eye\" on him.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have continued with their official duties, with the Queen knighting a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor on Thursday.\n\nPrince Philip retired from royal duties in 2017 in a move supported by the Queen.\n\nKnown for off-the-cuff remarks at public events, Prince Philip joked at the time that he was the \"world's most experienced plaque unveiler\".\n\nIn his time as a working royal, he attended over 22,000 solo engagements and gave more than 5,000 speeches.\n\nThe duke has received treatment for various health conditions over the years, including a blocked coronary artery in 2011, a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cutdown version of the meeting went viral\n\nA parish council that went viral when a Zoom meeting descended into chaos could be abolished, the BBC has learned.\n\nHandforth Parish Council became an internet sensation when a rowdy meeting featuring members being kicked out was watched by millions earlier this month.\n\nA boundary review, which began before the meeting, has suggested it should be merged with neighbouring Wilmslow.\n\n\"It's not something I'll be voting for; Handforth needs its own council,\" said Cheshire East councillor Julie Smith.\n\nJackie Weaver, who shot to fame for keeping her cool amid the online meeting's sniping, laughter and disarray, said she was \"sure the people of Handforth will be up in arms\" about the proposed merger plans.\n\nJackie Weaver received praise for keeping her cool during the meeting\n\nShe said now is the chance for \"both communities to have their views heard\".\n\nHandforth parish council attracted international attention when footage of its infamous Zoom meeting spiralling out of control was posted online and went viral.\n\nMs Weaver, chief officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils, said she had received \"nothing but positive support\" in the wake of the incident.\n\nHowever, she recently received an expletive-filled email calling her \"a disgrace\" and saying she \"doesn't deserve to be let out of a burning building\".\n\nCheshire Police confirmed they were currently investigating a report of \"malicious communication\" targeted at Ms Weaver.\n\nHer colleagues who were copied into the email forwarded it to the police, for which Ms Weaver said she was \"grateful\".\n\nMs Weaver added: \"I didn't take it as a death threat so personally wouldn't have reported it.\n\n\"I've had two or three of this type of message but none quite so hostile and unpleasant as this one.\"\n\nDozens of members of the public joined members at the parish council's last meeting\n\nThe council's most recent meeting, which again descended into rows, was at one stage watched on YouTube by more than 3,500 people.\n\nMembers of the public interjected and made cat-calls throughout.\n\nThe boundary review states that a planned housing development will increase Handforth's electorate and suggests Wilmslow should be enlarged to incorporate the parish.\n\nHandforth councillor and Cheshire East Council mayor Barry Burkhill declined to comment on the proposals.\n\nBarry Burkhill featured in the meeting that went viral\n\nMr Burkhill is facing a vote of no-confidence over his role in December's viral meeting.\n\nChairman Brian Tolver has been contacted for comment.\n\nA consultation on the proposed changes will run for 12 weeks.\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 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a \"roadmap\" to lift England's lockdown restrictions in stages - starting with the reopening of schools. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said there will be a \"progressive easing\" of its rules.\n\nOver the course of the past year, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has advised the authorities on the pandemic, assessing the risks of transmission of coronavirus in many areas of daily life.\n\nThis advice looks at how closing or opening certain sectors could affect its spread - although with varying degrees of confidence, as the precise impact of each measure is difficult to assess.\n\nScientists are still trying to understand the full impact of the vaccines and the new variants of coronavirus. These have not been factored in yet in the assessments from Sage, which have been publicly released.\n\nWe have looked at what they say about the risks in a number of areas.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that schools have a \"moderate\" impact on transmission.\n\nThe phased opening of schools has already started in Wales and Scotland. In England, the prime minister says all schools will reopen on March 8.\n\nBut the role schools have played in the spread of the virus is not clear-cut.\n\nOne report from Sage notes, perhaps unsurprisingly, that cases were highest among children when schools fully reopened in September 2020.\n\nThere is no clear evidence that schools are the driving force behind broader community spikes.\n\n\"It is difficult to quantify the size of this effect and it remains difficult to quantify the level of transmission taking place specifically within schools compared to other settings,\" Sage reported in November.\n\nIts evidence suggests that primary school children are \"less susceptible to infection than adults,\" but the risk increases among older children.\n\nSage concluded that closing secondary schools was \"more effective\" than closing primary schools due to this.\n\nIn fact, some recent research from the University of Warwick concludes that there is no hard evidence that primary schools spread the virus.\n\nWhen announcing the reopening of schools in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The key risk in reopening schools is not transmission of the virus within schools; instead, the risk comes from the increased contact that the reopening might spark among the wider adult population.\"\n\nThis could include parents gathering at the school gates, or people returning to work.\n\nAll recent Sage documents agree that the risk of serious illness to children is very small compared to adults over 60.\n\nSage has said (with \"high confidence\") that outdoor gatherings have a low impact on transmission.\n\nWales is relaxing its outdoor rules and small outdoor gatherings will be allowed in England from March 29 and in Scotland from March 15.\n\nCurrently, you are only able to exercise outdoors with one other person.\n\nSage has long been confident that small outdoor gatherings have a lower impact on transmission because coronavirus \"does not persist in well-ventilated outdoor areas for long\" and the virus's \"survival on surfaces is reduced under UV light [the sun]\".\n\nBut despite being considered low-risk, the virus is still able to spread outdoors. This is why when a lot of people had the virus in January, the government stopped gatherings outside.\n\nAnd, as ever, the closer you are to someone - for example, standing close to them and chatting - the higher the chance of droplets passing between you. So social distancing measures will still be encouraged.\n\nSage has said (with \"low-moderate\" confidence) that retail has a low impact on transmission.\n\nMost non-essential retail, such as clothes stores, is due to reopen in England from April 12 - at the earliest.\n\nPeople in Scotland will need to wait until at least the end of April for this.\n\nBefore the first lockdown was lifted, Sage recommended that \"opening non-essential retail safely would require a significant effort to ensure that environments are appropriate to minimise transmission (for example social distancing and hygiene measures, ventilation)\".\n\nThis follows the idea that contacts between people are more dangerous indoors as particles in the air are replaced less slowly with clean air.\n\nSage estimated that opening non-essential retail such as clothes shops would see a 10% increase in indoor contacts between people.\n\nThis is why when shops reopened we saw crowd control, one-way systems and designated spaces for people to queue.\n\nSage thinks that in general non-essential retail is \"low risk\" when these measures are in place and masks are worn.\n\nBut once again, if coronavirus is already highly prevalent in a community as it was in December, these \"low risk\" actions can become riskier as more people have the virus to begin with.\n\nSage has said (with \"moderate confidence\") that hospitality has a moderate impact on transmission.\n\nWithout restrictions, the hospitality sector can see people from different households mixing indoors for long periods of time.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, Sage has said:\n\nSage has also noted that alcohol can have an impact on people following social distancing measures.\n\nBecause of these risks, hospitality is being opened up in stages.\n\nOn April 12 - at the earliest - customers in England will be able to drink or eat outside.\n\n\"Allowing customers to sit outside only [is] likely to be much lower risk,\" Sage reports.\n\nThis will be followed by groups being allowed to meet indoors as early as May 17.\n\nAnother restriction previously implemented in England was a 10pm closure for hospitality, but as Reality Check has previously reported, the evidence-base for this was minimal. This curfew has now been scrapped.\n\nPeople will need to wait until at least the end of April for hospitality to open in Scotland.\n\nSage has not issued specific advice on the risk of transmission in this sector.\n\nSelf-catering accommodation or holiday lets will be allowed from April 12, a full month before other types of holiday accommodation. This hasn't been announced in Scotland.\n\nIn the past, Sage has briefly mentioned the need for greater understanding of \"travel patterns and existing levels of seeding (or spreading from one region to another)\" before making conclusions on restricting travel between UK nations and between regions within them.\n\nLast year, Reality Check looked at whether large gatherings of tourists on Bournemouth beach had an impact on case numbers, but found no evidence of it leading to a spike.", "Mr Salmond has written to the Lord Advocate asking for an explanation for the Crown Office's actions\n\nHolyrood faces a \"crisis of credibility\" over its inquiry into the handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond, opposition leaders have claimed.\n\nThe row centres on written evidence submitted to the inquiry by Mr Salmond that was later redacted at the request of the Crown Office.\n\nThe Crown Office has dismissed concerns the move was politically motivated.\n\nMr Salmond is now expected to give evidence to the inquiry on Friday.\n\nIn another development, MSPs on the inquiry committee have used their statutory powers to demand the release of more Crown Office documents.\n\nThey are asking the Crown Office to hand over all correspondence between Peter Murrell, chief executive officer of the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon's husband, Liz Lloyd, Nicola Sturgeon's chief of staff, Sue Ruddick, chief operating officer for the SNP and Ian McCann, SNP compliance officer.\n\nMr Salmond claims the documents being requested will show he was the victim of a high-level plot.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who has emphatically denied there was any such plotting against her former boss, is scheduled to appear before MSPs next week.\n\nShe described suggestions that the Crown Office's intervention was politically influenced as \"downright wrong\".\n\nAlex Salmond had been due to appear before the committee on Tuesday but pulled out when the parliament withdrew and then republished a redacted version of one of his submissions - after \"grave concerns\" were raised by the Crown Office.\n\nAnswering an urgent question in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC said the decision to ask for the document to be amended was taken independently by \"senior professional prosecutors\".\n\nAnd he said that government ministers had not sought to direct them.\n\nHe added: \"The Crown has no interest in interfering with or limiting the conduct of proceedings in this parliament.\n\n\"Its only interest is securing compliance with an order of the High Court with which we are all obliged to comply.\"\n\nThe law officer was responding to a question by Scottish Labour interim leader Jackie Baillie, who said it was \"simply unacceptable that the Lord Advocate refused to answer the questions put to him with any detail\".\n\nShe added: \"The fact of the matter is that the parliament is not getting straight answers from a Lord Advocate who appears to have viewed this afternoon's session in the chamber as a necessary chore and not a chance to engage with the Scottish Parliament in a spirit of democratic accountability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Advocate: \"The decisions in relation to this matter were made by senior professional prosecutors acting independently.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Salmond said in a statement that his lawyers would be writing to the Lord Advocate to ask for an explanation for the Crown Office's \"unprecedented and highly irregular actions\".\n\nMr Salmond said he had also instructed his lawyers to request specifically that the Crown \"preserve and retain all material and communications with all or any third parties which led to their decision to intervene at the very last minute\" before he was due to appear before the inquiry.\n\nHis submission to the inquiry accuses First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, and was posted on the parliament's website on Monday.\n\nIt was published after MSPs on Holyrood's corporate body decided after taking legal advice that it was possible to do so.\n\nBut the corporate body agreed on Tuesday morning to remove and revise the document after receiving a letter from the Crown Office which expressed \"grave concerns\".\n\nThe Crown Office later said it had taken action because of issues of potential contempt of court.\n\nLabour's Jackie Baillie said the Lord Advocate had failed to answer her questions in any detail in the Holyrood chamber\n\nThe inquiry has been hit by severe delays since it started its work, with opposition MSPs accusing both the Scottish government and Mr Salmond of attempting to frustrate it and avoid scrutiny.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme earlier on Wednesday, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said \"of course\" parliament was facing a crisis of credibility over the inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"This sleaze and scandal within the SNP has now undermined everything that's going on in Holyrood and the nationalists are clearly treating parliament and the Scottish people with contempt\".\n\nThe Lord Advocate was appointed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and is both the head of the Crown Office and the Scottish government's chief legal adviser.\n\nSeparate documents submitted to the inquiry by Mr Salmond accuse the Crown Office of being unfit for purpose under its current leadership, and claim it is too close to both the Scottish government and the SNP.\n\nMr Salmond also alleged that there was \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has dismissed claims that there was a conspiracy against Mr Salmond\n\nMr Ross claimed that the Lord Advocate being a member of the Scottish government meant there could be a possible conflict of interest in his involvement.\n\nRuth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative group leader at Holyrood, later told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that she believed there should be an independent, judge-led inquiry into \"why the government is not allowing a committee of its own parliament to have access to information they need\".\n\nShe added: \"At the moment the government is running riot and is denying the parliament its right of scrutiny.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is currently due to give evidence to the inquiry next week, has denied there was a conspiracy against Mr Salmond, saying her predecessor had made claims \"without a shred of evidence\".\n\nShe has also denied that she breached the ministerial code or that her government has attempted to obstruct the inquiry, and has said that she is \"relishing\" the prospect of giving evidence in person.\n\nThe inquiry is due to report next month but has been hit by a series of delays\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, she said: \"Decisions the Crown Office takes in relation to enforcing or upholding the law are taken independently of government.\n\n\"Any suggestion at all that these decisions are in any way politically influenced is downright wrong\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she did not believe the redaction of the document was a good reason for Mr Salmond to refuse to appear before the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry committee has been examining what went wrong with the government's internal investigation into sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond that were made by two female civil servants.\n\nThe government had to pay legal expenses of more than £500,000 to Mr Salmond after it admitted it had acted unlawfully during the investigation.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial last year.", "Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured with Jeffrey Epstein, is due to stand trial in July\n\nBritish socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to give up her UK and French citizenship in exchange for bail.\n\nMs Maxwell is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she denies. She is due to stand trial in July.\n\nIn a court filing, her lawyers said she had no desire to leave the US.\n\nShe would be willing to renounce her foreign citizenship \"to eliminate any opportunity for her to seek refuge in those countries\", the filing added.\n\nHer lawyers also proposed that her and her husband's assets be placed in a monitored account, to prevent her being able to use the money to leave the country.\n\nMs Maxwell has been in jail in Brooklyn, New York, since she was arrested last July at her secluded mansion in the state of New Hampshire.\n\nMs Maxwell, pictured in 2013, was in a relationship with Epstein in the 1990s\n\nThis is her third application for bail, after two previous attempts were unsuccessful.\n\nIn her last bid for bail in December, her lawyers proposed that she be allowed to return home with armed guards to prevent her from escaping.\n\nProsecutors then said there was a risk that, if bailed, Ms Maxwell could use her wealth to flee to France or the UK where she is a citizen and suggested she might try to avoid extradition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins has taken a look at the many remaining questions for Ghislaine Maxwell\n\nMs Maxwell, the daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell, was in a relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s. She allegedly introduced Epstein to wealthy and powerful figures including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York, Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family.\n\nEpstein took his own life in prison in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, more than a decade after he was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a minor.\n\nFour of the charges against Ms Maxwell relate to the years between 1994 and 1997, when prosecutors say she helped Epstein groom girls as young as 14. The other two charges are allegations of perjury in 2016.\n\nShe faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted in her trial in July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Taylor said the man who saved her brother's life was a \"hero\"\n\nA passer-by saved a man's life by administering CPR on him for five minutes after he had a cardiac arrest and collapsed.\n\nThis kept blood flowing around 55-year-old Bobby Gamlin's body until paramedics arrived - but his family were still told to expect the worst.\n\nHowever, after two weeks in intensive care, Mr Gamlin, from Roath, Cardiff, is set to be moved to a cardiac ward.\n\nHis family want to find the man who helped to thank him.\n\nMr Gamlin's sister Mary Taylor believes he is the reason \"my brother is still here\" and her appeal to find him has been shared more than 700 times on Facebook.\n\nMr Gamlin, who has one son Robert, is set to be moved from intensive care\n\n\"He (Bobby) had died. And wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him keeping the blood around his body until the ambulance arrived,\" she said.\n\n\"They took him to the Heath (University Hospital of Wales), and it took them an hour to get him back (breathing).\n\n\"But that man showed so much bravery, definitely in these unprecedented times with Covid, to go straight to a stranger, to be that brave. There are no words.\"\n\nMr Gamlin collapsed near the Home Bargains store on Roath's Albany Road\n\nFather-of-one and grandfather-of-two Mr Gamlin had been shopping on Albany Road in Roath with a friend on 11 February when he started feeling dizzy.\n\nBut as he went to sit down on benches, he collapsed into the plant pots, Mrs Taylor said.\n\n\"His friend panicked, but a man passing with his girlfriend said 'I know CPR, do you mind?' and pulled him onto the floor as someone else called an ambulance,\" she added.\n\n\"It's so easy to not know what to do, so I dread what to think would have happened if he wasn't there.\"\n\nThe ambulance arrived in about five minutes - but Mr Gamlin had stopped breathing and the man battled alone to keep blood circulating around his body until paramedics could take over.\n\nMr Gamlin - pictured with his late partner - had been out shopping\n\nEven so, after being taken to the city's University Hospital of Wales, it took doctors an hour to get him breathing, with his family told by doctors to expect the worst.\n\nMrs Taylor said relatives, who were unable to visit because of Covid restrictions, were informed Mr Gamlin could be left with brain damage or may not even make it, as he was treated in intensive care.\n\nMr Gamlin's family, including sisters Mary, Teresa and Julie, had feared the worst\n\n\"He has confounded everyone, they didn't expect him to live,\" Mrs Taylor added.\n\n\"He will probably need surgery but compared to before, he is now sat in a chair and could eat a meal and drink himself yesterday - he was fed by a tube before.\n\n\"He is also able to send messages on his phone now.\"\n\nMr Gamlin is set to leave intensive care for a cardiac ward on Thursday, and Mrs Taylor wants to find the man, in his 20s, who saved him, saying \"we owe him everything\".\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service did not comment on the specific case but said \"time is always of the essence\" when dealing with cardiac arrests and urged everyone to learn \"these life-saving skills\".\n\nRobert Brunnock, manager for Cardiff, said: \"When it comes to cardiac arrests, time is always of the essence.\n\n\"As an emergency service, our utmost priority will always be to arrive at the scene of an incident as quickly as possible.\n\n\"However, the earlier CPR is performed on a patient suffering from cardiac arrest, the better.\"", "The victims' commissioner for England and Wales has called for a law to ensure people affected by crime are treated properly as they wait for justice.\n\nDame Vera Baird QC said victims had for too long been treated like bystanders.\n\nShe said mounting evidence of a loss of confidence in criminal justice was driven by people's experiences.\n\nThe government is introducing a new victims' code and has promised to consult on creating legal rights.\n\nIn a wide-ranging report, Dame Vera said falling confidence in criminal justice could only be restored by treating victims as participants rather than outsiders in events that could have been pivotal moments in their lives.\n\nShe calls for the police, courts and prosecutors to be made legally accountable for basic standards of care:\n\n\"There is a collapse in confidence and it is not just about Covid [backlogs in courts], and it's not just about delay,\" Dame Vera told the BBC. \"It is very largely to do with how people are treated.\"\n\nShe said that a victims' law would be a once in a generation landmark piece of legislation that would transform experiences.\n\n\"We are trying to put the victim at the centre of the criminal justice system. The defendant stays securely where they are, well protected. But at the moment, because all the focus is on prosecuting, investigating and making sure that the defendant has a fair trial, nobody's duty is to look after a victim.\"\n\nDame Vera recommends that compensation due to a victim should be paid to them directly by the court. Under the current system, offenders often pay tiny instalments to the court because of their limited means, meaning it takes years for the money to come through.\n\nShe also calls for people who have experienced anti-social behaviour to be recognised as victims of crime and given appropriate support.\n\nWhile a specific victims' law would be entirely new in England and Wales, it has been successfully implemented in parts of Australia, which has the same style of criminal justice system.\n\nConservative governments have promised for six years to place a legal duty on the criminal justice system to properly look after victims. Ministers say they will consult on that proposal later this year - 30 years after the first code of conduct towards victims was published.\n\nThe latest version of that code will be introduced in April - but critics say that without legal teeth many victims will not benefit from its promises to ensure they are listened to and kept informed. Labour has separately launched its own attempt to create a victims' law, although it stands virtually no chance of becoming law.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our new code enhances the rights of victims at every stage of the justice process. But we plan to go further, strengthening and enshrining these rights in a new victims' law.\n\n\"We are also investing millions in vital support services, recruiting more independent sexual and domestic abuse advisers, and reviewing the entire response to rape to build back confidence in the justice system.\"", "Celtic manager Neil Lennon has resigned with his side 18 points adrift of Rangers in the Scottish Premiership.\n\nLennon took charge for a second spell in February 2019 when Brendan Rodgers left and led the club to two titles, two Scottish Cups and a League Cup.\n\nHowever, Celtic are well behind their Glasgow rivals in their bid to win 10-straight titles and slumped to defeat at struggling Ross County on Sunday.\n\nAssistant manager John Kennedy will take interim charge of the team.\n• None 'Lennon's successes will outlive all of us'\n• None Podcast: Howe? Martinez? Marsch? Who are the contenders?\n\n\"We have experienced a difficult season due to so many factors and it is very frustrating and disappointing that we have not been able to hit the same heights as we did previously,\" Lennon said.\n\n\"I have worked as hard as ever to try and turn things around, but unfortunately we have not managed to get the kind of run going that we have needed.\n\n\"I have always given my best to the club and have been proud to deliver silverware to the Celtic supporters. The club will always be part of me. I will always be a Celtic supporter myself and I will always want the best for Celtic.\"\n\nCeltic chief executive Peter Lawwell: \"Neil has always been and will always be a true Celtic man and someone I will always hold in the highest regard. Personally, it is a sad day for me to see Neil leave. Neil is a man of quality and decency, he is someone who will always be part of the fabric of Celtic and someone who will always be welcomed.\"\n\nPrincipal shareholder Dermot Desmond: \"Neil is a Celtic legend both as a player and manager. He has given so much to the club, and with his success over the last number of years - including winning a treble in his own right - he will be very difficult to replace.\"\n\nCeltic captain Scott Brown: \"He's supported Celtic his whole life and he wanted to play for this club - he won a treble as a player, as well as a manager. He's given 15-20 years to this club and he deserves respect, and also praise for what he's done for the club and the success he brought us. I probably wouldn't still be captain at Celtic if it wasn't for Neil Lennon.\"\n\nFormer Celtic defender Gary Caldwell: \"It was inevitable. The results just haven't been good enough and I feel for Neil because I was there as a player with him and he's given his life to Celtic. But the club had to make a decision to move forward.\"\n\nRangers manager Steven Gerrard: \"I can't say I'm surprised because of what's been going on over there. But I obviously take no personal satisfaction, so I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nFormer Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers: \"When it all settles down, Neil is an incredible legend of the club, he has given so much service to the club, won so many titles and like I say, his legacy there will be intact forever.\"\n\nFormer Rangers manager Ally McCoist: \"Hopefully he can get some sanity back in his life and go and enjoy himself and relax with his family for a period. The season for Celtic has been one disaster after another, and there are a lot of people responsible for that.\"\n\nRoss County manager John Hughes: \"My heart goes out to Lenny. I pay tribute to his accomplishments and success he has had. He will be hurting.\"\n\n'Surprise it took this long' - analysis\n\nThis is something we've been expected for some time, and it comes as a surprise that it hasn't happened before now, even for the man himself. The defeat at Ross County seems to have been the last straw. The Celtic board have been in talks about this over the past few days.\n\nLennon delivered the unprecedented quadruple treble, but he has had major struggles with the side this season and Rangers are now just seven points away from stopping Celtic making it 10 titles in a row.\n\nThe majority of the fans have been calling for him to step aside for some time now.\n\nIt will take time for the dust to settle but I would imagine in the next couple of seasons, Celtic fans will look back with fondness on Neil Lennon as both player and manager.\n\nHow did it get to this stage?\n\nLennon answered Celtic's call in early 2019, when Rodgers departed mid-season for Leicester City, and guided the club to their eighth league crown in a row while securing a third-straight Scottish Cup.\n\nAfter Celtic beat Hearts in the final, he was offered the job on a permanent basis by Lawwell in the Hampden showers.\n\nLast season was called early amid the coronavirus pandemic, with Celtic handsomely ahead of Rangers and crowned champions, having also defeated their rivals in the League Cup showpiece.\n\nBut this term, as the club pursued an unprecedented 10th league title in succession, things unravelled spectacularly.\n\nCeltic were eliminated from the second round of Champions League qualifiers at home by Ferencvaros, and won just one of their six Europa League group games.\n\nAlthough they won nine of their opening 10 league fixtures, they lost the first two Old Firm derbies of the term, and dropped points to Aberdeen, Hibernian, St Johnstone and Livingston.\n\nTheir incredible run of 35 domestic cup wins was ended by Ross County, who prevailed 2-0 at Celtic Park in the League Cup last 16. That led to fan protests and clashes with police outside the stadium.\n\nLennon oversaw more Scottish Cup success in December, as Celtic won the 2019-20 trophy on penalties despite losing a 2-0 lead against Hearts, ensuring the Northern Irishman became the first man to win a treble as player and manager, and sealed a Scottish-first quadruple treble.\n\nBut the glory was short-lived. Celtic lost at home to St Mirren in January, and despite holding games in hand, remained well shy of Rangers, who are yet to lose a league match this season.\n\nSunday's 1-0 loss to County, who were bottom of the table heading into the fixture, sealed Lennon's fate, with Rangers on the brink of ending their domestic supremacy.\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.", "An advertising campaign has been launched to encourage people across the UK to \"keep going\" and remain at home.\n\nThe government adverts come amid falling infection rates, the success of the vaccine rollout and the launch of the roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nPeople are also being urged to continue behavioural changes, including social distancing, hand washing and wearing face masks.\n\nThe TV advert is being shown for the first time on Wednesday night on ITV.\n\nThe campaign will also run on radio, advertising billboards and social media.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 9,938 cases were recorded across the UK as well as 442 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to government figures. It takes the death toll by that measure to 121,747.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said \"we must all continue to play our part\" in controlling the spread of the virus.\n\nHe said: \"Infection rates are falling, but they still remain very high and the impact of Covid-19 is still putting pressure on hospitals across the country.\n\n\"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all continue to play our part in protecting the NHS and saving lives.\"\n\nWednesday's figures showed 18,242,873 have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe seven-day average for cases is down by 14.7% while deaths within 28 days of a positive test are down by 31%.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a four-step plan to ease England's lockdown, which could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nIn the first phase, on 8 March, schools will reopen and recreation in an outdoor public spaces - such as a park - will be allowed between two people.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The British resolve during this pandemic has been astounding. We've all pulled together to help each other out.\n\n\"I know it's been a long year but we can't let up now. Everything we're doing is bringing us one step closer to beating this virus.\n\n\"The vaccine rollout is going extremely well and is saving lives - but it is not the only way we will reduce infection rates and be able to get back to normality.\n\n\"So let's keep going. I encourage everyone to keep playing their part and stay at home - keep washing your hands, wearing a mask and maintaining a social distance which will ensure that, together, we beat this.\"", "Mr Depardieu denies the accusations, his lawyer has said\n\nFrench actor Gérard Depardieu has been formally placed under investigation over accusations that he raped an actress at his home three years ago.\n\nThe woman accuses him of raping and assaulting her in Paris in August 2018.\n\nHis lawyer told French news agency AFP that Mr Depardieu \"totally dispute[d]\" the allegation, and the investigation should not have been made public.\n\nThe arts world in France has been shaken by a series of accusations of sexual abuse against leading figures.\n\nMr Depardieu, 73, is one of the country's most famous actors, known for films including Jean de Florette, Green Card and Cyrano.\n\nAn initial investigation into the rape allegations was dropped in 2019, with prosecutors citing insufficient evidence, but was reopened last summer. Prosecutors formally placed Mr Depardieu under investigation in December 2020.\n\nHe is free but under judicial supervision.\n\nThe woman's lawyer, Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon, told AFP she hoped her client's \"private sphere\" would be respected as the case unfolded.\n\nAble to combine bearish physicality with emotional delicacy on screen, he has appeared in some 170 films, getting his big break in 1973 with Les Valseuses (Going Places).\n\nHe won the best actor award for Cyrano at Cannes in 1990, and was nominated for an Oscar for the same role.\n\nGreen Card, an English-language comedy made the same year, brought him further acclaim outside the French-speaking world.\n\nOff-screen, he made headlines in recent years for attacking French tax laws, moving to Belgium in protest.\n\nIn 2013, he took Russian citizenship, with his decree of naturalisation signed personally by President Vladimir Putin.", "Secondary schools in England will be asked to consider delivering face-to-face summer schools as part of efforts to help pupils catch up.\n\nAn extra £400m in funding has been announced, along with £300m announced for catch-up projects in January.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the money will help ensure \"no child is left behind\" due to the pandemic.\n\nTeachers, experts and unions called the money a \"good start\" - but warned about overwhelming pupils and teachers.\n\nThe prime minister has confirmed all pupils will return to classrooms from 8 March as part of the first step of a roadmap for easing England's lockdown.\n\nWith secondary school pupils being asked to take three Covid-19 tests in school when they come back, it is likely that secondary schools will have to stagger the return over a few days.\n\nAs part of the latest announcements, schools will have the option to run summer classes for pupils who need it most, potentially starting with those who will be moving up to Year 7 at secondary school this year.\n\nThe government says it will be up to schools to decide how and if they run summer schools, how long they will be, and which pupils will be invited to attend.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said \"we're giving schools the option to be able to draw down on this funding\".\n\nHe said the average primary school will also receive around £6,000 in extra money, with the average secondary school getting around £22,000 extra in recovery premium payments.\n\nIt would be up to head teachers to decide how to use the money - it could be used, for example to pay teachers for overtime to do extra teaching.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year, Mr Johnson announced a £1bn catch-up fund for England, and later appointed Sir Kevan Collins as education recovery commissioner.\n\nIn Scotland, the administration has promised £140m in funding to help disadvantaged pupils. Tens of millions of pounds have also been put into catch-up schemes in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe announcement comes as the Treasury has said its levelling-up fund will be extended to the whole of the UK to \"help boost growth\" in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nChief secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Barclay, said communities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would now all benefit from at least £800m of investment for town centre and high street regeneration, local transport, cultural and heritage projects.\n\nOn the subject of masks in schools, Mr Williamson said the policy of secondary pupils in England having to wear face coverings in classrooms would be reviewed over the Easter holiays. Most pupils will have to wear face coverings indoors, including in classrooms where social distancing isn't possible.\n\nHe did not rule out that the policy could remain in place until 21 June, which is the final date in plans to ease lockdown.\n\nThe government had considered a variety of options for pupils - including extended school days and shorter summer holidays - but neither of these proposals form part of the plan set out on Wednesday.\n\nAsked whether extending the school day could be among future measures, Mr Williamson told Sky News: \"We'll be looking at how we can boost and support children in a whole range of different manners.\n\n\"But it's not just about time in school it's about supporting teachers in terms of the quality of teaching and how we can help them.\"\n\nExams this year have already been cancelled in England, but Mr Williamson said more detail on how grades will be calculated is expected on Thursday.\n\nMother-of-three Emily Ellarby says her children are \"jaded\" by online learning and are ready to be back at school. But she says it would be \"hard to get them motivated\" for more school over the summer. \"They're looking forward to the summer holidays and having a proper break.\"\n\nShe says ultimately children just want to get back to school and normal life. \"They're quite keen to go back, they're looking forward to seeing their friends, they want that normality.\"\n\nFather-of-two Nick Lee says children and teachers need a proper summer break, not more schooling. \"My children have suffered enough with this pandemic and they will not attend any summer camps.\n\n\"We have all struggled to cope in these hard times, and stealing my children's summer is not the way to go.\"\n\nNick Lee says he won't be sending his children to summer schools\n\nSarah Baker, who has two children and a stepchild, says she is \"torn\" over the idea of catch-up lessons in the summer.\n\n\"They're all at really critical stages in their education, but they're also at critical stages in their personal development. So, I'm completely torn. Yes, of course, they need to catch up, but they also need to regroup.\"\n\nAnd Sarah Webb, who has three children aged 11, eight and five, said children need time to recover from the past year, rather than more academic pressure.\n\n\"These children have missed out on social interaction and now need time to help readjust and come to terms with their experiences, not being given more time and pressure to bring them back up to academic standards that can simply no longer apply to them.\"\n\nKate Green, Labour's shadow education secretary, said the new funding \"will not make up for the learning and time with friends that children have lost\".\n\n\"There is no specific mention of supporting children's mental health or wellbeing, which is fundamental to enabling their recovery from this pandemic,\" she said.\n\nLabour also calculated the new package was worth less than the £840m spent on the Eat Out to Help Out scheme last year, and would be worth 43p per pupil per day, if the money was split across a normal school year.\n\nSchool leaders' unions welcomed the funding but also warned of a long road ahead.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT - which represents head teachers - said summer schools \"will be of value for some pupils but it will be important not to overwhelm students\".\n\nChris Zarraga, director of Schools North East, said any provision needed to focus on children's \"physical wellbeing, and social and emotional development\", but he also expressed concern about teacher morale.\n\nHe said asking teachers, who were \"facilitating both in-class teaching and remote learning\", to work over the summer break was likely to \"exacerbate low morale\".\n\nJust working out how to measure what each child has missed during the pandemic is tricky, let alone agreeing on the best way to address it and make sure they all achieve their potential.\n\nMany teachers are wary of talking about \"catching-up\" and pupils being \"left behind\" - they do not want to discourage young people.\n\nBut there is widespread recognition that home learning could never fully replace classroom teaching and some pupils will need significant extra support when they get back to classrooms.\n\nThe government is backing one-to-one and small group tuition, alongside summer school activities.\n\nSuggestions of a longer school day or a shorter summer holiday have not materialised.\n\nMany teachers feel they can best assess what their pupils need, but after a relentless year, they are tired and need help in some form.\n\nHow that help is given and whether it reaches the right pupils will determine the lasting impact on the lives of children who've been through the most difficult school year.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n3,954 days. That is how long Tiger Woods has waited to win his 15th major.\n\nIn the time between the 2008 US Open and Sunday's triumph at the Masters, Woods has gone through a series of highs and lows.\n\nThe American started just 24 events in a four-year period. A public admission of infidelity and the breakdown of his marriage led to him taking a break from golf.\n\nThe former world number one returned but then had injuries and back surgeries, slipped down the rankings, and even thought his career was over. His off-course problems also continued when he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in 2017.\n\nBut now at the age of 43, he has won at Augusta for the first time since 2005.\n\nHere is how his fellow sporting greats, politicians and Hollywood actors reacted on social media to the \"greatest comeback story in sport\".\n\nWoods had spinal fusion surgery in April 2017 and has had four back surgeries in his career.\n\nTwenty-three time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams has struggled with injuries throughout her career and has twice suffered a pulmonary embolism.\n\n\"I am literally in tears watching Tiger Woods, this is Greatness like no other,\" the American tweeted. \"Knowing all you have been through physically to come back and do what you just did today? Wow. Congrats a million times! I am so inspired.\"\n\nSix-time NBA all-star Stephen Curry called Woods' victory \"the greatest comeback story in sports\" and asked Woods if he could \"hold one of those five jackets one time!\"\n\nFormer basketball player Magic Johnson posted that \"the roar of the Tiger is back\" while Tom Brady, who won a record sixth Super Bowl in February, spent the evening \"running the numbers on how long it'll take me to get to 15\".\n\nThen those glued to the TV...\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama, who played a round of golf with Woods during his time in office, paid tribute to Woods' determination after a difficult few years.\n\n\"To come back and win the Masters after all the highs and lows is a testament to excellence, grit and determination,\" he wrote.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he loved \"people who are great under pressure. What a fantastic life comeback for a really great guy!\"\n\nFor BBC Sport presenter Gary Lineker, Woods' victory was the \"second most thrilling sporting achievement I've seen\".\n\nThe best? Leicester winning the Premier League title in 2016 as huge underdogs, of course. \"There's something in my eye,\" Lineker tweeted. \"To use a phrase once used before about Tiger Woods - 'Oh my goodness...Wow....In your life have you seen anything like that?'\"\n\nFormer tennis world number one Chris Evert said: \"Tiger has shown us all that you can always come back, in sport and in life, if you put in the work\".\n\nLegendary former England cricketer Ian Botham called Woods' victory \"one of the biggest inspirational performances... Who said he wouldn't win another major... no. 15 and more to come\".\n\nAustralian actor Hugh Jackman was also keeping an eye on proceedings in Augusta...\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nWoods' former coach Butch Harmon told Sky Sports: \"I've never seen him show emotion like that. At any time, anywhere, any time in his life.\n\n\"He was humbled by his own mistakes, the things he went through he created, nobody else created them, and he came out the other side.\n\n\"He got himself help, he got his body right, he got his head right and he went to work on his game. I couldn't be happier for him and his family.\"\n\nPhil Mickelson said of his long-time rival Woods: \"I'm so impressed by his incredible performance and I'm so happy for him to capture another Green Jacket. Truly a special day that will go down in history\".\n\nEighteen-time major winner Jack Nicklaus tweeted he was \"so happy for him and for the game of golf. This is just fantastic,\" while Bubba Watson said he was \"thankful to get to see that in person\" along with the hashtag #Needs 4 more majors.\n\nThe European Tour put Woods' road to his 15th major title into perspective...\n\nEngland's Ian Poulter, who finished with a share of 12th, wrote \"A couple of mistakes were very costly today. But a day we will remember as @tigerwoods comeback incredible. What he has done for the game of golf can't be quantified. We all owe a lot to him for that. Respect. Enjoy number 15 Mr Woods.\"\n\nAnd a reminder of where it all began...\n\nThe first person Woods ran to after sinking the winning putt was his son, Charlie. Twenty-two years ago, Woods' father, Earl, had embraced him as he claimed his first Masters victory.\n\nAnd one Twitter account shared the letter that Earl wrote to his 21-year-old son after he became the Augusta champion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man United's Marcus Rashford spoke about his tough upbringing in bid to end food poverty\n\nThe BBC has won scoop of the year at the Royal Television Society journalism awards for its interview with footballer Marcus Rashford about his experience of growing up in poverty.\n\nRashford spoke to BBC Breakfast in June as he urged the government to extend the provision of free school meals.\n\nThe awards' judges said it was the exclusive \"everyone wanted\".\n\nElsewhere, the BBC's Clive Myrie won television journalist of the year while Andrew Marr won interview of the year.\n\nThe corporation led the way at the RTS Television Journalism Awards, winning in nine of 19 categories.\n\nRashford had been urging the government to change its mind about not offering food vouchers during the summer holidays when he spoke to BBC Breakfast.\n\nDuring the first lockdown - which began in March 2020 - the government had provided vouchers to families whose children qualify for free meals, but had insisted this would not continue outside of term time.\n\nIn the Breakfast interview, the Manchester United striker told the BBC about how, when he was growing up, his mother had struggled to feed her five children.\n\n\"It's the stress on her shoulders that affected her, after we've ate our dinner, because she knows she's worrying about the situation. She's trying to go to sleep but she can't because she's so worried,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Everyone wanted this exclusive but only one team got it and it made headlines everywhere for days,\" the judges said.\n\nFollowing Rashford's intervention, the government ended up extending the provision of free school meals into the summer holidays.\n\nThe BBC's Clive Myrie won network presenter of the year for what judges called his \"versatile, measured and compelling style\".\n\nHe had documented life on the front-line of the pandemic with reports from the Royal London Hospital, where he found staff struggling to cope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clive Myrie spoke to Martin Freeborn, whose wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital\n\n\"The jury agreed the winner had had an astonishing year - as excellent as a package maker and interviewer as a studio and location presenter,\" the judges said.\n\nThe Andrew Marr Show was recognised for its interview with the Chinese Ambassador, Liu Xiaoming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Marr showed footage that appeared to show Uighur people being pushed on to trains\n\nHe was shown drone footage which appeared to show its Uighur population being blindfolded and led to trains, and which has been authenticated by Australian security services.\n\nThe judges described the interview as \"a master class in technique, gutsy and went for the jugular\".\n\nSky News won five awards, including news channel of the year, while daily news programme of the year went to ITV's News at Ten.\n\nThe judges' award was given to all the technical teams in recognition of the \"ingenuity, innovation and speed they demonstrated this year to keep journalism on the air\".\n\nChair of the awards Simon Bucks said: \"This has been an incredibly challenging year for all journalists and news organisations.\n\n\"Despite the difficulties of covering the Covid-19 pandemic, all the broadcasters who enter these awards have distinguished themselves with some remarkable coverage and every one of the nominees would have been a worthy winner.\n\n\"Moreover, many of them were not about the Coronavirus, but a range of other important stories which in any normal year would have dominated the agenda.\"", "Springsteen was arrested and charged in New Jersey in November\n\nBruce Springsteen has been fined $500 (£355) after pleading guilty to consuming alcohol in a New Jersey national park where drinking is banned.\n\nThe 71-year-old rock star admitted drinking two shots of tequila on Sandy Hook beach in his home state.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped drink-driving and reckless driving charges against the star, who had initially pleaded not guilty to all three charges.\n\nThe singer was arrested in November and must also pay $40 (£28) in costs.\n\nAt an online hearing on Wednesday, he admitted drinking at the beach, which is just south of New York City and is part of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area.\n\nA court artist's depiction of the singer at the online hearing\n\nProsecutors said the government was dropping the driving while intoxicated and reckless driving charges because it did not believe it could meet its burden of proving them in court.\n\nNews of the singer's arrest on 14 November came to light earlier this month. It followed his appearance in an advert for car company Jeep that was played during the Super Bowl on 7 February.\n\nJeep said it would not show the commercial until the facts surrounding Springsteen's arrest had been established.\n\nSpringsteen, aka \"The Boss\", has made music for more than five decades and recently released his 20th studio album.\n\nIn January, he was seen performing in Washington DC in Celebrating America, a TV special aired after President Joe Biden's inauguration.\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'm so happy for all those people who've been living in fear,\" Jo Whiley said\n\nEveryone on the GP learning disability register should be prioritised for a Covid vaccine, the joint committee on vaccination has advised the government.\n\nThis means 150,000 people at higher risk with severe disabilities will be offered a jab more quickly in England.\n\nBut those with mild learning disabilities should not expect to be prioritised.\n\nIt follows DJ Jo Whiley's plea for people such as her sister, Frances, to be vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nWhiley was offered the vaccine before her sister, who has a rare genetic syndrome and lives in residential care.\n\nThe broadcaster's sister is recovering after being admitted to hospital with coronavirus earlier this week.\n\n\"This is a great day, I am so relieved. I'm so happy for all those people who have been living in fear,\" Jo Whiley said, adding that it was \"very difficult\" to categorise people according to their disability.\n\nThe charity Mencap said everyone with a learning disability should check they are on the register and, if not, ask to go on it.\n\nPeople with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability in England and Wales were already in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and the elderly.\n\nAnd adults with Down's Syndrome have already been offered a jab, in priority group 4, as part of the UK's target to vaccinate 15 million people by mid-February.\n\nNow everyone on their GP's learning disability register will be invited for vaccination as part of priority group six, Public Health England has confirmed, regardless of how severe their disability is.\n\nAnd the NHS is being asked to work with local authorities to identify other adults, in residential care or receiving support to live in the community, who are severely affected by a learning disability and may not be registered, but who should be offered a vaccine.\n\nIt comes after an analysis found that people registered with their GP as having a learning disability, who tend to be those at the more severe end, are more at risk of being seriously ill and dying from Covid.\n\nThere are 1.2 million people with a learning disability in England - but only a quarter to a third of them, or 250,000, are thought to be on the GP learning disability register.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said all those with severe learning disabilities were \"very disadvantaged\" and should be reached out to - but he said including people with mild learning disabilities was not recommended because they were at no greater risk than someone else of the same age.\n\nSpeaking in front of a committee of MPs, he said he didn't want lots of families who might be concerned about their relative with a mild learning disability to start contacting GPs and \"overwhelming them\".\n\nHowever, Nicola Sturgeon announced that Scotland would prioritise all people with learning disabilities in group six on Monday. She said priority group six would be expanded to include those with mild or moderate learning disabilities.\n\nA report from Public Health England in November found that people with a learning disability were up to six times more likely to die from Covid-19 and, in the 18-34 age group, their risk was 30 times higher.\n\nThe charity Mencap said the announcement was \"fantastic news for people with a learning disability\".\n\n\"It's now crucially important that everyone with a learning disability checks that they are on the register and asks to go on it if they are not,\" said the charity's Jackie O'Sullivan.\n\n\"Being on the register has many benefits and entitles people to annual health checks and prioritisation for future vaccinations, as well as allowing them to get the Covid vaccine and be confident they are protected.\"\n\nHelen Whately, minister for care in England, said everyone who is on the GP's learning disability register would be invited for vaccination to protect those at higher risk from the virus.\n\n\"I have heard first-hand how tough this pandemic has been for people with learning disabilities and their families,\" she said.\n\n\"We are determined those more at risk from Covid should be vaccinated as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kelly Becker, who runs engineering firm Schneider Electric's UK and Ireland operations, says twenty years ago she was often the only woman in the room.\n\n\"I can still be the only woman in the room, but it's less and less, and that to me is exciting.\"\n\nMs Becker's experience reflects a broader shift, with women now making up more than a third of top jobs at the UK's 350's largest firms.\n\nThe number of women on boards has risen 50% from 682 to 1,026 in five years.\n\nThe figures were released by the government-backed Hampton-Alexander Review, which was launched in 2016 to encourage UK-listed companies to appoint more senior women.\n\nIt said they showed \"a dramatic shift in representation at the very highest levels of British business\".\n\nMs Becker said there had \"been a lot of work done\" on getting women into executive positions at firms.\n\n\"It takes really careful thinking and planning to drive diversity into organisations, not just gender, but diversity of thought, diversity of experience, diversity of background,\" she told the BBC's Wake up to Money programme.\n\n\"Companies have been very clear that their business will perform better with diversity,\" she added.\n\nThe improvement at the UK's biggest firms was also welcomed by campaigners such as the 30% Club, which champions better boardroom representation of women around the world.\n\nAnn Cairns, global chair of the organisation, said: \"The Hampton-Alexander Review has played a significant role in bringing about greater gender diversity to the boardrooms of Britain's biggest companies.\"\n\nBut she said, progress in female representation at the highest levels remained \"fragile and slow\".\n\nThe Hampton-Alexander Review's statement said that FTSE 100, 250 and 350 firms all reached the target of women making up 33% of boards by the end of 2020.\n\nIt said that, unlike countries including France which have introduced quotas, the target is voluntary.\n\nBusiness Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, said: \"FTSE companies have made incredible progress in recent years, but we cannot become complacent in building a society where everyone has an opportunity to get on and succeed.\n\n\"The UK government's voluntary, business-led approach to increasing women's boardroom representation has been hugely successful and will, I hope, serve as a blueprint for countries across the world looking to make business more reflective of society.\"\n\nMary O'Connor, acting senior partner at KPMG UK, said: \"It's hard to believe that as recently as 2011, 43% of the FTSE 350 still had all-male boards. Thankfully the representation of women on boards and in leadership positions has significantly improved in recent years, with this review having played a critical role in realising that.\n\n\"Our collective efforts to truly eradicate those barriers and create an inclusive leadership culture doesn't stop here, this is where it intensifies.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn Parker was last able to hold her husband's hand 10 months before he died\n\nA woman whose husband died nearly a year after they were last able to hold hands says the ban on indoor care home visits is \"a form of cruelty\".\n\nLynn Parker's husband of 42 years, Alastair, died just before Christmas in a Caerphilly nursing home.\n\nShe said he \"gave up\" after being unable to hold the hand of his wife, who was \"his lifeline\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said they were looking at allowing more indoor visits now the vaccine was being rolled out.\n\nRetired nurse Mrs Parker, from Risca, cared for her husband for 15 years, after he was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis.\n\nBut as his illness got worse she found herself struggling to cope with him at home and, in May 2019, he moved into a care home.\n\n\"It was a new life for us, and we made the most of it,\" said Mrs Parker.\n\n\"I promised him I would never leave his side and I hadn't until Covid made me.\n\n\"I visited him virtually every day for five or six hours. Then on March 20th 2020 all visiting stopped.\n\n\"When I was allowed to see him again it was outside and two metres away, or through a glass door, and would stop if someone in the home was poorly.\n\n\"All these months when he needed me I could see he was fading from me. I was his lifeline.\n\n\"It was almost a form of cruelty.\"\n\nMrs Parker said it was \"a form of cruelty\" to not allow indoor care home visits\n\nMrs Parker said her husband - a retired police sergeant - started to refuse food, drink and medicine. She would try to coax him to eat and drink via Skype, but \"it wasn't the same\".\n\n\"He thought he was abandoned, I promised him I was doing everything I could to get in and he was saying, just break the glass,\" she said.\n\n\"Alastair was cocooned in there and didn't realise the desperate situation outside, he would look at me as if 'here we go' when I tried to explain why I couldn't see him.\n\n\"I was staying at home to keep myself well, so when I could have gone in, I could go in with a clear conscience, but that time never came. I tried everything I could.\n\n\"I would have put on everything, any form of PPE, I would have worn it, to let me get in there.\"\n\nShe spoke to him on the morning of 19 December on the phone.\n\nBut, an hour later she had a call to say he had died.\n\nShe said: \"I really believe he died of a broken heart. His capacity was fading by the week, after 42 years of married life I needed to be there with him, he just missed all of that.\n\n\"I think Alastair's contributing factor of his death was he was heartbroken, I could tell I was losing him.\n\n\"To go months and months without holding his lovely hand until he was dead.\n\nMrs Parker said she wanted the Welsh Government to change the rules so other families did not experience what she had, with one nominated family member allowed to visit.\n\nShe said: \"I honestly would want the government to consider one member of the family to be classed as a key worker.\n\n\"Wear whatever they have to wear, but at least it would give the resident and the family member some hope for the future.\"\n\nAlastair was \"cocooned\" in his care home, unaware of the situation outside, his wife said\n\nIt was announced last weekend that care home residents in England will be allowed one regular visitor from 8 March.\n\nThey will be able to meet indoors and hold hands - but visitors must wear PPE and be tested beforehand.\n\nIn Scotland indoor visits will start again in early March.\n\nThere has been no announcement about a change in the rules in Wales yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We can't see mum unless she has hours to live\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We recognise the importance of people in care homes being able to meet their family and loved ones and we are considering how to allow more indoor visits given the success of our vaccine rollout to care home residents and workers.\n\n\"In the meantime, while we are at alert level four, indoor visits should only take place in exceptional circumstances. These include - but are not limited to - end of life.\n\n\"This has been the case throughout the pandemic period. Care homes are asked to consider such requests sensitively and on an individual basis. At alert level four, outdoor visits and visits in a visitor pod can take place after a risk assessment has taken place.\"", "It's a route map, but it's only big enough to get to the starting point.\n\nMany businesses have been asking when they will be allowed to reopen. Now they have some rough indication, pencilled in to the calendar, but far from all of them, and with distancing still required.\n\nIn contrast with Boris Johnson's approach for England, Nicola Sturgeon's statement at Holyrood was not a route map to a late summer of socialising, concerts, sports and travel.\n\nThe plan is far more cautious. Nicola Sturgeon's idea of release, maybe by late April, is to get through the doors of a restaurant or bar.\n\nBoth leaders had said they were putting data ahead of dates, but it was the prime minister's dates that the public notice, remember and plan on. Travel bookings soared on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nScotland's first minister is warning that dates are not much better than \"a finger in the wind\", and depend on a lot of data variables to reach each point. Scotland's travel and tourism industry isn't being given much to plan on.\n\nSo by the final week of April, the mainland and most islands may be allowed to ease off, but only to level three.\n\nThat should mean pubs and restaurants can reopen, but with tight constraints.\n\nWhen does it mean you can book a holiday in another part of Scotland? We don't know, but we do know the answer will vary around Scotland. Unlike England, it's returning to regions and council areas to determine where rules can be relaxed and where they can't.\n\nWhat about a foreign holiday? There's nothing in the new plan that even indicates an end to hotel isolation for inbound travellers.\n\nCan Scotland's events sector get to work with planning festivals? Not for \"a considerable period ahead\", according to the Scottish government framework, and it promises to work with sector representatives to get to their own route map.\n\nIt's only after running through the educational, health and social priorities for easing lockdown that the Scottish government's strategy reaches business support. Funding continues, in grant schemes funded through Holyrood and councils.\n\nIncome support schemes, including furlough, are expected to get another lease of life from Rishi Sunak in his Westminster budget next week.\n\nGrants for firms forced to close in Scotland are to be run four weeks past their reopening day, and some may be further tapered after that.\n\nBusiness bosses complain, however, the grants don't go far enough and furlough comes with employer costs.\n\nTo continue burning through cash will be a severe stretch for many firms, still looking into a cloudy and uncertainty future beyond April.", "The judge said the woman should be allowed to die with dignity\n\nA mother with Covid-19 should be allowed to die against her family's wishes, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe woman, who is in her early 30s, has been in an induced coma since giving birth to a baby boy last month.\n\nThe University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said her chances of survival were slim and ending life-support treatment was \"in her best interests\".\n\nHer family, who are Muslim, asked for more time for treatment and said they believed \"only God could end life\".\n\nThe woman's case was heard on Tuesday in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves are analysed.\n\nIt heard the woman was rushed to hospital with coronavirus at 32 weeks' pregnant.\n\nDoctors delivered her son by Caesarean section shortly after she was admitted.\n\nA specialist told the judge her pancreas had stopped functioning, one lung had \"died\" and staff had tried everything.\n\n\"Her chances of making any meaningful recovery with the Covid are slim,\" he said.\n\n\"The feeling of the whole team is that she has reached the point where it is, in essence, zero.\"\n\nThe woman, who also has a three-year-old daughter, has Addison's disease - a rare disorder of glands that produce essential hormones.\n\nThe woman's sister told the court: \"We believe in miracles.\n\n\"When God has written our death, that is when we will die.\n\n\"To unplug the machine, this is for us like asking someone to kill us.\"\n\nJustice Hayden ruled the woman could not be named and that doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment.\n\nHe said evidence showed doctors were no longer preserving her life, but \"prolonging her death\".\n\nHe added that the woman's \"life and hopes\" had been extinguished by \"this insidious virus\" and she should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\n\"This family is seeking a miracle,\" said Justice Hayden.\n\n\"This is a very young mother in circumstances of almost-unspeakable sadness.\n\n\"The objective is not to shorten her life, [but] to avoid the prolongation of her death.\"\n\nHe said doctors had prepared a palliative care plan and the woman's family would be able to visit her.\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. Vaughan Gething said the vaccination target would be reached as \"long as supply matches our ability to deliver\"\n\nAll adults in Wales will have been offered a first Covid vaccine by 31 July, the health minister has promised.\n\nVaughan Gething said matching Prime Minister Boris Johnson's jab pledge for the whole UK would depend on supplies.\n\nThe new date is a few months ahead of the original autumn plan laid out by the Welsh Government in January.\n\nOver-50s and over-16s with an underlying health condition will be offered vaccines by the middle of April, Mr Gething added.\n\nWales is currently ahead of the other UK nations in the proportion of the population that has been vaccinated.\n\nAt a press conference where he made the vaccine announcement, Mr Gething said that trying to make long-term forecasts on Covid \"has made a mug of a range of people\".\n\nThe UK prime minister had suggested restrictions could be lifted in England by 21 June in his lifting lockdown roadmap.\n\nIn comments criticising the England plans, Mr Gething said predicting what the situation will be like after Easter was more like \"astrology rather than scientific and public health advice\".\n\n\"When it comes to a longer term forecasting beyond the middle of April it starts to feel that it's not a sensible approach,\" he said.\n\nRapid testing was also announced for private and public organisations with more than 50 employees.\n\nMr Gething said workplaces that are at higher risk will be prioritised.\n\nTargeted community testing will also begin in parts of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf, in a bid to find people with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\n\nLateral flow tests - plastic devices that aim to give results within half an hour - will be used.\n\nAbout 18 million people in the UK have had their first Covid jab with 878,000 of those in Wales. In Wales, nearly 50,000 have now been given a second dose of the vaccine.\n\nWales has the lowest Covid case rate of any of the UK nations for the last three weeks - with an infection rate of less than 76 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Gething said coronavirus cases in Wales are now at their lowest level since September and the country's R number is between 0.6 and 0.9.\n\nHis announcement comes as the joint committee on vaccination (JCVI) agreed that people on the learning disability register should now be prioritised.\n\nUnder Welsh Government guidance people with learning disabilities, and individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar or mental illnesses which cause functional impairment will be called for vaccination in priority group six.\n\nOfficials say they are taking an \"inclusion\" approach in identifying those who should be called forward, and they expect this to result in more individuals being prioritised than might otherwise be the case if the JCVI guidance was strictly interpreted.\n\nThe guidance recommends using GP surgeries rather than mass vaccination centres to administer the vaccines.\n\n\"Today really is good news and I hope we will give people lots of comfort that they can expect to be receiving those appointments in the very near future,\" the minister said.\n\nMr Gething is responsible for the vaccination roll out in Wales while the UK government purchases the jabs.\n\nConservative Janet Finch-Saunders said the July target was a \"huge game changer\".\n\nBut she said expectations will grow as more people were vaccinated and it was \"very disappointing\" that Mr Gething had been \"vague\" about visits to care homes.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Delyth Jewell welcomed the announcement that guidance would be issued on prioritising vaccinations for people with learning disabilities or severe mental illness, and also for unpaid carers.\n\nHowever she questioned why the announcement could not have been given to families \"two weeks ago\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his side \"have to be more clinical\" despite seeing another dominant display sweep aside Borussia Monchengladbach for a 19th successive win.\n\nGuardiola's team - favourites to win their first Champions League title this season - were far too good for their meek last-16 opposition in Budapest, and perhaps should have added to the first-leg lead given to them by Bernardo Silva and Gabriel Jesus.\n\n\"In general, we controlled the game. Unfortunately we were not clinical enough up front,\" Guardiola told BT Sport.\n\n\"That is something we have to improve in this competition. Up front we have to be more clinical. In this competition you have to be perfect to make sure you go through.\"\n\nSilva headed in a wonderful cross from Joao Cancelo to open the scoring, before the same two players combined to lay on the second for Jesus.\n\nGladbach, appearing at this stage of the competition for the first time in 43 years, had no answer and would need something close to a sporting miracle to turn the tie around when the sides meet in Manchester on 16 March.\n\nHolders Bayern Munich may well have something to say about City being favourites for this year's competition - but their fellow German side were rendered voiceless in Hungary.\n\nGladbach, no doubt handicapped by not being allowed to play at home because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, barely laid a glove on Guardiola's side. They struggled to get out of their own penalty area at times, never mind into City's, as the visitors pressed mercilessly.\n\nOnly Bayern (18) scored more goals in this season's Champions League group stage than Gladbach (16) but such was City's monopoly of possession that goalkeeper Ederson made his sole save in stoppage time.\n\nIt is a pattern that is becoming the norm. Never mind conceding, City have only faced nine shots on their goal in four away games in Europe this season. Keep that up and even Bayern will struggle to knock them out.\n\nThe runaway Premier League leaders are playing football with such composure, quality and control that they are frequently serving up mismatches and that continued on the continental stage as they wrapped up a 12th away win in a row - a record for an English top-flight club.\n\nTheir first-half dominance was rewarded when Cancelo, playing more in central midfield than in his nominal role of left-back, clipped a fine cross from deep which Silva headed down and in.\n\nJesus should have made it two after the break but took too long to shoot when free in the area, but did then prod home when Silva headed back another fine Cancelo ball.\n\nKevin de Bruyne was left on the bench throughout and record goalscorer Sergio Aguero was introduced as a late substitute after missing 14 games - and 14 wins - to give City another boost.\n\nThey are yet to reach a Champions League final. Is this their year?\n\n\"When I see Bayern Munich I don't think we are favourites,\" Guardiola said. \"My target is West Ham in three days.\n\n\"If people say we are favourites we have to accept it, but a team who in their whole history has been a semi-final once? OK, they say it, we have to accept it.\"\n\n\"How strong was that Man City bench? Kevin de Bruyne, John Stones, Riyad Mahrez, Sergio Aguero - it's super strong.\n\n\"It can be Man City's year, this year, I think they could do the quadruple with the squad they've got at the moment - I think they have a great opportunity.\"\n• None Man City have progressed from all four of the previous Champions League two-legged knockout ties when they've won the first leg away from home.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has scored in all five of his Champions League appearances in the last 16 for Manchester City, netting at this stage in each of his last four seasons.\n• None Manchester City are the first team to keep a clean sheet in their first four away Champions League matches in a campaign since Manchester United did so in 2010-11.\n• None Manchester City's Phil Foden featured in the Champions League knockout stage for a fourth time before turning 21, only the third player to do so in the competition's history after Cesc Fabregas (2004-05 - 2007-08) and Theo Walcott (2006-07 - 2009-10), who both did so with Arsenal.\n• None Attempt saved. Hannes Wolf (Borussia Mönchengladbach) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Walker.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Hannes Wolf replaces Jonas Hofmann because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ferran Torres.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Florian Neuhaus. 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. Lord Chris Smith talks about the language he witnessed in parliament in the 1990s\n\nBoris Johnson has a \"blind spot\" when it comes to appointing LGBT+ people to his top team, the UK's first openly gay cabinet minister has suggested.\n\nLord Chris Smith, who was a member of Tony Blair's first cabinet in 1997, said it was a \"matter of great regret\" that there were currently no out cabinet ministers.\n\nHe urged the PM to diversify his top team in \"the next year or two\".\n\nA government spokesman said Mr Johnson was committed to improving diversity.\n\nThe UK parliament now has its highest ever proportion of lesbian, gay and bisexual MPs, including two non-cabinet ministers, although there are no openly transgender members of parliament.\n\nLord Smith, who was also the first openly gay male MP after coming out in 1984, said electing a trans member of parliament was a \"glass ceiling\" yet to be broken.\n\n\"In terms of lesbians and gay men I think the glass ceiling in Parliament has well and truly been broken,\" he said in an interview to mark LGBT+ History month.\n\n\"The glass ceiling in the cabinet has been broken by quite a number of us over the years. Sadly at present they seem to want to put it back in again.\"\n\nJustine Greening who was the first and, as things stand, only out lesbian cabinet minister thinks it's more of a \"pipeline\" issue - that not as many LGBT+ MPs have risen through the ranks as had been hoped.\n\nMs Greening served in Theresa May's Conservative cabinet, as education secretary and equalities minister, alongside Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, who also came out while in office.\n\nJustine Greening says 'having people from all walks of society' improves decision-making\n\n\"There wasn't maybe quite that level of a pipeline behind us that maybe we'd hoped for,\" said Ms Greening.\n\n\"I think having people from all walks of society really really matters and I think that's how you get better decision making.\"\n\nLord Smith said that having LGBT+ people in high office sends out a \"positive message\" that \"this is something to be proud about, to be open about, to feel confident about being yourself\".\n\nThe peer and former Labour cabinet minister claims Boris Johnson's main priority in choosing his first cabinet was to ensure they were on board with his Brexit policy, but he says the PM should now cast his net wider.\n\nHe urged Mr Johnson to \"look to the greater talent that is out there and it will include some people who happen to be lesbian or gay\".\n\nJustine Greening, who also campaigns on social mobility, said that the government has had \"an exceptionally challenging time\" tackling Covid but, she suggested, a future reshuffle could be a time for change.\n\n\"Hopefully… as the vaccine progresses… we can look to a life almost beyond and I think it's that moment then that there's a big debate to be had about not just levelling up but how do you make Britain a fairer place.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said the prime minister was \"immensely proud to live in a country that is one of the most progressive and liberal when it comes to LGBT equality\",\n\n\"The UK government is proactively working with other countries to improve LGBT rights internationally\" they added.\n\n\"The PM has committed to doing more to make sure the government fully represents the people it serves.\"", "About 31,000 women in London are being offered \"do-it-at-home\" tests to check for early warnings of cervical cancer, as part of an NHS trial.\n\nIt could be a way to encourage more women to get screened, experts hope.\n\nEmbarrassment, cultural barriers and worries about Covid, along with many other factors, can stop women going for smear tests at a clinic or GP surgery.\n\nSmear-test delays during the pandemic prompted calls for home-screening kits from cervical cancer charities.\n\nThe swabbing involves using a long, thin cotton bud to take a sample from inside the vagina, which is then sent by post for testing.\n\nSelf-sampling is already offered in countries such as Denmark and Australia.\n\nWomen aged 25-64, overdue for a check and living in Barnet, Camden, Islington, Newham or Tower Hamlets will be offered a kit from their GP or in the post.\n\nIf the results reveal an infection called human papillomavirus (HPV) they will be invited to their GP for a standard smear test to closely examine the cells of their cervix.\n\nHPV infections can cause these to change, sometimes developing into cancer.\n\nCancer Research UK said the trial would help further understanding about how effective self-sampling could be in cervical screening and who it should be offered to.\n\nIn-person screenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but some patients have experienced cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests failed to go ahead in the UK last April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nDr Anita Lim, from King's College London, who is leading the YouScreen trial, said: \"Women who don't come for regular screening are at the highest risk of developing cervical cancer.\n\n\"So it is crucial that we find ways like this to make screening easier and protect women from what is a largely preventable cancer.\n\n\"This simple and convenient swab means it can be done in the privacy and comfort of your own home.\"\n\nNational clinical director for cancer for the NHS in England Prof Peter Johnson said: \"GPs have taken extra precautions to make surgeries safe.\n\n\"And these home kits give thousands of women another option to keep up to date with their screening.\"", "Residents of some blocks deemed to be unsafe have been forced to leave\n\nA group of Tory MPs has lost a House of Commons bid to protect leaseholders living in flats from \"financial ruin\" due to the cost of safety improvements.\n\nThe Fire Safety Bill - to strengthen regulations following the Grenfell Tower fire - comes after financial help was granted to install better cladding.\n\nBut flat owners say they still face costs of up to £50,000 for other works and insurance premiums.\n\nMore than 30 Conservative MPs support an amendment to the England-only bill.\n\nBut there was not time in the Commons on Wednesday for the move - opposed by the government, which said it was preparing fuller plans to help those with large costs - to go to a vote.\n\nLabour accused ministers of insulting \"people across the country\".\n\nBut another amendment - calling for a ban on freeholders passing fire safety improvement costs on to leaseholders - did go to a vote, and was beaten by 340 to 225.\n\nThe bill now goes to the House of Lords, which has previously disagreed with the Commons on several changes to it.\n\nMessages of condolence were written on a wall outside a community church in the days following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 killed 72 people, with the west London building later revealed to have been covered in combustible cladding.\n\nInspectors subsequently found many other blocks were unsafe and thousands of flat owners have since faced large bills for safety improvements, such as changes to emergency exits.\n\nIn the Commons, Conservative MP Royston Smith said the housing market was at risk of partial \"collapse\", with many leaseholders unable to sell.\n\nHe urged MPs to \"think very carefully before they abandon thousands of constituents\", warning: \"They will not forget and they will not forgive.\"\n\nBut Home Office minister Kit Malthouse said the Fire Safety Bill was \"not the correct place for remediation costs to be addressed\", as the legislation's only job was to \"clarify\" that fire safety orders apply to cladding and flat entrances.\n\nHe added that the Building Safety Bill, set to be introduced in the spring, would contain \"detailed and complex\" measures on payments.\n\nEarlier this month, the government announced it was putting £3.5bn towards removing unsafe cladding from buildings more than 18m high - on top of £1.6bn for cladding removal announced last year.\n\nThe government also said flat owners in lower-rise blocks would be able to access loans to cover repair work, and they would not have to pay back more than £50 a month.\n\nLabour called on the government to \"do the right thing\".\n\nShadow fire minister Sarah Jones said: \"It is shameful that they have voted against implementing vital fire safety measures called for by the Grenfell Inquiry, and it is an insult to people across the country that this government voted down protections for leaseholders from fire safety costs that they did not cause.\"", "DJ Jo Whiley has said her sister Frances \"would like to say a huge thank you\" to everybody who has helped her after she contracted coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC Radio 2 presenter's sister, who has a learning disability and diabetes, was taken to hospital after an outbreak at her Northamptonshire care home.\n\nWhiley said her family had gone from discussing palliative care last week to \"drinking cups of tea\" with her sister.\n\n\"It doesn't end here though,\" the broadcaster posted on Twitter.\n\nShe added: \"Covid has brought with it further complications.\n\n\"We're now dealing with worrying diabetes and high blood pressure issues, and my parents are exhausted beyond belief.\n\n\"It's so hard observing from behind a visor and mask, helpless doesn't cover it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Whiley on her disabled sister's Covid: \"It's been the worst week of our lives\"\n\nWhiley also posted a video of Frances, 53, giving a thumbs-up and a round of applause.\n\nShe said her sister \"would like to say a huge thank you to everybody who has helped her, especially the amazing doctors and nurses of the NHS, and her many MANY well-wishers.\"\n\nThe DJ said it was \"hard to believe\" that they had been discussing palliative care on Friday night but were now able to sit on her sister's \"favourite bench drinking cups of tea\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Whiley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe renewed her call for people with learning disabilities to be prioritised in the vaccine rollout.\n\n\"Not everyone has been as lucky as us,\" she said.\n\n\"So many have died or are suffering from long Covid because simply they were not protected.\n\n\"We need to show them that they are not forgotten, and we care.\"\n\nWhiley previously questioned why she was offered the vaccine before her sister, who has the rare genetic syndrome Cri du Chat.\n\nPeople with diabetes and those with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability are in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine, along with unpaid carers for those with disabilities and the elderly.\n\nThe Department of Health previously said the NHS was \"working hard to vaccinate those most at risk, as quickly as possible\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Kier Starmer said: “around three in ten people who should be self-isolating aren’t doing so.”\n\nOn Monday, he repeated this claim but said the opposite – that only three in ten people were self-isolating fully.\n\nThis latter claim is supported by data released by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which advises the government on the pandemic.\n\nIt said that just 29% of people who had symptoms of coronavirus were full adhering to self-isolation rules. It described this as “sub optimal”.\n\nIt’s difficult to get a precise figure on the amount of people who do self-isolate because they are generally based on surveys.\n\nHowever, most of these surveys suggest the majority of people do not adhere to the full ten-day isolation period.\n\nThe government has said that £500 payments are available to support those who might face financial difficulties whilst self-isolating.\n\nAgain, there is no publicly-available data on this, but freedom of information requests to local councils have shown that the majority of people who apply are rejected due to the tough eligibility criteria.", "Giant garden murals made from rubbish and discarded PPE, viewed thousands of times on social media, is a start for creating \"communities that don't drop litter\", an artist hopes.\n\nJason Alexander, 49, from Ipswich, has spent lockdown creating art from thousands of pieces of discarded items.\n\n\"In an ideal world, I'd much rather be creating pieces of art out of... natural materials,\" he said.\n\n\"But whenever you go out for a walk you're never more than a few feet away from pieces of litter that have been dropped by someone.\n\n\"PPE litter has been a real issue during the pandemic.\"\n\nMr Alexander said he hoped his artwork was a way to \"not try and build a community of litter-pickers... I'd rather try and build communities that don't drop litter\".", "Oatly, the plant-based milk company started in Sweden, is planning a stock exchange listing in the United States.\n\nThe move comes as the firm has been pushing to expand, amid the booming popularity of alternative milks.\n\nLast year, it raised $200m (£160m), drawing investment from celebrities including Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman.\n\nThe firm, which is sold in more than 20 countries, did not say how much money it hoped to raise in the listing.\n\nBut over the last 12 months, investors have shown strong appetite for shares of companies making their publicly-traded debuts. Market valuations for firms such as Airbnb, dating app Bumble and food delivery platform Doordash have soared.\n\nOatly, an early oat milk pioneer, is said to be seeking a value of as much as $10bn, compared to the $2bn value suggested by July's investment round.\n\nFounded in the 1990s, previous investors include the state-owned China Resources and Verlinvest, a Belgium-based investment firm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If you're going to be ethical, you need to back it up\"\n\nWhen it launched in the US in 2016, the product was so popular it suffered shortages. It now boasts partnerships with retail giants such as Starbucks and has expanded its products from milk to ice cream and yogurt and is eyeing growth in China.\n\nResearchers have predicted that the market for dairy alternatives could almost double over the next five years, as increased dairy allergies and concerns about dairy's environmental impact push shoppers to look for plant-based options.\n\nIn the US, almond milk is the top seller, but oat passed soy last year to claim the second most popular spot.\n\nOatly, which reported more than $200m in sales in 2019, has cast itself as a champion of plant-based milks, which it says are better for the planet.\n\nBut the firm has been challenged by the traditional dairy industry and faces competition as companies such as PepsiCo's Quaker Oats and dairy giant HP Hood launch their own brands. New milk alternatives, made from products like peas, have also gained in popularity among consumers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "A statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol harbour last year\n\nThe Museums Association has voiced concern over what it sees as government \"interference\" into how museums present Britain's imperial history.\n\n\"It is not for ministers to dictate what constitutes a legitimate subject for investigation,\" the body said.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden held a meeting on Tuesday with representatives from leading heritage organisations.\n\nThe government said: \"We absolutely support the independence of museums and heritage organisations.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter after Tuesday's virtual meeting, Mr Dowden described it as a \"very productive conversation about protecting heritage for future generations\".\n\nHe said a working group would be set up and guidelines published to put the government's \"retain and explain\" policy into practice.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe toppling of slave trader Edward Colston's statue in Bristol last year, along with other campaigns, have led to a heated debate about whether and how historical objects linked to Britain's colonial past should be displayed.\n\nIn September, culture minister Matt Warman told MPs the UK's heritage should not be removed from view, \"however contentious\" it might be.\n\nHe said an effort should be made to \"contextualise or reinterpret\" memorials and artefacts \"in a way that enables the public to learn about them in their entirety\".\n\nThe National Trust was among the organisations at Tuesday's virtual discussion, and said it had been \"helpful and productive\". Historic England, which was also represented, said it would work with the government \"to help people understand on a deeper level the many layers of our shared past\".\n\nSir Ian Blatchford, head of the Science Museum Group and chair of the National Museum Directors' Council, said: \"The meeting was a timely exchange about the importance of telling a balanced and well-researched history of Britain, and a moment to dispel some of the mischief-making around this event.\n\n\"The independence of museums is not at issue, and UK museums remain as committed as ever to the brilliant and diverse storytelling that our audiences so value.\"\n\nAccording to Museums Association director Sharon Heal, however, the government's \"perceived interference\" on matters relating to empire and slavery is a subject for concern.\n\n\"It is both a hallmark of a democratic society and a cornerstone of museum ethics that our sector should operate at arms-length from the government,\" she said.\n\n\"It is vital that the government consults widely with the sector - including with the Museums Association - before proceeding with its proposal to produce guidelines on 'contested heritage'.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned that a climate of fear has been created amongst museums and museum staff, especially those working on subjects relating to Britain's imperial past.\"\n\nAround 15,000 workers from the UK's heritage sector are members of the Museums Association.\n\nIn response, a spokesperson for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"We have been crystal clear that we absolutely support the independence of museums and heritage organisations and the National Museums Directors' Council has acknowledged this.\n\n\"The meeting this week with Arm's Length Bodies and other stakeholders was the start of a conversation about how we work together to protect our heritage for future generations. Public funded bodies recognise that they have a responsibility to act impartially, in line with their status.\"\n\nThe Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery, British Film Institute, British Museum and Horniman Museum are among other organisations understood to have participated in Tuesday's discussion.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Businesses have called for more clarity on the easing of Covid lockdown restrictions.\n\nIt comes after the first minister set out her plans on Tuesday for the country and businesses to reopen between now and April.\n\nHowever, it will be mid-March before more details are spelled out.\n\nThe Scottish government said non-essential retail, hospitality and services such as gyms and hairdressers would not reopen before 26 April.\n\nFrom then, Scotland will return to using a levels system of restrictions, where the level in each area is determined by prevalence of the virus.\n\nAll parts of the country currently in level four are expected to be able to move back to level three initially.\n\nThe government has warned there may be some changes to what is allowed in each level.\n\nDuring Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she \"desperately wanted\" to give a date for the overall end of lockdown, as the prime minister has done for 21 June, but said she did not want to give people \"false clarity\".\n\nShe said: \"If I were to give you a fixed and hard and fast date right now, I would pretty much be making it up and I don't think that's the approach I should take.\n\n\"Our approach here is not an outlier and in terms of reopening the economy, we are roughly two weeks behind England.\"\n\nTanja Lister of the Kylesku Hotel in Sutherland told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that a return to the levels system would be devastating for business.\n\nShe said: \"Effectively what we've been given is a route map to another lockdown, because let's be clear - level three for us, which is what's on for April, is actually what closed most hotels in the last part of 2020 so for our industry it's a potential disaster.\"\n\nMs Lister added: \"If you were booking a holiday right now somewhere in the UK, you wouldn't book it in Scotland and that's the point.\n\n\"If you were looking for a job right now somewhere in the UK, you wouldn't look for it in Scotland.\n\n\"We will be left with very very serious problems in the summer is this doesn't change soon.\"\n\nMs Lister set up the hospitality and tourism action group, which is campaigning for a UK-wide full unlocking and reopening of the tourism and hospitality industry on 17 May - in line with the date set out for England on Monday.\n\nIn a statement, the group said the announcement on how the unlocking would take place in Scotland had been met with \"utter dismay, confusion and anger\".\n\nIt added that the industry in Scotland faced the green shoots of recovery for 2021 dying, adding: \"Rather than cautious hope, the industry now faces widespread cancellations as people make plans to head elsewhere in the UK, recruitment becomes almost impossible.\"\n\nDuring her speech on Tuesday, the first minister stressed that Scotland's route out of lockdown was dependent on suppression of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged that she was being \"deliberately cautious\", but said the pace of easing restrictions would be accelerated if the data supported it.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson announced that shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality in England could reopen on 12 April.\n\nUnder a four-step plan to ease lockdown south of the border, all legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June if strict conditions are met.\n\nStephen Montgomery, of the Scottish Hospitality Group, said it was not viable for hospitality businesses to open under level three restrictions.\n\nHe added that it would be better if hospitality could be given definitive dates for reopening in the spring, like those given in England.\n\n\"We know on the 26 April that we're going to be open in some way - that's a date that we can look forward to, but we don't know whether it's going to be outside trading or inside trading, we don't know whether we're going to be serving food, no alcohol, nothing.\n\n\"We've got skilled staff to rehire, we have trading to do, we need some dates as indicative as they may be, but something to look forward to.\"\n\nHe also said the 18:00 curfew that was in place under the old system effectively meant stopping taking orders at 16:30, which prevented them effectively operating an evening service.\n\nFiona Campbell, of the Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers, said the Scottish government had \"failed completely\" to set out what the changes would mean for hospitality and tourism businesses.\n\nShe added: \"What makes this muddle even more disappointing to us, and to Scotland's tourism sector as a whole, is that it effectively means we are lagging behind our colleagues south of the border who already have an indicative date to reopen and as a result have already seen bookings come pouring in for late spring.\n\n\"We are now not only having to cancel and refund existing bookings, but we are also having to turn down bookings from south of the border.\"\n\nShe added that the self-catering sector had not yet had any help from sectoral support packages announced in December.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she wanted to make sure that relaxing restrictions was \"as safe and sustainable as possible\", hence she wanted to be \"cautious, careful and patient for the next period - while the vaccination programme progresses\".\n\nShe added that she had tried to provide as much clarity as possible, while \"avoiding giving false assurance or picking arbitrary dates that have no grounding at this stage in any objective assessment\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said that the hospitality industry was \"crying out for information\".\n\nMr Ross added: \"They tuned in yesterday to the first minister to hear how we will get out of this, how we can return business to normal, how I'll be able to go round to my parents and give them a hug again - that's what we wanted from the first minister yesterday and we got none of that.\n\n\"She let Scotland down yesterday with that route map.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\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 the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The ambulance service warned a year before the Manchester Arena bombing that lives would be lost if specialist medical help was delayed during a terror attack, an inquiry heard.\n\nIt took more than two hours to deploy triage teams in a 2016 terror training exercise, a public inquiry was told.\n\nRetired Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Inspector June Roby said lessons should have been learned.\n\nOne paramedic was at the scene in the first 40 minutes after the 2017 bomb.\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\nThe inquiry was told that, during the counter-terror training exercise at the Trafford Centre in May 2016, there was a two-hour delay in treating casualties because of serious command and communication problems with the police.\n\nA debrief by the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) after the drill said there was a \"huge delay in deployment……this would have unequivocally resulted in unnecessary loss of life.\"\n\nRetired inspector June Roby, who was responsible for devising part of the exercise, said she was not aware at the time \"that there was such a big delay\" but she agreed \"entirely\" with the NWAS statement.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack and hundreds more were injured when a bomb was detonated at the arena\n\nPete Weatherby QC, representing some of the bereaved families, asked Ms Roby, if the Winchester Accord went \"catastrophically wrong in terms of the multi-agency response\".\n\nShe replied, \"It would appear so, yes.\"\n\nMs Roby said that, while she was not responsible for how the force responded on the night of the bombing, she accepted that lessons should have been learned.\n\n\"It's a real concern that [fire and ambulance services] weren't contacted when they should have been,\" she said.\n\nBefore 2017, there were widespread concerns that the Force Duty Officer (FDO), who co-ordinates the initial emergency response to an attack, could be a \"major point of failure\".\n\nMs Roby said she was aware that a better plan was needed but sorting it out was \"way above my pay grade\".\n\nThe hearing has previously been told that the FDO on the night of the arena bombing quickly became overwhelmed.\n\nAmid erroneous reports of gunfire and an active shooter on the loose he declared Operation Plato, the police response to a marauding terrorist firearms attack.\n\nBut he failed to inform the fire service and ambulance service, who could not contact him as his telephone line was swamped, the hearing heard.\n\nFire crews with specialist equipment and training were kept away from the City Room, the first fire engine arrived on scene more than two hours later and only one paramedic was at the City Room in the first 40 minutes after the blast.\n\nThe Chair of the Inquiry, Sir John Saunders asked Ms Roby if the FDO role was ever fully tested.\n\nShe said, \"Not to its fullest extent, no.\"\n\nJohn Cooper QC, who also represents some of the victims' families, asked Ms Roby if the planning policies were \"inadequate\".\n\nMs Roby said: \"I disagree….I started every single exercise with 'this is not a case of if this happens, for me it's a case of when this happens.\n\n\"There is so much going on in the world that Greater Manchester cannot remain in this little bubble where nothing happens. We are going to get something at some point.'\"\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 first birdie of the day on three. A first Augusta Sunday Tiger roar.\n\nIt's an earthy roar, the sort that comes up through the ground and rumbles through your boots. Breakfast beer feeding already animated spectators - or 'patrons' as they are always referred to here.\n\n\"It's Tiger at Augusta. On a Sunday. In contention. Why would you not follow him round?\" says just about everyone.\n\nThousands are tracking Tiger Woods' every move round Augusta National, hoping to witness the writing of another glorious sporting chapter.\n\nYou're not allowed to run at the Masters so instead you just ride the wave of Tiger mania as it builds into the realisation you are witnessing something truly monumental.\n\nThis is what it was like following Woods on his way to his first major victory since 2008.\n• None I had serious doubts I could compete again - Woods\n\nIt was an earlier start than usual because of the threat of afternoon electrical storms but thousands of patrons streamed through the entrance gates at breakfast, some keen to stake their place by a favourite green, others gathering by the first tee, waiting for Tiger.\n\nThe patrons are 10 deep, I'm five back. At 09:21 I see the top of the backswing, a flash of red, and then the whooping and hollering starts as the disciples set off after their leader.\n\nThere is chaos as early as the second hole of his final round of 18 with marshals trying in vain to halt the swarming masses moving from the first green to second tee, with Aaron Wise, Marc Leishman and Kim Si-woo trying to tee off between the two on the ninth.\n\nWhile Woods is knocking in a birdie at seven, the patrons watching from just down the hill are oblivious to Kiradech Aphibarnrat teeing off right next to them on the third.\n\nAnd so it continues.\n\nThe atmosphere is incredible round Amen Corner. Overnight leader Francesco Molinari dumps his tee shot into the water on the short 12th.\n\nThere are a few whoops and hollers but one over-exuberant fan shouts \"Go Tiger\".\n\nIt's blood in the water for Woods. I'm probably 20 people back and can just about see the top of his head. He strikes the ball with a nine-iron. Almost before it's off the tee there's a shout of \"get in the hole\".\n\nBoth men are ushered away by marshals. Unlike the tribal Ryder Cup, Augusta National doesn't tolerate over-zealous shouting.\n\nYou can understand them getting carried away. You can feel the momentum growing and the volume levels rise with each shot edging Woods closer to his moment of history.\n\nThe 12th - the moment Woods hunts down Molinari\n\nWhile Molinari double-bogeys the 12th, Woods two-putts for par. The second stroke is received with as much gusto as if he had birdied. Those watching on know how significant a par it was. Their man has drawn level with the Italian.\n\nTiger - who always used to lead from the front - has hunted down Molinari. The noise from those fans that have followed his every stroke this week alerts even more to join the party and roar Woods home.\n\nThe stands empty out as the players head to the 13th tee. Woods, Molinari and Tony Finau are the final group out. So the support swells with each passing hole.\n\nI don't see the drive on 13 but I know Woods is in the fairway. The cheers tell me that. I also know Molinari is in a good spot. The 2018 Open champion has his supporters.\n\nThere is zero chance of getting close to the 13th green to watch one of the most iconic shots in golf, over the creek on to the green to set up an eagle chance.\n\nThe 13th & 14th - standing on chairs & trying to see past umbrellas\n\nIt's tricky following Tiger. You have to reconcile yourself to the fact you won't see many shots but it is enough for most to simply be in the presence of a sporting legend.\n\nFor some it was a like a military operation, presumably months in the planning, working out which side of the fairway to be to get prime access to greens and the next hole.\n\nFor others, it was about always being on the move, staying ahead of the game, missing the odd hole to ensure an optimum view later down the line.\n\nA brief downpour hampered many, with huge Masters green and white umbrellas blocking out much of the 13th green.\n\nA couple tried standing on their chairs in front of the packed grandstand on the 14th - another act frowned upon - but they were getting away with it.\n\nOthers were on tip-toes, clinging to Georgia pines, taking advantage of higher ground but so far away they were relying on those closer to relay, via roar, if Woods had an eagle three.\n\nThe groans speak volumes. Molinari's missed eagle putt is understandably greeted more joyfully. The Italian had his fun back in July at Carnoustie when the pair played together in the final round of The Open but now we are in Woods' backyard.\n\nThe leaderboards suggest Brooks Koepka and Xander Schauffele may also have a say in the outcome. The Woods fans are having none of it.\n\nThis is his time. This is their time. Time to see the four-time Masters champion edge one closer to Jack's Augusta National record. And also move within three of Nicklaus' record major haul of 18.\n\nMolinari, a machine all week with just one bogey in his first 54 holes, makes another mistake. This time it's terminal. His third to the 15th joins the turtles in the pond protecting the green. Stifled cheers greet the news.\n\nAnother birdie for Tiger. He's now at 13 under par, three clear of Molinari but the threat comes from elsewhere. World number two Dustin Johnson sets the target at 12 under.\n\nWoods loads up at 16, the scene of 'that shot' from off the back left that led to his last Masters win 14 years ago.\n\nHe's long. But the Augusta patrons know where this ball will end up.\n\nGravity takes over and the ball feeds back down, encouraged all the way by thousands. A tap-in birdie. Fourteen under par. Leader by two with two to play.\n\nThere is a dawning realisation of what we are watching. The players emerge out of that bottom corner of the course. Woods steely-faced, almost unchanged from the first tee. Molinari looks like he could cry.\n\nA par on 17 for Woods. A bogey at the last will win the Masters.\n\nHe doesn't make it easy. A chunked second on the 18th leaves him with work to do. But the chip is decent and Woods finishes the job.\n\nThe outpouring of emotion on the green is matched by the cries of \"Tiger, Tiger, Tiger\" off it.\n\nHe's come full circle. Twenty-two years ago he won his first Masters and hugged his dad, the driving force behind the young Tiger, as he left the green.\n\nOn Sunday it was a hug for his mother. And his own children. The emotion of it all overwhelming.\n\nHe lets out his own roar. A real Sunday-at-Augusta Tiger roar as he walks off.\n\nIt's been a special day and one that will live long in the memory of all those here to witness it.\n• None Sign up to get golf news sent to your phone", "No child should have their prospects \"blighted by the pandemic\", the education secretary has said.\n\nGavin Williamson was speaking at a Downing Street briefing as he set out £700m in funding to help pupils in England catch up on missed learning.\n\nAsked about what would replace exam grades this year, he said they were \"putting trust\" in teachers.\n\nIt comes as the number of people to receive one dose of the vaccine in the UK surpassed 18 million.\n\nA further 9,938 coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Wednesday, as well as 442 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to government figures. It takes the death toll by that measure to 121,747.\n\nLabour said the government should put forward a \"long-term plan... not just a quick fix over the summer\".\n\nThe government has confirmed that all schools will open from 8 March, as part of the first step of a roadmap for easing England's lockdown.\n\nAs part of the latest announcements, schools will have the option to run summer classes for pupils who need it most, potentially starting with those who will be moving up to Year 7 at secondary school this year.\n\nThe government says it will be up to schools to decide how and if they run summer schools, how long they will be, and which pupils will be invited to attend.\n\nMr Williamson said the funding announcements were about offering \"immediate\" support for children and schools.\n\nBut the education secretary said many children would need longer term support, and \"extensive work\" was under way on plans for that.\n\nHe said: \"We're going to make sure we do everything can do to make sure children reach their potential - while looking at all issues - and we're not going to be timid in aspirations for them and the actions we need to take.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The education secretary said the wearing of face masks will be reviewed at Easter\n\nHe also reiterated that there would be \"no algorithms whatsoever\" used in determining A-level, AS and GCSE grades, with marks \"firmly in the hands of teachers\".\n\nIt has already been announced that exams will not take place.\n\nThe minister said there would be a \"clear and robust\" appeals mechanism for students who are unhappy with their results.\n\nFurther details on how students in England will be graded this year will be set out on Thursday.\n\nThe challenge for the education secretary is to keep sounding as though he has a new plan for what everyone can see is a massive problem with no obvious easy answers.\n\nChildren have missed a huge amount of school and exams have been cancelled for two years running.\n\nThe latest announcement on catch-up has an extra £400m, but it's focused on a familiar check list - summer schools, tuition, after-school activities, much of which happens anyway and with schools deciding how it will be spent.\n\nGavin Williamson told Wednesday's press conference that the government was \"not going to be timid\", but the reports about radical plans such as longer school days and shorter holidays seem to have fizzled away.\n\nThe unshowy and highly-experienced school recovery tsar, Sir Kevan Collins, will be more interested in long-term results than show-boating headlines.\n\nThe education secretary ran through the plans for pupils going back to school - from 8 March with testing and masks - and that date offers families some certainty.\n\nAlthough university students must think they are being kept in an expensive limbo, with no date yet set for when many of them can return.\n\nThe education secretary also defended the requirement for pupils in secondary schools to wear face masks in classrooms.\n\nHe said it was a \"temporary\" measure that would be reviewed over the Easter break.\n\nAsked if the government was looking at lengthening the school day in the future, Mr Williamson said it was not part of the immediate plans announced, but it could be something considered as part of a wider consultation being led by education recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins into the longer term support and change needed within schools following the pandemic.\n\nThis week, the government announced that secondary school and college students in England will be asked to take regular coronavirus tests at home when they return to school next month.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer for England Jenny Harries said more testing in secondary schools would mean that parents, teachers and grandparents could be reassured that schools would be as safe as they could be.\n\nThese measures would have a positive impact on breaking the chains of transmission, she said.\n\nBut she warned that \"children should not go hugging grandparents too much\" before the the impact of the vaccine rollout was felt.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Kate Green, said the impact of lost learning for children was now \"baked in\" and she was sceptical about whether the catch-up tutoring programme would reach many of the children who needed it most.\n\nShe also said there needed to be a \"really robust moderation process to make sure that children are treated fairly... a robust appeals process\" and time for schools and exam boards to assess pupils and standardise results.\n\nIn Scotland, younger primary pupils have gone back to school, along with some exam year students in secondary schools. A wider reopening has yet to be decided.\n\nIn Wales, younger primary years also returned on Monday - with older primary pupils set to go back on 15 March if Covid levels continue to fall.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, younger primary pupils will return to classrooms on 8 March.\n\nLast year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a £1bn catch-up fund for England, and later appointed Sir Kevan as education recovery commissioner.\n\nIn Scotland, the administration has promised £140m in funding to help disadvantaged pupils. Tens of millions of pounds have also been put into catch-up schemes in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe announcement comes as the Treasury has said its levelling-up fund will be extended to the whole of the UK to \"help boost growth\" in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Haydn Lewis was infected with HIV and hepatitis in 1984 and died in 2010\n\nA former charity leader has admitted using \"totally disgraceful\" language in describing someone with HIV he was helping as a \"moaner\" and \"thick\"\n\nPeter Stevens chaired the government-established Macfarlane Trust, which helped haemophiliacs who contracted HIV and hepatitis from infected blood.\n\nThe former chairman made the remarks in emails about Haydn Lewis from Cardiff, who had both viruses.\n\nMr Stevens has been giving evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry.\n\nHe said it was a \"disgraceful use of language\" and \"totally inappropriate\" and that he had later apologised in person, adding \"the apology was accepted\".\n\nThe inquiry is examining the circumstances under which people in the UK were given infected blood and blood products, particularly since 1970.\n\nMr Lewis became a campaigner for justice after he and his brother Gareth both contracted HIV and hepatitis following transfusions in 1984.\n\nAfter receiving an email from Mr Lewis in relation to the work of the charitable trust, Mr Stevens wrote to another member: \"It is irritating that someboyd [sic] so thick can come up with such meddlesome suggestions.\"\n\nThe Infected Blood Inquiry heard Mr Lewis, who died in 2010 of liver cancer caused by hepatitis, had seen the message.\n\nInfected blood donations were pooled and used in the 1970s and 80s for treatments\n\nMr Stevens said the use of the words was \"deeply tragic\" and he had travelled with other members of the Macfarlane Trust to Cardiff to apologise to Haydn and Gareth Lewis.\n\nHe said that afterwards they carried on with \"normal relationships\".\n\nWhen asked why he had used those terms, Mr Stevens told the inquiry: \"I don't know. It was too early in the morning to say I had been drinking.\n\n\"Haydn and I had engaged in considerable email communications and Haydn's were always long and verbose and quite trying to read at different times, and this was the culmination of a long series of communications which had probably tried my patience.\"\n\nAfter a meeting where Haydn Lewis was present, Mr Stevens wrote to a colleague: \"What a monumental waste of time, not just this afternoon, but all the previous hours spent nurturing that group of moaners.\"\n\nMr Stevens told the inquiry it had been a difficult meeting with people who wanted more services from the Macfarlane Trust than the organisation had the funds to achieve.\n\n\"They expressed their anger at us rather than the government and, in the end, it became trying on our patience to listen to personal attacks,\" he said. \"I was accused of lying, but I didn't know what about.\"\n\nWhen asked if it was his view that the participants in the meeting were \"a waste of time and moaners\" Mr Stevens told the inquiry: \"Not all the time - some of the time.\"\n\nMr Stevens was also asked about another email where he was discussing whether or not the trust should provide the same level of support for other family members of haemophiliacs who had also contracted HIV.\n\nIn it he wrote: \"That would be a way of pissing off the Lewis contingent.\"\n\nHe admitted that he knew that Haydn's wife had been infected with HIV but told the inquiry: \"I was simply saying it as a throwaway remark to a friend.\"\n\nHe denied that the communications showed \"distain or contempt\" for the beneficiaries of the Macfarlane Trust.\n\nThe trust, which had been initially established by the government, was wound up in 2017.", "Tanzania's finance minister appeared emotional and sometimes coughed as he gave a news conference to address the state of his health.\n\nPhilip Mpango spoke about his condition on Tuesday after being discharged from a hospital in the capital Dodoma, after rumours he had died with Covid-19.\n\nWithout revealing his illness, the maskless minister said he was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago “while on an oxygen machine”, adding “my health condition was bad”.\n\n“I thank God for his mercies and grace that I have been breathing normally for the last three days,” Mpango said, flanked by two medical staff, neither of whom were wearing a mask.\n\nTanzanian opposition leader Tunui Lissu questioned the wisdom of the minister's news conference.\n\n\"Has the intelligence of our leaders reached this level? Who allowed this patient to cough on people, instead of being in hospital for treatment or bed rest?\" he wrote on Twitter .\n\nTanzania’s government has been criticised for downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus and failing to publish data on Covid-19 infections.\n\nLast week, the World Health Organization called on Tanzania \"to take robust action both to safeguard their own people and protect populations\" in other countries.", "Heathrow Airport has reported a £2bn annual loss after passenger numbers during the coronavirus pandemic dropped to levels last seen in the 1970s.\n\nIt said 2020 was the toughest year in its 75-year history and the loss \"underlines the devastating impact of Covid-19 on aviation\".\n\nHeathrow's results contained a warning it may not be able to carry on if passenger numbers remain low.\n\nHowever, its boss said the airport had enough money to cope until 2023.\n\nJohn Holland-Kaye also told the BBC that he thought people would be likely to be able to go on their summer holidays.\n\nUnder the UK government's roadmap out of lockdown, which was published on Monday, international travel might be able to resume in mid-May.\n\n\"For the aviation sector, we can start to plan ahead for 17 May to make sure we've got the people and the planes in place so that we can get, not just people on their holidays, but also start to get British businesses moving again,\" he said.\n\nMr Holland-Kaye said it was likely that travel to the UK from \"low-risk\" countries such as New Zealand and Singapore would not require a Covid test, \"medium-risk\" countries where passengers would need a test, and \"high risk\" countries would require tougher passenger controls such as quarantining.\n\nThe UK is in discussions with G7 countries and others as to how to allow greater foreign travel, with talks underway with some countries about a potential passport scheme.\n\nMr Holland-Kaye said that a digital vaccine passport and international agreements would be needed to speed up travel at airports.\n\nCurrently it takes about 20 minutes per passenger at Heathrow to sort out the necessary paperwork, which will not be feasible when passenger numbers pick up, he said.\n\nHave you recently booked a holiday? Get in touch.\n\nLockdowns and travel restrictions imposed in 2020 to try to limit the global spread of coronavirus hit the aviation sector hard.\n\nHeathrow normally has about 80 million passengers per year, but it said numbers in 2020 dropped to 22 million, with more than half of those travelling in January and February before the coronavirus crisis took hold.\n\nIn the long-term, if passenger numbers were to drop below 27 million, Heathrow would be in danger of breaching deals it has with creditors, it said.\n\nIn January, the government opened a financial support scheme for airports in England, which included £8m per applicant to be used to cover fixed costs such as business rates.\n\nOn Wednesday, Heathrow called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to use next week's Budget to extend the furlough scheme and give a 100% business rates holiday to give additional support to the aviation sector.\n\nHeathrow doesn't have many passengers at the moment, but one thing it does have a lot of is borrowing.\n\nThe London airport has built a £15bn debt pile in the past decade while paying its shareholders several billion pounds in dividends.\n\nThe collapse in traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic has understandably put a strain on its finances, to the extent that the company has asked the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), its economic regulator, for an increase in prices to compensate.\n\nThe request has outraged its airline customers, who say they and their passengers should not have to pick up the airport's pandemic tab.\n\nThere is no danger of Heathrow running out of money in the short term - it has about £4bn in cash, enough to keep it ticking over for two years - but the accounts do include a warning about the future.\n\nThe directors say that the uncertainty about the timescale and nature of the recovery from the pandemic \"indicates the existence of a material uncertainty which could cast significant doubt upon the group and the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nIt would take a serious prolongation of traffic restrictions for Heathrow's current financial structure to crack - but the warning underlines why the company is pressing the CAA so hard for a price increase.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) has also pleaded with governments to continue their financial support for the aviation sector.\n\nThe industry body warned on Wednesday that airlines could continue to burn cash into 2022 amid uncertainty around when restrictions will ease. It estimated that aviation firms burnt through $77bn (£54.6bn) in cash during the second half of 2020 alone.\n\nIts boss Alexandre de Juniac told the BBC: \"The crisis is not over.\n\n\"If you want us to be alive when the restart will come, when the traffic will recover, which is not before the second half of 2021... We need support with additional financial help.\"\n\nIt is currently working on a \"Covid travel pass\", an app which could be used to verify if a passenger has had the Covid-19 tests or vaccines required to enter a country.\n\nThe director general said in a BBC interview on Wednesday that it is talking to the UK government about using its app.\n\nHe played down concerns about the security of any app-based system: \"It's pretty well done and designed for that purpose\".\n\nMr de Juniac said the focus was on passengers controlling their data and that \"there is no information that is stored in any database that the government control or IATA control at all.\"", "Hellen Ward, co-founder of beauty salon chain Richard Ward, says her debts have been racking up while her salons have been closed due to Covid restrictions.\n\n\"We have worked out it's probably £1,000 a day in debt that we have incurred in being closed,\" she said.\n\nShe is part of a campaign calling on the government to cut VAT to help mend the hair and beauty sector's finances.\n\nA survey of salon owners suggests that 56% are considering closing.\n\nThe Save our Salons campaign group also estimates that nearly four in five will recruit no apprentices this year\n\nAny closures would harm the finances of women the most - almost 90% of salon workers are women.\n\nThe group says there are 45,000 salons providing jobs for nearly 300,000 people.\n\nHairdressers and nail salons are set to re-open from 12 April along with many other retailers.\n\nBut a long period of closure means they, like many businesses, have been racking up debts. Campaigners say their businesses operate on low profit margins of between 2-5%.\n\n\"We urgently need our VAT cut to 5%, the same chop in VAT enjoyed by restaurants and bars since July last year,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nWithout help to rebuild their finances, businesses may find it preferable to close their doors, she said.\n\n\"We employ such a lot of trainees - where will we be in five years' time if we lose those skill sets?\" she said.\n\nLike many businesses, hers and others in the beauty trade have received government help, notably in the form of the furlough scheme, which has paid many staff wages while people have been out of work.\n\n\"Furlough has been fantastic but it's not free,\" Ms Ward said. Employers must still make national insurance contributions.\n\nMany beauty companies have been paying full rent during the lockdown, despite making little or no income. Most sales come from treatments rather than products, she said.\n\nSalon owner Gina Conway says she is holding her breath ahead of the budget\n\nLarger salons with lots of employees, big rents and high rates have particularly struggled, says Gina Conway, who owns three hair and beauty salons in London. She opened her first 20 years ago.\n\nHer salons have been closed for 238 days in the year since the first lockdown.\n\n\"Because hairdressers can't do takeaway or home visits or online haircuts we are all really struggling to cover our costs,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe still has to pay rent, insurance and utility bills. Support from her landlord has been mixed. One has offered a discount during the lockdown, one has not replied to her requests and one won't budge.\n\n\"I have a successful business and I plan on growing, I'm just holding my breath on what the government can do to help,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK “cannot be discriminatory” against those people who are unable to take a Covid vaccine, says the prime minister\n\nThere are \"deep and complex issues\" with using vaccine passports or certificates to prove someone's Covid \"status\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAnnouncing a review of the proposal, he said using certificates to allow visits to venues such as pubs and theatres was a \"novelty for our country\".\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"very optimistic\" most Covid restrictions in England can be lifted on 21 June.\n\nVaccine passports have been discussed by countries, including Greece, and operators such as Saga Cruises, as a way to safely reopen international leisure travel.\n\nBut ministers have frequently appeared to dismiss introducing a similar scheme domestically within the UK for hospitality or leisure activities.\n\nIt comes as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said - if all goes to plan - she expects to see a phased but significant reopening of the Scottish economy in the last week of April.\n\nA further 8,489 coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Tuesday and 548 more people have died within 28 days of a positive test - taking the total by that measure to 121,305.\n\nMore than 17.9 million people across the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, according to latest government figures.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a south London school, Mr Johnson said the UK had \"never thought in terms of having something that you have to show to go to a pub or a theatre\".\n\nHe said there were \"ethical issues\" about the role of government \"in mandating… or banning people from doing such a thing\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't be discriminatory against people who can't have the vaccine, there might be a medical reason, or some people may genuinely refuse to have one - I think that's a mistake.\"\n\nBut the prime minister said it was possible to consider the issue at the same time as the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nIt is understood the review will not just consider vaccination history alone, with the possibility of negative Covid tests being recorded to gain access to some events or services, if required by the organisers.\n\nOne option could see the NHS app used to record both, with an individual then able to show their status on the app if required.\n\nThe government previously said it would consider how to facilitate Covid certificates for people who needed to travel to other countries which demanded them.\n\nThe review's findings are hoped to be available before the final stage of England's lockdown easing on 21 June, the earliest date by which ministers hope most Covid measures can end.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jessica Parker said the review marked a change of position from ministers but that, with businesses already looking at ways they could keep workers and customers safe, the government was looking to get ahead of things.\n\n\"The conversation was just happening anyway. Businesses were looking at ways to make their workplaces safe, organisations were looking at ways to try to make their customers safe and the government risked not being part of that conversation but eventually being brought into it anyway,\" she said.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said an international consensus needed to be built on how to allow greater foreign travel, which the UK was seeking to achieve via the G7 and other multilateral discussions.\n\n\"It will be for different countries to determine their own regimes in relation to the quarantine and who they want to allow in, and we want to try and work together to get some sort of international framework,\" he said.\n\nGreek tourism minister Haris Theoharis told the BBC last week that early technical discussions were under way with UK officials about how a potential passport scheme might work.\n\nSaga Cruises announced last month it would require all travellers to prove they had received two vaccine doses before departure.\n\n\"You will be required to bring the vaccination document and/or evidence with you as proof at the time of boarding,\" its website said.\n\nHolidays in the UK or abroad are not currently permitted under coronavirus restrictions.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said a review of how to return to international travel while managing risk from imported cases and virus variants would report on 12 April.\n\nMeanwhile, holiday firms and airlines have reported a surge in bookings since plans for easing lockdown in England were unveiled on Monday.\n\nLabour shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC a review of vaccine passports was \"sensible\" but said it should be \"conclusive\" and consider all the evidence available.\n\nChristopher Dye, professor of epidemiology at Oxford University, told the BBC that vaccine passports would \"certainly be helpful in releasing the lockdown\" but they should not \"make things worse for people of lesser means\".\n\nMr Johnson said his roadmap for easing lockdown measures, laid out on Monday, was \"a cautious but irreversible approach\".\n\nDue to the vaccine programme, the country could \"look at that 21 June date with some optimism\".\n\nMr Johnson said each phase of unlocking restrictions - such as children going back to school - would be \"adding to the budget of risk\".\n\nThis is why time was needed between measures to \"observe\" the impact, he added.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he wanted measures to become a \"matter of personal responsibility and social norms\" that could see people choosing to wear masks on public transport.\n\nThe devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions.\n\nOutlining her own roadmap, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped to end stay at home restrictions from 5 April in Scotland.\n\nMeanwhile in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he hopes the country's \"stay-at-home\" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster wants its executive to discuss the reopening date for schools following Mr Johnson's announcement in England.", "Alex Salmond will not give evidence on Wednesday to the inquiry into how the Scottish government handled complaints against him.\n\nA Scottish Parliament spokesperson said the former first minister had told the committee he would not be attending.\n\nHe has now offered to appear before MSPs on Friday.\n\nThe move came after the parliament withdrew and then republished a revised version of one of Mr Salmond's submissions to the inquiry.\n\nThe Crown Office had raised \"grave concerns\" about its publication.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had described the parliament's decision as a \"significant surprise and concern\" which could have \"a material bearing on whether he was able to attend the evidence session on Wednesday.\n\nThe committee now plans to meet in private \"to discuss the implications of Mr Salmond's response and the next steps for its work\".\n\nMr Salmond's submission included claims that there had been a \"complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and the prosecution authorities\".\n\nThe former first minister alleged there was \"a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned\".\n\nThe people named by Mr Salmond in his submissions include Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell, who is the chief executive of the SNP, and Ms Sturgeon's chief of staff, Liz Lloyd.\n\nMr Salmond has also accused Ms Sturgeon, who succeeded him as first minister and SNP leader, of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code.\n\nMs Sturgeon has denied the allegations and told BBC Scotland that there was \"not a shred of evidence\" to back up his claims of a conspiracy.\n\nThe inquiry committee has been examining what went wrong with the government's internal investigation into sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond that were made by two female civil servants.\n\nThe government had to pay legal expenses of more than £500,000 to Mr Salmond after it admitted it had acted unlawfully during the investigation.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against a total of nine women after a High Court trial last year.\n\nThe former first minister had been expected to appear before the inquiry on 9 February, but this was cancelled when the committee voted, along party lines, not to publish one of his written submissions.\n\nMr Salmond insisted he could not live up to an oath to \"tell the whole truth\" without being able to refer to this document.\n\nAfter a legal clarification, the committee referred the matter to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body which concluded that \"on balance\" it would be possible for the document to be published.\n\nThe submission was finally published on Monday evening, but it prompted the Crown Office to raise \"grave concerns\".\n\nThe parliament later removed one of the documents and republished the submission in another form, which in turn led to Mr Salmond announcing he could not appear at the evidence session scheduled for Wednesday.", "Alan Geddes is survived by his young son\n\nThe sister of a man murdered by a newly-released prisoner has claimed warnings about the killer were ignored.\n\nStuart Quinn, 35, stabbed 56-year-old Alan Geddes 40 times in Aberdeen in 2019 - the day after he was freed.\n\nQuinn had travelled to a homeless unit only to find it was shut. Father-of-one Mr Geddes let him stay in his flat but was then attacked.\n\nSandra Geddes, 65, told BBC Scotland News she believed her younger brother's death was \"absolutely avoidable\".\n\nQuinn had a record of violent behaviour, and Ms Geddes said: \"It should never have happened.\"\n\nScotland's justice secretary, Humza Yousaf, has now offered to meet the family to discuss their concerns.\n\nQuinn was jailed for a minimum of 18 years last week for the murder.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow was told he had been freed just the day before the killing, after previous convictions for assault.\n\nQuinn was said to be \"upset and crying\" on his release and was due to receive help for personal issues.\n\nUnable to find a bed, he ended up in a lap dancing club in the city. Mr Geddes was also there with a friend, and chatted with Quinn.\n\nMr Geddes - a former model - offered to pay for Quinn to stay at a hotel, but it was full so he allowed Quinn into his flat in the city's Ruthrieston Crescent.\n\nMr Geddes was later found lying at the bottom of stairs with multiple injuries.\n\nPolice arrived to find Quinn clutching a knife, which he threw down, and he admitted what he had done.\n\nQuinn initially stated he had stabbed Mr Geddes in self-defence but Mr Geddes had injuries suggesting he tried to ward off the killer.\n\nHis sister said \"red flags\" had been missed in the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alan Geddes' sister says the family has been \"broken\" by the tragedy\n\nShe said of her brother's death: \"My instant reaction was devastation - couldn't believe that it had happened. Since then I have been desperate to find out what exactly happened to him.\n\n\"I didn't know anything about Stuart Quinn, then to hear about his past, his convictions, I understood that there was more to this.\n\n\"There was a pattern here of violence, I think in the past he had reached out for help, and there was nobody there listening to him.\"\n\nShe explained: \"There's been a breakdown on communications here. Prior instances that were flagged were ignored.\n\n\"I think he had a switch and Alan was the one who paid the price for it.\"\n\nMs Geddes said the murder of the \"popular guy\" had \"broken\" the family.\n\n\"It's unbelievable this has happened to Alan when he was just trying to help someone and I can see my brother doing that, feeling sorry for him\", she said.\n\n\"It makes me extremely disappointed in our criminal justice system. I've never sat down with Stuart Quinn but the signs were all there and they were ignored.\n\n\"Alan I don't think had a chance. I think he just flipped that night. He thought he was protecting himself.\n\n\"To send him for a bed and it's actually closed - that is such a fundamental mistake that as been made to allow that lad out knowing he was crying and needing help.\"\n\nAsked if his death was avoidable, she said: \"Absolutely. It should never have happened. That makes it harder.\n\n\"He suffered an extremely violent death. I wonder what his last thoughts were. I will live this for the rest of my life\".\n\n\"It should have been prevented\".\n\nNic Flavell said he had to fight Quinn off in 2018\n\nNic Flavell, 44, a former neighbour of Quinn's, said he found him in his house in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, in 2018.\n\n\"He was holding a screwdriver\", he said.\n\nMr Flavell said Quinn walked towards him, swinging the screwdriver, and they then fought, while his girlfriend and children hid and tried to raise the alarm. Neighbours started to help, before police arrived and he was detained.\n\nMr Flavell said there had also been another incident involving neighbours with Quinn and a baseball bat.\n\nMr Flavell said of the Geddes family: \"I am heartbroken for the family - it was all avoidable.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said in a statement: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Mr Geddes' family. While nothing can ease the pain of losing a loved-one, we note the life sentence imposed on the person responsible for this terrible crime.\n\n\"We are working with prison, health and local authority partners to continue reducing reoffending - strengthening the management of prison leavers to reduce risk and keep people safe.\n\n\"We are also improving support for victims' relatives, including creating a service specifically to help those bereaved by crime.\"\n\nSupt Neil McDonald, of Police Scotland's North East Division, said: \"The murder of Alan Geddes was investigated thoroughly by Police Scotland and Stuart Quinn was quickly arrested, charged and pled guilty. Our thoughts remain with Alan's family and friends who have suffered a terrible loss.\n\n\"We have not received any complaints about the police handling of this case. If anyone wishes to raise concerns we would ask them to come forward and speak to us.\"\n\nNo other incidents of violence were reported to police involving Quinn in the Westhill area at the time.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: \"The SPS does not comment on individual cases\".\n\nAberdeen City Council said: \"Aberdeen City Council's homelessness services operate 24/7, 365 days per year. There is no record of Mr Quinn presenting to Aberdeen City Council for support.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A senior NHS leader has reminded influential stars like Gwyneth Paltrow of their \"duty of responsibility\" when talking about Covid treatments.\n\nPaltrow recently wrote on her blog that contracting Covid-19 had left her with \"some long-tail fatigue and brain fog\".\n\nShe said a \"functional medicine practitioner\" had recommended an \"intuitive fasting\" healing regime.\n\nBut NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said some of her methods were \"really not the solutions we'd recommend\".\n\nAs part of her recovery, the Hollywood-star-turned-lifestyle-guru said she was on a mainly \"keto[genic] and plant-based\" diet, with no sugar or alcohol. She fasts until 11:00 every day and takes infrared saunas.\n\nProf Powis, who is national medical director for NHS England, said \"serious science\" should be applied.\n\n\"Like the virus, misinformation carries across borders and it mutates and it evolves,\" he said. \"So I think YouTube and other social media platforms have a real responsibility and opportunity here.\n\n\"In the last few days I see Gwyneth Paltrow is unfortunately suffering from the effects of Covid. We wish her well, but some of the solutions she's recommending are really not the solutions we'd recommend in the NHS.\n\n\"We need to take long Covid seriously and apply serious science. All influencers who use social media have a duty of responsibility and a duty of care around that.\"\n\nWhile Covid remains a short-lived sickness for many, others have found the effects last for weeks or months. According to the British Medical Journal, long Covid is thought to occur in around 10% of people infected, and concerns have been raised that there is not enough support for sufferers.\n\nWriting on her website Goop last week, Paltrow said she had caught the virus \"early on\".\n\n\"In January, I had some tests done that showed really high levels of inflammation in my body,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything I'm doing feels good, like a gift to my body. I have energy, I'm working out in the mornings, and I'm doing an infrared sauna as often as I can, all in service of healing.\"\n\nIn December, the 48-year-old - who made her name in films like Shakespeare in Love, Seven and Sliding Doors - said she cut back on movie-making after realising she \"doesn't love acting that much\".\n\nAs well as a blog, she now has a YouTube channel and podcast, which sees her talk to famous faces about their healthcare, lifestyle and wellness regimes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Education Minister Kirsty Williams says sending all children back to school at once would pile pressure on the NHS.\n\nUnder current plans, the final group of secondary school pupils will not be back in school until the summer term starts on 12 April, although the youngest primary school children have begun to return this week.\n\nIn England, all age groups are due to return on March 8.\n\nHowever, during a visit to a primary school in Cardiff, Ms Williams insisted the Welsh Government was following scientific advice.\n\n“We've been advised if you bring all children back in one big bang that potentially has a massive effect on the R number [infection rate],\" she said.\n\n“We will see [Covid case] rates begin to climb again and we will see extra pressure being put back on our NHS.\n\n“Nobody wants to go there. That's why we are doing it carefully and cautiously.”\n\nMs Williams added she would “welcome a discussion” on changing the academic year in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nShorter summer holidays and longer breaks in the autumn and Christmas “actually might be a more appropriate way to organise the school year”, she said.\n\nKirsty Williams: \"We are doing it carefully and cautiously\" Image caption: Kirsty Williams: \"We are doing it carefully and cautiously\"", "A greater proportion of people in Wales have received a jab than other UK nations\n\nWales will be the first UK nation to have offered the top four priority groups a Covid jab, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nWithin hours, officials say, all over-70s including care home residents, will have been offered a first dose.\n\nWales and the other UK nations have aimed to hit the target by mid-February.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford thanked \"everyone who had been working around the clock to reach this point\".\n\nIt follows a warning that vaccine supplies will fall in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK Government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said Wales' milestone was \"fantastic news\" and testament to the continued effort made by NHS and military staff.\n\nThe country currently leads the UK in the percentage of the population that has received a first jab - at least 715,944 doses have been given out.\n\nThere have been warnings that supplies could slow down\n\nFigures up to Thursday night show 22.7% of the population have been vaccinated, compared to 21% in England, 20.4% in Scotland and 19.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there were more than 87,000 people from target groups, including more than 37,000 in their early 70s, still to get a first dose.\n\nThe picture is complicated by a built-in delay on data being published while figures are checked and verified.\n\nThere are also issues involving some care home residents having to wait for doses, because of isolation due to Covid outbreaks.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he was confident the programme remained on track - with plans remaining in place to reach the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nHe said: \"We're the first UK nation to reach this milestone, others will follow in a couple of days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Mark Drakeford says the success of the vaccine rollout is due to the \"phenomenal effort\" of all involved.\n\nAsked how many people in those top groups who will not have had vaccine appointments by the weekend, he said it would be \"a very small number\".\n\n\"We've already completed 92% of all the people in those priority groups thanks to the amazing efforts of our NHS and other staff,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be some people who were ill when they were offered and need to be re-book. There will be some people who chose not to have a vaccine when they were first offered it, who may have changed their minds.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the NHS was \"checking and rechecking\" whether anyone had been left out and final appointments were being arranged for the weekend.\n\n\"Anybody who knows of somebody who may have missed out, it is not too late at all,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure that those people have an appointment as fast as possible.\"\n\nHealth minister Vaughan Gething said \"a leave no-one behind approach\" was being taken.\n\n\"The next group, those people 65 and over, all health boards are already sending out invites for those people to come forward as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not looking to miss a step, we're carrying on with the vaccine we have available.\"\n\nFigures show 88.4% of those aged 80 or older have had a first dose, compared to 86.3% for 75 to 79 year olds and 79.8% of 70 to 74 year olds.\n\nPublic Health Wales said a total of 80.3% of care home residents have had a first dose, and 83.5% of care home workers.\n\nBritish Medical Association chairman Dr David Bailey said Wales was \"hopefully on the home straight\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People are really making an effort to make the thing go smoothly as possible, and it is a credit to the Welsh public, as well as everyone who has actually been delivering the vaccine, because it has gone smoothly and everyone has been trying to do their part.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"To have achieved this first milestone and offered vaccination to everyone in the first four priority groups - those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus - is a truly phenomenal effort.\n\n\"Of course, the hard work has only just begun - there are many, many more people to vaccinate yet and a lot of second doses still to give.\"\n\nHe said it showed the UK Government had \"ensured Wales has had the vaccines available to protect the most vulnerable in our society and meet this target\" and hoped Wales could soon reopen its economy.\n\nHowever he added there was a still a \"long way to go\" with 80% of the population yet to be offered the vaccine.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth, said it was thanks to NHS staff and volunteers \"that Wales has been able to accelerate the vaccination effort to its current levels\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth added his party would continue to call for \"those in all care settings, not just the elderly, to be vaccinated as a matter of priority, and for key workers in schools, the emergency services and public transport to be brought in to the priority system sooner.\"", "Lisa Dawn Fisher was jailed for 16 weeks and ordered to pay £75 costs\n\nA woman who deliberately coughed at police investigating a breach of coronavirus restrictions has been jailed for four months.\n\nLisa Dawn Fisher was verbally abusive when the officers called at a flat in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on 30 January.\n\nThe 31-year-old, of Westbourne Grove, admitted two counts of assault against an emergency worker.\n\nFisher was sentenced at Scarborough Magistrates' Court on 17 February.\n\nShe was also ordered to pay £75 compensation.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said there had been an increase in assaults against emergency service workers.\n\nOfficers made 104 arrests in connection with emergency worker assaults in the six months to the end of January 2020.\n\nThat figure rose to 150 in the six months to the end of January 2021.\n\nCh Insp Rachel Wood said: \"Police officers are human, they have families, they choose to do a job that puts them in harm's way for the good of the community.\n\n\"Assaults on them will not be tolerated and anyone who deliberately tries to use coronavirus to harm them can expect a swift trip to the cells.\"\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.", "Alexander Wang is one of the world's best-known fashion designers\n\nAmerican fashion designer Alexander Wang is facing further allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nKeaton Bullen, 21, a student at New York's Parsons School of Design, has alleged to BBC News he was assaulted by Mr Wang at a club in the city in 2019.\n\nIt comes as the high-profile lawyer Lisa Bloom says she is now representing 11 men with misconduct allegations against Mr Wang.\n\nMr Wang robustly denies all the claims made against him.\n\nMr Bullen, then 20, was with a friend at the Fishbowl club in New York City when he says he encountered Alexander Wang on 24 August 2019 at about 11:30pm.\n\nMr Bullen and his friend said they met Mr Wang at the Fishbowl\n\nHe told the BBC they had initially talked about their mutual alma mater, Parsons School of Design in lower Manhattan, where Mr Bullen is currently studying interior design.\n\nMr Wang then invited the pair to his table and and offered them vodka by the bottle before eventually leading him to the dance floor, Mr Bullen said.\n\nIn the early hours of the morning, Mr Bullen alleged, Mr Wang sexually assaulted him.\n\n\"All of a sudden he unzipped my trousers, put his hands in my pants and started grabbing my penis in front of a bunch of people,\" he said. \"I completely froze.\n\n\"He then said: 'I want to take you home with me,'\" Mr Bullen alleged. \"I felt weirded out... and removed myself from the situation as fast as possible.\"\n\nPaul Tweed, one of Mr Wang's lawyers, said he was currently awaiting CCTV footage of the club from the night which he said \"his client believes will totally disprove this allegation\".\n\nMr Bullen said he felt a duty to speak out to support others who had come forward with allegations and were being called \"liars\".\n\nHe is not taking legal action and said he did not want his photo used, out of concern the public would accuse him of seeking attention.\n\nMooney said he was 'in so much shock'\n\nAllegations against Mr Wang previously emerged in December after a British model claimed on TikTok that the designer had groped him during a concert at a New York City nightclub in January 2017.\n\nIn the video, which subsequently went viral, Owen Mooney, 26, said: \"I was by myself at one point and this guy next to me obviously took advantage of the fact that no one could move.\n\n\"And he just started touching me up. Fully up my leg, in my crotch. It made me freeze completely because I was in so much shock.\"\n\nTwo fashion watchdog Instagram accounts, @DietPrada and @ShitModelManagement, then began sharing several anonymous claims of sexual misconduct against the designer.\n\nMr Mooney later criticised what he called the \"radio silence\" from the fashion and film industries in response to the allegations, which affected people who were \"male, queer and trans\".\n\n\"It seems #MeToo quite possibly could be lacking in inclusivity,\" he said on social media.\n\nIn a statement at the time, Mr Wang denied the allegations as \"baseless and grotesquely false\" and said he would \"hold accountable\" those responsible for spreading them.\n\nMr Mooney, from Peterborough, is one of 11 people being represented by the victim's rights lawyer Lisa Bloom, who has led a number of high-profile sexual harassment cases.\n\nShe told the BBC most of the alleged incidents were linked to LGBT clubs and that no legal action had yet been taken.\n\nAllegations about Alexander Wang's conduct first circulated online four years ago.\n\nNick Ward, 28, who works in construction, alleged on Twitter that Mr Wang had grabbed his crotch at the Brooklyn Mirage nightclub in New York after midnight on 10 September 2017.\n\nMr Wang denies the claim and being at the club that night.\n\nDJ Gia Garrison said her entire body was nearly exposed\n\nDJ Gia Garrison, now 24, described a similar encounter with the designer on Facebook.\n\nShe recently told the BBC they had met in the VIP area of the club Slake in Manhattan in February 2017 during one of her favourite monthly party nights called Holy Mountain.\n\nAvant-garde in theme, for the occasion she proudly remembers wearing a big red cloak her friend had made, over bikini bottoms and thigh-high boots.\n\n\"I like being able to show my body and feel comfortable and free,\" she said. \"There's no judgement and it's a space where everyone can love their bodies and embrace themselves.\"\n\nAround 2:30am she recalled heading to the VIP area with her friends and, shortly after, being introduced to Mr Wang.\n\n\"I was dancing near him when he reached out his hand, grabbed my bikini bottoms and dragged it downward in front of everyone,\" nearly revealing her genitals, she alleged.\n\n\"As a trans woman with discomfort about certain parts of myself that I've since grown to love, I don't want someone to expose my entire body like that,\" she added.\n\nMr Wang's lawyer denied the allegation and said his client had \"never grabbed any woman\" in this way.\n\nOne of Lisa Bloom's clients, David Casavant, recently alleged to The New York Times that Mr Wang had pulled down his pants and underwear at a club in New York in the same year.\n\nMs Garrison, who also works as a model and music producer, said she did not believe in \"cancel culture\" but has since refused to wear Alexander Wang's clothing lines on set.\n\n\"I think it's dangerous and doesn't solve a problem,\" she said. \"What really matters is if the person truly works on themselves, educates themselves and decides to make a change.\"\n\nIn a statement released in the New Year when the allegations escalated, Mr Wang, 37, said: \"Seeing these lies about me being perpetuated as truths has been infuriating.\n\n\"I have never engaged in the atrocious behaviour described and would never conduct myself in the manner that's been alleged.\"", "Apple has acquired about 100 companies over the last six years, the company’s chief executive Tim Cook has revealed.\n\nThat works out at a company every three to four weeks, he told Apple’s annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday.\n\nApple recently delivered its largest quarter by revenue of all time, bringing in $111.4bn (£78.7bn) in the first-quarter of its fiscal year 2021.\n\nMr Cook told the shareholders meeting that the acquisitions are mostly aimed at acquiring technology and talent.\n\nApple's largest acquisition in the last decade was its $3bn purchase of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker founded by rapper and producer Dr Dre.\n\nAnother high profile purchase was music recognition software company Shazam, for $400m in 2018.\n\nMost often, Apple buys smaller technology firms and then incorporates their innovations into its own products.\n\nOne example is PrimeSense, an Israeli 3D sensing company whose technology contributed to Apple’s FaceID.\n\nApple has also invested in back-end technology that wouldn’t be so obvious to iPhone or Macbook users.\n\nApple's list of acquisitions and investments is extremely varied.\n\nIn the past year, Apple has bought several artificial intelligence (AI) companies, a virtual reality events business, a payments startup and a podcast business, among others.\n\nIn 2019, Apple bought Drive.ai, a self-driving shuttle firm, in an effort to boost its own foray into self-driving technologies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Who are the 'big four' and just how much power do they have?\n\nIn 2016, the company also took a $1bn stake in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, although it wasn’t a controlling interest.\n\nApple is an immensely profitable juggernaut worth more than $2trn, so it has plenty of money to make acquisitions.\n\nBut even if it has bought 100 companies in six years, Apple appears to be very selective about what it buys.\n\nFor example, Tesla founder Elon Musk recently revealed that he approached Mr Cook to buy the electric car business when it was struggling in 2013.\n\nMr Cook didn't take the meeting, Mr Musk said.\n\nMeasured by value, Apple’s acquisitions are actually far more restrained than those of many of its tech rivals.\n\nMicrosoft paid $26bn for LinkedIn, Amazon paid $13.7bn for Whole Foods and Facebook paid $19bn for WhatsApp.\n\nApple’s ten largest purchases put together would still be worth far less than any of those deals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was adamant that I wanted a biological child of my own\"\n\nStephen Dyer always wanted to be a father.\n\nIn a relationship for five years, he discussed starting a family with his partner.\n\nThen, last May, his partner had a change of heart and they separated. For Stephen it was a turning point.\n\nHe decided to start looking at how to become a father with a surrogate. He is one of a small, but believed to be growing, number of men who have decided to have children through IVF.\n\n\"I thought - I'm 34, I have time but do I want to put myself through another three or four-year relationship only to reach the same point?\" said Stephen.\n\nThere are an increasing number of single women becoming mothers through IVF, however there are no statistics about the number of single men doing so.\n\nSurrogacy UK, who help introduce so-called 'intended parents' with surrogates, said they have seen an increase in the number of single people, including men, wanting to become members.\n\n\"I'm an only child. I didn't come out as gay until I was 26 partly because I didn't want to let down my parents, as I didn't want them to think they weren't going to have grandchildren,\" Stephen said.\n\nThe secondary school teacher looked at surrogacy in 2014 but then met his ex-partner.\n\n\"After our relationship broke down I felt like, I was happy to do it single before, and I am now,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a range of ways you can do it, not just surrogacy. There's co-parenting or adoption, but I have a deep burning desire for a biological child.\n\n\"Myself and my ex-partner were registered foster parents for a time and I looked at adoption, but in the end I wanted to experience biological fatherhood.\"\n\nStephen reached a \"turning point\" in his life after separating from his partner\n\nIt was the start of a journey he's only part-way through.\n\nHaving settled on host surrogacy, where an embryo is created with a donor egg and carried by a surrogate, he expects the costs to be up to £40,000.\n\nIt means he has had to re-mortgage his home in Newport.\n\n\"I'll do anything that I possibly can to realise my dream of becoming a father,\" he said.\n\nUntil January 2019, a single man could not have a child through surrogacy and be legally recognised as the only parent.\n\nA surrogate who carries a child is always named as a parent on a birth certificate.\n\nThe intended parents must apply for a parental order to change that, which can take months.\n\nNow a single man or woman can apply for a parental order to remove the surrogate with a single parent named instead.\n\nThe number of children born this way is about 10 times greater than a decade ago. It has become so common that the Law Commission is reviewing surrogacy laws.\n\nStephen, who blogs about his experience, knows a number of single men considering fatherhood through surrogacy.\n\nHe said: \"There's a Facebook group for single men, not just gay but straight men too, and people are coming forward and saying, 'You know, I want this as well, this is my dream'.\n\n\"We have become a community of single men who want to become dads.\"\n\nIn November his clinic found him an egg donor.\n\nStephen, pictured with his terrier Tor, decided to try and become a dad using a surrogate\n\nHe said: \"They emailed to say I would be the sole recipient of the eggs. She's in her thirties, has blue eyes, dark blonde hair, olive skin, is 1.68m tall, weighs 88kg, doesn't have children and likes theatre, nature, animals and books.\"\n\nTwo months later she donated her eggs and Stephen was called by the clinic the next day. Five eggs were fertilised.\n\n\"A week later two embryos had been created, which remain on ice in the clinic,\" he said.\n\n\"I really hope that by this time next year, one of these will be growing into a little person.\"\n\nDavid Watkins, from Southampton, was one of the first single fathers to be granted a parental order as a single father in the UK after his son Miles was born last year.\n\nHe has started up a website to help other men thinking of going it alone.\n\n\"A lot of single men have just accepted the fact that they're never going to have biological children they don't even know that the law has changed,\" he said.\n\n\"But now people are learning about the new changes in the law, I have noticed an increase in traffic and inquiries from single men who are looking to be dads on the website, in the last year.\"\n\nFor Stephen the next step is finding a surrogate.\n\nThis can take months and cost thousands of pounds in expenses.\n\n\"Hopefully I'll be able to find, or somebody will come forward and help me realise my dreams of becoming a dad,\" he said.\n\n\"And who knows, maybe in 12 or 18 months time I might I might have my own little mini-me running around?\"\n\nHe hopes the surrogate will become a \"friend and family\".\n\n\"I always anticipated I would have a partner or there will be somebody with me to bring the child up together,\" he said.\n\n\"But you can do it on your own, it is possible.\n\n\"It is not quite as easy as having a child could be, but I'm excited to be a father. I can't wait.\"\n\nWatch Wales Live on BBC One Wales at 22:35 GMT on Wednesday and on the BBC iPlayer.", "Rescuers have successfully refloated 28 pilot whales on a notorious New Zealand beach where they had repeatedly beached themselves.\n\nThe long-finned pilot whales were part of a pod of around 50 first found on Monday at Farewell Spit, known for its mass strandings.\n\nAt least 15 from the pod have died.\n\nHowever, the surviving whales, who were rescued twice, have remained close to shore and could beach themselves again, wildlife officials said.", "The driver stopped at services close to Peterborough and noticed people in his lorry, police said\n\nEighteen people have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry at a motorway service area.\n\nThe driver noticed people on board when he stopped at the Haddon services on the A1(M) near Peterborough, at about 11:30 GMT, police said.\n\nOfficers said paramedics were sent after the driver alerted police, and none of the 18 people were injured.\n\nThere were no arrests and those on board have been handed to the immigration services.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said the driver who telephoned them \"had noticed the people on board and was concerned for their welfare\".\n\nIn October 2019, 39 Vietnamese migrants overheated and suffocated in a sealed refrigerated lorry that was not turned on.\n\nLast week three men were rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in Brampton, Cambridgeshire, after telephoning police to say they were \"suffocating\" inside.\n\nOfficers asked people to look out for the \"warning signs\" of potential trafficking including hearing banging from the inside of a lorry, things being thrown from lorries in order to grab the attention of other motorists, or groups of people trying to get in to lorries, or emerging from them.\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 Ellesmere Port plant currently builds an old model of the Vauxhall Astra.\n\nTalks to secure the future of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant will continue after no firm decision was taken on Wednesday.\n\nA board meeting of Vauxhall's parent company ended without agreement on its fate, although an announcement is expected within 48 hours.\n\nMore than 1,000 people work at the site - with many more in the supply chain.\n\nThe business secretary has met the management of parent company Stellantis three times in the last six weeks.\n\nThe most recent meeting took place on Monday night, with talks involving government officials along with company management and representatives of the local authority.\n\n\"We are committed to ensuring the UK continues to be one of the best locations in the world for automotive manufacturing, and we're doing all we can to protect and create jobs, while securing a competitive future for the sector,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\nThe BBC understands that there are three main options on the table for the Cheshire plant:\n\nWhile number three is obviously the outcome the government and unions would prefer, it requires confidence that the UK will be able to build the necessary battery production facilities to service this and other UK car plants.\n\nCurrently, the only viable battery plant is in the North East, which works exclusively with its former owner Nissan.\n\nUnder the terms of the Brexit trade deal, it is possible for batteries made in the European Union (EU) to be installed in UK-assembled vehicles for export back to the EU (where most are sold). But industry experts say the economics don't make sense as the batteries are heavy and hard to transport as they are not currently permitted through the Channel Tunnel for safety reasons.\n\nDoubts about the long-term future of the factory intensified after recent comments from the chief executive of the parent company Stellantis - the new name for the merged PSA and Fiat Chrysler.\n\nCarlos Tavares referred to the \"brutal\" decision for the UK government to bring forward the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030 and said it might make more sense to move future electric production closer to its biggest market in the EU.\n\nGovernment officials are aware that the future of car production in the UK depends on a rapid scaling up of battery production and it is widely hoped Chancellor Rishi Sunak will address the issue in his Budget speech next Wednesday, which is coincidentally the same day that Stellantis announce their annual results and operating review.", "Montmartre was still semi-rural when Van Gogh painted it\n\nA Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street has gone on display for the first time after spending more than 100 years behind closed doors.\n\nA Street Scene In Montmartre has been owned by a French family for most of the time since it was painted in 1887.\n\nSotheby's estimates it could fetch up to eight million euros (£6.9m) when it is sold at auction next month.\n\nVan Gogh expert Martin Bailey told BBC News that this is \"the first time we are able to see it properly\".\n\nSmall reproductions have been made in the past, often in black-and-white. \"What is exciting is that it is a Van Gogh painting which has been hidden away ever since it came off the artist's easel,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"It has always been in private collections, so only the owners and their friends knew it.\n\n\"It is an interesting picture because it is a transitional work between Van Gogh's Dutch years, when he painted in dark, earthy colours, and the exuberant works that he did in Provence. It was in Paris that he discovered the Impressionists, and this led him to explore colour.\"\n\nThe 1887 painting will be sold on 25 March\n\nIt is one of a series of works Van Gogh created while lodging with his brother Theo in 1886 and 1887 a short distance from the street depicted in the painting.\n\nThe estimated price tag of five to eight million euros reflects the fact that the artist's Paris paintings do not fetch the \"mega sums\" of his Provence paintings, added Mr Bailey, who writes a blog on Van Gogh for The Art Newspaper.\n\n\"But until the hammer goes down, one obviously never knows what will happen at an auction. There is now a great deal of interest in Van Gogh in the Far East, so the Van Gogh market is truly global.\"\n\nThe painting will be displayed at Sotheby's auction houses in Paris, Amsterdam and Hong Kong ahead of its sale on 25 March.\n\nSotheby's said: \"The appearance on the market of a work of this calibre, and from such an iconic series, is undoubtedly a major event.\"\n\nMontmartre was still semi-rural when the scene was painted. A windmill features prominently behind some perambulating locals. The famous Sacré-Cœur church that now dominates the area was under construction at the time.\n\nVan Gogh left Paris for the south of France in 1888. He died near Paris in July 1890.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tech giants Google and Facebook have too great a share of the UK online advertising market, the boss of the UK's competition watchdog has said.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would like regulatory changes to deal with that market dominance, its boss Andrea Coscelli told the BBC.\n\nGoogle and Facebook have faced criticism from competition and other regulators in the past.\n\nFacebook said it faces \"significant competition\" online from rival firms.\n\nGoogle has also been approached for comment by the BBC.\n\nWhen questioned by the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan, Mr Coscelli said that the two tech giants have a \"duopoly\" in the UK when it comes to digital advertising, which can often be bad for competition.\n\nGoogle and Facebook have about an 80% share of the UK's £14bn digital advertising market, which is \"not an ideal situation\", Mr Coscelli said.\n\n\"We think it would be good if we got to a situation where others had a bigger share of the market,\" he said.\n\nHe also described the fact that Google holds about 90% of the UK's £7.3bn search advertising market as a \"problem\".\n\nFacebook currently has a more than 50% share of the £5.5bn display advertising market in the UK, which is too much, Mr Coscelli said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Competition and Markets Authority would like regulatory changes to deal with the 'imbalance of power'\n\n\"When companies have too much economic power, that creates a number of distortions, first for competitors, secondly for consumers, and at some level potentially in terms of the political process as well, in some cases,\" he said.\n\n\"We, in general terms, like to see markets more competitive, with more players, with more diversity of players, because we think that delivers better outcomes.\"\n\nA Facebook spokesman said its platform \"gives millions of people and businesses in the UK the opportunity to connect and share.\"\n\nHe added: \"Advertisers can and do freely move their [advertising] spending between TV, radio, print, outdoor and online.\n\n\"And in online advertising itself, we face significant competition from the likes of Google, Apple, Snap, Twitter and Amazon, as well as new entrants like TikTok, which keeps us on our toes.\"\n\nMr Coscelli stopped short of saying that Facebook and Google should be broken up.\n\n\"Our current proposal is not to break them up, it's to have pro-competitive regulation to deal with some of the issues, but it would allow the companies to maintain all the current activities that they have,\" he said.\n\nThe CMA said in December it plans to issue Facebook, Google and the other tech giants a set of rules customised to each firm to rein in \"anti-competitive behaviour\" and give consumers \"more control over how their data used\".\n\nIt is set to create a Digital Markets Unit within itself to draw up the rules and govern compliance, although legislation is required which may not be introduced until 2022.\n\nSilicon Valley firms have recently faced increasing scrutiny from other regulatory bodies around the world.\n\nBefore the UK's exit from the European Union, competition regulation for global or pan-European companies was done through Brussels.\n\nGoogle has been hit with a number of competition fines by the European Commission over the years, including a €1.49bn (£1.28bn) fine in 2019 for blocking rival online search advertisers.\n\nFacebook is also facing competition action in the United States from federal regulators and more than 45 state prosecutors who are accusing the social media company of taking illegal action to buy up rivals and stifle competition.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods is \"awake and responsive\" following surgery on serious leg injuries suffered in a car crash in Los Angeles on Tuesday.\n\nThe 15-time golf major champion, 45, had to be \"extricated from the wreck\" by firefighters and paramedics.\n\nThe American suffered \"open fractures affecting the tibia and fibula bones\" in his lower right leg \"stabilised by inserting a rod into the tibia\".\n\nInjuries to his foot and ankle have been stabilised with screws and pins.\n\n\"He [Woods] is recovering in his hospital room,\" added a statement, published on Woods' Twitter account.\n\nAnish Mahajan, chief medical officer of the Harbor UCLA Medical Centre where Woods is being treated, said the open fractures were comminuted, meaning broken in more than two pieces.\n\nMahajan added: \"Trauma to the muscle and soft tissue of the leg required surgical release of the covering of the muscles to relieve pressure due to swelling.\"\n• None Is this the end of Woods' career or will he win his biggest battle?\n\nWoods 'not able to stand'\n\nWoods was \"fortunate to be alive\" said a deputy from the LA County Sheriff's Department, who was first on the scene of the accident at 07:18 local time on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes.\n\nCarlos Gonzalez said the golfer was \"not able to stand under his own power\" before being removed from the vehicle which had sustained major damage.\n\nHe said that the American was wearing his seatbelt and was \"still calm and lucid\" when he told him his name.\n\n\"It's very fortunate that Mr Woods was able to come out of this alive,\" he added.\n\nLA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that Woods' car \"crossed the centre-divider to the point that it rested several hundred feet away\" and \"that indicates they were going at a relatively greater speed than normal\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Villanueva said no charges were expected to be filed against Woods.\n\n\"This remains an accident,\" he said. \"Accident is not a crime. They do happen, unfortunately.\"\n\nHe added: \"However, because it is downhill, it slopes and curves, that area has a high frequency of accidents. It is not uncommon.\"\n\nHe said the car hit a kerb, a tree and rolled over several times. Villanueva added \"there was no evidence of impairment\" with Woods.\n• None Tiger Woods: The triumphs and troubles of a golf superstar\n\nFormer US president Barack Obama , tennis great Serena Williams, basketball star Stephen Curry and singer Mariah Carey were among the many celebrities who posted their messages of support on social media.\n\nWorld number three Justin Thomas is one of Woods' best friends on the PGA Tour and expressed concern for his compatriot.\n\n\"I'm sick to my stomach,\" an emotional Thomas said. \"You know, it hurts to see one of your... closest friends get in an accident.\n\n\"Man, I just hope he's all right. Just worry for his kids, you know. I'm sure they're struggling.\"\n\nA statement from PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said: \"On behalf of the PGA Tour and our players, Tiger is in our prayers and will have our full support as he recovers.\"\n\nWoods, who had been recovering from a fifth back surgery in January, was in Los Angeles to host last week's Genesis Invitational PGA Tour event and was driving one of the tournament cars when he crashed.\n\nWoods was involved in a car crash in November 2009 which eventually led to admissions of infidelity and the breakdown of his marriage. He then took a break from golf but returned shortly afterwards.\n\nFollowing five wins in 2013, Woods started just 24 events in the next four years because of chronic back pain and multiple surgeries.\n\nIn 2017 Woods was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence when he was found asleep at the wheel of his car. He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving.\n\nHe had five prescription drugs in his system as he recovered from the spinal fusion surgery that ultimately gave him a second golfing career.\n\nWoods ended an 11-year wait to claim a 15th major title when he won the Masters at Augusta National for a fifth time in 2019.\n\nHe jointly holds the record for most PGA Tour wins at 82 with Sam Snead and is three behind Jack Nicklaus' mark of 18 major titles.\n\nWoods recently said he had hoped to recover from his back surgery in time to play in this year's Masters in April.\n\nHe ended 2019 sixth in golf's world rankings but is now 50th.\n\n'A very serious situation for his career'\n\nTiger Woods has had this extraordinary life which has had such massive highs on the golf course but some extraordinary lows in his personal life.\n\nThis is now a very serious situation for his career.\n\nHe was on American television on Sunday. A lot of observers were concerned at how hesitant he was about the nature of the progress that was being made in terms of his recovery and whether or not he would be fit for the Masters.\n\nAll thoughts of that now go completely out of the window and are no longer a priority.\n• None The boys are back and wondering when Peter was at 'peak Crouch'", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The ONS said hairdressing was one sector that recovered lost ground in December\n\nThe UK economy shrank by a record 9.9% last year as coronavirus restrictions hit output, official figures show.\n\nThe contraction in 2020 \"was more than twice as much as the previous largest annual fall on record\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nHowever, the economy looks set to avoid a double-dip recession after growth picked up at the end of the year.\n\nIn December, the economy grew by 1.2%, after shrinking by 2.3% in November, as some restrictions eased.\n\nHospitality, car sales and hairdressers recovered some lost ground, the ONS said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cancellor Rishi Sunak says the GDP slump is \"comparable to other countries\"\n\nThe growth meant that in the October-to-December quarter the economy expanded by 1%. As a result, the UK is expected to avoid what could have been its first double-dip recession since the 1970s.\n\nA double-dip is when the economy briefly recovers from recession, only to quickly sink back. A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters where the economy contracts.\n\nONS deputy national statistician Jonathan Athow said: \"An increase in Covid-19 testing and tracing also boosted output. The economy continued to grow in the fourth quarter as a whole, despite the additional [lockdown] restrictions in November.\"\n\nGDP was first measured in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the measure has never previously dropped by more than 4.1% in a year. However, the Bank of England models GDP going back centuries, and the 2020 contraction could be the worse since 1709.\n\nSuren Thiru, the head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: \"Despite avoiding a double-dip recession, with output still well below pre-pandemic levels amid confirmation that 2020 was a historically bleak year for the UK economy, there is little to cheer in the latest data.\"\n\nAll four economic sectors tracked by the ONS saw a drop in output, with the highest fall coming in the construction sector, which contracted by 12.5%.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC: \"Today's figures show that last year our economy experienced a significant shock, and also some signs of resilience over winter.\n\n\"You know what's clear is right now, many families and businesses are experiencing hardship. That's why we've put in place a comprehensive plan for jobs to support people through this crisis, and we will set out the next stage of our economic response at our Budget in early March.\"\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: \"These figures confirm that not only has the UK had the worst death toll in Europe, we're experiencing the worst economic crisis of any major economy.\n\n\"Businesses can't wait any longer. The chancellor needs to come forward now with a plan to secure the economy in the months ahead, with support going hand-in-hand with health restrictions.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said international economic comparisons were not necessarily a useful yardstick.\n\n\"We calculate GDP in a different way to pretty much everybody else. And if you either correct for that difference or look at it in a way that's more comfortable with nominal GDP, what you find, as the Bank of England and the ONS have pointed out, is that our performance is very much in line and comparable to other countries.\"\n\nEconomists said that with Covid-19 restrictions expected to remain until early spring, the hit to the economy will continue over the next few months.\n\n\"We anticipate a sharp decline in activity during the first quarter of the year,\" said Kemar Whyte, senior economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. \"Nevertheless, growth will pick up from the second quarter onwards as restrictions ease on the back of a successful vaccination programme.\"\n\nAs expected the economy stabilised in the last quarter of 2020. But the latest set of statistics confirm the scale of the hit over the whole of last year.\n\nA technical return to recession has been avoided, with the economy returning to growth at the end of last year. But the economy is certainly falling again so far in the first three months of 2021, due to the tough national lockdowns, as well as some impact from increased trade barriers with the European Union.\n\nThe chancellor and Bank of England will be paying much more attention to what is going on right now. The renewed lockdown has hit growth considerably again, but not as hard as last April.\n\nBusinesses and households remain in holding pattern ready to unleash pent up growth when the economy is reopened.\n\nWhile the vaccine will eventually unlock that growth, the precise timing is still uncertain, and the government remains under pressure to maintain significant sums in economic support.\n\nLast year's contraction is steeper than almost any other big economy, although Spain suffered an 11% decline.\n\nBritain has reported Europe's highest death toll from coronavirus and is among the world's highest in terms of deaths per head of population.\n\nMuch of the damage to the UK economy is attributed by economists to a high dependence on the service sector, which suffered particularly badly during the year because of lockdown.\n\nHowever, Britain has vaccinated many more people than other European countries so far, raising the prospect of a bounce-back for its economy later this year.\n\nThat potential fast rebound prompted the Bank of England's chief economist to describe the economy as like a \"coiled spring\" ready to release large amounts of \"pent-up financial energy\".\n\nAndy Haldane said on Thursday that consumer confidence would surge back thanks to the vaccine programme, with the economy firing \"on all cylinders\" by spring.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC: \"There are reasons for cautious optimism, because the vaccine roll-out is going really well.\n\n\"The prime minister will set out a roadmap for exiting restrictions in the next few weeks and months. It will be the week of February, 22nd, and it's related that we base our roadmap on the best possible evidence of data.\"", "Online travel agent Lastminute.com will be taken to court unless it pays more than £1m of outstanding refunds, the competition regulator has said.\n\nLastminute.com had promised to refund people for package holidays cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut it missed a repayment deadline at the end of January.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the company needed to pay people back within seven days to avoid court action.\n\n\"It is wholly unacceptable that thousands of Lastminute.com customers are still waiting for full refunds for package holidays despite the commitments the company signed with us,\" said CMA chief executive Andrea Coscelli.\n\n\"We take breaches of commitments extremely seriously. If Lastminute.com does not comply with the law and pay people their outstanding refunds quickly, we will take the company to court.\"\n\nLastminute.com has been approached for comment. Last week, the online travel agent said the refund process had been \"very complex and difficult\".\n\nIn December, Lastminute.com made a commitment to the watchdog to pay out more £7m to more than 9,000 customers when their holidays were cancelled due to the pandemic.\n\nPeople were supposed to get their money back by 31 January, but Lastminute.com still owes more than £1m to 2,600 customers, the CMA said.\n\nThe travel agent also told some of those package holiday customers to go directly to their airline to get the cost of their flight back, which the regulator said it was not supposed to do.\n\nConsumer group Which? said Lastminute.com had been \"one of the worst culprits when it comes to failing to refund customers for coronavirus cancellations\".\n\nWhich? had called on the CMA to uncover how many people had not been refunded in time.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said the regulatory action sent \"a clear message that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable\".\n\n\"Lastminute.com is one of countless holiday operators that have let customers down on refunds, highlighting the need for widespread reforms across the travel industry,\" he said.", "The report said the rates of children saying they felt worried \"most of the time\" were \"notably higher\" during the current lockdown\n\nThe pandemic is having a \"crushing impact\" on children and young people's lives, the Children's Commissioner for Wales has said.\n\nIt comes as a report into the impact of the current Covid lockdown revealed how 30% of 17 and 18-year-olds said they were worried \"most of the time\".\n\nThe views of 20,000 children and teenagers in Wales were represented in the report by Prof Sally Holland.\n\nOne teenager feels \"more isolated, less motivated\" than in previous lockdowns.\n\nThe report, called Coronavirus and Me, is the second commissioned by Prof Holland, who ran a similar survey in May during the first lockdown.\n\nThe new one found \"markedly fewer\" of the 12 to 18-year-olds who responded to the online survey saying they were happy \"most of the time\".\n\nIt said the rates of children saying they felt worried \"most of the time\" were \"notably higher\" during the current lockdown.\n\nProf Holland said: \"It is obvious from these survey results that, despite the enormous efforts of our schools, colleges, youth workers, social services and health services, the pandemic is having a crushing impact on many young lives.\"\n\nShe added it was clear children and young people of all ages were \"missing not only formal learning but also the socialisation and support that school and college has to offer\".\n\nIn Wales, schools and colleges have been shut since Christmas when there were rising rates of Covid infections.\n\nFoundation phase pupils are due to start a phased return to school from the Monday after half-term, although some local authority areas have said they might have to delay reopening because of concerns over infection rates.\n\nEighteen-year-old Ellie Kidd, who is studying for a Level 3 BTEC in sport, said she had been finding this lockdown tougher than the first.\n\n\"I've definitely struggled with my mental health through this lockdown in particular,\" said Ellie, who lives in Flintshire.\n\n\"I just feel more isolated, less motivated. I can call my friends but it doesn't feel the same as having the social interaction. It's been quite difficult.\"\n\nEllie Kidd, 18, said she had been finding the current lockdown tougher than the first\n\nShe said she was often in the house alone as her mother and step-father were both keyworkers.\n\nShe added: \"I had a week after Christmas when I felt very low, I kept thinking, 'How are we going to get out of this?'. I know there are vaccines now but sometimes I just keep thinking, 'when is it going to end?'.\"\n\nThe report said children as young as three described missing friends, relatives and experiences and 40% of 17-year-olds reported they felt lonely 'most of the time'.\n\nIt also found children and young people of black, Asian and other ethnic minority ethnicities and disabled youngsters were more likely to feel lonely and less likely to say they feel safe.\n\nHowever, the report also found many children and young people said they were enjoying spending time at home and were receiving good support from schools and youth workers.\n\nLuca Zenati-Parsons, 15, said he preferred working in his own time\n\nLuca Zenati-Parsons, 15, said his schoolwork had been improving during lockdown.\n\n\"I get to do it in my own time and on my own - there's no-one being loud in class,\" said Luca, from Caerphilly, who usually goes to school in Pontypridd.\n\n\"I prefer to be in my own little zone.\"\n\nProf Holland said she hoped the results of the report would give a \"clear road-map\" for the Welsh Government on what needed to be prioritised for children and young people over the next weeks and months.\n\nThe report's findings have already been shared with the Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Cell (TAC) and she said it would also be sent to SAGE, the UK's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nShe added the first priority for students returning to schools and colleges may need to be \"providing time to talk about their experiences, opportunities to be with friends and to play and also the chance to reflect on and be proud of what they have achieved during the pandemic\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said the results of the survey from May had been used \"extensively\" to decision on policy ranging from education to recent alert levels.\n\nThey added: \"The new set of findings will now also be considered as a key source of evidence when future decisions are made.\"", "US President Joe Biden has spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping\n\nUS President Joe Biden has warned that China will “eat our lunch” if America doesn’t “step up” its infrastructure spending.\n\nMr Biden was speaking on Thursday with a group of senators about the need to upgrade infrastructure in the US.\n\nHis warning comes the day after his first phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nOn the call, Mr Xi took a hard line on human rights saying a confrontation would be a disaster for both countries.\n\nMr Biden made the comments after meeting with members of the Environment and Public Works committee.\n\n“If we don’t get moving, they are going to eat our lunch,” President Biden told senators.\n\n“They’re investing billions of dollars dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things. We just have to step up.”\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Biden proposed spending $2tn (£1.45tn) over four years to create jobs and invest in clean energy infrastructure.\n\nA widely cited American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “report card” from 2017 gave the country’s infrastructure a grade of “D+”.\n\nThe ASCE estimated that the total “infrastructure gap” needed $2tn by 2025 to fix, but would cost the economy twice as much if it went unaddressed.\n\nThe World Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Competitiveness Report ranked the US 13th in a broad measure of infrastructure quality, down from fifth place in 2002.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expect 'extreme competition' between US and China\n\nChina has been investing heavily in its infrastructure, pouring money into high-speed rail, metro systems, apartment buildings, electricity grids and mobile networks.\n\n“They have a major, major new initiative on rail and they already have rail that goes 225 miles an hour with ease,” Mr Biden noted.\n\nPresident Biden also discussed several other points of friction with the Chinese President during his call.\n\nThe White House said he voiced “fundamental” concerns about Beijing’s “coercive and unfair” trade practices, as well as concerns over China’s crackdown in Hong Kong and treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nHe also raised China’s increasingly assertive posture toward Taiwan and the country’s lack of transparency over Covid-19, said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki.\n\nMr Xi maintained a hard line on Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Taiwan, calling them matters of “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.\n\nHe told Mr Biden confrontation would be a “disaster” and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgements, China’s foreign ministry said.\n• None Is high-speed rail travel on a track to nowhere?", "Sawfish fins and teeth are sold as trophies, food and medicine\n\nThey are the most extraordinary of fish, resembling \"hedge trimmers with fins\".\n\nThe sawfish, which is a kind of ray, is also among the most endangered of the fish living in the oceans.\n\nOnce found along the coastlines of 90 countries, the animals are now presumed extinct in more than half of these, according to a new study.\n\nThey are vanishing due to habitat loss and entanglement in fishing nets, experts have said.\n\nTheir \"saws\", which evolved to sense and attack prey, have now become a liability, making them prone to being caught up in fishing gear.\n\n\"Through the plight of sawfish, we are documenting the first cases of a wide-ranging marine fish being driven to local extinction by overfishing,\" said Prof Nick Dulvy of Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada.\n\nOf the five species of sawfish, three are critically endangered, while two are listed as endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.\n\nSome species reach lengths of about 7m (23 ft)\n\nPreviously widespread, the sawfish are now presumed extinct in 55 nations, the study said.\n\nThere are 18 countries where at least one species of sawfish is missing, and 28 more where two species have disappeared.\n\nThe list of countries where sawfish are extinct now includes China, Iraq, Haiti, Japan, Timor-Leste, El Salvador, Taiwan, Djibouti and Brunei.\n\nThe US and Australia appear to be the last strongholds for the species, regarded as \"lifeboat nations,\" where sawfish are better protected.\n\nThe study, published in Science Advances, also identified eight nations where urgent action could make a big contribution to saving the species through conservation efforts.\n\nThese are Cuba, Tanzania, Colombia, Madagascar, Panama, Brazil, Mexico and Sri Lanka.\n\nTheir teeth are easily caught in fishing nets\n\n\"While the situation is dire, we hope to offset the bad news by highlighting our informed identification of these priority nations with hope for saving sawfish in their waters,\" said Helen Yan of SFU.\n\nShe said it is still possible to restore sawfish to more than 70% of their historical range, \"if we act now\".\n\nInternational trade in sawfish is prohibited under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna, but targeted and accidental killings still occur.\n\nSawfish fins and teeth are sold as trophies, food or medicine, and as spurs for cockfighting.\n\nSonja Fordham, a researcher of the study and president of Shark Advocates International, said there were opportunities to \"bring these extraordinary animals back from the brink\".\n\nBut she warned that in too many places, \"we're running out of time to save them\".\n• None 'Time is running out' to save sharks and rays", "China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday.\n\nChina has criticised the BBC for its reporting on coronavirus and the persecution of ethnic minority Uighurs.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"disappointed\" by the decision.\n\nIt follows British media regulator Ofcom revoking state broadcaster China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK.\n\nSeparately, the broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) said it would stop relaying BBC World Service programming in the region, prompting condemnation from the BBC.\n\nChina's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) said that BBC World News reports about China were found to \"seriously violate\" broadcast guidelines, including \"the requirement that news should be truthful and fair\" and not \"harm China's national interests\".\n\nIt said that the BBC's application to air for another year would not be accepted.\n\nThe BBC said in a statement: \"We are disappointed that the Chinese authorities have decided to take this course of action. The BBC is the world's most trusted international news broadcaster and reports on stories from around the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.\"\n\nThe commercially funded BBC World News TV channel broadcasts globally in English. In China it is largely restricted and appears only in international hotels and some diplomatic compounds, meaning most Chinese people cannot view it.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the move an \"unacceptable curtailing of media freedom\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 US State Department condemned the decision, calling it part of a wider campaign to suppress free media in China.\n\nIn Hong Kong, the publicly-funded broadcaster RTHK said it was suspending the relaying of BBC World Service radio. It had previously aired it daily from 23:00 to 07:00. It also removed a weekly Cantonese programme from the BBC's Chinese Service from its schedule.\n\nBBC World News TV channel broadcasts, however, are still available in Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong, a former British colony, is expected to retain certain rights and freedoms, including freedom of press, until 2047, as part of a handover agreement between China and Britain.\n\nHong Kong Journalists Association chairman Chris Yeung Kin-hing told the South China Morning Post that RTHK's decision was \"disturbing and worrying\", amid questions about whether RTHK was instructed to act by the authorities.\n\nThe RTHK union also called the decision \"extremely regrettable\", adding: \"Under the policy of One Country Two Systems, we've never seen Hong Kong being required to follow decisions of China's State Film, TV and Radio Administration before\".\n\nHong Kong's Office of the Communications Authority said it \"did not set boundaries\" and that decisions were up to individual operators.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We condemn this decision by the Chinese authorities. Access to accurate and impartial news is a fundamental human right and should not be denied to the people of Hong Kong and mainland China, millions of whom rely on BBC News every week.\"\n\nThe corporation rejected accusations of bias and said it would make every effort to bring the news to its audiences, who would \"still find ways to access the BBC\".\n\nThe actions in China and Hong Kong follow Ofcom's revoking of the CGTN licence after it found it was wrongfully held by Star China Media Ltd.\n\nCGTN was also found in breach of British broadcasting regulations last year, for airing the allegedly forced confession of UK citizen Peter Humphrey.\n\nCGTN can now also no longer be broadcast in Germany following Ofcom's decision, Deutsche Welle reports, as the licence in Germany had been approved by Ofcom as part of a sharing initiative.\n\nRelations between China and the UK have seen a serious deterioration in recent months over Hong Kong, where Beijing introduced a controversial new security law after a large pro-democracy movement swept the ex-colony.\n\nIn January the UK introduced a new visa that gives 5.4 million Hong Kong residents the right to live in the UK and eventually become citizens because it believes China is undermining the territory's rights and freedoms.\n\nAnd in the past two years China has been systematically blocking or banning foreign media, including in effect expelling journalists from three US newspapers in 2020. The BBC website and its app are already banned in mainland China.\n\nIn February the BBC published a report featuring interviews with Uighur women who said they had been systematically raped, sexually abused and tortured in China's \"re-education\" camps in Xinjiang. China's foreign ministry accused the BBC of making a \"false report\".\n\nLast month the US said China had committed genocide in its repression of the Uighurs and other mainly Muslim groups.\n\nAccording to estimates, more than a million Uighurs and other minorities have been detained in camps in China.\n\nChina denies that Uighurs are persecuted. Last year China's UK ambassador Liu Xiaoming told the BBC's Andrew Marr that reports of concentration camps were \"fake\" and the Uighurs received the same treatment under the law as other ethnic groups in his country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"", "Conor Murphy and Arlene Foster were speaking at the NI Executive press briefing on Thursday\n\nStormont ministers will take a \"collective approach\" when reviewing NI's lockdown restrictions next week, Conor Murphy has said.\n\nNI re-entered lockdown on 26 December, with the measures due to last until 5 March.\n\nBut ministers will meet on Thursday to review what should happen beyond that point.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said there needed to be one more \"push\" to reduce infection rates as much as possible.\n\nNext Thursday's executive meeting would be a \"key decision point\" about how Northern Ireland emerges from lockdown, she said.\n\nA pathway to recovery document is due to be published by the executive in the coming weeks, with many businesses asking for clarity around indicative reopening dates.\n\nIt comes as Stormont's health minister warned there are concerns that Northern Ireland's Covid-19 transmission rate has stagnated.\n\nThe R - or reproduction - number was estimated between 1.5 to 1.9 at the start of January, but has fallen to below one.\n\nSpeaking at the executive's press briefing on Thursday, Mrs Foster said she recognised that people wanted to see an end to restrictions, but warned: \"We need to see numbers as low as possible so we can plan for gradually emerging from lockdown.\"\n\nShe said Northern Ireland's R number is currently sitting at 0.75 to 0.85 and that it was right to remain hopeful for \"better days ahead\".\n\n\"We must approach with care so we don't lose the gains we have made, the clear message has been about saving lives and easing pressure.\"\n\nNine more coronavirus-related deaths were reported on Thursday, along with 253 new cases.\n\nAccording to Department of Health figures, 1,966 people have now died in Northern Ireland after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThere are 518 people being treated in hospital for the virus in Northern Ireland.\n\nSome 58 are in intensive care units (ICU), 57 of which are ventilated - a drop of four from the previous day.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland a further 52 deaths have been recorded, bringing its total to 3,846.\n\nA further 866 confirmed cases of the virus have also been reported.\n\nAt the executive meeting on Thursday, the first minister also said it had considered the issue of international travel.\n\n\"I do regret it's not a four and five-nation approach,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the executive would consider the use of quarantine hotels for passengers from so-called red list countries, if and when international flights begin in NI again.\n\nMr Murphy said his party had been arguing for an all-island approach throughout the pandemic, and said there were \"international lessons\" about how to manage travel.\n\n\"I want to see as much of a joined-up approach as we can possibly manage.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health has said 353,757 people have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Northern Ireland.\n\nVerbal abuse is being levelled at vaccine call centre staff, the Department of Health has warned.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who heads up the vaccination programme in Northern Ireland, said there have also been issues with double-booking and no-shows at vaccine centres.\n\nShe said: \"Unfortunately, there have been some instances of people who are not eligible for the jab phoning up to try to get an appointment.\n\n\"Some become abusive when they are informed that they cannot book. This is unacceptable behaviour and it must stop.\"\n\nMs Donnelly said there were concerns that abuse of the booking system was making it more difficult for people who are eligible to get through.\n\nShe added: \"We are also seeing cases of some people double booking - by telephone and online. This is taking appointments from others.\n\n\"Please turn up when you have made an appointment. Please don't phone up if you are not eligible - you won't get a booking. And please be courteous to staff on the telephone lines.\n\n\"I fully understand people are anxious to get the protection that the vaccines offer. Let me assure everyone that we are rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as we can. While it is not a race, I believe our progress to date would be the envy of many other countries.\n\n\"Our rate of progress is limited by the availability of supplies. Further vaccine supplies will come and you will get your jab. Please be patient.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the department has appealed for people aged between 65 and 69-years-old to get their vaccine after demand has slowed since after an initial surge in demand when slots were made available for that age group late last month.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Swann told Stormont's health committee that the drop in the R number had \"undoubtedly saved lives\".\n\n\"We always need a period of time when R is as low as possible - to more quickly break those chains of infection which are resulting in people becoming sick and hospitalised and losing their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Our health and social care needs time to deliver other care and that has been delayed or disrupted by the epidemic,\" he added.\n\nHe also discussed the issue of new variants of the virus and said the Kent variant now accounts for 40-60% of new cases in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was also asked about what changes are being made to the Covid-19 strategy to avoid more cycles of lockdown and lifting of restrictions.\n\nHe said a lot had been learned from the first wave of the pandemic, and they have \"massively up-scaled\" the test, trace and protect (TTP) programme.\n\nHe said the average contact time is now six-and-a-half hours after a positive case.\n\nAt the peak of this wave in January, 12,000 cases were referred to TTP and contact success was 93.5%, he said.\n\nSince January, there has been an increase in the average number of contacts from one to two-and-a-half people despite the current restrictions in place, he added.\n\nMr Swann also said testing is being rolled out elsewhere - in workplaces, special schools, meat factories, Translink - and waste water was also being tested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Pearson said the remains of a cow, which was found at the site, suggested animals may have helped to pull the stones to their resting spot in England\n\nOne of Britain's biggest and oldest stone circles has been found in Wales - and could be the original building blocks of Stonehenge.\n\nArchaeologists uncovered the remains of the Waun Mawn site in Pembrokeshire's Preseli Hills.\n\nThey believe the stones could have been dismantled and rebuilt 150 miles (240 km) away on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.\n\nThe discovery was made during filming for BBC Two's Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed.\n\nThe Welsh circle, believed to be the third biggest in Britain, has a diameter of 360ft (110m), the same as the ditch that encloses Stonehenge, and both are aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise.\n\nSeveral of the monoliths at the World Heritage Site are of the same rock type as those that still remain at the Welsh site.\n\nAnd one of the bluestones at Stonehenge has an unusual cross-section which matches one of the holes left at Waun Mawn, suggesting the monolith began its life as part of the stone circle in the Preseli Hills before being moved.\n\nArchaeologists unearthed the ancient stone circle at Waun Mawn in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire\n\nIt is already known that the smaller bluestones that were first used to build Stonehenge were transported from 150 miles (240 km) away in modern-day Pembrokeshire.\n\nBut the new discovery suggests the bluestones from Waun Mawn could have been moved as the ancient people of the Preseli region migrated, even taking their monuments with them, as a sign of their ancestral identity.\n\nThey would then have been re-erected at Stonehenge.\n\nArchaeologists said this could explain why the bluestones, thought to be the first monoliths erected at Stonehenge, were brought from so far away, while most circles are constructed within a short distance of their quarries.\n\nThe team was working in bad weather in the Preseli Hills when the circle was discovered\n\nThe archaeological investigations as part of the Stones of Stonehenge research project, led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson of University College London, previously excavated two bluestone quarries in the Preseli Hills.\n\nTheir discovery that the bluestones had been extracted before the first stage of Stonehenge was built in 3000 BC prompted the team to re-investigate the nearby Waun Mawn stones to see if it was the site of a stone circle supplied by the quarry and later moved.\n\nOnly four monoliths remain at the site, but an archaeological dig in 2018 revealed holes where stones would have stood, showing the remaining stones were part of a wider circle of 30-50 stones.\n\nAnd the scientific dating of charcoal and sediment from the holes reveal it was put up around 3400 BC.\n\nThe Preseli Hills are 150 miles (240 km) from Stonehenge in Wiltshire\n\nFindings of the discovery, published in the journal Antiquity, show significant links between Stonehenge and Waun Mawn.\n\nIt also confirms that the region was an important and densely settled area in Neolithic times until 3000 BC when activity seems to have ceased.\n\nProf Parker Pearson said: \"It's as if they just vanished. Maybe most of the people migrated, taking their stones - their ancestral identities - with them.\"\n\nAnalysis of the remains of people buried at Stonehenge at the time the bluestones were erected there would seem to back up the theory, as it shows some of them were from western Britain, possibly Wales.\n\nWith only a few of the Stonehenge stones directly linked to Waun Mawn, the archaeologists also believe monoliths from other stone circles could have been taken from Wales to form part of the new monument.\n\nProf Parker Pearson said: \"With an estimated 80 bluestones put up on Salisbury Plain at Stonehenge and nearby Bluestonehenge, my guess is that Waun Mawn was not the only stone circle that contributed to Stonehenge.\n\n\"Maybe there are more in Preseli waiting to be found. Who knows? Someone will be lucky enough to find them.\"\n\nStonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed will be broadcast on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Friday 12 February.", "Before lockdown, Lorna was happy to just snuggle up with her cats Image caption: Before lockdown, Lorna was happy to just snuggle up with her cats\n\nWhen Wales was locked down to try to stop the spread of coronavirus, comedian Lorna Pritchard thought it would put a halt to her planned return to the world of dating.\n\nBut the romcom fan went online, found her hero and fell in love. Here she describes how she found her happy ending:\n\nI spent a couple of years in the dating wasteland. And in March 2019 I decided to give myself a year off. Instead, I'd focus on my career in stand-up comedy. March 2020 would be the perfect time to get back on the dating scene.\n\nWhen that month finally came round, I realised to my dismay that a global plague had accompanied it. Dating was completely off the cards!\n\nBy May I was ready to give up. I thought I'd have one more trawl through my dating inboxes out of politeness.\n\nThat's when a man called Leo caught my eye.\n\nRead more about Lorna's love story here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Piers says he does not want to go on holiday, he only wants to go to school\n\nAll Piers says he wants to do is go to school every day. He does not even want a holiday - just school, school and more school.\n\nBut Piers, who lives with a form of autism, has not been able to finish the final year of his maths GCSE full-time in the classroom with his friends and teachers because of lockdown.\n\n\"I really love school,\" said the 18-year-old. \"It's my favourite thing.\"\n\nBut Piers, like some of his friends, has only been in class one day a week.\n\nThe head teacher at his south Wales school, for children with special educational needs, says that while missing large parts of their education has the \"biggest impact\" on children with additional needs, school is a \"safety net\" for both pupils and their families.\n\nAnd how Piers, who also has learning difficulties and sensory issues, has missed being in the classroom and around familiar faces.\n\n\"I don't want a holiday at all this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I just wanted to go to school every day. I only get to do one day a week as it is my final year.\"\n\nHe has struggled with home-schooling because of his \"sleeping issues\" - and the strict lockdowns in Wales have not just affected Piers' education but his mood too.\n\nMaths GCSE students Piers and Amy join a digital lesson during their one day in school a week\n\n\"I'm not able to go out and my mental health is deteriorating,\" said Piers, who lives in Monmouth.\n\n\"I've been very upset and sobbing every day. I've a sweet tooth and wanting to eat lots of chocolate.\n\n\"I love going to school because it is learning - you are made to do work - because when I'm at home I want to sleep all of the time. I'd rather be kept on my toes and be busy.\"\n\nPiers' story is one of how a student with additional educational needs is dealing with the uncertain challenges of a global health emergency.\n\nJust 20% of Crownbridge's pupils are in school during lockdown\n\n\"School for some of our children is the safety net, not only for the children but for the families,\" said Bethan Moore, acting head of Crownbridge Special School in Cwmbran.\n\n\"Sometimes it's just a bit of respite for the children to come to school.\"\n\nAbout 20 of Crownbridge's 116 pupils have been going into school during lockdown while the rest remain at home and have been offered remote learning.\n\n\"It was kind of annoying at first, with the mask and because of Covid you can't do things,\" added Piers' school friend Amy, 19, who is also studying for a GCSE in maths.\n\nSchool \"brings out the best\" in final year student Amy\n\n\"But I haven't found it that bad as we've done some fun things.\"\n\nAmy's mum Caroline, from Monmouth, said her daughter, who has autism, \"thrived\" in school as it \"brings out the best in her\".\n\n\"Since lockdown it has been particularly difficult,\" she said.\n\n\"But the school has made great efforts to engage with Amy at home and in school which is really important because Amy needs that routine, the teachers have made it fun.\n\n\"The online learning experience is new but it has taught her some new skills so the blended-learning approach has been positive.\"\n\nCrownbridge, like all schools across the UK, has had to rapidly adapt to challenge of continuing education and mitigating the risks of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our teacher will send learning packs home each week with targets,\" said teaching assistant Megan Israel.\n\n\"The parents then send the work back and we put it in the children's folders to ensure the children are not missing out.\"\n\nThe \"blended learning approach\" is also applied to physio and exercise targets for pupils with more acute and physical needs.\n\nBut Ms Israel said it was important some pupils could attend school to use the specialist equipment \"to meet their needs\".\n\nTeachers have worked closely with physiotherapists and speech and language therapists to ensure support is provided to families at home.\n\n\"We are concerned about the dip in their progress,\" added Ms Moore.\n\n\"But as far as Crownbridge concerned, we've been really good at working as a tight team, providing support for pupils and families who are blended learning at home.\"\n\nCrownbridge Special School has 116 pupils aged between two and 19 on its roll\n\nWelsh Government guidance on Covid measures allows for \"a practical and flexible approach\" for children with special educational needs.\n\nThe school has established small contact groups and intensified cleaning on site and some facilities are shut, like their hydro pool or the hall where pupils would undergo physiotherapy.\n\nSocial distancing, masks and other coronavirus prevention measures can be more difficult to implement in schools like Crownbridge where many children have difficulty communicating and need physical interaction.\n\nStaff wear face coverings around the school but Ms Moore says it becomes more difficult when they interact with the children \"who rely on the mouth and the speech and language to communicate\".\n\nSome of Crownbridge's pupils need to use specialist equipment\n\nThe Welsh Government has pledged to vaccinate special school staff who provide intimate personal care for children - and Crownbridge's staff are waiting for their Covid jabs.\n\nWhile there are limited numbers of children coming into school, they also provide opportunities for their pupils to learn from home, whatever their needs.\n\nTeacher Bethan Stokes has teenagers Elliot and Shay in class doing some sensory maths by singing a song about numbers and asking them to use a fly swat to splat piles of cream with different amounts of cherries on the top.\n\nAfter the excitement of making a mess in the classroom, they go to the sensory room to let off some steam.\n\n\"We try to keep it as normal as possible,\" said Ms Stokes.\n\n\"It's really difficult because obviously the children know things aren't normal because of the circumstances. I'm so proud of how they're coping.\"", "Colin Norris was convicted of murdering four elderly patients\n\nThe case of a nurse who was was jailed for life for murdering four patients and attempting to kill a fifth has been referred to the Court of Appeal.\n\nColin Norris, 45, was convicted in 2008 of injecting the patients with insulin in hospitals in Leeds.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission said new evidence created a \"real possibility\" his conviction was unsafe.\n\nBBC Scotland and Panorama investigations had previously cast doubt on the verdicts.\n\nNorris, who was originally from Glasgow, was convicted of murdering Doris Ludlam, 80, Bridget Bourke, 88, Irene Crookes, 79, and 86-year-old Ethel Hall.\n\nHe was alleged to have injected them with lethal doses of insulin at Leeds General Infirmary and the city's St James's Hospital in 2002.\n\nHe was also found guilty of attempting to murder 90-year-old Vera Wilby.\n\nAll five women were elderly inpatients on orthopaedic wards where Norris worked as a nurse.\n\nThe CCRC said its decision followed a detailed review of what it described as a \"complex and difficult case\".\n\nIt noted the case against Norris, who was jailed for a minimum of 30 years, was \"wholly circumstantial\" and \"heavily reliant on expert opinion evidence\".\n\nAs a result of new expert evidence, the CCRC said: \"There is a real possibility that the Court of Appeal will decide that that Mr Norris's conviction for the murder/attempted murder of one or more of the four patients is unsafe.\"\n\nIn the case of Mrs Hall, it said the conviction depended upon support from the other four cases that \"no-one other than Mr Norris could have been responsible\".\n\nIt concludes: \"In light of the new expert evidence, the CCRC is satisfied that this assertion is now less secure and that, as a result, there is a real possibility that the Court of Appeal will quash this conviction too.\"\n\nBBC Scotland Investigations correspondent Mark Daly first reported his concerns about the conviction in 2011.\n\nColin Norris was sentenced to 30 years in prison\n\nDuring a later Panorama investigation, he was told by two experts that there could be a natural explanation for the blood test results - a rare condition called insulin auto immune syndrome.\n\nIn 2015, the foreman of the jury that convicted Norris told the BBC he now believed he was innocent and that if the case was presented with the new evidence, he doubted it would get to court.\n\nNorris' case has also been championed for more than a decade by Inside Justice UK.\n\nThe campaign group said it was \"thrilled\" by the news, which was announced on Norris' birthday.\n\nThe appeal was led by Michael Mansfield QC.\n\nDubbed the \"Angel of Death\", Colin Norris was the young nurse who went rogue and became a serial killer.\n\nHe was the common denominator in a cluster of unexplained deaths from hypoglycaemia, or extreme low blood sugar, in elderly patients who were not diabetic.\n\nThere was no physical evidence against him; no fingerprints or DNA. But a circumstantial case was built and he was prosecuted, convicted and given a 30-year jail term.\n\nMy involvement in the case started in 2011, and alongside Louise Shorter from Inside Justice, we painstakingly investigated the case. We became more convinced there could be a problem with the evidence and that an innocent man may have been wrongly imprisoned as a serial killer.\n\nWe produced two documentaries, including a BBC Panorama programme in 2014, each raising fresh concerns about the conviction. New applications were made to the CCRC to consider the case afresh. But the years came and went, and still the CCRC hadn't reached a decision.\n\nBehind the scenes, Norris's lawyers, led by eminent QC Michael Mansfield, pressed on, searching for still fresher developments in the scientific knowledge around hypoglycaemia.\n\nAnd now, nearly 10 years since the CCRC first looked at the case, it has decided Colin Norris's convictions may no longer be safe and should be tested again at the Court of Appeal.\n\nNorris received the news at his high security prison at HMP Frankland in Durham on his 45th birthday. He now has a glimmer of hope his name could be cleared.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tommy Ross took this picture from Kit Hill near Launceston in Cornwall\n\nA huge fire has broken out across an area of moorland in Dartmoor, Devon.\n\nRob Steemson, Dartmoor National Park emergency officer, estimated the blaze to be about 5km (3.1 miles) wide and continuing to spread.\n\nHe said the fire, which could be seen about 20 miles away in Plymouth, was being stoked by fierce south-westerly winds.\n\nThe blaze is on remote moorland near Tavistock and no residents or animals are thought to have been injured.\n\nMr Steemson said a \"watching brief\" was ongoing overnight \"because although it is affecting the moorland, it's not affecting any property or walkers or people out there\".\n\nHe said he believed firefighters were not directly trying to put out the blaze because of the strength of the winds.\n\n\"All being well it will peter out when it goes out of the wind and into the river valleys,\" the emergency officer said.\n\nThe fire can be seen from the hamlet of Hatt in Cornwall\n\nTen fire service vehicles are dealing with the fire at Tavy Cleave, a Devon and Somerset Fire spokesman said, adding that members of the public should avoid the area.\n\nThe area on fire was \"general moorland\", Mr Steemson said, made up of heather, gorse and bracken.\n\nHe said many Dartmoor residents were trained in dealing with fires of this nature, but had not yet been asked to go out.\n\nThe fire is thought to be about 5km (3.1 miles) wide\n\nColin Sargent saw the blaze from his house at Brentor on the western edge of Dartmoor.\n\n\"It was a long line of flames and the sky was just getting redder and redder,\" he said.\n\n\"It was just a red glow in the sky like a sunset or sunrise.\"\n\nColin Sargent said the blaze looked like a sunset\n\nThis fire is the latest in a spate of winter blazes, including at a nature reserve in Cornwall and a number of them in Scotland's Western Isles, all on Wednesday.\n\nArea commander Bruce Farquharson, from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, said winter fires were not uncommon due to extreme cold \"curing\" or drying out vegetation, and happened in Antarctica, Norway and. Scandinavia.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"It is counter intuitive for almost everybody but the risk is there, the vegetation is tinder dry and it just takes the slightest spark to ignite the fire and it will burn very quickly and spread very quickly.\"\n\nBBC weatherman David Braine said the air temperature at Okehampton on the northern edge of Dartmoor was 0C at 22:30, with wind chill making it feel like -8C.\n\nThe fire on Dartmoor lit up the night sky\n\nSmoke from the flames filled the skies near Bridestowe in West Devon\n\nAre you in the area? Can you see the fire? If it is safe 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.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools in Wrexham will delay opening classes to children aged three to seven due to concerns over coronavirus rates.\n\nFoundation phase pupils are due to start a phased return to school from the Monday after half term.\n\nWrexham still has the highest rate of Covid infections in Wales, and will not be sending children back until Friday, 26 February.\n\nAnglesey, Denbighshire and Gwynedd are also delaying the immediate return of younger pupils.\n\nThe Welsh Government announced last week that primary schools would begin the process of reopening for the first time since Christmas on 22 February.\n\nWrexham council said: \"Although coronavirus levels are falling in Wrexham, the figures are still very high, so the council and headteachers are carefully considering plans, while continually monitoring the local situation.\n\n\"In light of this cautious approach, children will not be returning to schools in Wrexham until Friday, 26 February at the very earliest - depending on local coronavirus levels after half-term.\"\n\nWrexham and Flintshire still have six of the 10 highest localised rates in Wales, when they are broken down by community - or what are known as middle layer super output areas (MSOAs).\n\nAlthough these case rates too have dropped back in recent weeks.\n\nThe highest in Wrexham - Wrexham West - has seen 35 actual positive tests over the last week.\n\nThere are local hotspots too in Holywell and Bagillt and part of Connah's Quay in Flintshire\n\nFlintshire council, which currently has the second highest case rate in Wales, said it would review a decision to reopen schools on 22 February \"should the public health situation become a cause for concern\".\n\nSchools on Anglesey, which has the third highest rate of coronavirus infections in Wales, said it would also be delaying pupils returning, phased from Thursday, 25 February.\n\n\"Our aim is that all foundation phase pupils are back in their classrooms by Wednesday, 3 March at the latest,\" Anglesey officials said.\n\nMeanwhile Denbighshire said its primary schools would reopen to foundation phase pupils from Wednesday, 24 February, as long as \"all necessary safety measures\" are in place.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council has confirmed the Monday and Tuesday of that week will see schools remain closed for staff to prepare for pupils' return.\n\n\"Gwynedd's Education Authority has met with head teachers this week to ensure they are fully aware of the latest development and our officers continue to offer help and advice regarding the planned phased opening for foundation phase pupils during the week beginning 22 February,\" a spokesman said.\n\nFree school meals and school transport will be available for all eligible pupils when those schools reopen, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nChildren classed as vulnerable and those of critical workers have been able to remain in school during lockdown. No timetable has yet been given for the return of other children.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams schools should be \"last to close and first to open\"\n\nIn an open letter to headteachers, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said the Welsh Government had \"always said\" schools should be \"last to close and first to open\" when safe to do so.\n\nShe said \"much lower\" rates of transmission of Covid-19 and advice from its Technical Advisory Group had allowed the \"partial and phased return to face-to-face learning in schools\".\n\nMs Williams explained there would be some flexibility to the arrangement over the first week, but with all foundation pupils in school by the end of the week.\n\nAny further phased return for other year groups will be considered as part of the next 21 day review on 19 February.\n\nThe Welsh Government has also issued detailed guidance on the return to classes, with teachers told they will be expected to face masks in some circumstances.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK chairman of KPMG has resigned following a row over comments he made at a meeting on Monday.\n\nBill Michael had told consultants to \"stop moaning\" about the impact of the pandemic and lockdown on people's lives, and to stop \"playing the victim card\".\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, Mr Michael said his position was \"untenable\".\n\nHe added that he was \"truly sorry that my words have caused hurt amongst my colleagues\".\n\nMr Michael had temporarily stepped aside after KPMG launched an independent investigation into the comments.\n\nHe said on Friday: \"I love the firm and I am truly sorry that my words have caused hurt amongst my colleagues and for the impact the events of this week have had on them.\n\n\"In light of that, I regard my position as untenable and so I have decided to leave the firm.\"\n\nThe row blew up this week after Mr Michael made the comments in an online meeting with 500 staff members.\n\nStaff had raised concerns over potential pay, pension and bonus cuts.\n\nIn a video of the meeting widely circulated online, Mr Michael said: \"I have spoken to a lot of partners, and people at all sorts of levels, where it almost feels like this [pandemic] is being done to them. Well, you can't play the role of victim unless you're sick. And I hope you're not sick, and you're not ill, and if you're not, take control of your life, don't sit there and moan about it.\"\n\nIn another part of the video, Mr Michael also questioned whether unconscious bias training, which tries to get people to challenge any stereotypes they hold without realising, was effective.\n\n\"There is no such thing as unconscious bias.\" he said. \"I don't buy it, because after every single unconscious bias training that's ever been done nothing has ever improved. So unless you care, you actually won't change.\"\n\nHe later apologised for the comments, saying his words did not reflect his beliefs.\n\nWhile at KPMG Mr Michael \"championed the debate about bank culture and standards and the need for change in the industry,\" according to a KPMG biography.\n\nHe was also special adviser to the UK's Treasury Select Committee into Banking Standards.\n\nWhen Mr Michael stepped aside pending the investigation into his comments KPMG appointed its first female leaders in 150 years.\n\nBina Mehta stepped in as acting chairman and Mary O'Connor took over Mr Michael's day-to-day executive responsibilities as acting senior partner.\n\nMs Mehta said on Friday: \"Bill has made a huge contribution to our firm over the last 30 years, especially over the last three years as chairman, and we wish him all the best for the future.\"\n\nMr Michael will leave the business at the end of the month after a handover period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CEO Secrets: Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe says don't take yourself too seriously\n\nNo bumbling here: Dating app Bumble, which made its name by putting women in charge of making contact with potential mates, has soared to a market value of more than $13bn after listing shares.\n\nBumble, which also owns Badoo, is one of less than two dozen US firms to list publicly while led by a female founder.\n\nShares in the firm debuted at $43 apiece, valuing it at over $8bn.\n\nBut in opening trade on Thursday they shot up to more than $76 each, making the firm worth more than $13bn (£9.4bn).\n\nMs Wolfe Herd launched Bumble in Texas in 2014, with backing from Russian billionaire Andreey Andreev, the founder of European online dating site Badoo.\n\nShe has said she was inspired to create a platform where women \"make the first move\" by her frustration with archaic gender norms controlling dating.\n\nUnlike most dating apps, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users, while in same-sex matches either person can send a message first.\n\n\"I have experienced firsthand how unequal relationships negatively impact all areas of life,\" she wrote in a letter to investors ahead of the share listing. \"I wanted to change this.\"\n\nMs Wolfe Herd, the youngest woman to take a company public in the US, also co-founded dating app Tinder, but left the firm alleging sexual harassment.\n\nTinder's parent company Match Group Inc, which denied the claims and later tried unsuccessfully to acquire Bumble, paid about $1m to settle the dispute.\n\nMs Wolfe Herd has led Bumble and Badoo since 2019 when Mr Andreev sold his stakes in both businesses to investment giant Blackstone. The two apps combined have 40 million active users, including more than 2.4 million paying customers.\n\nBumble, whose apps are available in more than 150 countries, has said it is poised for growth, pointing to the rising number of single people globally, increased adoption of online dating and signs that users have become more willing to pay.\n\nThe firm is also expanding into new areas, like business networking.\n\nBut despite an uptick in use, the pandemic has hurt the business, which makes money primarily from subscriptions and in-app purchases.\n\nIn 2019, revenue jumped more than 35% and it turned a profit of $68.6m.\n\nIn the first nine months of 2020, however, its growth rate sank to roughly 15% year-on-year, and it posted a loss of $116m.\n\nIn recent months, investors have displayed strong appetite for shares of new listings, sending companies such as Airbnb and Doordash to sky-high valuations in their market debuts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens: \"This has been a very encouraging start, and obviously there is much more to do\".\n\nThe NHS is \"firmly on track\" to offer everyone in the top four priority groups in England a Covid vaccine by Monday, says the head of NHS England.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said it had been \"the fastest and largest vaccination campaign in history\".\n\nThe UK government's aim is to reach 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February - and 14 million have been vaccinated so far.\n\nWales said on Friday it was the first UK nation to meet its target.\n\nSpeaking at the Coventry hospital where the first person in the UK to be vaccinated - 91-year-old Maggie Keenan - received her first dose, Sir Simon said it had been an \"incredible achievement\" by staff and volunteers.\n\n\"The uptake has been fantastic - we thought three-quarters would say yes to the vaccine but more than nine out of 10 have done so,\" he said.\n\nAnyone aged over 70 in England who hasn't been vaccinated can go online or call 119 to book an appointment.\n\nFrom next week, details of who will be vaccinated in the next phase of the programme involving the over 50s and people with underlying health conditions will be set out. They are due to be vaccinated by May.\n\nSome regions of the UK have already begun inviting the over-60s, who are part of the next phase.\n\nIn the meantime, Sir Simon said it was important that people come forward for their second dose when invited because it \"gives extra protection and immunity\".\n\nIn the 10 weeks since vaccinations against coronavirus began in the UK, a first dose has been given to:\n\nIncluded in the first four priority groups, which covers 88% of those most at risk of dying from Covid-19, are people aged 70 and over, frontline health and social care workers, care homes residents and those at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus.\n\nAcross the UK, a quarter of adults have already received one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nIn Wales, the percentage of over-16s vaccinated is higher - at 28% - than in the other UK nations.\n\nNine out of 10 people aged 70 and over have taken up the offer to be vaccinated in England, the NHS says.\n\nLatest figures for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland suggest their uptake numbers for the over-70s are lower, but these are not directly comparable with England.\n\nThe latest data on other age groups in England, up to Sunday 7 February, suggests:\n\nBy Wednesday, in England, more than two million people had been vaccinated in the Midlands, 1.8 million in the South East, 1.7 million in the North East and more than a million in all other regions.\n\nThe smallest number of doses, nearly 1.3 million, had been given to people living in London.\n\nThe UK's vaccination programme began on 8 December 2020 with people receiving the vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.\n\nBoth vaccines, which require two doses for full protection, were approved by the UK's medicines regulator.\n\nA decision was taken by health officials to offer a first dose to as many vulnerable people as possible by extending the gap between doses to from three to four weeks to closer to 12 weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has promised to look at tougher measures to stem the \"absolutely shocking\" recent rise in pet thefts.\n\nDemand for dogs has increased during the pandemic, pushing up the cost of some puppies from £500 to £2,000.\n\nAnd it is estimated thefts have risen by 250%, with criminal gangs involved.\n\nMs Patel told LBC Radio she was in talks about upgrading pet theft to a more serious offence, meaning stronger penalties could apply.\n\nThe maximum sentence is currently seven years in prison.\n\nIn 2018, the government rejected calls to change the law, saying the Theft Act provided \"sufficient sanctions\".\n\nBut former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith is calling for stricter penalties to deal with so-called \"dognapping\".\n\nSupporters of the change argue that the emotional impact of losing an animal is greater than when an ordinary, non-living belonging is stolen.\n\nPriti Patel said the case was building for a change in the law\n\nMs Patel told LBC's Nick Ferrari pet theft appeared to be particularly prevalent in London.\n\n\"This is absolutely shocking,\" she said. \"I'm working with [Sir Iain] on this. I'm looking at this, at what we can do.\"\n\nMs Patel said she was \"building up\" the case for making pet theft into a serious offence, but added that setting sentence lengths was not her job.\n\n\"We are definitely looking into what kind of measures can be put in place in terms of the criminality,\" she added.\n\nIn October, MPs debated the idea of making pet theft a specific offence, after 300,000 people signed a petition calling for this.\n\nThe Kennel Club says less than 5% of cases result in a criminal conviction and that 52% of dog thefts take place in gardens.\n\nAnd the RSPCA recommends that owners do not leave animals unattended there, outside shops or in cars.", "A drug normally used to treat arthritis can be a life-saver for some of the sickest hospital patients with Covid, new research shows.\n\nFor every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, along with a cheap steroid already routinely given, an additional life would be saved, the experts say.\n\nSome hospitals are now doing this.\n\nAs well as improving survival and recovery time, it can avoid patients needing to be moved to intensive care, say the NHS doctors.\n\nWendy Coleman, 62, received the treatment last year when she was admitted to Chesterfield Royal Hospital with severe Covid-19.\n\nWendy Coleman volunteered to take part in the trial\n\n\"I was struggling to breathe quite badly and on the verge of being placed in an intensive care unit.\n\n\"After I was given tocilizumab, my condition stabilised and I didn't get any worse. Up until then, it was quite scary as I didn't know if I was going to make it or not,\" she said.\n\nResearchers say around half of people admitted to hospital with Covid could benefit from the treatment.\n\nThey have carried out a clinical trial with more than 4,000 volunteers, like Wendy, and say the results are \"tremendous\".\n\nHalf of these Covid patients were given tocilizumab, via a drip, alongside usual care with a life-saving cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nIn that group, compared to another group that did not receive the new drug:\n\nCombined, tocilizumab and dexamethasone should cut death risk by about a third for patients on oxygen and halve it for those on a ventilator, the researchers say.\n\nProf Martin Landray, joint chief investigator of the RECOVERY trial and a medical expert at Oxford University, said: \"Used in combination, the impact is substantial. This is good news for patients and good news for the health services that care for them in the UK and around the world.\"\n\nDr Charlotte Summers, an intensive care medic at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said: \"These findings are a tremendous step forwards. This therapy looks like it keeps people out of the intensive care unit so they never need to see people like me which can only be a good thing.\"\n\nThe treatment isn't cheap, costing around £500 per patient on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone. But the advantage of using it is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000.\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nThe preliminary trial results will soon be submitted to a peer-reviewed medical journal.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We are working quickly and closely with colleagues across the health system and sector to ensure every NHS patient who needs this treatment should be able to access it - reducing further pressures on the NHS and potentially saving thousands of lives.\"\n\nNHS national medical director Prof Stephen Powis said it was another breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus.", "A deadline to buy a home under the current Help to Buy scheme in England has been extended to the end of May.\n\nCovid-related delays meant more than 16,000 sales were at risk, with buyers facing large bills were purchases to fall through at the last minute.\n\nConstruction of newly-built homes, which qualify for the scheme, have been put back by as much as eight months.\n\nSome buyers are worried that the new, two-month extended deadline will still come too soon.\n\nIn seven years, the Help to Buy equity loan scheme has allowed 278,000 households to receive an advance from the government to help pay the deposit to buy a newly-built home.\n\nThe scheme, in its current form, is coming to an end in England. However, data from Homes England obtained through a BBC Freedom of Information request showed that, as of the end of January, there were 16,691 sales still to be completed under the current scheme.\n\nIn many cases, construction workers have needed to self-isolate, supply lines have slowed, overseas labour may have needed to quarantine, and some traders have been furloughed.\n\nBuyers face losing thousands of pounds if their properties are not built in time.\n\nThe government's extension to the deadline - the latest of three - gives homebuilders an extra two months to complete developments. It means that purchases can be completed by the end of May.\n\n\"This measure provides certainty to developers to build out homes delayed and further protects customers whose purchases have been delayed by Covid-19,\" a spokesman for Homes England said.\n\nHe added the move was aimed to ensure \"those buying a home through the scheme are not disadvantaged by circumstances beyond their control\".\n\nGreg Saunders said the new deadline was a relief\n\nGreg Saunders, 31, who is buying with his boyfriend David Leith, 36, told the BBC in January that their purchase was in doubt owing to the delays.\n\nMr Saunders said no blame was attached to the builders who had done their best in the circumstances caused by the pandemic - but missing the deadline would have ruined their hopes of a new dream home and cost them about £2,000 in solicitor fees.\n\nNow, following the government's latest announcement, he said: \"It's a huge relief. It has helped me and my partner and so many other people.\n\n\"This is great news and it is good that the government is listening but this still won't help everyone. I don't think the extension until the end of May quite reflects the true scale of the delays facing developers at the moment.\"\n\nAndrew Montlake, managing director at Coreco mortgage brokers, said: \"While Homes England have told developers there will be no more extensions, this should give builders some much needed breathing space to fully complete the property and ensure that their buyers do not miss out.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see whether or not this extension sets the scene for something similar to happen with the stamp duty holiday.\"\n\nThe Help to Buy scheme, in its current form, is coming to an end in England and is being replaced by a less generous version restricted to first-time buyers which starts for new applicants at the beginning in April.\n\nStefanie Weingarth and Carl Young still have concerns\n\nStefanie Weingarth, 29, and Carl Young, 32, had agreed in October to buy a house near Didcot in Oxfordshire, with the help of a £112,000 Help to Buy loan. The house was supposed to be completed in late February - but Covid-related delays mean the build is at least six to eight weeks behind.\n\nMs Weingarth said: \"It's great news that the government have extended the deadline. Our developers are pretty certain they'll have our home ready in time now. We're hoping to move in mid April. It's our first family home and we wouldn't be able to afford it without the current Help to Buy scheme.\"\n\nShe already owns a property, so the couple would be ineligible for the new scheme which is restricted to first-time buyers.\n\nThe only sticking point now is that the couple will not be able to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday, one of the reasons they decided to buy together in the first place. The tax break deadline is the end of March. As their property will not be ready until April, they now face the prospect of trying to find an extra £15,000 for stamp duty.\n\n\"It seems unfair for the government to acknowledge that there are construction days, so extend Help to Buy, but not extend stamp duty for us,\" said Ms Weingarth.", "Did Trump know Pence was in serious danger?\n\nRepublican Senators Mitt Romney and Susan Collins just posed one of the more interesting queries – to both sides – so far during the trial’s four-hour question time. When Donald Trump sent a disparaging tweet about Mike Pence, they asked, did he know that the vice-president had been removed from the Senate chamber by Secret Service for his safety? Answering for the impeachment managers, Congressman Joaquin Castro said that the president must have known that Pence was being threatened by the mob. The violence was being broadcast on national television, the White House has the extensive communications facilities and the president himself had just been informed by Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville that Pence had been evacuated during a phone conversation the two had at roughly the same time. Responding for Trump’s defence, lawyer Michael van der Bleen said Trump did not know. He added that the House Democrats had done no investigation into the matter during their “rushed” impeachment proceedings and, besides, Trump’s actions during the Capitol riot were not included in the impeachment article, which dealt with inciting an insurrection. The question - from two Republicans who are likely to vote to convict - gets to the heart of the case against the former president. Did Trump’s actions during the riot - including his condemnation of Pence - indicate that he knew that violence was likely and that he welcomed and encouraged them? The House impeachment managers insist the answer is yes.", "Some who received the jab earlier in the vaccine programme will soon get their second dose\n\nThe number of vaccines supplied to Wales is expected to fall in the next few weeks, affecting some of the country's vaccination centres.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board says it is pausing vaccinations at four centres for a fortnight. Local politicians say it is because of a fall in the supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nOther vaccinations centres are expected to reduce their hours.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the drop in supply had been planned for.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the reduction in supply would affect the whole of the UK.\n\nIt comes after Wales became the first UK nation on Wednesday to have given first doses to 20% of the population, after a slow start.\n\nThe government said it was on course to meet its mid-February target of offering a jab to the over 70s, health care workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nBut officials are expecting fewer doses of the AstraZeneca jab - which has been mostly delivered in GP surgeries rather than vaccination centres - before deliveries return to recent levels from the beginning of March.\n\nHealth boards will determine how vaccines are delivered over the next two weeks, with mass vaccination centres changing their opening times to reflect the reduction in supply.\n\nHealth officials however, say they have sufficient stocks of Pfizer vaccine to significantly increase the number of second doses next week, as those who had a first dose in December are now due for their next injection.\n\nMr Drakeford told a Welsh Parliament committee: \"We know that we are going to get less vaccine over the next few weeks than we have over the past few weeks.\"\n\n\"That was planned for and known for and is accommodated in our plans which remain to complete the vaccination of those next five priority groups by the spring.\n\n\"So, without unforeseen barriers, we are confident that we will remain on track.\"\n\nHe said plans remain in place to complete vaccinations of the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nMr Drakeford said the Welsh NHS \"will be focusing our Pfizer vaccine supply on the second vaccination of those people in the top four priority groups who have already had their first vaccine\".\n\n\"We will be deploying the Astra Zeneca vaccine for first shots for people in the next five groups,\" he said.\n\n\"We will hear, I'm afraid, from people disappointed that the amount of supply they're getting is less than we've had over the last couple of weeks because we could use more.\n\n\"If there was more, we could use it, there's no doubt about that.\"\n\nThe vaccination programme will soon be targeting groups further down the priority list - with jabs due to be given to people over the age of 65 and people with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe military have been assisting with the vaccine programme\n\nHealth officials say the next two weeks' reduction in supply is planned for - allowing manufacturers to ramp up their production processes, which will lead to significant increases in vaccines from the start of March.\n\nWales is looking to deliver 103,000 more doses next week - 56,000 Astra-Zeneca vaccines will be mainly first doses and 46,000 Pfizer which will be to push on with second doses for those in the priority groups.\n\nAnother 108,000 doses would be given out the following week but then numbers would rise to 160,000 to 190,000 and accelerating.\n\nLast Sunday, Cwm Taf Morgannwg was the best performing of all health boards in giving doses to its 70 to 74-year-olds, according to Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThe health board's executive director Clare Williams, said the switch to the next phase of vaccination will allow a \"pause\" from 16 February \"for two weeks at our four community vaccination centres in Merthyr Tydfil, Abercynon, Rhondda and Bridgend\".\n\nVaccination of health and social care workers, and those aged 70-74, is now \"nearly complete,\" she said.\n\n\"It has always been our intention to bring vaccines as close to where people live as we possibly can. Therefore, during this two-week pause, we will be looking at the locations of all four of our community vaccination centres (CVCs) to ensure they are in the best locations for residents.\"\n\nThe board hopes to expand to seven CVCs, with new centres at Aberfan Leisure Centre, Llantrisant Leisure Centre and Cynon Valley Indoor Bowls in Mountain Ash, and Maesteg Leisure Centre.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Transparency is key in maintaining public trust. Everyone involved in the vaccine rollout has done a fantastic job in vaccinating 20% of the Welsh population, but we need to see the flow of vaccines into the four UK nations, to have confidence that we are getting our fair share.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative MS Angela Burns said: \"The Conservative UK Government - which is procuring the supplies - is confident that the steady stream of doses will continue, and this underlines the benefit of being in a strong United Kingdom that works for Wales.\"\n\nMass vaccination centres could see their hours reduced\n\nThe Welsh NHS has planned for reduced supplies over the coming weeks, as have health officials in other parts of the UK.\n\nAs a result, the news that some vaccine centres will close temporarily is no surprise to the people manning them.\n\nIt also comes as Wales appears to have reached its milestone of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nNo appointments should be cancelled as a result of the lower doses reaching Wales, and it is not expected to impact the longer-term plan to offer a dose to the top nine priority groups by the spring.\n\nFrom next week the vaccine statistics will also reflect the increasing numbers of second doses being administered in Wales, as those who were among the first to be vaccinated in the weeks before Christmas are now due to begin receiving their second dose.\n\nStocks of the Pfizer vaccine will be prioritised for second doses in the coming weeks, ensuring nobody faces a delay in receiving their full immunisation.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We have factored this into our plans and it will not affect people's appointments or delay when people are due to get their second dose.\n\n\"The supply of vaccines is expected to ramp up significantly from the beginning of March.\n\n\"Every dose of vaccine we receive will continue to be delivered immediately to all those who need it. Our vaccination teams continue to do an incredible job to vaccinate everyone as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe UK government spokesman said: \"We are confident that the steady, regular supply of doses will continue to support the vaccine rollout in the weeks ahead.\n\n\"If you get called for a vaccine, please continue go to your appointment.\"", "Mobile network O2 has been fined £10.5m by telecoms regulator Ofcom for overcharging its customers.\n\nFor eight years, some customers who were leaving the network were double-charged some fees on their final bills, Ofcom said.\n\nThe error affected more than 140,000 pay-monthly subscribers between 2011 and 2019, totalling £2.4m.\n\nO2 said it had refunded many of the customers, adding an extra 4% to the sum involved.\n\nBut it has been unable to contact some of its former subscribers. Those refunds will be donated to charity.\n\nDespite the refunds, Ofcom decided that O2 had broken important rules around providing customers with accurate bills and that it deserved a fine.\n\nOn top of the 140,000 who paid the extra amount, a further 110,000 people were overcharged a total of £38m - but did not end up paying the bill, and were not due a refund.\n\nOfcom said that O2 knew about the \"issues with its billing processes\" in 2011, but failed to fix them. It kept overcharging customers for a further eight years.\n\nO2 said: \"We are disappointed by this technical error and sincerely apologise to customers impacted.\n\n\"We identified the issue ourselves and notified our industry billing auditor. We have also taken proactive steps to refund all impacted customers for the extra charges they paid.\"\n\nOfcom said O2 had changed its billing process so the problem would not happen again.\n\n\"This a serious breach of our rules and this fine is a reminder that we will step in if we see companies failing to protect their customers,\" said the regulator's enforcement chief, Gaucho Rasmussen.", "Wales' first minister has said if current progress against coronavirus continues to be maintained, the authorities could \"slowly and cautiously\" lift restrictions in the run-up to spring and Easter \"in all aspects of our lives\".\n\nMark Drakeford said this included tourism, but depended on Wales continuing to see reductions in infection levels, as well as \"the impact on our health service being drained away\" and \"our vaccination programme delivering what we hope it will do in terms of the protection it will offer to people\".\n\nHe said: \"If that is the path we are on, then the pattern in Wales, as we move towards the spring and Easter, will be one in which we will be able to slowly and cautiously lift the restrictions that are currently in place in all aspects of our lives.\n\n\"That will include the tourism industry and it'll include those aspects of family life which are denied to us all at the moment, but that is a path that depends upon continuing success.\n\n\"And we've learned so often, haven't we, over the last 12 months coronavirus continues to have very unpleasant surprises up its sleeve.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, is fighting extradition from Canada to the US\n\nThe Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is taking the bank HSBC to court in the UK as part of its attempt to prevent the extradition of its chief financial officer from Canada to the US.\n\nMeng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on a US request over claims she misled HSBC in a 2013 meeting.\n\nHuawei now hopes to gain access to HSBC documents that could help it undermine the US case for her extradition.\n\nThe bank told the BBC the application for disclosure was \"without merit\".\n\nThe move comes amid political pressure on HSBC, which is UK based but was founded in Hong Kong where it makes much of its profits.\n\nThe court hearing in London on Friday draws the bank deeper into a legal battle which has raised tensions between Canada and China.\n\nMeng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of Huawei's founder, was arrested at Vancouver airport on 1 December 2018 because the US wants her to stand trial on charges including fraud. These are linked to the alleged violation of US sanctions against Iran, allegations she denies.\n\nA meeting between Ms Meng and HSBC on 22 August 2013 is central to the claims.\n\nReuters news reports in the preceding months had raised questions about whether there had been a breach of trade sanctions on Iran by Hong Kong-based firm Skycom.\n\nAt issue was whether Skycom, a telecoms equipment seller, was simply a business partner of Huawei's - or a front for it to conceal its activities in Iran.\n\nThe US alleges that in the meeting Ms Meng misled HSBC over the true nature of Huawei's relationship with Skycom and this, in turn, put the bank at risk of violating sanctions against Iran. But it was more than five years after the meeting that she was detained.\n\nHer Canadian lawyers have followed a multi-pronged strategy to try to prevent the extradition.\n\nOne part has involved claiming the US omitted key information on two slides which showed HSBC was not, in fact, being kept in the dark about the true nature of the Skycom/Huawei relationship and she was clear about it.\n\nNow, her lawyers have made an application to the UK high court under the Bankers Book Evidence Act to access relevant information kept in HSBC's books. Under this Act, they are seeking a court order to gain access to HSBC documentation.\n\nThey are understood to be seeking evidence about what HSBC did or did not know about Huawei and Skycom's relationship in Iran and how high up the bank knowledge of the meeting went.\n\nIn response, a spokesperson for HSBC said: \"This application for disclosure in the UK is without merit. HSBC is not a party to the underlying criminal case in the US or the extradition proceeding in Canada. It would be inappropriate to comment further on an ongoing legal matter.\"\n\nThe case has placed HSBC in a difficult position. In China there has been criticism for it having handed over information to US authorities which led to Ms Meng's arrest. The bank has always maintained it simply handed over what it was required to under law.\n\nIt has also come under fire in the UK from those who believe it has been too friendly with Beijing, pointing to the freezing of the bank accounts of a Hong Kong activist which led to the questioning of company executives by a parliamentary committee recently.\n\nMs Meng is expected to appear in court in Canada on 1 March for the latest stage of her extradition hearings, which are scheduled to finish in May, although appeals are likely to extend the process.", "Photo of the damage caused by the blaze at Tavy Cleave\n\nA large blaze which broke out on Dartmoor has been extinguished, fire crews said.\n\nThe fire engulfed a 5km (3.1 miles) strip of remote moorland near Tavistock, Devon on Thursday night.\n\nDevon and Somerset Fire Service said the fire was out at about 10:00 GMT and the cause is being investigated.\n\nIt described the blaze as \"extremely dangerous\" due to windy conditions and low visibility. No injuries have been reported.\n\nThe fire service said \"natural fire breaks\" in the area had helped contain the blaze, which burned out on its own overnight.\n\nA spokesperson said the cause of the fire is now under investigation.\n\nFire service incident commander Mike Porter said natural fire breaks on the moor - including granite, roads and the River Tavy - all helped contain the fire.\n\n\"There was a planned strategy to fight the fire defensively with close monitoring overnight,\" he explained.\n\nDartmoor National Park said any damage from the fire would primarily be to the surface of the moor because of the \"very wet\" ground underneath the surface and \"regrowth will not be a problem\" for the affected area.\n\nTommy Ross took this picture from Kit Hill near Launceston in Cornwall\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service\n\nPeople could see the flames light up the night sky about 20 miles (32km) away in Plymouth on Thursday evening.\n\nTen vehicles were used to monitor the blaze overnight, with firefighters also using drones and other spotters to observe the spread.\n\nThere have been several wildfires in the South West in recent days, with another three-mile wide blaze near Bodmin, Cornwall on Thursday and a blaze suspected to be caused by arson on a Cornish nature reserve on Tuesday.\n\nWildfire scientist Dr Thomas Smith from the London School of Economics said these incidents were \"not unusual\" in cold weather, as air temperature is \"not particularly important\" in flames igniting or spreading.\n\nHe said: \"The driving or spreading of fire is all about moisture in the air and plants.\"\n\nHe explained current dry winds blowing across England from Europe \"favour the conditions for a fire to ignite and spread\", as they dry out plant material acting as fuel.\n\n\"Then all you need really is a source of ignition with the wind on the moors for a fire to spread,\" he said.\n\n\"There are all of the ingredients right now in the South West for wildfires.\"\n\nThe fire service was forced to operate in \"defensive mode\", preventing the spread of the flames until conditions improved.\n\nIt said some people were seen trying to watch and photograph the fire.\n\nThey tweeted: \"This is extremely dangerous and certainly not an essential journey! Please stay away from the area for your own safety.\"\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police confirmed officers had attended the scene following reports of \"members of the public gathering\".\n\nNo fines for coronavirus lockdown breaches were issued, the force said.\n\nThe RSPB said it was \"highly unlikely\" local birds were directly affected by the flames, as it is months before the nesting season begins and birds are very mobile.\n\nA spokesperson added it \"remains to be seen\" what the longer term implications of the fire are for local habitats.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 14-year-old boy was stabbed in King's Park in Glasgow\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been seriously hurt in a stabbing in a Glasgow park.\n\nPolice were called to King's Park in the south side of the city at about 15:40 on Friday following reports that a teenager had been injured following a confrontation with a group of youths.\n\nEmergency services attended the scene and the 14-year-old was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow for treatment to stab wounds.\n\nMedical staff said he was in a serious, but stable, condition.\n\nPolice Scotland said inquiries were ongoing to establish exactly what happened.\n\nOfficers are encouraging anyone with information about the incident to get in touch.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"The plan is working but we're a long way off getting this sorted\"\n\nLevels of Covid are going down in all nations of the UK, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.\n\nThe data is more evidence lockdown is controlling the virus, even with the more infectious variants circulating - although the health secretary said there is \"still a long way to go\".\n\nThe latest R number, estimated to be between 0.7 and 0.9, also suggests infection numbers are shrinking.\n\nThis is the first time since July that R has been this low.\n\nIt means, on average, every 10 people infected pass it on to between seven and nine other people.\n\nIt comes as 15,144 new cases were recorded in the UK, as well as 758 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the ONS figures were \"clearly good news\", but pointed out there were still more than 24,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nHe said: \"Everyone can have confidence that the plan is working, that what we're collectively doing is having a positive impact but there's still a long way to go.\"\n\nIt is not clear yet when lockdown will begin to be lifted. Scientists advising government say the lower the cases can get, the better. Unlocking too soon risks another surge of the virus, even though more people are being vaccinated against the disease every day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will outline plans for easing any restrictions in the week of 22 February.\n\nGetting schools back will be the immediate priority, the government says.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman did not rule out the possibility of social distancing being maintained until the autumn, saying: \"The latest data and evidence clearly shows that we remain in a difficult situation with the pressure on the NHS still very significant.\n\n\"We will set out a gradual and phased approach towards easing the restrictions in a sustainable way.\"\n\nThe ONS figures, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nLondon continues to have the highest proportion of people likely to test positive for coronavirus in any region of England, with around one in 60 estimated to have had Covid-19 in the week up to 6 February.\n\nThe ONS's data is slightly out of date - covering the week up to 6 February - so may not reflect the situation right now.\n\nSenior Statistician Sarah Crofts said: \"Rates of infection remain high but have continued to decrease in England and across the UK.\n\n\"The percentage of positive cases compatible with the new UK variant also continues to decrease in all regions of England except for Yorkshire and The Humber, the East Midlands and the South West where trends remain uncertain.\"\n\nThe evidence is clear - lockdown is having the desired effect of controlling the virus, bringing the number of new infections down.\n\nIt is very welcome news, but does it mean we can now safely start to lift some restrictions? Not quite yet, say experts.\n\nAs one explained, it's a bit like when a relative has been very ill in hospital and you hear that they are getting better - it's wonderful, but it doesn't mean that the \"treatment\" can stop or that things can't take a turn for the worse.\n\nThere is still plenty of the virus circulating that people could catch.\n\nAnd although the vaccine rollout is going really well, there are lots of people in the UK who are not yet protected and who could fall serious ill with Covid-19 if they become infected.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 14 million people in the UK have had at least their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe government's pledge is to offer a vaccine to around 15 million people in the top four priority groups - which includes people over 70, health and social care workers and people who are extremely clinically vulnerable and shielding - by Monday 15 February.\n\nIn a video message, the prime minister said the government appeared to be \"on target\" to meet the pledge - adding the latest figures on vaccinations highlighted an \"incredible national effort\" by NHS staff, Army personnel and volunteers.\n\nWales says it has already achieved this. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to announce the same soon.\n\nThe 14 million figure includes some people outside of these initial groups.\n\nSome regions of the UK have begun inviting groups planned to be reached later in the month, such as the over-60s and people aged 16-64 with underlying health conditions.", "A documentary that examined the singer's conservatorship was released last week\n\nA judge has denied a request by Britney Spears' father to exert greater control over her finances.\n\nJamie Spears has controlled his daughter's financial affairs since 2008, but the singer has recently indicated she wants him removed.\n\nOn Thursday, a judge upheld a previous ruling that made a financial company a co-conservator for the singer.\n\nThe judge rejected Mr Spears' request to keep his previous level of power over his daughter's investments.\n\nThe ruling means Mr Spears and the private trust company, Bessemer Trust, will now have equal power to manage her finances.\n\nAs a result, he is now expected to work with the company to create a budget and investment proposal for the singer's estate.\n\nThe conservatorship is a legal arrangement that was put in place because of concerns about her mental health.\n\nLos Angeles Judge Brenda Penny appointed Bessemer Trust as co-conservators in November, but rejected the star's effort to remove her father entirely.\n\nFans from the Free Britney campaign gathered outside the court on Thursday\n\nJamie Spears had objected to Bessemer's involvement, arguing that it reduced the power he has held for years. Judge Perry threw out his objection on Thursday. Another hearing is scheduled for 17 March.\n\nBritney Spears' lawyer Samuel D Ingham III has previously said the singer is \"afraid\" of her father and does not want him to control her finances and career.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Ingham reiterated the pop star's wish, adding that it was \"no secret\" she didn't want her father to be a co-conservator, but acknowledged that removing him altogether would be a \"separate issue\".\n\nInterest in the case has been renewed after the recent release of a documentary that focuses on the conflict over the singer's guardianship.\n\nFraming Britney Spears, which was produced by The New York Times, examined the conservatorship in depth, as well as how the singer has been treated by the media throughout her career.\n\nIt also explored the #FreeBritney movement, a campaign by some of the star's fans who believe her life and career are being controlled against her will. Campaigners from the group were outside the hearing on Thursday.\n\nBabs Gray, host of the BritneyGram podcast, told the BBC outside the court: \"It hasn't changed anything much today... I don't think a lot of forward movement will happen until Britney's lawyer actually files to get her out of the conservatorship.\"\n\nShe said interest in the #FreeBritney issue had \"exploded\" in the past week as a result of the documentary.\n\n\"It's been really encouraging to see how supportive everyone is about the movement, how they are reckoning with how Britney was treated in the past,\" she said. \"I hope its not just a flash in the pan. I hope people keep paying attention and keep putting the pressure on.\"\n\nBritney Spears hasn't performed live for more than two years, and insists she has no intention of doing so again until her father is forced to relinquish control over her career.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A White House spokesman has been suspended for a week without pay after allegedly threatening to \"destroy\" a female reporter who was asking questions about his private life.\n\nTJ Ducklo reportedly threatened Politico reporter Tara Palmeri, who was investigating his relationship with another journalist.\n\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday that Mr Ducklo had apologised to Ms Palmeri.\n\nHe has not commented independently.\n\nSome observers have criticised President Joe Biden for failing to take stronger action. He has previously said he would fire \"on the spot\" any staff speaking disrespectfully to colleagues.\n\nThe suspension of Mr Ducklo, the White House deputy press secretary, came after Vanity Fair magazine reported on his alleged threats to Ms Palmeri.\n\nThe Politico reporter had been investigating Mr Ducklo's relationship with Alexi McCammond, a journalist with Axios who had covered Mr Biden's election campaign.\n\nHe allegedly rang her and said: \"I will destroy you\". He also made other derogatory and misogynistic comments, Vanity Fair reports.\n\nPresident Biden's spokeswoman tweeted on Friday that TJ Ducklo was \"the first to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the President\".\n\nShe said that as well as being suspended without pay for a week, Mr Ducklo would no longer work with Politico reporters when he returned to the White House.\n\nPresident Biden told his staff on his first day in office that he would not tolerate bullying behaviour.\n\n\"I'm not joking when I say this: If you ever work with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. No ifs, ands or buts,\" he said.\n\nSome commentators, such as CNN anchor Jake Tapper, are now asking whether the same punishment should not apply to the way his staff treat journalists doing their job.\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.", "Libby Squire's body was found in the Humber Estuary weeks after she disappeared.\n\nA serial sex offender who raped and murdered a student before dumping her body in a river has been jailed for at least 27 years.\n\nPawel Relowicz, 26, prowled the streets of Hull before attacking \"vulnerable\" 21-year-old Libby Squire.\n\nDuring sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court, Ms Squire's parents Lisa and Russ gave emotional statements about the loss of their daughter.\n\nMrs Justice Lambert praised their \"quiet dignity\" through the trial.\n\nShe said the family had suffered \"unimaginable loss\" and spoke of the \"anguish\" that Relowicz had condemned them to for the rest of their lives.\n\nAddressing the court, Lisa Squire said no words could \"explain the torture of living without my Libby\".\n\n\"Not only have I lost my first-born child with whom I had an amazing bond, but I've also lost the possibility of being a grandmother to her children,\" she said.\n\n\"Knowing that in Libby's last hour of life she needed me but I wasn't there for her will haunt me for the rest of my life.\n\n\"Because of what happened that night to Libby, I now live in two worlds - one where I'm a mother, wife and employee, but then there is a dark and lonely world.\n\n\"In this world I long to die so I can be with my girl one more time.\"\n\nThe court also heard from Ms Squire's father Russ, who said he struggled to look at pictures of his daughter since her death.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright also read a statement from Ms Squire's younger sister Beth, who said she \"idolised\" her older sibling and hoped to \"follow in her footsteps\".\n\nLisa Squire, pictured outside Hull Crown Court with Russ Squire, said life without their daughter was \"torture\"\n\nMrs Justice Lambert, sentencing, described Ms Squire as young woman with a \"troubled past in many ways\" who had \"turned a corner in her life\" and was flourishing at the University of Hull.\n\nThe philosophy student \"did not stand a chance\" from the moment a \"malignant twist of fate\" led the pair's paths to cross, she said.\n\nRelowicz had \"patrolled the student area looking for a suitable victim\" and spotted Ms Squire \"weaving her precarious way\" around after being turned away from a nightclub.\n\n\"She had no way of protecting herself from you either physically or mentally,\" the judge said.\n\nRelowicz's trial heard he drove Ms Squire to secluded playing fields, attacked her and put her body into the River Hull on 1 February 2019.\n\nIt sparked a huge search effort until her remains were spotted by a fisherman in the Humber Estuary seven weeks later.\n\nThe judge said she had no doubt Relowicz had tried to conceal Ms Squire in water in the hope \"her body would be washed out to sea and never found\".\n\nRelowicz changed his story about what happened on the night Libby disappeared five times\n\nJurors heard Relowicz, who worked as a butcher, had previous convictions for a string of sexually motivated offences including voyeurism.\n\nReferring to his \"perverted campaign of sexually deviant behaviour\", Mrs Justice Lambert said another judge was correct to describe him as a potentially \"very dangerous individual\".\n\nShe told him that prior to the murder: \"Your offending escalated, you grew increasingly emboldened, no doubt you were increasingly confident you would not and could not be caught.\n\n\"You watched these women, staring back at them brazenly even after they had spotted you.\"\n\nRelowicz showed no emotion as the sentence, which included a concurrent 18-year term for rape, was handed down.\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 Gymnastics\n\nA support helpline set up in response to abuse allegations within gymnastics is set to close after receiving 221 calls.\n\nFormed by the British Athletes Commission (BAC) and the NSPCC in July, it allowed gymnasts to raise concerns about abuse and mistreatment.\n\nMore than half of the calls resulted in a referral to agencies such as the police or social services.\n\nSince July, BBC Sport has revealed a series of stories of former and current gymnasts alleging mistreatment at all levels of the sport - including Olympic medal-winning gymnasts Amy Tinkler and Nile Wilson, plus Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie.\n\nEvidence from the helpline has been provided to the independent Whyte Review - regarding gymnasts' wellbeing and welfare - which is yet to conclude.\n\nBritish Gymnastics has also set up an independent complaints process to oversee allegations of mistreatment, while a campaign group called Gymnasts for Change was established.\n\nBritish Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen retired in December amid the ongoing investigations, admitting the organisation had \"fallen short\" in protecting its athletes.\n\nDespite the helpline's closure, the NSPCC and BAC urge \"anyone with a concern to get in touch,\" and it is \"never too late to speak out about your experiences to seek support\".\n\nFrom 1 March, the NSPCC's main support helpline will resume responsibility of dealing with concerns.", "The UK economy is like a \"coiled spring\" ready to release large amounts of \"pent-up financial energy\", the Bank of England's chief economist has said.\n\nAndy Haldane said consumer confidence would surge back thanks to the vaccine programme, with the economy firing \"on all cylinders\" by spring.\n\nHe is the latest economist to forecast a sharp rebound in growth after an expected easing of restrictions.\n\nThe economy is currently set to shrink 4.2% in the first three months of 2021.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Mr Haldane said: \"With 13 million of the most vulnerable people already vaccinated, the risk of death or hospitalisation in the UK has already probably halved.\n\n\"By the end of March, based on the current pace of vaccine rollout and government data on vulnerable groups, this risk may have been reduced by as much as three-quarters and by the end of the second quarter it will be even smaller.\"\n\nAs a result, he said health concerns would fall and restrictions lift, allowing people to return to spending and socialising.\n\nThe turn in sentiment was likely to be rapid, he added - \"a light-switch being flicked rather than a dimmer-switch being turned\".\n\n\"Having been bottled in for a year, most people are desperate to get their lives, including their social lives, back.\n\n\"When given the opportunity to do so safely, they will seize it,\" he said.\n\nHe said shared social experiences - from pubs to sports to cinema - would benefit, as glimpsed last summer during the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nAnd unlike past recessions, he added, many UK households had strengthened their finances during lockdown and would have more money to spend.\n\n\"That might mean two pub, cinema or restaurant visits a week rather than one,\" he said.\n\n\"It might mean a higher-spec TV or car or house.\"\n\nOn top of this he said a significant number of companies had amassed cash during the crisis, which would likely be invested as restrictions started to ease.\n\n\"That would be good news for jobs, helping to recover some of the million lost so far in this crisis,\" Mr Haldane wrote.\n\n\"And it would be good news for business investment too, helping companies boost their performance and productivity - and, ultimately, the pay of their workers.\"\n\nWith continued government support added to the mix, he said a strong bounce-back was assured.\n\n\"The economy is poised like a coiled spring. As its energies are released, the recovery should be one to remember after a year to forget.\"", "Immigration officials have not received guidance on how England's hotel quarantine system will work, less than three days before it is due to launch, a union says.\n\nThe Immigration Services Union said officials still did not know what levels of checks they should be conducting on travellers.\n\nFrom Monday arrivals from 33 countries will have to quarantine in hotels.\n\nThe government said staff were supported on how to apply new guidance.\n\nA spokeswoman added that Border Force operational guidance was \"constantly updated to reflect the ever changing environment\".\n\nThe requirement to quarantine in a hotel applies to British and Irish citizens and UK residents arriving in England from so-called \"red-list\" countries - including Portugal, Brazil and South Africa - which are deemed high risk due to emerging new virus variants. It will cost £1,750 for an individual.\n\nFrom these high-risk countries the government says travellers can arrive in England at five airports - Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham and Farnborough.\n\nIn Scotland, residents arriving from any country by air will have to isolate in hotels.\n\nLucy Moreton, general secretary of the Immigration Services Union, said officers still had questions about what to do with arrivals from \"red-list\" countries and whether they should chase someone if they ran away while being checked.\n\n\"They have had no operational instructions so far at all and we do not know for certain when they will receive them,\" she said.\n\n\"We know that passengers will be required to state in their passenger locator form whether they have been in a red-listed country, but the officers have been given no indication about how far they should inquire about the content of the form.\"\n\nShe also raised concerns about the safety of security halls.\n\n\"Officers are currently spending 15 to 20 minutes interacting with each passenger. They only have a Perspex screen, no masks or gloves to protect them,\" she said.\n\n\"That's not enough and if that interaction has to be longer there is a concern of an increased risk.\"\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it was not good enough that Border Force staff still did not know how the system would work at airports, including whether high-risk arrivals would be taken straight to hotels or would have to queue with other travellers.\n\n\"Chaotic long queues with no social distancing in place have the potential to be super-spreading events that will undermine the very measures being introduced,\" she said.\n\nInternational travel is currently banned, other than for a small number of permitted reasons, including for essential work, medical appointments and education. Holidays are not allowed.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"We are taking decisive action at the borders and every essential check - from pre-departure testing to the Passenger Locator Form - will help prevent the importing of new coronavirus variants into the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the website where travellers can book quarantine hotel rooms and new mandatory tests has reopened, after it was hit by technical issues.\n\nThe site was taken offline minutes after it launched on Thursday but appeared to be working again by Friday afternoon.\n\nIt comes as BBC analysis found England's quarantine system might turn out to be less stringent than Australia's scheme, which is seen as among the best in the world.\n\nA copy of the guidance for hotels in England's system suggests:\n\nThe UK government said its hotel quarantine measures were in line with those in other countries and staff would be able to access regular testing as well as appropriate personal protective equipment.\n\nThe new system also introduces tougher penalties, with avoiding quarantine in a designated hotel attracting a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nAnyone found to have falsified their travel history on the mandatory passenger locator form filled in on arrival risks up to 10 years in prison.\n\nAll international arrivals must book and pay in advance for two additional tests during their quarantine period, or face fines up to £2,000.\n\nIn a further development, government sources have confirmed reports that countries can be added to the red list with just a few hours' notice.\n\nIt comes as 15,144 new cases were recorded in the UK, as well as 758 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 14 million people have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nWill you be travelling to the UK from a \"red list\" country? 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.", "England's rules on quarantine hotels for travellers arriving from Covid \"red list\" countries are less stringent than those enforced in Australia.\n\nThe BBC has seen a copy of the government's official requirements for hotel operators ahead of the policy starting on Monday.\n\nIt spells out the rules for handling travellers for 11 nights of quarantine.\n\nThe UK government said its hotel quarantine measures were \"in line with those in other countries\".\n\nAnd it promised to update guidance for hotels \"imminently\".\n\nAustralia's system, introduced early last year, is seen as among the best internationally.\n\nBut as a result of repeated outbreaks among staff and guests, and the arrival of new variants, the rules in Australia have been tightened and are under review again.\n\nIt comes as the Australian state of Victoria enters a five-day \"circuit breaker\" lockdown in a bid to suppress an outbreak linked to its hotel quarantine system.\n\nUK Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said the system being introduced was \"very strong\" and its \"standards are amongst the strongest in the world\".\n\n\"We keep these measures under review,\" she added.\n\nIn Australia, people staying in quarantine hotels are not allowed to leave their rooms.\n\nThis follows incidents in the early months of the pandemic when security guards and hotel guests were seen to mingle, and were blamed for spreading the virus.\n\nOne of these outbreaks led to a surge in cases that forced Melbourne into a five-month lockdown.\n\nHowever the authorities in England have issued a conflicting array of messages about policy on this, with No 10 and the Department of Health and Social Care forced to issue several clarifications.\n\nThe upshot is that travellers will be allowed out of their rooms for a limited set of exemptions, including exercise.\n\nSmoking, which at one stage had been described as a legitimate reason for going outside, will not qualify.\n\nIn New Zealand, smoking breaks are allowed, under escort, but with strict guidance not to get close to anyone else.\n\nPolicy on this changed in Australia after the risks of meal service became apparent.\n\nA woman from Singapore who tested negative during most of her stay became infected with the same variant of coronavirus found in a family of five from Nigeria in the room opposite.\n\nThere's no definitive explanation for how she caught the virus but one suggestion is that the doors of both rooms were opened at the same time to collect meals.\n\nOfficials say the viral load in the air in the family's room - with all five of them being infected - could have meant that the virus was carried through the air across the corridor.\n\nIt's one reason why hotel staff now deliver meals at staggered times to avoid everyone opening their doors at the same time.\n\nThe UK guidance states that room service will be \"undertaken in full compliance of Covid-19 prevention best practice\".\n\nThe government said meals would be served three times per day, but did not comment on specific timings.\n\nThere is growing evidence of the risks of the virus being transmitted through the air either between rooms or between rooms and public areas such as corridors.\n\nA security guard who spent the day on duty in a corridor caught the virus despite having no contact with anyone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA widely-held assumption is that infectious aerosols had accumulated in the air in this poorly-ventilated space and had led to his infection.\n\nIn the state of Victoria, hotel staff now have to be equipped with a type of mask known as an N95, roughly equivalent to what is called an FFP2 in the UK.\n\nBy contrast, the document issued to UK hotels spells out that standard surgical masks must be worn - these are thinner and are thought to be less effective at blocking aerosols.\n\nIt also says that if emergency maintenance is needed before a room has been disinfected and left vacant for 72 hours, staff should wear PPE that is \"consistent with droplet precautions\".\n\nDroplets are produced by coughs and heavy exhalations and are generally judged to be a risk over a distance of up to two metres.\n\nThere is no specific guidance on the protection needed to guard against aerosols that can linger in the air.\n\nProf Nancy Baxter, of the University of Melbourne, is among scientists pushing for hotel staff to be better equipped.\n\n\"I truly believe that if you're putting workers in harm's way, which essentially you are, by putting them in a quarantine hotel, and exposing them to people potentially with Covid-19, that there's a duty of care that those people have the highest possible protection from infection.\"\n\nFollowing infections among hotel staff in Australia, and amid fears of the new variants, all employees are tested for coronavirus every day.\n\nThat includes days off, with a requirement that staff are paid for those days.\n\nHowever, the UK document does not suggest any provision for regular testing.\n\nEngland's Department of Health said plans for a \"bespoke service\" for staff testing were being developed but it could not confirm whether it would be ready for the start of the policy on Monday.\n\nThe government added that all staff working in England's quarantine hotels would be provided with regular testing and appropriate personal protective equipment.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have taken decisive action at the border and every essential check from pre-departure testing, to the passenger locator form and the suspension of travel routes strengthens our borders and prevents the spread coronavirus into the UK.\"\n\nMinisters have said they have \"shared expertise\" with the Australian government about quarantine, but questions will be raised about whether the lessons learned are being followed.", "David Chambers appeared at Kingston Crown Court via video-link from Wandsworth Prison\n\nA man has denied tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £260 for a fake coronavirus vaccination.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine to Kathleen Martin at her Surbiton home on 30 December for £160 and returning five days later for a further £100.\n\nThe 33-year-old pleaded not guilty at Kingston Crown Court to two counts of fraud and one count of battery.\n\nMr Chambers, from Surbiton, appeared at court via a video-link from Wandsworth Prison and was remanded in custody.\n\nIt follows an investigation by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available through the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shauna Donnelly said the verdict meant she was \"finally able to move forward\" with her life\n\nA woman cleared of murdering her baby son feared she would be jailed because nobody believed she \"hadn't done anything wrong\".\n\nShauna Donnelly, 25, was charged after taking Ellis to hospital in October 2019 where he was pronounced dead.\n\nShe was eventually acquitted at Teesside Crown Court on Wednesday after prosecutors offered no evidence.\n\nHowever, the case saw her subjected to \"traumatic\" abusive threats, her solicitor said.\n\n\"I knew I hadn't done anything wrong but nobody seemed to believe me,\" Ms Donnelly, of Teesside, said in a statement released after the case was dropped.\n\n\"I honestly thought I was going to prison for the rest of my life.\"\n\nMedical experts said it was likely Ellis was stillborn after Ms Donnelly's placenta was damaged\n\nMs Donnelly took her son's lifeless body to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough following a home birth.\n\nA post-mortem examination proved inconclusive, but she was charged with her son's murder.\n\nThe defence commissioned medical reports from five expert witnesses and it was agreed Ms Donnelly's son was likely born in an extremely compromised state as a result of a hypoxic injury, believed to have been caused by a significant placental abruption.\n\nThey agreed that her son, if born alive, was extremely poorly and so unwell that she could have believed the child was stillborn.\n\nIn court on Wednesday, prosecutors accepted there was a lack of evidence Ms Donnelly had harmed her baby and that it was likely Ellis was stillborn after her placenta was damaged.\n\nBut Ms Donnelly had became the target of abuse, particularly online, including calls for her to be sterilised.\n\nHer solicitor, Eric Watson, said: \"On top of the traumatic experience of giving birth at home to a stillborn child, she suffered cruel comments from strangers.\n\n\"People who knew nothing of Shauna or the case were threatening to burn her house down, to assault her and to find her and harm her in a serious way.\n\n\"I would like to think they would reflect on the harm such bile can inflict.\"\n\nMs Donnelly said she had to deal with the death of her son, a murder charge and the abuse of strangers.\n\n\"I couldn't think about anything else,\" she said. \"Even now, I know the judge and the barristers know I didn't do anything, people still shout things at me and people still talk about me.\n\n\"The total strangers who made comments on the newspaper articles threatening to do all sorts of awful things to me should listen to what the judge has said about me being innocent of this and not say such nasty things about people in the future.\n\n\"It felt awful, but now I'm finally able to move forward with my life.\"\n\nMr Watson added: \"She is slowly coming to terms with getting her life back to normal.\n\n\"There will be no champagne corks popping in the Donnelly household, there's just relief.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said they \"could not believe\" the man had attempted to drive the car\n\nA man has been charged with dangerous driving after being stopped in Dundee with snow covering almost his entire front and rear windscreens.\n\nPolice said it was \"about the most extreme example of lack of preparation\" that they had ever seen.\n\nOfficers said the man had been driving with \"practically zero-visibility\" when stopped.\n\nThe incident took place in the Dunsinane Industrial Estate on Thursday.\n\nThe car was stopped in an industrial estate in Dundee\n\nInsp Greg Burns said it was \"miraculous\" that no-one had been injured as a result.\n\nHe said: \"Our officers genuinely could not believe what they were seeing when they saw this car today.\n\n\"This man has put himself and other road users and pedestrians at huge risk by driving the car in this condition.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Edinburgh, another driver was charged with dangerous driving when police spotted their windscreen covered in ice.\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.", "Nearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England last year were disabled, figures suggest.\n\nSome 30,296 of the 50,888 deaths between January and November were people with a disability, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows.\n\nIt also suggests the risk of death is three times greater for more severely disabled people.\n\nCharities have called for urgent government action, describing the data as \"horrifying and tragic\".\n\nThe ONS figures suggest disabled people were disproportionately affected by the pandemic - accounting for 17.2% of the study population but nearly 60% of coronavirus deaths.\n\nAmong women, the risk of death involving coronavirus was 3.5 times greater for more-disabled women - defined as having their day-to-day activities \"limited a lot\" by their health - compared with non-disabled women.\n\nFor less-disabled women, defined as having their day-to-day activities \"limited a little\", the risk was two times greater.\n\nCompared to non-disabled men, the data showed that the risk was 3.1 times greater for more-disabled men, and 1.9 times greater for less-disabled men.\n\nLooking at people with a medically diagnosed learning disability, the risk of death involving Covid was 3.7 times greater for both men and women compared with people who did not have a learning disability.\n\nThe ONS said an \"important part\" of the increased risk was because disabled people were \"disproportionately exposed to a range of generally disadvantageous circumstances\" compared with non-disabled people.\n\nJames Taylor, from disability equality charity Scope, said disabled people had been \"hardest hit\" by the pandemic and there was \"an urgent need for the government to act\".\n\n\"Behind these horrifying and tragic figures are individual stories of disabled people whose lives have been cruelly cut short by coronavirus.\"\n\nRichard Kramer, chief executive of national disability charity Sense, said that throughout the pandemic disabled people had \"largely been forgotten, left without sufficient support, information and communication\".\n\n\"The government must act now, planning its way out of lockdown with disabled people and their family's needs prioritised, to show that it's learnt from the mistakes of the past year.\"", "Justin Timberlake dated Britney Spears for several years, breaking up in 2002\n\nJustin Timberlake has apologised to Britney Spears after a new documentary led to criticism of how he treated her during and after their relationship.\n\nFraming Britney Spears featured archive clips of Timberlake discussing his sexual relationship with the singer.\n\nIn a statement on Instagram on Friday, Timberlake said he was \"deeply sorry\" and wanted to \"take accountability\".\n\nHe also apologised to Janet Jackson, after failing to support her over their controversial Super Bowl performance.\n\nTimberlake and Spears dated between 1999 and 2002, while he was a member of boy band N*Sync.\n\nAfter their split, he indirectly accused her of cheating on him when he hired a lookalike actress to appear in the video for his single Cry Me A River.\n\n\"I've seen the messages, tags, comments, and concerns and I want to respond. I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right. I understand that I fell short in these moments and in many others and benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism.\n\n\"I specifically want to apologise to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson both individually, because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed. I also feel compelled to respond, in part, because everyone involved deserves better and most importantly, because this is a larger conversation that I wholeheartedly want to be part of and grow from.\n\n\"The industry is flawed. It sets men, especially white men, up for success. It's designed this way. As a man in a privileged position I have to be vocal about this. Because of my ignorance, I didn't recognise it for all that it was while it was happening in my own life but I do not want to ever benefit from others being pulled down again.\n\n\"I have not been perfect in navigating all of this throughout my career. I know this apology is a first step and doesn't absolve the past. I want to take accountability for my own missteps in all of this as well as be part of a world that uplifts and supports. I care deeply about the wellbeing of the people I love and have loved. I can do better and I will do better.\"\n\nAfter finding fame at the end of the 1990s, Spears said she was waiting until she was married to lose her virginity.\n\nBut during a radio interview, a clip of which features in the documentary, Timberlake publicly revealed that they had slept together.\n\nTwo years later, at the 2004 Super Bowl, Timberlake performed with Janet Jackson, accidentally exposing her breast. The \"wardrobe malfunction\", as it became known, led to outcry and complaints from viewers.\n\nAlthough both apologised, Jackson absorbed the bulk of the negative publicity. She was fined and blacklisted by US radio and MTV, and Timberlake's failure to publicly support her was heavily criticised in later years.\n\nInterest in Spears has been renewed by the release of the New York Times documentary, which examines how Spears has been treated throughout her career.\n\nIt has led to criticism of Timberlake and other figures including journalist Diane Sawyer, who told Spears during a 2003 interview she had \"disappointed a lot of mothers\", and gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who was involved in the coverage of her 2007 breakdown.\n\nThe film also goes into detail about the singer's conservatorship, a legal arrangement that has given her father Jamie Spears control over her career and financial affairs since 2008.\n\nHowever on Thursday, a judge upheld a previous ruling that made a financial company a co-conservator for the singer, and rejected Mr Spears' request to keep his previous level of power over his daughter's investments.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ten people will be allowed per group and groups can consist of members from different households\n\nPubs and restaurants in Jersey will be allowed to reopen for table service only from 22 February, the government has announced.\n\nUp to 10 people will be allowed per group and groups can consist of people from different households.\n\nCustomers must have a substantial meal and a social distance of 2m (6ft) must be kept between tables.\n\nFurther relaxations to Covid restrictions will begin next week, the government said.\n\nFrom next Wednesday, faith groups will be allowed to meet for worship in groups of up to 40 people.\n\nControlled outdoor sports gatherings can also restart from Wednesday for up to 35 people under 18 and from 8 March for up to 35 people over 18.\n\nFrom 22 February, any pubs that cannot serve food must remain closed, the government said.\n\nLast orders at those that can reopen must be placed by 22:00 GMT and masks must be worn at all times except when eating and drinking.\n\nRules on household gatherings will remain unchanged, with islanders banned from mixing with others in their homes.\n\nChief minister, Senator John Le Fondré, said the current levels of infection in the island showed it was safe to continue reopening group activities \"carefully and with mitigation measures in place\".\n\nHe said: \"Risks remain though, which is why we are not opening up too quickly and why we are not yet relaxing our travel arrivals policy.\"\n\nThe minister for health and social services, Deputy Richard Renouf, said the relaxation of public heath measures created some risk but there were \"significant wellbeing benefits to reconnecting some of the activities we have all been missing\".\n\nMinister for economic development, Senator Lyndon Farnham added that he was sure the move would be \"welcome news to our hospitality industry\".\n\nFollow BBC Jersey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The plane was stopped just before it was due to fly from Heathrow to Bucharest\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after police stopped a plane flying to Romania.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said they tracked down a man to Heathrow Airport after receiving a report that a four-year-old girl had been taken.\n\nThey received a call at 16:57 GMT on Thursday, and the flight to Bucharest was due to take off at 18:00.\n\nThe 32-year-old is known to the girl, who has been reunited with her mother, a spokesman said.\n\nDet Sgt Ruth Walker said it was \"a hugely complex and challenging case\", and thanked officers from the Metropolitan Police for their assistance.\n\n\"The plane was taxiing ready for take-off, but we were able to get there just in time before it took flight,\" she said.\n\n\"[It] then returned to the terminal and the man was arrested.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the swift coordinated multi-agency response there may have been a very different outcome.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A greater proportion of people in Wales have received a jab than other UK nations\n\nWales will be the first UK nation to have offered the top four priority groups a Covid jab, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nWithin hours, officials say, all over-70s including care home residents, will have been offered a first dose.\n\nWales and the other UK nations have aimed to hit the target by mid-February.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford thanked \"everyone who had been working around the clock to reach this point\".\n\nIt follows a warning that vaccine supplies will fall in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK Government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said Wales' milestone was \"fantastic news\" and testament to the continued effort made by NHS and military staff.\n\nThe country currently leads the UK in the percentage of the population that has received a first jab - at least 715,944 doses have been given out.\n\nThere have been warnings that supplies could slow down\n\nFigures up to Thursday night show 22.7% of the population have been vaccinated, compared to 21% in England, 20.4% in Scotland and 19.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there were more than 87,000 people from target groups, including more than 37,000 in their early 70s, still to get a first dose.\n\nThe picture is complicated by a built-in delay on data being published while figures are checked and verified.\n\nThere are also issues involving some care home residents having to wait for doses, because of isolation due to Covid outbreaks.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he was confident the programme remained on track - with plans remaining in place to reach the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nHe said: \"We're the first UK nation to reach this milestone, others will follow in a couple of days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Mark Drakeford says the success of the vaccine rollout is due to the \"phenomenal effort\" of all involved.\n\nAsked how many people in those top groups who will not have had vaccine appointments by the weekend, he said it would be \"a very small number\".\n\n\"We've already completed 92% of all the people in those priority groups thanks to the amazing efforts of our NHS and other staff,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be some people who were ill when they were offered and need to be re-book. There will be some people who chose not to have a vaccine when they were first offered it, who may have changed their minds.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the NHS was \"checking and rechecking\" whether anyone had been left out and final appointments were being arranged for the weekend.\n\n\"Anybody who knows of somebody who may have missed out, it is not too late at all,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure that those people have an appointment as fast as possible.\"\n\nHealth minister Vaughan Gething said \"a leave no-one behind approach\" was being taken.\n\n\"The next group, those people 65 and over, all health boards are already sending out invites for those people to come forward as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not looking to miss a step, we're carrying on with the vaccine we have available.\"\n\nFigures show 88.4% of those aged 80 or older have had a first dose, compared to 86.3% for 75 to 79 year olds and 79.8% of 70 to 74 year olds.\n\nPublic Health Wales said a total of 80.3% of care home residents have had a first dose, and 83.5% of care home workers.\n\nBritish Medical Association chairman Dr David Bailey said Wales was \"hopefully on the home straight\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People are really making an effort to make the thing go smoothly as possible, and it is a credit to the Welsh public, as well as everyone who has actually been delivering the vaccine, because it has gone smoothly and everyone has been trying to do their part.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"To have achieved this first milestone and offered vaccination to everyone in the first four priority groups - those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus - is a truly phenomenal effort.\n\n\"Of course, the hard work has only just begun - there are many, many more people to vaccinate yet and a lot of second doses still to give.\"\n\nHe said it showed the UK Government had \"ensured Wales has had the vaccines available to protect the most vulnerable in our society and meet this target\" and hoped Wales could soon reopen its economy.\n\nHowever he added there was a still a \"long way to go\" with 80% of the population yet to be offered the vaccine.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth, said it was thanks to NHS staff and volunteers \"that Wales has been able to accelerate the vaccination effort to its current levels\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth added his party would continue to call for \"those in all care settings, not just the elderly, to be vaccinated as a matter of priority, and for key workers in schools, the emergency services and public transport to be brought in to the priority system sooner.\"", "The European Commission's Maros Sefcovic arrives in London to meet the UK's Michael Gove\n\nThe UK and the EU have had a \"frank but constructive discussion\" on problems implementing post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove met the vice-president of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, in London on Thursday evening.\n\nBoth sides reiterated their \"full commitment\" to the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nBut they pledged to meet again to \"address all outstanding issues\".\n\nMr Gove had previously called for an urgent \"reset\" on the arrangements, which see checks taking place between Northern Ireland and Great Britain - calling for a two-year \"grace period\" on the rules.\n\nBut the Irish Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, said any pause in enforcement could only be a matter of months, telling the BBC: \"It can't be a year.\"\n\nWriting to Mr Gove ahead of the meeting, Mr Sefcovic said the existing protocol was \"the only way\" to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster - who wants the protocol scrapped - said \"more rigorous implementation\" was \"not going to work\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol was designed to ensure an open border remained on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nBut to make it work, the two sides agreed that Northern Ireland would remain in the single market for goods, unlike the rest of the UK.\n\nThis meant checks had to be introduced on some goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nSince the new rules came into force, there has been tensions at ports in Northern Ireland, with disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries.\n\nChecks at some ports were temporarily suspended at the beginning of February over \"sinister\" threats made to some border staff who were carrying out checks on goods.\n\nUnionists want the protocol to be scrapped because they say it damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK union.\n\nDUP leader Mrs Foster accused Mr Sefcovic of having his \"head in the sand\" over the issues, and called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to \"step up\" to sort out the issues.\n\nBut the EU has stood by this part of the post-Brexit trade agreement, finalised in December and coming into force on New Year's Day.\n\nIn a joint statement after their meeting, Mr Gove and Mr Sefcovic reiterated their \"full commitment\" to the Good Friday Agreement and to the \"proper implementation\" of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThey said this was necessary to ensure stability, prevent a hard border and \"impact as little as possible on the everyday life\" of people living on the island of Ireland.\n\nThe statement also said they had \"taken in to account\" the views expressed by both the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is understood Mr Gove and Mr Sefcovic will hold a virtual meeting with Northern Ireland business leaders next week, before further discussions on 24 February.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, described the meeting as \"a good day's work\".\n\nIn a tweet, he said the \"focus now\" was on \"cooperation to implement what's been agreed in the protocol... and to work on solutions to outstanding issues\".\n\nSinn Fein's deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill said she welcomed the two sides' commitment to the Good Friday Agreement and implementation of the protocol \"protecting the gains of peace, and avoiding a hard border in Ireland\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood told the BBC that the language of the statement was \"more constructive\", but Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken said the protocol was \"breaking\" Northern Ireland's links with Great Britain, which \"shouldn't be allowed to happen\".", "Lawyers Bruce Castor and David Schoen will set out Trump's case Image caption: Lawyers Bruce Castor and David Schoen will set out Trump's case\n\nNow that Democratic prosecutors have finished setting out their case, it’s time for Donald Trump’s lawyers to have their say.\n\nAttorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen will have up to 16 hours over the next two days to set out their defence, although they are not expected to use all that time.\n\nOn the opening day of the trial, they argued that Trump was exercising his right to free speech, both in tweets and when he took to the stage in front of supporters on 6 January. We are likely to hear more of this line of argument from them.\n\nEarlier today, Schoen accused the Democrats of making \"movies\" and presenting the case as an \"entertainment package\" with the video and audio footage they showed the Senate.\n\nAfter Trump’s team concludes their case, the Senate will have up to four hours to ask written questions of both sides.\n\nWitnesses could also be called but it is not yet clear if that will happen. If there are no witnesses, we could see a vote on conviction this weekend, or by Monday.", "England's hotel quarantine system could be less stringent than Australia's scheme, a BBC analysis has found.\n\nA copy of the government's official requirements for hotel operators, ahead of the launch on Monday, showed rules were looser in several key areas.\n\nIn England, the rules allow guests time outside with security staff, seen in Australia as putting workers at risk.\n\nThe UK government said its hotel quarantine measures were \"in line with those in other countries\".\n\nUpdated guidance for hotels will be released \"imminently\", the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said she understood Border Force still had not been given operational guidance on how the hotel quarantine system would work from Monday.\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins told the BBC those arriving from \"red list\" countries - deemed high-risk due to new virus variants - would face strict measures even before they departed for the UK.\n\nThe requirement to quarantine in a hotel applies to British and Irish citizens, and UK residents arriving in England from such countries, including Portugal, Brazil and South Africa, and will cost £1,750 for an individual.\n\nIn Scotland, all those arriving internationally by air will have to isolate in hotels.\n\nInternational travel is currently banned, other than for a small number of permitted reasons, including for essential work, medical appointments and education. Holidays are not allowed.\n\nIt comes as Home Secretary Priti Patel urged people to \"persevere\" with England's booking website, where travellers secure rooms and new mandatory tests, after it was hit by technical issues.\n\nThe site was taken offline minutes after it launched on Thursday but appeared to be working again by 15:00 GMT on Friday following maintenance work.\n\nHowever, the government's advice page on hotel quarantine did not include a link directing passengers where to book and instead asked people to check back later to make a booking.\n\nMs Cooper said it \"isn't good enough\" that Border Force staff still do not know how the system will work at airports, including whether they will be asked to check for high-risk arrivals and if those passengers will be taken straight to hotels or will have to queue with other travellers.\n\n\"Chaotic long queues with no social distancing in place have the potential to be superspreading events that will undermine the very measures being introduced,\" the Labour MP said.\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman found the rules in England would be looser than Australia's system, which is seen as among the best in the world.\n\nA copy of the guidance for hotels in England's system suggested:\n\nThe UK government said staff would be able to access regular testing and appropriate personal protective equipment.\n\nIn England travellers will only be allowed out of their rooms for a limited set of exemptions, including exercise.\n\nThere had been conflicting messages about the policy, with No 10 and the Department of Health forced to issue several clarifications.\n\nSmoking, which at one stage had been described as a legitimate reason for going outside, will not qualify.\n\nAsked about differences between England and Australia's systems, Ms Atkins said standards in England \"are amongst the strongest in the world\".\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said hotels there would \"allow people to behave like human beings\" by going outside for fresh air.\n\nBut one Australian epidemiologist described allowing travellers quarantining in hotels to leave their rooms for fresh air as \"very risky\".\n\nProf Michael Toole said there was evidence of transmission when guests opened doors, and \"with the positive pressure this kind of fog of virus went out into the corridor, travelled down and infected hotel staff\".\n\nProf Nancy Baxter, of the University of Melbourne, said governments had a duty to provide people working in the hotels with \"the highest possible protection from infection\".\n\nIt comes as the Australian state of Victoria enters a five-day \"circuit breaker\" lockdown in a bid to suppress an outbreak linked to its hotel quarantine system.\n\nThe UK has secured an initial 4,600 rooms across 16 hotels for its quarantine system.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has said that, at present, around 1,300 people per week arrive in the UK from red list countries, with this number expected to fall.\n\nThe new system also introduces tougher penalties, with avoiding quarantine in a designated hotel attracting a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nAnyone found to have falsified their travel history on the mandatory passenger locator form filled in on arrival risks up to 10 years in prison.\n\nAll international arrivals must book and pay in advance for two additional tests during their quarantine period, or face fines up to £2,000.\n\nIn a further development, government sources confirmed reports that countries could be added to the red list with just a few hours' notice.\n\nRather than previous weekly reviews of travel corridor arrangements, there will now be a \"fast track\" system allowing ministers to quickly curb travel from virus hotspots.\n\nIt comes as 15,144 new cases were recorded in the UK, as well as 758 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 14 million people have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nWill you be travelling to the UK from a \"red list\" country? 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.", "People queuing to get tested in Melbourne this week following news of the new cases\n\nThe Australian state of Victoria will enter lockdown for a third time in a bid to suppress an outbreak of the UK strain of coronavirus.\n\nOfficials this week found 13 cases stemming from a quarantine worker who became infected at a Melbourne hotel.\n\nThe lockdown will begin on Friday midnight and end on Wednesday.\n\nHowever, the government has said the Australian Open tennis tournament would continue in the state's capital, Melbourne.\n\nSpectators will be banned from attending the event from Saturday, which had previously allowed up to 30,000 visitors a day. Tickets will be refunded, tournament director Craig Tiley said.\n\nVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the current outbreak was not linked to the quarantine hotels used by the tennis players.\n\nThe Australian Open will proceed without spectators\n\nHe stressed that a \"circuit breaker\" was needed to combat the \"hyper-infectious\" strain which he said had likely already seeded other infections in the community.\n\n\"This is the fastest-moving, most infectious strain of coronavirus that we have seen,\" he said, adding that almost 1,000 close contacts had already been reached.\n\nPrior to this outbreak, Victoria had not seen a local infection for 28 days and the state had largely eliminated the virus.\n\nMany Melbourne residents have expressed dismay but also resignation over the retreat into lockdown again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Australian Open was trying to stay Covid-safe\n\nLast year, in Australia's winter, the city endured one of the world's longest and strictest lockdowns to overcome a second wave which led to more than 90% of Australia's 29,000 cases and 909 deaths.\n\n\"We've built something precious, and we have to make difficult decisions, and do difficult things, in order to defend what we've built,\" Mr Andrews said.\n\n\"I am confident that this short, sharp circuit breaker will be effective. We will be able to smother this.\"\n\nThe state will be under the following restrictions for five days:\n\nMeanwhile, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia have announced travel bans on people from Melbourne. Further border closures are expected. International flights to Melbourne will also be cancelled, authorities said.\n\nThe tough ride continues for the Australian Open as Covid and controversy strike again.\n\nWhen I was there reporting on the event's opening weekend, the tennis fans I spoke to said how happy they were for sport to have come back to Melbourne.\n\n\"We're just grateful,\" one fan, Angela, told me as she walked around the park. \"We know how much this is worth. We know how much we've struggled to achieve that.\"\n\nThe city went through a traumatic, lengthy lockdown last July after a quarantine breach led to more than 18,000 cases.\n\nNow the city is going back into lockdown again and for many it's a dispiriting déjà vu.\n\nConfined to their homes, they're also asking why the tennis is still going ahead.\n\nWhy will players and their teams get to move around and play matches while the people of Melbourne will have to stay home?\n\nMelbourne becomes the fourth Australian city - joining Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide - to enter a snap lockdown since November.\n\nIn each situation, the cases have occurred due to a quarantine hotel breach - with all but one of these found to be the more infectious UK variant.\n\nVictorian health authorities have been scrambling to find out how the virus leaked out, with particular focus being paid to airborne transmission.\n\nOfficials say the UK variant is \"hyper-infectious\". But experts in the past week have questioned why stronger aerosol protections weren't in place when the threat of airborne transmission was previously known.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It feels like we're part of history'\n\nUp to 80,000 NI people who received a shielding letter as they are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to Covid-19 can now book a vaccination appointment.\n\nAppointments can be made online for vaccinations at seven centres.\n\nOnline appointments are available for this weekend, with telephone booking available from next week.\n\nThe news comes as the Department of Health reported another nine coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, bringing its death total to 1,975.\n\nThere were 407 new cases recorded.\n\nThere are 488 people being treated in hospital for the virus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the number of Covid-19-related deaths registered fell for a second week, according to Northern Ireland's statistics agency.\n\nThe virus was listed on the death certificates of 126 people in the week to 5 February.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the vaccination appointment announcement would be \"very welcome to all those who are clinically extremely vulnerable and have been looking forward to getting vaccinated\".\n\n\"A start has already been made on the CEV category and offering booked appointments will help to accelerate this,\" he added.\n\n\"I would again appeal to everyone to be patient - whether that's waiting on the line to book your vaccination appointment by telephone or waiting your turn in the vaccination programme.\"\n\nThe system will be open to all those who received a shielding letter.\n\nThey will have to bring that letter with them to the vaccination centre to prove their eligibility and will receive the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who heads up NI's vaccine programme, said people should not panic if they cannot find their shielding letter.\n\n\"This is going to be open for a while, there's plenty of appointments.\n\n\"For some individuals, they will be called by their GPs, so they may in fact find that their GP is calling them forward - but we're going to issue further advice on this next week.\"\n\nEarlier, referring to vaccinations, NI's chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show he was \"confident that we will have completed over-70s and clinically extremely vulnerable through February and perhaps into early March\".\n\nAbout 401,966 vaccines have been administered to date, with 373,414 of them being first doses and the remaining 28,552 being second doses, according to the Department of Health.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) has recorded a fall of 11 Covid-19-related deaths on the previous week's toll of 137.\n\nIt is also the second time the number has fallen since the record high of 182 reported on 22 January.\n\nIt brings the agency's total of coronavirus-related registered deaths to 2,574.\n\nThe Department of Health's total for the same date, based on a positive test result being recorded, was 1,923.\n\nNisra's figures are higher than that recorded by the department because it records all mentions of the virus on death certificates, even though it may or may not have been confirmed by way of a test.\n\nOn the agency's measure, there have been 1,676 Covid-19-related deaths in hospital, including the deaths of 224 care home residents.\n\nTaking that figure, and the 737 who died in care homes, it means care home residents now account for fewer than two-fifths (36.8%) of all virus-related deaths.\n\nVirus-related deaths were also recorded in hospices (0.5%) and other residential locations (7.2%).\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for more than three-quarters of all Covid-19-related registered deaths (77.2%) between 19 March 2020 and 5 February 2021.\n\nThe Antrim and Newtownabbey (9.9%), and Mid-Ulster (7.7%) local government districts have now recorded higher proportions of all coronavirus-related deaths, compared with their share of all deaths in Northern Ireland (8.3% and 6.4% respectively).\n\nThe provisional number of deaths from all causes for the week ending 5 February was 462.\n\nThat is 25 more than the previous week, and 125 more than the five-year average for the time of year, which is 337.\n\nOn Friday, the Republic of Ireland recorded a further 21 deaths linked to Covid-19, bringing its total to 3,865.\n\nThere have been 207,720 cases of the virus after the Irish department of health was notified of an additional 921 cases.\n\nThere are 959 Covid-19 inpatients in the Republic, with 173 in intensive care.", "A man and woman were arrested on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy\n\nA couple have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy they were set to adopt.\n\nPolice said a 37-year-old woman and 34-year-old man, from Barrow-in-Furness, had been arrested on suspicion of murder, causing or allowing the death of a child and two counts of assault.\n\nThey have been released on bail, Cumbria Police said.\n\nCumbria County Council said the child was under its care but was living with the couple before the adoption.\n\nThe council said it had recommended an independent safeguarding review was carried out.\n\nPolice said the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) was called on 6 January and the child was taken to Furness General Hospital in Barrow before being transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nDet Ch Supt Dean Holden said: \"Two people have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the tragic death of a one-year-old boy in Barrow.\n\n\"An investigation is under way by a dedicated team of detectives and other specialists in order to establish the full circumstances of the death in full consultation with the coroner.\"\n\nThe county council said a final adoption order had not yet been granted by the courts, however it is a requirement of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 that a child lives with their adoptive parents for a period before an application for an adoption order can be made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Democrat Joe Neguse presented the prosecution's closing argument at the former president's impeachment trial.\n\n\"If we let this go unanswered, who's to say it won't happen again?\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the UK's tabloid press they are ending all co-operation with them.\n\nIn a letter to editors of all the Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express titles and websites, a representative said the pair had taken the step due to \"distorted, false or invasive\" stories.\n\nHarry and Meghan said they refused to \"offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion\".\n\nThe couple have relocated to California after stepping back as senior royals.\n\nIn the letter, the couple's public relations representative wrote it was \"gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media\" has printed \"distorted, false or invasive\" articles.\n\n\"There is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society,\" the letter said.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know - as well as complete strangers - have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\"\n\nThe BBC was told that the letter had been sent to the editors of the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express newspapers.\n\nThe new policy will apply to the four newspapers, their Sunday editions and associated websites, the Guardian's media editor Jim Waterson reported.\n\nThe Daily Star, which was not specifically mentioned, is published by the same group that publishes the Mirror and Express titles.\n\nThe ban on engagement with the papers will mean that the couple's PR team will no longer even answer calls from the papers asking them to confirm whether claims made about the couple are true or not.\n\nOutlining the new policy of \"no corroboration and zero engagement\" with all the publications that received it, the letter said the measure would also protect the couple's communications team \"from the side of the industry that readers never see\".\n\n\"This policy is not about avoiding criticism,\" the letter continued.\n\n\"It's not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can't be based on a lie.\"\n\nPrince Harry has spoken in the past of seeing - as a young child - the effect media intrusion had on his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe letter said the couple will continue to work with other media and \"young, up-and-coming journalists\" to raise awareness of the issues and causes they care about.\n\nIn recent days, photographs of the Sussexes delivering food to vulnerable people in Los Angeles have been published by two of the newspapers to receive the letter.\n\nAnd it comes ahead of a court hearing this week in a legal case Meghan has brought against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter written to the duchess by her estranged father.\n\nThe couple officially stepped back as senior working members of the Royal Family at the end of March as part of a transition following an announcement of their intention to become financially independent in January..\n\nAs The Duke and Duchess of Sussex now settle into the next chapter of their lives and no longer receive any publicly funded support, we are writing to set a new media relations policy, specifically as it pertains to your organisation.\n\nLike you, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that a free press is a cornerstone to any democracy— particularly in moments of crisis. At its best, this free press shines light on dark places, telling stories that would otherwise go untold, standing up for what's right, challenging power, and holding those who abuse the system to account.\n\nIt has been said that journalism's first obligation is to the truth. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex agree wholeheartedly.\n\nIt is gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media, over many years, has sought to insulate themselves from taking accountability for what they say or print—even when they know it to be distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason. When power is enjoyed without responsibility, the trust we all place in this much-needed industry is degraded.\n\nThere is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know—as well as complete strangers—have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\n\nWith that said, please note that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be engaging with your outlet. There will be no corroboration and zero engagement. This is also a policy being instated for their communications team, in order to protect that team from the side of the industry that readers never see.\n\nThis policy is not about avoiding criticism. It's not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can't be based on a lie.\n\nThey also want to be very clear: this is not in any way a blanket policy for all media.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are looking forward to working with journalists and media organisations all over the world, engaging with grassroots media, regional and local media, and young, up-and-coming journalists, to spotlight issues and causes that so desperately need acknowledging. And they look forward to doing whatever they can to help further opportunities for more diverse and underrepresented voices, who are needed now more than ever.\n\nWhat they won't do is offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion.\n\nWe are encouraged that this new approach will be heard and respected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Camila Batmanghelidjh: \"I am delighted that the justice system paid attention to the facts\"\n\nThe founder and former trustees of the collapsed charity Kids Company have won a High Court battle against being disqualified from other organisations.\n\nThe Official Receiver argued they were \"unfit\" to hold directorships because of their handling of the charity.\n\nBut the ruling cleared former chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh and the seven others of personal wrongdoing.\n\nThe judge added the charity may have survived had it not been for unfounded allegations of criminal activity.\n\nA plan to restructure the organisation's finances had been agreed with David Cameron's government.\n\nBut the charity closed its doors in 2015 after the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into sexual assault allegations, following the broadcast of a BBC Newsnight report.\n\nThe police investigation concluded in 2016 after finding no evidence of criminality.\n\nIn her ruling, Mrs Justice Falk said the charity, which worked with hundreds of vulnerable children in London and Bristol, may have survived financially to continue its work had it not closed.\n\nDuring the lengthy court battle, the Official Receiver - a body that looks into potential wrongdoing by company directors - had alleged that the charity's former leaders should be disqualified as directors because the organisation had been so badly run.\n\nIn the run-up to its collapse, the charity was spending around £20m a year, up to a quarter of which came from the government.\n\nThe Official Receiver alleged that Kids Company's business model had become unsustainable from around September 2013 and its failure was inevitable.\n\nIt also alleged that the defendants knew or ought to have known that and should have planned to avoid financial collapse.\n\nThe charity's chairman at the time of its collapse, who was also cleared by the ruling, was the former BBC executive Alan Yentob.\n\nMrs Justice Falk said the case was not proven.\n\n\"There was no allegation of dishonesty, bad faith or personal gain,\" said the judge.\n\n\"There was no allegation of inappropriate expenditure in relation to any of the children assisted by Kids Company.\n\n\"The allegation is not made out against any of the directors and they are not unfit. The case against them fails.\n\n\"While aspects of the charity's work were high-risk, the business model was not unsustainable.\"\n\nMrs Justice Falk said the charity had grown rapidly from its south London base as demand for its specialist support services for vulnerable children grew.\n\nDespite having a substantial and stable government grant, it also needed to raise additional funds from private donors - and by 2015 it was in talks with Whitehall over how to do that amid concerns about its cash flow and staff costs.\n\n\"That restructuring plan was agreed and a further government grant was awarded,\" said the judge.\n\n\"However the charity was forced to close after sexual assault allegations [the same week]. The charity was exonerated following a police investigation - but by that time it was too late.\n\n\"Had it not been for those unfounded allegations, it is more likely than not that the restructuring would have succeeded and the charity would have survived.\"\n\nThe judge described the people running the charity as a \"group of highly impressive and dedicated individuals who selflessly gave enormous amounts of their time to what was clearly a highly challenging trusteeship\".\n\nIn a statement after the ruling, Ms Batmanghelidjh, who founded Kids Company in 1996, said: \"I hope this judgement will be the first step in refuting the many lies that have been told and banishing the false myths.\n\n\"My regret is that many thousands of children whom we supported were left unassisted and vulnerable once our service was withdrawn and that there were many others who never got a chance to receive help.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, Ms Batmanghelidjh said the ruling was \"justice\" for the \"thousands of staff, volunteers and donors who created Kids Company over nearly 20 years\".\n\nBut she said Kids Company would not have had to \"carry that burden of child protection if the child protection system in this country was fit for purpose\".\n\nA statement issued on behalf of former trustees said: \"Kids Company was forced to close in August 2015 following what the judge records as 'unfounded allegations' of child abuse, which made fundraising from private and government sources impossible.\n\n\"We are pleased that finally the facts have been gathered and assessed in a court of law.\"", "The musician died from a rare form of cancer, a statement on his website said\n\nTributes have been paid to jazz \"genius\" Chick Corea, who has died at the age of 79.\n\nThe Grammy Award-winning musician died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer that was only recently diagnosed.\n\nThe influential American is the fourth most nominated artist in Grammys history with 65 nods and 23 wins.\n\nThe Recording Academy, which hosts the Grammys, paid tribute to \"undisputedly one of the most incredible jazz innovators of all time\".\n\nIn a message written before his death and left for his fans, Corea said: \"My mission has always been to bring the joy of creating anywhere I could, and to have done so with all the artists that I admire so dearly - this has been the richness of my life.\"\n\nMiles Davis on stage with pianist Chick Corea (left), bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack Dejohnette for the BBC Jazz Scene TV show in 1969\n\nHis career spanned more than five decades and he played with Miles Davis in the late 1960s - including on his acclaimed jazz-rock double album Bitches Brew. His own group, Return to Forever, were at the forefront of the jazz fusion movement.\n\nThe late star was also known around the world for his work as a composer with hits like Spain and 500 Miles High.\n\n\"Through his body of work and the decades spent touring the world, he touched and inspired the lives of millions,\" a statement on his website said.\n\n\"An extraordinary composer and keyboardist, Chick rewrote the rulebook for jazz in his more than 5-decade long career, receiving mass critical acclaim along the way for his musical excellence.\"\n\nHis influence stretched far and wide, informing many different genres of music. Yusuf aka Cat Stevens described Corea as a \"genius\" and \"one of the most innovative and inspired musicians I ever had the privilege to work with\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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His last album was released in 2020.\n\nCorea grew up in Massachusetts, and his father was a jazz trumpeter who led a Dixieland band in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He introduced his son to the piano and to the bebop of the likes of Dizzy Gillespie from a young age.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nathan East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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\nSpeaking to the National Jazz Archive in 1978, Corea explained that it was his intention at the start of that decade to make \"more melodic music\".\n\n\"I find that every kind of really good jazz that I've ever been interested in - like the music of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane or Miles Davis - it's always very lyrical music, you know,\" he said.\n\nCorea was known around the world for his work as a composer and a performer\n\n\"And it's one of the most attractive elements in the music for me - the melodic line. So it's something that I desire to have in my music as well.\"\n\nScientology became a growing influence on his musical direction and personal beliefs during that period too.\n\nCorea is survived by his wife, vocalist and pianist Gayle Moran, his children and his grandchildren.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A new booking system for England's hotel quarantine scheme was taken offline minutes after it launched.\n\nThe portal, set up as part of efforts to control new Covid variants entering the country, is \"undergoing work to correct a minor technical issue\".\n\nThe Department of Health said the portal would be open \"well before\" the scheme comes into effect on Monday.\n\nOfficials are expecting to have the website back up and running by 10:00 GMT on Friday, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe requirement to quarantine in a hotel applies to British and Irish citizens, and UK residents arriving in England from 33 countries from Monday and will cost £1,750 for an individual booking.\n\nThe so-called \"red list\" countries - including Portugal, Brazil and South Africa - are deemed high risk due to emerging new virus variants.\n\nIn Scotland, residents arriving from any country by air will have to isolate in hotels.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants the UK to follow Scotland and extend the rules to cover all international travellers, saying the borders will be \"too leaky\" otherwise.\n\nThe website had been accessible for some users intermittently since it was launched just after 13:00 GMT. The most recent holding message promised the site would be \"back soon\" and apologised for the inconvenience as it carried out \"maintenance\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said ministers \"must act to fix this urgently\".\n\n\"It is extremely worrying that even the limited hotel quarantine booking system is showing signs of failing from the outset,\" he said.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"Rooms are available from Monday 15 February and the portal will be open well before the go live date.\"\n\nAround 1,300 people a week are arriving into the UK from those countries at the moment, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nThe Department of Health has arranged for about 4,700 rooms across 16 hotels to be available for the new quarantine system. Travellers have to book a place in quarantine - which lasts 10 days - before arriving in the UK.\n\nInternational travel is currently banned, other than for a small number of permitted reasons, including for essential work, medical appointments and education. Holidays are not allowed.\n\nThe cost of the hotel quarantine packages is £1,750 per adult for 11 nights, which includes transport and testing.\n\nFor extra adults or a child over 12 the cost is £650, and for a child aged five to 12 it is £325.\n\nIn Scotland, the cost is the same for one adult - £1,750 - but the government is still working through the costs for extra travellers. The Scottish government is also launching a fund for people who cannot afford the charge.\n\nAirlines and travel companies will be legally required to make sure travellers have signed up for the new measures before they depart, with fines for companies and passengers if they fail to comply, he said.\n\nFailing to quarantine in a designated hotel when required will carry a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\nGiving false travel history information on the mandatory passenger locator form filled in by travellers when they arrive in the UK will attract a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.\n\nAll arrivals from countries not on the \"red list\" must see out a 10-day quarantine at home, but will be required to pay £210 for two additional private virus tests, booked prior to arrival.\n\nIt came as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"too early\" to know whether summer holidays can go ahead this year.\n\nMr Hancock said there was still \"a lot of uncertainty\" but ministers were doing everything possible to make sure people could have a holiday this year.\n\nHe told the BBC he had booked his own summer break in Cornwall \"months ago\".\n\nSir Keir urged the government to \"get rid of the mixed messages\" about whether people should book holidays for later in the year.\n\nDowning Street said Prime Minister Boris Johnson would unveil a roadmap for easing restrictions - potentially including travel - in the week beginning 22 February.", "University of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nA serial sex offender has been found guilty of raping and murdering a student before dumping her body in a river.\n\nPawel Relowicz, 26, prowled the streets of Hull before attacking \"vulnerable\" 21-year-old Libby Squire.\n\nJurors heard Relowicz had committed a string of offences against women prior to the killing.\n\nSpeaking outside Sheffield Crown Court, Libby's mother paid tribute to her \"beautiful, caring, wonderful girl\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutor Richard Wright QC said Relowicz had spent the night of 31 January 2019 driving around looking for a woman to attack.\n\nJurors heard University of Hull philosophy student Ms Squire, who had been turned away from a nightclub, was drunk and \"extremely vulnerable\" when Relowicz \"intercepted\" her .\n\nHe drove her to Oak Road playing fields, where he attacked her before putting her in the River Hull.\n\nProsecutors said the married father-of-two had repeatedly lied to police, his wife and in court documents about what happened on the night of Ms Squire's disappearance.\n\nPawel Relowicz had previously committed a string of sexual offences against women\n\nHe maintained he had consensual sex with the student and said he had lied because he did not want his wife to find out he had cheated on her.\n\nAfter a massive search effort, Ms Squire's remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost two months later.\n\nHer parents, Lisa and Russ, held hands and cried as they sat in the public gallery overlooking the courtroom to await the verdicts.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mrs Squire thanked supporters but said Relowicz's conviction \"changes nothing for us, there is no closure\".\n\n\"We don't get to have Libby back and our lives don't revert back to normal,\" she said.\n\n\"Libby will always be with us and we are all so proud of our beautiful, caring, wonderful girl.\n\n\"And, although she has been physically taken from us, the memories we have and the love we share will never be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolish national Relowicz, a butcher, showed no emotion as the jury foreman read out the verdicts. He will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nJurors found him guilty of rape unanimously and guilty of murder by a majority verdict of 11 to one.\n\nPathologists were unable to establish how she died, or whether she was still alive when she went into the water.\n\nWitnesses reported hearing screams from the playing fields on the night she disappeared.\n\nGerry Wareham, from the Crown Prosecution Service said CCTV footage of Relowicz and Ms Squire's last known movements was \"crucial evidence\" in bringing the case to court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of Libby Squire and Pawel Relowicz's movements was shown to jurors\n\nDuring the 14-day trial, the jury of seven women and five men heard Relowicz had previous convictions for voyeurism, performing sex acts in public and stealing sex toys and underwear from women's homes.\n\nOne of his previous voyeurism victims told the BBC she hoped the police would learn from the case.\n\nShe said his earlier offences were \"sufficiently minor\" by themselves \"to not actually require the level of investigation that would result in him being caught\".\n\nIn a statement, Humberside Police said it was \"satisfied\" with its investigation and that officers \"acted quickly\" to identify, locate and apprehend the defendant within days of Ms Squire's disappearance.\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said: \"I can understand that people are interested to know whether Libby's tragic death could have been prevented.\n\n\"It is important to remember that whilst, taken as a whole, and with the benefit of hindsight, we may be able to point to a history of offending by Pawel Relowicz, officers investigating these offences at the time were doing so with far less information than we have now and that my investigation into Libby's disappearance had.\"\n\nDet Supt Smalley said the investigation was \"one of the most challenging and emotional cases\" in his 30-year career\n\nThe University of Hull said it would continue to offer support to the student community.\n\nVice-Chancellor Prof Susan Lea said in a statement: \"What took place in February 2019 deeply affected everyone at the university and those within the local community.\n\n\"Libby made a huge impact during her time at Hull, and will be remembered fondly by all who met her.\"\n\nShe said the \"kindness and care shown by everyone was overwhelming\" both at the university and in the wider community.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\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.", "Almost half a million UK families are thought to have fallen behind on rent, as a result of the coronavirus crisis, according to the Resolution Foundation.\n\nIt said more than 750,000 had been behind on housing costs last month.\n\nThat is 450,000 more than January 2020.\n\n\"Despite widespread calls for forbearance in the face of the Covid-19 shock, just 3% of private renting families have been able to negotiate a lower rent over the last 10 months,\" the think tank said in a report.\n\nMeanwhile, one in 20 private renters in the UK said they had been refused rent reductions.\n\nMany had taken \"huge hits\" to their earnings and had \"limited savings\" to fall back on, research director Lindsay Judge said.\n\n\"To make matters worse, measures that could ease the pressure, such as discretionary housing payments from local authorities and negotiated rent reductions from landlords, are not getting through to those that need them.\"\n\nAlmost one in four private renters had seen their income fall as a result of the crisis, the body said.\n\nAnd it did not expect an easing of lockdown restrictions to be enough to solve their problems.\n\n\"Both benefit cuts and the end of furlough are pencilled in for the spring, either of which will strain family incomes further,\" it said.\n\n\"Likewise, unemployment looks set to rise, rather than fall, through 2021, potentially driving up arrears further still.\"\n\nLandlords in England have been banned from evicting tenants until at least the end of March, offering \"some security\", the Resolution Foundation said, by preventing families under the most strain becoming homeless during the pandemic.\n\nHousing is a devolved issue, and Wales and Scotland have also extended their bans to the end of March.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, landlords are required to give tenants 12 weeks' notice to quit, before moving to eviction proceedings. The rules were extended to March in anticipation of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut the Resolution Foundation also wants the government to offer loans to tenants to ease a \"rent-arrears crisis\" it expects to worsen in the months ahead.\n\nMeera Chindooroy, from the National Residential Landlords Association, said loans would help tackle the rent debts owed to property owners.\n\n\"Simply banning repossessions is doing nothing to address this underlying problem which renters and landlords are struggling to cope with,\" she said.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Robust protections put in place by the government remain - with the vast majority of renters still subject to six months' notice periods, while the ban on bailiff evictions in all but the most serious circumstances will stay in place until at least 31 March.\"", "After the safe arrival of their first-born child he was nicknamed Car Park Charlie\n\nA baby born in a hotel car park after his parents were sent home from hospital has been nicknamed \"Car Park Charlie\".\n\nCharlie Smith was born in an ambulance outside the Premier Inn, Grimsby, after his parents checked-in rather than risk driving home through heavy snow.\n\nHarriet Hanson and Adam Smith had been facing a 45-minute drive to Skegness but chose to stay near to the hospital.\n\nThey said they believe the decision was \"critical\" to Charlie's safe arrival.\n\nThe decision not to drive home was \"critical\" for Charlie's safe arrival, the couple said\n\nMs Hanson, 25, had gone to hospital in Grimsby on the night of 7 February after she began experiencing contractions, but was told to go home and return when she was in established labour.\n\nHowever, rather than travel in the freezing conditions, they chose to book a nearby hotel room.\n\nLater that night Ms Hanson's waters broke and hotel staff helped the couple by calling 999.\n\nWhen paramedics arrived she was taken to a waiting ambulance, where baby Charlie was delivered at 00:29 GMT the next day, weighing 8lb 3.5oz (3.7kg).\n\nMs Hanson and Mr Smith, 28, said: \"We are so grateful for the care and kindness shown by the team at Premier Inn during our time of need.\n\n\"To say you were born in the car park of a hotel is certainly a story you will never forget - we have even affectionately nicknamed him Car Park Charlie.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Princess Latifa, fled the country in 2018 before she was captured by officials.\n\nBBC Panorama has obtained secret video messages showing Latifa being held against her will back home.\n\nA photograph with the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson went viral in December 2018 after it appeared to show proof of Latifa's life, but Ms Robinson now admits she was \"horribly tricked\".\n\nThe governments of Dubai and UAE have not responded to requests for comment from the BBC. They have always said Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.", "The boss of the company that made the Grenfell Tower cladding has said it was not his \"priority\" to understand fire safety tests and certificates.\n\nClaude Schmidt, president of Arconic, told the inquiry into the fire that he only learned about a key British fire safety standard after the disaster.\n\nIt also heard claims the French firm \"arranged\" for some fire tests to pass.\n\nArconic is being investigated for not informing a British standards board about failed tests.\n\nThe inquiry is looking into how Grenfell Tower came to be covered in combustible materials, leading to the fire killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nArconic manufactured the cladding panels in France and the product was never put through the standard test widely used in the UK construction industry.\n\nMr Schmidt was asked by the inquiry's lead counsel Richard Millett QC why, when he became managing director in 2007, he did not \"seek to understand thoroughly the testing and certification which supported that product\".\n\nSpeaking in French through an interpreter, Mr Schmidt replied: \"Because it wasn't my priority\".\n\n\"This is to do with fire safety and life safety. Why wasn't it your priority?\" Mr Millett asked.\n\nMr Schmidt said he thought these words were \"a bit too strong\".\n\nThere are a number of ways that building materials can comply with regulations in order to be used on high-rise buildings.\n\nOne of them is meeting the British standard, known as Class 0. Though some sections of the government guidance on which standards are required for certain products are disputed.\n\nArconic was awarded a product certificate for its cladding in the UK by the British Board of Agrément (BBA) in 2008.\n\nThis said Arconic's Reynobond PE cladding panel \"may be regarded\" as having met the Class 0 standard. The UK building industry relied heavily on it.\n\nAcross the country, and at Grenfell, cladding suppliers believed that if the cladding had a BBA certificate and was Class 0, it could be used on tall buildings.\n\nBut the inquiry heard on Tuesday that the standard British test had not, in fact, been carried out. The French arm of Arconic relied, instead, on European tests that were similar.\n\nOn top of that, there were a series of issues with the tests which were done.\n\nSome versions of the panel, when it was shaped into \"cassettes\" or boxes, had \"failed spectacularly\", Mr Millett said.\n\nArconic did not tell the BBA, so the product certificate remained in use right up to the decision to use the cladding on Grenfell Tower.\n\nA statement from Claude Wehrle, a technical manager who worked for Arconic, said the company believed the test was a \"rogue result\", the inquiry heard.\n\nThe inquiry chairman, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, asked Mr Schmidt to respond to the view that Arconic was \"irrational and irresponsible not to carry out further tests\".\n\nMr Schmidt said: \"Yes... extra tests should have been carried out.\"\n\nWhen another version of the cladding was put through the European test in 2005 it was given a Class B rating, on a scale where A1 is the best and F is the worst. This meant it could be used on high-rise buildings.\n\nBut on Tuesday the inquiry was shown an email 11 years later in which Mr Wehrle said the Class B rating had been achieved \"by 'arranging' the system to pass\".\n\nMr Wehrle, a French national, has refused - despite repeated requests - to come to the inquiry to give evidence, because of legal advice he says he has received.\n\nWhen asked how Mr Wehrle might have \"arranged\" the system to pass, Mr Schmidt said: \"I don't have an answer.\"\n\nThe issue of which standards the Arconic cladding met, and what testing was done on it, is at the centre of this phase of the public inquiry - and is an important component of the Metropolitan Police investigation.\n\nIt is also one of the factors behind the building safety crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the country.\n\nImmediately after the fire, residents of the Chalcots Estate in Camden, North London had to leave their homes when the fire risk of Arconic Reynobond PE aluminium composite cladding was realised.\n\nArconic's position has always been that it simply produced the raw materials for cladding systems, and it didn't necessarily know how they would be used, so could not know that they might not meet building regulations.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Schmidt was asked by Mr Millett about \"occasions when Arconic did understand what project the product would be used for.\"\n\nAsked whether Grenfell Tower was \"an example of that\", Mr Schmidt said: \"Yes.\"", "The government's decision to hire a firm with links to the PM's ex-chief adviser Dominic Cummings has been challenged at the High Court.\n\nCampaign group The Good Law Project has complained of \"apparent bias\" in the decision to recruit Public First for Covid-19 opinion polling last year.\n\nDuring a hearing on Monday, the group's lawyer argued emergency rules used to award the work should not have applied.\n\nBut Mr Cummings said the £540,000 contract had been \"entirely justified\".\n\nIn a written statement, he said although he was \"friends\" with the company's founding directors, he had not recommended them for that reason.\n\nHe added there had been \"no time\" to follow usual procurement rules, and the work was \"crucial\" to the government's early pandemic response.\n\nPublic First was founded by James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, whom Mr Cummings said he knew from previous roles both inside and outside government.\n\nAccording to a November report into Covid-19 contracts by the National Audit Office, it was initially hired \"on an informal basis\" in March 2020 to do focus group research.\n\nThe spending watchdog added the company was then given a \"retrospective contract\" in June, covering work from March and \"potential future work\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office's decision to award the work under emergency tendering rules is subject to a legal challenge from The Good Law Project.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Monday, the group's lawyer Jason Coppel QC told judge Mrs Justice O'Farrell that \"no other provider was considered\" for the work.\n\nHe added that although other firms already working for the government had been able to bid, \"no thought was given to any other provider because Dominic Cummings wanted Public First to have the contract\".\n\nArguing that rules allowing the \"direct award\" of contracts did not apply, he added awarding the contract without open competition had not been \"strictly necessary\".\n\nMr Cummings, who was working as Boris Johnson's senior adviser at the time the work was awarded, did not give evidence in person during the hearing.\n\nBut in a written statement, he defended his decision to recommend the firm for the work.\n\nHe said he was friends with both Mr Frayne and Ms Wolf, as well as ex-civil servant Gabriel Milland, who is also a partner at Public First.\n\nHe said he had not met Mr Frayne since 2016, and had \"no involvement\" in the \"contractual arrangements\" with the firm.\n\n\"Obviously I did not request Public First be brought in because they were my friends. I would never do such a thing,\" he added.\n\nHe said he had recommended the firm because he knew the company was \"very good\" at running focus groups, and he could \"rely on them to make an extra effort\".\n\nAlthough he added he was not allowed to \"direct\" civil servants, he said he expected Public First to be hired \"as a result of my suggestion,\" adding that he was an \"expert in the interaction between policy, mass communication and focus groups\".\n\n\"Civil servants could have disagreed and did disagree with my suggestions all the time, and my response depends on my expertise of the matter in hand and other circumstances.\"\n\n\"On this occasion, I was an expert,\" he added.\n\nMr Cummings said the company was brought in to inform government communication during the pandemic.\n\nArguing for the legal challenge to be dismissed, lawyers for the Cabinet Office told the judge Mr Cummings made a recommendation, not a decision, on awarding the work.\n\nRepresenting the Cabinet Office, Michael Bowsher QC said Mr Frayne and Ms Wolf had \"professional and personal connections\" with Mr Cummings, as well as Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove.\n\nBut it was \"emphatically denied\" that there was \"any bias, or apparent bias\" in the award of the work to Public First, he added.\n\nHe said: \"At a time of national emergency Dominic Cummings recommended a firm he knew could get the job done.\"\n\nHe added Mr Gove did not have any involvement in the decision or influence it in any way.\n\nIn an outline argument earlier this month, government lawyers said it was \"clear\" that the conditions for allowing emergency procurement rules to apply had been met.\n\nThey said the research Public First had been hired to do was required \"immediately,\" and there was \"no time to conduct even an accelerated procurement exercise\".\n\nFormer Labour MP Natascha Engel, who is now a partner at Public First, defended the firm's involvement.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, she said: \"Given James Frayne hasn't spoken to Dominic Cummings in several years and neither he nor Rachel Wolf spoke to Dominic Cummings or Michael Gove about Covid research, the idea this was some sort of quiet arrangement between friends is clearly wrong.\"\n\n\"Everyone in government knows which research agencies can deliver in a crisis, and it's no surprise Public First was chosen given our record.\"\n\nHaving heard rival arguments, Mrs Justice O'Farrell said she would deliver a ruling on a date to be fixed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice have raided a makeshift club, complete with DJ, bar and VIP area, where about 150 people were \"packed in\".\n\nOfficers were pelted with bottles as clubbers tried to break out of the Birmingham building and were seen fleeing via the roof.\n\nAbout 70 people were fined £200 and the DJ faces a £10,000 fine.\n\nOn the same night, 13 people were found in a workshop that had been turned into a bar nicknamed \"The Covid Arms\".\n\nThirteen people were found inside the makeshift \"Covid Arms\" - a workshop in Dudley Port\n\nWest Midlands Police said the garage workshop in Dudley Port had a sign on the wall displaying its new name.\n\nOfficers used their discretion to allow the dozen people in there to leave, but the owner was issued with a £1,000 fine, the force said.\n\nA thermal imaging drone filmed images of people leaving the Birmingham building by the roof\n\nIn Birmingham, police said taxis were seen dropping people off at the building on Buckingham Street in the Jewellery Quarter and when officers went inside they found crowds filling two floors, a bar and VIP area.\n\nA search of the premises led to officers also finding a recording studio and gym.\n\nOne officer suffered a minor injury as a door was smashed open by people trying to break out of the club area, the spokesperson added.\n\nThermal imaging from police drones captured people trying to escape by the roof in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nRevellers were caught on camera fleeing over a roof\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said people must remember lockdown continues and Covid-19 is still a threat to communities.\n\n\"Our officers continue to work long and hard to protect the public and reduce the spread of this deadly virus by breaking up these gatherings, often in really difficult circumstances.\n\n\"It's unacceptable that our officers came under attack, and that one suffered a minor injury, just for doing their job and enforcing laws that are in place to keep us all safe.\"\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.", "Nancy Pelosi says more funding is needed to secure Congress\n\nUS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress will establish an \"outside, independent\" commission to investigate the 6 January attack on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.\n\nIn a letter to lawmakers, she said the commission would be modelled on the inquiry into the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon.\n\n\"We must get to the truth of how this happened,\" she said.\n\nFormer President Trump was acquitted by the Senate of inciting the violence.\n\nBut Democrats and some Republicans have backed an independent investigation into the riots, which left five people dead.\n\nMrs Pelosi said that retired US Army Lt Gen Russel Honoré had, over the past few weeks, been assessing the security needs of the Capitol in light of the attack.\n\nThe commission, she said, \"would investigate and report on the facts and causes\" of the attack; \"the interference with the peaceful transfer of power\"; and the \"preparedness and response\" of both the Capitol police and other branches of law enforcement.\n\nShe also said that, based on Lt Gen Honoré's initial findings, Congress needed to allocate additional funding to \"provide for the safety of members and the security of the Capitol\".\n\nA group of House Republicans wrote to Mrs Pelosi on Monday complaining that their party had not been consulted about the general's security review.\n\nIn the letter, they also demanded to know what Mrs Pelosi knew and the instructions she gave to secure the Capitol ahead of 6 January.\n\nHouse Republican Adam Kinzinger, who called for Mr Trump's removal after the riots, was condemned by 11 members of his family in a handwritten letter, in which they said he was in cahoots with \"the devil's army\".\n\n\"Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!\" they wrote to the Illinois representative, who was one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Mr Trump last month, denouncing his \"horrible, rude accusations of President Trump\", the New York Times reports.\n\n\"It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you,\" they said in the 8 January letter. \"You have embarrassed the Kinzinger family name!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The debate that led to Donald Trump’s acquittal\n\nMr Trump survived his second impeachment trial on Saturday, after Democrat prosecutors failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to convict him. He is the only president to have faced the process twice.\n\nThe vote split largely along party lines, with seven Republicans joining the Senate's 48 Democrats and two independents in voting to convict.\n\nThe senior Republican in Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell, had voted against conviction on constitutional grounds, but after the vote declared Mr Trump \"responsible\" for the assault on the Capitol.\n\n\"President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,\" Mr McConnell told the chamber. \"He didn't get away with anything yet.\"\n\nOther Republicans have also expressed support for an independent inquiry into the riots, including a close ally of Mr Trump, Senator Lindsay Graham. He told Fox News Sunday that the former president bore some culpability.\n\n\"His behaviour after the election was over the top,\" he said. \"We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Tim Peake's tips on becoming an astronaut\n\nThe European Space Agency says it wants to recruit someone with a disability as part of its call for new astronauts.\n\nEsa will be accepting applications in March to fill four-to-six vacancies in its astro corps but it wants this draft process to be as inclusive as possible.\n\nThe search for a potential flier with additional functional needs will be run in parallel to the main call.\n\nThe agency has asked the International Paralympic Committee to advise it on selection.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, we're not looking to hire a space tourist that happens also to have a disability,\" said Dr David Parker, the director of Esa's robotics and human spaceflight programme.\n\n\"To be very explicit, this individual would do a meaningful space mission. So, they would need to do the science; they would need to participate in all the normal operations of the International Space Station (ISS).\n\n\"This is not about tokenism,\" he told BBC News. \"We have to be able to justify to all the people who fund us - which is everybody, including people who happen to be disabled - that what we're doing is somehow meaningful to everybody.\"\n\nIndividuals with a lower limb deficiency or who have restricted growth - circumstances that have always been a bar in the past - are encouraged to apply.\n\nAt this stage, the selected individual would be part of a feasibility project to understand the requirements, such as on safety and technical support. But the clear intention is to make \"para-astronauts\" a reality at some point in the future, even if this takes some time.\n\nEsa is on a big diversity drive. On matters of gender, for example, it has lagged seriously behind.\n\nOnly one of its current crop of astronauts is female (Samantha Cristoforetti); likewise only one of its senior directors is a woman (Elodie Viau in telecoms). And in those leading positions on robotic space missions - the project scientist and project manager - the vast majority are still men.\n\nJust 16% of applicants to the last Esa astronaut call in 2008 were female. The agency wants to see that increase dramatically this time around. Applications are being accepted from 31 March to 28 May.\n\nTo qualify, candidates must have a master's degree (or higher) in Natural Sciences, Medicine, Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Sciences, or be qualified as an experimental test pilot.\n\n\"They need to be fluent in English with a good knowledge of a second language. It doesn't matter what that second language is, but it must be a second language,\" said Lucy van der Tas, Esa's head of talent acquisition.\n\nThe ability to speak Russian - the other language used on the space station - will be part of the training programme.\n\nEsa astronaut Matthias Maurer in a lava tube: Geology will be on the training curriculum\n\nThe recruitment process should see at least four individuals go straight into the Esa astronaut corps, which is based in Cologne, Germany.\n\nA further 20 candidates will additionally go into a reserve.\n\nThey will be contracted to make themselves available for call-up, either because of retirements among the existing astronauts or because individual Esa member states want to run a national mission to the ISS.\n\nThis is now possible because the American aerospace companies SpaceX and Boeing will be selling seats in their new crew capsules on a commercial basis.\n\nIf the member state purchased this opportunity, Esa would train up their national candidate in the reserve pool.\n\nThe successful candidate that has a disability will also go into a reserve. Esa will then work with its partners on the ISS to find the best way to fly a para-astronaut.\n\n\"We did not evolve to go to space so when it comes to space travel, we are all disabled,\" said Samantha Cristoforetti. \"What brings us from being disabled to go to space to being able to go to space is just technology. This is a feasibility study and we're going to look into what exactly is needed, how much it will cost - but that's the goal.\"\n\nThe last astronaut selection process saw Frenchman Thomas Pesquet; Italians Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano; Germany's Alexander Gerst; Denmark's Andreas Mogensen; and the UK's Tim Peake join the corps in 2009. Germany's Mathias Maurer - an \"also suitable\" - joined up in 2015.\n\nTim Peake's selection raised some eyebrows at the time because the UK back then did not help fund Esa's human spaceflight programme. But the agency stresses that applications are accepted from all its member states, irrespective of national funding decisions.\n\nOf the new call, Tim Peake told BBC News: \"We're involved in the Artemis programme, which will send humans back to the surface of the Moon, and that's a gateway to Mars. So this [draft] could be recruiting the first Europeans who will set foot on Mars.\"", "More data from Israel's vaccination programme is suggesting the Pfizer jab prevents 94% of symptomatic infections.\n\nThis indicates the vaccine is performing just as well in a larger population as it did in the clinical trials.\n\nIt is proving highly effective at preventing illness and severe disease among all age groups, according to public health doctor Prof Hagai Levine.\n\n\"High vaccination coverage of the most susceptible groups\" was key, he said.\n\nIsrael's largest health fund Clalit looked at positive tests in 600,000 vaccinated people and the same number of unvaccinated people, matched by age and health status.\n\nIt found 94% fewer infections among the vaccinated group.\n\nThis was based on test results in people's medical records, usually taken if they had symptoms or were a close contact of someone who had tested positive.\n\nAnd the vaccine prevented almost all cases of serious illness.\n\nThis pattern was the same in all age groups - including the over-70s, who may have been under-represented in clinical trials.\n\nThe data has not yet been formally published.\n\nBut it \"sends a message to other countries such as the UK\" about the usefulness of the vaccine, said Prof Levine, and the need to get \"very high\" coverage of the groups most likely to become very ill from the virus.\n\nHe said he could not put a number on what proportion of the population would need to be immunised before restrictions could ease.\n\n\"We still don't know what the impact is on transmission,\" he said.\n\nBut we can say that, at least, \"the vaccine is useful for personal protection\", he added.\n\nProf Eran Segal, who is analysing data for the Israeli Ministry of Health, suggested Israel had to vaccinate 80% of its over-60s before learning of its effect on Covid-19 cases.\n\nIsrael is the first country in the world to see the impact of its vaccination programme, but it took significant population coverage and several weeks to reach this milestone.\n\nGreater falls were seen in the over-60s who were vaccinated first and in cities that vaccinated their populations earlier - patterns not seen in earlier lockdowns. This provides strong evidence it was the vaccine, and not just the lockdown, driving down cases.\n\nBut Prof Segal warned falls had happened more slowly than expected, possibly because of the effect of the UK variant, which has become the dominant strain in Israel.\n\nAnd he cautioned that, even with the \"very rapid pace\" of Israel's vaccination programme, there were still tens of thousands of people who were unprotected and could become severely ill if infected.\n\n\"We still have to exit our lockdown very cautiously,\" he said, or risk large numbers of people being hospitalised.\n\nIsrael has been experiencing a significant wave of infection and remains under strict measures - but with everyone over the age of 16 now entitled to get vaccine, the hope is at least the education system could be reopened too.\n\nThe country has also been met with criticism over questions about who should provide vaccines to the Palestinian territories.\n\nIsrael has only just also started to transfer some doses to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, so that vaccinations can begin for front-line health workers.\n\nMeanwhile it has given the full two doses to a quarter of its resident population.", "DJ Jo Whiley has said she is living \"a nightmare\" after being offered a Covid vaccine before her sister, who has a learning disability and diabetes.\n\nHer sister Frances has since tested positive for coronavirus after there was an outbreak in her care home.\n\nThe BBC Radio 2 presenter said she would give up her vaccine for her sister \"in a heartbeat\".\n\nThe vaccines minister said people with a learning disability in residential care were now starting to get the jab.\n\nPeople with diabetes, as well as those with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability, are in priority group six for the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThose in priority groups five and six - which include the over-65s and people considered clinically vulnerable - started to be invited to book a jab on Monday.\n\nNearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England last year were disabled, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nFor people with a medically diagnosed learning disability, the risk of death involving Covid was 3.7 times greater for both men and women compared with people who did not have a learning disability.\n\nOn Thursday night, Whiley, 55, said she got the call she had been \"dreading\", when she found out there had been an outbreak of Covid in her sister's care home.\n\n\"I feel like I'm living through a nightmare,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"The whole weekend has been awful. It's been really, really difficult.\"\n\n\"And then ironically I got a message to say that I was due to have my vaccine before my sister, who's got learning disabilities and underlying health conditions,\" she said.\n\nThe DJ added that she didn't know why she had been invited to get the jab, but said it was possibly because she was deemed a carer for her sister, who is 53 and has the rare Cri du Chat genetic syndrome.\n\nUnpaid carers for the elderly and people with disabilities are in priority group six.\n\n\"I would give up my vaccine in a heartbeat, if I could, for my sister and any of the residents in her house to have their vaccine… it does not feel right,\" she said.\n\nWhiley said she wanted to speak up for people like her sister \"who have been overlooked\".\n\n\"This happens so often - people with learning disabilities are neglected, they haven't got a voice,\" she added.\n\nSince the interview, Whiley has found out Frances has tested positive for the virus.\n\nIn a tweet, she said her \"worst fears\" had been realised, with the prospect of a vaccine so close.\n\n\"Feel like I'm in a terrible film with bad plot twists,\" she said. \"She's ok so far... Everything crossed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Whiley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 charity Mencap is calling for everyone with a learning disability to be in at least priority group six for the vaccine.\n\nChief executive Edel Harris said the current limitation to people with a \"severe or profound\" learning disability was \"arbitrary and subjective\".\n\n\"[That definition is] not used by the medical profession,\" she told Today.\n\n\"We think GPs, who are under enormous pressure at the moment, are having to use their discretion.\"\n\nAdults with Down's syndrome, which usually causes some level of learning disability, are in priority group four because they are considered clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nAsked about Frances's situation on the same programme, the government's Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said: \"The case you've just described to me - living in residential care with a learning disability - is now being vaccinated in category six. We've just embarked on category five and six - that is happening now so that case will be picked up.\n\n\"Of course we will need to wait 28 days after infection for us to be able to go back - hence why for residential care we go back four times to deliver the two doses because sometimes people can't be given the first dose until the infection is over after 28 days.\"", "As many as 88% of people still have antibodies in their blood to fight Covid-19 six months after infection, a study of almost 1,700 people suggests.\n\nThe data - from one of the world's largest follow-up Covid studies - also provides more detail about the likely symptoms experienced by those infected.\n\nWhile 26% had a cough and 28% had a fever, a bigger proportion - 43% - said they lost the sense of taste or smell.\n\nBut 40% had had none of these - and about 20% had had no symptoms at all.\n\nThe data also backs up previous studies on who is most likely to have been infected with Covid at some point during the pandemic.\n\nAmong a full group of nearly 20,000 people who were regularly tested monthly during the pandemic, it was younger adults, black or South Asian people and those living in deprived areas who were most likely to test positive for the antibodies.\n\nThe UK Biobank is a database of blood, urine and saliva samples, heart and brain scans and the genetic data of half a million people who volunteered to have their information analysed to help with global medical research.\n\nJust under 20,000 of these participants each gave a blood sample every month between 27 May and 4 December 2020.\n\nAnd 1,699 tested positive for antibodies during this period, which indicates a past Covid-19 infection.\n\nMost of these were already testing positive in the first month of the study, suggesting they had acquired the infection during the first wave.\n\nBy the end of the study, six months later, 88% still had detectable antibodies.\n\nThis echoes findings from previous, smaller studies in healthcare workers.\n\nAnd it is possible that some or all of the 12% whose tests went from positive to negative retained some protection against subsequent infection although their antibodies had fallen below the threshold measured by the study.\n\nUK Biobank chief scientist Prof Naomi Allen said: \"Although we cannot be certain how [the presence of antibodies] relates to immunity, the results suggest that people may be protected against subsequent infection for at least six months following natural infection.\n\n\"More prolonged follow-up will allow us to determine how long such protection is likely to last.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nNot everyone was equally likely to show signs of previous infection.\n\nThe antibody study echoes other data showing which groups were hit hardest by the virus.\n\nAmong the full group of 20,000 participants, 16% of the black people tested positive for antibodies, compared with:\n\nThere were regional differences too, with Londoners most likely to have antibodies and people in Scotland least likely.\n\nAnd 13.5% of the adults under 30 tested positive, compared with 6.7% of the over-70s.\n\nA separate study by the ONS, based on blood test results from a random sample of people over 16, found around one in seven people in England had antibodies in their blood in mid-January.\n\nThe figure was one in nine in Wales, one in 11 in Northern Ireland and one in 10 in Scotland.\n\nThis suggests these people had been infected with the virus in the past, but this is unlikely to be the total infected since the start of the UK epidemic last spring because antibodies - although they are present for at least six months after infection - do decline over time.\n\nVaccinations also build up antibodies in those given jabs, to help fight off the virus, but the ONS does not differentiate between the two things.", "The bird watchers travelled to see the rare Northern mockingbird in an Exmouth garden\n\nBird spotters who breached lockdown restrictions to catch a glimpse of a rare bird have been handed fines.\n\nThe Northern mockingbird, not often seen in the UK, was first spotted by Chris Biddle in his garden in Exmouth, Devon, on 6 February.\n\nHe tweeted about the sighting, prompting excitement among twitchers.\n\nFive were fined for travelling to the town to photograph the bird after Devon and Cornwall Police were contacted on Saturday over the lockdown breaches.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"It was reported that a number of individuals, suspected to have travelled from outside the area, were trying to photograph a rare bird which had been seen in a garden.\"\n\nThe grey, long-tailed Northern mockingbird is known for its mimicking ability, and is found in southern Canada, across the US, Mexico and the Northern Caribbean.\n\nIt is thought not to have been seen in the UK since the 1980s.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Overseas holidays are unlikely to be possible in the summer\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned Scots not to book Easter holidays as it is \"highly unlikely\" that hotels or self catering accommodation will be open.\n\nThe first minister advised against booking a break either overseas or in Scotland at the start of April.\n\nShe also said it was unlikely that overseas holidays would be possible in the summer.\n\nHowever, she said \"staycations\" might be possible - although it would depend on the Covid data nearer the time.\n\nGiving her Covid update statement to MSPs at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said the risks posed by new variants of the virus meant it was \"hard to overstate the necessity of being careful, cautious and gradual as we exit this lockdown\".\n\nShe said that meant continuing to abide by the \"stay-at-home\" requirement.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes to publish a \"revised strategic framework\" next week which will set out how Scotland can exit lockdown and what conditions will need to be met before restrictions can be eased.\n\n\"We are likely to advise against booking Easter holidays, either overseas or within Scotland, as it is highly unlikely that we will have been able to fully open hotels or self catering accommodation by then,\" said the first minister.\n\n\"However, for the summer, while it is still highly unlikely that overseas holidays will be possible or advisable, staycations might be - but this will depend on the data nearer the time.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had always made it clear that education should be the priority.\n\nShe confirmed that the youngest pupils are to return to Scotland's classrooms for face-to-face teaching from next week, along with some secondary pupils who need to complete coursework.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home, and are unlikely to return to school until at least 15 March.\n\nAll other existing lockdown measures will remain in place until at least the end of this month, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the country remains in a precarious position.\n\nMarc Crothall, chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA), said the first minister's statement had made tourism businesses \"extremely anxious\".\n\nHe said the STA Board would meet Ms Sturgeon in the coming weeks and update her on the \"desperate state\" the industry is in.\n\n\"I know of numerous businesses who are wholly reliant on being able to trade again at Easter in order to stay solvent,\" Mr Crothall said.\n\n\"Today's indication that this is highly unlikely will, I know, serve as a crushing blow to many.\"\n\nHe called for more support if businesses are not going to be able to trade viably for months to come.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Efforts to improve landscapes have led to a \"sandbag effect\", the National Trust says\n\nA scheme to try to hold back floodwater is bidding for £800,000 to continue its work.\n\nThe Upper Conwy project aims to slow water from the uplands to cut flooding lower down the valley, in towns including Llanrwst.\n\nIt is the first time in Wales anyone has tried to tackle the problem by looking at an entire river catchment.\n\nThe project is a partnership between the National Trust, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and landowners.\n\nSo far, it has involved blocking drainage ditches in blanket bog to make ground wetter so it will hold more water for longer.\n\nTrees have also been planted on riverbanks to stop surface water from running into rivers so quickly and gravel and boulders have been put back into them to make the water flow more slowly.\n\nA bid for another £800,000 of Welsh Government funds is being made to continue the work.\n\nNRW's north-west Wales operations manager, Euros Jones, said: \"The mountains used to act as a sponge, soaking up the water and supporting wildlife.\n\n\"We want to work with landowners to restore that system, so the mountains can once again work like a sponge rather than like a slate roof.\"\n\nHe said there was a need for \"harder defences\" further down the valley.\n\n\"But anything we can do in the mountains to slow that flow is a good thing.\n\n\"But it needs to be done at scale - the more places the better.\"\n\nWork is being done to slow water in the upper Conwy Valley to reduce water entering the River Conwy\n\nThe scheme is being done across the entire catchment of the River Conwy.\n\nMr Jones added: \"It won't deal with the whole flooding problem, but it can hopefully bring the water levels down just enough to add some resilience to our defences.\"\n\nThe Conwy catchment area covers 222 sq miles (574 sq km), an area the size of the Isle of Man.\n\nThe Upper Conwy project started as a smaller plan to block drainage ditches in moorland near Betws-y-Coed, a place called the Migneint.\n\nMore than 30,000 small dams have been built to make the blanket bog wetter and officials say the success of that led them to expand the project.\n\nLlanrwst is among places that have been hit by floods in the Conwy Valley\n\nDewi Davies, a project manager from the National Trust, said: \"In the past, there was a tendency to try to improve the landscape, to try to drain wet areas and to use rivers to carry the water away as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMr Davies said work had already been successful in slowing the River Machno before it entered the Conwy.\n\n\"The river was almost like a canal,\" he said.\n\n\"The banks and the bed were almost square and it had been dredged to the point where all it did was to shift the water downstream.\n\n\"Now it flows more slowly. It's starting to meander. What we've achieved here is small in scale, but it shows what can be done across the catchment.\"\n\nHe also said the work could be improving wildlife habitats: \"You notice the fish more, darting between the boulders we put back in the channel. More fish helps other wildlife, like otters.\"\n\nIt is hoped slowing down the water could help to reduce flooding", "Syrup joins his siblings Banana, Peanut, Piccolo and Prairie. A newborn weighs about 17g\n\nKeepers at Longleat Safari Park are celebrating the success of their pancake tortoise breeding programme, with five newborns.\n\nSyrup, Banana, Peanut, Piccolo and Prairie have been born to Poppadom and Jua in the past year. Newborns are about as big as a 50p coin.\n\nPancake tortoises, named for their flat shells, are critically-endangered, and native to Kenya and Tanzania.\n\nThey are at risk because of habitat destruction and the illegal pet trade.\n\nPancake tortoises have lightweight shells and are known for their speed, agility and climbing skills\n\nThe tortoises also have such slow reproductive rates that wild populations take a while to recover when numbers drop.\n\nIn the wild, they can live for up to 25 years, reaching up to 35 years in captivity.\n\nLongleat now have seven pancake tortoises, including the two parents.\n\nBecause of their flattened size, they prefer to run and hide from predators in crevices rather than using their shells like other species.\n\nThe tortoises' light weight also makes them good climbers.\n\nThe five were born over the course of a year, with the first, Syrup, arriving in February 2020, and the youngest one arriving on 18 January 2021.\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. Some bystanders put their own safety at risk to help the ice skaters who were stranded in the freezing water in Amsterdam\n\nDays of sub-zero temperatures saw not only parts of northern Europe covered in snow but also the freezing of many lakes, ponds and canals.\n\nFor many, it has been a welcome escape from coronavirus lockdown restrictions, prompting them to dig out their sledges and skates for some winter fun.\n\nOfficials have been urging people to stay at home to avoid crowds and prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nNow they are also warning of the dangers of thinning ice.\n\nThere were a number of incidents across Germany at the weekend where people fell through the ice, including a couple who were skating.\n\nBut it has not put people off.\n\nBild newspaper reported that as many as 2,500 people descended on the frozen Landwehr Canal in Berlin on Sunday for an unauthorised rave until police broke it up.\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 in northern England, fans of the hit TV show Dancing on Ice are said to be \"putting their lives at risk\" by practising their moves on the frozen lakes in remote nature reserves.\n\n\"These lakes are deep, because of the recent floods, and there will be areas where the ice is going to be thin,\" warned Alan Wright of the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.\n\n\"Our reserves, by their nature, are remote places and if anyone gets into difficulties, there will only be a few, if any, people around to help.\"\n\nTwo 11-year-old girls were rescued after becoming trapped on a frozen section of the River Trent, in Nottinghamshire, on Saturday.\n\nOver in the Netherlands, people have been enjoying the chance to skate on their frozen canals for the first time in nearly three years.\n\nPeople have been playing hockey on the frozen waters near Eindhoven in the Netherlands\n\nThere were even cricket and hockey matches being played on frozen waters around the country.\n\nBut a number of people fell into one pond because of thinning ice in the Hague, leading the city council to warn people to keep away.\n\nAnd while Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned against mass skating because of the coronavirus restrictions, he also pleaded \"Please don't fall and have to go to the hospital because it is already so busy there.\"", "Quick coronavirus testing could enable nightclubs and theatres to reopen, Boris Johnson has suggested.\n\nThe PM said \"rapid\" lateral flow tests could be used by \"those parts of the economy we couldn't get open last year\".\n\n\"That, in combination with vaccination, will probably be the route forward,\" he told a Downing Street news conference.\n\nBut he stressed it was \"still early days\", with \"lots of discussions still to be had\".\n\nA government source said: \"There is a long way to go before we can get people back at big events safely.\"\n\nNightclubs have been unable to operate since the first Covid lockdown in March 2020, while many theatres have struggled to make social distancing work.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson said people must be \"optimistic but patient\" about an end to coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nHe said steps taken to ease lockdown should be \"cautious but irreversible\" ahead of next week's release of a roadmap for lifting curbs.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said that the government favoured testing over vaccine passports as a means to reopen the economy, since it is not yet clear whether a vaccinated individual can transmit the virus.\n\nMr Zahawi described preliminary evidence on the effect of vaccines on coronavirus transmission as \"really encouraging\", but told the BBC the full data might not be available for weeks.\n\n\"We have a couple of very large-scale studies related to giving us better data on the vaccines,\" Mr Zahawi told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We should be able to see really good data in the next few weeks from those studies.\"\n\nMichael Kill, the boss of the Night Time Industries Association, said administering rapid tests would not be straightforward, even if it was the way venues such as nightclubs were allowed to reopen.\n\nHe told the BBC that professionals would be required to administer swab tests outside the venue, where clubbers would need to wait for at least 15 minutes to get a negative result before being allowed in.\n\nThat would force venues to stagger admissions and have procedures in place to deal with positive cases and those who they came into contact with.\n\nLateral flow tests have the major advantage of not needing to be taken to a lab to be processed, unlike the more expensive PCR tests used by NHS Test & Trace.\n\nThey work by dipping a nose and throat swab in special solution and then dropping that fluid onto a plastic stick - a bit like a pregnancy test.\n\nDuring a testing pilot in Liverpool, the devices picked up two-thirds of the most infectious cases.\n\nBut the study found the devices only picked up 40% of all cases - fewer than expected.\n\nThe tests may miss people in the day or two before they are about to become infectious.\n\nRead more about the tests here.\n\nMr Kill said allowing revellers to perform tests the day before or under the supervision of a professional over a video call could make the process less onerous.\n\n\"Finally we have some acknowledgement from the prime minister and government on the existence of late-night economy businesses, including nightclubs, theatres, casinos and late bars, particularly as they are some of the hardest hit since the start of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nSacha Lord, who co-founded Manchester's Parklife Festival, said the events sector had been \"shattered over the past eleven months\", adding that any further delay to implementing initiatives such as rapid testing at venues would do \"irreversible\" damage to the UK's cultural sector.\n\n\"The night-time and live music industry has been discussing the need for on-site rapid testing for over five months, and we have suggested this on multiple occasions to MPs and during Select Committee hearings,\" he said.\n\n\"My fear is that they take another five months to get moving, which the industry simply doesn't have.\"\n\nThe UK recorded another 9,765 new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to the latest government figures. It is the first time the daily cases figure has been under 10,000 since 2 October.\n\nA further 230 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also recorded. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Mondays because of a reporting lag over the weekend.", "The government has concerns about the suppression of freedom of speech on campus\n\nGroups representing students and universities have expressed caution at plans for a \"free speech champion\" to regulate England's campuses.\n\nThe government has announced plans for the role to ensure freedom of speech and expression is not stifled.\n\nThe National Union of Students says there is \"no evidence\" of a freedom of speech crisis on campus.\n\nAnd the Russell Group of leading universities says universities need to keep their \"institutional autonomy\".\n\nThe group warned against creating an \"unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy\".\n\nThe new post - which will have a seat on the Office for Students' (OfS) board - is part of a series of proposals, announced on Tuesday, aimed at strengthening academic freedom in England's universities.\n\nUnder the plans, universities would be legally required to actively promote free speech and the OfS would have the power to impose fines on institutions if they breach this condition.\n\nThis would also extend to student unions, which would have to ensure that lawful free speech is secured for members and visiting speakers.\n\nIndividuals would be able to seek compensation through the courts if they suffered loss from a breach of the free speech duties - like being expelled, dismissed or demoted - under a new legal measure.\n\nThe Department for Education said the next steps for legislation would be set out \"in due course\".\n\nGavin Williamson warned of the \"chilling effect\" of censorship\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson warned of the \"chilling effect\" of \"silencing\" in universities.\n\nMr Williamson said: \"Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics can express themselves freely, challenge views and cultivate an open mind.\n\n\"But I am deeply worried about the chilling effect on campuses of unacceptable silencing and censoring.\n\n\"That is why we must strengthen free speech in higher education, by bolstering the existing legal duties and ensuring strong, robust action is taken if these are breached.\"\n\nCatherine, a student at the University of Central Lancashire, told the BBC: \"I don't think it's silencing to say 'this view isn't acceptable' or to refuse to give them a platform.\n\n\"Freedom of speech doesn't mean you have freedom from consequences - I think a lot of people confuse free speech as meaning that they can say whatever they want and nothing will happen to them.\"\n\nCatherine said the government's proposal of a free speech champion could be problematic.\n\n\"I think this new role from the government is a good idea in principle, but in reality it has the potential to go wrong because different views can mean a lot of things and it could result in people not being respectful to one another.\"\n\nBut Paul from Gloucestershire said there was a problem with freedom of speech on university campuses, with students having to have the \"right opinion\".\n\n\"My son was treated dreadfully at university because of his beliefs and opinions.\n\n\"He was shunned, ostracised and even threatened with violence simply because he voted for Brexit and held conservative views.\n\n\"If you don't have an opinion which is mainstream, for want of a better word, there are labels for you.\"\n\nPaul said his son had been looking forward to having good debate at university with people who held different opinions, but was \"very disappointed\".\n\n\"In my experience, university life can be miserable if you don't hold Marxist, communist or socialist views.\"\n\nThe Russell Group responded cautiously to the government's proposal.\n\n\"It is important that proposals in this government policy paper, if taken forward, are evidence-based and proportionate, with due care taken to ensure academic freedom and institutional autonomy.\n\n\"Government should support existing work by universities and students' unions to defend and maintain freedom of expression on campus, rather than adding unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy.\"\n\nHillary Gyebi-Ababio, the National Union of Students vice-president for higher education, said: \"Students' unions are committed to freedom of expression and are the very home of rigorous debate and new ideas.\n\n\"There is no evidence of a freedom of expression crisis on campus, and students' unions are constantly taking positive steps to help facilitate the thousands of events that take place each year.\"\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, which represents staff, said: \"In reality the biggest threats to academic freedom and free speech come not from staff and students, nor from so-called 'cancel culture', but from ministers' own attempts to police what can and cannot be said on campus.\"\n\nA failure to \"get to grips with the endemic job insecurity and managerialist approaches which mean academics are less able to speak truth to power\" were also a barrier to free speech, said Ms Grady.\n\nPeter Tatchell, a gay rights activist, said the plan for a free speech tsar was part of a \"cynical culture war\" to use \"hot-button culture issues\" to secure political advantage.\n\nMr Tatchell, who has himself been the target of no-platform protests, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that said such issues were \"quite rare\" and needed to be put in perspective.\n\nProf Selina Todd, an Oxford University academic who previously had an invitation to a conference celebrating women withdrawn over her stance on transgender rights issues, welcomed government action although she said the free speech champion could be a \"blunt instrument\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that universities have \"dismally failed\" to uphold freedom of debate in recent years.\n\n\"Things have got a lot worse for academics and for students - many of whom get in touch with me anonymously to say how frightened they are to speak out,\" she said.\n\nIn December, Cambridge University said its proposed statement on free speech would no longer require staff and students to be \"respectful\" of differing views, following an intervention from academics who said calling for respect could undermine academic freedom.", "BBC Panorama has obtained secret video messages showing the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum imprisoned against her will.\n\nPrincess Latifa, 35, fled by boat in 2018 and planned to seek asylum in the United States. She says it was intercepted by commandos before she was tranquillised and flown back to Dubai.\n\nFootage shows Princess Latifa saying she has been \"a hostage\" in \"solitary confinement\" for over a year \"with no access to medical help\".\n\nThe governments of Dubai and UAE have not responded to requests for comment from the BBC. They have always said Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.", "BBC Panorama have obtained secret video messages allegedly showing the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum imprisoned against her will.\n\nSheikha Latifa, 35, fled by boat in 2018 and planned to seek asylum in the United States, but she has said she was intercepted by commandos, tranquillised and flown back home.\n\nThe secret videos document her alleged kidnapping and imprisonment which has lasted over a year.", "Texas is experiencing record low temperatures, with some places dipping to 0F (-18C).\n\nThe sudden increase in electricity demand caused the state's power grid to fail.", "Christian Cooper's video of Amy Cooper calling the police on him went viral last year\n\nA white woman who called police on a black man bird watching in New York's Central Park has had the criminal case against her dismissed.\n\nProsecutors say Amy Cooper completed a therapy course addressing racial bias and asked for her charge to be dropped.\n\nA video of Ms Cooper went viral in 2020 and sparked outrage across the US.\n\nIn it she was seen threatening Christian Cooper, no relation, with the police after he reportedly asked her to put her dog on a lead.\n\nThe incident happened the same day that unarmed black man George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, triggering weeks of national and global anti-racism protests.\n\nMs Cooper apologised after the video went viral but lost her job and was later charged with filing a false police report.\n\nChristian Cooper, who is prominent in the New York bird watching community, posted the encounter on Facebook and said it came after he had asked her to put her dog on a lead in an area where it was required.\n\nThe video showed her telling Mr Cooper that she would tell police \"there's an African-American man threatening my life\" before she is seen calling emergency services in a distressed tone to say an \"African American man\" was \"threatening me and my dog\" and asked dispatchers to \"please send the cops immediately!\"\n\nProsecutors later said that Ms Cooper had repeated the claim and accused Mr Cooper of trying to assault her during a second call.\n\nAt the time, District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Ms Cooper had \"engaged in racist criminal conduct\" and said it was \"fortunate\" that \"no one was injured or killed in the police response to Ms Cooper's hoax\".\n\nBut on Tuesday the single misdemeanour charge against her was dropped on the basis that Ms Cooper had completed a five-session educational therapy programme.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said the sessions were \"designed for introspection and progress\" and focused \"on the ways in which Ms Cooper could appreciate that racial identities shape our lives but we cannot use them to harm ourselves or others\".\n\nShe was offered the programme as part of a restorative justice initiative in part because of her lack of criminal background, the prosecutor said.\n\nIn a tweeted statement, Ms Cooper's lawyer Robert Barnes thanked officials for the decision and suggested she might seek further legal action over the incident.\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 Cooper has not publicly responded to news of the charge being dropped.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople flooded out of their homes after a mine blow-out are in \"limbo and need answers\".\n\nEighty people were evacuated from Skewen in Neath Port Talbot on 21 January and residents have been urged to stay away due to safety fears.\n\nSome people will not be able to return home for at least six months, the Coal Authority has said.\n\nResident Kelly Birch said there was no clear plan about what was happening and insurers had been unable to visit.\n\nMs Birch said she and her family had been able to move in with her parents but many of her neighbours were staying in hotels.\n\n\"It's been really difficult because our houses are still full of flood water, sludge and slurry,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"We haven't been able to get any insurers in to have a look.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen helped evacuate people from their homes\n\n\"The Coal Authority have advised a six-month window but we don't know if that is six months before we can get people to start working on our houses or if that is six months until we're actually able to go back and live there.\n\n\"So we're all in a bit of limbo at the moment, we're getting pieces of information but we're never really getting the full picture.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Another resident Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nShe said if it was not for their local councillor Mike Harvey they would \"not know anything at all\".\n\nMs Birch said they had just finished decorating their home after moving there 18 months ago.\n\nKelly Birch's husband Wayne took this photo of the damage in their home\n\n\"We literally just finished doing everything to that house in November,\" she said.\n\n\"Every single thing downstairs is ruined, there's nothing salvageable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One local saw a river of orange water rushing through the village\n\nShe said she feared their possessions upstairs were becoming damaged because the house was damp after the flooding.\n\n\"It is full of mud and we don't know when that's going to be cleaned out,\" she said.\n\nMany people had been unable to return to get belongings and some neighbours had been unable to get their cars so could not go to work, she said.\n\nA £6.5m support package is available to people affected by flooding - on top of payments of between £500 to £1,000 per household - to help with the \"immediate cost of water damage and replacing belongings\" from Welsh Government.\n\nThe Coal Authority said the \"blow out\" was caused by a blockage underground which led to the water breaking out to find the easiest path.\n\nThe water rushed through the streets of Skewen\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said work to cap the mine shaft would take three months but a new water management system will have to be built deep underground to divert the water, which will take at least six months.\n\nShe said the authority was looking at \"every option\" to get as many people as possible back in their homes as quickly and safely as possible.", "Anne Robinson is to become the first female host of Countdown\n\nTV presenter Anne Robinson is to be the new host of Countdown, Channel 4 have confirmed.\n\nShe will become the game show's first female host in its 39-year history when she replaces Nick Hewer later this year.\n\nRobinson, 76, well known for her acerbic wit on BBC quiz show The Weakest Link, said she was \"beyond thrilled\" to be joining Countdown.\n\n\"The show is almost as old as I am and just as historic,\" she joked.\n\nHer appointment was announced on Monday's episode of Steph's Packed Lunch.\n\nThe announcement comes after Nick Hewer confirmed in December that he would be departing Countdown after a decade in the hot seat.\n\nRobinson will replace former BBC Apprentice advisor Nick Hewer as host\n\nIn a series of tweets, Hewer said coronavirus lockdown had made him reconsider his career path.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Hewer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRobinson said she was \"particularly excited\" to be working alongside the show's two other \"formidable women\", Dictionary Corner's Susie Dent and maths expert Rachel Riley.\n\n\"Three Clever Girls Do Countdown! Don't you love the sound of that?\" Robinson asked. \"Worryingly, Susie and Rachel are not only very smart but younger, prettier and thinner than me.\n\n\"Sadly, there's no time for another facelift so I'll have to make do with this old one,\" she joked in response to previous speculation over her plastic surgery.\n\n\"I am a crossword nut so the Countdown's conundrums I can make sense of. But the adding up and taking away - I can't go much further than working out the fee once my agent takes his cut.\n\n\"I'm slightly scared of those brains but I think the three of us will transform things, it will be Countdown goes chic, won't it?\"\n\nIn response to the news, Dent posted congratulations on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRobinson cemented her presence on TV screens by fronting BBC shows Watchdog and Points Of View during the 1980s, 90s and 00s.\n\nBut she became perhaps most famous for her put-downs to contestants on The Weakest Link, which she hosted from 2000 until 2012.\n\nThis included the catchphrase \"You are the weakest link, goodbye\" said to each contestant as they were voted off after each round.\n\nDiscussing the iconic saying, Robinson told Steph's Packed Lunch she is planning to \"tone down my nastiness\".\n\n\"The catchphrase just came about on the pilot when I got really cheesed off with a contestant and I added the goodbye,\" she told host Steph McGovern.\n\n\"These things are best developed just as they happen.\"\n\nRobinson appeared in Countdown's Dictionary Corner for a week in 1987, when the show was led by the late Richard Whiteley.\n\nShe recalled: \"I was so in awe of the great Richard Whiteley. I think I only said 'Good afternoon' and 'Goodbye'. Who thought I'd have the chance to follow in his giant footsteps?\"\n\nJo Street, head of daytime at Channel 4, said: \"I am a huge fan of Anne and her quick wit. I am immensely proud that this ferociously smart woman will be joining the show as host alongside the brilliant Rachel Riley and Susie Dent.\"\n\nCountdown executive producer Peter Gwyn said viewers will \"relish Anne's unique style at the helm of this much-loved institution.\"\n\nCountdown was the first programme to be broadcast on Channel 4 and has been on air since its launch in November 1982, making it one of the longest-running quiz shows in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Schools across Scotland have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since December\n\nNicola Sturgeon is to announce whether some pupils will start to return to Scottish classrooms from next week in a statement at Holyrood.\n\nThis could include children aged four to seven and secondary pupils required to carry out practical assignments.\n\nThe first minister has said she was \"very keen\" to begin the phased return of younger pupils to schools.\n\nHowever, she warned this would not mark the start of a broader easing of the Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe devolved nations have the powers to set their own coronavirus rules, and while they have made similar decisions during the crisis, they have moved at different speeds.\n\nIn England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to set out a roadmap on 22 February for easing lockdown there - including the date schools can reopen to all pupils.\n\nHe warned on Monday people must be \"optimistic but patient\" about the end of national restrictions, and that now was not the time to \"relax\".\n\nPrimary schools in Wales begin the process of reopening next Monday, while in Northern Ireland, schools remain closed to most pupils until at least 8 March.\n\nIn Scotland, ministers will examine the latest data and scientific advice on Tuesday morning, before their decision is announced to MSPs in the afternoon.\n\nOpposition parties have called for the Scottish government to set out more detail about its approach to eventually easing restrictions and lifting lockdown.\n\nMost school pupils have been learning remotely during 2021 as part of Scotland's \"stay at home\" lockdown. A small number of children, including those whose parents have key worker status, are allowed to attend.\n\nAt her daily Covid-19 briefing on Monday, Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very, very keen to go ahead\" with plans for a phased return to the classroom.\n\nHowever, she said only between 5% and 8% of any school's roll should return.\n\nIt had previously been indicated that children in P1 to P3 years and a limited number of secondary pupils who need practical resources to complete qualifications would return to schools from next Monday.\n\nMinisters will take a final decision about this, based on the latest data, at a meeting of the Scottish government's cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nThey will also consider an \"indicative timetable\" for other pupils returning.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that it was unlikely that other lockdown restrictions would start to be eased, with schools the top priority.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and John Swinney will discuss plans with ministers on Tuesday morning before the Holyrood announcement\n\nShe said: \"What is really important is that that's not seen as a trigger for people who are currently able to work from home to go back to work, or parents deciding to meet up with each other more.\n\n\"What was often the risk factor around schools is not transmission inside schools, its all the activity that takes place around schools.\"\n\nThe first minister also said there would be \"trade-offs\" over the coming months as the country eases out of lockdown, with schools and care home visiting \"the kind of things we focus on first as we try to get things back to normal\".\n\nMSPs will have the chance to question Ms Sturgeon following the statement, with opposition leaders pressing for more details on the government's future plans.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said it was understandable that there were not \"specific dates set in stone\" for easing restrictions, but said it was important ministers provided more of a \"route map\" out of lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"We need to know the triggers that will be in place for all school pupils to go back, for businesses to reopen - will we have a tiered approach or a national approach?\n\n\"These are the crucial points that businesses really need to be aware of so we can see our way out of this crisis.\"\n\nScottish Green MSP Ross Greer said there was \"no point in setting dates\" for lifting lockdown due to uncertainty about vaccine supplies and new variants.\n\nHe said: \"What the government can do is list the policies they want to bring in, the safety measures they want to bring in, and as those measures come in it can be easier for us to ease some restrictions and return back to normal.\"\n\nScottish Labour, meanwhile, has called for supply teachers to be given a greater role in delivering online learning, saying they had been \"forgotten\" in Education Secretary John Swinney's latest plans.\n\nEducation spokesman Iain Gray said: \"Many supply teachers face financial hardship and are unable to rely on furlough funds - this is unacceptable. It's time for John Swinney to bring our supply teachers in from the cold and get them to work.\"\n\nAre your children or pupils returning to school next week? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nAnd the Lib Dems have called for the government to publish an unedited interim report from an OECD review of Scotland's education system before May's Holyrood election.\n\nThe final report from the review is not expected to be published until June due to pandemic delays, but leader Willie Rennie said ministers had already had sight of early drafts - calling this \"scandalous\" and \"jiggery pokery\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 9,765 new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to the latest government figures. It is the first time the daily cases figure has been under 10,000 since 2 October.\n\nA further 230 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also recorded. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Mondays due to a reporting lag over the weekend.", "Four air passengers have each been fined £10,000 for failing to declare they had travelled from a \"red-list\" country, West Midlands Police has said.\n\nThey were stopped at border control by officials and were not able to leave Birmingham Airport.\n\nUnder new rules, arrivals in England have to quarantine in hotels, if within the last 10 days they have been in a country deemed a high Covid risk.\n\nThe \"red list\" of 33 countries includes Portugal, Brazil and South Africa.\n\nThe regulations came into effect on Monday and the four passengers had been fined by midday, a senior officer told a meeting of the West Midlands Strategic Policing and Crime Board.\n\nTemporary Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said that in the same timeframe, the airport received six passengers who did declare travel from a red-list country, who were taken to a quarantine hotel.\n\nBut of the offenders he added: \"There are some people who have attempted to hide their routes but that's not worked out.\"\n\nA police spokesperson said the fines were issued by Border Force.\n\nBirmingham Airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK.\n\nThose who fail to self-isolate as required face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nThe rules aim to stop coronavirus variants entering the UK.\n\nIt was not clear in the board meeting which country or countries the fined parties had been in.\n\nJust four flights touched down in Birmingham on Monday, including a plane from Istanbul with about 100 passengers, some of whom were believed to be from a red-list country.\n\nThe other four airports where quarantine hotel guests may enter the UK include Heathrow, Gatwick, London City and Farnborough.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February, 60,000 tonnes slipped down the hillside at Tylorstown\n\nMore than half a billion pounds could be needed to ensure the safety of 2,000 old coal tips in Wales over the next 10 years, the chancellor has been warned.\n\nIt follows calls for urgent action, following a 60,000 tonne landslide earlier this year in Rhondda.\n\nGeologists said Wales was more prone to these incidents and climate change \"may make that worse\".\n\nUK officials said they were working with the Welsh Government on flood relief, including funding for tips.\n\nThe incident above the village of Tylorstown followed heavy rain caused by Storm Dennis in February, which led to widespread flooding across areas including Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nOne historian said the landslide had evoked \"visceral\" emotions linked to the Aberfan disaster of 1966, which claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.\n\nA letter from Chris Bryant MP and Labour colleagues to Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed unpublished details from a review led by the Welsh Government, with the co-operation of the Coal Authority, councils and Natural Resources Wales.\n\nThe review is compiling a list of all sites in Wales and their risk status.\n\nMud and debris continued to fall on the hillside for days after the initial landslide\n\nIn October, the UK government provided £2.5m to help clean up and secure the Tylorstown site.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the cost of clear-ups and making Wales' coal tips safe was \"significantly more\".\n\nRepair work in Rhondda Cynon Taf is estimated at £82.5m in total.\n\nMr Bryant and fellow Welsh Labour MPs Beth Winter, Chris Elmore and Alex Davies-Jones said it would be \"unfair\" for the \"poorest communities in the UK to bear the full costs of this work\".\n\nThey fear another Tylorstown-like incident if the framework for funding the work is not done soon.\n\nThe letter also calls for the UK government to provide financial assistance to Rhondda Cynon Taf for urgent repair work to bridges, roads and culverts following Storm Dennis.\n\nThe UK government has previously said it is up to the Welsh Government to remediate the coal tips and \"get on\" with flood defence work.\n\nBut in a new statement, officials added: \"Ever since parts of Wales were hit by devastating flooding earlier this year, the UK government has been working with the Welsh Government and local authorities to provide extra support for flood relief and protection to the communities which were so badly affected.\n\n\"Responsibility for flood defences and flood management is devolved but, while all claims need to meet certain criteria, we expect to provide funding from the UK reserve for 2020-21.\"\n\nIt added: \"This would include funds for coal tip repairs which we know are of particular concern to communities.\"\n\nThe Labour Member of the Senedd for Pontypridd, Mick Antoniw, said clearing coal tips \"goes way beyond any responsibilities of the Welsh Government\".\n\n\"The film of the coal sliding down brought back many, many traumatic memories for the population of Wales.\n\n\"And I think the wake-up call for us all is that the risk may be a bit greater than we thought it was, particularly if we're going to have more adverse weather like this.\"\n\nThe Tylorstown landslide has left a scar on the hillside\n\nBen Curtis, a historian of the south Wales coalfields at Wolverhampton University, said incidents like the one at Tylorstown had a powerful impact.\n\n\"I visited the Tylorstown tip in the aftermath.\n\n\"Just struck by the scale of the landslip. It's really quite awe inspiring and not in a good way.\n\n\"These register so prominently with people because on a visceral level people in the valleys see a tip slide, and you think about the Aberfan disaster of course.\"\n\nAshley Patton, from the British Geological Survey, said the conditions in Wales made it more prone to these types of landslips.\n\n\"In south Wales we have the added pressure of a lot of coal waste sitting on top of those slopes which is unconsolidated material and can easily slip. Climate change may only make that worse.\n\n\"With increased storms like the ones we saw at the beginning of this year, landslides, which is what you'd expect with climate change, is going to be a real problem.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the safe management of coal tips \"remains a priority\".\n\n\"While we welcome recent announcements by UK government, along with their recognition that the longer-term costs will be significant, no further funds have been forthcoming, and we continue to press them for the full amount of funding needed, as promised by the prime minister,\" said a spokesman.", "The Scottish government is \"satisfied\" it has hit its latest vaccination target - but has warned that progress is set to slow down in the coming days.\n\nMinisters aimed to give a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine to all over-70s and the clinically vulnerable by Monday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said everyone in this group should have been offered an appointment.\n\nShe urged anyone who had not received one to contact the government, and said \"nobody is going to be left behind\".\n\nHowever, she said the rate of progress was set to \"decline a bit\" due to supply issues, with health teams \"unlikely to vaccinate more than 30,000 people a day this week\".\n\nThis would be fewer than half of the number of people vaccinated on several days over the past week, but Ms Sturgeon said staff \"stand ready to pick up the pace as soon as supplies allow\".\n\nMonday is the final day for the government to reach its target of giving a first dose of vaccine to all over-70s and those deemed to be extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"satisfied we have met that target\", and that everyone in these groups had been offered the vaccine.\n\nA \"significant number of people\" had to rebook appointments due to the severe weather over the past week, but Ms Sturgeon said levels of uptake were already \"well beyond the 80% target we set out in our deployment plan\".\n\nThe first minister said \"close to 100%\" of older care home residents and over-80s in the community had been given a first dose, along with 99% of 75 to 79-year-olds.\n\nAnd she said the uptake rate for those aged 70 to 74 was already at 85%, with more booked in for Monday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was \"without a doubt a significant achievement\", which in time would \"reduce deaths from Covid-19 significantly\".\n\nThe vaccination rate is expected to dip over the coming weeks due to a combination of factors, including a reduction in supplies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said Pfizer had \"re-phased its delivery over the coming period\". The same number of vials will be delivered, but over a different timescale.\n\nShe also said the higher than expected uptake of vaccines meant more doses had been used than anticipated, while more stocks would have to start being held back for second doses.\n\nSome vaccination centres like the NHS Louisa Jordan may move from seven days a week operation to five to reflect this.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon stressed that \"we are not talking about closing vaccination centres\" and said the system could pick up pace \"very rapidly\" once supplies are available.\n\nShe said: \"We're going to see these issues through this programme, that's in the nature of it, but it shouldn't take away from the fact we are in a much better position than we thought we would be in.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the vaccination target being hit was \"great news\" and that the government must now work on a \"route map\" towards easing lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"Understandably specific dates set in stone are not possible because as the virus mutates it can get stronger variants, as we've seen over the last 10 or 11 months.\n\n\"But we need to know the triggers that will be in place for all school pupils to go back, for businesses to reopen - will we have a tiered approach or a national approach?\n\n\"These are the crucial points that businesses really need to be aware of so we can see our way out of this crisis.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's cabinet is due to decide on Tuesday morning whether more pupils can return to Scotland's schools in the coming weeks, with an announcement to follow at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nThe first minister said she was \"very keen\" to go ahead with the phased return of children to schools.\n\nShe said there would be \"trade-offs\" over the coming months as the country eases out of lockdown, with schools and care home visiting \"the kind of things we focus on first as we try to get things back to normal\".", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe UK government has been told it must be \"much more proactive\" and \"urgently\" address the involvement of a suspected crime boss in professional boxing.\n\nLast week Daniel Kinahan confirmed he is organising \"multiple world title fights\", insisting that allegations of criminality are part of a \"campaign\" against him.\n\nIt followed revelations over his continued involvement at the top of the sport by the BBC's Panorama, leading to calls for tighter regulation.\n\nKinahan has no criminal convictions, but was named in Irish courts as the head of a prominent drug cartel.\n\nOn Tuesday, Stephen Farry MP said \"stronger pressure was required\" from the government, including \"a willingness to legislate\".\n\nThe deputy leader of the Alliance Party accused ministers of a \"passive response\" to a series of questions he had asked about the controversy.\n• None The suspected gangster at the heart of world boxing\n• None BBC team threatened after Boxing and the Mob probe\n\nKinahan helped set up boxing management business MTK Global - but it was announced last year he was stepping away from the sport.\n\nHowever, the company told Panorama that he still advises some of its boxers, and the suspected gangster then issued his own statement, insisting he was innocent, and that he continued to work on \"record-breaking\" fights.\n\nIn the wake of the programme, Farry wrote to the government asking what plans it had to introduce regulation of advisers in boxing, a fit and proper person test for those involved in the sport, and what steps it was taking to ensure that it was not influenced by people alleged to be involved in organised crime.\n\nThe Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) replied, saying fit and proper persons tests \"are a matter for the national governing bodies\".\n\n\"We do not intend to intervene in this autonomy at this time but we expect national governing bodies and competition structures to put adequate levels of protections in place,\" it said.\n\nIn response, Farry - who represents the North Down constituency in Belfast - tweeted \"self-regulation has not happened so far\", and said he would be following up further with the government on \"serious issues surrounding Daniel Kinahan's role in professional boxing\".\n\nKinahan's role in world boxing caused an outcry in June last year when it emerged he had been working as a personal adviser to world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury before a much-anticipated £200m fight later this year with fellow British world champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nPanorama asked Fury whether Kinahan was still his personal adviser, but he did not respond.\n\nLast week promoter Eddie Hearn was asked by BBC Radio 5 Live if the Fury v Joshua fight - set to be the biggest bout in British boxing history - could have been negotiated without Kinahan's influence.\n\n\"No, because that's Fury's adviser,\" he replied.\n\n\"That's his team… we were told to deal with Daniel Kinahan to make that fight, initially. Then there was a backlash and those reins were passed over to [US promoter] Bob Arum.\n\n\"He's been an important part of Team Fury for a long time and when you are dealing with making a big fight you have to deal with that team that that fighter has put together and the person that the responsibility has been given to… Of course, he represents other fighters as well.\"\n\nLast week, Scotland's Josh Taylor confirmed Kinahan was helping to broker his world title unification fight against Jose Ramirez. Taylor is one of a host of fighters to publicly back the Irishman. However, pressure is building on broadcasters over their plans for fights involving Kinahan.\n\nIn a statement, BT Sport, which televises Fury's fights, said: \"We find the recent allegations extremely concerning, and would like to state we have no dealings, nor relationship with the individual referenced.\n\n\"We only work with certified agents and rights holders.\n\n\"As a broadcaster of multiple different sports, we are not able to control an athletes' choice of management and representation.\"\n\nRival broadcaster Sky Sports said it had never had any direct commercial or contractual relationship with MTK.\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control has said it is powerless to stop Kinahan advising boxers as it does not regulate such roles and he is not licensed with them.\n\nLawyers for MTK Global told Panorama that while Kinahan \"provides some personal advice to a number of boxers managed by MTK Global\", he had never owned, controlled or been an employee of the company.\n\nKinahan's lawyers also told the programme he has no criminal convictions and the allegations about him running a violent cartel were false and had no evidential basis.\n\n\"He is proud of his record in boxing to date. He has operated on the basis of honesty and with a commitment to putting fighters' needs first,\" they said.\n\n\"Mr Kinahan is a successful and independent adviser in the boxing industry in his own right. It is a matter of public record that he has exited the business of MTK.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Jaguar Land Rover's Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker has said.\n\nThe company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added.\n\nThe firm said it would keep all three of its three British plants open as part of its new strategy.\n\nBut it has dropped plans to build an electric version of its XJ saloon at the Castle Bromwich plant, meaning the site will eventually stop making cars.\n\nChief executive Thierry Bolloré said the plant would focus instead on \"non-production\" activities in the long term, without giving details.\n\nThe company plans to spend about £2.5bn a year on new technology for its cars.\n\nThis is a big move for Jaguar Land Rover, but the reality is it has little choice.\n\nLike other manufacturers, it is under pressure to reduce the CO2 emissions from its fleet, as new regulations come into force in Europe and elsewhere. At the same time, sales of diesels - which generally produce less CO2 than petrol engines - have been plummeting.\n\nAnd in the longer term, the UK government wants to outlaw the sale of all wholly petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Governments in other countries are moving in the same general direction.\n\nThe problem is, electric cars cost more to design and build than conventional models, meaning it is currently hard to make a profit from them. Bigger manufacturers can throw money at the problem now, and hope to benefit from economies of scale later.\n\nJLR is a smaller company and can't do that - so instead it will re-emphasise Jaguar's credentials as a luxury brand when it goes all-electric.\n\nThat might make sense from a marketing point of view, but making the sums add up looks like a steep challenge.\n\nIt will also invest in hydrogen fuel cell technology. Fuel cells provide electric power, without producing tailpipe emissions - water is the only by-product.\n\nHowever, in order for them to be truly environmentally friendly, the hydrogen itself needs to be produced using renewable sources.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the announcement was \"a huge step for British car manufacturing\".\n\nCarmakers are under pressure to meet stringent carbon emission demands in Europe and China, as well as customer demand for high-performance electric cars with a luxury or performance feel.\n\nThe UK plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.\n\nLuxury car brand Bentley Motors, owned by Germany's Volkswagen, said in November its range will be fully electric by 2030, and last month General Motors said it aimed to have a zero tailpipe emission line-up by 2035.", "Abdallah has cited a privilege against self-incrimination as a reason to refuse to appear at the inquiry\n\nA convicted terror offender who was the Manchester Arena bomber's friend \"is unfit to give evidence\" to the inquiry into the attack, his lawyer has said.\n\nAbdalraouf Abdallah was visited by the bomber Salman Abedi in prison in the months before the 2017 attack.\n\nHe has refused to appear at the inquiry but families of the attack's victims want to know why he cannot be forced.\n\nA hearing was told a decision on whether the families could access his medical reports would be made later.\n\nAbdallah, who is in prison, is refusing to give evidence to the Manchester Arena Inquiry even though he has been described as having had a significant relationship with Abedi.\n\nAbedi detonated a homemade device in the foyer of Manchester Arena as people left a concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds more.\n\nThe families of those who died have been told there are medical reasons why Abdallah cannot be forced to give evidence, but they want to see the reasons for themselves.\n\nAfter giving a \"no comment\" interview to lawyers before the inquiry began, forensic psychiatrist Dr John Kent was instructed to interview Abdallah in prison but he refused and instead was interviewed by a psychiatrist suggested by his legal team, Dr Richard Latham, whose report was then reviewed by Dr Kent.\n\nDr Latham's report concluded Abdallah was unfit to give evidence and making him do so could risk self-harm.\n\nAbdallah wants only a \"gist\" of both reports to be disclosed and his lawyers on Tuesday applied for the full report to be withheld.\n\nAbdallah was jailed in 2016 after being found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and was returned to prison in January, a few weeks after being released on licence.\n\nThe bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nThe inquiry heard he has cited a privilege against self-incrimination as a reason to refuse to questions from the inquiry.\n\nRajiv Menon QC told the inquiry that Abdallah was \"not involved in any way\" in the attack.\n\n\"He did not groom or radicalise Salman Abedi,\" he said.\n\n\"He had no knowledge whatsoever of the planning and preparation of the terrorist attack at Manchester Arena.\n\n\"He heard about the attack for the very first time in prison after it had been reported in the press. He is unfit to give evidence.\"\n\nHe said his client did not believe he would be treated fairly by the inquiry, adding that he had been legally advised \"in the strongest possible terms\" to exercise his right to silence.\n\nPete Weatherby QC, representing some of the families, said Abdallah had crucial evidence to give the inquiry about the radicalisation of Abedi and \"whether the plot went further than the Abedi brothers themselves\".\n\nHe said Abdallah was an \"important\" witness who should be called to give evidence and the medical reports were \"central\" to whether he should be excused from going into the witness box.\n\nThe inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders will publish his decision on whether the reports should be disclosed at a later date to be confirmed.\n\nAny argument about whether Abdallah will be called as a witness to the inquiry will take place at a later date.\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.", "Viral videos of people having full-face \"hot wax\" treatments on TikTok have led to warnings from skin experts.\n\nThey show softened resin covering subjects' face, mouth and neck - and partially penetrating their ears and nose - before being removed.\n\nA barber posting some of the most watched examples says it is beneficial.\n\nBut the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) said: \"Attempting to wax inside your nose or ears is not recommended.\"\n\nA UK-based skin specialist has also raised safety concerns about the risk of obstructed breathing.\n\nAnd one expert has suggested TikTok should add a warning.\n\nBut it has indicated the videos are excluded from its community guidelines on dangerous behaviour because they show skilled professionals.\n\nThey have gained barbershop Kapsalon Freedom, in the Netherlands, a following more than 800,000 TikTok users.\n\nOne of its first attempts, posted in November, attracted nearly 84 million views, after Dutch media reports.\n\nIt left the bottom portion of the customer's face exposed.\n\nBut a more recent example, with more than 19 million views, shows the wax resin coming down over a man's chin and on to his neck.\n\nSections pulled out of his ears and nose are held up to the camera to show dozens of hairs poking out of the now hardened substance.\n\nIn this case, the wax runs around but not over his mouth.\n\nBut other clips show fully covered faces, with cotton swabs used to create air passages.\n\nOne video with more than one million views shows this full-face mask being removed from a woman's face and neck\n\nStrips of paper are also used to protect eyelashes and eyebrows.\n\nBarber Renaz Ismael has said face-waxing is common in the Middle East, where he was born.\n\nBut he has taken it to a new level.\n\n\"I am the first person in the world who has done whole waxing,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's not bad for your skin.\"\n\nMr Ismael is now using the hashtag #viral to promote the clips.\n\nAnd some have been set to music.\n\nHe has also posted examples on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.\n\nBut they have attracted much smaller audiences.\n\nAlex Echeverri, who works at John and Ginger salon, in West Sussex, raised safety concerns about others attempting the process.\n\n\"Our first consideration would be that it could cause suffocation,\" the beautician, who has more than two decades of experience in the industry, said.\n\n\"There's no control element to smothering the face with wax.\n\n\"So it could harden in the airways and have to be surgically removed.\"\n\nLondon-based Turkish barbershop Adam Grooming Atelier said: \"To wax such a large area of delicate skin is very irresponsible.\"\n\nThe BAD also raised concern the videos could lead to copycat incidents.\n\n\"Social-media platforms have the ability of quickly spreading health and beauty trends,\" Dr Anjali Mahto said.\n\n\"Waxing is a traumatic process for the skin, especially sensitive areas such as those found around the eyes.\n\n\"These areas can become inflamed and irritated.\n\n\"In some cases, tiny pimples or pus-filled bumps could develop as a result.\n\n\"This is known as folliculitis.\"\n\nThe British Skin Foundation also raised concern some of the clips showed the wax being used on what appear to be primary-school-age youngsters.\n\n\"Personally I would not recommend treating children,\" consultant dermatologist Dr Emma Wedgeworth said.\n\n\"It seems sensible to have a warning.\n\n\"There is a lot of misinformation and potentially harmful DIY beauty practices on TikTok and other social-media channels.\n\n\"And it would be good to see these more tightly regulated.\"", "A worker collects a swab from a car window at a test centre in Goldsworth Park, in Surrey\n\nSurge testing for the South African variant of Covid-19 is being expanded in several areas across England.\n\nThe tests will take place in areas of Norfolk, Southampton and Surrey. Surge testing for a mutation of the Kent variant will also expand in Manchester.\n\nPeople in the latest targeted areas should take a test this week whether they are showing symptoms or not, the Department of Health (DoH) said.\n\nSurge testing for the South African variant began on 1 February.\n\nAt that stage, residents across Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms.\n\nThe DoH said additional surge testing and genomic sequencing would now be deployed to the following postcode areas:\n\nA government spokeswoman said people with symptoms should book a test in the normal way, while those without symptoms should visit their local authority website for more information.\n\nSurge testing is the roll-out of additional community testing to help reduce the spread of infection by finding asymptomatic cases and prompting people to self-isolate.\n\nPositive cases will be sequenced for genomic data to help scientists and public health officials understand the variant and its spread.\n\nThe DoH said surge testing in parts of the London boroughs of Haringey and Merton, along with Sefton in Merseyside, were complete.\n\n\"Further data on surge testing will be provided in due course,\" a spokeswoman 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.\n\nA mountain rescue volunteer has said saving a colleague who suffered life-changing injuries in a fall was the worst mission of his career.\n\nChris Lewis, 60, suffered severe spinal injuries when he fell 500ft (150m) in the Lake District on 6 February.\n\nHe was part of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue team going to the aid of two campers from Liverpool and Leicester after one fell ill.\n\nBoth campers have been fined £200 for breaching coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nThe Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was helping two campers near Kirkstone Pass\n\nMr Lewis, who also suffered multiple facial fractures in the fall at Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass, is still in intensive care.\n\nHis colleague Mike Blakey said: \"I've done this for 25 years, I can honestly say this was the worst rescue.\n\n\"I've seen some things in my time but you never expect to have to rescue one of your own.\n\n\"He's having conversations with me already about where we are going to go in the wheelchair.\"\n\nMike Blakey said he never expected to have to rescue \"one of our own\"\n\nRescue volunteer Ben Hammond, who was the first to get to Mr Lewis after he fell down a steep slope, said: \"He's a very experienced member of the team and is someone to look up to.\n\n\"Certainly his injuries are life-changing.\"\n\nThe campers, who called for help after one of them started suffering chest pains, have been widely condemned online, but Martin Cotterell from the team said volunteers \"are not there to judge\".\n\n\"We are there to help,\" he said. \"We all love the fells, we are all mountaineers, we go out there because we think we can help people in difficulty. Trying to judge is wrong.\"\n\nWhile Mr Lewis was airlifted to hospital by the Coastguard, the ill camper was taken by the rescue team to an ambulance that transported him to Carlisle Infirmary, from where he was later discharged.\n\nOnline fundraisers have been set up and raised thousands of pounds for the team.\n\nKate Whittenbury said she set up a fundraiser to \"offset some of the negativity\"\n\nLocal resident Kate Whittenbury, who started one of the funds, said: \"Local people are quite angry about it to be honest. It didn't really have to happen, they shouldn't have been here in the first place.\n\n\"I just thought something positive needed to be done to offset the negativity.\"\n\nRichard Warren, chairman of the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association, said Mr Lewis was a \"fantastic guy\" and the support had been \"overwhelming\".\n\nMr Warren said the first thing Mr Lewis said when he arrived at the hospital was \"how's the other casualty?\".\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.", "Dr Billings said people had told him about their \"bad experiences\" on the M1 smart motorway\n\nSmart motorways should be abandoned so \"more serious injuries or fatalities\" can be avoided, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has said.\n\nDr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire's PCC, made his comments after two coroners raised concerns about deaths on a stretch of the M1 in the county.\n\nMeanwhile, South Yorkshire Police has said it will examine inquest documents relating to two smart motorway deaths.\n\nHighways England said it wanted \"to make motorways as safe as possible\".\n\nOn a stretch of M1 smart motorway in South Yorkshire, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane and drivers who break down are encouraged to pull in to emergency stopping places.\n\nIn a statement, Dr Billings said: \"I do not believe there is anyone who uses this stretch of the motorway, as I do, who does not feel anxious when driving along it.\"\n\nHe also highlighted a crash on Friday on the northbound M1 between junction 30 and 31 which he said involved a lorry hitting \"a stationary car in a live running lane\".\n\nAs a result, both carriageways were closed for a time, with motorists experiencing long delays.\n\nThe accident is currently subject to a police investigation, Highways England said.\n\nDr Billings said: \"I call upon the minister and Highways England to abandon this type of smart motorway before we have more serious injuries or fatalities.\"\n\nHe added that he had been contacted by lorry drivers concerned over the dangers of stationary vehicles in a motorway lane and the difficulties of being able to pull out into fast-moving traffic.\n\nHe said he had written to the transport secretary over his concerns.\n\nResponding to Dr Billings, a Highways England spokesperson said: \"We want to do everything we can to make our motorways as safe as possible.\n\n\"We are aware of the ongoing concerns from Dr Billings and others and we are working hard to deliver the improvements set out in the transport secretary's action plan.\"\n\nIn March, the government published a report which found that \"in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, conventional ones\", the agency 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.", "Parler is back with a new logo after a month offline\n\nControversial social-media app Parler has come back online after more than a month without service.\n\nThe Twitter-like app was a favourite among supporters of former US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives.\n\nIt was banned from Google and Apple's app stores and Amazon's web-hosting service, after an armed mob broke into the US Capitol building on 6 January.\n\nBut now, the self-styled free-speech platform says it is \"here to stay\".\n\nThe app was not available for all users immediately, however.\n\nAnd users reported their posts from the previous version had vanished from their profiles.\n\nParler said the plan was to bring the service back online for existing users first, with new users able to sign up in a week's time.\n\nAnd it was no longer working with a \"big-tech\" provider but was \"built on sustainable, independent technology\".\n\nDuring its gap in service, the company also sacked vocal chief executive John Matze, replacing him with interim boss Mark Meckler.\n\n\"We will thrive as the premier social-media platform dedicated to free speech, privacy, and civil dialogue,\" Mr Meckler said.\n\nAnd the decision of other technology companies to cut ties with Parler had been taken \"by those who desire to silence tens of millions of Americans\".\n\nWhile users who already have the app downloaded can log in, it is more difficult to install onto phones that did not have it before.\n\nAndroid users must \"sideload\" the software, meaning it has to be sourced and installed without using Google's Play Store.\n\nAnd iPhone users trying to reinstall the app or download it for the first time from Apple's App Store are told it is \"not currently available\".\n\nLate last year, as Twitter banned some Trump supporters and then President Trump himself, Parler soared up the app charts. It had what every fledgling online business seeks, momentum - until it was stopped in its tracks.\n\nNow it is back, but in a very limited form. It is still unavailable on app stores and with no way yet for new users to sign up. It feels as though its moment has passed - even if its old members do manage to get back online they may find Parler just a little dull.\n\nThe past - and the evidence of its use to plan the invasion of Congress - has been wiped clean.\n\nTrue, the Trump acolyte and Fox firebrand Sean Hannity is back, already posting half a dozen Parleys in the first couple of hours. But while he has over five million followers on Twitter, on Parler he's bellowing into a mostly empty space where a few like-minded people nod quietly in agreement.\n\nThere's probably only one person who could give Parler its mojo back - Donald J Trump. But so far he seems reluctant to show up at a party which feels like it's over.\n\nThe app's popularity was in part fuelled by President Trump's supporters, who often claimed \"censorship\" by the largest online platforms.\n\nThe former president had allegedly been offered a significant stake in the company if he joined, Buzzfeed News reported earlier this month - something rival politicians are now investigating.\n\nBut he never joined Parler while in power and does not appear to have joined the relaunched version.\n\nParler said it would not be \"cancelled\", as it relaunched - with a new logo\n\nIts main selling point had been light-touch moderation, which it said was to encourage free speech.\n\nBut Google and Apple banned the app for failing to remove posts they felt had incited violence.\n\nAnd Amazon pulled its web-hosting service days later for similar reasons.\n\nBefore the app was knocked offline, however, hackers said they had managed to access an archive of posts and downloads - more than one million videos and images, including some from the 6 January riots.\n\nCarolyn Maloney, who chairs the House oversight committee, has asked the FBI to investigate the role of Parler in the violence at the Capitol.", "The smallpox virus was able to be eradicated because the pustules it caused made it clear who was infected Image caption: The smallpox virus was able to be eradicated because the pustules it caused made it clear who was infected\n\nGovernment ministers and their scientific advisers argue that vaccination and new treatments will reduce the death rate and allow us to live with coronavirus, rather than constantly trying to fight it.\n\nWiping Covid from the face of the Earth would, of course, be great given the death and destruction it has caused.\n\nBut the only problem with that is that eradication has only been achieved with one virus before - smallpox in 1980.\n\nIt took decades to get to that point, and scientists and governments were only able to achieve this because of a pretty unique set of circumstances. Firstly, the vaccine was so stable it didn't need to be refrigerated, and when it was given it was immediately obvious whether it worked or not - a pustule developed.\n\nIt was also clear when someone was infected - a lab test was not needed, which was a huge advantage in trying to contain outbreaks.\n\nCovid, as we are all too well aware, is completely different.", "Amazon has been privately testing UK frontline employees since October and sharing the results with public health bodies\n\nNearly 4,000 Amazon workers were given incorrect coronavirus test results after an error.\n\nPrivate test results shared with NHS Test and Trace led to 3,853 notifications being wrongly issued on 13 February, the government confirmed.\n\nEmployees were told by Amazon the day before they were negative for the virus, then given the exact opposite message by contact tracers.\n\nOne test and trace call centre received more than 500 calls from employees.\n\nThe company has been testing frontline UK workers privately since October, sending the results to Public Health England, who then share them with NHS Test and Trace and equivalent bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAmazon said it had followed NHS instructions and all workers had been made aware of the error and supported to take \"appropriate action steps\".\n\nThe Department for Health and Social care said all employees wrongly issued self-isolation notifications were \"rapidly\" informed they did not need to.\n\nIn messages seen by the BBC, one warehouse worker was told they were negative for Covid-19 on Friday by their employer and then wrongly notified they were positive by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate for 10 days on Saturday morning.\n\nA follow up message from contact tracers confirming a \"system error\" was sent that evening.\n\nA call centre employee, working for a private company on behalf of test and trace, told the BBC the error led to thousands of confused Amazon employees contacting the 119 helpline.\n\nThe call handler, who wishes to remain anonymous, said their team alone received more than 500 calls on Saturday.\n\nThey said: \"It's not only affected their staff, but the families and households of their staff as well.\n\n\"Partners and children of Amazon staff who were added as contacts, told bosses they had to isolate and have lost income.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social care said the \"vast majority\" of people reported no issues with the testing and contact tracing process.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Working closely with Amazon, NHS Test and Trace rapidly notified affected employees to let them know they did not need to isolate.\"\n\nAn Amazon spokesman said: \"We've communicated with our associates and partners to support them with the appropriate action steps, as instructed by the NHS.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A group of skaters had to be rescued after plunging into freezing water when the ice they were standing on cracked and broke in Amsterdam.\n\nThe rare freezing of waterways across the Netherlands attracted many ice skaters at the weekend, however warmer temperatures is melting the ice, prompting a warning about the danger from officials.\n\nBystanders used ropes, hockey sticks and golf clubs to drag the ice skaters to safety, some also putting their own safety at risk.", "Married At First Sight Australia star Daniel Webb has been charged with fraud.\n\nCourt documents show the 36-year-old appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday.\n\nAccording to the Australian Associated Press, 10 other people are also charged with fraud, while some face charges of money laundering.\n\nThe committal hearing started in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.\n\nAround 500 people are listed on the witness list for a trial over involvement in an alleged telemarketing scam.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe hearing is expected to last three weeks.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Daniel Webb's representatives for comment, but they have yet to respond.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Emily Jones was killed in a park on Mother's Day last year\n\nA man whose seven-year-old daughter was killed by a psychiatric patient says it is insulting that he has not received an apology from the NHS.\n\nMark Jones claims an NHS trust's failings left Eltiona Skana free to kill Emily in a park in Bolton.\n\n\"I will keep fighting until I get an apology,\" Mr Jones told the BBC.\n\nGreater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust said it continued to send \"deepest sympathies to everyone who loved and cared for Emily\".\n\nA court heard Skana, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had not been taking her medication and slit Emily's throat as she played in Queens Park on 22 March last year.\n\nShe is serving a life sentence with a minimum of 10 years and eight months after she admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\n\nSkana, 30, was cleared of murder after the prosecution offered no further evidence and withdrew the charge.\n\nMark Jones said his daughter's death \"could have been prevented\"\n\nMr Jones blames a lack of medical supervision for the attack on his daughter, which he witnessed.\n\nSpeaking to Naga Munchetty on BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: \"The brain protects you, it won't let you go there all the time. But when I do, if I'm driving the car or wherever I have to pull over because it's just horrendous.\n\n\"No-one should have to see their daughter like that.\"\n\nEmily was with her father riding her scooter in the park on Mother's Day when she was killed.\n\nThe youngster spotted her mother, who was jogging, and was calling out to her as she scooted past a bench where Skana was sitting, alone and armed with a craft knife.\n\nSkana, originally from Albania, grabbed Emily and slit her throat before running off.\n\nMr Jones said Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust had \"let their patient down\" and said his daughter's death \"could have been prevented had they done a better job\".\n\n\"The fundamental thing is that she was un-medicated on the day and they had a suspicion,\" he said.\n\nEltiona Skana admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility\n\nThe court heard Skana's sister had indicated to the mental health team that she was not taking her medication.\n\nMr Jones said Skana had a history of not taking pills and the trust \"bowed down to her demands to put her on oral medication\".\n\n\"She'd threatened children before, she'd threatened a friend's daughter who was 13, she went round there with a knife,\" he said.\n\n\"She'd attacked her mother with an iron, her sister had to lock herself in her room. This is a woman who's got a history of violence when she's un-medicated.\"\n\nMr Jones said he was unhappy with the trust's internal review of the case, which outlined failings but concluded Emily's death was not preventable, and likened it to \"marking your own homework\".\n\n\"It's an insult to my family for Greater Manchester mental health not to admit some liability. I will keep fighting until I get an apology from them,\" he said.\n\n\"It's got to stop. There are dangerous people out there and the only people who can protect us are the authorities.\"\n\nAn NHS review into Emily's death is taking place.\n\nNeil Thwaite, chief executive of the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"We welcome the decision to commission an independent investigation into this tragic incident.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry and Meghan married at Windsor Castle in May 2018\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to talk about their decision to step away from the monarchy in a TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, to air next month.\n\nOprah With Meghan And Harry: A CBS Primetime Special has been described by the US television network as an \"intimate conversation\".\n\nThe \"wide-ranging\" interview will be broadcast on 7 March.\n\nThe news follows the announcement that the royal couple are expecting their second child.\n\nAccording to CBS, Meghan will be interviewed about \"stepping into life as a royal, marriage, motherhood\" and \"how she is handling life under intense public pressure\".\n\nShe will then be joined by Prince Harry, and the couple will speak about their move to the United States last year and their future plans.\n\nWinfrey was a guest at the couple's wedding in 2018\n\nThe decision to speak publicly comes just over a year after the couple announced they had decided to \"step back\" from life as senior royals and work to become financially independent. They carried out their final formal royal duties last March.\n\nWinfrey is a personal friend of Meghan and attended the couple's wedding in 2018.\n\nIt is not known whether Harry and Meghan informed the royal household about their plans to be interviewed. Buckingham Palace declined to comment. It is also not known which broadcaster, if any, will show the interview in the UK.\n\nJonny Dymond, the BBC's royal correspondent, said there would now be \"three weeks of frantic speculation\" about the contents of the interview.\n\n\"We wait to see what it will be and what kind of secrets are revealed about the past two or three years,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday.\n\nDymond described Winfrey as \"a very close acquaintance\" of the royal couple and that she had apparently been \"angling\" for the interview \"for some time\".\n\nHe added that their conversation was unlikely to be a \"hostile\" interview like the one between the Duke of York and Newsnight's Emily Maitlis last year.\n\nMeanwhile, press reports on Tuesday suggested the duke and duchess are set to lose their remaining royal patronages.\n\nIt is claimed that Harry will also lose his three honorary military titles - Captain General of the Royal Marines, Honorary Air Force Commandant of the Royal Air Force Base Honington, and Honorary Commodore-in-Chief of the Royal Naval Commands' Small Ships and Diving.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Digital currency Bitcoin has risen to a new record high of more than $50,000 (£36,000).\n\nThe so-called cryptocurrency, which was created by an unknown inventor, has risen about 72% this year.\n\nBitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are generated by computers. Part of its supposed value comes from the finite number that can be computed.\n\nBut regulators have warned that they are risky, since their value can change fast, both downwards and upwards.\n\nMuch of this year's gain for Bitcoin came after Elon Musk's Tesla bought $1.5bn of them and said it would accept them as payment for its cars.\n\nSupporters say Bitcoin can act as a store of value, like a digital version of gold.\n\n\"If that narrative comes to fruition, then the growth potential is off the charts as $50,000 per bitcoin equates to a market cap of roughly $931bn, which is almost 9% of gold,\" said John Wu, president at blockchain company Ava Labs.\n\n\"If BTC meets gold's market cap, then that would be at least $500,000 per bitcoin.\"\n\nValuing Bitcoin is difficult, and pricing is susceptible to large swings because of the limited number which are traded. Many supporters are holding on to them in anticipation of higher valuations. Should they all sell at once, the price could tumble.\n\nWith no intrinsic value, unlike a physical asset such as land, and no ability to generate an income, unlike a company or bond, cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile and can crash as fast as they rise.\n\nCritics point out that while Bitcoin may have a finite supply of units - 21 million - the number of cryptocurrencies is ever-growing and potentially limitless.\n\nPeople have lost large amounts of money in steep drops in the value of cryptocurrencies and in hacks and scams associated with them.\n\nBritain's financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), opened 52 investigations into suspected cryptocurrency frauds in the year to 30 June 2020, according to a Freedom of Information request from law firm RPC.\n\nThat was fewer than the 59 opened in the previous 12 months, sparking speculation that the regulator was short of resources to tackle cryptocurrency frauds.\n\n\"Given explosive growth in high-risk cryptocurrency and related frauds, we would expect the number of FCA investigations to jump up and not fall away,\" said Sam Tate, partner at RPC.\n\n\"The sheen of respectability now being given to cryptocurrencies is being taken advantage of by cyber-criminals and online fraudsters.\"\n\nThe FCA declined to comment on the figures.\n\nBitcoin's value dropped by $5,000 on 4 January to about $29,000 before recovering the lost ground. On 11 Jan, it dropped $9,000 to $32,000.\n\nBecause cryptocurrencies can pass international borders quickly and are not regulated in the same way as cash or regular investments, investigating thefts is hard.\n\nLast month, the FCA issued a stark warning to investors in so-called cryptoassets.\n\nThe financial watchdog said investors should be \"prepared to lose all their money\" should their investment's value collapse.", "A year ago families across the UK were packing suitcases, organising play dates and planning day trips - all in preparation for the February half-term break.\n\nBut this year's school holidays are set to look very different, with travel and social mixing restricted to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nSo, as children take a week off from Zoom lessons or socially distanced classrooms, what can parents do to keep the family entertained without burning themselves out?\n\n\"Children are going to have to be quite resourceful to keep active during this half-term,\" says former England footballer Rachel Yankey.\n\nShe has been coaching children remotely as part of the Youth Sport Trust's After School Sport Club, which takes place most weekday evenings.\n\n\"If kids don't have an outdoor space, parents might need to make an exception and allow them to dribble a football inside in a controlled way.\n\n\"Even half an hour of physical activity makes a big difference to a child's day.\"\n\nJason Sugrue, a former British table-tennis champion who works with London-based charity Greenhouse Sports, says children should be \"left to their own devices\" as much as possible.\n\n\"Kids are bored of adults telling them what to do by now - so we've been doing a lot of peer-to-peer fitness classes online.\n\n\"Kids will work with their friends to find an object in their house [in a treasure hunt, for example] - it's simple, free and fun.\"\n\nGreenhouse Sports organised more than 1,500 virtual coaching sessions for children in east London during the first nationwide lockdown.\n\nUnder lockdown rules, families can still get out of the house for exercise once a day, provided they remain within their local area.\n\n\"It's really important young people make the most of that time outside,\" says Sugrue. \"Nothing beats fresh air.\"\n\n\"Whether it's a cycle ride, drills or just walking, families must try and find a designated time each day to do an activity together during half-term.\"\n\n\"It's always said about books that they take you to another place,\" says children's author Michael Rosen. \"It may be to the inside of a mind that's not theirs or a physical place, but that feels especially important for kids during lockdown.\"\n\nRosen says parents must try to make reading \"feel relevant\" to children's interests.\n\n\"My trick was always to try and connect books up to theatre, live readings and movies,\" he explains.\n\n\"Obviously, we can't do that now but parents must be open to using digital tools to trigger more interest.\"\n\nThe National Literacy Trust and Oak National Academy are offering online activities and making hundreds of e-books available to children through the virtual school library project.\n\nBut Rosen recommends parents let children's reading habits over the holidays \"emerge organically instead of foisting their anxiety about the need to read on [them]\".\n\n\"If ever there's a time to relax the rules on screen time, it's this February half-term,\" says child psychologist Laverne Antrobus. \"Especially as it will be the main way for them to stay connected with their friends.\"\n\nOxford University research on more than 17,000 teenagers in the US, UK and Ireland showed higher levels of screen time had little discernible effect on their mental health, but many parents are still cautious.\n\n\"Screen time doesn't have to be isolating,\" adds Antrobus. \"Choosing a film or a TV show for the family to watch in the evening is something that brings everyone together.\"\n\nVirtual events are also accessible to families over half-term: the Royal Observatory Greenwich is putting on stargazing workshops and the Shakespeare's Globe festival is offering family tickets for storytelling masterclasses.\n\nAntrobus warns it may be \"easier\" for parents to get younger children engaged than teenagers.\n\n\"With teenagers, it's a case of checking in on them and showing interest in the video game they're playing - they love to teach us dinosaurs about tech,\" she explains.\n\n\"Arts and crafts is all about making the most of everyday objects - in the house or in nature,\" says illustrator Rob Biddulph, whose online drawing tutorials have become increasingly popular during the pandemic.\n\n\"We've been going out on walks as a family and we'll pick up beautiful leaves, pebbles and sticks.\n\n\"And when we get home we'll paint eyes on them and turn them into characters - all that takes is two splodges of white paint.\"\n\nThe Tate Museum and the Southbank Centre also have virtual art events available to children over half-term.\n\nBiddulph says his 11-year-old daughter is less \"receptive\" to drawing and painting than she used to be \"but can still be tempted away from the screen when she sees the rest of the family having fun together\".", "Hospital admissions of nine to 12-year-olds because of self-injury across the UK are averaging 10 a week, according to data analysed by a BBC File on 4 investigation.\n\nThe rate has doubled in six years, the latest annual figures indicate.\n\nOne leading expert says the rise is \"concerning\", and that self-harm \"seems to be spreading down the age range\".\n\nHealth departments from the UK's four nations say they are committed to children's mental wellbeing.\n\nAs a result of the BBC's investigation, the National Association of Headteachers and the Royal Colleges of Emergency Medicine and GPs are backing calls for primary school teachers to be given training to help spot the signs of pupils who may be hurting themselves.\n\nEighteen-year-old Sarah (not her real name) told File on 4 she first started cutting herself when she was 11.\n\n\"One of my closest friends introduced me to the concept because they were going through a very tough time personally, told me about it, and I was suffering with bullying and home issues.\"\n\nShe says she remembers sitting in her bedroom \"in tears, going at my left arm till it started to bleed… but then it was the immediate guilt and like, oh, what do I do? How do I hide it from my parents?\"\n\nSarah's self-harm wasn't spotted until more than a year later when a teacher noticed scars on her arm. \"I got referred to CAMHS [Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services] and there was a long wait, which is quite typical, and then I spiralled.\n\n\"And the moment I saw CAMHS for the first time, I got discharged because I wasn't severe enough at the time,\" she says.\n\nAll the people we spoke to for our investigation said CAMHS are under pressure because of growing demand.\n\nSarah tried to kill herself on two occasions before a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy, art therapy, dog therapy, and music therapy helped her gradually reduce her self-harm.\n\nLast spring, an online peer-support course called Alumina led to her stopping completely and she has not hurt herself for eight months.\n\nThe term \"self-harm\" when used by doctors includes:\n\nParents trying to support children who self-harm can be left with difficult dilemmas.\n\nFile on 4 heard from Louise (not her real name), the mother of a 17-year-old who started self-harming when she was 11. Louise said she gives her daughter clean blades with which to cut herself to minimise the risk of infection.\n\nShe says her daughter would otherwise have used \"anything she could have got her hands on\".\n\n\"I have in her room a whole array of first aid equipment,\" Louise says, \"from Steri-strips to alcoholic-based wipes, to bandages and dressings. They're all there for her, available. And I always have clean blades available for her.\"\n\nLouise, who works as a specialist nurse in her local hospital's A&E department, accepts that it's a \"hugely controversial\" thing to do and has had to defend her approach with friends and with other parents of children who self-harm.\n\nShe says it is \"not something any mum wants to do\", but that if her daughter is going to injure herself, then she wants it to be \"in the cleanest way possible\". Her daughter has now gone five months without self-harming.\n\nIn 2019-20, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 16 hospital admissions per 100,000 nine to 12-year-olds, up from eight in 2013-14. Self-injury admissions for girls in this age group were twice as high as for boys.\n\nThere has also been an increase in the rate of admissions for 13 to 17-year-olds, doubling in seven years, the data collated from NHS Digital, ONS and health departments of NI, Wales and Scotland showed.\n\nProf Keith Hawton, one of the UK's leading experts on self-harm, with more than 40 years' experience, said while there are limitations to admissions data, the File on 4 analysis was backed up by his research and the problem is \"spreading down the age range\".\n\n\"We don't know precisely why this is,\" he said. \"Social media can be a very important source of support for individuals, particularly young people. But we do also know that self-harm is often discussed in social media - images of self-harm are quite common and may lead to contagion.\n\n\"It can also lead to what we call a normalisation of self-harm so that it may become a more accepted way of dealing with problems.\n\n\"We also know that there's been an increase in mental health problems in young people and there's been a particular increase in anxiety disorders, particularly in females, and also eating disorders, which are quite closely associated with self-harm, including self-injury.\"\n\nYou can find more information and support via the BBC Action Line website.\n\nSurviving Self-Harm is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 16 February at 20:00 GMT and afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Youngest pupils to return to classrooms in Scotland\n\nThe youngest pupils are to return to Scotland's classrooms for face-to-face teaching from next week.\n\nThe move will see all children in P1 to P3 and those at pre-school returning from Monday 22 February.\n\nOther age groups will continue to learn from home, apart from some secondary pupils who need to complete coursework.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was unlikely that any other pupils would return to school before 15 March at the earliest.\n\nAll other existing lockdown measures will all remain in place until at least the end of this month, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the country remains in a precarious position.\n\nThe EIS teaching union said it still had significant concerns over school safety which had not yet been addressed, and a blended learning model - with around half of pupils in classes at any one time - would have more appropriate.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Larry Flanagan, said: \"Everyone is supportive of face-to-face teaching returning as soon as possible - that should not override safety concerns, however, and teachers will be understandably nervous around today's announcement.\"\n\nThe Scottish government will draw up a \"revised strategic framework\" - to be published next week - to set out how Scotland can exit lockdown and what conditions will need to be met before restrictions can be eased.\n\nWill your child be returning to school on Monday? Share your stories.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was unlikely that hotels and holiday accommodation would be open again in time for people to book any sort of Easter break, but \"staycations\" may be possible by summer.\n\nIn an update at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said she had \"more reason to be hopeful now than we did a few weeks ago\" that the race against the virus could be won, with the vaccination programme picking up pace while lockdown contains the spread of new cases.\n\nTeaching unions say they are concerned that the new variants of the virus could be more transmissible\n\nShe said she was \"very hopeful that vaccination will start to have a significant impact in reducing the number of people who die from Covid\", saying there was already evidence of this in care homes.\n\nHowever, the first minister warned that \"our situation is still very fragile\", saying: \"Even a slight easing of restrictions could cause cases to start rising rapidly again\".\n\nWhile she said it would continue to be \"extremely cautious\", the government is focused on a \"gradual, phased return to as much normality as possible\".\n\nThis is to begin with schools, with the youngest pupils to return to classrooms as soon as next week.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said there would be trade-offs, adding: \"We are choosing to use the very limited headroom we have right now to get at least some children back to school - because children's education and wellbeing is such a priority.\n\n\"But being able to get children back to education may mean the rest of us living with some other restrictions for longer.\"\n\nCareful, cautious, gradual are the watchwords for the easing of lockdown in Scotland.\n\nThat is to say we're not going to get back the everyday freedoms we once took for granted, quickly.\n\nThe stay at home instruction will remain in place into March, possibly longer, with the anniversary of the first lockdown drawing nearer.\n\nA further reopening of schools is a priority but will not happen before 15 March.\n\nEaster holidays are unlikely to be allowed at home or abroad. The same will probably apply to overseas holidays this summer.\n\nWhy all this caution when the vaccination programme is now progressing at pace?\n\nBecause, at this stage, ministers remain nervous that opening up too quickly could mean losing control of the virus again in the wider population.\n\nThey are desperate to avoid a third lockdown later in the year.\n\nA return to local protection levels should form part of the exit plan to be announced next week.\n\nBut expect the restrictions associated with each level to be tighter than before, given this system was overwhelmed as autumn turned to winter last year.\n\nThe first pupils to return to schools will be those in preschools, those in P1, P2 and P3, and \"a limited number of senior phase students who need access to school for essential practical work\".\n\nMinisters hope to set out second phase of schools reopening in two weeks time, but Ms Sturgeon said there was \"unlikely to be any further return to school before 15 March\" so that the impact of the initial changes can be assessed.\n\nShe said at-home testing sets would be provided to senior phase pupils, teachers and school staff once they do return, and that secondary pupils would have to maintain a 2m distance in school buildings.\n\nPlans for the \"gradual\" easing of the strict stay at home lockdown are set to include a return to a regional levels system.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"caution will be necessary\", and that she would be clear about what will not be possible in the immediate future - including holidays.\n\nShe said: \"We are likely to advise against booking Easter holidays, either overseas or within Scotland, as it is highly unlikely that we will have been able to fully open hotels of self-catering accommodation by then.\n\n\"However, for the summer, while it is still highly unlikely that overseas holidays will be possible or advisable, staycations might be - but this will depend on the data nearer the time.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said it was \"very welcome news\" that schools could start opening again safely.\n\nHowever she said that \"to get us even closer to normality, we need to get all key workers vaccinated as early as we can\", saying government plans were \"short on detail\".\n\nAnd she urged the Scottish government to publish its plans for helping pupils to catch-up with the schooling they have missed, which she said should be built around a tutoring service to stop the attainment gap growing.\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie also challenged Ms Sturgeon over the vaccine rollout, urging the first minister to commit to more ambitious targets for completing priority groups.", "Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the 71-year-old billionaire ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates.\n\nIn the Middle East, he is renowned for overseeing the transformation of Dubai into a top business and tourism destination. Elsewhere, he is perhaps best known for his connection to horseracing, as the owner of the Godolphin stables.\n\nOne of his daughters, Princess Latifa, has now made headlines after secret videos recorded by her in captivity have been obtained and released by the BBC's Panorama. Latifa made the videos while being held under her father's orders in Dubai in a barred villa.\n\nSheikh Mohammed was born in 1949 at his family home in Shindagha, near Dubai Creek. He was the third of the four sons of Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum, who ruled Dubai for 32 years from 1958.\n\nAfter finishing secondary school in 1965, Sheikh Mohammed moved to the UK to study English at a language school in Cambridge. The young sheikh later attended a six-month training court at the British Army's Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, Hampshire.\n\nIn 1968, following his return to Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed accompanied his father to a meeting with the then ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, at which they agreed to a union that would lead to the establishment of a federation of emirates.\n\nAfter the UAE gained independence from the UK in 1971, Sheikh Mohammed was named defence minster - a position he still holds.\n\nSheikh Mohammed also became heavily involved in his father's plan to compensate for Dubai's dwindling oil reserves by diversifying its economy and becoming an international trade and financial centre, as well as a tourist destination.\n\nToday, more than 95% of the emirate's gross domestic product is non-oil-based, with tourism contributing 20%.\n\nDubai's population has also grown from about 40,000 in the 1960s to 3.3 million, including almost 3.1 million non-Emiratis, many of whom live in the hundreds of high-rise buildings filling its skyline.\n\nIn 1990, Sheikh Rashid died after a long illness resulting from a stroke. He was succeeded by Mohammed's eldest brother, Maktoum.\n\nFive years later, Sheikh Maktoum named Mohammed crown prince of Dubai. He also handed over much of the day-to-day running of the emirate to him.\n\nSheikh Mohammed succeeded his elder brother Sheikh Maktoum (left) as Dubai's ruler in 2006\n\nSheikh Mohammed became ruler of Dubai and vice-president and prime minister of the UAE in 2006, after his brother died aged 62 during a visit to Australia.\n\nIn 2008, the emirate unveiled the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa; Dubai Mall, then world's largest shopping centre by total land area; and the Dubai Metro.\n\nSuch ambitious projects were, however, reliant on borrowing billions of dollars.\n\nThe global financial crisis caused Dubai's real estate market to crash and in 2009 state-linked companies came close to defaulting on their debts. Abu Dhabi stepped in and loaned the Dubai government the money it desperately needed.\n\nDubai's construction boom also relied on low-paid migrant construction workers, many of whom complained that they suffered exploitation.\n\nSheikh Mohammed has also become famous for his involvement in horseracing, and is credited with transforming it into a global industry.\n\nHe rode horses on beaches in Dubai as a child and was introduced to the sport in 1967 in the UK. Ten years later, he enjoyed his first success as an owner.\n\nThe sheikh subsequently set up the world's largest horseracing team, Godolphin, as well as the successful stallion breeding operation, Darley.\n\nGodolphin - which has facilities in the UAE, England, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Japan and the US - has won 6,000 races across the world since 1992, including 315 prestigious Group One races.\n\nSheikh Mohammed frequently attends major horseracing events such as Royal Ascot, where he has been pictured with Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe sheikh shared a love of horses with his sixth and \"junior\" wife, Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and half-sister of King Abdullah II. The pair married in Amman in 2004 and had two children, Al Jalila and Zayed.\n\nPrincess Haya painted a picture of a perfect family life in interviews, but cracks began to appear in 2018 when Princess Latifa, one of Sheikh Mohammed's adult daughters with another wife, tried to flee the UAE with the help of a former French spy and a Finnish fitness instructor.\n\nA boat carrying them was intercepted at sea off the coast of India and Latifa was returned to Dubai. In a video filmed beforehand, she alleged that she had been imprisoned for more than three years and subjected to physical abuse after another unsuccessful escape attempt in 2002.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNow, new videos made by Latifa have been released after being obtained by the BBC's investigative current affairs programme, Panorama.\n\nThe footage was recorded over several months by Latifa after she had been taken back to Dubai following her failed escape in 2018. They were made using a phone that was secretly given to her by friends who are campaigning for her freedom.\n\nIn the videos, she describes how she fought back against the soldiers during her capture, before being tranquillised and flown back to Dubai. She said she was being held alone without access to medical or legal help in a villa with windows and doors barred shut, and guarded by police. The secret messages have since stopped, leading her friends to urge the UN to step in.\n\nAfter the 2018 escape attempt, Princess Haya had backed claims by the Dubai government that Latifa had been \"vulnerable to exploitation\" and was \"now safe\". But after fleeing Dubai for the UK via Germany along with their children in April 2019, sources alleged that she had become aware of new information relating to Latifa.\n\nSheikh Mohammed did not comment on the breakdown of his marriage, but he did write an angry poem accusing an unnamed woman of \"treachery and betrayal\" and posted it on Instagram.\n\nIn July 2019, Haya applied for a forced marriage protection order and a non-molestation order at the UK High Court in London - as well as wardship of their children. Sheikh Mohammed meanwhile applied for the children's return to Dubai.\n\nEight months later, the High Court issued a series of fact-finding judgements that said Sheikh Mohammed had ordered and orchestrated the forcible return of Latifa in 2002 and 2018, as well as the unlawful abduction of her elder sister Princess Shamsa in 2000.\n\nShamsa fled the family's UK estate in Surrey that year but was later recaptured in Cambridgeshire by agents of the sheikh and forcibly returned to Dubai. A request by Cambridgeshire Police to visit Dubai to investigate was refused.\n\nThe court found that Sheikh Mohammed \"continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty\".\n\nIt also said Haya, who'd had an adulterous affair with a bodyguard, was now living in fear of her life after receiving numerous threats both in Dubai and in London. These included a pistol placed on her pillow.\n\nSheikh Mohammed rejected the judgements and findings, and appealed unsuccessfully to keep them out of the public domain.\n\nHe said the appeal was \"made to protect the best interests and welfare of the children\" and that the \"outcome does not protect my children from media attention in the way that other children in family proceedings in the UK are protected\".\n\n\"As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the court's fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release of a 'fact-finding' judgment which inevitably only tells one side of the story,\" he added.\n• None BBC Two - Escape from Dubai- The Mystery of the Missing Princess", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government is not planning for domestic vaccine passports, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi says\n\nA combination of rapid testing and the Covid vaccination programme will help entertainment venues to reopen in England, the vaccines minister says.\n\nNadhim Zahawi said it was those measures which would get \"our economy back on its feet\".\n\nHis comments come after the PM said \"rapid\" lateral flow tests could be used by \"those parts of the economy we couldn't get open last year\".\n\nIndustry bosses have queried whether using rapid tests would be practical.\n\nSome venues such as nightclubs have been unable to open since March 2020, while others like theatres and cinemas have struggled to make social distancing work.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Zahawi said: \"It's a combination of rapid testing as well as a national vaccination programme that will get our economy back on its feet and venues open again.\"\n\nHe said that the government favoured testing over vaccine passports as a means to reopening the economy, since it was not yet clear whether a vaccinated individual could still transmit the virus.\n\nMr Zahawi described preliminary evidence on the effect of vaccines on coronavirus transmission as \"really encouraging\", but said the full data might not be available for weeks.\n\n\"We have a couple of very large-scale studies related to giving us better data on the vaccines,\" he said. \"We should be able to see really good data in the next few weeks from those studies.\"\n\nHe added that the government would be \"data driven, rather than date driven\" when it comes to relaxing lockdown measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How theatres are changing in the age of coronavirus\n\nBoris Johnson is due to set out a road map on 22 February for easing the lockdown in England.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street briefing, the prime minister said lateral flow tests, along with vaccination, would \"probably be the route forward\" to reopening the economy.\n\nLateral flow tests give a result in 20-30 minutes - unlike the more expensive PCR tests used by NHS Test and Trace which need to be taken to a lab to be processed.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said asking all customers to have a rapid test and then to wait 30 minutes for a result would be \"impractical\" and in many instances add a \"50% uplift on their cinema ticket\".\n\nIts chief executive, Phil Clapp, said he was not aware of any of its members considering rapid testing or vaccine passports \"as a viable way forward for the return to cinema\".\n\nHe added that he believed cinemas offered a \"materially different environment than nightclubs or music venues\".\n\nKate Nicholls, the chief executive of trade association UKHospitality, said the organisation would be \"keen to understand\" the government's plans for mass lateral flow testing in the community and workplaces.\n\nShe also said the industry body stood ready to work with ministers on \"a risk-assessed approach to be applied on a voluntary basis where proportionate, pragmatic and necessary\".\n\nMichael Kill, the boss of the Night Time Industries Association, welcomed the PM's comments, saying: \"Finally we have some acknowledgement from the prime minister and government on the existence of late-night economy businesses, including nightclubs, theatres, casinos and late bars, particularly as they are some of the hardest hit since the start of the pandemic.\"\n\nHowever, he told the BBC that administering rapid tests would not be straightforward.\n\nHe said professionals would be required to administer swab tests outside the venue, which would force venues to stagger admissions and have procedures in place to deal with positive cases and those who they came into contact with.\n\nSacha Lord, who co-founded Manchester's Parklife Festival, said the events sector had been calling for on-site rapid testing for more than five months, and any further delay to implementing such initiatives would do \"irreversible\" damage to the UK's cultural sector.\n\n\"My fear is that they take another five months to get moving, which the industry simply doesn't have,\" he said.\n\nThe UK recorded a further 10,625 new infections on Tuesday, down 14% from 12,364 last Tuesday. There were also another 799 deaths within 28 days of a positive test - down 24% from 1,052 last Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, people arriving in England who are required to quarantine in a hotel face an additional £1,200 bill if they test positive for coronavirus, the government has said.This is on top of the £1,750 cost for the entering the quarantine hotel programme and will apply to guests forced to extend their stay beyond the initial 11 nights.\n\nThe information was published on the government's website on Monday, the day the new rules came into force for arrivals who have been in a high-risk Covid country.\n\nWest Midlands Police have fined four passengers £10,000 for failing to declare they had travelled from a \"red-list\" country.", "Dramatic new details have come to light about the extraordinary kidnapping and secretive detention of Princess Latifa.\n\nIt has been many months since Tiina Jauhiainen last heard from her friend.\n\nPrincess Latifa, imprisoned in Dubai after attempting a daring escape, had kept in touch with her for some time using a secret phone.\n\nBut all of a sudden, the contact stopped.\n\nWhen Tiina last saw Latifa, they had lain on the deck of a yacht gazing at the stars, travelling across the Indian Ocean.\n\nIt was February 2018, and they had embarked on a risky plan to get Latifa out of Dubai and start a new life abroad.\n\nThe princess is one of 25 children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.\n\nThe sheikh has transformed the emirate into a glittering city, a place people flock to for business, and the playground of the region. But for Emirati women, the laws and customs can make life very restrictive.\n\n\"I'm not allowed to drive, I'm not allowed to travel or leave Dubai at all,\" Latifa said in a video recorded just before her escape.\n\n\"I haven't left the country since 2000. I've been asking a lot to just go travelling, to study, to do anything normal. They don't let me. I need to leave.\"\n\nSitting in Tiina's apartment, Latifa spoke cheerfully of what was to come.\n\n\"I'm feeling positive about the future. I don't know how I'll feel just waking up in the morning and thinking I can do whatever I want today. I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\nThe princess had no access to her passport and was under surveillance, so they had to slip out of Dubai and drive to the coast of Oman. It took hours for them to get out to international waters, riding a dinghy and jet ski. By the evening they reached the yacht which was supposed to carry them to freedom.\n\nPrincess Latifa and Tiina Jauhiainen on the first leg of their journey in 2018\n\nThey planned to sail across the Indian Ocean, and then fly to the United States where Latifa could try to claim political asylum.\n\nBut eight days later, as the coast of India neared, the escape went horribly wrong.\n\nArmed men boarded the boat. The friends hid in the bathroom until smoke grenades forced them up to the deck.\n\n\"Latifa was screaming and kicking. She kept saying 'don't take me back to the UAE. Just shoot me here',\" Tiina said. It was the last time she saw her friend.\n\nIn her later videos, released only now, Latifa gives a vivid account of the storming of the yacht.\n\n\"I was fighting, and this guy came with a small pouch and he took out the needle and he injected me in my arm.\"\n\nLatifa says she was then transferred to an Indian military ship.\n\n\"The commandos carried me through this corridor, and to a big room, and there was in front of me like maybe four or five generals.\n\n\"I'm repeating to them 'my name's Latifa al Maktoum'.\n\n\"I don't want to go Dubai, I want to get asylum. I was in international waters, you should let me go.\"\n\nHer pleas fell on deaf ears, and she says she was then manhandled by an Emirati commando.\n\n\"He grabs me. Lifts me up. Kicking and fighting, he's much bigger than me. So I see that his sleeve is rolled up and arm exposed. I had one shot. Bit as hard as I can, and shake my head. And he screamed.\"\n\nShe says she was tranquilised and flown back to Dubai.\n\n\"I just felt really sad at that point. I felt everything I was working on for so many years to get my freedom was gone. And I've been here ever since, by myself, so solitary confinement. No access to medical help, no trial, no charge, nothing.\"\n\nTiina was taken back to the UAE with the yacht's crew, where she was detained for two weeks. Then she began telling the story to the international media. She formed the campaign group Free Latifa and took the princess's case to the United Nations.\n\nBut as the months passed, she heard nothing from Latifa.\n\nThen one day in early 2019, while she was visiting family in Finland, she got a message from a stranger.\n\nFirst she had to answer security questions. Years earlier, Tiina had taught Latifa capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. Now the stranger wanted to know Latifa's capoeira nickname.\n\nSoon Tiina was able to get a phone to the princess directly.\n\n\"When I first heard her voice, I was crying. I couldn't help it. It was very, very emotional.\"\n\nLatifa was able to start recording video messages. What they reveal is shocking.\n\nThe princess, now 35, appears in the corner of her bathroom, speaking in a fragile whisper.\n\n\"I'm doing this video from a bathroom, because this is the only room with a door I can lock. I'm a hostage. I am not free. I'm enslaved in this jail. My life is not in my hands.\"\n\nPale and puffy, she has spent three years with little access to sunlight.\n\n\"I am in a villa, and this villa has been converted into jail. All the windows are barred shut. There's five policemen outside and two policewomen inside the house. And I can't even go outside to get any fresh air.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Latifa imprisoned against her will in \"villa jail\"\n\nThe villa is just metres from the beach, in a luxury neighbourhood.\n\n\"We shouldn't pretend that just because it's a villa, it's fine\", the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth, says.\n\n\"This woman is imprisoned. It's basically solitary confinement except for her jailers. Solitary confinement of that sort is broadly considered to be a form of torture, as it becomes prolonged in the way this has right now.\"\n\nThe fear is palpable in Latifa's videos. There is a constant urgency and a desperation in her voice.\n\n\"Every day I am worried about my safety and my life. I don't really know if I'm going to survive this situation. The police threatened me that I'll be in prison my whole life and I'll never see the sun again. So I'm not safe here.\"\n\nBut despite the risk that she would be caught with the secret phone, she began to calmly and methodically document her extraordinary story.\n\n\"For me it's simple, it's like, am I free or am I not free? So ok, the world is going to know that I'm not free. Anybody who cares is going to know that I'm not free, and I'm not going to go along with their propaganda. That's just how I am.\"\n\nThe sheikh has said that he considers Latifa's return to Dubai a rescue mission.\n\nIn December 2018, after Latifa had been missing for nine months, the UAE was facing pressure. The United Nations had requested proof of life - or it would go public with concerns that the princess might have died.\n\n\"She said to me it would be like a test, to see how you will react around people after being in prison for so long,\" says Latifa in one video. \"And if you act well, you react well, you're going to be out in a few days.\"\n\nUnbeknown to Latifa, Princess Haya had been spun an elaborate lie, that Latifa had bipolar disorder and was vulnerable to exploitation. To help prove to the UN that all was well with Latifa, Haya called a friend, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.\n\nOn 15 December 2018, Mary Robinson flew to Dubai where she says Haya and her officials briefed her about Latifa's supposed \"medical condition\". She agreed to help contact the UN.\n\nLatifa, meanwhile, was kept in the dark. Over the lunch they discussed the environment, skydiving, and Mary Robinson's upcoming book.\n\n\"We never discussed me. We never discussed my case,\" Latifa says. She had no idea that Robinson was a former UN Human Rights Commissioner.\n\nMary Robinson told us that she did not question Latifa about the video or her escape, or ask to meet with her one-on-one.\n\n\"I didn't know how to address somebody who was bipolar. I really didn't actually want to talk to her and increase the trauma over a nice lunch.\"\n\nBut Robinson did allow photographs to be taken of Latifa which she agreed to send on to the UN. Robinson says she believed these were private photographs and that she was stunned when the UAE released them to the world nine days later.\n\nAfter the lunch Latifa was taken back to her prison villa. \"It was all a set up. It was like they tricked me,\" Latifa says. Nothing changed for the missing princess.\n\nBut for her stepmother Princess Haya, there was an extraordinary development.\n\n\"Relatively shortly afterwards,\" recalls Robinson, \"I got a call from Haya, saying 'Mary, I am in London. I have just come to London with my two children. I have come in the clothes we were in because I am so fearful. We were wrong. I have found out a lot.'\"\n\nHaya later said that the sheikh did not welcome her interest in Latifa and that he became progressively more hostile to her. By April 2019, she says that she believed her position in Dubai was unsafe. On 15 April, she fled to the UK.\n\nNow confronted with the escape of one of his wives as well as two more children, the Sheikh began a High Court battle to have the children returned to Dubai. But he got more than he bargained for.\n\nIn March 2020, a High Court judgement revealed further details about his treatment of his adult daughters. Eighteen years earlier, a second daughter, Shamsa, had been abducted in the UK and returned to Dubai, where she has been captive ever since. The judgement laid out the full story, for the first time, of how the sheikh's agents had tracked her down in Cambridge, and flown her back.\n\nThe judge also found that Haya had been intimidated and Latifa had been abducted and imprisoned - and that the sheikh had not been honest and open with the court.\n\nFor Tiina, this was a breakthrough. \"I thought that would have been something that could have quickly led to her release.\"\n\nBut once again, little changed for Latifa in her prison in Dubai.\n\n\"It's almost like, what do we need to get her free? It's sad. It's very very sad,\" says Tiina.\n\nAlone in her villa in Dubai, Latifa followed the case and maintained daily contact with her friend, along with her UK-based maternal cousin Marcus and Free Latifa co-founder David Haigh. What had begun as concise, factual video recordings evidencing her situation had turned into lengthy text chats.\n\n\"The phone meant a lot, it was a lifeline,\" says Marcus.\n\nLatifa was now in her third year of imprisonment and solitary confinement.\n\n\"Every day was a struggle for her, and you could hear that in her voice. I know she was tired, I know her health was not the best,\" says Marcus.\n\nBut then one day, the contact stopped just as dramatically as it had begun.\n\nNow, many months later, Tiina, David and Marcus have taken the decision to release some of Latifa's videos in the hope they will help pressure the sheikh to release her.\n\n\"We haven't taken this decision lightly, there's been some sleepless nights thinking about this\", Tiina says.\n\n\"But it's time to do something. I feel that she would want us to fight for her, and not give up.\n\nThe governments of Dubai and the UAE have said that Latifa is safe in the loving care of her family.\n\nTiina is consumed by fear for her friend.\n\n\"Initially, I thought maybe she had problems with her phone. I was hoping she would reappear. I didn't want to believe it,\" says Tiina.\n\nBut then it dawned on her that Latifa was not coming back.\n\n\"We are extremely worried about her well-being,\" she says. \"If we assume that she was caught with the phone, her conditions now are probably a lot worse.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe daughter of Dubai's ruler who tried to flee the country in 2018 later sent secret video messages to friends accusing her father of holding her \"hostage\" as she feared for her life.\n\nIn footage shared with BBC Panorama, Princess Latifa Al Maktoum says commandos drugged her as she fled by boat and flew her back to detention.\n\nThe secret messages have stopped - and friends are urging the UN to step in.\n\nDubai and the UAE have previously said she is safe in the care of family.\n\nEx-UN rights envoy Mary Robinson, who had described Latifa as a \"troubled young woman\" after meeting her in 2018, now says she was \"horribly tricked\" by the princess's family.\n\nThe former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and president of Ireland has joined calls for international action to establish Latifa's current condition and whereabouts.\n\n\"I continue to be very worried about Latifa. Things have moved on. And so I think it should be investigated,\" she said.\n\nDubai's Princess Latifa before her escape attempt in 2018\n\nLatifa's father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is one of the richest heads of state in the world, the ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\nThe videos were recorded over several months on a phone Latifa was secretly given about a year after her capture and return to Dubai. She recorded them in a bathroom as it had the only door she could lock.\n\nIn the messages, she detailed how:\n\nTiina Jauhiainen, Latifa's fitness instructor, helped her with the escape plan\n\nLatifa's account of her capture and detention was revealed to Panorama by her close friend Tiina Jauhiainen, maternal cousin Marcus Essabri and campaigner David Haigh, who are all behind the Free Latifa campaign.\n\nThey say they have taken the difficult decision to release the messages now out of concern for Latifa's safety.\n\nIt was they who managed to establish contact with Latifa as she was held in a Dubai \"villa\", which she said had barred windows and police guards.\n\nPanorama has independently verified the details of where Latifa was held.\n\nThe Missing Princess is on BBC One in the UK on Tuesday at 20:30, or watch it later on BBC iPlayer\n\nSheikh Mohammed has built a hugely successful city but rights activists say there is no tolerance of dissent and the judicial system can discriminate against women.\n\nHe has a vast horse-racing enterprise and frequently attends major events such as Royal Ascot, where he has been pictured with Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nQueen Elizabeth in 2019 with Sheikh Mohammed, second from right, who regularly attends horse racing events\n\nBut he has faced severe criticism over Princess Latifa and also her stepmother, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussain, who fled to London in 2019 with her two children.\n\nLatifa, now 35, first tried to flee at 16 but it was only after contacting French businessman Herve Jaubert in 2011 that a long-planned escape was put into motion. This was done with the help of Ms Jauhiainen, initially her instructor for capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.\n\nOn 24 February 2018, Latifa and Ms Jauhiainen took an inflatable boat and jet ski to international waters, where Mr Jaubert was waiting in a US flagged yacht.\n\nBut eight days later, off India, the boat was boarded by commandos. Ms Jauhiainen says smoke grenades forced her and Latifa out of hiding in the bathroom below deck and they were held at gunpoint.\n\nLatifa was returned to Dubai, and hadn't been heard from since until now.\n\nMs Jauhiainen and the crew on the boat were freed after two weeks of detention in Dubai. The Indian government has never commented on its role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBefore her 2018 escape attempt, Latifa recorded another video which was posted on YouTube after her capture. \"If you are watching this video, it's not such a good thing, either I'm dead or I'm in a very, very, very bad situation,\" she said.\n\nIt was this that sparked huge international concern and calls for her release. The UAE came under intense pressure to account for her and a meeting was arranged with Ms Robinson.\n\nShe flew to Dubai in December 2018 at the request of her friend, Princess Haya, for a lunch at which Latifa was also present.\n\nMs Robinson told Panorama she and Princess Haya had earlier been presented with details of Latifa's bipolar disorder, a condition she does not have.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former UN official Mary Robinson says she was \"horribly tricked\" in the Dubai princess scandal\n\nShe said she did not ask Latifa about her situation because she did not want to \"increase the trauma\" of Latifa's \"condition\".\n\nNine days after the lunch, the UAE's foreign ministry published photographs of Ms Robinson with Latifa, which it said was proof that the princess was safe and well.\n\nMs Robinson said: \"I was particularly tricked when the photographs went public. That was a total surprise... I was absolutely stunned.\"\n\nIn 2019, the tensions within Dubai's ruling family were laid bare before England's High Court after one of the sheikh's wives, Princess Haya, fled to the UK with two of her children and applied for a protection order and non-molestation order against the sheikh.\n\nPrincess Haya (left) arrives with Baroness Fiona Shackleton her lawyer, at the High Court in February 2020\n\nLast year, the High Court issued a series of fact-finding judgments that said Sheikh Mohammed had ordered and orchestrated the forcible return of Latifa in 2002 and 2018, as well as the unlawful abduction from the UK in 2000 of her older sister Princess Shamsa, who had also tried to escape.\n\nThe court found Sheikh Mohammed \"continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty\".\n\nLatifa's friends had hoped that the court case in March last year that ruled against Sheikh Mohammed, calling him \"not honest\" and in favour of Princess Haya, might help.\n\nOn the decision to release the messages now, Ms Jauhiainen just says that \"a lot of time has passed\" since contact was lost.\n\nShe says she thought hard about releasing the video messages now, but adds: \"I feel that she would want us to fight for her, and not give up.\"\n\nThe governments of Dubai and the UAE have failed to respond to requests for comment from the BBC about Latifa's current condition.", "Ex-military personnel dismissed from the armed forces because of their sexuality can now reclaim lost medals.\n\nUnder a new scheme to remedy historical injustices, former service personnel can apply to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to restore honours.\n\nIt follows Falklands veteran Joe Ousalice's successful battle to return awards he lost after being forced out of the Royal Navy for being bisexual.\n\nThe MoD said its past actions were \"deeply regrettable\".\n\nA ban on lesbian, gay, and bisexual people serving in the armed forces was lifted in 2000. Transgender people were officially allowed to openly serve in 2014.\n\nDefence minister Baroness Goldie explained that, due to disciplinary action and subsequent dismissal, some service personnel \"forfeited medals that they had earned\" or lost out on long service awards.\n\n\"I am very pleased now to be in a position to address this wrong and to invite any personnel affected or, in some circumstances, the families of those who are deceased to apply to have their medals returned,\" she said.\n\nMr Ousalice, from Southampton, led a campaign to restore the Long Service and Good Conduct medal and three Good Conduct badges he gave up after his 18-year service as a radio operator ended in his dismissal in 1993.\n\nJoe Ousalice - highlighted - won back medals he lost after being dismissed from the Royal Navy for being bisexual\n\nHe was dismissed because his sexuality was believed at the time to be \"prejudicial to good order and naval discipline\".\n\nRecalling his experience to the BBC last year, Mr Ousalice said he felt as though he was living \"a double life\".\n\n\"I had to be careful about what I said and did, and where I went. Basically, I wasn't living my own life,\" he said.\n\n\"They cut [the medal] off my chest with a big pair of scissors.\"\n\nIt is not known how many LGBT service personnel the ban affected, or the number who may now be eligible to have awards restored.\n\nLabour's shadow armed forces minister Stephen Morgan said the announcement was an \"important step towards justice\" for those dismissed from the army because of their sexuality.\n\nHe called on ministers to consider restoring ranks, pensions and other forms of compensation to \"appropriately honour those who have served our country with courage and distinction\".\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer urged anyone who might be eligible to apply and said the announcement \"demonstrates that the military is a positive place to work for all who choose to serve\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LGBT Falklands veteran on his fight for medals to be restored\n\nEach application will be reviewed by the defence council, with the MoD's medal office arranging new honours to be awarded to those who are successful.\n\nRelatives of former personnel affected by the LGBT ban but who have since died will also be able to make applications for a review.", "Fake reviews for products sold on Amazon's Marketplace are being sold online \"in bulk\", according to Which?\n\nThe consumer group found 10 websites selling fake reviews from £5 each and incentivising positive reviews in exchange for payment or free products.\n\nIt suggested the firm was facing an \"uphill struggle\" against a \"widespread fake reviews industry\".\n\nAn Amazon spokesman said: \"We remove fake reviews and take action against anyone involved in abuse.\"\n\nThe retail giant's Marketplace allows other retailers to sell their goods via the Amazon website.\n\nWhich? identified websites offering review services for goods for sale on Amazon Marketplace that violated the firm's terms and conditions.\n\nThese included \"packages\" of fake reviews available for sellers to buy for about £15 individually, as well as bulk packages starting at £620 for 50 reviews and going up to £8,000 for 1,000.\n\nThe group also suggested that five of the businesses it looked at had more than 702,000 \"product reviewers\" on their books.\n\nProduct reviewers are offered small payments ranging from a few pounds up to more than £10, alongside free or discounted products. They can even take part in \"loyalty schemes\" and earn themselves premium goods, from children's toys to exercise equipment.\n\nThe websites Which? reviewed also offered advice on how to write reviews so as not to arouse Amazon's suspicion, and in some cases had criteria for reviewers to meet to qualify for rewards, it said. They included leaving reviews that were at least two sentences long, or including photos, for example.\n\nNatalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?, called on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to look into the sale of fake reviews urgently.\n\n\"The regulator must crack down on bad actors and hold sites to account if they fail to keep their users safe,\" she said.\n\n\"If it is unable to do so, the government must urgently strengthen online consumer protections.\"\n\nA previous investigation by the consumer group found dozens of Facebook groups with sellers offering refunds or commissions in exchange for fake, favourable reviews.\n\nIt led to Facebook and eBay signing agreements with the CMA to \"better identify, investigate and respond to fake and misleading reviews\".\n\nBut Ms Hitchins said: \"Amazon, and other online platforms, must do more to proactively prevent fake reviews infiltrating their sites so that consumers can trust the integrity of their reviews.\"\n\nAn Amazon spokesman pointed out that it worked with other tech firms to \"report bad actors\", but added that online retailers \"cannot do this alone\".\n\nHe said that customers need to be able to trust the reviews they see online and that more enforcement powers should be given to regulators such as the CMA.\n\nAs demand for online shopping grew at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the UK regulator launched a review into how different websites detect and respond to fake and misleading reviews.\n\nThe authority warned last May it would \"not hesitate\" to take action if sites were disobeying the law.\n\nThat could include taking major retailers to court, although it did not name the specific websites it would be investigating.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February, 60,000 tonnes slipped down the hillside at Tylorstown\n\nAlmost 300 old coal tips in Wales have been classed as \"high-risk\" a year on from a 60,000 tonne landslip caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nThe matter was discussed at a Welsh Government summit on mine safety on Tuesday.\n\nWales has more than 2,000 coal tips. Most are on private land and most are around the south Wales valleys.\n\nOf those, 294 are categorised as \"high-risk\", meaning they could endanger life or property.\n\nSeventy are in Caerphilly, 64 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 59 in Merthyr Tydfil, 42 in Bridgend, 35 in Neath Port Talbot, 16 in Blaenau Gwent and eight in Swansea.\n\nThe landslip last year was at Tylorstown, in Rhondda. Since it happened, work has been done to map tips and assess their stability.\n\nCoal Authority boss Lisa Pinney said any old mining material on a hillside could pose a risk\n\nThe Welsh and UK governments, the Coal Authority, local councils and other bodies have been examining the problem.\n\nTheir investigation has concluded current legislation surrounding tips is \"neither sufficiently robust or fit for purpose in relation to inspection and maintenance\".\n\nCoal Authority chief executive, Lisa Pinney, said managing tips on hillsides was key to reducing risk to communities.\n\n\"Just under 300 are higher-risk sites but that really just means that they needed much more regular attention and inspection to make sure they stay safe,\" she said.\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said he feared local councils would be asked to pay to make tips safe\n\nShe said when there were concerns, action would be taken.\n\n\"Any tip which is old mining material sitting on a hillside can pose a risk, obviously, but the key thing to their safety is to manage water and keep it away,\" said Ms Pinney.\n\n\"And that's why these inspections and maintenance are so important.\"\n\nNo-one was hurt in the Tylorstown landslip and work is under way to secure the hillside.\n\n\"It's shocking that no proper register of disused coal tips was made when the mines closed, so this work is long overdue,\" he said.\n\n\"With so many on private land this is going to be a massive and complex piece of work in which Parliament and Senedd must work together.\n\nMore than 50 years after the Aberfan disaster hundreds of \"high-risk\" tips remain in Wales\n\n\"My biggest fear is [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak will demand that local councils pay for this out of their council tax but the poorest communities in the UK should not be forced to pay for tidying up our national industrial heritage.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru Member of the Senedd for Rhondda Leanne Wood said the UK government should foot the full bill for making the tips safe and anything less would be \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"When the profits from coal mining were not seen in Rhondda, nor in many other coalfield areas across Wales, coupled with the high cost to health and lives of the workers and their families, that funding and more is owed to us,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Conservative Janet Finch-Saunders said long-term work to make the tips safe could only be done in partnership with the UK government.\n\nCoalfield historian Ben Curtis said some tips were removed or made safe after the Aberfan disaster in 1966.\n\n\"But it is a potential problem that continues to remain for some of these tips to become unsafe over time, perhaps [because of] factors like the effects of climate change and increased rainfall,\" he said.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Ever since the devastating storms of early 2020, the UK government has been working with the Welsh Government on its devolved responsibility to provide extra support for flood relief and protection to the communities which were so badly affected.\n\n\"In December we confirmed that £31m would be provided for this vital work, of which £9m was to repair vulnerable coal tips.\n\n\"We also provided the Welsh Government with an additional £1.3bn for next year at the recent spending review so they are well placed to continue this work\"\n\nIn Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, 80 people had to leave their homes after flooding caused by water from a mine shaft\n\nThe summit - which was held virtually - was also due to discuss wider issues of mine safety after water escaped after building up in a mine shaft in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, flooding nearby homes in January.\n\n\"The coal tip is made up of what we call unconsolidated materials so this is loose material like grains of sugar, all stacked up on top of each other,\" Ashley Patton, an engineering geologist from the British Geological Survey said.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"When it gets to a certain angle it can make it unsafe and then when you get triggering factors, such as water from a spring line or from heavy rain that we've seen quite a lot of in south Wales, it can just make it destabilise.\n\n\"The main problem with south Wales is you've got lots of steep-sided valleys and then if you're going to put coal spoil on top of those steep slopes that's just going to make it more likely that it's going to fail...\n\n\"The most important thing is to take what we call the angle of friction so you're looking at what is the perfect angle for that material - so if you can cut it back to a shallower angle... generally speaking, it could be quite stable, and of course the other important thing is to make sure that the slopes are not sited on any spring lines or areas where farmers are putting water onto the slopes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Latifa’s older sister Shamsa escapes while on holiday with other members of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s family at their Surrey estate. The sheikh launches a search for her, but doesn’t inform the police – his men track her down in Cambridge over a month later. In an email to her solicitor, Shamsa says she was bundled into a car by four Arab men and driven to her father’s house in Newmarket, where she was injected and given tablets. The next morning, she is flown back to Dubai on a private plane.\n\nLatifa makes her first escape attempt aged 16. She tries to get across the border of UAE and Oman but is caught and brought back to Dubai, where she is jailed for three years and four months. She says she was kept in solitary confinement and tortured.\n\nLatifa meets Tiina Jauhiainen, a fitness instructor hired to teach her a Brazilian martial art called capoeira. They become close friends. Latifa’s movements are restricted - she’s not allowed to have a passport, drive or leave Dubai.\n\nLatifa contacts Herve Jaubert, a French businessman who years before had successfully escaped Dubai after being convicted in absentia of embezzlement. Over the next few years, they plan her escape in detail and Tiina Jauhiainen is enlisted as an aide and go-between.\n\nLatifa records a video documenting her life and plans. She calls it a “just in case” video and sends it to a group of trusted people with instructions to publish it if the escape fails. It details the restrictions she is under in Dubai, her first escape attempt and her plan to leave Dubai and claim asylum.\n\nLatifa and Ms Jauhiainen meet early in the morning and take a 26-mile trip by inflatable boat and jet ski to international waters, where Mr Jaubert is waiting in a US flagged yacht. They plan to head to India, from where Latifa hopes to fly to the United States and claim political asylum.\n\nEight days into the journey, just off the coast of India, the boat is boarded by Indian special forces. Latifa and Ms Jauhiainen hide in the bathroom, but smoke grenades make it hard for them to breathe and they make their way to the top of the deck, where they are held at gunpoint. Latifa is dragged off the boat. Ms Jauhiainen and the crew are detained in a high security facility in the UAE before being released two weeks later.\n\nThe anti-UAE pressure group Detained in Dubai release her video and Ms Jauhiainen begins to tell her story to the world.\n\nThe day before the release of a BBC documentary telling the story of Latifa’s escape attempt, the government of Dubai publishes a statement saying that Latifa and her sister Shamsa are “adored and cherished\" by the family. They say that Latifa is now \"safe in Dubai\" and is celebrating her birthday \"in privacy and peace”.\n\nThe UAE Foreign Ministry releases three photos of Latifa from a 15 December lunch with one of Sheikh Mohammed’s wives, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and Mary Robinson, a former UN human rights commissioner. This is the first time anyone has seen Latifa since the failed escape. Three days later, Mary Robinson appears on the BBC’s Today Programme where says she was asked to visit Latifa by Princess Haya. She describes Latifa as a “troubled young woman\" who is receiving \"psychiatric care.” She immediately receives pushback from the international human rights community and campaign groups accuse her of pedalling the “Dubai line”.\n\nLatifa in one of the secret videos she made Tiina Jauhiainen receives a message from a stranger claiming to be in contact with Latifa. After Ms Jauhiainen passes a number of security questions, she begins direct communication with Latifa and manages to get a phone to her. Latifa begins recording video messages in which she describes the conditions she is being kept in: solitary confinement, the windows barred shut and no daylight. In the months after they establish phone contact, Ms Jauhiainen, her lawyer David Haigh, and her maternal cousin Marcus Essabri have daily contact with Latifa.\n\nPrincess Haya with Sheikh Mohammed at Royal Ascot in 2010 On the 15 April, Princess Haya, the second “official wife” of Sheikh Mohammed, escapes Dubai to the UK with her two children, reportedly in fear of her life. Haya, who became the Sheikh’s sixth wife in April 2004, is his only spouse with a public profile, and is often seen with him at events around the world.\n\nSheikh Mohammed starts proceedings in the UK court to have his two children with Princess Haya returned to Dubai. Princess Haya applies for her children to become Wards of Court as well as a forced marriage protection order and non-molestation order.\n\nThe High Court in the UK releases a fact-finding judgment which finds that on the balance of probabilities, Sheikh Mohammed was responsible for the abduction and forced return of both Shamsa and Latifa to Dubai. The judge rules that the sheikh has waged a campaign of intimidation towards Haya and that he has not been open and honest with the court.\n\nDavid Haigh realises the messages to Latifa are not getting through. Contact with her is lost.\n\nIn her first interview since the pictures of her and Latifa were released in 2018, Mary Robinson says that Princess Haya and her were tricked by the sheikh, and that she is deeply worried about Latifa. She says she was blindsided when the UAE released the photographs of her and Latifa, and she admits that she regrets not seeing Latifa on her own, or asking her about her condition.\n\nUK police are passed a letter written by Latifa in 2019 urging them to re-investigate the kidnap of her sister Shamsa from a Cambridge street in August 2000. Cambridgeshire Police said the letter would be “looked at as part of the ongoing review” into the incident.", "England's vaccination programme is starting to pay off, with the over-80s age group now the most likely to test positive for coronavirus antibodies, Office for National Statistics testing suggests.\n\nBlood tests reveal more over-80s than any other age group in England are showing signs of some immunity against Covid infection.\n\nThis comes as Covid deaths have fallen.\n\nBut overall, deaths are still 40% above the five-year average.\n\nPeople have antibodies to Covid if they've had an infection in the last few months or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nPreviously, younger age groups who were more likely to be exposed to the virus were the most likely to test positive for antibodies.\n\nIn England, 41% of over-80s tested positive for antibodies, which the ONS said was \"most likely due to the high vaccination rate in this group\".\n\nTwo weeks ago that figure was 26%.\n\nIt takes two to three weeks for immunity to build after vaccination.\n\nThe next most likely to have antibodies against Covid in England were people aged 16-24 years - 26% of this age group had them, due to infection rather than vaccination.\n\nThis percentage has only increased a small amount in the past fortnight.\n\nIn the other three UK nations, which have jabbed a smaller proportion of their older people, antibody detection remained highest in younger groups.\n\nWales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have not published data for week-on-week comparisons.\n\nFalls in deaths are likely due to lockdown, but rising antibody levels offer hope of even better news to come.\n\nThese figures cover deaths registered in the first week of February, probably reflecting infections early in January.\n\nBack then, far fewer people had been vaccinated and, since it takes few weeks for the jab to yield antibodies, even fewer had been vaccinated early enough to get protection from Covid-19.\n\nSo lockdown was probably doing the heavy lifting.\n\nSince the first week of February, the news has improved further. Back then, the daily death toll was just under 1,000 a day. Now it's down to around 650.\n\nAnd there are hints, but only hints, that vaccination is starting to take some of the strain.\n\nMore and more people, especially over 80, are showing antibodies - a quarter by the middle of January and 40% by the start of February.\n\nThat figure will only rise. And some analyses suggest that deaths are falling fastest in older people.\n\nEven it's too soon to be sure that's a vaccination effect, it's not too soon to be hopeful that it might be.\n\nMeanwhile, there were 7,820 Covid deaths registered in the UK in the week to 5 February - a fall of more than a tenth from the previous week (9,010).\n\nThat puts all deaths for any reason 38% higher than the average for the same week over the past five years.\n\nThis is the first time there has been a real fall in deaths in the ONS data since the last lockdown, although it refers to a fortnight ago. The government figures published each day already show significant falls in deaths.\n\nDeaths involving Covid accounted for 43% of all mortality in England and Wales in the week to 5 February.\n\nThis means a doctor has judged it to be a factor and written it on a patient's death certificate.\n\nFor 90% of these deaths, Covid was the main underlying cause.", "People must be \"optimistic but patient\" about the coronavirus situation in the UK and the end to restrictions, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM hailed the vaccine rollout, but warned that now was not the time to \"relax\".\n\nHe said there were still more people in hospital than at the peak of the first wave, and steps taken to ease lockdown should be \"cautious but irreversible\".\n\nHe is to set out a roadmap next week for lifting England's restrictions.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that it had met its pledge to offer at least one Covid vaccine dose to everyone in the top four priority groups in the UK. More than 15 million people have received a first dose, according to the latest government figures.\n\nSpeaking at Monday's Downing Street briefing, Mr Johnson hailed the \"unprecedented national achievement\" of hitting the target, but warned the threat from the virus remained \"very real\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the government did not have all the \"hard facts\" about how the vaccine impacted infections and that there were still more people in hospital with Covid-19 than in April - with admissions running at 1,600 a day across the UK.\n\n\"We have to keep our foot to the floor,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said no decisions were being taken before he unveiled his roadmap for ending England's restrictions, but that the government wanted this lockdown \"to be the last\", with \"cautious but irreversible\" progress.\n\nHe added his plan next week would set out \"as much as we possibly can about the route to normality, even though some things are very uncertain\".\n\nAlthough he said he was \"increasingly optimistic\" he admitted he could not give \"an absolute cast-iron guarantee that we won't face further difficulties\".\n\n\"I don't want people to think I'm not optimistic. There's been a big change - science is now in the ascendency over the disease,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson also said the government was looking at introducing rapid lateral flow testing for venues such as nightclubs and some theatres that were unable to open last year.\n\n\"I think that, in combination with vaccination, will probably be the route forward,\" he said.\n\nMichael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association, said the \"acknowledgement\" would give late night businesses \"the opportunity to deliver pilot schemes which will substantiate the ability for this sector to open safely at the appropriate time\".\n\n\"But more importantly we will be able to plan and prepare for that opportunity,\" he added.\n\nCould this be the last lockdown?\n\nThat is, of course, a huge shared hope and the government's stated aim.\n\nIt will soon be exactly a year since the first lockdown was brought in.\n\nWho knew then that we'd be in a third period of national restrictions 12 months later?\n\nBoris Johnson has been accused, at times, of over-promising and under-delivering during this crisis.\n\nToday, again, he's urging caution - even as case rates fall and the vaccine rollout goes well.\n\nThat's because ministers really don't want to lift restrictions only to reimpose them again on a weary nation.\n\nIt comes after more than 60 Conservative MPs wrote to Mr Johnson over the weekend, calling for a commitment to a \"free life\" and the ending of lockdown measures before May.\n\nSteve Baker, the deputy chair of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Research Group (CRG) of Tory MPs leading the call, said schools should return on 8 March, hospitality should reopen by Easter and all other elements should be back to normal by 1 May - when all people in the top nine priority groups have been offered a vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: 'We want progress to be cautious but also irreversible'\n\nEarlier, No 10 said the intention was to \"start getting\" pupils back into school on 8 March, but was not ruling out the possibility that they could be sent back in stages.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said it was \"important\" the planned review of restrictions was carried out this week, with details to be set out in Mr Johnson's road map on Monday.\n\nThe spokesman said he would not \"pre-empt\" what the road map might contain, but added: \"It remains our priority to get kids back to school and we always said we want that to start from 8 March, if the science and evidence allows.\"\n\nThe government is hoping to offer a jab to everyone in the first nine priority groups - including everyone over the age of 50 - by the end of April, Mr Johnson said.\n\nThis would run alongside giving second doses within the 12-week window to those in the top four priority groups, who have already had a first dose.\n\nAll those aged between 16 and 64 with underlying health conditions, as well as adult carers, are being contacted with the offer of a vaccination.\n\nWith every day that passes, it becomes clearer and clearer that the UK is winning its fight against Covid.\n\nScience, as Boris Johnson said, is in the ascendancy.\n\nIt is easy to forget this virus only emerged just over a year ago.\n\nBut now the UK has approved three vaccines for use - two of which have already started to be rolled out at speed. Another two are being assessed by the regulator after promising trial results.\n\nThere is confidence the mutations, while presenting a challenge, can be overcome. Plans are already being made to update the vaccines if needed to work better against new variants.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and some people may choose not to take it. That's why advances in treatment are vital, too.\n\nA cheap steroid, dexamethasone, is being widely used to improve the survival rates of the sickest patients. And last week it emerged an arthritis drug, tocilizumab, could also further improve survival chances.\n\nThere is still a long way to go, but there is a cautious belief in both Westminster and among scientists that each step made from now on should be forward not back.\n\nSpeaking at the same Downing Street briefing, NHS England's chief executive Sir Simon Stevens described the vaccine rollout as \"two sprints and a marathon\".\n\nHe said the UK had passed the \"finishing line of the first sprint\" and now had a \"second sprint between now and 30 April\" to extend the vaccine rollout to higher risk groups.\n\nThe \"marathon\" will involve vaccinating everybody in the country who is eligible, alongside the winter flu campaign and further booster shots if needed, Sir Simon added.\n\nMeanwhile, on Monday, the UK recorded another 9,765 new coronavirus infections, according to the latest government figures. It is the first time the daily cases figure has been under 10,000 since 2 October.\n\nA further 230 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also recorded. Fewer deaths tend to be reported on Mondays due to a reporting lag over the weekend.", "The village of Bonmahon in County Waterford in the Republic of Ireland has been showered in sea foam.\n\nIt follows several days of high winds.", "Scientists have identified another new variant of coronavirus in the UK with some potentially troubling mutations.\n\nB.1.525 appears similar to the South African variant which prompted door-to-door tests in areas where it has been found.\n\nResearchers from Edinburgh University have found 38 cases so far - 2 in Wales and 36 in England - in samples dating back to December.\n\nIt has been seen in other countries, including Denmark, Nigeria and the US.\n\nUK experts are studying it to understand what risk it poses.\n\nIt is too soon to say if it should be added to the UK's list of \"variants of concern\" and whether mass testing for it should happen. So, for now, it is a \"variant under investigation\".\n\nProf Ravi Gupta, from the University of Cambridge, is one of the scientists advising the government on new and emerging virus threats.\n\nHe said B.1.525 appeared to have \"significant mutations\" already seen in some of the other new variants.\n\n\"That is partly reassuring because we can predict what their likely effect is.\"\n\nProf Yvonne Doyle from Public Health England (PHE) said: \"PHE is monitoring data about emerging variants very closely and where necessary public health interventions are being undertaken, such as extra testing and enhanced contact tracing.\n\n\"There is currently no evidence that this set of mutations causes more severe illness or increased transmissibility.\"\n\nOne of these changes B.1.525 has is a mutation called E484K - also found in the Brazil and South African variants - that may help the virus evade some of the body's immune system defences.\n\nOther alterations make it similar to the UK 'Kent' variant that experts say is more contagious than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nThe concern is that the virus is changing in ways that could let it easily spread and escape from the vaccines that we already have to fight Covid.\n\nCurrent ones were designed around earlier versions of coronavirus, but scientists believe they should still work against the new variants being seen now, although perhaps not quite as well.\n\nProf Gupta and colleagues have been running tests in the lab and say mutations like E484K do represent a threat to vaccines.\n\nScientists are already working on new vaccines that are a better match for new variants, in case they are needed ahead of next winter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward, an expert in epidemiology at University College London, said: \"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be spreading any faster than other strains and it's still at very, very low levels.\n\n\"With all of these variants, we really need to be keeping a very close eye on them because we don't know what they will do.\"\n• None BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron: How worried should we be?\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. US plane engine fire: \"I just knew something was wrong\"\n\nA Boeing jet has scattered debris over a residential area near Denver after one of its engines failed on take-off.\n\nThe Boeing 777, with 231 passengers and 10 crew on board, was able to return safely and land at Denver airport. No injuries were reported.\n\nPolice in the town of Broomfield posted pictures of what appears to be the front of an engine casing in the front garden of a home.\n\nPassengers on board described a \"large explosion\" shortly after take-off.\n\nFlight 328, a United Airlines plane bound for Honolulu, suffered a failure in its right-hand engine, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.\n\nOne passenger who was on the flight told AP news agency that the pilot was giving an announcement when there was a loud explosion.\n\n\"The plane started shaking violently, and we lost altitude and we started going down,\" David Delucia said.\n\nHe added that he and his wife placed their wallets in their pockets so that \"in case we did go down, we could be ID'd\".\n\nImages posted online showed smoke trailing from the engine. One video apparently shot from inside the plane shows an engine on fire and stripped of its casing.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 13:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nBroomfield police urged residents not to touch or move the debris. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be carrying out an investigation.\n\nOne Broomfield resident told CNN he had seen the debris fall from the plane and took shelter with his children as it started coming down.\n\n\"We saw it go over, we heard the big explosion, we looked up, there was black smoke in the sky,\" Kieran Cain said. \"Debris started raining down, which you know, sort of looked like it was floating down and not very heavy, but actually now looking at it, it's giant metal pieces all over the place.\"\n\nIt is unclear what caused the engine to catch fire. Jet engine failures do not happen often, but they can be caused by a rotating part, such as a turbine blade, breaking off and piercing the outer cowling. The plane, a Boeing 777-200, was manufactured 26 years ago.\n\nOn the same day as the Denver incident, an engine failure on a 30-year-old Boeing 747 freighter saw debris fall on a town in the Netherlands. Parts of what appeared to be turbine blades landed on the town of Meerssen. Two people on the ground, one a child, were slightly injured.\n\nThe aircraft, which had left Maastricht bound for New York, landed safely in Liege in neighbouring Belgium.", "The Quay Centre community hub sits on the bank of the River Towy in Carmarthen\n\nRoads have been flooded and homes evacuated as heavy rain swept across Wales.\n\nSome areas of south Wales have seen a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, according to the Met Office.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said several homes in Newcastle Emlyn were evacuated because of the flooding risk but many residents chose to stay.\n\nA landslide shut the B4459 at Capel Dewi, Ceredigion, and flooding blocked the A483 in Builth Wells, Powys.\n\nThe Met Office has put an amber warning in place until 22:00 GMT on Saturday for 13 of Wales' 22 counties.\n\nThe forecaster has also issued yellow warnings for rain in western areas of Scotland as well as Cumbria and south-west England.\n\nIn Newcastle Emlyn residents were advised to move from their homes on Saturday afternoon although many chose to remain.\n\nCh Insp Jacqui Lovatt, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said: \"Those who decided not to leave were given appropriate safety advice - to move to the upper floor and that any valuables, essentials and food are taken upstairs.\"\n\nAn emergency rest centre in Llandysul was stood down but may reopen if needed.\n\nThe River Towy burst its banks in Carmarthen on Saturday\n\nParts of the Tywi Valley, near Capel Dewi in Carmarthenshire, were flooded\n\nThere was flooding across south and west Wales, causing problems for motorists\n\nNatural Resources Wales' (NRW) flood warnings cover several rivers, including the Usk in Crickhowell and Brecon.\n\nThe nearby Glanusk Estate said its livestock was being moved from fields to drier and higher land across the A40.\n\nThe worst of the weather could affect rivers in south and mid Wales, NRW warned.\n\nAt one point on Saturday, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued 35 flood warnings with 12 in England, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThe River Usk has burst its banks, affecting roads in Crickhowell and nearby Llangattock in Powys\n\nFlood warnings are also in place on the River Usk in Brecon\n\nIn Wales, 27 flood warnings were issued at one point, including on the River Wye at Builth Wells, the River Cynon at Mountain Ash and Abercynon, and River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie.\n\nThere were also warnings issued on the River Towy at Carmarthen Quay and between Llandeilo and Abergwili.\n\nOther flood warnings covered the River Teifi at Newcastle Emlyn, Cenarth, Llechryd and Llandysul.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, NRW also added a flood warning covering the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThe River Taff at Pontypridd had swelled due to the heavy rain\n\nThe River Cynin bursts its banks at St Clears\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nSenior meteorologist Marco Petagna said 5in (127.6mm) of rain fell at Llyn-y-Fan, Carmarthenshire, between 06:00 on Friday and 08:00 on Saturday, and 4.5in (115mm) at Treherbert in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThat compares to an average rainfall of 3.9in (98mm) for the whole of February in south Wales, which he said was more than a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.\n\nThe Met Office warning said up to 2.7in (70mm) of rain was widely expected across the area covered by the amber warning, but the south and south west could expect to see 5.9in (15cm) \"quite widely\".\n\nIt had warned 8in (20cm) of rain could fall on the highest ground of south Wales.\n\nThere is a flood warning in place for the River Usk in Brecon\n\nBlaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea and Torfaen are all covered by the amber warning.\n\nA yellow warning - which means the weather is likely to have some impact - is in place for almost all of the country, apart from Anglesey and Flintshire, until 22:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Powys, the A4077 Crickhowell Bridge has been closed due to floods along with the A40 Brecon Road.\n\nIn Carmarthenshire, roads are shut on the A4242 at Carmarthen, A4069 at Llandovery and Llangadog,\n\nIn Ceredigion, Church Street in Llandysul has also closed due to flooding near the cricket club. The B4459 at Capel Dewi has had to close due to a landslide.\n\nAnd there have been closures on the A4061 Rhigos Road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, and the A4042 Llanellen Bridge in Monmouthshire.\n\nRail services have been affected by flooding on the line between Hereford and Newport in south Wales, according to the National Rail website.\n\nTransport for Wales services have also been hit between Abercynon and Aberdare, Merthyr Vale and Merthyr Tydfil, and Ebbw Vale Parkway and Ebbw Vale.\n\nWales has been under a national lockdown since 20 December with all but essential travel banned.\n\nThere were high river levels in Pontypridd on Saturday morning\n• None 'We want to slow down the water before it floods'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two 14-year-old girls have been seriously injured in a car crash following a police pursuit in Perthshire.\n\nTwo others who were in the vehicles - boys aged 14 and 16 - have been treated for minor injuries.\n\nThey were travelling in an orange Vauxhall Corsa which crashed on the A90 near St Madoes on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIt was being pursued by police officers after failing to stop for them on Edinburgh Road in Perth at about 13:55.\n\nPolice Scotland said on Saturday that none of the force's vehicles were involved in the crash.\n\nAll four occupants of the Corsa were taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for treatment.\n\nOfficers have appealed for dashcam footage to help with their inquiries into the incident.\n\nSgt Michelle Burns said: \"Our inquiries into this incident are ongoing and we would urge anyone who may have seen the Vauxhall Corsa or the police vehicles in Perth, on the A912 through Bridge of Earn or on the A90 to come forward.\n\n\"We would be particularly keen to speak to anyone with dashcam footage.\"\n\nThe northbound A90 was closed for several hours before reopening at 23:00 following an investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "Ambulances waiting outside busy hospitals over Christmas led to \"secondary Covid victims\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said.\n\nInformation requests show that the number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients rose by 63% in London and 48% in the West Midlands.\n\nBBC News has spoken to the widow of a man who died of a stroke, having waited three hours for an ambulance.\n\nThe NHS said capacity had been freed up despite increasing Covid-19 infections.\n\nNHS England said the number of individual ambulances waiting more than 30 minutes across the whole of England from the end of December to the beginning of February, had fallen.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Despite seeing a significant increase in the number of patients with coronavirus at the end of December, the NHS has worked together to free up capacity and enable quicker patient handovers.\"\n\nRose Rwagasore was working as a nurse treating coronavirus at North Middlesex Hospital in north London on New Year's Eve, when her teenage children called her late in the evening to say their father, Robert Wabwire, was unwell, with a sudden headache and vomiting.\n\nDespite calling 999, no ambulance had arrived. Increasingly concerned, Rose spoke to her husband on the phone and recognised his speech was slurred, a common warning sign of a stroke.\n\nRose drove home but her husband deteriorated further, and she performed CPR.\n\n\"It is literally five minutes to the hospital\", she says. \"But because now he could not move, we couldn't get him in the car.\"\n\nThe first of three ambulances arrived more than three hours after the initial call. The family had rung 999 four times.\n\nThe desired response time for patients with symptoms of a stroke is 18 minutes.\n\nRobert, 48 years old, had died by the time paramedics arrived. Rose says she feels his death could have been prevented.\n\n\"I can't really expect that an ambulance can take such a long time,\" she said.\n\n\"The children were alone in the house with their father who was unwell.\"\n\nAmbulance Trusts record handover times if the wait outside hospital exceeds 30 minutes.\n\nBBC News has learned that ambulances outside Robert's local hospital, North Middlesex, spent, on average, double the time waiting during the week he died, compared with the equivalent week the year before. In the week Robert died the wait was 197.8 hours. For the corresponding week in 2019 it was 94.1 hours.\n\nIn London overall, ambulances waited for 4,164 hours in the two weeks spanning Christmas and New Year - a 63% increase on the 2,550 hours for the same time period in 2019.\n\nIn the West Midlands, there was a 48% increase on last year - 3,954 hours for the fortnight from 28 December 2020, compared to 2,673 hours for the same time period in 2019.\n\nIn other parts of England, waiting times showed an improvement on the previous year.\n\nRichard Webber, from the College of Paramedics, said handover delays meant patients calling 999 may have to wait longer.\n\nBBC News has learned of other serious incidents in December and January:\n\nRoyal College of Emergency Medicine vice-president Adrian Boyle said: \"All that's happened is Covid has taken a very fragile system and basically pushed it over the edge.\n\n\"The idea that there are patients who have called for help [and] a paramedic has made a judgement that this is a person who is seriously ill, and they get to the hospital and the whole system that's designed to help them is unable to help them...I think that's absolutely ghastly.\"\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said December 2020 was its busiest ever month, and it responded to more emergency calls than during the peak of the first pandemic wave. West Midlands Ambulance Service said it had \"substantially increased the number of staff available to respond to patients\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Covid-19 has put the NHS under acute pressure and our heroic paramedics, nurses and doctors have been doing everything possible to ensure hospitals continue to provide vital services and quality healthcare.\n\n\"We recognise the unique challenges facing the NHS and we continue to make sure our health service has the capacity and resources - both financial and practical - it needs to continue to weather the Covid storm.\"\n• None Ambulance wait times in England 'off the scale'", "The travel industry has urged the prime minister to provide a \"roadmap\" to get people travelling again this summer.\n\nA number of travel organisations and businesses have written an open letter to Mr Johnson begging for tailored support to prevent more jobs being lost and businesses going bust.\n\n\"We urge you to provide a route out of the crisis for the travel industry,\" it says.\n\nMr Johnson will set out his plans for easing lockdown rules on 22 February.\n\nUnder the current national restrictions, holidays are not permitted anywhere in the UK. International travel is restricted to essential purposes, such as for work, medical appointments, or education.\n\nA government spokeswoman said it has already put in place \"one of the most comprehensive and generous packages of business support in the world\".\n\nBut signatories of the letter have asked for further help to safeguard the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of people employed in the sector and rebuild the £80bn contribution the sector makes to the UK economy.\n\nIt was organised by the Association of British Travel Agents and the Save Future Travel Coalition and its signatories include organisations and businesses across the travel industry, such as Tui, EasyJet Holidays and Airlines UK.\n\nAbout 160,000 jobs have been lost and many businesses have closed their doors for good during the pandemic, it says.\n\nThe economic output for travel fell by 86% for travel agents and tour operators and 90% for aviation, between February and December 2020, according to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThere has been little opportunity to recover or generate cash since Covid-19 first hit the sector 12 months ago, the letter pointed out, with restrictions in place on international travel for much of the last year.\n\nThe industry said the government needs to provide tailored financial support to help travel businesses through, including grants that take account of the impact of international travel restrictions, and the extension of other support measures, such as business rates relief, into the next financial year.\n\n\"We also know that the recovery of travel is likely to be gradual, which will require the maintenance of flexible furlough support throughout the summer season, as well as other regulatory alleviations and support measures to help businesses meet their fixed costs,\" the letter added.\n\nOn top of that it asked the government to:\n\nA financial support system for airports in England opened in January, as all UK travel corridors - which had been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - were closed.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said at the time that the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It involves grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Transport added: \"There is continuous work taking place across government looking at how best to support all sectors of the economy, including the travel industry, and the Budget on 3 March will set out the next phase of economic support.\n\n\"On Monday, the prime minister will set out the roadmap for easing restrictions, which we are seeking to do in a cautious and irreversible way.\"", "Arturo Di Modica originally installed the bull in New York in 1989\n\nThe sculptor behind Wall Street's famous Charging Bull statue has died aged 80, reports say.\n\nFriends of Arturo Di Modica told Italian media that the sculptor died in his home town of Vittoria, Sicily. He had been fighting cancer for many years, La Repubblica reported.\n\nThe bull was originally installed in New York in 1989 without permission.\n\nIt was designed to represent the \"strength and power of the American people\" after the 1987 market crash.\n\nPolice seized the 7,100 pound (3,200 kg) bronze statue from its position outside the New York Stock Exchange. But following a public outcry, city officials allowed it to be reinstalled days later in the heart of Manhattan's financial district.\n\nIt has gone on to become one of the most recognisable images of New York, and a major tourist attraction.\n\nIn recent years, Di Modica opposed the temporary installation of another now famous statue, called Fearless Girl, opposite the bull.\n\nDi Modica complained at the time that his bull was meant to embody \"strength, power and love\", and that having Fearless Girl - designed to call attention to gender inequality and the pay gap in the corporate world - face off against it turned its message into something negative.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The statue, by artist Kristen Visbal, is called Fearless Girl\n\nOther notable works by Di Modica include marble pieces exhibited at the Rockefeller Center, works in bronze at Castle Clinton National Monument, and a bronze horse exhibited in the Lincoln Center, his biography on chargingbull.com says.", "Oliver Lewis is a former ally of Dominic Cummings\n\nBoris Johnson's main adviser on keeping the UK together has departed, saying his position was made \"untenable\" by others within Downing Street.\n\nOliver Lewis, an ally of the prime minister's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, was a key part of the campaign for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nHis departure comes as the Scottish National Party is calling for another referendum on independence.\n\nMr Lewis was confirmed in his role just two weeks ago.\n\nFollowing Mr Lewis's departure, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted: \"Disunity in the Union unit. Or maybe just despair at realising how threadbare the case for it is.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald claimed Mr Johnson's \"taxpayer-funded anti-independence campaign is completely falling apart\".\n\n\"As support for independence grows, the Tories are losing advisers like rats on a sinking ship,\" she said.\n\n\"People in Scotland have a right to determine their own future in a post-pandemic referendum.\"\n\nAside from the pandemic, protecting the union is one of Boris Johnson's key challenges in the coming months.\n\nThe SNP will demand another referendum if they win the Holyrood election in May - while the impact of the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland is still playing out.\n\nOliver Lewis was appointed head of the Union unit at the start of the month and was seen as an important player in Number 10 who had Mr Johnson's ear.\n\nSo his departure a fortnight later shows all is not well in Downing Street. Far from it.\n\nSources say Mr Lewis was the victim of a(nother) power struggle - after personnel changes at the heart of government last week.\n\nIn particular, it seems Mr Lewis found it hard to work with another special adviser, Henry Newman, who was brought into the Number 10 operation last week.\n\nMr Newman is extremely close to the prime minister's fiancée, Carrie Symonds.\n\nAround Westminster, these power struggles are fascinating.\n\nBut the fear some around Mr Johnson have is that they keep happening - and it shows an operation where the ship is still not particularly steady.\n\nIn the words of one source: \"Everything just needs to settle down in there.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said another referendum on Scottish independence - following the last one in 2014 - should not happen, describing it as a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nMr Lewis was research director of the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU membership referendum, writing its manifesto.\n\nHe joined the UK government as an adviser on Brexit policy before taking up his role defending the union.\n• None What next for PM's Union plan as second adviser quits?", "The number of Covid cases in Scotland's prisons has almost doubled in a week, according to new figures.\n\nOfficial Scottish Prison Service (SPS) statistics showed the number of virus cases increased from 189 to 364.\n\nThe spike has been driven by a major outbreak at HMP Kilmarnock, where 247 positive cases have now been recorded.\n\nThe Scottish Human Rights Commission has renewed calls for a reduction in the prison population to help the system cope with the pandemic.\n\nThe Scottish government said the wellbeing of prisoners was a priority and that outbreaks were being \"well managed\".\n\nThe SPS said 731 individuals were currently self-isolating across 11 establishments. Of the total number of positive cases it noted a \"significant number\" were asymptomatic positives.\n\nOutbreaks have also been reported at HMP Addiewell in West Lothian (90 cases) and HMP Dumfries (25 cases).\n\nCases at HMP Kilmarnock increased by 52% over the past seven days, from 162 to 247.\n\nThe remaining two positive cases were in separate establishments.\n\nThe SPS said in a statement: \"We continue to work closely with public health colleagues in the relevant health boards in managing these cases.\n\n\"On the recommendation of the Incident Management Teams, mobile testing units have this week been working in HMP Dumfries, HMP Kilmarnock and HMP Addiewell to support the prompt identification of cases.\"\n\nVirtual visiting has also been suspended at all three prisons in a bid to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nSome short-term prisoners nearing the end of their sentences were released early last year.\n\nJudith Robertson, chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, called for prisoner numbers to be further reduced.\n\nShe said: \"The Commission has been urging the Scottish government to take action on prison conditions since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\n\"The current outbreaks in parts of the prison estate underscore the need for this.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said it remained an \"incredibly challenging time\" for everyone in the sector but stressed \"robust operational measures remain in place\"\n\nIn a letter to the Scottish Parliament justice committee, Mr Yousaf said: \"The prison service and health partners will continue to take rapid and decisive action to limit the spread of this new variant across the estate.\n\nThe Scottish government said that the safety, wellbeing and human rights of all those in Scotland's prisons remained a priority and that infection rates remained generally low.\n\nA spokesman said: \"To the credit of the multi-agency teams and measures activated, the outbreaks at HMPs Addiewell, Dumfries and Kilmarnock are being well-managed and they, as with all of Scotland's other prisons, continue to operate safely and securely.\n\n\"However, we clearly take very seriously the current pressures facing the prison service, we remain vigilant and are actively considering what further action may be required to both reduce the use of imprisonment and maintain a lower prison population.\"\n\nLast month it emerged a quarter of the prison population was awaiting trial.\n\nOne remand prisoner told BBC Scotland he is currently spending around 23 hours a day in his cell to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After 11 days of being watched, the camera-shy flower was getting closer to blooming, the garden said\n\nThe long wait for a rare Amazonian cactus to bloom has attracted interest from around the world.\n\nCambridge University Botanic Garden, where it is growing, believed the moonflower Selenicereus wittii would be the first to flower in the UK.\n\nThousands of people have viewed a webcam which was trained on the plant about 11 days ago, but it has still not bloomed.\n\nAnticipation is high as it will flower at night - just once - for 12 hours.\n\nThe specimen was acquired from Bonn Botanic Garden in Germany in 2015 and was attached to a water chestnut tree, where it climbed 12ft (3.5m) above the ground in a glasshouse before putting out its first bud.\n\nGlasshouse supervisor Alex Summers, who planted it, sparked global interest when he said: \"It's very rare to have this plant in our collection and we believe this is the first time the moonflower has flowered in the UK.\"\n\nThe moonflower is expected to look like this when it does bloom\n\nThe webcam has been viewed about 120,000 times since it went live.\n\n\"People are watching from all over the world which is lovely - UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, all over Europe and as far as the Philippines,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nA live webcam was trained on the flower bud on 9 February, waiting for it to open\n\nHowever, the global coverage also led to a number of people questioning the \"rarity\" of the Cambridge specimen and sending their own moonflower photographs to staff.\n\n\"People have been getting a bit confused about the name 'moonflower',\" the spokeswoman said, explaining that \"lots of plants are given the common name moonflower\".\n\nIt prompted glasshouse expert Mr Summers to publish an article on the website titled \"Is my moonflower the same as your moonflower?\".\n\nThe cactus is an epiphyte, climbing high up another plant which it uses as an anchor point\n\n\"It is likely that most people may have Epiphyllum oxypetalum - a common epiphytic cactus species in cultivation,\" he wrote.\n\n\"This is not in the same genus as the moonflower we have growing here.\n\n\"According to the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), the species that we are growing can be found only in 13 botanic gardens globally.\n\n\"To put this in to perspective, this makes it even rarer in cultivation than the Titan arum (otherwise known as the corpse flower) which bloomed at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 2017.\"\n\nIt will bloom - eventually - only between sunset and sunrise for 12 hours - and then die\n\nThe garden's director, Prof Beverley Glover, said they had \"lost count\" of the number of people who had phoned and sent photos of their own - different - moonflowers, many of which have been posted on the website.\n\n\"The response, though, is absolutely fantastic,\" she said.\n\n\"One of our primary roles is getting people engaged with plants and to have so many people interested, from around the world, is just thrilling.\"\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.", "Cathie Russell has window visits with her mum, Rose Hamilton\n\nFamilies will be able to make regular indoor visits to loved ones in Scottish care homes from early March.\n\nThe Scottish government confirmed residents in both older and younger adult homes will be allowed two designated visitors.\n\nThey will be able to visit once a week, wearing PPE including face coverings.\n\nIt follows increasing calls from families to allow them to visit vulnerable relatives after almost a year of restrictions.\n\nAll residents in older adult care homes have received the first dose of the vaccine and the latest data shows that Covid deaths in these areas are falling.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said while protection was in place, people must remain \"vigilant about the risks\".\n\nAs well as wearing PPE, visitors will be \"strongly encouraged\" to take a Covid test before entering homes.\n\nVisiting may be restricted in certain circumstances, for instance if there is a Covid outbreak in a care home.\n\nGuidelines will be published on Wednesday which will set out an expectation for care providers to facilitate visits.\n\nCathie Russell liked to take her mum on day's out before the Covid restrictions came into force\n\nWhen Cathie Russell visits her mother, Rose Hamilton, in her care home they would normally sit in her room, chatting and listening to her favourite music.\n\nBut once Covid restrictions were introduced they became \"more like prison visits\" where they were kept apart during outdoor meetings by \"police tape\".\n\nMs Russell, a member of Care Home Relatives Scotland, said despite the best efforts of staff some care home residents were left confused and others \"felt like they were on death row\".\n\nShe believes visitors should have been allowed into care homes since last May when the \"PPE situation was sorted out\".\n\n\"I would have gladly have gone in and spent time with my mum and not left her alone for all that time,\" she said. \"I feel it was always possible to do it safely with good PPE and normal protection control measures.\n\n\"It might not always have stopped Covid but, to be honest, keeping relatives out didn't stop Covid either.\"\n\nShe added: \"I believe the strategy was always wrong - we are not just footfall. It's very important for people in care to see the people they love most and at least one essential care-giver should always have been available to them.\"\n\nMs Russell said restrictions were eased last October but very few homes went on to allow indoor visiting, partly due to local lockdowns.\n\nHowever she said she was \"more optimistic\" that care homes would now begin to open up to visitors.\n\nScottish care homes were first advised to close to visitors at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits are currently permitted, with many people only able see their loved ones through windows or outside, if at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was aware that restricted contact between residents and their families could contribute to loneliness, isolation and \"worsening physical and mental health\".\n\nIt also confirmed visiting is not conditional on whether a resident has received the vaccine.\n\n\"With the range of protections in place against Covid, the bigger risk now is the continued separation of residents from loved ones,\" it added.\n\nThe decision to ease visiting restrictions comes after new data pointed to the effect of the vaccine rollout on the Covid death rate in care homes.\n\nStatistics published by the National Records of Scotland show that Covid deaths in care homes are falling as a proportion of the total number of deaths.\n\nMs Freeman, the health secretary, said: \"We deeply regret the deaths and other harm caused by coronavirus in our care homes, but we also recognise the harm caused to the wellbeing of residents and families as a result of an inability to see those they love.\n\n\"We must remain vigilant about the risks but with multiple layers of protection now in place the balance is in favour of allowing visits.\n\n\"Everyone, including visitors, has a responsibility to ensure that visits take place as safely as possible by continuing to follow safety advice.\"\n\nShe said she expected all care home to have \"embraced\" the updated guidance by the middle of March.\n\nDonald MacAskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said the pandemic has presented frontline care home staff and managers with \"many challenges\", but \"undoubtedly the hardest has been keeping residents apart from family and friends\".\n\nHe said: \"We commit to working together to overcome any challenges and difficulties we might face and to support those who may still be anxious and fearful, so that together we can ensure that a painful period of separation can be replaced by greater togetherness.\"\n\nEarlier this month Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie pushed the first minister to confirm a date for the reintroduction of care home visiting.\n\nOn the latest announcement, he said: \"The challenge now is to make it happen after so many false dawns when families were promised access only to be denied later. I will be watching very closely to make sure this promise is kept.\"\n\nScottish Conservatives shadow health secretary Donald Cameron called on minister to ensure the guidance is \"clear and practical\" so the return of visitors can \"operate as smoothly and safely as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour's shadow health secretary Monica Lennon said the isolation of residents who were in some cases at the end of their lives was a \"human rights scandal\".\n\nShe said: \"This is a welcome step in the right direction. Guidance, however, has fallen short before. Too many care providers and public health directors have brushed it aside. This can't happen again.\"", "The Duke of Edinburgh is likely to remain in hospital for observation and rest into next week, a Buckingham Palace source has told the BBC.\n\nIt follows consultation with his doctor, who is acting with \"an abundance of caution\", the source said.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, remains in good spirits after being taken to King Edward VII Hospital in central London as a precaution on Tuesday.\n\nThe exact reason for his admission has not been disclosed.\n\nHowever, his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nA palace source previously said the duke, who turns 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nLast month, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip and the Queen had received Covid vaccinations from a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple have been spending the recent lockdown in England at Windsor with a small household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThe Queen, 94, performed her first face-to-face event of the year on Thursday, when she knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at her Berkshire residence.\n\nPolice officers are guarding the entrance to the King Edward VII Hospital where Prince Philip is being cared for\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge carried out several virtual conversations with front-line NHS staff on Thursday, while the Princess Royal held a virtual meeting in her role as patron of the Scottish Rugby Union.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have also continued official duties.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video message for a virtual meeting hosted by the British Asian Trust, Prince Charles said on Thursday it was a \"tragedy\" that not everyone was benefitting from the \"extraordinary achievement\" of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip released a photograph for their 73rd wedding anniversary last November\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip celebrated Christmas quietly at Windsor, instead of the traditional family gathering at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nIn December 2019, the duke was admitted to the same hospital - King Edward VII Hospital - as a \"precautionary measure\" for treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nHe was discharged on Christmas Eve after four nights and driven to Sandringham, where he spent Christmas with the Queen.\n\nPrince Philip's most-recent official engagement saw him hand over his role of colonel-in-chief of The Rifles in a ceremony at Windsor to the Duchess of Cornwall, who received the role separately.\n\nLast November, the Queen and Prince Philip marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph of themselves opening a card made for them by their great-grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.", "Ms Harrison said the experience had been \"amazing\" and \"everything I wanted it to be\"\n\nA 21-year-old swimming teacher has become the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nJasmine Harrison, from Thirsk in North Yorkshire, set off on her 3,000-mile (4,828km) journey from La Gomera in the Canary Islands in December.\n\nShe docked in Antigua earlier, completing the journey in 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes.\n\nAfter arriving in the Caribbean she said the experience had been \"amazing\" and \"everything I wanted it to be\".\n\nJasmine Harrison arrived in Antigua 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes after leaving the Canary Islands\n\nThe 21-year-old capsized two days before finishing the race, injuring her elbow in the process\n\nMs Harrison, a part-time swimming teacher and bartender, decided to sign up for the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge three years ago after watching the finale of the 2017 event.\n\nAsked about her epic challenge, she said it had been a mix of \"good and bad memories\", but said she had relished the chance to escape from day-to-day life.\n\n\"There's nothing like it, actually getting away from everything - social media, bad news, from literally everything,\" she said.\n\nMs Harrison's crossing was not without difficulty and she capsized just two days before crossing the finishing line, injuring her elbow in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jasmine Harrison becomes the youngest solo female to cross the Atlantic.\n\nDuring the crossing, Ms Harrison would row for two hours and sleep for two hours on rotation.\n\nDespite being cut off from the world, she was still able to speak to her mother every day via satellite phone.\n\nAsked what she was most looking forward to after stepping on to dry land, she replied: \"Food, definitely food.\"\n\nMs Harrison would row for two hours and sleep for two hours on rotation\n\nAs well as rowing into the record books, Ms Harrison has also raised more than £10,000 for charity.\n\nThe previous youngest female solo ocean rower was 22-year-old Katie Spotz from the USA who rowed the Atlantic east-to-west between 3 January and 14 March 2010.\n\nThe youngest person to have made the crossing solo is student Lukas Haitzmann, who completed it in 2019 at the age of 18.\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.", "Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from poultry to humans.\n\nOfficials said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected following an outbreak there in December.\n\n\"All seven people... are now feeling well,\" said the head of Russia's consumer health watchdog, Anna Popova.\n\nShe said that adequate measures had been quickly taken to stop the spread of infection.\n\nThere was no sign of transmission between humans, Ms Popova said, adding that the case had been reported to the World Health Organization.\n\nShe praised \"the important scientific discovery\" by Russia's Vektor laboratory, which had isolated the strain's genetic material from the infected workers.\n\n\"The discovery of these mutations when the virus has not still acquired an ability to transmit from human to human gives us all, the entire world, time to prepare for possible mutations and react in an adequate and timely fashion,\" Ms Popova said.\n\nShe said Russian scientists could now start working on developing test systems.\n\nOther strains of bird flu occasionally infect humans and have led to deaths - but this is the first report of the H5N8 strain being passed on.", "Prosecutions will be based on evidence gathered by the police\n\nThere is a degree of misunderstanding over new smacking legislation, research for the Welsh Government has found.\n\nA change in the law, banning people from smacking their children, begins in 2022. Wales is the second part of the UK to do so, after Scotland.\n\nIn a survey of 1,002 people, 23% were aware of the changes and 26% said they were aware but unsure of the details.\n\nThe Welsh Government said TV, radio and online adverts would launch later this year.\n\nIn the latest Beaufort Wales Omnibus survey, carried out in November 2019, a higher percentage of people reported being in favour of removing the defence of reasonable punishment than those asked in a November 2018 survey.\n\nIn 2019, all respondents were asked the degree to which they agreed or disagreed that it is sometimes necessary to smack a child.\n\nMore disagreed with this statement (55%) than agreed with it (31%). The difference between the proportions disagreeing and agreeing with the statement was greater than in the 2018 survey when 49% disagreed and 35% agreed.\n\nThose who have caring responsibilities for children aged seven or under - 179 of the 1,002 asked - were more likely to disagree that it was sometimes necessary to smack a child - 70% - compared with 53% among those who did not have caring responsibilities for those aged seven and under.\n\nIn 2018, when asked if they were aware of proposed changes in legislation, 17% said yes. In the 2019 survey that rose to 23%.\n\nIn the previous survey 64% said they were not aware and that went down to 50% in the most recent survey.\n\nIn 2018, 17% said they were aware but not sure of the details, this rose to 26% in 2019.\n\nDr Ashley Frawley, senior lecturer in social policy at Swansea University is a vocal campaigner for the Be Reasonable campaign, which seeks to stop any ban and continue to give parents a choice.\n\nShe said her stance meant she was repeatedly trolled on Twitter and said the issue had become distorted.\n\nDr Frawley said: \"Campaigners have had a lot of success turning this into a debate about how people should parent... that's not what this debate is about, it's about whether one form of parenting should be illegal.\n\n\"It's not whether people should smack, it's whether you should be charged and recorded as a child abuser if you do.\n\n\"The whole policy itself is built on distrust - you can't trust people to control themselves, you can't convince people democratically to adopt this style of parenting - that's why they look to the law in the first place.\"\n\nResponding to the results of the latest survey, she said: \"The changes between the two surveys are really, really small...\n\n\"You'd think you could produce more impressive changes with such a small sample size....\n\n\"Proponents will probably want to foreground that carers of children under seven appear to be in favour of the ban. I wonder how many will mention that they only surveyed 179 of them to produce this result?\"\n\nVivienne Laing said the new legislation would give children in Wales the same legal protection from assault as adults\n\nVivienne Laing, policy and public affairs manager at NSPCC Cymru, welcomed the findings.\n\nShe said: \"It's positive that there has been a further shift in public attitudes ahead of this important change in the law, which puts the protection of children first.\n\n\"The new legislation will give children in Wales the same legal protection from assault as adults and we are continuing to work closely with the Welsh Government to support with its successful implementation.\"\n\nShe said a change in public attitudes often followed legislative change: \"We've seen with the introduction of the smoking ban and compulsory seatbelts in cars. It is encouraging to see that this shift is already happening.\"\n\nShe said she was confident a public awareness campaign would lead to a further reduction in the use of the physical punishment on children.\n\nThe charity encourages parents to praise the good things children do and set clear and consistent boundaries and remain calm in difficult situations.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"An awareness-raising campaign to inform the public of the change in law will go live later in the year - including TV, radio and digital advertising.\n\n\"We are also ensuring that professionals who work with parents and children know about the change in the law and have established an expert stakeholder group to oversee this vital work.\"", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use, which means it will be part of the WHO’s global vaccine-sharing scheme Covax.\n\nThe vaccine will be produced at two plants - by SKBio in South Korea and the Serum Institute of India - and so had to be approved twice.\n\n\"We now have all the pieces in place for the rapid distribution of vaccines,\" WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\n\n\"But we still need to scale up production.\"\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is seen as the \"vaccine for the world\" as it is cheap, can be mass produced and is stored in a standard fridge.\n\nIt has attracted controversy about its effectiveness against new variants, whether it should be used in the elderly and how far apart the doses should be given, due to a lack of data.\n\nBut a review by the WHO found that it met the \"must-have\" criteria for safety, and its benefits outweighed the risks.", "It would be \"reckless\" to bring back all pupils in England to school together on 8 March, says a joint statement by teachers' unions.\n\nRather than risk another \"spike\" in infections, they are calling for a more \"cautious\" and \"phased\" return.\n\nNine teachers' and head teachers' unions have urged the government to commit to that date only if scientific evidence is clear that it is safe.\n\nThe prime minister will announce the plan for reopening schools on Monday.\n\nThe collective statement from education unions says they are committed to bringing children back into the classroom as soon as possible - but have concerns it may lead to another surge in the virus.\n\nThey say they are \"increasingly concerned that the government is minded to order a full return of all pupils on Monday 8 March\".\n\nThat has been the target since the prime minister announced the date in January.\n\nThe teachers' unions argue that uncertainty about the role that schools play in the transmission of the virus should mean a more cautious approach.\n\nA full return would mean 10 million pupils and staff travelling to and from school each day, says a statement from signatories including the biggest classroom union the National Education Union.\n\nThey call for an \"opening phased over a period of time\", similar to the \"approach being taken in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"It allows public health experts to assess the impact of the first phase before moving to the next,\" say the teachers' unions.\n\nThe decisions on England's return to school will be announced on Monday, when the prime minister will set out his \"road map\" for reopening after lockdown.\n\nThis is expected to be accompanied by a series of announcements on schools in the following days - with funding for catch-up classes, details of how testing will work and how cancelled GCSEs and A-levels will be replaced this summer.\n\nThere have been suggestions that after initial Covid tests in school, testing will be carried out at home by parents.\n\nThere will be new guidance on face masks, which could see them being worn in secondary schools where social distancing is not possible.\n\nThe nine unions signing up to the joint statement are the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), GMB, National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), NASUWT, National Education Union (NEU), National Governance Association (NGA), Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA), Unison, and Unite.\n\nOn Thursday, the ASCL head teachers' union had warned that it would not be practical to carry out Covid tests on all secondary pupils if they arrived back together.\n\nIn response, England's Department for Education said: \"We know schools, parents and pupils need clarity on plans as soon as possible, which is why we have committed to providing two weeks' notice for them to prepare.\n\n\"The prime minister is due to set out plans for schools reopening on 22 February, and pupils will return from 8 March at the earliest.\"\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, younger primary school year groups will begin to return from 22 February. Older primary pupils in Wales could begin to return from 15 March.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, younger primary pupils will return to classrooms on 8 March.\n\nThey will then go back to remote learning on 22 March, with the return then of secondary pupils in exam years until the Easter holidays.", "A local animal expert says the animal could have been a black bear\n\nA woman in Alaska says she \"jumped up and screamed\" after she was attacked by a bear while using the toilet.\n\nShannon Stevens sustained a puncture wound while using a remote outhouse toilet at Chilkat Lake last weekend.\n\nAfter hearing her scream, Ms Stevens' brother went to see what had caused the injury, only to find a bear's head in the hole of the toilet.\n\nMs Stevens says the wound was caused by either a bite or a swipe from the animal's claw.\n\nShe was spending the weekend in a yurt with her brother Erik and his girlfriend when the incident occurred. Earlier in the evening they had cooked sausages on an open firepit.\n\n\"I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt as I sat down,\" she told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nShe screamed for her brother who came out with a head torch to help her.\n\nAfter she pointed him to the toilet, Erik saw \"right there at the level of the toilet seat was a cinnamon-coloured bear face,\" he said.\n\nThey ran from the outhouse and into the yurt, opting to stay inside until it got light.\n\nShe managed to treat her wound using a first aid kit.\n\nThe following morning, they noticed bear prints by the firepit and the outhouse.\n\nAlaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Carl Koch told KTOO News that he thinks the animal was a black bear.\n\n\"[She] might be the only person this has ever happened to. I wouldn't be surprised over the years if other folks have had bizarre things - but during February to sit down in an outhouse and have something like that happen is very unusual.\"\n\nMs Stevens told the Anchorage Daily News that she will practice a \"look before you sit\" policy in the future.", "The rare type of Amazonian moonflower is in full bloom after widespread anticipation\n\nA rare Amazonian cactus that has attracted interest from around the world has started to bloom.\n\nThe team at Cambridge University Botanic Garden believe their moonflower Selenicereus wittii is the first to flower in the UK.\n\nThousands of people have viewed a webcam which has been trained on the plant for about 11 days.\n\nIt was thought the plant would blossom at night, but a garden spokesperson said it appeared it was a \"sun lover\".\n\nA webcam has been focused on the plant for 11 days during the wait for it to flower\n\nThe plant normally only flowers between sunset and sunrise, but the garden's director Prof Beverley Glover said \"these things are always done at their own pace\".\n\n\"I'm not as surprised as some might be, as plants have a habit of doing their own thing,\" she said.\n\n\"It is a bit special... a real treat and a real testament to the hard work of our glasshouse supervisor Alex Summers.\"\n\nAnticipation for the cactus to flower was high because the blossom only lasts 12 hours - with this white flower measuring 11ins (28cm) long by 6ins (15cm) wide.\n\nIt has also meant a Facebook question-and-answer session due to be held later has had to be hastily rescheduled to 18:00 GMT.\n\nStaff at the garden now hope it will bloom every year.\n\nThe moonflower started to bloom in the early afternoon - and not at sunset as expected\n\nThe plant was acquired six years ago from Bonn Botanic Garden in Germany and was attached to a water chestnut tree, where it climbed 12ft (3.5m) above the ground in a glasshouse before putting out its first bud.\n\nMr Summers, who planted it, said it was \"very rare to have this plant in our collection and we believe this is the first time the moonflower has flowered in the UK\".\n\nThe spokeswoman for the garden said the webcam trained on the plant had been \"watched from all over the world\" and had received more the 120,000 views.\n\nShe said a YouTube livestream had also had more than 100,000 views, while a page dedicated to the flower on its website had also received more than 100,000 views in the last week.\n\nOn the site's Facebook page, news of the bud flowering was met with glee and puzzlement.\n\nOne person wrote: \"Can't believe almost missed it after watching for the last 10 nights,\" while another joked: \"You have to love nature and its fickleness\".\n\nPeople were also keen to know what the flower smelt like, as the website had stated it would emit a \"beautiful sweet-smelling fragrance\" as it blossoms, which would change to something \"rancid\" after two hours.\n\nProf Glover said she had been told by staff that its smell was \"not very strong\" at present.\n\nThe cactus is an epiphyte, climbing high up another plant which it uses as an anchor point\n\nStaff had earlier told the BBC how the global coverage had led to some people questioning the \"rarity\" of the Cambridge specimen and sending their own moonflower photos.\n\n\"People have been getting a bit confused about the name 'moonflower',\" the spokeswoman said, adding that \"lots of plants are given the common name moonflower\".\n\nThe confusion prompted Mr Summers to publish an article on the website entitled: \"Is my moonflower the same as your moonflower?\".\n\n\"It is likely that most people may have Epiphyllum oxypetalum - a common epiphytic cactus species in cultivation,\" he wrote.\n\n\"This is not in the same genus as the moonflower we have growing here.\"\n\nHe added that his moonflower was \"even rarer in cultivation than the Titan arum (otherwise known as the corpse flower) which bloomed at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 2017\".\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.", "Les and Audrey have been married for 66 years Image caption: Les and Audrey have been married for 66 years\n\nRelatives with loved ones in care homes have been reacting to news that they will be able to make visits from early March.\n\nIn England, one designated visitor will be allowed, while in Scotland two will be permitted.\n\nLes Wood's wife Audrey, who has vascular dementia, has been in a care home for 14 months.\n\n\"We haven’t so much as touched fingertips in a year,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nHe says the care home where his wife lives has been \"very strict right from the start, putting the safety of the residents first\".\n\n\"Their rules have normally been more restrictive than the government guidelines for which I have been grateful,\" says Wood, who lives in Deal in Kent.\n\nBut he's hoping he will be able to visit her next month under the new rules.\n\n\"I hope that Audrey’s care home will be able to follow the new guidelines from next month,\" he says.\n\n\"If they don’t, I will be very disappointed but also supportive.\n\n\"It’s horrendous for me. I feel totally cut off. I barely exist.”", "Nearly 225,000 people in England have now waited more than 12 months for routine hospital treatment - the highest number since April 2008, NHS England figures show.\n\nThis includes people waiting for planned knee and hip surgery.\n\nIt comes as growing numbers of operations were postponed during December when Covid cases rose rapidly.\n\nIn January 2021 alone, hospitals treated nearly a third of all patients with Covid since the pandemic began.\n\nProfessor Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said staff had worked extremely hard to provide essential services during the pandemic.\n\nHe added: \"Even in January, when hospitals admitted almost a third of all the Covid patients they have treated during the pandemic, they were treating twice as many patients with other conditions as they did for those with the virus over the month.\n\n\"But the NHS remains under significant pressure so it is vital that everyone continues to do all they can to stop the spread of the virus by staying at home and following the expert 'hands, face, space' guidance.\"\n\nDespite Covid, NHS England says more than six million elective treatments were completed last year and average waiting times for non-urgent surgery fell by more than 40% between July and the end of the year.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons of England, said Covid-19 continued to take an enormous toll on hundreds of thousands of people across the country left waiting for an operation.\n\nVice president, Mr Tim Mitchell, said the number waiting over a year for their treatment was now 150 times higher than it had been in 2019.\n\n\"Many are waiting in limbo, reliant on painkillers, and unable to get on with day-to-day family life or work,\" he said.\n\nAlthough infection rates are now coming down in many parts of the country, Mr Mitchell warned many staff were \"burnt-out\" from what had been \"a brutal and traumatic year\" and would need time to recover.\n\nDuring December, just over 200,000 patients received urgent checks by cancer specialists and 25,000 people started their treatment - both measures are in line with numbers seen before the pandemic.\n\nBut Sara Bainbridge, head of policy at Macmillan Cancer Support, said 2020 had been a \"devastating year\" for many people living with cancer \"who faced agonising delays or disruption to diagnosis and treatment\".\n\nShe urged anyone experiencing cancer symptoms to contact their GP without delay and go to medical appointments.", "Google said Margaret Mitchell had moved files outside the company\n\nGoogle has fired the founder and co-head of its artificial intelligence ethics unit, claiming she violated the company's code of conduct.\n\nIn a statement, Google said an investigation found Margaret Mitchell had moved files outside the company.\n\nThe ethics unit has been under scrutiny since December, following the departure of another senior figure, Timnit Gebru.\n\nBoth women had campaigned for more diversity at Google and raised concerns about censorship within the company.\n\nDr Mitchell announced the news in a tweet, which read \"I'm fired\".\n\nFor the past five weeks she had been locked out of Google's systems, including her emails and calendars.\n\nDr Mitchell was a fierce critic of Google, and had expressed concern about Dr Gebru's departure from the company.\n\nDr Gebru, a leading Artificial Intelligence ethics researcher, says she was fired late last year after sending an internal email that accused Google of \"silencing marginalised voices\". However, Google claims she left the company.\n\nShe co-authored a research paper which she says she was asked to retract. The paper had pinpointed flaws in AI language technology, including a system built by Google.\n\nFollowing a meeting on the paper, she sent an email to an internal group called \"Brain Women and Allies\", criticising the decision.\n\nDr Gebru had emailed her management laying out some key conditions for removing her name from the paper, and if they were not met, she would \"work on a last date\" for her employment.\n\nAccording to Dr Gebru, Google replied: \"We respect your decision to leave Google... and we are accepting your resignation.\"\n\nThe fallout caused many within the scientific community to question the ethics of conducting research with big technology companies.\n\nHundreds of colleagues signed a letter in support of her. In response, the company's chief executive Sundar Pichai apologised for the way she left the firm.\n\nGoogle has been criticised for a lack of diversity in its workforce, and there are concerns about the AI technology that underpins many of its services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe American space agency has released an astonishing image sent back from Mars by its Perseverance rover.\n\nIt shows the robot heading down to the ground on Thursday to make its landing. It was acquired by the rocket cradle that placed the vehicle on the surface.\n\nPerseverance has a large amount of data in its memory banks which it is gradually offloading to Earth.\n\nAmong other pictures is a view from a satellite that captures the rover in the parachute phase of its descent.\n\nThis also represents an immense technical achievement because the satellite - the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - was approximately 700km from Perseverance at the time and traveling at about 3km/s.\n\nNasa is promising more in the next few days.\n\nThis offering will include short movies shot during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) sequence - with sound.\n\nPerseverance has been put in a near-equatorial Martian crater known as Jezero where it will search for signs of past microbial life.\n\nThe overflying Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to see the descending rover's parachute\n\nAdam Steltzner, the Perseverance rover's chief engineer, said the downward-looking view on to the robot would become an iconic image in the history of space exploration.\n\n\"This is an image of the rover Perseverance slung beneath the descent stage, its propulsion backpack, as it is being lowered to the surface of Mars,\" he explained.\n\n\"You can see the dust kicked up by the engines. We're probably about 2m or so above the surface of Mars.\n\n\"You can see the mechanical bridles that hold the rover underneath the descent stage - three straight lines heading down to the top deck. And then the curly electrical umbilical that is taking all of the electrical signals from the descent stage down to the computer inside the belly of the rover, [including] the ones and zeros that represent this image.\"\n\nA forward view from the rover on Mars. The shadow comes from the robot arm\n\nEngineers report Perseverance to be in good health, as they gradually commission its systems.\n\nAll the hardware needs to be assessed to be sure nothing was damaged during Thursday's plunge through the Martian atmosphere to the ground.\n\nOne tonne of high technology: Seven instruments, multiple cameras, microphones and a big drill\n\nThe most detailed pictures of Jezero Crater will come next week after Perseverance has raised its navigation mast which carries the main science cameras.\n\n\"Once the mast is successfully deployed, which will be on Saturday, we will proceed by taking lots of images. We'll do a deck panorama of the rover. And we're also going to do a full panorama of our landscape around us,\" said Pauline Hwang, Perseverance's surface strategic mission manager.\n\nScientists are already starting to analyse the rocks on the ground\n\nPerseverance's landing technologies put it down almost bang on the targeted touchdown zone, about 2km to the southeast of what remains of an ancient river delta that formed at the edge of a lake.\n\nIt is sitting on a flat piece of ground at the boundary of two geologic units - a smooth unit under the wheels of the rover that contains dark volcanic rocks; and a rougher unit that has rocks with a lot of the mineral olivine in them.\n\nThe science team was itching to start exploring the crater, said deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan.\n\nEven now, with just this limited first release of pictures, there were fascinating rocks to discuss, she told reporters.\n\n\"We're picking out different colours and tones and textures, to try to figure out what these rocks might represent and what depositional process might have put these rocks on the surface of Mars.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPerseverance's landing spot is in a quadrangle that the science team has informally called Canyon de Chelly after the National Monument in the US State of Arizona. Any rocks the robot investigates in this 1.2km by 1.2km area will also now be given names that relate to the American park, which is famous for its sandstone spire known as Spider Rock.\n\nThe $2.7bn (£1.9bn) robot is the fifth rover to be put on Mars by Nasa.\n\nIts initial mission will last one Martian year (roughly two Earth years), although it's hard to see the agency not extending this if all the hardware remains healthy.\n\nAs well as searching for signs of life, Perseverance's other key objective is to select and package rock samples that can be brought back to Earth laboratories by later missions.", "Matt Hancock is the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care\n\nMatt Hancock acted unlawfully when his department did not reveal details of contracts it had signed during the Covid pandemic, a court has ruled.\n\nA judge said the health secretary had \"breached his legal obligation\" by not publishing details within 30 days of contracts being signed.\n\nThe public had a right to know where the \"vast\" amounts spent had gone and how contracts were awarded, he added.\n\nThe government said it fully recognised the \"importance of transparency\".\n\nBut Labour claimed the government's awarding of contracts was \"plagued by a lack of transparency, cronyism and waste\".\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has struck deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCampaign group the Good Law Project and three MPs - Labour's Debbie Abrahams, Green Caroline Lucas and Lib Dem Layla Moran - took legal action against the department over its \"wholesale failure\" to disclose details of the contracts agreed.\n\nUnder the law, the government is required to publish a \"contract award notice\" within 30 days of the awarding any contracts for public goods or services worth more than £120,000.\n\nThe Good Law Project also claimed that the government breached its own transparency policy, which requires the publication of details of public contracts worth more than £10,000.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish contract award notices within 30 days of the award of contracts.\n\n\"There is also no dispute that the secretary of state failed to publish redacted contracts in accordance with the transparency policy.\"\n\nThe judge said the health secretary had spent \"vast quantities\" of public money on Covid-related goods and services during 2020.\n\n\"The public were entitled see who this money was going to, what it was being spent on and how the relevant contracts were awarded,\" he added.\n\nHe said this was important so that competitors of those awarded contracts could understand whether the obligations had been breached.\n\nThe judge also said publishing the details allowed bodies such as the National Audit Office, as well as Parliament and the public, to \"scrutinise and ask questions about this expenditure\".\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain acknowledged that the situation faced by the DHSC during the first few months of the pandemic had been \"unprecedented\".\n\nHe said it was \"understandable that attention was focused on procuring what was thought necessary to save lives\".\n\nBut he added that the DHSC's \"historic failure\" to publish details of contracts awarded during the pandemic was \"an excuse, not a justification\".\n\nHowever, the judge dismissed the Good Law Project's argument that there had been a department-wide \"policy of de-prioritising compliance\" with the law and guidance.\n\n\"This judgement is a victory for all of us concerned with proper governance and proof of the power of litigation to hold government to account,\" the Good Law Project said in a statement.\n\n\"But there is still a long way to go before the government's house is in order.\"\n\nThe DHSC said the government had been \"working tirelessly\" to deliver what was needed to protect health and social care staff during the pandemic.\n\n\"This has often meant having to award contracts at speed to secure the vital supplies required to protect NHS workers and the public.\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"We fully recognise the importance of transparency in the award of public contracts and continue to publish information about contracts awarded as soon as possible.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves called the judgement \"troubling and unsurprising, and a perfect example of how this government believes it is one rule for them another for the rest of us\".\n\nShe added: \"This government's contracting has been plagued by a lack of transparency, cronyism and waste and they must take urgent steps to address this now - by winding down emergency procurement, urgently releasing details of the VIP fast lane, and publishing all outstanding contracts by the end of the month.\"", "Gay people were prevented from working at MI6 until 1991\n\nThe chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, has publicly apologised for its historic treatment of LGBT people.\n\nRichard Moore said a security bar on LGBT staff until 1991 had been \"wrong, unjust and discriminatory\".\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter 30 years after the ban was lifted, he said it had also been counter-productive.\n\nMI6 \"deprived ourselves of some of the best talent Britain could offer\", he said.\n\nThe MI6 chief has chosen LGBT History Month to offer both praise and contrition to those who were wronged by the ban.\n\nMr Moore, who is the only publicly identifiable member of MI6, said thousands of patriotic people were wrongly denied the chance to work in intelligence.\n\n\"The ban did mean that we, in the intelligence and diplomatic services, deprived ourselves of some of the best talent Britain could offer. Ready to serve but denied that opportunity,\" he said.\n\nSame-sex relationships were decriminalised in Britain in 1967, but it took a further 24 years before the ban on hiring LGBT staff across government was lifted.\n\nBefore then it was wrongly thought that they would be vulnerable to blackmail and subversion, Mr Moore said.\n\nLGBT people who declared their sexual orientation at that time were asked to leave government service. Thousands more who wanted to join were prevented from doing so.\n\n\"Committed, talented, public-spirited people had their careers and lives blighted because it was argued that being LGBT+ was incompatible with being an intelligence professional,\" Mr Moore said.\n\n\"Because of this policy, other loyal and patriotic people had their dreams of serving their country in MI6 shattered. This was wrong, unjust and discriminatory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 MI6 chief, who rarely makes any public statement, used his official Twitter account to broadcast his message.\n\nIn a separate video, Mr Moore thanked all LGBT staff for their contribution to Britain's security as he appeared alongside the actor Sir Ian McKellen, who recalled some of the homophobic discrimination he had encountered in the 1980s.\n\nSir Ian suggested the lifting of the ban in 1991 put MI6 in the \"vanguard\" and helped change the way society thought about LGBT people.\n\n\"Having so boldly accepted there had been injustice in the past within its own organisation, it gave heart for people to think 'well, perhaps you could spread that principle of honesty and equality to other areas of life',\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has ministerial responsibility for MI6, also paid tribute to the courage of LGBT colleagues, past and present, saying the UK was safer because of their dedicated service.", "The High Court must overturn Boris Johnson's decision that Home Secretary Priti Patel did not breach government rules on behaviour, a union says.\n\nThe prime minister decided not to sack Ms Patel last year after a report found evidence of \"bullying\" and \"some occasions of shouting and swearing\".\n\nMr Johnson backed Ms Patel, saying she had not broken the Ministerial Code.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said this reaction had \"undermined\" disciplinary procedures.\n\nAnd Labour called Mr Johnson's decision the \"sign of a broken system\".\n\nHome Office Permanent Secretary Sir Philip Rutnam resigned in February last year, saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\".\n\nHe is pursuing an employment tribunal claim for constructive dismissal.\n\nA report last November by Sir Alex Allan, the prime minister's adviser on standards, said Ms Patel had \"unintentionally\" breached the Ministerial Code, governing conduct.\n\nHe found Ms Patel to be \"action-orientated\" and that she had felt \"justifiably in many instances, frustrated by the Home Office leadership's lack of responsiveness\".\n\nSir Alex added: \"The evidence is that this has manifested itself in forceful expression, including some occasions of shouting and swearing. This may not be done intentionally to cause upset, but that has been the effect on some individuals.\"\n\nHe resigned after Mr Johnson supported the home secretary, saying she retained his \"full confidence\".\n\nThe FDA, of which Sir Philip is a member, is seeking a judicial review of the prime minister's decision.\n\nIn a written submission, general secretary Dave Penman told the High Court that \"civil servants should expect to work with ministers without fear of being bullied or harassed\".\n\nMr Johnson's actions had \"fundamentally undermined\" the disciplinary process, he added, and the prime minister had \"misinterpreted\" the definition of bullying in the Ministerial Code.\n\nThe FDA's Dave Penman said more protection was needed for workplace standards\n\nMr Penman said there was \"bewilderment, dismay and anger among our membership\" and there had been \"serious detrimental effects to workplace relations and confidence in the process for dealing with complaints against ministers\".\n\nHe added that, if Mr Johnson's decision was not \"corrected\" by the court, \"his interpretation of the Ministerial Code will result in that document failing to protect workplace standards across government\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Fleur Anderson said: \"Boris Johnson's assertion that Priti Patel did not break the Ministerial Code is not credible and shows why he should not act as both judge and jury.\n\n\"It is a sign of a broken system when a cabinet minister is found to have bullied their staff and the prime minister ignores the damning findings and protects them.\"\n\nCivil servants should have confidence \"that they are able to challenge ministerial decisions without fear for the consequences\", Ms Anderson added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The prime minister has full confidence in the home secretary and considers this matter now closed. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further on live legal matters.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Jim Ashworth-Beaumont is now running again, six months after the accident that almost killed him\n\nA life-changing accident has left a specialist who spent 20 years building artificial limbs in need of a prosthetic arm himself.\n\nIn a cruel twist of fate, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont lost his arm in a cycling accident in which he almost died.\n\nSix months on, he is back at work and is hoping to be one of the first people in the UK to be fitted with a revolutionary bionic limb.\n\nJim, from Edinburgh, works as a prosthetist and orthotist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London.\n\nA former Royal Marine, he was a competitive athlete and took part in triathlons. On the day of the accident he was training.\n\nAfter almost a decade in the Royal Marines, Jim has always been involved in sport and fitness\n\n\"I popped out for a training session on the bike and headed to Catford in south east London and stopped at traffic lights,\" he said.\n\n\"An articulated lorry stopped beside me and that's when the problems happened.\"\n\nThe 40-ton truck rolled over Jim, severing his arm and almost killing him.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings programme, he said: \"I can remember pretty much everything up until the ambulance arrived. I remember the helicopter landing and that's about it.\n\n\"I was aware of the wheels of the articulated lorry rolling up my arm and I was convinced the next part of my body to be hit would be my head. I was convinced that I was going to die.\"\n\nJim was put into an induced coma. When he came out there was an emerging awareness of how serious things were.\n\nAfter coming out of his coma, Jim slowly came to realise how serious his injuries were\n\nHe said: \"It was only over time I was aware I had spinal fractures, rib fractures, a lot of skin had been taken off my front which needed to be grafted.\n\n\"The situation was a lot more than just my arm. It took a little while to realise just how bad it was.\"\n\nJim contracted sepsis while in the coma on top of his horrific injuries.\n\nHe said: \"MedicaI staff and my wife told me I was constantly on the verge of death. I had sepsis, multiple organ failure, what was left of my liver packed up and then my kidneys, as well. When I came out of the coma I had liver failure and kidney failure to deal with.\n\n\"I was in the critical care unit for about two-and-a-half months, actually conscious for a month of that. When I came out, the Covid pandemic was in full swing so we were pretty much restricted to our beds. I had tubes coming in and out of me so it was a difficult environment to exist in.\"\n\nJim made a remarkable recovery and has now come off dialysis\n\nJim said his background helped him mentally.\n\nHis work involves working on rehabilitation with patients who have suffered limb loss. He said that having that base knowledge, plus his research interest - neuro-rehabilitation and recovery from injury - made sure he knew what he needed to do to return to full function.\n\nLike the athlete he is, Jim's recovery has been fast-paced. His liver is recovering and his kidneys have also bounced back meaning he no longer needs dialysis every two days.\n\nHe has started building his fitness again and even began a Couch-to-5k programme two months before he was even expected to leave hospital.\n\nHe started back at work, from home, at the start of February. But what he wants to do is get back to his old duties.\n\nJim has taken his rehabilitation seriously and is now a para-athlete\n\nHe said: \"My dream is to return to the job I love which is helping people to solve their structural and functional problems, and that's quite a manual job. You need good hand skills to do that.\n\n\"I assess people, collect data and make and fit an artificial limb or orthotic device. So I need a device that will do what I tell it to do and that is the promise of the latest generation of components that are available, but they cost a lot of money.\"\n\nThe limb Jim needs is a functional bionic prosthesis and it is not available on the NHS. Jim needs a titanium post to be fitted into the end of the bone in his arm and then a prosthesis will be anchored into that to make it much more stable and usable.\n\nBut the arm, plus the expertise to fit it will cost more than £300,000. Jim's family is fundraising for \"Jim's Biggest Challenge\" on fundraising sites.\n\nHe believes that in a couple of years, he could be back doing the job he loves, and his experience will give him a new relationship with his patients.\n\nhe added: \"Essentially my life now is a little bit of a struggle every day and I kind of relish that in a way. The fitness hasn't stopped. I am out running, doing pilates.\n\n\"I am not as fit and able as I was, but the challenges are still there and I really believe in going for it every day.\"", "Lynn, pictured here with her father Richard, described the wait time on HSBC's fraud helpline as \"disgraceful\"\n\nThe daughter of a fraud victim has branded HSBC's dedicated fraud helpline a \"disgrace\" after it took 20 hours of waiting on hold to get help.\n\nLynn Edmonds' father, Richard, had £8,500 stolen by criminals who tricked him to gain access to his HSBC account.\n\nAs soon as he realised what had happened he called Lynn for help and their wait began.\n\nHSBC has apologised for Richard's prolonged wait and also agreed to refund the money stolen.\n\n\"In my opinion it's disgraceful the way HSBC's 24/7 fraud helpline is ran, there's no excuse for it.\n\n\"Not only is it appalling but it's also very stressful.\n\n\"Because [of Covid] we can't be near him at all, and we can't physically go and help him, we feel incredibly stressed by this and all the time we can't get through we're worried his money is being stolen.\"\n\nHSBC said: \"Like others in the industry, we are currently receiving higher than normal reports of fraud.\n\n\"We are conscious of extended call waiting times, and while we have recently increased the size of the team, we are in the process of bringing on board new additional customer-facing colleagues which will cut waiting times.\"\n\nTo try to get an idea of how widespread the problem of long wait times on fraud helplines is BBC Radio 4's Money Box conducted a totally unscientific experiment.\n\nWe called each of the big five High Street banks (HSBC, Santander, Barclays, NatWest and Lloyds), as well as Nationwide Building Society, at just after 09:00 on a weekday.\n\nEach call was answered in minutes - except our call to HSBC.\n\nIn total we spent more than seven hours on hold to HSBC's dedicated scam helpline on three phone calls. Each one ended when we were cut off without being able to speak to anyone.\n\nHSBC sent us a second statement: \"Customers who suspect fraud or wish to dispute a transaction should call the number on the back of their card, which is the best and fastest number to report the fraud.\n\n\"While we are seeing higher than normal levels of traffic to our contact centres as a result of Covid-19, customers should expect to be able to get through to us within a few minutes, which is within industry guidelines.\"\n\nThere are two numbers on the back of my HSBC card as it happens.\n\nOne labelled as \"enquiries\" and another labelled as \"24-hour lost or stolen\".\n\nNeither of which are the same as the number scam victims are directed to call on the HSBC website - the number where Richard's family and I saw those terrible wait times.\n\nAnd in a third statement, HSBC said it's looking to update its website advice and that any delays for customers who are fraud victims will be taken into account: \"We are reviewing the wording of our website to be more clear about which numbers to call.\n\n\"Any delay in getting through on this number would of course be taken into account in any subsequent investigation into a scam.\"\n\nAltogether Richard, his daughter, Lynn, and son-in-law, Steven, spent 20 hours on hold to HSBC before they got to speak to anyone\n\nThe delay suffered by Richard and his family is all the more worrying because to be able to effectively tackle crime like authorised push payment fraud, when often vulnerable people are tricked into transferring money to criminals' accounts, time is critical.\n\nDetective Sergeant Marc Cananur, a specialist fraud investigator with Kent Police, said: \"In the event someone suspects they might have been a victim of fraud it really is of vital importance that they engage not only with law enforcement but their bank.\n\n\"It's of vital importance... to ensure funds don't fall into the hands of criminal gangs.\n\nHe said with any investigation, time is of the essence.\n\n\"The sooner a bank and police are aware of a crime the sooner both can react... and attempt to claw back funds to the original victim.\"\n\nHave you been the victim of push payment fraud and tried to get in touch with your bank?\n\nEmail us moneybox@bbc.co.uk and let us know about your experience with you bank or building society.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "A webcam system that lets parents drop in and watch their children while at nursery school has written to families to tell them of a data breach.\n\nNurseryCam said it did not believe the incident had involved any youngsters or staff being watched without their permission, but had shut down its server as a precautionary measure.\n\nThe Guildford-based company told the BBC its service was used by about 40 nurseries across the UK.\n\nIt said it had also notified the ICO.\n\nUnder UK rules, the Information Commissioner's Office must be told of a breach if it has \"significant impact\" within 24 hours.\n\nNurseryCam said it first became aware of the incident shortly after 17:00GMT on Friday.\n\nIt added the service would remain suspended until a security fix was in place.\n\nThe firm said that a \"loophole\" in its systems had been used to obtain data from parents' viewing accounts including:\n\n\"The person who identified the loophole has so far acted responsibly,\" said NurseryCam's director Dr Melissa Kao.\n\n\"He stated he has no intention to use this to do any harm [and] wants to see NurseryCam raise the overall standards of our security measures.\"\n\nThe company had earlier been involved in a public spat with a cyber-security consultant who had claimed to have found problems in its systems, which the company had played down.\n\nThe consultant, Andrew Tierney, told the BBC he had also been contacted by the hacker, who had passed on a redacted copy of the stolen data.\n\nMr Tierney said he had made follow-up checks with some of the parents involved to check the details were real, and had contacted NurseryCam to offer his help.\n\n\"I don't know who this guy is,\" he said.\n\n\"But what I've done is send NurseryCam the weak points in its system that I had spotted over the last couple of weeks.\"\n\nHe added that ex-users of the system had not been included on the list he had seen.\n\nMs Kao told the BBC she did not believe the breach had been related to the previous alleged flaws that Mr Tierney had sought to bring to her attention.\n\n\"NurseryCam sincerely apologises to all our parent users and nurseries for the incident. We are very sorry,\" she added.", "Mr Berger has lived in the US since the 1950s\n\nThe US has deported a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp to Germany.\n\nFriedrich Karl Berger, who has lived in the US since 1959, was flown out of the country on Saturday and has landed in Frankfurt.\n\nMr Berger has admitted working as a guard at the Neuengamme concentration camp but said he did not witness any killings or abuse of prisoners.\n\nGerman prosecutors have dropped their case against him for lack of evidence.\n\nPolice are due to question him and it is not clear if he faces further action - his case could be revived depending on what he says.\n\nA US judge last year ordered his deportation, saying prisoners at the camp were held in \"atrocious\" conditions, working \"to the point of exhaustion and death\".\n\nDuring the trial, Mr Berger admitted he had prevented prisoners from fleeing the camp near Hamburg, north Germany.\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\n\nActing US Attorney-General Monty Wilkinson said Mr Berger's removal showed the administration's commitment \"to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses\".\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post, Mr Berger said he had been forced to work in the camp, spent a short time there and carried no weapon.\n\nHe expressed astonishment at his looming deportation, saying \"after 75 years, this is ridiculous. I cannot believe it. You're forcing me out of my home.\"\n\nGerman prosecutors have continued to pursue former Nazi camp officials.\n\nThis month a 95-year-old woman was charged with aiding and abetting mass murder for her role as a secretary at the Stutthof camp, while a 100-year-old man was charged on the same grounds for working as a guard at Sachsenhausen.\n• None How Auschwitz became centre of Nazi Holocaust", "Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank have named their newborn son August Philip Hawke Brooksbank.\n\nThe couple are pictured with their son in a new photo released by Buckingham Palace.\n\nAugust, who was born on 9 February, is the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nThe choice of Philip pays tribute to the duke, who is likely to remain at the King Edward VII hospital into next week having been admitted on Tuesday.\n\nThe 99-year-old duke was said to be in good spirits after being taken to the central London hospital as a precaution on the advice of his doctor on Tuesday evening. He had been feeling unwell for a few days but it is not related to coronavirus.\n\nIt is understood the couple chose the name August after Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, whose middle name was Augustus, and Hawke is a Brooksbank family name.\n\nIn a post on her Instagram Stories, Eugenie, 30, wrote: \"On his grandfather's birthday weekend, thinking of my grandfather, we are introducing our little boy. He is named after his great grandfather and both of his great x5 grandfathers.\"\n\nThe latest addition to the Royal Family was born at the exclusive Portland hospital in central London, weighing 8lbs 1oz.\n\nHe was born 11th in line to the throne but will move to 12th place in the line of succession after it was announced that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their second child.\n\nEven though August's mother is a princess, he will not be an HRH nor hold a title, unless the Queen decides otherwise as he was born down the female line of the Royal Family.\n\nOn the day he was born, Eugenie shared a black and white photograph on Instagram of the couples' hands holding their son's fingers and wrist.\n\nThe Queen, Prince Philip, Eugenie's parents, Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, and Mr Brooksbank's parents were said to be \"delighted with the news\", in a Palace statement released to announce the birth.\n\nPrincess Eugenie posted a picture on Instagram following the birth\n\nSharing the latest photograph of the couple with their son, Eugenie wrote on Instagram: \"Our hearts are full of love for this little human, words can't express.\"\n\nShe said the photographs were taken by their \"wonderful\" midwife, adding: \"Thank you to the wonderful essential workers including our midwife who came to discharge our boy.\"\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\nIn a Twitter post on Saturday, the official royal family account said the couple had been \"touched by the well wishes they have received on the birth of their first child\".\n\nEugenie and Mr Brooksbank, 34, married in October 2018 at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nThe ceremony was attended by members of the Royal Family - including the Queen, 94, and Prince Philip - and 850 guests, including singer Robbie Williams and model and actress Cara Delevingne.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's second child will be a brother or sister for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who turned one last May.\n\nThey announced the news by sharing a black and white picture of themselves under a tree, with Harry resting his hand on Meghan's head as she cradles her bump.\n\nTheir child will be the Queen and Prince Philip's 10th or 11th great-grandchild depending on whether he or she arrives before or after Zara Tindall's baby, which is also due in 2021.\n\nOn Saturday, it was announced that Harry and Meghan, who now live in California, couple would not return as working members of the Royal Family - more than a year after they said they would step back as \"senior\" royals.\n\nThe Queen confirmed the couple would not \"continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service\".\n\nIt means they will return their honorary military appointments and royal patronages, which will be redistributed to working members of the Royal Family.", "Protesters have been taking to the streets even since the coup at the start of the month\n\nAt least two people have been killed in protests in Myanmar against a military coup, the worst violence yet in more than two weeks of demonstrations.\n\nPolice used live ammunition to disperse demonstrators in Mandalay, reports from the ground said. At least 20 people were injured.\n\nHundreds had gathered for the rally at a shipyard in Myanmar's second largest city.\n\nThe coup saw the overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government.\n\nProtesters are demanding that she be released, along with other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. She is under house arrest, accused of possessing illegal walkie-talkies and violating the country's Natural Disaster Law.\n\nThe military allege the NLD's landslide election win last year was fraudulent but have not provided proof.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From blindfolded protests to dressing like Aung San Suu Kyi, why creatives are concerning Myanmar's army\n\nClashes broke out in Mandalay when police confronted protesters and striking shipyard workers.\n\nReports say some protesters flung projectiles at police, who responded with live fire and tear gas.\n\nImages show protesters holding up what appear to be bullet cartridges.\n\nRelatives of one of those killed told Reuters news agency he was a carpenter, aged 36, who was shot in the chest. The other fatality - reports say a boy under 18 - was shot in the head.\n\nThe EU said it strongly condemned the violence and the US embassy in Myanmar said it was \"deeply troubled\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tweeted: \"The shooting of peaceful protesters in Myanmar is beyond the pale.\n\n\"We will consider further action, with our international partners, against those crushing democracy and choking dissent.\"\n\nSingapore, a big investor in Myanmar, warned of \"serious adverse consequences for Myanmar and the region\" if the situation continued to escalate.\n\nOn Friday a young woman became the first confirmed death from the protests.\n\nMya Thwe Thwe Khaing was shot in the head on 9 February at a rally in the capital Nay Pyi Taw. Rights groups said her injuries were consistent with the use of live ammunition. Police denied using lethal force.\n\nThe military authorities say a policeman has been killed since the protests began after the 1 February coup.\n\nFurther demonstrations took place on Saturday in several cities, including Yangon, where residents banged pots and a candle-light vigil was held outside the US embassy. The security forces mostly left the protesters alone.", "The UK should donate vaccines to developing countries now rather than waiting until it has a surplus, the new head of the World Trade Organization has told the BBC.\n\nNgozi Okonjo-Iweala said it was \"in the interest\" of wealthy countries that all nations access vaccines.\n\nIt comes after PM Boris Johnson said the UK would donate most of its surplus supply to poorer nations.\n\nOn Friday, G7 leaders pledged to intensify co-operation on Covid-19.\n\nThey agreed to increase their contribution to the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative, which is aiming to get at least 1.3 billion doses to vulnerable populations worldwide in the coming months.\n\nAddressing the UK government's plans to donate its surplus vaccines to the developing world, Ms Okonjo-Iweala told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"welcome\" - but cautioned against delay.\n\n\"I don't think we should wait to get surplus when other people have been served,\" she said. \"I think that any donations that are coming must come now.\n\n\"The reason is very simple. It's in the interest of rich countries as well as poor countries to have equitable access.\"\n\nThe new WTO chief cited a study by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), which outlined the economic case for global vaccinations.\n\nThe ICC-commissioned research found that the world stood to lose as much as $9tn (£6.4tn) in GDP if, by the middle of the year, rich countries have vaccinated half their populations and poor countries have not vaccinated theirs, Ms Okonjo-Iweala said.\n\n\"Half of that cost will be borne by rich countries,\" she said.\n\n\"So we need to understand that it's in the self-interest of both rich and poor to have equitable access to vaccines otherwise all counties lose; all people lose.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Okonjo-Iweala was named as the WTO's first female and first African director-general\n\nG7 leaders said in a joint statement released after the virtual summit on Friday that they have raised their overall commitment to the Covax scheme to $7.5bn (£5.3bn).\n\nThe leaders' commitments came just days after UN secretary general António Guterres slated the distribution of vaccines so far as \"wildly uneven and unfair\".\n\nJust 10 countries have administered 75% of all vaccinations worldwide, while 130 countries had not yet received a single dose, he said.\n\nManufacturing is the biggest constraint in providing vaccines to people quickly, Ms Okonjo-Iweala said.\n\nShe encouraged manufacturing companies to issue more licenses in developing countries, so a larger volume of doses could be produced across poorer regions.", "Coronavirus infections are continuing to decrease around the UK, Office for National Statistics data shows.\n\nThe figures, for the seven days up to 12 February, reveal fewer people are testing positive for the virus in the community than in recent weeks.\n\nExperts warn that infection levels remain high however, with about 553,000 people found to have the virus.\n\nAnd another 533 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nIt brings the UK total to 119,920.\n\nDaily figures show there were a further 12,027 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Friday.\n\nMore than 16.8 million people have had their first COVID vaccine dose, while 589,591 have had a second jab, bringing the total number of shots since the rollout began to nearly 17.5m.\n\nThe latest R number, estimated to be between 0.6 and 0.9, also suggests infection numbers are shrinking. It means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 6 and 9 other people.\n\nOther studies of infection rates have shown a similar \"strong\" decline.\n\nThe ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nIn England, there is some regional variation in the infection rate, although it is decreasing in all areas.\n\nNorth-west England had the highest proportion of people of any region in England likely to test positive for coronavirus - at around one in 85 people.\n\nFor London the estimate was one in 100, and for the West Midlands it was one in 110.\n\nElsewhere, the estimates are:\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to receive new data on the effect of vaccines on the spread of coronavirus, ahead of Monday's publication of a roadmap for easing the lockdown in England.\n\nDowning Street has refused to comment on the likely contents of the unlocking plan amid press speculation.\n\nThe Welsh government has already announced some changes. From Saturday, four people from two different households will be allowed to exercise outdoors together. And from Monday, children in Wales aged between three and seven are returning to school - as are young children in Scotland.\n\nExperts say any unlocking should be done slowly and cautiously to avoid a rebound surge in cases. There is still plenty of the virus circulating that people can catch.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose modelling prompted the first lockdown last March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was hopeful more restrictions could be lifted by the end of May.\n\n\"We will still have rules in place but... I think society will be a lot more normal.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said it was wrong to speculate on whether summer holidays will be allowed this year: \"I get how frustrating this is, it's completely natural. We all want to get a break from this, I get that. But it would wrong for me to start speculating now.\n\n\"We are assessing the numbers, we are making a judgment based on the science and we will be making an announcement on Monday. I can't go further than that.\"\n\nA continued fall in new infections is one of the reassuring signs PM Boris Johnson will be considering this weekend, along with advisers, to decide if, when and how to start lifting some restrictions in England.\n\nR is below 1, even with more infectious variants of the virus circulating, which is good news too.\n\nBut within the wider UK figures there are some regional differences that are worth keeping an eye on. Infection rates appear to be higher in some urban areas of England, for example.\n\nLessons from last year tell us that the virus can take off again if you unlock too quickly or too soon. 'One size fits all' may not be the best approach for every type of easing, although a shared priority is to get children back to school.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Around four million people in the UK are living with diabetes - including around a million who have not been diagnosed, according to the charity Diabetes UK.\n\nAnd while it's already known that diabetics are more at risk of suffering severe cases of Covid - new evidence suggests the virus could actually be triggering the condition in some patients.\n\nJordan Charles went months with undiagnosed diabetes after contracting Covid-19.", "Covid-19 patients made up 34% of all people in hospital on 30 December\n\nMore than a third of patients in hospital are being treated for Covid-19, new figures from NHS Wales show.\n\nIn Cwm Taf Morgannwg, more than half of patients have the virus and the health board said the situation was \"extremely serious\".\n\nNumbers of those with Covid in critical care or on ventilation are the highest it has been in the pandemic.\n\nSenior managers pleaded with people not to gather for New Year's parties to contain the spread of infections.\n\nThe 2,610 Covid patients in hospital across the country on Wednesday - up 252 (11%) on the previous week - is a new record.\n\nThe number of recovering patients - those still too ill to be discharged - are also at their highest levels.\n\nFigures from NHS Wales Informatics, the first since before Christmas, show:\n\nCardiff and Vale health board announced it was stopping routine surgery and outpatient appointments throughout January, so staff could focus on urgent and emergency care, including critical care.\n\nIt said its emergency services, including emergency and cancer surgery, would continue.\n\n\"I would ask the public to remain mindful of the pressures on primary care and hospital services and to access urgent care appropriately,\" said chief operating officer Steve Curry.\n\nThere were 119 patients being treated on invasive ventilated beds, including in critical care, for confirmed or suspected coronavirus on 30 December - 17 more than a week ago, but figures have been at their highest since late April.\n\nAt the very peak of the pandemic in critical care, hospitals in Wales were looking after 164 patients.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board had 30 patients in critical care or on invasive ventilation on 30 December. The number has been as high as 36 in recent days, and these are the highest numbers it has seen in the pandemic.\n\nThe health board said it was under \"significant pressure with unprecedented demand and this is extremely challenging for our staff\".\n\n\"While it might be tempting to have a New Year's party or spend time with family and friends, gathering together puts yourself and your loved ones at risk,\" said medical director Dr Nick Lyons.\n\n\"By taking such actions we also risk increased hospital admissions and sadly, a rise in the number of people dying from this virus. By following the rules, we can protect each other and save lives.\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board has seen some of the highest numbers it has experienced in its critical care units - there were 19 on Wednesday, but there were as many as 24 just after Christmas.\n\nDr Richard Pugh, an intensive care consultant at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"Cases are going up week by week in north wales and in north-east Wales the number of cases per week is above the average for Wales.\n\n\"This means things are going to become more difficult in the coming weeks.\n\n\"This week has been particularly demanding for critical care, we are considerably above our funded routine capacity, we've extended into non-critical care areas such as theatre recovery and we're having to anticipate the knock-on effect of increasing community transmission.\"\n\nHywel Dda health board said it was dealing with the highest number of cases since the pandemic began.\n\nStaff sickness was adding to the challenge, with 900 absences being reported daily.\n\n\"We are actively reaching out to staff internally to see who could be redeployed across the organisation to support our pressure points in terms of staffing availability, particularly in critical care and respiratory care,\" said Andrew Carruthers, director of operations.\n\nAneurin Bevan said its hospitals were \"very busy,\" while Swansea Bay said the situation was \"precarious\" and \"very serious\" including the deaths of 43 patients in the last week. It too has 700 staff off work with the virus or self-isolating.\n\nHospital admissions are also at their highest point since mid-May.\n\nDaily admissions of confirmed and suspected Covid-19 cases were running at a daily seven-day average of 123 on 30 December.\n\nCovid cases make up more than 17% of all hospital admissions, but the figures do not break down how many people caught Covid while in hospital.\n\nLatest infection figures show there were 205 new hospital onset cases in the week to 27 December, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nIn total, nearly 2,900 Covid cases linked to hospital infections have been reported since September.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BMA in Wales said vaccinating staff had to be a priority and it was concerned to hear some NHS staff were struggling to access one.\n\n\"You can't run a health service without staff and with many isolating or actually having the virus themselves, we're in danger of a collapse,\" said Dr David Bailey, chairman of BMA Wales.", "Leaders of the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy and Japan held a virtual summit\n\nG7 leaders have pledged to intensify co-operation on Covid-19 and increase their contribution to the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative.\n\nIn a joint statement released after a virtual summit on Friday, G7 leaders raised their overall commitment to $7.5bn (£5.3bn).\n\nWealthy countries are facing growing pressure to make sure lower-income nations get fair access to vaccines.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has pledged $4bn in US aid to the fund.\n\nAn initial $2bn will be donated in 2021, with an additional $2bn coming over the next two years.\n\nGermany pledged an additional $1.2bn with Chancellor Angela Merkel telling journalists: \"I stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe EU also increased its commitment on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Covax scheme is aiming to get at least 1.3bn vaccine doses to vulnerable populations worldwide in the coming months.\n\nCovax is co-led by Gavi, known as the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday he was grateful for the new commitments but emphasised that more was needed to address the world's vaccination imbalance.\n\n\"Vaccine equity is not just the right thing to do, it's also the smart thing to do,\" he said at the annual Munich Security Conference, also held virtually on Friday.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron is among world leaders calling for further action to address the world's vaccine imbalance - saying Europe and the US should urgently send up to 5% of their supplies to developing nations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on the need for a worldwide effort on vaccinations\n\nThe new commitments come days after UN Secretary General António Guterres criticised the distribution of vaccines so far as \"wildly uneven and unfair\".\n\nHe said just 10 countries had administered 75% of all vaccinations worldwide, while 130 countries had not yet received a single dose.\n\nFriday's online meeting was the first gathering of G7 leaders since April 2020, and the first international meeting for new US President Joe Biden.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, this year's G7 chair, has said that the UK will donate much of its surplus vaccine supply to poorer nations.\n\nTo date, at least 110 million people have been infected with the virus worldwide and more than 2.4 million have died, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIn the global scramble to secure vaccines against Covid-19 many wealthy countries - which funded a lot of the research - have ended up buying more supplies than they need.\n\nNew figures from the anti-poverty pressure group, the One Campaign, reveal that Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK, the US and the EU have already secured more than 3bn doses - 1.2bn more than they need to give their entire populations two doses.\n\nThe UK has also given £548m to Covax - the UN-led attempt to get vaccines out to poorer countries.\n\nBut campaigners say they want hard facts on how many actual doses Britain will now be donating to the mechanism.\n\nSome 130 countries in the world haven't done any vaccinations at all and healthcare workers in those countries remain at high risk.\n\nAnd even if the Covax plan works, it's only designed to cover 20% of each nation's population - far short of the herd immunity expected in wealthy countries.", "All adults in the UK will be offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July, the prime minister has pledged.\n\nMore than 17 million people have been given a jab since the UK's Covid vaccine rollout began in December 2020.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he now wants the programme to \"go further and faster\".\n\nHe said the July target would allow vulnerable people to be protected \"sooner\" and would help to further ease lockdown rules across the country.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there were \"early signs\" the vaccine rollout was contributing to a fall in hospital admissions.\n\nThe PM is due to hold a final meeting with senior ministers about how to ease England's lockdown later, before he sets out the full \"road map\" on Monday.\n\nA speedy rollout of the vaccine to all vulnerable people is seen as critical to reducing the pandemic's death toll and relieving pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe government's previous target was to offer all adults the first dose by September.\n\nThe new plan means that by 15 April, all adults aged 50 and over, as well as younger people with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk, should have been offered a jab.\n\nHowever, the order of priority for under-50s has yet to be outlined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, said he expected that a public announcement would be made on vaccine priorities at some point in the next week.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"The strategy from JCVI that's being provided as advice to the government is just being finalised at the moment, and then government will make their decision as to how to do this during the coming days, so I think there'll be some kind of public announcement around that in the next week or so.\"\n\nThe speedier rollout of the vaccine is likely to raise expectations - and pressure - for a swifter unlocking in England, but the government is still talking the language of caution.\n\nSenior ministers will finalise the plan today before it's presented to the wider Cabinet for approval tomorrow.\n\nIt's unlikely that any restrictions will change before 8 March, when the government hopes to get all children back into schools.\n\nThe prime minister has long said that is his top priority.\n\nBut it is likely that a small tweak will be made from that date to allow people to meet one other person outdoors for social purposes rather than just for exercise.\n\nA Downing Street source said this would be the beginning of allowing people to meet each other for socialising once again as the government recognised the impact of not seeing loved ones.\n\nIt's understood various options - which could include reintroducing the rule of six - are being considered for the weeks beyond.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, welcomed the vaccine targets being moved forward, but called on the government to prioritise people based on their job.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"It's perfectly reasonable for teachers, police officers and other key workers who haven't been able to stay at home in the lockdown to ask when their turn will be.\n\n\"If government aren't going to prioritise by occupation in the next phase, they need to set out why.\"\n\nMr Ashworth also said the vaccination programme needed to be supported by stronger measures to break the chain of infection, such as \"decent financial support\" for people who have to self-isolate, updated guidance on face coverings and better ventilation standards in workplaces.\n\nSome 17.2 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine at one of the 1,500 vaccination sites across the country, and almost 600,000 have received their second dose.\n\nNHS England said that more than two-thirds of those aged between 65 and 69 have had their first dose of a vaccine - just one week after invitations went out.\n\nNext, about 460,000 people aged 64 will be invited to get their jab.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: \"Over 14.5 million of the most vulnerable people in England have already safely had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and with people aged between 65 and 69 now eligible too, we want everyone else in this age group to consider making this week your week to get a jab.\"\n\nThe government previously met its pledge of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top four priority groups - including those aged 70 and over, care home residents, healthcare workers and people required to shield - by 15 February.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Hitting 15 million vaccinations was a significant milestone - but there will be no let up, and I want to see the rollout go further and faster in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We will now aim to offer a jab to every adult by the end of July, helping us protect the most vulnerable sooner, and take further steps to ease some of the restrictions in place.\"\n\nHe added, however, that the \"route out of lockdown\" would be \"cautious and phased\".\n\nReuniting families and allowing people to have more social contact will be an \"absolute priority\" in easing measures once schools have reopened, No 10 said on Saturday.\n\nOne of the first steps towards this is that care home residents in England will each be allowed one regular visitor from 8 March.\n\nThose nominated visitors will be able to meet indoors and hold hands with their loved one, but must wear personal protective equipment and be tested beforehand.\n\nIn Scotland, care home residents will be allowed up to two designated visitors once a week, under guidelines due to be published on Wednesday. The Scottish government hopes to publish a route out of lockdown next week, but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged people not to book Easter holidays.\n\nWales has already announced some relaxation of its lockdown rules, but Northern Ireland has extended its stay-at-home order until April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles arrived at the hospital on Saturday afternoon\n\nThe Prince of Wales has visited the central London hospital where his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, remains after feeling unwell.\n\nPrince Philip was admitted to the King Edward VII's hospital as a precaution on Tuesday.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source told the BBC the duke is likely to remain in hospital into next week.\n\nThe exact reason for his admission has not been disclosed but his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nA palace source previously said the duke, who is due to turn 100 in June, had walked into the hospital in Marylebone unaided.\n\nPrince Charles, 72, spent about 30 minutes at the hospital on Saturday afternoon. He returned to his Highgrove residence after the visit, a Clarence House spokesman said.\n\nUnder England's current coronavirus lockdown rules, visiting someone in a hospital is considered a \"reasonable excuse\" to leave home, although many hospitals have put significant limits on visitors.\n\nThe King Edward VII's hospital website says visitors \"will only be considered in exceptional circumstances\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe duke is in hospital for observation and rest out of \"an abundance of caution\", a source said\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have continued with their official duties while Philip has been in hospital.\n\nThe Queen, 94, performed her first face-to-face event of the year on Thursday, when she knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\n\nPrince Charles visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with the Duchess of Cornwall on Thursday, where he told NHS staff the country owes them \"an enormous debt of gratitude\" for their efforts in the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has also carried out several virtual conversations with frontline NHS staff this week, while the Princess Royal held a virtual meeting in her role as patron of the Scottish Rugby Union.\n\nLast month, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip and the Queen had received Covid vaccinations from a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple have been spending the recent lockdown in England at Windsor with a small household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThey celebrated Christmas quietly there, instead of the traditional family gathering at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nPolice officers are guarding the entrance to the King Edward VII hospital during Philip's stay\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall thanked key workers at a hospital in Birmingham earlier this week for their efforts during the pandemic\n\nIn December 2019, the duke was admitted to King Edward VII hospital as a \"precautionary measure\" for treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nHe was discharged on Christmas Eve that year, after four nights and driven to Sandringham, where he spent Christmas with the Queen.\n\nThe duke has received treatment for various other health conditions over the years including a blocked coronary artery in 2011, a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip released a photograph for their 73rd wedding anniversary last November\n\nPrince Philip's most-recent official engagement saw him hand over his role of colonel-in-chief of The Rifles in a ceremony at Windsor to the Duchess of Cornwall, who received the role in a separate ceremony at Highgrove.\n\nLast November, the Queen and Prince Philip marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph of themselves opening a card made for them by their great-grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.", "The couple have four children together\n\nKim Kardashian has filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West, according to reports in the US media.\n\nThe couple have been married for almost seven years and have four children together.\n\nThe news was broken by celebrity news website TMZ after months of rumours of marital difficulties.\n\nReports in US media suggest the reality star, 40, has requested joint legal and physical custody of their children. Neither has publicly commented.\n\nThe couple are among the most recognisable stars in the world and are both hugely successful in their own right.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Kim had been over the marriage for a long time\": Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton comments on the reported split\n\nKim first found fame in 2007 as the star of an E! Television reality series about her family. Keeping up with the Kardashians has remained hugely popular since, with its 21st and final series due to air next year.\n\nThe reality star has found success in many other areas of business, from mobile apps to make-up, and Forbes estimates her personal wealth to be about $780m (£556m).\n\nKnown for huge international hits like Gold Digger, Kanye West has been one of the biggest names in rap music for over 15 years. The Grammy-winning musician has also found success as a fashion designer.\n\nKardashian and West got together after her divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries\n\nThe pair were friends for years before they got together and West first appeared on her family's reality show in 2010.\n\nTheir first daughter, North, arrived in June 2013.\n\nWest famously hired the San Francisco Giants' baseball stadium and an orchestra to propose to her in front of her family, and their show's cameras, later that year.\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 kimkardashian 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\nThey got married in Italy in May 2014 and a photograph of them kissing on their wedding day became, at the time, Instagram's most liked post ever. By this point she and her sisters had turned social media into an art form, with their online followings propelling their business success and fame ever further.\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 kimkardashian 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\nKardashian gave birth to the couple's first son, Saint West, the following year. They went on to have two other children, Chicago and Psalm, through a surrogate after the reality star suffered from health complications during her previous pregnancies.\n\nThe couple have rarely been away from tabloid headlines since, most notably when Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris in 2016.\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 kimkardashian 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\nLast year, West unsuccessfully ran for US president. During his campaign, a series of erratic public appearances and online postings by the rapper sparked concern and led Kardashian to speak out.\n\nShe said her husband had bipolar disorder, was a \"brilliant but complicated person\" and called for greater empathy surrounding his mental health from the public and the media.\n\nRumours of their divorce have been around for months amid speculation Kardashian had hired well-known lawyer Laura Wasser.\n\nPage Six reported the filing was imminent in January, claiming West spent the festive season away from the California-based family at his Wyoming ranch.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJapan's Naomi Osaka cemented her place as the outstanding star of the women's game by beating American Jennifer Brady in the Australian Open final to win her fourth Grand Slam title.\n\nOsaka, 23, is unbeaten in major finals after a 6-4 6-3 win in Melbourne.\n\nOsaka edged the first set when Brady, in her first Grand Slam final, paid for some glaring errors in the final game.\n\nThe third seed seized control from that point, racing 4-0 ahead in the second set before sealing a deserved victory.\n\nOsaka has now won two Australian Open titles after also triumphing at Melbourne Park in 2019, with her other Grand Slam successes coming at the US Open in 2018 and 2020.\n\nShe has not suffered a defeat since February 2020 after extending her winning run to 21 matches.\n\nOsaka's face lit up with a wide grin, raising her racquet above her head, when she clinched the title on her first match point after Brady looped a return long.\n\nAround 7,500 fans were allowed to watch the final on Rod Laver Arena and Osaka lapped up the acclaim after her US Open victory came behind closed doors.\n\n\"It feels incredible to have fans, I played the last Grand Slam without fans, to have this energy means a lot,\" said Osaka as she clutched the Daphne Akhurst Trophy.\n• None 'Osaka now sets the standards on women's tour'\n\nOsaka is the first women's player to win her first four Grand Slam finals since Monica Seles in 1991.\n\nAnd asked if she could reach double figures in slam titles, Osaka replied: \"I'm taking it in sections. Right now, I'm trying to go for five. After five I would think about maybe dividing the 10, so maybe seven or eight.\n\n\"I like to take things not big picture. I know that the people that I'm playing against are the best players in the world and, if my time comes to win another Grand Slam, it will come.\"\n\nOsaka proves again why she is seen as 'an inspiration'\n\nSoftly-spoken Osaka has emerged as the sport's biggest star in recent times and illustrated that yet again with another Grand Slam victory.\n\nOn the court, her clean hitting and clear thinking has proved too much for her opponents to handle.\n\nOff the court, she has grown into one of the world's most marketable athletes and found her voice to become a prominent social activist.\n\n\"I feel like the biggest thing that I want to achieve is playing long enough to play a girl that said that I was once her favourite player,\" said Osaka.\n\n\"I think that's the coolest thing that could ever happen to me. I just think that that's how the sport moves forward.\"\n\nIn her runners-up speech, Brady said Osaka was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\n\"What she is doing for the game is amazing. I hope young girls are watching and inspired by what she is doing,\" Brady said.\n\nOsaka was the clear favourite in the final at Melbourne Park, although a relatively serene path to the final also featured moments where she showed her fight and spirit.\n\nIn the fourth round against 2020 runner-up Garbine Muguruza, Osaka had to see off two match points before going on to win, as well as coming through some tricky moments against 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams in the semi-finals.\n\nWhile her level against Brady was not always at its highest, she still had enough quality in the key moments.\n\nThat was most evident at 5-4 in the first set when her relentless pressure forced Brady into the errors which proved pivotal.\n\nAnd more brilliance enabled Osaka to make a fast start in the second set from which Brady could not recover.\n\nA sweet cross-court backhand winner brought up more break points for a 2-0 lead, taking the first opportunity when another deep return bamboozled Brady into some clumsy footwork.\n\nFrom that point, Osaka's confidence further grew and she quickly went a double break up.\n\nWhile Brady did claw one back, Osaka never looked like relinquishing another and served out the Championship to love.\n\nThe next question for Osaka will be whether she can transfer this hard-court dominance onto the clay and grass surfaces.\n\nSuccess has not yet arrived at the French Open and Wimbledon, but her next ambition - once she has celebrated this success - will be trying to change that in the next few months and over the coming years.\"\n\n\"I feel like I have to get comfortable on those surfaces,\" Osaka said. \"I didn't play juniors, so I didn't grow up playing on grass at all.\n\n\"I honestly think I'd have better luck on clay, because I think last year I didn't play bad at all. It's just something that I have to get more used to.\"\n\nBrady comes up short but hopes for 'many more' major finals\n\nWhile it was not the outcome Brady wanted, the 25-year-old American has plenty of positives to build on after reaching her first Grand Slam final.\n\nIt was quite remarkable the 22nd seed even made the second week in Melbourne, having been the only singles player forced into a 'hard' quarantine on arrival in Australia to do so.\n\nStuck in her room for 14 days without leaving, the former college player had to hit balls against a mattress propped up against the wall, come up with inventive footwork drills and borrow an exercise bike and treadmill from Tennis Australia.\n\nShe also admitted to stopping watching Netflix so she would not \"do anything other than lay in bed\".\n\nSolid serving is the bedrock of her game and that helped her work her way through a kind draw where she did not face anyone inside the top 20 until Osaka.\n\nBrady lost to Osaka when they met in a high-quality US Open semi-final last September and suffered the same fate as she struggled to impose her service game.\n\nThe match swung away from Brady in that decisive 10th game of the opening set.\n\nAfter having regained her fluency following a scrappy start, a double fault at 40-30 gave Osaka hope and Brady then got caught out by a return hitting the baseline to give Osaka a set point out of nowhere.\n\nBrady planted an easy forehand into the net and, ultimately, that sloppy game cost her the match.\n\nGroans from the crowd as Brady grimaced and shook her head reinforced the point.\n\n\"It wasn't meant to be, but hopefully there's many more,\" said Brady, who will rise to 15th in the world after being outside the top 50 a year ago.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The EU has told British fishermen they are indefinitely banned from selling live mussels, oysters, clams, cockles and scallops to its member states.\n\nAs the UK is now a separate country, it is not allowed to transport the animals to the EU unless they have already been treated in purification plants.\n\nBut the industry says it does not have enough tanks ready and the process can slow exports, making them less viable.\n\nThe government promised to continue to \"raise the issue\" with the EU.\n\nSince 1 January, UK firms have been able to send only pre-purified, ready-to-eat shellfish - accompanied by an export health certificate - to buyers in the EU's 27 member states.\n\nUntil this year, they could be purified - with contaminants removed in clean seawater tanks - after they reached their destination.\n\nUK shellfish catches were valued at £393m in 2019.\n\nOnly those landed in \"class A\" waters - the very cleanest - can currently be transported from the UK to the EU without the need for purification beforehand. But most UK waters are not in that category.\n\nThe UK government previously said it thought the restrictions on exports of bivalve molluscs - such as mussels, clams, cockles, scallops and oysters - would end on 21 April.\n\nThis was because Brussels was \"expected\" to change its rules on that date to allow unpurified shellfish in from non-member states.\n\nBut it has emerged - as first reported by Politics Home - that the European Commission wrote to leading UK companies on 13 and 19 January to tell them the current arrangement would be in place indefinitely.\n\nThis has increased fears for the future of businesses and staff, amid concerns that purified shellfish go off quicker than unpurified ones, making them harder to transport.\n\n\"The issue with shellfish is that they are highly perishable, so there are many risks associated with delays,\" Barrie Deas, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations, told the BBC.\n\n\"We are really in a high-risk category compared with other kinds of exports.\"\n\nHe added that \"nothing\" had changed, in terms of the EU's rules, but firms who had thought they were going to were feeling \"very frustrated\".\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said: \"We will continue to raise the issue of live bivalve molluscs not ready for human consumption with the EU, to ensure the trade can continue securely.\"\n\nMinisters would work to reach an \"appropriate solution\", they added.", "Twiggy helped put the UK industry on the global map\n\nMore than 400 figures from the UK fashion industry have signed an open letter to the prime minister warning that post-Brexit red tape and travel restrictions threaten their survival.\n\nSignatories, including Twiggy and Katharine Hamnett, say some firms are already relocating to the EU.\n\nThey say the sector is worth £35bn to the UK and employs one million people.\n\n\"Yet we have been disregarded in this deal and our concerns overlooked,\" the letter to Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe letter, to be presented on Tuesday morning, calls for a meeting with ministers because \"without urgent attention these issues will jeopardise the immediate and long term future of the sector\".\n\nThey said the trade agreement, finalised on Christmas Eve just a week before the UK left the bloc's single market and customs union, had failed to deliver on promises of frictionless future trade.\n\nThe sector's concerns echo those of other sectors, from music to fisheries, who argue the new bureaucratic regime is endangering the future of their industries.\n\nLondon Fashion Week is one of the global industry's most important events\n\nBut the letter says the fashion industry contributes \"more to UK GDP than fishing, music, film and motor industries combined\".\n\nIt highlights the compensation package offered to the fishing industry, saying: \"Fishing contributes as much to the UK economy as East London does from the fashion and textile industry, employing the same workforce as just one of the many high street retailers currently facing liquidation\".\n\nModel Yasmin Le Bon said the nature of the industry meant people had to be able to travel freely within the EU, often at short notice.\n\n\"I have been working continually in this industry for the past 37 years. It works in a very particular way, with jobs being confirmed literally at the last minute. I may get a call, make a decision and be at the airport within two hours.\n\n\"For once we need to be listened to and for the Government to work with us before it is too late,\" she said.\n\nKatharine Hamnett has long complained about the tax system's impact on the industry\n\nDesigner Katharine Hamnett said many firms could be weeks away from going under. \"We need a radical overhaul of customs arrangements including VAT on all goods shipped into the EU by the end of February, or British brands will die,\" she said.\n\nIsabel Ettedgui, the chief executive of Connolly, the fashion brand that sells Scottish cashmere and manufactures leather goods in Spain, said the trade rules were turning the industry into a Brexit trading post.\n\n\"The result could be the possible closure of a 185-year-old company that holds the Royal Warrant,\" she said.\n\nLast week Samantha Cameron, wife of former prime minister David - who called the 2016 Brexit referendum - said her fashion business was finding post-Brexit trading with the EU \"challenging and difficult\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with businesses in the fashion industry to ensure they get the support they need to trade effectively with Europe, and seize new opportunities as we strike trade deals with the world's fastest growing markets.\"\n\n\"We are aware that some businesses are facing challenges with specific aspects of our new trading relationship with the EU. To this end, we are operating export helplines, running webinars with policy experts and offering businesses support via our network of 300 international trade advisers. This is on top of the millions we have invested to expand the customs intermediaries sector.\"", "Scott Summerfield said letting the couple be together was \"the least we could do for them\"\n\nA dying Covid patient told medics he was \"in heaven\" when they rearranged a hospital ward so he could hold the hand of his wife who also had the virus.\n\nNurse Scott Summerfield says he has been \"overwhelmed\" by public support after his tweet last week about the elderly couple's \"last few hours\".\n\nThe unnamed pair, whom Mr Summerfield said had been together 67 years, have since died, he confirmed.\n\nThey were cared for at Royal Stoke Hospital.\n\nThe \"beautiful story\" of how they stayed together to the end has been shared on Twitter more than 19,000 times, receiving more than 220,000 likes.\n\nMr Summerfield said: \"It is just a great example of the care we are giving to our patients and to share that with the world, really there is no better message.\n\n\"[The response] was very, very overwhelming, and the support from people out there was just amazing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Summerfield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Summerfield, who works on elderly care Covid wards, said the couple had been in hospital for a few days when they began to deteriorate.\n\n\"We sort of decided there and then that we needed to get them together, it was the least we could do for them,\" he said.\n\nStaff made a large cubicle for the couple, pushed together their beds with pillows in the middle so they could hold hands, and played Glenn Miller songs on Youtube - their favourite music, according to the nurse.\n\nMr Summerfield said: \"When I asked [the husband] how he felt his answer was 'I'm now in heaven'.\n\n\"To have that impact on somebody and for him to thank us when all we were doing was the right thing was just overwhelming for all of us.\n\n\"It is such a personal moment, somebody dying, and to be there for that and to make their passing as comfortable as possible is sometimes all we have got left to give and that's what we endeavour to do.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was a beautiful story and it really did capture the world's heart.\"\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.", "Non-essential travel has been restricted in New York City\n\nA massive winter storm has pummelled the US east coast, grounding flights, shuttering vaccination sites and bringing New York City to a standstill.\n\nBy Monday afternoon as much as 19in (48cm) of snow had already fallen in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and 17in (43cm) in New York City.\n\nNew York City and New Jersey have both declared a state of emergency.\n\nThe US National Weather Service said the storm will move up to New England, before tapering off on Tuesday.\n\nWind gusts of up to 50mph (80km/h) are also forecast for several days creating a blinding, blowing snow storm.\n\nThe storm has wrought havoc on local travel. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an order restricting non-essential travel from 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Monday, and closing public schools on Tuesday.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in large parts of New York state and in New Jersey\n\nNew York state Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York City as well as 44 other counties.\n\n\"This is a dangerous situation,\" he said in a press conference on Monday. \"A life-threatening-situation. Expect closures. It's going to get very bad very quickly.\"\n\nIn New Jersey, Governor Philip Murphy suspended the state's bus and rail operations on Monday. His emergency order allows authorities to shut roads and evacuate homes.\n\nMore than 1,600 flights have been cancelled at major airports in the storm's path, including Newark Liberty International Airport, John F Kennedy Airport, and Philadelphia International Airport. At New York's La Guardia Airport, all flights were suspended as of Monday morning.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in New York City\n\nThe storm has also halted vaccine distribution in Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, parts of Washington, DC and the New York area.\n\nIn New York City vaccinations will be cancelled through to Tuesday, as Mayor de Blasio has said it is \"not safe\" for older residents to go outside in the blizzard conditions.\n\n\"We're in a local state of emergency,\" Mr de Blasio said at a news conference. \"I'm fearful that this tough situation we have now could get worse.\"\n\nThe Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain in New York has been covered with ice amid the winter storm\n\nSnow hit the west coast last week, with some parts of California experiencing more than 6ft (2m) of snowfall.\n\nIn Washington DC, many have enjoyed the snow in front of the capital's iconic landmarks. After a day of snow on Sunday, the winter weather advisory from the National Weather Service has been extended until Tuesday at midnight in the DC area. Freezing rain and sleet showers are expected through the day.\n\nPresident Joe Biden met advisers to discuss \"a range of issues, including the approaching winter storm\", a White House official said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panda pair Mei Xiang and Tian Tian played in the snow at their temporary home in Washington DC", "The pandemic has had a deep impact on children, who are arriving in A&E in greater numbers and at younger ages after self-harming or taking overdoses, writes Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary.\n\nChildren are a lost tribe in the pandemic. While they remain (for the most part) perplexingly immune to the health consequences of Covid-19, their lives and daily routines have been turned upside down.\n\nFrom surveys and interviews carried out for the Born in Bradford study, we know that they are anxious, isolated and bored, and we see the tip of this iceberg of mental ill health in the hospital.\n\nChildren in mental health crisis used to be brought to A&E about twice a week. Since the summer it's been more like once or twice a day. Some as young as 10 have cut themselves, taken overdoses, or tried to asphyxiate themselves.\n\nThere was even one child aged eight.\n\nLockdown \"massively exacerbates any pre-existing mental health issues - fears, anxieties, feelings of disconnection and isolation,\" says A&E consultant Dave Greenhorn.\n\nWhile Bradford has been in lockdown longer than some other parts of the country, there is no reason to believe this is a local problem. Dave says fellow A&E consultants he's spoken to in Scotland, Portsmouth and Northern Ireland all report a significant increase in mental health attendances - among all age groups, children as well as adults.\n\nSelf-harming \"used to be the mind-set of older teenagers but we are seeing much younger children doing this now\" says Ruth Tolley, a matron on the paediatric ward where children are taken if it is not safe for them to return home.\n\nIt may then take the combined efforts of several nurses to prevent further self-harm on the ward.\n\nEating disorders are also on the rise, says paediatrician Helen Jepp. So are overdoses - where children take their parents' medication, or their own - and cases where children rush out of the house and behave recklessly or dangerously on the street.\n\nA child psychiatrist who works with Bradford's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) says the caseload fell at the start of the pandemic then returned to normal levels. For him what's new is not the quantity but the severity of the work. \"We have been seeing more intense distress,\" he says. \"Young people are in a worse state than usual.\"\n\nConsultant Dave Greenhorn describes a recent evening in A&E. It's a busy one - there are 94 people in the department, including a pale-looking teenage boy, lying quietly in a cubicle.\n\nDave asks if he's OK, but there is no answer and no eye contact.\n\nThe notes show that the boy has attended the Emergency Department every other day for two weeks. Before now he has taken small overdoses and told staff he wants to die. He has a child and adolescent psychiatrist and support worker but there is no firm diagnosis of mental illness.\n\nOne of the problems is that lockdown has prevented everyone from accessing their own safety valves. The boy has previously mentioned that he misses going out with his friends. Now he's stuck at home, and so are other members of his family. Unable to get away for a few hours peace, the mum says she's at the end of her tether and can't deal with her son at home on this particular night.\n\nDave's attempts to coax the boy to talk to him are unsuccessful, so he makes sure the youngster has some juice and a sandwich and asks the nurses to keep trying to get him to engage when they have a minute - though they rarely do.\n\nOn previous admissions to the paediatric ward the boy has been hard to look after, so it's been agreed he shouldn't be sent there, but he doesn't want to go to an adult ward. In the end he spends the night in A&E.\n\nThe pandemic has underlined for all to see just how important school is for children. Education is only part of it. There is also the social life, and children benefit from routine, boundaries and adult authority figures outside the home.\n\nTeachers are also experts at spotting problems such as anxiety and self-harm that has taken place at home. A lot of referrals would normally arise in this way.\n\nFor older children, school is the framework that will enable them to reach university or employment, and some struggle when it appears to give way.\n\nSeema [not her real name] attempted suicide and started self-harming when exams were cancelled last summer.\n\n\"We tried very hard for our exams - you're taught that your entire future revolves around these exams, but that crumbles right in front of you and it's really shocking. It has a huge impact,\" she says.\n\n\"I felt like stabbing myself… I was in a constant state of anxiety.\"\n\nNow 17, she is doing a lot better, though she still misses contact with teachers and friends, and would like schools to organise online groups for students to socialise, not just meet for lessons.\n\nHer family hasn't been able to understand her problem, but she has now been getting help.\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nOne crucial beneficial change that has come out of this epidemic of mental ill-health is that professionals from all the different agencies in Bradford have come together to support the children in their time of crisis.\n\nGone are the delays in referrals between different teams - the health service and social services are acting as one.\n\n\"Covid has brought services closer together,\" says paediatric ward matron Ruth Tolley. \"We needed an urgent meeting with the safeguarding team and various other agencies and we were able to pull that meeting together in two hours - getting people together and getting a plan, that is really positive.\"\n\nPaediatrician Helen Jepps agrees. She got a call about a teenager one morning, logged on and saw that a number of teams were already discussing the case - social workers, Camhs and voluntary organisations. \"It feels a real privilege at the moment to have that close contact,\" she says.\n\nBut this is little consolation for the damage that is being done to children's lives.\n\nThe past 10 months of lockdown and school closures may have seemed unending for parents, but for a 10-year-old it will have felt like a lifetime. Their youth is being stolen from them.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know is affected by issues discussed in this article, the BBC's Action Line has organisations which may be able to help for emotional distress/suicide and mental health issues.", "People living in Wales and England have been urged to download the government's contact-tracing app\n\nPeople in Wales who are told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 phone app can now apply for a £500 payment, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nUntil now it has only been available to low-earners who have been asked to isolate by either Test, Trace, Protect or their child's school.\n\nPeople need to contact their council to access the scheme.\n\nThe Conservatives said it was confusing and said people should be able to have payments backdated.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said payments would not be backdated for anyone who had been told to self-isolate by the app before the latest announcement.\n\nPeople will also have to show evidence their income will be reduced by isolating.\n\nIt is available to people who are employed or self-employed and unable to work from home.\n\nThe applicant or their partner must be currently receiving universal credit, working tax credit, income-based employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income support, housing benefit or pension credit.\n\nSome will have their application accepted under the discretionary element of Self-Isolation Support Scheme.\n\nPeople living in Wales and England have been urged to download the contact-tracing app.\n\nNHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate if it detects they were near to someone who has the virus.\n\nThe Housing and Local Government Minister Julie James said the Welsh Government was \"committed to protecting people's health and well-being\".\n\n\"We will continue to support the people of Wales during this difficult time,\" she said.\n\n\"The £500 payment has already provided financial security to those asked to self-isolate, helping to break the cycle of transmission and ensure no-one has to choose between feeding their family or going to work and potentially spreading the virus.\"\n\nShe said local authorities had \"once again risen to the challenge\" of ensuring all those who need financial support throughout receive it while developers amend the process so people can apply for help directly through the app.\n\nAngela Burns, the Welsh Conservative health spokeswoman, criticised the fact that \"applications still cannot be backdated to September, meaning people in Wales who need this £500 payment - and who are likely to fall into the financially vulnerable category - cannot access it and are therefore badly disadvantaged\".\n\nTravel is currently limited to essential purposes in Wales, such as for work and caring responsibilities, and international travel is barred.\n\nBut, after a tough year with the pandemic, many people will be dreaming about a holiday in 2021.\n\nWhile bookings for UK staycations are \"coming in thick and fast\", some people are gambling on a foreign trip in the hope restrictions will ease later this year.\n\nUse this form to tell us about your plans.\n\nIn some cases your comments will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Rapper Silento has been arrested and charged with the murder of his cousin.\n\nDeKalb County Police Department confirmed that Silento, real name Ricky Hawk, was arrested on 1 February after his cousin, Frederick Rooks, was found shot dead on 21 January.\n\nThe 23-year-old had a hit with his single Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) in 2015, which reached No.3 in America and No.19 in the UK.\n\nHe's currently being held in DeKalb County Jail and is charged with murder.\n\nAccording to XXL magazine, the 34-year-old victim was found bleeding heavily after suffering gunshot wounds to his face and leg in a suburb of Georgia, US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe's been releasing music ever since - and his most recent release, Swish, was released on 28 January 2021.\n\nIn 2020 he was arrested twice - once after an incident with a hatchet and another on driving charges, according to US gossip site, TMZ.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted DeKalb County Police Department for more information.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Welsh Government is \"considering whether enhanced arrangements\" are needed\n\nIncreased testing is being considered in Wales as part of efforts to tackle the South African coronavirus variant.\n\nOfficials said there were nine confirmed cases of the more infectious version of Covid-19 in Wales, with another four probable cases.\n\nParts of England have been singled out for \"surge testing\" following fears the variant is spreading in the community.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was looking at whether \"enhanced measures\" are needed.\n\nPublic Health Wales nine South African variant cases - and one probable case - in Wales were linked to travel, while investigations were continuing for the remaining three.\n\nThere are concerns vaccines will be less effective against the variant, but Health Minister Vaughan Gething said they would still offer \"a good level of protection\".\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives called for the government to consider a \"door-to-door testing blitz\", while Plaid Cymru said the issue highlighted the importance of an effective test, trace and isolate system.\n\nIt comes as concern grows at genetic changes in other variants found in regions of England. Testing is expected to be rolled out to Bristol and Liverpool where \"mutations of concern\" have been discovered.\n\nThe figures are an increase on the 10 South African variant cases identified in Wales last week. At that stage there were eight confirmed cases, and two that were suspected.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales, Chief Scientific Adviser Rob Orford said the situation was being monitored \"very carefully in Wales\".\n\n\"We're very fortunate in Wales to have a very good system in place where we sequence many of the positive Covid test that we that we have back,\" he said.\n\nHe said numbers of the UK Kent variant - identified before Christmas - had reduced during lockdown.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, constantly mutate into new versions or variants.\n\nThese tiny genetic changes happen as the virus makes new copies of itself to spread and thrive.\n\nMost are inconsequential, and a few can even be harmful to the virus's survival, but some variants can make the virus more infectious or threatening to the host - humans.\n\nThere are now many thousands of variants of the pandemic virus circulating. But experts are concerned about the South African variant, or 501.V2, as they fear it can spread more readily and vaccines may not work quite as well against it.\n\nIn a statement the Welsh Government said: \"We are considering whether enhanced arrangements, which might include testing, are needed.\n\n\"We continue to look for cases through the quarantine and testing arrangements currently in place, as well as through our programme of genomic surveillance.\n\n\"We work closely with Public Health Wales and with the wider UK response to monitor, detect and investigate new variants of the virus.\"\n\nIt is not clear where the cases had been found.\n\nPublic Health Wales earlier announced there had been 614 new Covid infections, of all variants, and seven further deaths on Tuesday as Wales' average case rate fell to 131 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nIn a virtual session of the Senedd on Tuesday, Mr Gething said there are concerns that both the South African variant and a recent mutated form of the Kent variant, will have a \"less effective response\" for vaccines.\n\n\"That does not mean that vaccines won't be effective at all; they will still offer a good level of protection and it reinforces the need to continue going with real pace in our vaccination programme,\" he said.\n\nMr Gething said he was confident the Welsh Government had the ability to identify such cases through testing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Gething says it is hard to ignore comments on social media and blogs\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"In other parts of the UK a door-to-door testing blitz is getting under way in a bid to find every single case of the South African variant, and those in affected postcodes are being instructed to only go out when 'absolutely essential'.\n\n\"Labour's health minister must urgently update the Senedd on the latest presence of both variants in Wales and unique measures the Welsh Government intends to take to tackle and reduce transmission.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"This is a reminder of the importance of an effective test, trace and isolate system alongside the protection that the vaccine can give us.\n\n\"If infection can quickly be identified and traced, and people are supported to self-isolate - including an increase to isolation payments to £800 as Plaid Cymru has been asking for - then it will help us to keep ahead of the new variant.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior researcher has said people in Wales have played a significant part in the development treatments and vaccines to combat Covid-19.\n\nDr Nicola Williams from Health and Care Research Wales said 1,200 people helped test the AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines, while people in north Wales had taken part in Novavax trials.\n\nThe Novavax jab - which last week was shown to be 89% effective - is the first to be tested and have some success against new variants.\n\nDr Williams said they had an \"overwhelming response\" from the public and not everyone was able to be put into a trial.\n\n\"What we have achieved in Wales is tremendous,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been able to come together as a community [with] NHS and academia and we've been able to put Wales on the map in terms of its ability to be responsive, to set up studies really quickly and then really deliver, in terms of recruiting successfully to those studies.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did this peace icon end up at a genocide trial?\n\nShe was once seen as a beacon for human rights - a principled activist who gave up her freedom to challenge the ruthless army generals who ruled Myanmar for decades.\n\nIn 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while still under house arrest, and hailed as \"an outstanding example of the power of the powerless\".\n\nIn 2015, she led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years. But she was deposed by a coup in 2021 when the military took control and arrested her and the political leadership around her.\n\nWhile her image had suffered internationally due to her response to the crisis that befell Myanmar's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, she remains hugely popular with the country's Buddhist majority.\n\nMs Suu Kyi spent nearly 15 years in detention between 1989 and 2010. Her personal struggle to bring democracy to then military-ruled Myanmar (also known as Burma) - made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.\n\nDespite her landslide victory in 2015, the Myanmar constitution forbade her from becoming president because she has children who are foreign nationals. But Ms Suu Kyi, now 75, was widely seen as de facto leader.\n\nThe Obama administration lifted sanctions on Myanmar in return for democratic reforms\n\nHer official title was state counsellor. The President until the 2021 coup, Win Myint, was a close aide.\n\nIn 2020, her NLD once again won a landslide majority, getting even more votes than in the 2015 vote.\n\nThe still powerful military disputed the results, claiming election fraud. On the day parliament was to a sit for the first time, the military arrested Ms Suu Kyi along with many other political leaders.\n\nIt then declared a state of emergency, handing power to the military for a full year.\n\nMs Suu Kyi was later charged with illegally importing communications equipment. Police said they found seven walkie-talkie radios in her home which she was not authorised to possess.\n\nMs Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San.\n\nHe was assassinated when she was only two years old, just before Myanmar gained independence from British colonial rule in 1948.\n\nIn 1960 she went to India with her mother Daw Khin Kyi, who had been appointed Myanmar's ambassador in Delhi.\n\nFour years later she went to Oxford University in the UK, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. There she met her future husband, academic Michael Aris.\n\nAfter stints of living and working in Japan and Bhutan, she settled in the UK to raise their two children, Alexander and Kim, but Myanmar was never far from her thoughts.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi with Michael Aris and son Alexander in London in 1973\n\nWhen she arrived back in Yangon in 1988 - to look after her critically ill mother - Myanmar was in the midst of major political upheaval.\n\nThousands of students, office workers and monks took to the streets demanding democratic reform.\n\n\"I could not as my father's daughter remain indifferent to all that was going on,\" she said in a speech in Yangon on 26 August 1988. She went on to lead the revolt against the then-dictator, General Ne Win.\n\nInspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King and India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections.\n\nBut the demonstrations were brutally suppressed by the army, which seized power in a coup on 18 September 1988. Ms Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest the following year.\n\nThe military government called national elections in May 1990, which Ms Suu Kyi's NLD convincingly won - but the junta refused to hand over control.\n\nMs Suu Kyi remained under house arrest in Yangon for six years, until she was released in July 1995.\n\nShe was again put under house arrest in September 2000, when she tried to travel to the city of Mandalay in defiance of travel restrictions.\n\nShe was released unconditionally in May 2002, but just over a year later was imprisoned after a government-backed mob set upon her entourage in the north of the country. She escaped because of the swift action taken by her driver, but many of her supporters were savagely beaten and a number died.\n\nHuge crowds greeted Aung San Suu Kyi on her release from house arrest in 2010\n\nShe was later allowed to return home - but again under effective house arrest.\n\nAt times she was able to meet other NLD officials and selected diplomats, but during the early years she was often in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to see her two sons or her husband, who died of cancer in March 1999.\n\nThe military authorities had offered to allow her to travel to the UK to see him when he was gravely ill, but she felt compelled to refuse for fear she would not be allowed back into the country.\n\nMs Suu Kyi was side-lined from Myanmar's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later. Her son Kim was allowed to visit her for the first time in a decade.\n\nAs the new government embarked on a process of reform, Ms Suu Kyi and her party re-joined the political process.\n\nThey won 43 of the 45 seats contested in April 2012 by-elections, in an emphatic statement of support. Ms Suu Kyi was sworn in as an MP and leader of the opposition.\n\nThe following May, she left Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confidence that its new leaders would allow her to return.\n\nThe NLD swept to victory in November 2015\n\nSince becoming Myanmar's state counsellor, her leadership has been partly defined by the treatment of the country's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.\n\nIn 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh due to an army crackdown sparked by deadly attacks on police stations in Rakhine state.\n\nMyanmar now faces a lawsuit accusing it of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), while the International Criminal Court is investigating the country for crimes against humanity.\n\nMs Suu Kyi's former international supporters accused her of doing nothing to stop rape, murder and possible genocide by refusing to condemn the still powerful military or acknowledge accounts of atrocities.\n\nA few initially argued that she was a pragmatic politician, trying to govern a multi-ethnic country with a complex history.\n\nBut her personal defence of the army's actions at the ICJ hearing in the Hague was seen as a new turning point for her international reputation.\n\nAt home, however, \"the Lady\", as Ms Suu Kyi is known, remains wildly popular among the Buddhist majority who hold little sympathy for the Rohingya.\n\nDuring her time in power Ms Suu Kyi and the NLD government also faced criticism for prosecuting journalists and activists using colonial-era laws.\n\nWhile there was progress in some areas, the military continued to hold a quarter of parliamentary seats and controlled key ministries including defence, home affairs and border affairs.\n\nIn August 2018, Ms Suu Kyi described the generals in her cabinet as \"rather sweet\" and Myanmar's democratic transition, analysts said, appeared to have stalled.\n\nThe 2021 military coup came as the country was facing one of South East Asia's worst Covid-19 outbreaks, putting new strains on an already impoverished healthcare system as lockdown measures devastate livelihoods.\n\nThe coup triggered widespread demonstrations and Myanmar's military has cracked down on pro-democracy protesters, activists and journalists.\n\nIn December 2021, Ms Suu Kyi was found guilty of inciting dissent and breaking Covid rules in the first of a series of verdicts that could see her jailed for life. UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet called it a \"sham trial\" that would only \"deepen rejection of the coup\".\n\nMs Suu Kyi faces 11 charges in total and denies them all.\n\nYet Ms Suu Kyi remains popular. A 2020 survey by the People's Alliance for Credible Elections, a watchdog, found that 79% of people had trust in her - up from 70% the previous year.\n\nDerek Mitchell, former US Ambassador to Myanmar told the BBC: \"The story of Aung San Suu Kyi is as much about us as it is about her. She may not have changed. She may have been consistent and we just didn't know the full complexity of who she is.\n\n\"We have to be mindful that we shouldn't endow people with some iconic image beyond which is human.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: UK \"must come down hard\" on South Africa variant\n\nThe UK must \"come down hard\" on the South African coronavirus variant, the health secretary has said, after cases with no links to travel were detected.\n\nAbout 80,000 people in England will be offered urgent tests for the variant.\n\nResidents aged 16 and over in eight areas across Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall are being asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms.\n\nPrevious cases in the UK were connected to South Africa.\n\nBut random checks found 11 cases that could not be linked to international travel.\n\nMatt Hancock told a Downing Street news conference on Monday that there was \"currently no evidence\" to suggest the South African variant was \"any more severe, but we need to come down on it hard, and we will\".\n\nMobile testing units and home kits are being sent to the following neighbourhoods:\n\nAppealing to residents of these postcodes, Mr Hancock said: \"It is imperative that you stay at home, and that you get a test, even if you don't have symptoms.\n\n\"This is so important so that we can break the chains of the transmission of this new variant, and we've got to bring this virus to heel.\"\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, of Public Health England, told the same briefing that three of the vaccines that had been used in trials had proven effective against the South African variant.\n\nShe said officials expected other vaccines to have \"a similar level of effectiveness, particularly in reducing hospitalisation and death\".\n\nDr Hopkins added that further testing was taking place involving the South African variant so that predictions could be made with \"greater robustness\".\n\nProf Jim McManus, the director of public health for Hertfordshire, told the BBC that if every single case was detected, it might be \"possible\" to eradicate the variant within two weeks.\n\nAsked how confident the government was that the new variant could be contained, Mr Hancock warned it was \"not straightforward... there may be further cases we don't know about yet\".\n\nHe added it was \"absolutely vital\" that people in the affected areas \"minimise all social contact and get a test when the opportunity arises\".\n\nWhy have 11 cases caused such alarm? It is because of the precarious position we are in currently.\n\nVaccination is being rolled out quickly and many vulnerable people are building up immunity.\n\nAnything that interferes with that at this point will have significant consequences. But once vaccination is complete and there are significant levels of immunity across the population, the impact of mutations becomes much more diluted.\n\nThis is why there needs to be maximum vigilance now, but in the long-term we can still be confident we can get on top of this pandemic.\n\nViruses mutate, so what is happening is not surprising.\n\nBut coronaviruses - certainly compared to the flu which sees different strains circulating every year - tend to be relatively stable.\n\nSo that means, even with the mutations we are seeing, the vaccines that have been developed still offer a very good degree of protection, even if that protection is not quite as high as it was against the original form of the virus.\n\nWhat is more, it is relatively straightforward with this generation of vaccines to re-engineer them to work better against the mutations that have been seen.\n\nAlmost 9.3 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMeanwhile, a further 18,607 new infections were recorded in the UK as of Monday, as well as another 406 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn total, 105 cases of the South African variant have been identified - with all but 11 linked to travel in South Africa.\n\nMr Hancock said testers would be going door-to-door in the areas being targeted for surge testing.\n\nKent County Council said police would be among those going door-to-door to offer residents in the ME15 area tests \"there and then\".\n\nIn Hertfordshire, residents in the EN10 area will receive a letter offering tests at mobile screening units, to collect at a local library, or through the post, the county council said.\n\nPositive cases will be analysed to see if they are caused by the South African variant.\n\nPublic Health England has already been analysing around 5% to 10% of all positive cases in more detail, allowing it to identify new variants in the community.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said vaccines could be adapted to deal with new variants if necessary.\n\n\"The fact is we are going to be living with Covid for a while to come in one way or another,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nStudies are under way into how the vaccines work against the new variants, with some early results suggesting the Pfizer jab protects against them.\n\nData on two new vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - show that they appear to offer some protection against the variant. Meanwhile, early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We will be living with Covid for a while to come\"", "Nicola Sturgeon is set to confirm whether Scotland's Covid lockdown will be extended beyond mid-February.\n\nThe first minister is also expected to give details about the reopening of schools and nurseries.\n\nOther steps to combat the spread of the virus, including tougher supervised quarantine measures, will be outlined in a statement at Holyrood.\n\nThe level four restrictions have closed non-essential shops and have seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law.\n\nThey have been in place across mainland Scotland since Boxing Day and were last week extended to the Western Isles.\n\nIt comes amid growing concern that Scotland's vaccination programme is lagging behind the rest of the UK.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, said Scotland would not see \"all of lockdown lifted\", but added that progress had been made in recent weeks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that public health advisors had been weighing what restrictions should be eased first as infection rates slowed and the positivity rate went down.\n\n\"The most important thing is children and that's what we've trailed in the last few weeks - that we will get some kids back to school if we can possibly make it safe,\" he said.\n\n\"That's the recommendation, based on the public health threat of keeping schools closed.\"\n\nBut Prof Leitch said it was not time for schools to \"go back to normal\", adding that while it might be possible to allow the youngest primary-age children to return to school, it was \"more difficult\" to see older children back in the classroom.\n\n\"It gets more difficult at that end for a couple of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"The principal reason is that older kids behave like adults in relation to the virus, so they can spread the virus and the new variant spreads proportionately more easily even in that group. So we've got to be cautious.\"\n\nScottish government ministers are meeting on Tuesday morning to review the latest data and decide what happens next, with the first minister due to give her update at 14:20.\n\nThe government says Scotland's NHS is on course to have vaccinated all over-80s by Friday and the over-70s by the end of next week.\n\nBut opposition parties have accused Ms Sturgeon of being \"in denial\" about the pace of the vaccine rollout in Scotland - with Prof Leitch admitting that \"we do need to be doing it faster\".\n\nScotland, which has about a twelfth of the UK population, has vaccinated just over 575,000 people while the UK tally stands at about 9.3 million.\n\nAnd the country had vaccinated the lowest percentage of its adult population - 12.7% - of all of the four UK nations by Monday.\n\nThe figure for England stood at 17.8% while it was 16% in Wales and 14.8% in Northern Ireland.\n\nDuring her daily media briefing on Monday the first minister said the current lockdown \"is working\" but warned that case numbers are still too high.\n\nPupils across the country are currently home schooling but Ms Sturgeon is expected to give more clarity as to how they may return to the classroom.\n\nThe most likely option is a phased approach that would see the youngest pupils and those with additional support needs among the first wave.\n\nSenior pupils preparing coursework for assessment are also likely to be among the first to go back as this year's Highers and Advanced Higher exams have been cancelled.\n\nThe first minister will also update Holyrood on plans to keep the virus under control when the easing of lockdown begins.\n\nLast week it was announced that people travelling to England from certain \"high risk\" countries will soon have to quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels so the measure can be more strictly enforced.\n\nScotland has its own quarantine rules, which differ slightly, as do Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut tougher restrictions for supervised quarantine of travellers are expected to be announced after the Scottish government last week said UK Government measures \"did not go far enough\"\n\nThe move is a response to the emergence of new variants of coronavirus, from countries such as South Africa and Brazil, which are more infectious than the original one that started the pandemic.", "Hunting and habitat loss wiped out lynx in Britain between 500 and 1,000 years ago\n\nHundreds of years after the last lynx died out in Britain, people in Scotland are being asked about whether the cats should be reintroduced.\n\nEurasian lynx are the third largest predator in continental Europe after the brown bear and wolf. Their main prey are roe deer - a small deer that favours woodland.\n\nLynx were once native to Britain but were driven to extinction 500 to 1,000 years ago due to hunting and habitat loss.\n\nThree charities - Scotland: The Big Picture, Trees for Life and Vincent Wildlife Trust - have come together to look into the potential of releasing lynx into the wild in Scotland.\n\nLast month the charities began a year-long \"extensive and impartial\" study to explore public attitudes to the idea, and to investigate the barriers to returning the animals to parts of the Cairngorms and Argyll.\n\nThe study, Lynx to Scotland, will include consultation with rural communities and is separate from other lynx reintroduction projects.\n\nThere are strong critics of the idea, with the National Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS) saying a return of the predator would be \"wholly unacceptable\" to its members.\n\nRoe deer are the main prey of lynx\n\nThe three charities believe there are sound ecological reasons for bringing back lynx, an animal they describe as a \"shy and solitary\" woodland hunter, rarely glimpsed and not known to attack humans.\n\nThey said previous research suggested the Scottish Highlands had sufficient habitat - and more than enough roe deer - to support about 400 wild lynx.\n\nSteve Micklewright, chief executive of Findhorn-based Trees for Life, said Scotland had more roe deer than any other European country. He said lynx could help control deer numbers in areas where their feeding harmed natural woodland regeneration.\n\nHe said: \"By preying on roe deer, lynx would restore ecological processes that have been missing for centuries, and provide a free and efficient deer management service.\"\n\nJenny MacPherson, science and research programme manager at the trust, said: \"Reintroducing lynx would inevitably bring challenges.\"\n\nShe said the study would seek a range of perspectives to obtain \"meaningful conclusions\" about the level of support or tolerance for lynx, and the likely success of any future reintroduction.\n\nPeter Cairns, of Scotland: The Big Picture, said predators like lynx played a key part in healthy natural environments.\n\nHe said: \"With a global biodiversity crisis, we have a responsibility to have open and constructive conversations around restoring key native species to the Scottish landscape - and science shows that apex predators like lynx play a vital ecological role in maintaining healthy living systems.\"\n\nLynx have been reintroduced to other parts of Europe, including Germany's Harz National Park in 2000.\n\nOle Anders, who works on a project managing the park's small lynx population, said there had been discussions and debates about releasing the cats in the Harz mountains since the 1970s.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Nine initial fears about their reintroduction had included lynx attacks on people and livestock.\n\nMr Anders said no-one had been put risk by the animals, and farmers were compensated for the few livestock losses seen.\n\nHe said: \"Forestry is the most important business (in the park) and there is not much farming, which is something of an advantage to introducing a large carnivore like the Eurasian lynx.\"\n\nMr Anders said some tourism businesses in the park had embraced the lynx and used images on their promotional material.\n\nNFUS is strongly opposed to the reintroduction of lynx\n\nBut NFUS is strongly opposed to the reintroduction.\n\nIt said an NFUS study trip to Norway in 2017 heard that Norwegian authorities paid out compensation on 20,000 sheep lost to predators, with lynx accounting for 21% of the losses.\n\nNFUS vice president, Martin Kennedy, said predation of livestock in Norway had been declining, but only because of the numbers of farmers who had given up stocking sheep.\n\nMr Kennedy, a hill farmer from Highland Perthshire, added: \"The Norwegians told us that to reintroduce predators into our country would be an absolute catastrophe.\n\n\"Their experience has simply strengthened our resolve.\"\n\nAngus MacFadyen, NFUS environment and land use committee chairman, said: \"NFU Scotland remains crystal clear that any proposals to re-introduce predators such as lynx are wholly unacceptable to Scottish farmers and crofters.\n\n\"The past three to four years have seen a long line of brazen and presumptuous claims from organisations about the imminent reintroduction of lynx to the UK.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has no plans to reintroduce lynx.\n\nThe Lynx to Scotland study will run until February next year.", "Chris O'Shea, the boss of British Gas owner Centrica, has said his family was posted excrement amid a pay row at the firm.\n\nBritish Gas engineers held a five-day strike last month, followed by seven extra strike days, in what unions say is a response to an attempt by the firm to push through pay cuts by threatening to fire workers.\n\nMr O'Shea said that he understood what he was asking was \"difficult\".\n\nBut he told MPs he was \"not immune\" to the situation.\n\nIn June, Centrica said it planned to to cut about 5,000 jobs to \"arrest the decline\" of the company.\n\nIt has been losing customers to rivals and in February last year, it blamed a big loss in 2019 on a price cap for customers and falling gas prices.\n\nIt has asked some staff to sign new contracts. Centrica said 83% of workers had already accepted its new terms and conditions, which it said protected base pay and pensions.\n\nLabour MP Judith Cummins told Mr O'Shea that the threat of being sacked if they refused to sign up to new terms was having an effect on the health of his workers. One wrote to her complaining of chest pains, body aches and shortness of breath.\n\n\"This person even took a Covid test because he though that was a reason,\" she said. \"But it wasn't, it was anxiety because of this fire and rehire action you are taking.\"\n\nMr O'Shea told Parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee the situation was affecting him too, and said he needed to save jobs.\n\n\"Undoubtedly what I'm asking people to do is difficult, I won't shy away from that,\" he said.\n\n\"However, my view is that I would rather do everything in my power to save the 20,000 jobs that we've got.\n\n\"I know this puts a lot of pressure on people. Only yesterday my wife and teenage son had a package of excrement delivered to them with a note about fire and rehire. This is something that affects absolutely everybody. I'm not immune to this.\"\n\nHe told Parliament that the police were involved with the situation.\n\nJustin Bowden, national officer at the GMB union, said Centrica's workforce had a \"history of change\" and that relations between workers and the company's management would be friendlier if staff had not been confronted with job losses when asked to help with costs.\n\n\"The cart was put very much before the horse,\" he said. He said that it would be similar to the union voting for strike action before making its own pay proposals.\n\nMr O'Shea insisted that the company's £1bn net loss for 2019 showed that the company needed to make changes.\n\nMr Bowden countered that the company was fundamentally profitable and that it posted adjusted operating profit of £901m for 2019. This figure does not include some costs, but it is the measure of profit used by the company, according to its annual report.\n\nMr O'Shea said he was \"committed\" to working with unions to find a resolution.\n\nMr Bowden said that the level of pressure on employees was \"unprecedented\", but that he would engage with more talks.\n\nCorrection 6 April 2021: This article was amended to include mention of seven extra strike days called after the initial five-day action.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore has died, aged 100, after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nBorn 30 April 1920, Captain Sir Tom was an Army veteran who came to prominence when he walked 100 laps for NHS Charities Together in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, aged 99.\n\nThe fundraising walk began on 6 April 2020, during the first UK lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis intention was to raise £1,000 for the NHS charity, but he soon became a social media phenomenon and had raised £12m by the time he reached the finish line.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore seen completing his charity walk in his garden on 16 April 2020\n\nAs donations continued to grow, Captain Sir Tom became a household name and made many media appearances, with the total fundraising sum reaching over £30m.\n\n\"When we started off with this exercise, we didn't anticipate we'd get anything near that sort of money,\" Captain Sir Tom said at the time.\n\n\"All of them, from top to bottom, in the National Health Service, they deserve everything that we can possibly put in their place.\n\nOriginally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, Captain Sir Tom was a former British Army officer, serving in India and the Burma campaign during World War Two and rising to the rank of captain.\n\nBritish Army Captain Tom Moore seen in his military uniform\n\nAfter the war, he worked his way up to managing director of a concrete company, and also was an avid motorcycle racer.\n\nFollowing his NHS fundraising triumph in 2020, the army veteran achieved a number one single with his rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone, alongside Michael Ball, making him the oldest person to ever achieve a UK number one.\n\n\"My grandchildren can't believe I'm a chart-topper,\" he said at the time.\n\nProceeds from the single went to NHS Charities Together.\n\nOn 30 April 2020, Captain Sir Tom celebrated his 100th birthday and received thousands of cards from well-wishers all over the world, including greetings from the Queen and prime minister.\n\nThousands of cards sent to Captain Sir Tom Moore for his 100th birthday were displayed in the Hall of Bedford School (above and below).\n\nHis birthday was marked with an RAF flypast, and he was made an honorary colonel.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore waves as Spitfire and Hurricane wartime planes fly over his home in celebration of his 100th birthday\n\nBrigadier Andrew Jackson, colonel of the Yorkshire Regiment, described Captain Sir Tom as \"an absolute legend [from] an exceptional generation that are still an inspiration for our Yorkshire soldiers today\".\n\nOn 17 July 2020, he was knighted by the Queen in her first official engagement in person since the start of the first lockdown.\n\nThe Queen used the sword that belonged to her father, George VI, to bestow the insignia of Knight Bachelor upon Captain Sir Tom\n\nThe investiture was staged in a \"unique ceremony\" at Windsor Castle.\n\n\"This is such a high award and to get it from Her Majesty as well - what more can anyone wish for?\" Captain Sir Tom said of the event.\n\n\"This has been an absolutely magnificent day for me.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore poses with his medal after being made a Knight Bachelor at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen personally praised the veteran, telling him: \"Thank you so much, an amazing amount of money you raised.\"\n\nThe Queen talks with Captain Sir Tom Moore (centre) alongside his family after presenting him with the insignia of Knight Bachelor at at Windsor Castle\n\nAn official portrait of Moore was unveiled at the National Army Museum in London in August 2020.\n\nThe oil painting was created by artist Alexander Chamberlin and was hung as part of commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day (below).\n\nMoore released his autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day (below) in September 2020.\n\nIn December 2020, a bronze bust of Captain Sir Tom Moore was unveiled at Leeds hospital.\n\nA bronze bust of Captain Sir Tom Moore seen with Garry McBride of Monumental Icons, the company that produced the artwork\n\nHis fundraising activities inspired many people around the country, with murals and artwork dedicated to the centenarian.\n\nArtist Sam Bailey produced artwork featuring Captain Sir Tom Moore at her home in Northampton (above and below)\n\nA mural by artist Sam Bailey featuring Captain Tom Moore (left) and Grenadier Guard Lance Sergeant Eric Presland (right), to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day\n\nA mural depicting the veteran's famous fundraising walk was painted on the wall of a pub in Pontefract by local artist Rachel List\n\nGraeme Bandeira, cartoonist for the Yorkshire Post, holds up his illustration of Captain Sir Tom Moore at his home studio\n\nA mural of Moore seen on the side of a building in Southport by artist and former boxer Rob Newbiggin\n\nA nurse at Aintree University Hospital sheds a tear and as she pays tribute to Capt Sir Tom Moore during the Clap for Our Carers on 16 April 2020", "A bushfire just outside of Perth has destroyed dozens of homes as the Western Australian city remains in Covid lockdown.\n\nHelicopter footage showed some of its trail of the destruction.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for the NHS\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore's family are with him in hospital after he was admitted with coronavirus, the hospital has said.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital on Sunday after requiring help with his breathing.\n\nIn a statement released with his daughters' consent, Bedford Hospital said it continued to care for him.\n\n\"At this time, members of Captain Tom's family are with him,\" it added.\n\nThe statement concluded with a request for \"space and privacy\" for relatives.\n\nCapt Sir Tom had been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and last week tested positive for Covid-19, his daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, said on Twitter on Sunday.\n\nShe added he needed help with his breathing and was being treated on a ward, but not in ICU.\n\nBedford Hospital states on its website that visitors are not permitted due to current restrictions, unless there are exceptional circumstances.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore spent Sunday night in Bedford Hospital where his family have joined him\n\nCapt Sir Tom had not yet received a Covid-19 vaccine because of the medication he was taking for pneumonia, a family spokesperson had said previously.\n\nThe family statement issued at the weekend said: \"The medical care he has received in the last few weeks has been remarkable and we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible.\n\n\"We understand that everyone will be wishing him well.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that his thoughts were with Capt Sir Tom and his family. \"You've inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery,\" Mr Johnson wrote.\n\nThe Army veteran, originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, before his 100th birthday during the first national lockdown.\n\nHe was knighted by the Queen in July.\n\nNHS Charities Together, which benefited from the millions raised, said he was an \"inspiration to the country\" and had also inspired many others to raise money for the same cause.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 by repeatedly walking an 82ft (25m) loop of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5m supporters.\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.", "At times of crisis, a nation needs hope and heroes.\n\nSometimes, they're found in unlikely places - and when Britain first locked down against the coronavirus pandemic, it discovered Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nIn April 2020 the then 99-year-old war veteran accepted a little family challenge: to raise £1,000 for health service charities by walking 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of that month.\n\n\"One small soul like me won't make much difference,\" he declared in his first TV interview.\n\nHe could not have been more wrong.\n\nBy the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Captain Sir Tom had raised more than £32m from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.\n\nBut that was just the beginning - a knighthood, RAF flypast to mark him turning 100 and personal greetings from the Queen and prime minister soon followed.\n\nAnd he even became the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK, when he and Michael Ball sang a cover of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was born in Keighley on 30 April 1920. His father, Wilson, came from a family of builders; his mother, Isabella, taught children at a local school.\n\nIt was a comfortable, middle-class background, but a decade later came the Wall Street Crash. It triggered a world-wide economic depression which hit Yorkshire mill towns hard.\n\nA quarter of the British population struggled to feed themselves. Young Tom was surrounded by long lines at soup kitchens, and classmates suffering from rickets and tuberculosis.\n\nSir Tom Moore joined the Duke of Wellington's regiment in 1940\n\nBright enough to win a place at grammar school, he found he enjoyed working with his hands more than reading books.\n\n\"I was always a very practical boy,\" he recalled. \"The sort of toys I liked would be a piece of wood, some nails and a hammer.\"\n\nBut his real passion was motorbikes. At the age of 12, Captain Sir Tom discovered one lying in a barn and bought it for half a crown. He proudly took it home, and lovingly did it up.\n\nHe left school to start an apprenticeship in civil engineering, but there was barely time to finish it before World War Two broke out.\n\nConscripted into the British army in June 1940, Captain Sir Tom joined the Duke of Wellington's regiment - an infantry battalion with historic links to the West Riding.\n\nBy his own admission, he was \"too young to feel frightened\". Indeed, for a practically-minded motorsport enthusiast barely out of his teens, the British army was a thrilling place.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom spent time in Cornwall, preparing to defend the coast from a German invasion, and learned how to drive tanks.\n\nSelected for officer training, he became a second lieutenant on his 21st birthday, and - now part of the 146th Royal Armoured Corps - found himself posted to India.\n\nA motorbike enthusiast since childhood, Sir Tom Moore became a dispatch rider in the Army\n\nWith the Suez Canal closed, the sea journey took six perilous weeks. The convoy inched around the southern tip of Africa, at constant risk from German submarines.\n\nThe train ride across India took nearly as long, the burning heat made only slightly less unbearable by huge blocks of ice scattered among the troops.\n\nTheir final destination was Burma, where the British army and its Indian allies had been forced into a fighting retreat by a seemingly unstoppable Japanese advance.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was joining the bruised and bloodied \"forgotten army\", which was suffering from disease and low morale. It was fighting in the world's least hospitable terrain, with impenetrable jungle, poisonous snakes, and hot lashing rain for six months of every year.\n\nMuch of the fighting was done hand-to-hand, with no quarter given on either side. Years later, Captain Sir Tom clearly recalled staring into the \"whites of the eyes\" of the opposing troops.\n\nWith his knowledge of motorbikes, Captain Sir Tom was asked to train dispatch riders. Radio transmissions could be intercepted, so this was the best means of getting information to and from the front line.\n\nCaptain Moore (centre) taught new recruits how to drive tanks\n\nIt was dangerous work. Dispatch riders worked alone and at night. The roads that did exist were deeply rutted and thick with mud, and the risk of ambush was ever-present.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom loved the motorbikes, but described the job as a \"poisoned chalice\". Once the engine started, there was no stopping or going back.\n\n\"If it didn't go well,\" he said bluntly, \"I was dead\".\n\nSlowly, the 14th army turned the tide in Britain's favour. Over the next two years, Captain Sir Tom's team helped cut Japanese supply lines along the Burmese coast.\n\nOne notable occasion was the battle for Ramree Island in 1945. More than 1,000 Japanese infantrymen were forced into a mangrove swamp infested by salt-water crocodiles. Only a handful emerged.\n\nA then 99-year-old Captain Sir Tom embarks on his epic walk\n\nBy this time, Captain Sir Tom had survived a nasty bout of dengue fever and been promoted to Captain. With the Japanese finally on the back foot, he returned to England to train recruits in the art of driving tanks.\n\nOn VE Day, there were \"certain activities in the bar\", but Captain Sir Tom's thoughts were with his mates still fighting in the Far East. \"They didn't get a day off,\" he said.\n\nHe became an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Dorset. He loved the work, but was desperately unhappy at home\n\nIn 1949, he married his first wife Billie and took a job as a sales manager for a roofing company in his native Yorkshire. The troubled marriage lasted 18 years and did not produce children.\n\nNow in his late 40s, Captain Sir Tom resigned himself to never finding love. Until, a few years later, he met Pamela.\n\nShe was 15 years younger and an office manager at the firm's headquarters in Gravesend. Romance blossomed, and Captain Sir Tom began to think of excuses to travel down to Kent.\n\n\"She looked terrific to me, like a model,\" he later told the Daily Mail. \"The attraction became stronger and I eventually married her.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom raced his beloved Scott motorbikes around Yorkshire, winning various cups and medals. He and Pamela had two children - Lucy and Hannah.\n\nIan Silk, Headmaster of Bedford school, holds up some of Tom Moore's 160,000 birthday cards\n\nIn 1992, Captain Sir Tom retired at the age of 72. He was looking forward to retirement but life proved less than kind.\n\nPamela fell ill with dementia. Captain Sir Tom cared for his wife for two years, and then visited her care home every day until her death in 2006.\n\nNot wanting to be alone, Captain Sir Tom moved into his daughter Hannah's home in the Bedfordshire village of Marston Moretaine.\n\nThere, his routine seldom wavered: waking early each morning to let the dogs out, followed by a daily jog on a running machine. He allowed himself a few luxuries, including a daily glass of wine in front of the television. Judge Judy was a favourite programme.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom was treated for skin cancer and a broken hip, and received \"marvellous service\" from the NHS. When the world locked down for the coronavirus pandemic, he saw a chance to give something back.\n\nBy his 100th birthday, Captain Tom had raised more than £30 million for NHS charities and had a record at the top of the charts\n\nBut a piece in Bedford Today about his sponsored walk mushroomed into a global media event. For millions trapped at home, Captain Sir Tom was a much-needed symbol of defiance, national unity and hope.\n\n\"Please remember,\" he said repeatedly, \"tomorrow will be a good day.\" The money flooded in.\n\nAs Captain Sir Tom turned to complete his final lap, the total stood at more than £12m. It would eventually surpass £30m. An honour guard from his old regiment saluted an extraordinary achievement.\n\nHis cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, a duet with Michael Ball, raised even more - hitting the top of the charts in time for Captain Sir Tom's hundredth birthday and making him the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK.\n\nTom Moore was awarded a knighthood at a special ceremony at Windsor Castle\n\nOn the day itself, a Spitfire wheeled in tribute over Marston Moretaine; a local school volunteered to display 160,000 birthday cards sent to a national treasure.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom - promoted to Colonel - did not set out to inspire millions. Like the young lieutenant in 1941, he was just trying to do his bit. The Queen knighted him at a special ceremony at Windsor Castle on 17 July 2020.\n\nWith stubbornness, courage and optimism, he was the right man at the right time.\n\nHe was Britain as it needed to see itself: selfless, patriotic and undefeated - and never taking a backward step.", "Tougher quarantine restrictions will be extended to all travellers arriving directly into Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nThe four UK nations have already agreed that people arriving from high risk countries on a \"red list\" will have to quarantine in hotels.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the measure \"does not go far enough\".\n\nThe Scottish government now plans to introduce a \"much more comprehensive\" approach to \"managed quarantine\".\n\n\"I can therefore confirm today that we intend to introduce a managed quarantine requirement for anyone who arrives directly into Scotland, regardless of which country they have come from,\" she said.\n\nMore details on how and when the changes to quarantine would come into effect would be set out and put into operation as soon as possible.\n\nThe first minister said the stricter rules were to \"guard against\" the importation of new variants.\n\nShe said that the approach agreed across the UK only included countries where new variants had already been identified.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said more details would be announced soon\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was \"too reactive\" because a new variant will often have spread across borders by the time it has been identified through genomic sequencing.\n\nWhile the Scottish government cannot \"unilaterally\" implement managed quarantine for people arriving in other parts of the UK before travelling to Scotland, it will urge the UK government to adopt the stricter approach.\n\n\"If they do not wish to do so... we will ask them to work with us to reduce the risk amongst people travelling to Scotland via ports elsewhere in the UK,\" she said.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that Covid had almost been eliminated in Scotland last summer - before it was \"re-seeded from overseas travel\".\n\nAsked about strengthening checks on those travelling between Scotland and England, Ms Sturgeon said she would continue to speak to Police Scotland about enforcement.\n\nAll overseas travellers - including British nationals - are already expected self-isolate for 10 days upon arrival in the UK, even with a recent negative test result.\n\nThe UK has now placed 33 high-risk countries where new Covid variants have been identified on a so-called \"red list\".\n\nPlans have been announced to make anyone travelling to England from a red-list country quarantine in a hotel.\n\nArrivals will be met at the airport or point of entry and taken to the hotel so that self-isolation can be enforced \"without exception\".\n\nInternational flights into Scotland have fallen sharply during the pandemic. For example, the only overseas flights landing in Scotland on Wednesday are from Norway to Aberdeen.\n\nToday's new rules make it almost impossible to fly from Scotland for a foreign holiday or for any other reason, without facing quarantine on your return.\n\nAnd very tight restrictions now apply to anyone coming here from abroad.\n\nThis clampdown makes life even tougher for Scotland's airports and travel industry, which are reeling after almost a year of disruption. Nicola Sturgeon said she'd work with the UK government to give them the support they need.\n\nHow long will this last? Will foreign holidays be impossible this summer?\n\nThat's unclear. But the first minister said efforts to eliminate Covid here last summer had been thwarted after the virus was \"re-seeded [in Scotland] from overseas travel\".\n\nSo what's crystal clear is she wants to avoid a wave of foreign holidays this summer causing another wave of Covid and lockdown in the autumn.\n\nA spokesman for Edinburgh Airport said there was an urgent need to reach agreement on how the aviation industry would recover from the pandemic.\n\n\"We still don't know how this is expected to work, when it is being enacted and what it means for airports and our industry, so yet again we ask the Scottish government to talk to us,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand restrictions are required but we're now coming up for a year of little to no passengers without direct industry support.\"\n\nDerek Provan, chief executive of AGS Airports, which includes Glasgow Airport, said it was the third significant announcement which had been made on travel restrictions in as many weeks without any consultation.\n\n\"We understand the need for short-term emergency measures, and we all want to see this virus brought under control as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"However, it's imperative government engages with industry on developing a recovery plan.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\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 the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The current stay-at-home lockdown, like the last one, is a long slog.\n\nIt will last what’s left of the winter.\n\nBut as we move into spring, change is coming.\n\nPlans to reopen nurseries and schools from 22 February for the youngest children will not only restore their full time education but will allow some parents to resume work.\n\nHowever, the phased return of schools could add to the burden some families have to carry.\n\nIf, for instance, you have a young child to get to school and an older pupil to organise for online learning at home, that could be harder to manage than either having both at home or both in school.\n\nIt’s not clear how quickly full-time schooling will resume for all age groups.\n\nIt will be another fortnight before the first minister sets out how wider restrictions might be eased from the beginning of March.\n\nIt is already clear that process will be gradual and that some measures such as social distancing, wearing face-coverings and avoiding international travel will not be lifted anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Shares look great on the way up, but painful on the way down\"\n\nAmateur investors swept up in the trading frenzy surrounding US retailer GameStop \"could lose everything\", the former stock broker who inspired the Wolf of Wall Street film has warned.\n\nJordan Belfort, who was jailed for market manipulation in 1999, said such investments could be \"great on the way up, but painful on the way down\".\n\nGameStop shares surged 700% last week as amateurs, inspired by tips shared on social media, piled into the stock.\n\nBut they have dropped sharply since.\n\nShares fell 63% on Tuesday to $81 - a far cry from last week's record of almost $350.\n\nMr Belfort said he sympathised with the small-time traders drawn to GameStop, many of whom wanted to turn the tables on big Wall Street firms.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"You must be so careful because eventually these stocks are going to come crashing back down to earth.\n\n\"If you are looking at this as a way to make your living, you'll have to catch a falling knife on the way down. I would urge people to take their chips off the table.\"\n\nThe trading frenzy began in late January, when small-time investors began buying up shares in GameStop, a loss-making video games retailer.\n\nMany Wall Street hedge funds - known as \"short sellers\" - had bet against the firm, meaning they stood to make money if its stock fell, but lose heavily if it rose.\n\nBut amateurs, inspired by posts on Reddit and Youtube, realised they could drive up the price if they bought en masse, inflicting losses on the big players and making gains for themselves.\n\nThe excitement also encompassed other stocks such as AMC and Nokia, while the price of silver has seen intense speculation.\n\nMr Belfort said the trading had taken on a political tone, with investors seeking \"justice\" against Wall Street firms they perceived had behaved unethically.\n\nHe added: \"All of a sudden there is a way for people to communicate on message boards like Reddit, there's a way for them to trade instantly on platforms like Robinhood.\n\n\"You put those two things together with the power of social media and bam - just like that the little guy got the best of the big institutions.\"\n\nHowever, he said there was a risk of people getting swept away in the excitement, noting that those with little understanding of stocks were now buying GameStop shares.\n\n\"Be aware of being the last person on the bandwagon, that is really the danger here.\"\n\nMr Belfort, who is now an author and motivational speaker, defrauded investors of $200m in the 1980s and 90s and is still paying restitution to his victims.\n\nHis memoir was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street film in 2013, but he sued the film's producers for fraud and breach of contract last year claiming $300m in compensation.\n\nMr Belfort alleged Red Granite Productions - whose co-founder Riza Aziz was arrested on suspicion of money laundering last year - lied about being \"legitimately funded\" when he sold the rights to his story.\n\nThe company's lawyer described the lawsuit as \"desperate and supremely ironic\".", "Pubs, cafes and high streets are all re-open on the island.\n\nCovid social distancing rules on the Isle of Man have been scrapped by the government following a 25-day lockdown.\n\nRestrictions were lifted at 00:01 GMT after the island recorded 20 days without an unexplained community case.\n\nRead more: Isle of Man ends second lockdown", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, was admitted to Bedford Hospital on Sunday.\n\nThe Queen led tributes to Capt Sir Tom, \"recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world\".\n\nHis daughters said they \"shared laughter and tears\" with their father in their final few hours together.\n\nAnnouncing his death, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said the last year of their father's life had been \"nothing short of remarkable\".\n\nHe tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nThe Army veteran won the nation's hearts by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire last year during the first lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nHe was credited with lifting the nation's spirits and his saying \"Tomorrow will be a good day\" trended on social media.\n\nHe was knighted by the Queen in July in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe flags above 10 Downing Street have been flying at half-mast in tribute to Capt Sir Tom Moore\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"Her Majesty very much enjoyed meeting Capt Sir Tom and his family at Windsor last year. Her thoughts, and those of the royal family, are with them, recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Captain Sir Tom Moore was a hero in the truest sense of the word. In the dark days of the Second World War he fought for freedom and in the face of this country's deepest post-war crisis he united us all, he cheered us all up, and he embodied the triumph of the human spirit.\n\n\"He became not just a national inspiration but a beacon of hope for the world. Our thoughts are with his daughter Hannah and all his family.\"\n\nThe flag above 10 Downing Street has been flying at half-mast in tribute and Mr Johnson has spoken to Mrs Ingram-Moore to offer his condolences.\n\nA tweet from the White House said: \"We join the United Kingdom and the world in [honouring] the memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore, who inspired millions through his life and his actions.\"\n\nMore than 150,000 birthday cards were sent to Capt Sir Tom in April\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is incredibly sad news. Captain Tom Moore put others first at a time of national crisis and was a beacon of hope for millions. Britain has lost a hero.\"\n\nThe daughters' statement said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear father.\n\n\"We are so grateful that we were with him during the last hours of his life; Hannah, Benjie and Georgia by his bedside and Lucy on FaceTime.\n\n\"We spent hours chatting to him, reminiscing about our childhood and our wonderful mother. We shared laughter and tears together.\n\n\"The last year of our father's life was nothing short of remarkable. He was rejuvenated and experienced things he'd only ever dreamed of.\n\n\"Whilst he'd been in so many hearts for just a short time, he was an incredible father and grandfather, and he will stay alive in our hearts forever.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m for the NHS\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughters said the care he received from the NHS was \"extraordinary\".\n\nThey said staff had been \"unfalteringly professional, kind and compassionate and have given us many more years with him than we ever would have imagined\".\n\nArtworks, including this mural in Southport, were made in honour of Capt Sir Tom\n\nCapt Sir Tom joined the Army at the beginning of World War Two, serving in India and Myanmar, then known as Burma.\n\nHe was originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire and among the local tributes being paid was Robbie Moore MP who said the town had \"lost one of its finest today\".\n\nHe was made an honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College in Harrogate on his 100th birthday.\n\nIn December, he went on a family holiday to Barbados after British Airways paid for his flight.\n\nCapt Sir Tom had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by walking 82ft (25m)-loops of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than 1.5 million supporters.\n\nNHS Charities Together said that would rise to £39m when Gift Aid was taken into account.\n\nEllie Orton, chief executive, said the funds raised by Capt Sir Tom had \"reached the length and breadth of the UK through every one of our 241 member charities\".\n\nShe said he was \"a one-off and he leaves the world a better place\".\n\nRuth May, chief nursing officer for NHS England, said Capt Sir Tom Moore \"has been the model of all that has been good about our country's response to Covid-19\".\n\nShe said in a statement \"for me his biggest achievement and most important contribution to helping my fellow nurses, doctors and all those in the NHS responding to coronavirus, has been how he brought the country together and gave us all a boost when we most needed it\".\n\nPeople have left flowers and messages of condolence outside Capt Sir Tom Moore's home in Bedfordshire\n\nFellow charity fundraiser Dabirul Choudhury, who was 100 years old when he raised more than £150,000 for coronavirus relief by walking while fasting for Ramadan, paid tribute to Capt Sir Tom.\n\n\"If you want to help mankind you should keep yourself very fit, fit, fit,\" he said.\n\nMr Choudrey's son Atique said Capt Sir Tom had \"left a massive legacy that will follow on through for generations\", adding \"even now, my father hasn't actually eaten since he's heard about the news [of Capt Sir Tom's death]\".\n\nCapt Sir Tom became the oldest person to have a UK number one single when he recorded You'll Never Walk Alone with Michael Ball last year.\n\nThe singer said on Twitter: \"A wonderful life so well lived and a hero and fighter to the very end. So very sad\".\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\nManchester United equalled the Premier League record by putting nine goals past nine-man Southampton - the second time Saints have lost 9-0 in as many seasons.\n\nA red card for Saints' Alexandre Jankewitz after only two minutes triggered a complete collapse for the visitors, who were on the end of the same scoreline against Leicester City in October 2019.\n\nIt is only the third time a team has lost 9-0 in the Premier League, with United also beating Ipswich Town by that margin in 1995.\n\nAaron Wan-Bissaka opened the scoring with his first goal at Old Trafford. Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani also found the net either side of a Jan Bednarek own goal before the break.\n\nAfter a fairly drab start to the second half, United cut loose, scoring five times in the final 21 minutes.\n\nAnthony Martial ended an eight-match goal drought before Scott McTominay drove home from the edge of the area.\n\nThen, after Bednarek became the second Saints player to be sent off - bringing down Martial to allow Bruno Fernandes the chance to score from the penalty spot on 87 minutes - the French forward netted his second, before Dan James wrapped up the scoring in stoppage time.\n\nIt was a stunning ending as United almost matched their club record 10-0 victory over Anderlecht in 1956.\n• None How do you recover from a 9-0 loss... twice?\n• None Relieve a remarkable night at Old Trafford, plus the rest of Tuesday's Premier League matches\n\nBy the final whistle, it had been forgotten that United had come into Tuesday's game on the back of indifferent form - just one win in their last four matches.\n\nThe massive impact on their goal difference means it is now bettered only by league leaders Manchester City.\n\nMartial should be particularly pleased with his contribution, even though it did not match manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's four-goal salvo as a United substitute in an 8-1 win at Nottingham Forest in 1999.\n\nAt one point, it looked as though that seven-goal margin of victory was the one United would emulate. But Martial's 90th-minute second - the first time he has scored two in a game all season - took the home side beyond that, and James completed the rout in the third minute of injury time.\n\nRashford and McTominay both produced noteworthy strikes for a United side that also had a penalty award overturned just before half-time.\n\nMaking a full Premier League debut should be a cause for celebration in any young player's career. For Jankewitz, it was a catastrophic experience.\n\nHis second-minute foul on McTominay was committed right in front of Saints boss Ralph Hassenhuttl, who did not require the replays which made the challenge look worse with every viewing.\n\nHassenhuttl could only throw his arms up in the air in disbelief, knowing referee Mike Dean had no alternative other than to show the 19-year-old Swiss midfielder a straight red card.\n\nThe incident came less than a week after Jankewitz's agent had started murmurings about a transfer and this sorry episode is unlikely to convince anyone the player has a future at St Mary's.\n\nAfter that, it was just a question of how long the visitors could survive, which turned out to be not very long, as Wan-Bissaka turned in Luke Shaw's cross at the far post from a position Jankewitz should have been defending.\n\nWith Bednarek among the scorers after turning Rashford's cross into his own net for the third, and one of those marginal video assistant referee offside decisions that took away the goal Che Adams thought he had scored at the start of the second half, it really was one of those nights best erased from the memory completely.\n\nUnfortunately, that was not the end of the misery.\n\nWhile Hassenhuttl can rightly point to Jankewitz's dismissal as the key moment, there can be no excusing the way the team - though badly affected by injuries - had so totally collapsed by the end.\n\n'It was about the spark' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer speaking to BBC Sport: \"When they had a man sent off it was up to us to get the first goal.\n\n\"You have to take your chances in tight or open games - you never know what might be the deciding factor. We know, better than anyone, what goal difference can do to you because we have lost the league on goal difference.\n\n\"Confidence is one thing but it was about the mojo and spark - the X-factor.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Hasenhuttl speaking to BBC Sport: \"One man down after three minutes against this opponent - congratulations to Manchester United, they worked us off and did not stop scoring. The second red card is most disappointing - we don't have any more players.\n\n\"We tried in the second half to keep a clean sheet as much as we could, but at nine men it was too easy for them to score.\n\n\"What can I say? It is horrible. But we stood up after the first 9-0 [against Leicester] and we have to do that again.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None Manchester United have won home and away against Southampton in a league season for the first time since their last title-winning campaign in 2012-13.\n• None Last season's 9-0 loss to Leicester came at home - this was the biggest away defeat in Southampton's history.\n• None Saints have lost four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2018.\n• None Manchester United became only the second side to have seven different scorers in a Premier League match, after Chelsea against Aston Villa in December 2012.\n• None United scored four goals in the first half of a Premier League game for the second time this season, also doing so against Leeds. It is the first time since 1997-98 they have scored four or more in the opening period of two matches in a campaign.\n• None Only former United striker Eric Cantona and ex-West Ham forward Dimitri Payet (both 33 games) have assisted 15 Premier League goals in fewer appearances than Fernandes, with Tuesday's his 36th appearance in the competition.\n\nManchester United's next game is against Everton in the Premier League at 20:00 GMT on Saturday, 6 February - the 63rd anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. Southampton visit Newcastle on the same day (15:00).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 9, Southampton 0. Daniel James (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Scott McTominay tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 8, Southampton 0. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 7, Southampton 0. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by Jan Bednarek (Southampton) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Victor Lindelöf.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Fred with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Che Adams (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Nathan Redmond. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream all the goals and highlights from Sunday's Premier League matches with Match of the Day 2 on BBC iPlayer", "TV historian David Olusoga claims it is \"palpable nonsense\" to say that removing controversial statues \"somehow impoverishes history\".\n\nProf Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders, are not useful ways of teaching history or explaining the values of previous eras.\n\nInstead the historian argues they are a continuing public \"validation\" of people who did \"terrible things\".\n\nProf Olusoga is to be an online school teacher himself this week.\n\nPupils in the lockdown will be able to watch Prof Olusoga explaining the importance of the census to historians - ahead of the national census in March - and looking at how it can reveal changes of populations and hidden stories.\n\nThe University of Manchester professor recently revealed one of his own hidden histories - that he had been at primary school in Gateshead with Paul Gascoigne and the former footballer had rescued Prof Olusoga and his sister from racist bullying.\n\nThe TV presenter, who had been born in Nigeria but moved to a council estate in north- east England, says the prejudice he faced in school was part of the \"Darwinian world of the 1970s playground\".\n\nMarcus Rashford faces the social media version of the prejudice of 1970s playgrounds, says the historian\n\nBut the historian still sees its continuation in the abuse aimed at black footballers such as Marcus Rashford.\n\n\"Racism in football just found a new outlet in the world of social media. If you look under that rock, it's there all the time.\n\n\"Marcus, because he so high profile and because we love to attack people who are doing good in this country, for reasons I've never quite understood, is the focus at the moment. But it's constant, it's always there,\" says the historian and author.\n\nHis lesson about the census, made with the Office for National Statistics, is about the \"lascars\", sailors recruited from Asia to work on British ships, who often faced tough conditions for lower pay than their white counterparts.\n\nThey were at the centre of a trading empire that was \"incredibly complicated, diverse and also unfair\".\n\nHe says studying the British empire, in its strengths and weaknesses, is \"absolutely critical\" to understanding present-day Britain - in terms of the \"economy, culture, cuisine, as well the people who are living here\".\n\nBut when it comes to issues such as examining links with the slave trade, he says there is a reluctance and a push towards \"distraction and deflection\" and \"various ways of saying 'We don't want to talk about that'.\"\n\nHe argues that debates about statues - such as the statue to slave trader Edward Colston that was pushed into the harbour in Bristol - should face up to the historical evidence of who is being commemorated.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick recently promised more safeguards to monuments, saying they are \"almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away\".\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob,\" said Mr Jenrick.\n\nProf Olusoga says there has been particular hostility to suggestions there were enslaved black people in 18th Century Britain, as well as in the colonies.\n\nThis seems to make people deeply \"uncomfortable\", says the presenter of the A House Through Time TV series.\n\n\"I think that's because we've created a moral firewall between what happened in Britain and what happened in the empire - with the idea that what happened in the empire doesn't really count.\"\n\nProf Olusoga also has concerns for future historians - and digital gaps in the historical record.\n\nHe says the way politicians and decision-makers use messaging services like WhatsApp to share their private thoughts could leave future historians with much less understanding about how policies are being made.\n\nHistorians should be \"enormously worried\" about \"politicians finding ways of not leaving records of their decisions in their debates\", says Prof Olusoga.\n\n\"That's fundamental to the workings of democracy.\"\n\nHe says written memos, notes, letters and emails have been ways into the thinking of politicians behind the scenes, that will not be available for an era of private, unrecorded messages.\n\n\"One of the most interesting things, if you study Churchill, is his notes in the margin,\" he says.\n\n\"I think politicians need to leave a record of their deliberations and their debates that lead them to the decisions they made - so they can be held accountable by historians.\"\n\nProf Olusoga's video lesson, Equality, representation and the census, part of the Census 2021 Let's Count primary school programme, will be on the Census 2021 YouTube channel, 11:00, 4 February.", "The former Army captain became affectionately known as Captain Tom\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore won the nation's hearts with his extraordinary fundraising efforts for National Health Service charities.\n\nThe retired Army officer served in India and Myanmar, also known as Burma, during World War Two but it was by walking laps around his garden that he became known to millions.\n\nWhen he was 99, he was catapulted into the global spotlight with his attempt to raise an initial £1,000 for charity.\n\nEarly in April 2020, with the aid of his walking frame and a steely determination, he vowed to complete 100 laps of his patio before his 100th birthday at the end of that month.\n\nThe war veteran was inspired to help the health service after receiving treatment for skin cancer of the head, and a broken hip after a fall in 2018.\n\nHe described the NHS staff who helped him through this as \"marvellous\", and pledged to help those same \"super\" people who were working on the front line during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps of his walk in April 2020\n\nHis family thought reaching the £1,000 mark would be \"a real stretch\" but, as press coverage of his efforts increased, so did the donations.\n\nBy the time he completed his 100 laps - on 16 April 2020 - Captain Tom, as he had become affectionately known, had raised more than £12m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nIn 2007, he had moved from Kent to Bedfordshire to be with his youngest daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her family.\n\nIt was here, in Marston Moretaine, that the idea of raising relatively modest funds for a charity supporting the NHS was hatched.\n\nHe was surrounded by members of his family - and the world's media - as he fulfilled his mission\n\nCapt Sir Tom began walking - planning on 10 laps at a time of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his back garden - and the donations began mounting up.\n\nEvery million was another milestone, but the veteran, who became a well-known face on national television, took it all in his stride.\n\nCapt Sir Tom Moore (bottom row, far left) and colleagues pictured during his service in the Army\n\nCapt Sir Tom with daughters Lucy Teixeira (left) and Hannah Ingram-Moore (right)\n\nEver modest about the challenge he had set himself, Capt Sir Tom was nevertheless astounded by the generosity of donors, describing it as \"completely out of this world\".\n\n\"It's all for the sake of the nurses and the NHS we have, because they are doing such a magnificent job,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"Every penny that we get, they deserve every one of it.\"\n\nThe NHS said it was \"humbled\" by his fundraising effort for their charities\n\nHe was described as a \"one-man fundraising machine\" by the Duke of Cambridge, while both the prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Capt Sir Tom was \"an inspiration\" to everyone.\n\nNot only did his efforts encourage thousands to donate to the fundraising appeal, but he inspired many to join his campaign to raise both awareness and money for those working in, and supporting, the NHS.\n\nFrom a teenage girl learning to walk again on a treadmill as part of her recovery from a stroke, to a non-verbal boy with autism - who wrote \"He is a hero to us,\" as he embarked on his own challenge to walk for the NHS - people set themselves their own challenges, buoyed by the former soldier.\n\nAge, it seemed, was no barrier - as Capt Sir Tom was proving.\n\nDozens dusted off their own walking frames and took to the streets to prove they could play their own part in the drive to raise funds.\n\nOne woman completed a marathon by walking laps near her Berkshire home, at the age of 104.\n\n\"Tom, I've done it,\" she laughed, as she finished her challenge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA week before his 100th birthday, Capt Sir Tom became the oldest person ever to get to number one in the UK singles charts when his duet of You'll Never Walk Alone - with singer Michael Ball - took the top spot.\n\nHis 100th birthday on 30 April 2020 was marked with an RAF flypast, personal birthday greetings from the Queen and prime minister, and he was made an honorary colonel of the British Army.\n\n\"I'm still Captain Tom, that's who I really am but if people choose to call me colonel, well, thank you very much,\" he replied.\n\nThe following month it was announced he would be awarded a knighthood for his fundraising efforts and would be known as Captain Sir Thomas Moore \"under Ministry of Defence protocol\".\n\nOn 17 July 2020, he was knighted in the grounds of Windsor Castle, in the Queen's first official engagement in person since the lockdown period began in March.\n\nThis was the first knighthood the Queen had carried out in person since the beginning of the pandemic\n\nHis youngest daughter said at the time of his fundraising efforts that her father had become a \"beacon of hope\" during challenging times.\n\nAnd indeed, Capt Sir Tom always seemed to know just the right thing to say to buoy the nation's spirits as the public tried to abide by government regulations to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"To all those people who are finding it difficult at the moment, the sun will shine on you again, and the clouds will go away,\" he said.\n\n\"Tomorrow will be a good day\" - another example of his positivity - became a hashtag on social media posts.\n\nAn image of Capt Sir Tom lit up the night sky during the virtual 2021 New Year celebrations over the Millennium Dome (O2 Arena) in London\n\nThe proud Yorkshireman completed his 100 laps of his garden live on television in April 2020, with a Guard of Honour from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and a rousing round of applause from his family.\n\nBy the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Capt Sir Tom had raised £32,794,701 for charities supporting the NHS, from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two people can now exercise outside together, after women raised safety concerns\n\nA number of female Welsh sprinters have been verbally abused by strangers as they train in public.\n\nThey would normally be able to train at athletics tracks but those venues have been closed because of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nFormer Wales 400m champion Rhiannon Linington-Payne said the behaviour was \"potential harassment\" and not banter.\n\nWelsh Athletics said it had started working with South Wales Police to tackle intimidating behaviour.\n\nLinington-Payne, 29, from Cardiff, said the language shouted was often offensive or derogatory towards women.\n\n\"I've had inappropriate comments about my figure, wolf-whistling, cars slowing down to stare... I've even had a beer can thrown at me,\" she said.\n\n\"The more it happens, the more it wears away at you\".\n\nCurrently only individuals classified as elite athletes by Sport Wales and part of the Commonwealth Games programme can travel to and train at designated facilities.\n\nIt means many athletes who represent Wales at a high level have been left training at home, alongside roads or in parks.\n\n\"It's actually quite ironic... I'm not allowed on the track for safety reasons, but I don't feel safe where I'm training now,\" added Great Britain and Wales sprinter Hannah Brier.\n\nHannah Brier says she has been left feeling intimidated while out running alone\n\nThe 22-year-old, from Neath, who competes in the 100m and 200m sprints trains six days a week, doing weights in her parents' kitchen or running reps alongside flat stretches of road.\n\nThe masters student said one incident in the summer left her feeling \"intimidated\" as a man repeatedly drove past her, shouting and staring.\n\nMiss Brier was so concerned about her safety that she eventually called her dad to pick her up.\n\nThe incident has left her choosing plainer and looser items of clothing to avoid attention.\n\n\"I find myself now going through my wardrobe and picking outfits that I think are not as flashy, not as revealing... I'm not going to get noticed if I wear all black,\" she added\n\nLast week the Welsh Government eased lockdown restrictions to allow an individual to meet one other person from another household to exercise in their local area.\n\nLauren Williams says she has only started feeling unsafe recently\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the decision was \"partly\" because they had heard from women that \"in the dark, cold and wet of January they don't feel safe going out to exercise alone\".\n\nA survey by England Athletics in 2017 found a third of female runners said they had been harassed while out running.\n\nMore than 60% of the 2,000 women questioned said they felt anxious running alone, with personal safety their main concern.\n\nLauren Williams, a 400m hurdler from Llanidloes, Powys, has had similar \"unnerving\" experiences while training in public spaces.\n\n\"Never before have I felt unsafe training but recently, I really have,\" she said.\n\nThe 21-year-old said she had received comments on her clothes being \"too tight\", or her outfits being too revealing.\n\n\"I'm not going out to run to look good, I'm going to perform so it shouldn't matter,\" she added.\n\nThe management student at Bath University added she does not have a choice other than to train to make next year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham but she is worried this behaviour might put other women off exercising outdoors.\n\n\"It manifests itself everywhere even in a local park, the message has got to be it is not ok, the behaviour shouldn't be condoned,\" she said.\n\nFellow athlete Linington-Payne agrees and has called for wider cultural change to stop this sort of behaviour.\n\n\"It goes deeper than sport,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just respect for other human beings and I'm shocked that there are people out there who still think it's appropriate to speak to someone like that.\"\n\nIn a statement, Welsh Athletics chief executive James Williams said the body's values promotes \"respect, togetherness and fun\" and everyone should be able \"to enjoy the sport in a safe and inclusive way\".\n\nThe organisation has recently started working with South Wales Police to tackle intimidating behaviour and derogatory comments.", "The footprint, found on a beach in Barry last month, is thought to date back 220 million years\n\nVandals armed with sledgehammers have been attacking rocks where a dinosaur footprint was found.\n\nThe 10cm long footprint, which had been preserved in mud, was discovered by four-year-old Lily Wilder on a beach in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, last month.\n\nExperts said it was 220 million years old and was likely to be from a 75cm tall dinosaur.\n\nSeveral areas of the site at Bendricks Bay have been damaged since the find, Natural Resources Wales has said.\n\nThe footprint itself is safe, after being extracted and given to the National Museum Wales.\n\nNadia De Longhi, south central operations manager for Natural Resources Wales, said the dinosaur footprint was \"a spectacular find\" and would now be preserved as \"a scientific and educational resource for future generations to enjoy\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, we've since been made aware of reports of anti-social behaviour at the site, with people attempting to remove rocks with sledgehammers and crow bars leading to several areas of the site being damaged,\" she said.\n\nThe site where the fossil was discovered is a site of special scientific interest, which contains geological features that require careful site management to preserve them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Daddy, look at this\": Four-year-old Lily spotted the dinosaur footprint while walking with her dad\n\nSpecimens found at Bendricks Bay in the past are thought to be from more crocodilian-type reptiles rather than dinosaurs.\n\nUnder the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it is illegal to remove, damage or destroy rocks from the site without permission, which can lead to fines of up to £20,000.\n\nUnder the current Welsh Government coronavirus lockdown guidelines, only those living locally are allowed to visit the site.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools across Scotland have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since December\n\nScotland's youngest pupils are likely to return to the classroom full time from 22 February as schools start a phased reopening.\n\nThe move will include all pupils in P1-P3 as well as pre-school children.\n\nThere will also be a part-time return, but on a very limited basis, for senior secondary pupils to allow them to complete work for national qualifications.\n\nA final decision will be taken on the partial reopening in a fortnight.\n\nFurther details of the next phase of the gradual return to schools will also be set out at that point, alongside a timescale for the return of in-person learning for colleges and universities.\n\nScotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, questioned why the first minister had not mentioned any need for P1-P3 pupils to socially distance, and said it wanted to see the scientific evidence to justify the approach.\n\nThe union added: \"Clearly, any school return remains contingent upon continued progress on community suppression of the virus and that is not a given so we need to see infection levels coming down substantially before the return date can be confirmed.\"\n\nAll of the country's other lockdown restrictions will remain in place until at least the end of the month, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut she said she was \"cautiously optimistic\" that some gradual easing of the rules could be possible from early March.\n\nThe first minister also announced that travellers coming to Scotland from any country may be asked to quarantine in a hotel - which goes further than systems announced in the rest of the UK.\n\nBusiness groups have called on the Scottish government to provide firms with a route map out of lockdown.\n\nTwo new mass vaccinations centres opened this week in Edinburgh and Aberdeen to join the existing facility in Glasgow\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government intended to allow \"small increases\" in existing provision for children and young people with significant additional support needs from 22 February.\n\nAnd she said there would be a \"significant expansion\" of testing in schools and nurseries in the coming weeks, with tests available for both staff and senior secondary pupils.\n\nThe first minister said older pupils will only be able to return after 22 February to ensure practical work important to achieving qualifications is completed.\n\nOnly between 5% and 8% of a secondary school's pupil roll will be able to be present at any one time.\n\nMs Sturgeon also stressed that the schools announcement was dependent on the virus continuing to be suppressed.\n\nOnly a small number of secondary pupils will be able to go to school at one time\n\nSchools across Scotland have been closed to the vast majority of pupils since the Christmas holidays, with learning being done at home and online.\n\nHealth experts have warned that the country risks facing a \"lost generation\" unless a way can be found to get young people back to some sort of normality.\n\nInterim Scottish Labour leader Jackie Baillie said that most children will have missed more than half a year of normal, in-person schooling as she called for greater investment to be put in place \"for some time to come\" to help them catch up.\n\nAnd the Scottish Conservatives accused the government of failing to get the proper digital support in place for home learning, which it said would further widen the attainment gap between wealthier and less well off pupils.\n\nThe current stay-at-home lockdown, like the last one, is a long slog. It will last what's left of the winter. But as we move into spring, change is coming.\n\nPlans to re-open nurseries and schools from 22 February for the youngest children will not only restore their full time education but will allow some parents to resume work.\n\nHowever, the phased return of schools could add to the burden some families have to carry.\n\nIf, for instance, you have a young child to get to school and an older pupil to organise for online learning at home, that could be harder to manage than either having both at home or both in school.\n\nIt is not clear how quickly full time schooling will resume for all age groups.\n\nIt will be another fortnight before the first minister sets out how wider restrictions might be eased from the beginning of March.\n\nIt is already clear that process will be gradual and that some measures like social distancing, wearing face coverings and avoiding international travel will not be lifted anytime soon.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that she wanted to see children back in full-time, face to face education as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd she said she was acutely aware of the wider health, developmental and social harms being experienced by young people while they were not in school, and of the pressure school closures was putting on working parents and family life.\n\nBut she said the current state of the pandemic and the need to protect the country as much as possible from the virus meant that her options for reopening schools were limited.\n\nShe added: \"The judgment the Cabinet arrived at this morning, based on the advice of our expert advisers, is that if we all agree to abide with the lockdown restrictions for a bit longer - so that our progress in suppressing the virus continues - we can begin a phased, albeit gradual, return to school from 22 February.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands are currently under the country's toughest level four restrictions, with non-essential shops closed and strict travel rules in force.\n\nAnd there has been growing concern in recent days that Scotland's vaccination programme is lagging behind the rest of the UK.\n\nThe country had vaccinated the lowest percentage of its adult population - 13.4% - of all of the four UK nations by Tuesday.\n\nThe figure for England stood at 18.4% while it was 17% in Wales and 15.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government's Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, has written to Ms Sturgeon offering the help of the English health department and the Ministry of Defence to accelerate the rollout in Scotland.\n\nMr Jack said: \"I strongly believe that to put the nightmare of Covid-19 behind us as quickly as possible, we must collaborate as closely as possible.\"\n\nA further 34,881 people were given their first does of the vaccine in Scotland since Monday, the highest daily total so far.\n\nThe country will need to average about 40,000 a day if it is to hit its target of vaccinating everyone over the age of 70 and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the end of next week.\n\nIt brings the total number of people to have received the vaccine in Scotland, which has about a twelfth of the UK population, to 610,778.\n\nThe UK as a whole had vaccinated just over 9.6 million people by Tuesday.\n\nPrevalence of the virus in Scotland has fallen since the level four restrictions were imposed\n\nCovid-19 prevalence in Scotland has fallen under the lockdown regulations from 302 per 100,000 in the week ending 8 January to 136 per 100,000 last week.\n\nTest positivity has also reduced to an average of 6.6% in the seven days up to 29 January - still higher than the 5% that the World Health Organisation considers to be indicative of an outbreak being under control.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Pressure on our NHS continues to be severe. The number of Covid patients being treated in hospital remains around 30% above the high point of the first wave last April.\n\n\"However, hospital admissions in this wave appear to have peaked on January 12. They have now stabilised and are starting to reduce, albeit slowly.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\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 the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Schools were told to close for most pupils at the start of January\n\nAround 1.2 million children attended school in England last week, Department for Education (DfE) figures show.\n\nOn 28 January, 15% of state school pupils were in class, up from 14% the week before, the data indicates.\n\nThe rise was driven by an increase in the number of children attending class in primary and special schools, while numbers in secondary schools remained stable.\n\nHead teachers described the rise in demand for places as \"worrying\".\n\nPupils in schools and colleges in England - except children of key workers and vulnerable pupils - have been told to learn remotely during the latest Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe DfE data shows more than a fifth (22%) of primary school pupils were on site last week - a rise on the week before, when 21% were in class.\n\nAttendance in special schools was 33% - up from 30% on 21 January.\n\nAround 70% - 850,000 - of the children in all schools last week were the children of key workers, up from 813,000 on 21 January,\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"It is worrying that demand for school places is obviously rising during the course of the lockdown.\n\n\"Schools are being placed in the very difficult position of much higher demand than in the first lockdown and no guidance from the government about how many children should be in school at any one time.\n\n\"Many schools are having to juggle in-school teaching for quite large numbers of pupils with remote education for everyone else.\n\n\"It is very difficult to square this with the government's message to the public to stay home, protect the NHS, and save lives.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the figures were a \"timely reminder that schools did not really close in the first place\".\n\nMr Whiteman said the government should scrutinise the infection rates and transmission within the minority of schools and communities where significant numbers of pupils and parents continued to meet daily.\n\n\"Understanding the level of risk presented by higher numbers of pupils in school would appear key to planning for a safe and sustainable return to school for all pupils.\"\n\nThe attendance figures came as a professor told the All-Party Group on Coronavirus that the current situation was having a \"devastating impact\" on children.\n\nProfessor Anthony Costello, of University College London's Institute for Global Health said: \"I think in terms of opening schools, it should be based on solid criteria of the risk from local community prevalence.\n\n\"In addition to all of that - even if we have to keep some schools shut longer than others - putting in place a proper plan to support all of the kids and all of the children who need access to online learning because I am in no doubt this is having a devastating impact on our children and we have got to do something to ameliorate that - whether we can open schools or not.\"\n\nThe latest government figures also show that 51,676 laptops and tablets have been delivered or dispatched by the government to help with remote learning in the past week.\n\nThe DfE figures suggest that 365,268 devices have been sent to councils, academy trusts, schools and colleges across England since the lockdown began on 4 January.\n\nIt means a total of 927,689 laptops and tablets have been delivered or dispatched to support pupils to access remote education since the scheme to provide devices for children from disadvantaged backgrounds began.", "Lord Wharton, pictured when he was serving as an MP\n\nThe Conservative peer who is the government's preferred choice to chair the Office for Students (OfS) watchdog has suggested he could continue taking his party's whip at the same time as being an independent regulator.\n\nLord Wharton was asked by MPs about a conflict of interest.\n\nHe said that party whips, who organise how peers and MPs vote, would give him more \"latitude\".\n\n\"I can assure you I won't be hesitant to speak out,\" said Lord Wharton.\n\nMPs on the education select committee were questioning him in a pre-appointment hearing for the new chair of the OfS, an independent watchdog for higher education in England, representing the interests of students.\n\nThe job advert for the role offered £59,000 per year for two days per week.\n\nThe preferred candidate is Lord Wharton, a former Conservative MP and former manager of Boris Johnson's leadership campaign.\n\nDavid Simmonds, a Conservative MP on the committee, asked Lord Wharton about a potential conflict if he was voting in the House of Lords on legislation in areas on which he would also be regulating.\n\n\"You're a Conservative peer - and the question has to be asked: 'Are you going to retain the Conservative party whip or are you proposing to step away from it?'\" asked Mr Simmonds.\n\nLord Wharton said he had an \"open mind\".\n\nBut he told MPs his party whips in the House of Lords had said \"they would give me more latitude and understand that I may need to vote against or speak against some of the things the party in government could bring forward\".\n\n\"I can absolutely assure the committee that I recognise the crucial importance of the regulator being independent.\"\n\nThe OfS is responsible for independently regulating issues such as making sure students get value for money for their tuition fees.\n\nThese fees are decided by the government, dependent on votes by MPs and peers - and ministers are currently considering a review calling for fees to be reduced.\n\nThe regulator also considers the quality of what students are offered and fair access.\n\nLabour's Fleur Anderson asked whether Lord Wharton, while continuing to hold his party's whip on policy issues such as education, could also really be independent as a regulator.\n\n\"All I can assure you is that I will be independent and open and say what I think when issues arise. And if that brings me into conflict with government then so be it. And if it doesn't, it doesn't,\" said Lord Wharton.\n\nLord Wharton also suggested that if he became chair of the OfS it would consider whether the process for students seeking tuition fee refunds was \"fit for purpose\".\n\n\"I think the truth is that the process currently is bureaucratic and cumbersome and slow,\" he said.", "\"I wasn't dancing to mock or ridicule any organisation or to be silly... I was dancing for a fitness dance competition,\" said aerobics instructor Khing Hnin Wai after a video of her workout went viral.\n\nFilming in Myanmar's capital, she posted her fitness video to Facebook. Little did she know, she'd inadvertently caught a historical moment: Myanmar's military coup-in-progress.\n\nStanding by the Royal Lotus Roundabout near the country's parliament, armoured vehicles and black SUVs sped by behind her as she danced.\n\nOn Monday, the military seized control of Myanmar, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top officials in her party.", "Public Health England is investigating cases of coronavirus with 'worrying' new genetic changes that have been found in some regions of the UK.\n\nTests show they have a mutation, called E484K, that is already seen in the South Africa variant.\n\nAlthough this change may reduce vaccine effectiveness, the current ones in use should still work, say experts.\n\nThere have been 11 cases in Bristol and a cluster of 32 cases in Liverpool.\n\nUrgent testing for the South Africa variant is already starting in parts of England and could be rolled out to other areas seeing different variants with the same E484K mutation.\n\nScientists working with Public Health England found a small number of cases of the UK 'Kent' variant with the E484K mutation - it was seen in 11 out of 214,159 samples that they tested, and predominantly from the South West of England.\n\nIt is likely there may be more cases that haven't yet been found. The Liverpool area has seen 32 cases of original coronavirus that have the E484K mutation too.\n\nIt's not unexpected that variants are appearing or that they will continue to change - all viruses mutate as they make new copies of themselves to spread and thrive.\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, described the finding as \"a worrying development, though not entirely unexpected\".\n\nHe said it was important people follow the lockdown rules and get cases of coronavirus down to prevent opportunities for the virus to mutate further.\n\n\"Otherwise not only can the virus continue to spread, it can also evolve.\"\n\nHe said that allowing spread could allow a \"melting pot\" for different emerging variants.\n\nScientists have already been checking what these new mutations might mean for existing coronavirus vaccines that were designed around earlier versions of the virus that started the pandemic.\n\nSome research appears to show E484K may help the virus evade parts of the immune system called antibodies.\n\nBut early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against variants with this mutation - although the body's immune response may not be as strong or prolonged.\n\nTwo new coronavirus vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - also appear to offer good cover against variants, protecting against serious illness.\n\nEven in the worst case scenario, vaccines can be redesigned and tweaked to be a better match in a matter or weeks or months, if necessary, say experts.\n\nA silver lining may be that the variants are mutating in a similar way rather than diverging from each other.\n\nProf Ravi Gupta from the University of Cambridge said: \"This gives us a sign that it has certain favoured routes - and we can work to block those off with a vaccine.\"\n\nFormer UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the race was on to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible in order to keep a step ahead of the virus.\n\nMeasures such as washing your hands, keeping your distance from other people and wearing a face covering will still help prevent infections.", "Scotland has vaccinated a lower percentage of its adult population than any other UK nation\n\nAlmost 35,000 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine on Monday, the highest daily figure since the programme began.\n\nIt marked the first day in which mass vaccination centres were open in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow.\n\nThe jump in figures came after concerns that just 9,628 people had the jab in Scotland on Sunday.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's national clinical director, told BBC Scotland \"we do need to be doing it faster\".\n\nHe said Sundays had been \"a bit tricky\" for the vaccine programme because many GP surgeries were closed.\n\nThe figure was the lowest since the Scottish government started publishing daily vaccine statistics.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack later wrote to the first minister on behalf of the UK government to offer \"any support or assistance we can give you to accelerate your rollout programme\".\n\nMr Jack said this included further requests for military assistance and mutual aid between health services.\n\nHis letter concluded: \"I strongly believe that to put the nightmare of Covid-19 behind us as quickly as possible, we must collaborate as closely as possible.\"\n\nScotland, which has about a twelfth of the UK population, has now vaccinated just over 610,000 people while the UK tally stands at about 9.6 million.\n\nScotland has vaccinated the lowest percentage of its population aged 16 and over - 13.45% - of all of the four UK nations.\n\nThe equivalent figure for England was 18.39%, Wales was 16.98% and Northern Ireland was 15.59%.\n\nIn order to be equal to its population share, Scotland should have vaccinated another 200,000 people.\n\nIn her Covid statement at Holyrood, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland had initially concentrated on making sure there was a depth of uptake in the clinically most vulnerable groups such as elderly care home residents.\n\nShe said the challenge now was to increase the breadth of the overall numbers.\n\nIn response, Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives at Holyrood, said the Scottish government's vaccination programme was \"slow, stuttering and lagging way behind the rest of the UK\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said Scotland needed to be \"ambitious\" with its vaccination programme and said there was no need to ditch the rest of the rollout while care homes and other vulnerable groups were prioritised.\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"legitimate questions\" were being asked about the slow rollout but she stood by the approach that was taken.\n\nThe Scottish government insists that it remains on track to meet its target of having vaccinated everyone over the age of 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable by 15 February.\n\nBut many people aged over 70 have not yet received an appointment letter, with 21% of those aged between 75 and 79 having been vaccinated by Tuesday.\n\nScotland now needs to be vaccinating about 40,000 people per day to meet the target - with Tuesday's total of 34,881 being the highest it has managed in a single day so far.\n\nOpposition parties have accused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of being \"in denial\" about the pace of the vaccine rollout in Scotland.\n\nProf Leitch said the plan had been for most over-80s to be vaccinated in their local GP surgery so they would not have to travel greater distances and where they would know the staff.\n\nHe acknowledged that many GP surgeries did not open on Sundays, and that \"some people think this was not the right thing to do\".\n\nHe said the vaccination teams had been \"asked to have another look at that\".\n\nProf Leitch told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We agree we do need to be doing it faster.\n\n\"That is why now, as we have gone down a level to people who are a little bit more mobile - the 70 years olds, the over-75s - they are now being done in big vaccination centres or semi-big vaccination centres.\"\n\nHe also predicted that the opening of the new mass vaccination centres in Edinburgh and Aberdeen earlier this week, alongside the existing facility in Glasgow, meant that \"many, many more\" people would be vaccinated this weekend.\n\nThe latest figures show 83% of people over the age of 80 have now had their first jab, although the first minister said the figure was likely to be closer to 90% as there were fewer people in the age group than they had thought and the figures are being \"refined\".\n\nThe daily figures show 98% of older care home residents and 88% of care home staff have been given their first dose.\n\nThe Scottish government says the opening of two new mass vaccination centres this week will allow it to hit its targets\n\nProf Leitch said: \"We'll finish the over-80s this week, apart from a few stragglers who are maybe a bit doubtful or don't want done or were Covid positive.\n\n\"So not 100% but we'll get to just as many as we can by this Friday, and we've started the 70 to 79 year olds and we're beginning to send letters out to those who are over 65 and those who are vulnerable.\"\n\nHe admitted that it was \"hard\" for people in Scotland to hear that vaccination numbers were higher in England, but insisted that it was \"not a race\" - and pointed out that the death rate and prevalence of the virus in Scotland was still lower than in England.\n\nProf Leitch added: \"It is a race against the virus, not a race against my colleagues and I want England to be vaccinated as fast as they can possibly do it and I also want Wales and Northern Ireland to be vaccinated.\n\n\"So I don't really like the competitive nature of the vaccination story.\"", "Our demands on nature are untenable, the report says\n\nA landmark review has called for transformational change in our economic approach to nature.\n\nThe long-awaited review by Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, of the University of Cambridge, says prosperity has come at a \"devastating\" cost to the natural world.\n\nThe report proposes recognising nature as an asset and reconsidering our measures of economic prosperity.\n\nIt is expected to set the agenda on government policy going forward.\n\nAt its heart is the idea that sustainable economic growth requires a different measure than Gross Domestic Product (GDP).\n\n\"Truly sustainable economic growth and development means recognising that our long-term prosperity relies on rebalancing our demand of nature's goods and services with its capacity to supply them,\" Prof Dasgupta said in a statement.\n\n\"It also means accounting fully for the impact of our interactions with nature across all levels of society.\"\n\nCovid-19 has shown us what can happen when we don't do this, he added. \"Nature is our home. Good economics demands we manage it better.\"\n\nNature isn't costed into economic decision-making, the report says\n\nThe Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity was commissioned by the UK Treasury in 2019, the first time a national finance ministry has authorised a full assessment of the economic importance of nature.\n\nThe report, which has been compared with the influential 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, sets out the ways in which we should account for nature in economics and decision-making.\n\nShould we pay nations to protect ecosystems on which we all rely?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the review. The UK is co-hosting COP26 - this year's UN climate meeting - and also holds the presidency of this year's G7. Mr Johnson said: \"We are going to make sure the natural world stays right at the top of the global agenda.\"\n\nSir David Attenborough, who wrote the foreword to the review, said: \"This comprehensive and immensely important report shows us how, by bringing economics and ecology face-to-face, we can help to save the natural world and, in doing so, save ourselves.\"\n\nThe 600-page review argues that losses in biodiversity are undermining the productivity, resilience and adaptability of nature. This is in turn putting economies, livelihoods and well-being at risk.\n\nCommenting on the review, Jennifer Morris, of conservation non-profit The Nature Conservancy, described it as a \"clarion call\" to world leaders.\n\n\"We must tackle the nature crisis in conjunction with the climate emergency for the sake of our economies, livelihoods, and wellbeing - and those of future generations,\" she said.\n\nThe review has been published at the beginning of a critical year for tackling the climate change and extinction crises.\n\nPolicymakers are looking ahead to the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 in Kunming, China, closely followed by the UN Climate Change Summit (COP26) in Glasgow in late 2021.\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.\n\nEnvironmental objectives should be aligned along entire global supply chains, the report says\n\nThe idea of being able to put a price on nature divides opinion, but accounting for the economic value of nature is increasingly guiding policy.\n\nWhile some argue that the assumption the natural world has no value is baked into current business models, others have doubts over whether an ecosystem can be accurately represented by financial models.\n\nKatie Kedward, economist at University College London's (UCL) Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, argues that there are conceptual problems in trying to capture the complexities of nature in financial terms.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"There are significant uncertainties in estimating nature loss in monetary terms and given the uncertainties involved price-based tools can't be used as a replacement to more important steps to restore nature.\"\n\nThe review is the result of an 18-month independent global assessment on the economics of biodiversity, led by Prof Dasgupta.\n\nHM Treasury has said it will examine the review's findings and respond formally in due course.", "The Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond will not publish messages it received in evidence from the Crown Office.\n\nMSPs said the messages were between women seeking \"confidential support\" and were not relevant to its work.\n\nThey added that they did not want to cause distress to the women involved.\n\nBut the women whose messages were shared with the committee said it was an invasion of their privacy.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Salmond took legal action against the Scottish government over its handling of two internal harassment complaints against him.\n\nThe government eventually conceded its investigation had been \"unlawful\" and was ordered to pay the former first minister £500,000 in legal costs.\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry was set up to examine what went wrong.\n\nLast month the committee used its legal powers to demand the release of documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThese included text or WhatsApp communications between SNP officials and government staff, which were uncovered as part of the police investigation into Mr Salmond.\n\nThe former first minister was cleared of all 13 charges of sexual assault after a two-week trial last year.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the text messages were not relevant\n\nLast week, prosecutors confirmed they had handed over \"material\" to the committee and asked its members to consider whether it was in the public interest to publish the material.\n\nThe committee's convenor, SNP MP Linda Fabiani, said on Tuesday that the committee had reviewed the material and unanimously agreed that the private communications would not be published.\n\n\"These communications included numerous chains of private messages between different women in what we are clear were safe spaces for confidential support,\" she said.\n\n\"The committee is clear that publication and further consideration of this material is not relevant to the committee's work or necessary to fulfil its remit.\"\n\nMs Fabiani added that the committee \"will not do anything that may cause further unnecessary distress to any women\".\n\nA statement from the women said they were \"deeply disappointed\" that the texts had been requested and passed on, and that they were \"actively considering further options\".\n\n\"What the Crown provided are personal communications between friends who supported each other during a traumatic time,\" they said.\n\nThey said comments made by members of the committee had caused \"considerable distress\".\n\nTheir statement said a group chat was \"simply a support group for women who had already shared their experiences with the police\" and that the messages showed there was no conspiracy.\n\nAnd they added: \"The bullying and intimidation of complainers through use of their private and personal communications must end now.\"\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said it takes its responsibilities towards and victims and witnesses seriously.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"COPFS was compelled to provide certain information to comply with a statutory notice, but asked the committee to carefully consider if it would be appropriate and in the public interest to publish the material provided.\"\n\nMr Salmond looks set to appear before the inquiry on 9 February, while his successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is expected to give evidence the following week.", "The 64-year-old general has spent his entire career in the influential military\n\nMin Aung Hlaing rose steadily through the ranks of the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's powerful military, but as commander-in-chief for the past decade he also wielded significant political influence before the 1 February coup.\n\nHe successfully maintained the Tatmadaw's power even as Myanmar transitioned to democracy, but received international condemnation and sanctions for his alleged role in the military's attacks of ethnic minorities.\n\nAs Myanmar returns to military rule under his leadership, Min Aung Hlaing now looks set to extend his power and shape the country's immediate future.\n\nThe 64-year-old general has spent his entire career in the influential military, which he joined as a cadet.\n\nA former law student at Yangon University, he entered the Defence Services Academy on his third attempt in 1974.\n\nThe relatively unassuming infantryman kept getting regular promotions and moved up the ladder, eventually becoming commander of the Bureau of Special Operations-2 in 2009.\n\nMyanmar has the second-largest army in South East Asia\n\nIn this role, he oversaw operations in north-eastern Myanmar, which led to tens of thousands of ethnic minority refugees fleeing the eastern Shan province and the Kokang region, along the Chinese border.\n\nDespite allegations of murder, rape and arson against his troops, Min Aung Hlaing continued to rise and in August 2010 he became joint chief of staff.\n\nLess than a year later, he was tapped for the military's top post ahead of more senior generals, succeeding long-time leader Than Shwe as commander-in-chief in March 2011.\n\nWhen Min Aung Hlaing became military chief, blogger and writer Hla Oo - who said they had known each other in childhood - described him as \"a battle-hardened warrior of brutal Burmese Army\", but also called him a \"serious scholar and gentleman\".\n\nMin Aung Hlaing began his tenure as military chief as Myanmar transitioned to democracy in 2011 after decades of military rule, but remained keen on maintaining the Tatmadaw's power.\n\nHis political influence and social media presence increased as the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) led the government.\n\nIn 2016, when Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) came to power, he seemingly adapted to the change by working and appearing at public events with her.\n\nMin Aung Hlaing was once happy to work with Aung San Suu Kyi\n\nDespite the change, he ensured the Tatmadaw continued to hold 25% of parliamentary seats and crucial security-related cabinet portfolios, while resisting the NLD's attempts to amend the constitution and limit military power.\n\nIn 2016 and 2017, the military intensified a crackdown on the Rohingya ethnic minority in the northern Rakhine state, leading to many Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar.\n\nThe military chief was condemned internationally for the alleged \"genocide\", and in August 2018 the UN Human Rights Council said: \"Myanmar's top military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in the north of Rakhine State, as well as for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States.\"\n\nFollowing the council's statement, Facebook deleted his account, along with those of other individuals and organisations who it said had \"committed or enabled serious human rights abuses in the country\".\n\nThe US sanctioned him twice - in 2019 for his alleged role in \"ethnic cleansing\" and human rights violations, and in July 2020 the UK also imposed sanctions on him.\n\nThe November 2020 general election saw a landslide win for the NLD, according to official figures, but in subsequent months the Tatmadaw and military-backed USDP repeatedly disputed the results.\n\nThe USDP made allegations of widespread electoral fraud. Those claims were dismissed by the election commission ahead of a planned parliament session on 1 February to confirm the new government.\n\nSpeculation of a coup grew amid the stand-off between the government and the armed forces. On 27 January Min Aung Hlaing warned that \"the constitution shall be abolished, if not followed\", citing example of previous military coups in 1962 and 1988.\n\nHis office seemingly reversed this stance by 30 January, saying that the media had misinterpreted military officials' words about abolishing the constitution.\n\nHowever, on the morning of 1 February, the Tatmadaw detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other senior leaders, and declared a year-long state of emergency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The early morning arrest of regional MP Pa Pa Han was live streamed on Facebook by her husband\n\nMin Aung Hlaing assumed all state power for this period in his capacity as commander-in-chief, and immediately prioritised the alleged electoral irregularities.\n\nA meeting of the National Defence and Security Council led by him said it would investigate the fraud claims and hold new elections, effectively invalidating the NLD's win.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did this peace icon end up at a genocide trial?\n\nMin Aung Hlaing was originally due to step down as commander-in-chief after reaching the retirement age of 65 in July this year, but has now given himself at least another year in power - and potentially longer - with Myanmar's apparent return to military rule.\n\nAs Myanmar faces an uncertain future with the state of emergency, he has cemented his power and taken charge of the country.\n\nThis report was compiled by BBC Monitoring", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could lead to a \"substantial\" fall in the spread of the virus, say scientists.\n\nThe impact of Covid vaccines on transmission has been a crucial unknown that will dramatically shape the future of the pandemic.\n\nThe study, which has not been formally published, also showed the vaccine remained effective while people waited for a second dose.\n\nIt was 76% effective during the three months after the first shot.\n\nThe impact on transmission is critical.\n\nIf a vaccine only stops you getting severely ill, but you can still catch and pass on the virus, then everyone will need to be immunised to be protected.\n\nBut if it also stops you spreading the virus then it would have a far greater impact on the pandemic as each person who is vaccinated indirectly protects other people too.\n\nThe study by the University of Oxford swabbed participants every week to test them for the presence of the virus.\n\nIf there is no virus then they cannot spread it. In the study, the numbers testing positive halved in people once they had been given two doses of the vaccine.\n\n\"The data indicate that [the vaccine] may have a substantial impact on transmission by reducing the number of infected individuals in the population,\" the report said.\n\nThe UK, amid global debate and in sharp contrast to other countries, is prioritising giving the first dose to as many people as possible.\n\nThe idea is to save more lives by giving more people some protection, but it means people will have to wait around three months for the booster instead of three weeks.\n\nThis study - on 17,000 people in the UK, South Africa and Brazil - showed protection remained at 76% during the three months after the first dose.\n\nThis rose to 82% after people were given the second dose.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, from the Oxford Vaccine Trial, said: \"These new data provide an important verification of the interim data that was used by more than 25 regulators including the MHRA and EMA to grant the vaccine emergency use authorisation.\n\n\"It also supports the policy recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation for a 12-week prime-boost interval, as they look for the optimal approach to rollout.\"\n\nThe report does not tackle the impact of the new variants on how well the vaccines work.\n\nProf Stephen Evans, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: \"The data definitely provide some evidence to suggest that the eventual protection from two doses of this vaccine are not worsened by having a longer than 28 or 42 day period between doses, and tend to confirm what had been shown before, that if anything the eventual efficacy was better.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the study was \"hugely encouraging\", adding that it \"further reinforces our confidence that vaccines are capable of reducing transmission and protecting people from this awful disease\".\n\nHe said: \"This report shows the Oxford vaccine works and works well.\n\n\"More than 9.6 million people have already received the first dose of their Covid-19 vaccine and the NHS is working tirelessly to vaccinate as many people as possible in every part of the UK.\"", "New restrictions designed to make online casino games less intensive and safer have been announced by the Gambling Commission.\n\nThey include the introduction of limits on spin speeds, as well as a permanent ban on features that speed up play or celebrate losses as wins.\n\nOperators must clearly display to the player their total losses or wins.\n\nThe Gambling Commission said online operators would need to implement the new rules by 31 October.\n\nThe moves come in response to concern over what are known as online slot games - that is, games designed to mimic slot machines in real-life betting shops and casinos.\n\nThese account for an estimated 70% of online casino games.\n\nAccording to the Gambling Commission, these slot games have by far the highest average losses per player of online gambling products.\n\nOnline slots and similar casino-style games have come to dominate Britons' spending on gambling. The British public spent £2.2bn on online slot games in 2019, according to the Gambling Commission, and some estimates say the UK now accounts for 15% of these types of games.\n\nThe Commission has already cracked down on one of the bookmakers' cash cows, the fixed-odds betting terminal. on which customers can play casino games in shops. Now they have gone after the online equivalent. The new measures are aimed at reining in the power and addictive nature of the games and giving the customer more of a chance to rein in spending.\n\nGambling regulation in the UK appears headed for a shake-up. The commission has been criticised by some MPs for being toothless and ill-equipped to cope with the shift online. At the end of last month, the government quietly announced a consultation on how the regulator should be funded, with an acknowledgment that it was a small organisation, given the size of the industry it had to police.\n\nA big test may come later this year, with indications that there may be a ban on gambling companies sponsoring the shirts of football and darts players. That would be unpopular not just with the companies, but also the sports authorities and clubs, who have become reliant on the sponsorship income.\n\nAnother change being introduced is a ban on reverse withdrawals - a function which allows consumers to re-gamble money they had previously requested to withdraw.\n\n\"Evidence shows that reverse withdrawal functions present a risk to players because of the temptation to continue gambling,\" said the Commission.\n\n\"In addition, the slot features being removed or more closely controlled have been associated with increased intensity of play, loss of player control or binge play.\"\n\nSports, Tourism and Heritage Minister Nigel Huddleston welcomed the measures, saying they would \"help curb the intensity of online gambling, introducing greater protections that will reduce the risk of gambling-related harm\".\n\nIn the past year or so, the Gambling Commission has introduced a series of curbs on gambling, including raising the age limit for playing the National Lottery and banning the use of credit cards.", "There were more than 9,000 deaths linked to Covid in the week ending 22 January, an analysis of death certificates show.\n\nThe figure, from the UK national statistical agencies, is up by nearly 1,300 on the week before.\n\nIt represents 44% of all deaths during the week - the highest proportion since the pandemic started.\n\nBut daily monitoring by the government suggests the rise in deaths has now slowed and may be levelling off.\n\nThat data looks at deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, whereas death certificates rely on the expert judgement of doctors - but the two measures are tracking each other quite closely.\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it looked like the peak was passing.\n\nBut the figures from the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Northern Ireland and Scotland showed the \"terrible and deadly\" impact of the second wave.\n\nThere were 20,700 deaths in total - more than 5,700 higher than the average for this time of year.\n\n\"This is a long way from a typical winter,\" Ms Scobie added.\n\nThere have now been a total of nearly 113,000 death certificates that mention Covid.\n\nAnd nine out of every 10 of these recorded Covid as the cause of death.\n\nDr Layla McCay, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, said the figures represented a \"tragic toll\".\n\n\"While there have been early signs in recent days that some of the pressure may be easing, the NHS is far from out of the woods,\" she said.\n\n\"And while some battles have been won, the war is still raging.\"\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant that he started in his garage nearly 30 years ago.\n\nHe will become executive chairman, a move he said would give him \"time and energy\" to focus on his other ventures.\n\nMr Bezos, who has a fortune of almost $200bn, will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently leads Amazon's cloud computing business.\n\nThe change will take place in the second half of 2021, the company said.\n\n\"Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it's consuming. When you have a responsibility like that, it's hard to put attention on anything else,\" Mr Bezos said in a letter to Amazon staff on Tuesday.\n\n\"As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions.\"\n\n\"I've never had more energy, and this isn't about retiring. I'm super passionate about the impact I think these organisations can have,\" he added.\n\nMr Bezos, 57, has led Amazon since its start as an online bookshop in 1994. The firm now employs 1.3 million people globally and has its hand in everything from package delivery and streaming video to cloud services and advertising.\n\nHe's amassed a fortune of $196.2bn, according to Forbes' list of billionaires., making him the world's richest man. However, Bloomberg's billionaire index puts Tesla boss Elon Musk just ahead of him.\n\nAmazon saw its already explosive growth skyrocket last year, as the pandemic prompted a surge in online shopping.\n\nAndy Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997\n\nThe firm reported $386bn (£283bn) in sales in 2020, up 38% from 2019. Profits almost doubled, rising to $21.3bn.\n\nIn announcing the plans, Mr Bezos said he would continue to focus on new products and initiatives.\n\n\"When you look at our financial results, what you're actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention,\" he said. \"Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition.\"\n\nThe shake-up comes as Mr Bezos has developed an increasingly public profile.\n\nHe has endured a public divorce, become a target for labour and inequality activists, and poured his wealth into other businesses, such as space exploration firm Blue Origin and the Washington Post newspaper.\n\nAmazon also faces increasing scrutiny from regulators, who have questioned its monopoly power. And its dominance in cloud computing is being increasingly challenged by other tech firms, such as Microsoft and Alphabet, parent company of Google and YouTube.\n\nMr Bezos's decision to hand over the day-to-day operation of the company came as a surprise. But investors appeared unfazed, with little change in the firm's share price in after-hours trade.\n\nIn a call with analysts to discuss the firm's financial results, Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said: \"Jeff is not leaving, he is getting a new job... The board is super active and important in Amazon's success story.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things to know about Amazon boss Jeff Bezos\n\nMr Jassy, a Harvard graduate, has been with Amazon since 1997 and helped develop Amazon Web Services, which has long been seen as the profit engine of the company.\n\nThe division provides cloud computing and storage for governments and companies including McDonald's and Netflix.\n\n\"Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,\" Mr Bezos said.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said it was \"no accident\" that Amazon is tapping the head of the cloud business to lead the company.\n\nThis is a real surprise. But you have to remember that Jeff Bezos himself is worth nearly $200bn.\n\nAnd when you're that rich imagine what you can do. Jeff Bezos has some pretty lofty ambitions outside of Amazon.\n\nHis Blue Origin company wants to \"build a road to space\". He's also sunk $10bn into Earth Fund, designed to help combat the effects of climate change.\n\nOh, and he also owns the Washington Post.\n\nHow will Amazon cope? Well, importantly, he's not leaving. As executive chair and founder he'll still exercise huge power over the company.\n\nHowever, stepping back will inevitably mean less influence.\n\nHis replacement - Andy Jassy - has been running Amazon Web Services, Amazon's booming cloud business division.\n\nHis rise to the top underscores how important this business has become to Amazon.\n\nAnother top executive, Jeff Wilke, who led the firm's consumer business, announced his retirement last year.\n\nAmazon Web Services \"continued to shine in [its most recent] quarter, and now accounts for a more meaningful chunk of sales. The potential here is huge, and the scalable benefits that come with it should have ears pricking up,\" she said.\n\nOverall sales at the company rose 44% in the last three months of the year to $125.6bn, boosted in part by renewed lockdowns in some parts of the world as well as a later date for the firm's \"Prime Day\", when the firm drives sales with a slew of discounts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCarolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies, wrote on Twitter that the \"huge\" announcement showed how central cloud services are to Amazon's business.\n\nBut she added that she did not think Bezos was \"done making an impact on the future of the company\".\n\nCritics of the firm reacted to the announcement similarly.\n\n\"Do not be fooled by Amazon. Jeff Bezos is still in a position of immense power as executive chair,\" said Public Citizen, a US-based consumer rights activist group. \"This abusive, predatory monopoly still needs a complete overhaul.\"", "The incident took place at an upscale gated community\n\nTwo FBI agents have been killed and three others wounded during a shootout in Florida while serving a search warrant, according to the FBI.\n\nThe gunfire began around 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT) in the city of Sunrise as agents were investigating a \"violent crimes against children case\".\n\nThe suspect was also killed. Asked how many bullets were fired, a police official replied: \"Too many to count.\"\n\nThe gunfight took place at an upscale gated community north of Miami.\n\nThe FBI said two of the agents had been transported to hospital and were in a stable condition. The third injured agent did not require hospital.\n\nAccording to the Miami Herald, the suspect was barricaded inside a home for several hours before shooting and killing himself.\n\nThe shooting took place at the Water Terrace apartment complex, about 10 miles (16km) north-west of Fort Lauderdale. The luxury community features a gym, pool, spa and tennis courts, according to their website.\n\n\"In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under investigation by the FBI's Inspection Division,\" the FBI said in a statement. \"The review process is thorough and objective and is conducted as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances.\"\n\nFBI Director Christopher Wray identified the two agents as Dan Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger, who both worked for years to combat child pornography in Florida.\n\n\"Special Agent Alfin and Special Agent Schwartzenberger exemplified heroism today in defence of their country,\" he said. \"The FBI will always honour their ultimate sacrifice and will be forever grateful for their bravery.\"\n\nThe Sunrise Police Department closed down multiple roads in the area, urging local residents to stay indoors due to the \"ongoing investigation\".\n\nSunrise Police spokeswoman Otishia Browning-Smith said \"there were too many [shots] to count.\"\n\nJulius McLymont, a resident of the complex, told the Associated Press that he heard the gunfight begin with an initial volley of four shots. He first thought it may have been a car backfiring until about two minutes later about five more shots rang out.\n\nMr McLymont said he saw officers in Swat gear loading an injured person onto an ambulance as more emergency crews arrived.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy snow overnight has caused disruption in parts of the region\n\nHundreds of schools have closed and travel has been disrupted by heavy snowfall across parts of northern England.\n\nYorkshire was worst affected, leading to some coronavirus vaccinations being cancelled as people were warned against non-essential travel.\n\nParts of the North West and Derbyshire also saw disruption due to the weather.\n\nThe Met Office issued an amber warning for snow, saying up to 6in (15cm) could fall on higher ground.\n\nPeople were warned against travelling by road, and firms including rail operator Northern advised of widespread disruption to their networks.\n\nForecasters warned motorists were at risk of becoming stranded.\n\nSome motorists were stuck overnight on the M62 when a parcel lorry jack-knifed, blocking the westbound carriageway near Rochdale.\n\nHighways staff worked overnight to clear the road, which reopened on Tuesday morning.\n\nChris Johnson, who runs a private gritting firm, described driving conditions as \"absolutely horrendous\" and said his teams had been at work since the early hours.\n\n\"Our biggest trouble has actually been getting to the sites on the public roads,\" he said.\n\nA lorry jack-knifed on the M62 near Huddersfield, closing the eastbound carriageway\n\nAbout 400 schools across Yorkshire closed their doors to all children for the day,\n\nAt least ten schools in Derbyshire were also shut, the county council said, with some in east Lancashire following suit.\n\nPolice urged people not to breach lockdown rules after a group of families travelled to an area of North Yorkshire to go sledging.\n\n\"Several\" groups were at Brayton Barff, Selby, earlier, police.\n\nThe Selby Neighbourhood Policing Team said they were not \"killjoys\" but travelling to go sledging was in breach of Covid regulations.\n\nImmunisation appointments at the Great Yorkshire Showground and Ripon Racecourse were cancelled in the morning.\n\nThose due to be vaccinated were told they would have their jab rescheduled.\n\nThe NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group said afternoon appointments should go ahead as planned.\n\n\"Particularly bad conditions\" in Huddersfield led health chiefs to warn those due to receive vaccinations at the town's John Smith's Stadium to \"only travel if they feel safe and confident in doing so\".\n\nDr Phil Wood, from the West Yorkshire Vaccination Programme, said sites in the county remained open to those able to attend.\n\nCovid testing sites in Catterick and Thornton Le Dale have were also shut. North Yorkshire County Council said people with appointments would be contacted with alternative arrangements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The heavy snow in South Yorkshire is a problem for drivers but a delight for this skier\n\nIn Sheffield, the trial of a man accused of murdering Hull student Libby Squire was held up after snow prevented some jurors reaching the city's crown court.\n\nKnaresborough in North Yorkshire awoke to several inches of snow\n\nThere were multiple reports of travel disruption, including:\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police has advised people not to travel unless absolutely essential.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow rain warning from 18:00 GMT.\n\nIt has warned rainfall and melting snow could lead to flooding and further travel disruption.\n\nDog walkers braved the elements in Knaresborough in North Yorkshire after snow fell overnight\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow came in force across much of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and parts of Derbyshire at 03:00 GMT on Tuesday, and will last until the afternoon.\n\nMeteorologists said January this year was the coldest since 2010, with an average temperature of 2.2C.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre (NCIC), said the month was \"dominated by colder-than-average weather with only brief milder interludes\".\n\n\"A winter month as cold or colder than January 2021 used to occur in approximately seven out of 10 winters through the 20th Century,\" said Dr McCarthy.\n\n\"In more recent decades this has dropped to around three in ten. So although we are still subject to cold weather in winter, these cold spells tend not to be as severe or as frequent as in the past.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHow has the snow affected you? Has the bad weather affected your vaccine? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website 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.", "Deaths caused by alcohol hit a new high during the first nine months of 2020, provisional figures for England and Wales show.\n\nBetween January and September, 5,460 deaths were registered with this cause - up 16% on the same months in 2019.\n\nIt is the biggest toll recorded since records began in 2001.\n\nThe high rates spanned the period during and after the first Covid lockdown, the Office for National Statistics figures show.\n\nIt reached a peak of 12.8 deaths per 100,000 people in the first three months of 2020 and remained at this level through to September - higher than in any other time on record.\n\nAs in past years, rates of male alcohol-specific deaths were twice those seen for women.\n\nExperts say the coronavirus pandemic will have had little effect on how the data was gathered and recorded.\n\nBut it is not clear how much it may have contributed to the deaths.\n\nONS spokesman Ben Humberstone said: \"Today's data shows that in the first three quarters of 2020, alcohol-specific deaths in England and Wales reached the highest level since the beginning of our data series, with April to September, during and after the first lockdown, seeing higher rates compared to the same period in previous years.\"\n\n\"The reasons for this are complex and it will take time before the impact the pandemic has had on alcohol-specific deaths is fully understood.\"\n\nJohn Slater, 63, sought help for his drinking a few years ago, saying dependency \"crept up on me gradually\" after taking an ill health pension and becoming a carer for relatives.\n\n\"I needed some way to be able to cope, to escape, and alcohol was it,\" he says. \"I wasn't all over the place, it started as a means to cope. I always used to spend time cooking a nice meal and would have a glass of wine, but one glass became two glasses which became three and then a bottle, two bottles, hidden bottles. Then you realise, oh hell, I have got a real problem here.\n\n\"Whenever I thought I had to cut my drinking down, I couldn't manage it and panicked and I went to the supermarket.\"\n\nJohn, from Devon, says he was scared of being labelled an alcoholic. \"There's still an enormous amount of stigma around it,\" he says. \"It makes it really difficult for people to come forward.\"\n\nHe eventually found help via the programme Drink Wise Age Well which is run by charity We Are With You, which he says offered a \"holistic\" approach and addressed his childhood trauma. He no longer drinks.\n\n\"It's not all about people having to go to rehab,\" says John. \"It's also about how our drinking increases when we are maybe isolated, or lonely, or become unemployed, or don't feel wanted or the burden of life increases.\"\n\nLooking at today's figures about alcohol-related deaths, John says that without help, there was a chance he could have \"carried on sinking and drinking, and gradually unravelled\".\n\nThe UK's Addiction Treatment Group said it knew first hand how many people have struggled with alcohol since the pandemic began.\n\n\"We must remember that what we're talking about here aren't just figures; they're people,\" said Nuno Albuquerque, head of treatment at the group.\n\n\"They're mums, dads, brothers, sisters, friends, colleagues and neighbours who have lost their lives to alcohol; a substance so widely accepted and almost encouraged in this country, but one so controlling, addictive and, ultimately, life-threatening.\"\n\nIf you are concerned about addiction, BBC Action Line has help and support.\n\nHave you been affected by 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.", "Last summer people flocked to Cornwall to enjoy the summer weather\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says he is \"optimistic\" people will be able to have summer holidays this year - but it depends on certain things going well.\n\nAsked about tourism in the UK, he said he did not want to give \"concrete\" dates for such trips but would set out more details on 22 February.\n\nThe success of the vaccine rollout and level of Covid cases would be factors taken into consideration, he added.\n\nNearly 9.3 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nA vaccine has been offered to all older residents at eligible care homes in England, the NHS announced earlier - an achievement Mr Johnson described as a \"crucial milestone\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer all care home residents and carers, people over 70 and frontline care workers a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nFigures released on Monday show a further 18,607 Covid cases have been recorded. There have also been a further 406 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Johnson, speaking during a visit to Batley, West Yorkshire, said: \"I don't want to give too much concrete by way of dates for our summer holidays. I am optimistic - I understand the reasons for being optimistic - but some things have got to go right.\n\n\"The vaccine programme has got to continue to be successful.\n\n\"We have got to make sure we don't get thrown off course by new variants, we have got to make sure that we continue to keep the disease under control and the level of infections come down.\"\n\nHe added that once he gives more details in the last week of February \"people should certainly be able to plan on that basis\".\n\nHis comments come after Health Secretary Matt Hancock predicted \"a happy and free Great British summer\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced it is to carry out urgent door-to-door testing in parts of England for a new variant of coronavirus originally identified in South Africa, after cases were found with no known links to travel or previous cases.\n\nAll of the UK is currently under a lockdown, with people only allowed to travel abroad for essential purposes; such as work that cannot be done from home, medical appointments or educational reasons. These are the same \"reasonable excuses\" that apply to domestic travel.\n\nMr Johnson said there were signs the lockdown measures were working but it was too early to \"take your foot off the throat of the beast\" by easing restrictions.\n\n\"We are starting to see some signs of a flattening and maybe even a falling off of infection rates and hospitalisations,\" he said.\n\n\"But don't forget that they are still at a very high level by comparison with most points in the last 12 months, a really very high level.\"\n\nRules around international travel were tightened last month, meaning all travellers must self-isolate for 10 days when they return to the UK, while people returning to England from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in government-provided hotels.\n\nPeople leaving England will soon have to make a declaration on why they need to travel, which will be checked by carriers prior to departure, Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced.\n\nSome UK holiday providers have since reported a boom in domestic bookings for this summer.\n\nThe boss of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, said he is expecting \"a strong return\" for European beach holidays this summer thanks to the vaccination programme.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease expert who advises the government, suggested that if the UK continued the current pace of vaccinations - and jabs were shown to prevent transmission, not just severe infection - measures could begin to be eased from March.\n\n\"We need to be very careful,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme . \"Hopefully by the summer we can get back to something pretty close to what we have seen before the pandemic as normal.\"\n\nVaccines would need to be \"pretty good\" at blocking transmission \"to avoid a resurgence\" of the virus when measures are eased, Dr Tildesley added, with research due on this over the next month.\n\nThe UK government announced on Monday that it had ordered an extra 40 million doses of a vaccine from the French pharmaceutical company Valneva, that should become available later in the year and into 2022.\n\nThat takes the total number of different vaccines the UK has secured to 407 million doses - more than enough for the entire population.\n\nHowever, the prime minister's official spokesman said it was too soon to say when \"surplus\" vaccine doses could be donated to other counties, such as European Union member states.\n\nHe said the priority remained getting the vaccine to the most vulnerable in society by the spring.", "A lorry jack-knifed on the M62 between junctions 22 and 23\n\nDrivers were stuck on the M62 overnight as heavy snow and a jack-knifed lorry led to the motorway's partial closure.\n\nThe eastbound carriageway near Rochdale was blocked by snow between junctions 21 and 22, while the lorry shut the westbound route near junction 23.\n\nThe weather has also forced schools, which were open to children of key workers, to close in east Lancashire.\n\nSome schools were also shut in the north of the county and in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nHighways staff worked overnight to clear the snow on the M62 near Milnrow, Rochdale, allowing the road to reopen on Tuesday morning.\n\nEfforts to clear the M62 of snow continued through the night to allow the motorway to reopen\n\nThe closure came as an amber weather warning for snow was issued across parts of South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.\n\nBetween 1 and 3ins (3-8cm) of snow was forecast across the area, with 4 to 6ins (10 to 15cm) possible on higher ground, with warnings of road closures and rail cancellations.\n\nThe weather alert was later downgraded to a yellow warning, with an additional yellow warning for rain also given for the region.\n\nRail operator Northern said several trees had fallen on to the line between Halifax and Rochdale, halting services, and \"treacherous\" conditions meant replacement buses could not run.\n\nA spokesman said customers were urged not to travel between Halifax and Rochdale \"until further notice\".\n\nParts of Yorkshire have also seen heavy snow overnight and South Yorkshire Police has advised people not to travel unless absolutely essential.\n\nLancashire Police also warned that they were dealing with \"numerous\" crashes caused by snow.\n\nOther cross-Pennine roads including the A57 Snake Pass and A628 Woodhead Pass in Derbyshire have also been shut.\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.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has been defeated in the House of Lords on its post-Brexit Trade Bill, with peers backing a move to stop the UK doing deals with countries that abuse human rights.\n\nThey supported an amendment giving the High Court the right to determine if genocide has been committed.\n\nIf it decided it had, the government would then have to hold a debate to set out what it proposed to do.\n\nMinisters say they are are committed to working with Parliament on a solution.\n\nThe House of Lords has been considering the Trade Bill for a second time after MPs overturned a series of changes peers made in January.\n\nThe legislation enables the UK to strike new trade deals with countries after leaving the EU.\n\nBut there is concern over the human rights records of current and potential trading partners, including China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe government says it has spoken out strongly against human rights abuses in China and around the world.\n\nCrossbench peer Lord Alton, who brought forward the amendment, said it was time \"to speak and to act\".\n\nUnder his plans, the High Court would be given the right to make a preliminary judgement on genocide and ministers would then be obliged to have a debate in Parliament if such human rights abuses were found to have occurred.\n\nMinisters would have to set out what they planned to do \"within a reasonable time\".\n\nSpeaking in the debate, Lord Alton said it was an attempt to \"impose a limitation\" on ministers where genocide was shown to have taken place.\n\nPeers backed his amendment by 359 votes to 188.\n\nThe government also lost votes on two other amendments.\n\nOne by Conservative Lord Lansley would give Parliament the opportunity to set negotiating terms for trade deals.\n\nThe other, by Labour's Lord Collins, would compel ministers to report on human rights before trade deals are considered.\n\nInvestment minister Lord Grimstone insisted that \"trade does not have to come at the expense of human rights\".\n\nHe said genocide was \"notoriously hard to prove\", but the government had \"some sympathy\" with calls to give Parliament a greater role to scrutinise where there were \"credible concerns\".\n\nLord Grimstone indicated that, if a parliamentary select committee published a report on genocide and sought a debate, the government would facilitate one, adding that human rights abuses could not be \"swept under the carpet\".\n\nBut many Conservative backbench MPs are uneasy at the government's approach.\n\nIn January, the government narrowly avoided defeat in the Commons when 33 of them voted to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to have committed genocide.\n\nThe Trade Bill will now return to the Commons for MPs to vote on the amendments, in the latest series of parliamentary back-and-forth between the two Houses, known as ping-pong.", "Kevin Slater had his treatment in Cardiff, the inquiry heard\n\nA man who was treated with imported blood products in the 1980s became the first haemophiliac in the UK to test HIV positive and die of Aids, an inquiry has heard.\n\nKevin Slater, from Cwmbran, was 20 when he developed Aids in 1983 the Infected Blood Inquiry has been told.\n\nHe was not informed that he had been diagnosed with the condition for at least 18 months and died in 1985.\n\nRecords show it was recommended that the diagnosis be kept from him.\n\nThe UK-wide inquiry is looking into what has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.\n\nHaemophilia is a blood condition which affects the clotting of blood in those affected.\n\nIn the 1980s some of the blood products used to treat the condition were infected with HIV.\n\nThe inquiry heard there were about 100 haemophiliac patients in Wales at the time.\n\nMr Slater's sister-in-law Lynda Maule said she does not believe he was ever told he had Aids.\n\n\"He was treated disgustingly,\" she told the inquiry. \"There was no care, nothing.\n\nThe inquiry is being held before former High Court judge Sir Brian Langstaff\n\n\"The way he was treated - put in a separate room, meals being passed through the door.\n\n\"This guy towards the end was being fed by his parents because he couldn't get out of bed, he couldn't physically get out of bed.\n\n\"I don't think he was ever told, that's my honest opinion. I don't remember ever hearing Kevin say 'Oh you know this is the score then mum' or his Mum actually looking up and saying 'we've found out what's up'.\"\n\nMr Slater's brother Paul was also a haemophiliac who died of Aids in 1991 after being given infected blood.\n\nMs Maule said hearing the evidence at the inquiry has been difficult but added it is important to establish justice for those who were infected with HIV as a result of contaminated blood.\n\n\"Hearing it all again today brought it all back,\" she said. \"I can see this guy there, crying out for help and not getting it.\"\n\nThe inquiry also was told consultant Prof Arthur Bloom did not immediately inform the haemophiliac community that he was treating a patient with a confirmed case of Aids.\n\nThis was despite Aids being marked as probable on Mr Slater's medical records.\n\nFor several months Prof Bloom continued to describe the case to haemophiliac groups and officials in terms such as \"possible\" and \"suspected\" and that links had not been established with infected blood products.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff described the descriptions as \"difficult to reconcile\".\n• None Two month delay in telling patients they had HIV", "Holbrook's TV credits included roles in The West Wing and The Sopranos\n\nHal Holbrook, the Oscar-nominated actor known for playing Deep Throat in All the President's Men, has died at 95.\n\nHolbrook, who also appeared in Wall Street, Into The Wild and Lincoln, died on 23 January, his assistant told the New York Times.\n\nAs Deep Throat, Holbrook leaks vital evidence to the journalists investigating the Watergate scandal.\n\nHolbrook also had a distinguished theatre career, mostly notably in his one-man show portraying Mark Twain.\n\nHe had numerous TV credits to his name, including two appearances in US political drama The West Wing as Republican Albie Duncan.\n\nBradley Whitford, who played Josh Lyman in the series, tweeted: \"My God, what an incredible actor. Rest In Peace, Hal Holbrook.\"\n\nDirector Edgar Wright said: \"What work Hal Holbrook leaves behind. Loved his performances in The Fog, All The President's Men, Magnum Force, Creepshow, Capricorn One, The Star Chamber, Wild In The Streets & Into The Wild, among many many others.\"\n\nDustin Hoffman and Robert Redford starred as the Washington Post reporters in All the President's Men\n\nHolbrook's stage and TV recreation of the revered American novelist, humorist and social critic in Mark Twain Tonight arguably brought him his greatest fame.\n\nIt earned him a Tony award for his Broadway performance in 1966 and the first of his 10 Emmy nominations in 1967. In the course of his long career Holbrook won five of the Emmys for which he had been nominated.\n\nHolbrook first crafted and then performed Twain while he was a 19-year-old college student. His first big appearance in the part was on the famed Ed Sullivan TV Show.\n\nHal Holbrook carried on performing as Mark Twain until his early 90s\n\nLater, he performed the show on television and in theatres internationally, and also for former President Eisenhower and in an international tour sponsored by the US State Department.\n\nHe continued with his Twain act until his early 90s, playing on Broadway and notching up more than 2,200 performances in venues across the country.\n\n\"Mark Twain gets me out of the bed in the morning,\" Holbrook said in 2014.\n\n\"He literally fires me up. I don't have to fire myself up, all I have to do is lay there and think about what's going on in my country and the world and run over some of the Twain I am going to do.\"\n\nHolbrook was born in Cleveland on 17 February 1925, and his mother was a vaudeville dancer.\n\nHe first starting acting at the age 17 when he performed in the popular farce The Man Who Came to Dinner at Cleveland's Cain Park Theatre.\n\nAfter serving in the Army in Newfoundland during World War Two, Holbrook attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio.\n\nHe later ventured to New York and studied with the actress Uta Hagen and in the 1950s, Holbrook acted on the CBS soap opera The Brighter Day.\n\nHe won his first Emmy in 1971 for his work on the NBC drama series The Bold Ones: The Senator and took two more trophies for playing Commander Lloyd Bucher in the 1973 TV film Pueblo, about the capture of a US spy ship by North Korea in 1968.\n\nIn recent years Hal Holbrook had roles in US TV series such as Sons of Anarchy, Rectify and the sitcom Designing Women\n\nHolbrook's craggy voice and appearance lent itself to historical portrayals and other parts that required gravitas, such as his portrayal of US President Abraham Lincoln in the TV mini-series Lincoln, for which he also won an Emmy.\n\nHe reprised the role in the ABC miniseries North and South in 1985 and its sequel the following year.\n\nAmong many other shows, he also appeared in the West Wing, The Sopranos, Bones, Grey's Anatomy and Hawaii Five-0.\n\nOn the big screen, as well as making an impression as Deep Throat and in Into the Wild, he played a power-hungry police lieutenant in the Dirty Harry movie Magnum Force.\n\nIn Steven Spielberg's 2012 Lincoln biopic, Holbrook played presidential adviser Preston Blair. He also featured in the films The Firm, Capricorn One, The Fog, and Water for Elephants.\n\nIn 2008, aged 82, Holbrook became the oldest actor to have been nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in Into the Wild, starring Emile Hirsch.\n\nHowever, he has since been overtaken by Christopher Plummer, who won in the same category in 2018 aged 88.\n\nIn recent years he became a regular presence on US television, with roles in series including Sons of Anarchy, Rectify and the sitcom Designing Women.\n\nHolbrook's memoir Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain was published in September 2011.\n\nHe was married three times. He and third wife Dixie Carter - who also appeared in Designing Women - were married in 1984 and remained together until her death in 2010.\n\nHe is survived by his three children and two stepdaughters, as well as two grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sean Ash, who is paralysed from the waist down, walked one lap around the Den, the home of his favourite football club\n\nA paralysed 999 call handler has walked one lap of a football pitch in honour of Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nSean Ash, 39, from Bexley, south east London, was told he would never walk again after being diagnosed with a rare spinal condition in August.\n\nHowever, after months of therapy, he was able to walk small steps with the help of a walking frame.\n\nMr Ash said he would \"keep walking for him as long as I can\" in memory of Capt Sir Tom.\n\nHe completed a lap of Millwall's pitch on Tuesday to raise money for the NHS.\n\nSean Ash said recovery will be painful after walking around the football pitch\n\nHe said: \"Every step that I take, all the pain and agony that I go through, it's all for something bigger than myself.\"\n\n\"I'm walking for everyone that has a spinal cord injury. I'm walking for all our NHS heroes.\"\n\nIn January Mr Ash raised almost £60,000 for his London Ambulance Service and NHS colleagues after walking a mile around the roads surrounding his home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said he was inspired by 100-year-old Capt Sir Tom's fundraising efforts.\n\n\"I want to inspire the nation to get up and walk for Tom.\n\n\"There was a time when he got up and walked for us when we needed him,\" said Mr Ash.\n\nCapt Sir Tom previously described Mr Ash as an \"inspirational young man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Captain Tom Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ash is paralysed from the waist down due to cauda equina syndrome (CES) - a rare type of spinal stenosis where all of the nerves in the lower back suddenly become compressed.\n\nAlthough he has completed the walk recovery will be painful he said.\n\n\"A lot of people see me walk around here and think that's the challenge. But the challenge is now when I get home and I've got to recover somehow.\n\nMr Ash has so far raised £60,000 for his London Ambulance Service and NHS colleagues\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Osborne's new firm has just 13 staff - but a big presence in corporate takeover deals\n\nGeorge Osborne, the former UK chancellor known for having an eclectic range of jobs since leaving office, is taking up a full time role at a small investment bank, Robey Warshaw.\n\nIt will mean leaving jobs at London's Evening Standard newspaper and BlackRock, the powerful financial firm.\n\nAt Robey Warshaw, Mr Osborne, chancellor from 2010 to 2016, will specialise in big takeover deals.\n\nHe said he was \"proud to be joining... the best of the best\".\n\nMr Osborne had been editor of the Evening Standard. Last year he became editor-in-chief of the London free-sheet when Emily Sheffield took over as the day-to-day editor.\n\nBBC media editor Amol Rajan said he leaves the paper \"at a time when its business model, depending on heavy commuter footfall in London, is broken\".\n\nMr Osborne was a key lieutenant in David Cameron's Conservative government, pushing through policies to reduce Britain's deficit in an austerity drive that divided popular opinion.\n\nShortly before leaving Parliament he took up an advisor role at fund manager BlackRock, a one-day-week job that reportedly paid £650,000 a year.\n\nHe also had jobs in academia and at the McCain Institute, a think-tank founded by the late Republican senator John McCain.\n\nMr Osborne joins Robey Warshaw as a partner in April. The boutique investment bank specialises in mergers and acquisitions, and its clients include Centrica, Vodafone, and BP.\n\nThe firm is thought to have only about 13 staff, but has advised on some major deals, most recently the London Stock Exchange's $27bn takeover of Refinitiv, a data company.\n\nMr Osborne said: \"Robey Warshaw is the best of the best, advising great businesses on how to grow, and I'm proud to be joining this first-rate team.\"\n\nHe will remain as chairman of the advisory board of Exor, the holding company through which Italy's billionaire Agnelli family manages its investments.\n\nLast year Sajid Javid, who served as chancellor from 2019 to 2020, took an advisory role at US investment bank JP Morgan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMyanmar woke to the news on Monday that the military was seizing control of the country.\n\n\"I guess I'll be live tweeting a coup now,\" former Reuters journalist Aye Min Thant wrote on Twitter shortly before 07:00 local time (00:30 GMT).\n\n\"Things are still pretty quiet for now, though people are awake and scared. I've been fielding calls since 6am from friends and relatives. The internet is in and out and my sim card no longer works.\"\n\nThe takeover was announced in a statement aired on a military-owned television station.\n\nIt said the top army commander was in charge and a one-year state of emergency had been declared. The country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, had been detained, along with other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nThe move followed a landslide win by Ms Suu Kyi's party in an election in November that the army claims was marred by fraud. Ms Suu Kyi has urged her supporters to \"protest against the coup\".\n\nMyanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the armed forces from 1962 until 2011, when a new government began ushering in a return to civilian rule.\n\nOne resident of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, told the BBC she was ready to head out for an early morning walk when she received a message from a friend telling her of Ms Suu Kyi's detention.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, immediately logged on to social media.\n\n\"Waking up to learn your world has been completely turned upside down overnight was not a new feeling, but a feeling that I thought that we had moved on from, and one that I never thought we'd be forced to feel again,\" she said, reflecting on her childhood under military rule.\n\n\"What really hit me was seeing how our regional ministers were all detained. Because this meant that they really took everyone, not just Aung San Suu Kyi,\" she added.\n\nThe arrest of regional lawmaker Pa Pa Han was livestreamed on Facebook by her husband.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pa Pa Han was escorted out of her home by soldiers\n\nPolitical activists, including filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, were also reported to have been detained.\n\nThe Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) in Myanmar told the BBC it had documented the arrests of at least 42 officials, and 16 civil society activists.\n\nIt said the process of verifying names was ongoing, while noting that some detainees had been released later in the day.\n\n\"We woke up with the news of the military coup in the early morning and some of our friends were detained,\" a local activist, who we are keeping anonymous, told the BBC's Newsday programme.\n\n\"The internet connectivity is not there anymore... I can't go out and use my phone, there is no data at all. This is what's happening right now. There are military cars roaming around the city,\" she said.\n\nLocal journalist Cape Diamond tweeted that in the capital, Nay Pyi Daw, there had been no signal from 04:00 to 11:15 local time. \"No call, No Wifi,\" he later wrote on Twitter.\n\nAs the military took hold of power, internet disruption affected large areas.\n\nThe restrictions began at 03:00 on Monday local time. Internet connectivity dropped to 50% of normal levels of internet connectivity by 08:00.\n\nThe data shows disruptions impacting networks operators including state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) and an international operator Telenor, according to internet monitoring service Netblocks.\n\nNetblocks say its findings indicate a \"centrally ordered mechanism of disruption… progressing over time as operators comply\".\n\nBy midday, internet connectivity appeared to be back up to 75%.\n\nThe Myanmar government has restricted the internet before, especially in areas in Rakhine and Chin states, where the army is fighting local groups.\n\nArticle 77 of Myanmar's Telecommunications Law passed in 2013 permits the government to cut off telecommunications during a national emergency.\n\nHowever, human rights groups have called for the law to be amended to protect freedom of expression.\n\nInternational and domestic TV channels, including the state broadcaster, went off air.\n\nThe bright red flags of the NLD were taken off of homes and businesses in Yangon.\n\n\"My neighbour just took down his NLD flag... The fear of violence is real,\" journalist and researcher Annie Zaman wrote on Twitter.\n\nShe later shared a video of a flag being removed at a local 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 Annie Zaman အန်နီ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople stocked up on essential supplies and queued at ATMs. Banks suspended services because of poor internet connections but said they would resume from Tuesday.\n\nBBC Burmese Service journalist Nyein Chan Aye said the mood in Yangon was of \"fear, anger and frustration\".\n\nHe said that after rushing out to buy staple supplies, like rice, many people were staying indoors waiting to see what happens next.\n\nQueues formed at banks and ATMs following the announcement\n\nIt has been a tough time economically for many in Myanmar, and the arrival of a coup has had many fearing for basics.\n\nMa Nan, a trader in Yangon, told the BBC: \"I'm worried if the price [of goods] will go up. I am worried because my daughter hasn't finished her school [education]. It's only halfway. Also this is the time of a pandemic.\"\n\nHousewife Than Than Nyunt was also worried that the price of goods would rise and \"people will revolt\", adding: \"I hope that Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues will be freed sooner rather than later.\"\n\nThe fears are real if this coup means a return to the kind of life under the military rule of the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nThe bloody crackdown of 1988 led to more than two decades of military rule\n\nThe military had staged a bloody coup in 1988, with thousands dying as a student-led uprising against a Soviet-style one-party rule was put down.\n\nMs Suu Kyi rose to prominence at the time and battled military rule and human rights abuses for two decades, after the military had refused to accept her election win of 1990.\n\nLife was punctuated by corruption, fluctuating prices, repression of daily life, chronic malnourishment in some areas and ethnic strife in others. Many are now concerned about what will come next.\n\n\"We are currently trying to tell ourselves that we will move on because we've moved on from worse before,\" the 25-year-old in Yangon told the BBC. \"But I wish we didn't have to do that, I wish we didn't have to tell ourselves to be strong.\"\n\nSome military supporters, however, celebrated the coup, parading through the city blasting patriotic music.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Aye Min Thant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGriffin Hotchkiss, an American expat who has lived in Myanmar for about six years, said he saw a \"caravan of pro-military civilians blasting loud music and 'celebrating' - while people (whom I know to be NLD supporters) on my street were visibly angry\".\n\nSome were surprised that the immediate fallout was not more extreme.\n\nOn a trip into Yangon, Mr Hotchkiss said that \"besides some army vehicles in the City Hall compound nothing looked out of the ordinary\".\n\nSupporters of Myanmar's military drove through Yangon in celebration\n\nLater in the day, Mr Hotchkiss noticed that while there were \"far fewer people\", many shops appeared to be open and doing business.\n\nMichael Ghilezan, who lives in Yangon with his Burmese wife, said he had \"expected to see people marching down the streets in protests, and military vehicles stationed around the city. But none of that happened\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Gething says it is hard to ignore comments on social media and blogs\n\nMore lives could have been saved had Wales gone into lockdown earlier at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the health minister has said, looking back with hindsight.\n\nVaughan Gething made the admission while talking about the pressure faced by policy makers dealing with Covid-19.\n\nBut he also said he believes decisions were correct based on the information available at the time.\n\nThere have been 4,775 deaths with Covid-19 in Wales since March 2020.\n\nThere have also been 192,912 positive cases recorded.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said objections were raised to decisions taken at the start of the pandemic.\n\nWales went into its first lockdown on 23 March and the Welsh Government came under fire early on for the speed of care home testing, as well as contact tracing.\n\n\"Looking back, if we had the opportunity to do this all again, we would have made different choices on borders definitely,\" Mr Gething said.\n\n\"We would almost certainly have entered lockdown a week or two earlier, and we would have probably saved more lives if we had done that.\n\n\"I think that actually on the really big and serious choices we have learned lots.\n\n\"So if we have the knowledge we have now I would definitely have made different choices at various points in the pandemic.\n\nWales first went into lockdown on 23 March 2020\n\n\"We'd have been able to get a jump-start on our testing capacity.\n\n\"We'd have been able to make different choices about testing around care homes earlier.\n\n\"We did manage to get ourselves into a good position on PPE so we never ran out, but it was really tight at various points in time.\"\n\nHe said the Welsh Government's scientific advisors all agreed the advice given at the time was the correct advice based on the information they had.\n\nHowever, if they had the information they now possess, the advice would have been different.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On average, Wales is vaccinating a higher rate of population per week than other UK nations\n\nMr Gething admitted being at the sharp end of decision-making at such a critical time had taken its toll.\n\n\"If you're having conversation with needing to plan for the potential for mass burial as we were at the start of the pandemic, then you know that really sobers you up very quickly about the scale and the enormity of the challenge we're facing,\" he said.\n\n\"I never really thought that I would have to make decisions that have this sort of consequence.\n\n\"We often talk about making life and death decisions but actually the choices we make have an impact on the whole population.\"\n\n\"During the pandemic making the right choice can mean that you're saving lots of lives, and making a different choice means that you can end up thinking that, that choice I made may not have been the right one.\n\n\"So there's an awful lot more pressure.\n\n\"We've lost well over 4,000 Welsh citizens to the pandemic. But it could have been much, much worse.\n\n\"Without the action we have taken I'm confident that we'd have lost more people.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government had received praise over its slower approach to easing lockdown restrictions than England but drew criticism in other areas such as easing restrictions too quickly after November's firebreak.\n\nIt was also criticised early into the vaccine rollout because of its pace, but the vaccination rate is now higher than other parts of the UK, and 416,306 first doses have been given.\n\n\"To make decisions in government has been an extraordinary period of time as well and you learn not just by getting things right,\" said Mr Gething.\n\n\"You also learn by making mistakes as well.\"\n\nAs well as mistakes on decisions during the pandemic, Mr Gething has also faced a couple of difficult personal moments including being accused by a newspaper of breaking lockdown rules when he ate chips on a park bench with his family.\n\nHe also came under fire while grappling with new online meetings when he left his microphone on and was caught swearing about a Labour colleague.\n\n\"We shouldn't try to pretend that everything has been perfect,\" Mr Gething said about the Welsh Government's overall response to the pandemic.\n\n\"But no one's had to do this before. I just think that sort of honesty is really important for people.\"\n\nIn response to the interview, Mr Price tweeted: \"Being too slow into lockdown and coming out of the firebreak without a gradual approach has undoubtedly cost lives.\n\n\"Early abandonment of test and trace and the failure to test properly in care homes were avoidable and costly mistakes.\n\n\"It's not enough to argue, as the PM does, that government acted on the best evidence at the time, as many of us raised objections to these policies at the time.\"\n\nTravel is currently limited to essential purposes in Wales, such as for work and caring responsibilities, and international travel is barred.\n\nBut, after a tough year with the pandemic, many people will be dreaming about a holiday in 2021.\n\nWhile bookings for UK staycations are \"coming in thick and fast\", some people are gambling on a foreign trip in the hope restrictions will ease later this year.\n\nUse this form to tell us about your plans.\n\nIn some cases your comments will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Scallops are among the species that will be affected\n\nTwo of the UK’s most sensitive fishing sites are set to receive better protection.\n\nThe Marine Management Organisation says it plans to safeguard fishing areas in Dogger Bank and South Dorset by completely banning bottom trawling.\n\nThe sites are already designated as protected areas, but in reality they are not patrolled - and they’re both over-fished.\n\nThe intention was to deter bottom trawling. Another group, Blue Marine, took legal action to try to safeguard the sea bed.\n\nBottom trawling is a destructive type of fishing which involves dragging weighted nets across the sea floor.\n\nThe MMO is consulting on proposed by-laws prohibiting bottom-towed gear on the sites. The consultation runs to 28 March 2021.\n\nThe Environment Secretary George Eustice said: “Now that we have left the Common Fisheries Policy, we are able to deliver on our commitment to achieve a healthy, thriving and sustainable marine environment.”\n\nThe decision couldn’t have been made if the UK was still in the EU, and it was condemned by the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO).\n\nA spokesperson for the NFFO said: “The decision has been taken with zero discussion with those affected. There will be knock on environmental as well as social and economic impacts.”\n\nDogger Bank is the largest sandbank in UK waters, and underpins the North Sea’s ecosystem.\n\nIt provides a vital habitat for a wide range of species which live on and within the seabed, including flatfish, starfish, sandeels, crabs, clams, worms, scallops and more.\n\nThese species in turn provide a vital food source for predators such as porpoises, dolphins and seabirds.\n\nThe UK government has also proposed to partially stop bottom trawling at two other theoretically protected sites – one off the coast of Land’s End and the other off Lincolnshire.\n\nCharles Clover from Blue Marine said: “We applaud this first step towards protecting our offshore marine protected areas, starting with the Dogger Bank, a huge and ecologically important area which has been hammered by trawls and dredges for too long.\n\n“The government in England has conceded that damaging fishing has been going on illegally in protected areas.”\n\nMr Clover believes today’s announcement sets a precedent for all the UK's 73 offshore Marine Protected Areas for the devolved administrations and for the EU, which have the same law.\n\nThe NFFO described the proposals as having delivered “a sledgehammer to fishing”. It continued: “This punishing reversal comes on the back of the government’s failure to deliver on fishing in the Brexit negotiations, and damaging delays in the export of fish and shellfish.\n\nBut academics say fisheries have been taking too much. Prof Callum Roberts of Exeter University said: “What is left on the Dogger Bank today is a ghost of what was once there.\n\n“New protection could lead to the beginnings of a recovery of a megafauna that used to thrive on the bank in astonishing densities: halibut, flapper skate, blue skate, longnose skate, angel sharks, turbot, brill, wolffish, conger eels, cod.\n\n“Many of these species have declined so far that they are on the endangered species list. But, so far, marine conservation efforts in the UK have completely neglected doing anything to bring about their recovery.\n\n“In the 1830s, small sailing vessels con the Dogger could catch a tonne of halibut per day. Today, the entire fishing fleet catches less than two tonnes a year.”\n\nChris Thorne, from Greenpeace UK, said: “All of our sensitive marine areas must be properly protected, not just four. Ministers have finally woken up to their responsibilities, yet there are still hundreds of other equally important marine areas still open to all forms of destructive industrial fishing.\n\n\"Action in these four sites is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the scale needed to solve the crisis facing our oceans.\n\n“This process shows that the government is prepared to use its new Brexit powers to properly protect our seas.”", "The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has already been delayed a whole year because of the pandemic Image caption: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has already been delayed a whole year because of the pandemic\n\nJapan is extending its coronavirus state of emergency by one month to 7 March in areas including greater Tokyo, where restrictions had been due to be eased later this week.\n\nThe government announcement comes just months ahead of the opening of the delayed Olympic Games in the city, which are due to begin on 23 July.\n\n\"Hospitalisation will remain high for some time to come, that is why we have to continue with these measures,\" Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said.\n\n\"Each and every one of us needs to change the way we act if we are to contain the virus's spread.\"\n\nHe added that the state of emergency - which gives regional governments more power to enforce rules such as restricting the movement of citizens - could be lifted sooner \"in prefectures where the virus situation improves\".\n\nPresident of the Tokyo Olympics, Yoshiro Mori, earlier said that the event would go ahead in the summer \"however the coronavirus evolves\".\n\nSo far, Japan has escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with far fewer deaths than the tragic numbers suffered in other parts of the world.", "The government is planning to provide substantial extra funding to stave off a growing rebellion over the costs of fixing unsafe cladding, BBC Newsnight has been told.\n\nThousands of flat owners face large bills for fire safety work prompted by the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people.\n\nAt least 35 Conservative MPs have signed an amendment to ensure the cost of does not fall on homeowners.\n\nThe funding could amount to billions.\n\nHousing Minister Chris Pincher said the government would announce a financial solution \"very shortly\".\n\nHe urged MPs to withdraw their amendment - warning it would slow down progress of the government's Fire Safety Bill, currently going through Parliament.\n\nNewsnight has learned that an announcement is expected within weeks as negotiations between the housing ministry and Treasury are reaching a conclusion.\n\nThe government has decided to allocate extra funding, possibly running into billions of pounds, to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding.\n\nThe deal is intended to create a lasting solution to the issue, and involves input from developers, the insurance industry , mortgage providers and leaseholders.\n\nThe 2017 Grenfell Tower fire exposed the dangers of unsafe cladding and triggered fire-safety renovations across the country.\n\nThe government has set up a £1.6bn building safety fund to pay for the removal of the kind of cladding used on Grenfell Tower.\n\nHowever other fire-safety defects, such as missing fire breaks, are not covered by the scheme.\n\nAnd a report by MPs has said the money allocated for fixing dangerous cladding is insufficient.\n\nOn Monday, MPs debated a Labour motion calling for the government \"to protect leaseholders and taxpayers from the cost by pursuing those responsible for the cladding crisis\".\n\nThe Conservative leadership asked its MPs to abstain, so the motion passed unopposed but the result is not binding on the government.\n\nSpeaking earlier in the day, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of offering \"half-baked solutions\" and called for a national cladding taskforce to be established.\n\nHana Imaan, a resident of Brindley House in Birmingham, told BBC Two's Newsnight that her service charge had gone up by £500 a month, in addition to higher insurance costs.\n\nShe said the rise was \"financially crippling\" and described the stress of increased bills as \"phenomenal\".\n\nMalcolm Tarling of the Association of British Insurers said: \"No insurance company wants to saddle leaseholders with significantly higher bills but the reality is that insurance is priced on risk and until we speed up the removal of combustible cladding from buildings these costs are going to continue.\"\n\n\"We are the first to say this is unacceptable,\" he added.", "The reopening of non-essential retail was delayed due to concerns over coronavirus cases\n\nShops in Jersey will reopen on Wednesday after original plans were delayed by a week.\n\nIt was hoped non-essential retail would reopen on 27 January, but concerns over a cluster of coronavirus cases saw that date pushed back.\n\nOn Monday there were 94 active cases of coronavirus on the island three of which were in hospital.\n\nHairdressers are also set to reopen on 10 February, said Chief Minister John Le Fondre.\n\nThe government would reconsider restrictions on working from home and the re-opening of \"some hospitality services\" on 24 February, he said.\n\nA hospitality circuit-breaker, forcing all pubs and restaurants to close, has been in place since 4 December.\n\nMr Le Fondre said there had been a reduction the number of hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nHe said a \"safe and measured\" relaxation of restrictions would prevent a spike in cases.\n\nA \"significant proportion\" of over 80s had been vaccinated and over 70s could now book appointments.\n\nThe government was on target to vaccinate all over-50s and high-risk islanders by the end of March.\n\nHe said a \"bright spring is in sight\" if people followed guidelines.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Our mission must be to stop its spread altogether\"\n\nIt is \"critical\" that people in areas singled out for enhanced testing for the South African variant stay at home, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told MPs there were other \"mutations of concern\" in Bristol and Liverpool, and people there should also only go out when \"absolutely essential\".\n\nThe government is expected to announce surge testing in certain postcodes of the two cities.\n\nHome testing kits are already being deployed in a number of other areas.\n\nOn-the-spot doorstep tests and mobile testing units are also being used with the aim of reaching 80,000 people, amid fears the more infectious variant may be spreading in communities in England.\n\nGene sequencing has so far uncovered 105 cases of the South African variant, which - like the variant previously discovered in Kent - is thought to be more contagious although not more deadly.\n\nEleven of the cases of the South African variant had no link to foreign travel, prompting concerns it is spreading in the community.\n\nOver-16s who live or work in these areas will now be asked to take tests whether or not they have symptoms, as part of \"surge testing\":\n\nIn most of the areas, the home testing kits are being delivered and collected, while some local authorities are also providing mobile testing sites. The tests will be PCR ones, which involve swabbing the nose or throat and are regarded as the most reliable.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, the health secretary said: \"We have also seen 11 cases of mutations of concern in Bristol and 32 in Liverpool, and are taking the same approach.\n\n\"In all these areas it is imperative that people must stay at home and only leave home where it is absolutely essential.\"\n\nHe also urged people to take a test if offered one by their local authority.\n\nVolunteers were out delivering test kits in Woking on Tuesday\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) later confirmed that the 11 cases in Bristol were the new Kent variant with the E484K mutation, which has already been seen in the South African and Brazilian variants.\n\nThe 32 cases in Liverpool are the original version of Covid-19 but also have the new E484K mutation.\n\nThere is some concern this mutation might make vaccines less effective.\n\nA PHE spokesman said it was \"monitoring the situation closely and all necessary public health interventions are being undertaken, including enhanced contact tracing and control measures\".\n\nA spokesman for Bristol City Council said local public health teams would begin to plan for extra testing in the area, with details released when approved.\n\nThe news on mutations has obviously caused alarm.\n\nWhat is more, there are likely to be more out there - the ones detected so far come from random sampling of between 5% and 10% of positive cases.\n\nBut that should not detract from the progress that is being made in terms of spread of the virus.\n\nThis is the second day in a row that cases have been below 20,000.\n\nAt the start of the year around 60,000 new cases a day were being diagnosed.\n\nThis drop has now started to translate to significantly fewer admissions to hospital - the numbers have dropped by nearly a quarter in the past week.\n\nThis will mean deaths will soon start falling - in fact it already looks as if the peak may have been passed last week.\n\nLater in the month it would be hoped the impact of vaccinations would be felt, which could result in a quite marked drop in deaths.\n\nThe mutations require vigilance, but the bigger picture shows real progress is being made.\n\nMeanwhile, tougher quarantine restrictions will be extended to all travellers arriving directly into Scotland, to minimise the risk of new variants entering the country, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nThe four UK nations have already agreed that people arriving from high risk countries under travel bans will have to isolate in hotels rather than at home, with the measure due to be introduced in the coming weeks.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said this did \"not go far enough\" and her government intended to implement \"managed quarantine\" for anyone who arrives directly in Scotland.\n\nShe added that five cases of the South African variant had been identified in Scotland but they were all linked to travel.\n\nLabour has also called for hotel quarantine to apply to all UK arrivals.\n\nIn December, the discovery of the new variant prompted a ban on foreign nationals travelling into the UK from South Africa and later from southern African countries.\n\nIt comes as the latest figures show the UK has given out more than 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including more than 9.6 million first doses.\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus cases recorded in the UK continues to fall, with 16,840 cases recorded on Tuesday - the lowest daily figure since 9 December.\n\nThere have also been a further 1,449 deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures.\n\nIt compares to 1,631 deaths recorded last Tuesday and means the number of deaths has fallen for seven days in a row, compared to the same day the previous week.\n\nDo you live in an area where the South Africa variant is suspected? Tell us your concerns 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 Liverpool\n\nThe 20-year-old joins the Reds until the end of the season, with the club also having signed Preston North End's Ben Davies for £2m.\n\nMarseille's Duje Caleta-Car was also a potential target, with the Reds exploring a number of options in defence because of injuries.\n\nLiverpool have an option to buy Kabak for £18m - with add-on clauses - at the end of the season, but do not need to activate it until June.\n\nFor now, they will pay a £1m loan fee now with the potential for an extra £500,000 based on games played and how they fare in the Champions League.\n\nThe Reds are missing experienced centre-backs, with Joel Matip out for the rest of the season and Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez out with long-term injuries, while midfielder Fabinho, who has been standing in at the back, is also out.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp named his 12th different centre-half partnership in 21 Premier League games for Sunday's 3-1 win at West Ham, with midfielder Jordan Henderson alongside Nathaniel Phillips.\n\nOn the arrival of Davies from Championship side Preston, Klopp said: \"It's probably clear that in a normal transfer window, without any issues, we would not look at Preston [to see] if there's a player for us or something like that.\n\n\"Since our situation got clearer and clearer - the problems we had - when we saw him we got really excited about it and thought: 'Wow.'\n\n\"We see the quality and we see the potential as well because he's 25 and there's a lot to come for him.\"\n• None Recap of deadline day as it happened\n• None All the deadline-day deals in one place\n\nKabak was recommended by former Huddersfield Town manager David Wagner, who coached him at Schalke and worked with Liverpool boss Klopp at fellow Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund.\n\nBefore joining Schalke, Kabak played for Stuttgart and won the German top flight's Rookie of the Year award for the 2018-19 season despite the club being relegated.\n\nStuttgart's sporting director Thomas Hitzlsperger, the former Aston Villa midfielder, said it was \"incredible how worldy-wise he is for his age\".\n\n\"It's astonishing,\" Hitzlsperger added. \"I see him every day and am amazed at how he mature he is.\"\n\nKabak, whose idol is Van Dijk, has played 14 times for Schalke this season, although the club are bottom of the table with the worst defensive record in the league.\n\nLiverpool were linked with the Turk last summer after the departure of Dejan Lovren.\n\nAfter Kabak arrived in the Bundesliga in 2019, he quickly became one of the most promising centre-back talents in the league.\n\nSadly for him, he was not always able to show his full potential, as he was relegated with Stuttgart before joining a dysfunctional Schalke side.\n\nStill, Kabak impressed many with his defensive skill set. He has been called the \"Turkish Wall\" because of his abilities in duels both on the ground and in the air.\n\nHis ball-playing talents have not been tested that much because Schalke often avoided any kind of constructive build-up. Kabak looks like a competent passer but he might need some time to adapt to Liverpool's possession-based system.\n\nWhile he is a tremendous talent, Kabak gained a reputation in Germany for having a hot temperament.\n\nHe was suspended for four games earlier this season for spitting in the direction of Werder Bremen left-back Ludwig Augustinsson.\n\nGiven that he is only 20, he will still be growing a lot as a player and as a personality. And so, despite the hype, coaches, team-mates and fans will have to show patience with him.\n\nThe signing of Davies was completed following a medical on Monday.\n\nThe left-sided defender, who Celtic were convinced they had secured on a pre-contract agreement, came through Preston's youth system and has had spells on loan with York, Southport and Newport.\n\nBurnley were also interested but it is understood Preston were not keen to sell to a local rival.\n\nBournemouth were considering a bid as part of a double deal also including Ben Pearson, while Sheffield United were also in the mix - but Davies jumped at the chance to move to the Premier League champions.\n\n\"It's a huge opportunity,\" said Davies. \"Obviously it came as a bit of a surprise at first but once you start to get your head around it, the opportunity that is in front of me is incredible.\n\n\"I'd be silly to not make the most of it and learn from the players at the club.\"\n\nThe Reds have paid £500,000 up front with add-ons worth up to £1.1m relating to first-team appearances and any other achievements he contributes to, as well as any England honours he may win.\n\nThere is a 20% sell-on clause for Preston if Liverpool make any profit on a future deal for Davies.\n\nLiverpool's 19-year-old Dutch defender Sepp van den Berg has joined Preston on loan as part of the deal.\n\nBen Davies has done well at Preston and has let his contract run down so he was going to move on in the summer. I didn't really see him as being good enough to be on Liverpool's radar.\n\nHe's a real steady Eddie. He's left-footed and quick enough but he's not got phenomenal pace or anything like that.\n\nHe's been good in the Championship, very good.\n\nBut I've watched him and thought, up against the extra nous and quality you get in the Premier League, on top of extra pace, it will be a test for him. You wouldn't want to just throw him in to face Manchester City next Sunday, put it that way.\n\nThis is obviously a great move for him, I just can't see him getting near the first team. Phillips has done well when he's come in and he is probably a better player.\n\nSo, Davies would be behind him and also Rhys Williams, so even before Joel Matip comes back and the other two long-term injured players - Van Dijk and Gomez - he is going to be below them on the list. And Fabinho and Jordan Henderson too.\n\nI am not sure he will play very much, but the experience alone should be fabulous. I hope he experiences playing in the first team, but even if he is just sitting on the bench then it is still great for him.\n• None You can stream all the goals and highlights from Sunday's Premier League matches with Match of the Day 2 on BBC iPlayer", "Israel's vaccination programme is showing signs of working to drive down infections and illness in the over-60s.\n\nThe fall appears to be most pronounced in older people and areas furthest ahead in their immunisation efforts.\n\nThis suggests it is the vaccine, and not just the country's current lockdown, taking effect.\n\nIsraeli Ministry of Health (MoH) figures show 531 over-60s, out of almost 750,000 fully vaccinated, tested positive for coronavirus (0.07%).\n\nAnd far fewer fell ill, with 38 becoming hospitalised with moderate, severe or critical disease - a tiny proportion.\n\nThe MoH assessed the medical records of almost a million people in total - 743,845 of whom were over the age of 60 - until at least seven days after they received a second dose of the vaccine.\n\nThere were three deaths in vaccinated over-60s - although it is possible they contracted the infection earlier, before their immunity had time to build.\n\nBefore the vaccine had time to take effect, more than 7,000 infections were recorded, just under 700 cases of moderate to critical illness and 307 deaths.\n\nThe MoH data suggests infections and illnesses fell consistently from 14 days after receiving the first jab onwards.\n\nWhile the biggest fall observed was in people seven days after their second dose of the vaccine, this cannot be used as evidence for or against the wisdom of the UK's strategy of delaying second doses.\n\nIsrael has consistently given people their first and second doses no more than three weeks apart, but the first dose isn't expected to provide protection for at least two weeks.\n\nSo it is not possible by looking at this data to untangle the impact of the second dose from the first dose starting to kick in.\n\nThe first dose takes longer to show any effect as it primes the immune system to start recognising and fighting off the virus.\n\nIsrael has delivered five million doses of the vaccine to a population of about nine million - and about one million people have received two doses.\n\nThe jury's still out on whether the vaccine completely stops people from carrying, and passing on, the virus.\n\nSo for now, while many people remain unvaccinated, those who have had the jab are still being told to socially distance and wear masks.\n\nThe MoH's data only looked at infections and illness in vaccinated people - it did not involve a control group of unvaccinated people as a clinical trial would.\n\nBut a team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel-Aviv University, and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - have attempted to pin down whether the observed fall in cases is down to the vaccine rather than just the effect of lockdown restrictions.\n\nProf Malka Gorfine, Hagai Rossman, Prof Eran Segal, and Dr Uri Shalit analysed national data by age and city.\n\nThey identified bigger falls in infections and hospitalisations both in the over-60s, who were vaccinated first, and in the cities which vaccinated the largest proportion of their populations earliest.\n\nThese relative changes were not seen in earlier lockdowns.\n\nThis gives early but encouraging signs the falls can be linked to the vaccine, and not just to current restrictions.\n\nSeparately, Israel's second-largest healthcare provider Maccabi published figures showing 66 people out of a group of 248,000 vaccinated (0.03%) caught the Covid-19 virus, more than a week after receiving the second dose of the vaccine.\n\nOf those 66, all had mild symptoms and none were hospitalised.\n\nUnlike the MoH, Maccabi compared the infection rate with 900,000 unvaccinated people with a similar demographic profile. In this group during the same time period, 8,250 caught Covid - more than 30 times as many.\n\nThey estimated the vaccine was 92% effective when used in a population - very similar to the 95% Pfizer found in a controlled clinical trial.", "Losses to Scotch whisky exports have reached £500m as a result of tariffs imposed by the US, according to an industry body.\n\nNew figures suggest single malt exports have fallen by more than a third since a 25% tariff was imposed in 2019.\n\nIt was among measures introduced by the US in retaliation against EU subsidies given to aircraft maker Airbus.\n\nThe Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) described the current situation as \"unsustainable\".\n\nIt also said distillers were \"continuing to pay the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do\" with them.\n\nSWA chief executive Karen Betts said: \"Since tariffs were put in place, our exports to the US have fallen by 35%, amounting to over half a billion pounds in lost exports.\n\n\"This is being borne by large and small producers alike, who are losing sales and market share in what has been for decades the industry's largest and most valuable market, which they may never now recover.\"\n\nAmerican drinkers have shifted to spirits in a big way while told to \"shelter in place\" - their equivalent of lockdown. With beer consumption hit, most spirits have seen a big boost, led by tequila.\n\nDiageo, the spirits giant, deployed its marketing jargon last week to observe the US market has seen \"strong activations in the at-home occasion\".\n\nWhiskies have shared in the activation, except for Scotch, and that's in its biggest export market, where single malts have grown strongly. Those 25% tariffs targeted at Scotch malt have made Irish, Canadian and US alternatives relatively cheaper and helped their sales.\n\nIt might be that single malt drinkers shift to premium blends, which don't carry the tariff. That would help explain Diageo results, published last week and covering July to December last year, showing malts down 33% on the previous year, while its Johnnie Walker blended range was up 11%.\n\nBut an industry source says it's not like that for smaller distillers, finding that distributors in the USA have a reduced thirst for Scotch, if any of it - malt or blended - arrives with a price hike.\n\nScotch distillers fear the shift will be very hard to claw back. Removing tariffs will not see Scotch bounce back overnight. This proves a point they've made for years, that Scotch whisky has competitors, who can quickly grab market share.\n\nMs Betts added that it is hard for Scotch whisky producers to understand why the UK government is \"unwilling\" to comply with World Trade Organisation rules on aerospace subsidies.\n\nShe said: \"Distillers are suffering terrible losses and still the government, after 16 years of unsuccessful litigation, is unprepared to take the necessary steps to ensure subsidies comply with the UK's international obligations.\"\n\nLast month, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used a newspaper column to call on the UK Government to negotiate with the new US administration of President Joe Biden.\n\nAs well as calling for the immediate suspension of tariffs, the SWA wants more support for the industry given the difficult trading conditions as a result of Brexit and the Covid pandemic.\n\nA Department for International Trade spokesman said: \"The Secretary of State for International Trade has led intensive talks with the US to get these unfair tariffs on UK exports removed.\n\n\"We will continue to push hard for a resolution that works for the whole of the UK - including our brilliant Scotch whisky producers.\n\n\"We have a clear strategy in place to de-escalate the dispute and we will work with the new US administration at the earliest opportunity to find a solution.\"\n\nScotland's trade minister Ivan McKee MSP said: \"The damaging impact of these tariffs on businesses and communities is being felt across Scotland and is increasing, as the SWA's figures make clear.\n\n\"Scottish producers have suffered enough for something that has nothing to do with them and cannot wait any longer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine gives around 92% protection against Covid-19, late stage trial results published in The Lancet reveal.\n\nIt has also been deemed to be safe - and offer complete protection against hospitalisation and death.\n\nThe vaccine was initially met with some controversy after being rolled out before the final trial data had been released.\n\nBut scientists said its benefit has now been demonstrated.\n\nIt joins the ranks of proven vaccines alongside Pfizer, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Moderna and Janssen.\n\nThe Sputnik vaccine works in a similar way to the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab developed in the UK, and the Janssen vaccine developed in Belgium.\n\nIt uses a cold-type virus, engineered to be harmless, as a carrier to deliver a small fragment of the coronavirus to the body.\n\nSafely exposing the body to part of the virus's genetic code in this way allows it to recognise the threat and learn to fight it off, without risking becoming ill.\n\nAfter being vaccinated, the body starts to produce antibodies specially tailored to the coronavirus.\n\nThis means the immune system is primed to fight coronavirus when if it encounters it for real.\n\nIt can be stored at temperatures of between 2 and 8C degrees (a standard fridge is roughly 3-5C degrees) making it easier to transport and store.\n\nBut unlike other similar vaccines, the Sputnik jab uses two slightly different versions of the vaccine for the first and second dose - given 21 days apart.\n\nThey both target the coronavirus's distinctive \"spike\", but use different vectors - the neutralised virus that carries the spike to the body.\n\nThe idea is that using two different formulas boosts the immune system even more than using the same version twice - and may give longer-lasting protection.\n\nAs well as proving effective, it was also safe with no serious reactions linked to the vaccine during the trial.\n\nSome side effects to a vaccine are expected but these are usually mild, including a sore arm, tiredness and a bit of a temperature.\n\nAnd there were no deaths or serious illness in the vaccinated group linked to the jab.\n\nAs well as Russia, the vaccine is being used in a number of other places including:\n\nIn a comment published alongside the Lancet paper, Profs Ian Jones and Polly Roy said: \"The development of the Sputnik V vaccine has been criticised for unseemly haste, corner cutting, and an absence of transparency.\n\n\"But the outcome reported here is clear and the scientific principle of vaccination is demonstrated, which means another vaccine can now join the fight to reduce the incidence of Covid-19\".\n\nThey pointed out the vaccine had good effect in all age groups, and reduced the seriousness of the disease after one dose.\n\nThis was \"particularly encouraging\" while supply of the vaccine is limited, they added.\n\nThe authors of the Lancet paper pointed out the analysis only included symptomatic cases of Covid, and more work would need to be done to understand whether it stops even asymptomatic cases, and prevents the virus from being passed on by vaccinated people.\n\nDr Julian Tang, a clinical virologist at the University of Leicester, said: \"Despite the earlier misgivings about the way this Russian Sputnik V vaccine was rolled out more widely - ahead of sufficient Phase 3 trial data - this approach has been justified to some extent now.\n\n\"Such pandemic-related vaccine rollout compromises have, to be fair, been adopted in the UK vaccination programme also - with the extended intervals between the first and second doses.\n\n\"So we should be more careful about being overly critical about other countries' vaccine designs.\"", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has died from cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old was best known for playing Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US sitcom about a group of high school friends and their headmaster.\n\nHe had recently completed a first round of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung cancer last month.\n\nHis condition had deteriorated fast in the last week, said agent Roger Paul.\n\n\"Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful,\" he said on Monday.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and was a global hit series.\n\nMario Lopez, known to fans of the show as AC Slater, said: \"Dustin, you will be missed my man. The fragility of this life is something never to be taken for granted. Prayers for your family will continue on.\"\n\nTori Spelling, who starred in a few episodes alongside Diamond, described him as being \"an icon to me, personally and professionally\" as she reminisced about him being her first on-screen love.\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 torispelling 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\nMark-Paul Gosselaar, who played Zack Morris, tweeted that Diamond was \"a true comedic genius\" and Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond dies at 44said he \"will miss those raw, brilliant sparks that only he was able to produce\".\n\nTiffani Thiessen , who played Kelly Kapowski, posted that she was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\n\"Life is extremely fragile and it's something we should never take for granted. God speed Dustin,\" she wrote.\n\nThe cast of Saved by the Bell in 1993\n\nLark Voorhies, who played Lisa Turtle in the show, said in a statement given to Entertainment Weekly: \"Words cannot express the grief that I am feeling right now. Dustin and I had a warm and special friendship, he was a caring gentleman, and my memories of him will always be cherished.\n\n\"I am so very sorry he is gone. But it's exceptionally sad for his close loved ones who have to deal with his tragic death and their own great loss. My heart goes out to them at this trying time.\"\n\nElizabeth Berkley Lauren, who appeared in the show as Jessie Spanno, wrote that Dustin \"was a truly gifted talent\".\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 elizberkley 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\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nDiamond served three months in jail after he stabbed a man during an altercation at a bar in Wisconsin in 2014.", "Steve Todd says he has been fined £3,000 for breaching coronavirus regulations\n\nAn unrepentant gym owner who has been fined three times for ignoring Covid-19 regulations is still refusing to close.\n\nSteve Todd, owner of Reps Gym in Preston, received his latest £1,000 fixed penalty notice on Friday.\n\nHe was given a prohibition notice, ordering the gym to stay shut during the national lockdown, on 15 January.\n\nDespite being visited 11 times by police, Mr Todd told the BBC he was remaining open for customers \"desperate to train for their mental health\".\n\nUnder current lockdown rules in England designed to reduce the spread of coronavirus, all gyms must remain closed until further notice.\n\nPreston City Council warned that serious breaches could lead to prosecution.\n\nAnd Lancashire Police confirmed it has been to the gym a number of times and issued a total of 24 fixed penalty notices to the owner and customers.\n\nThe force added it would \"continue to work with partners to address issues with those who flout the restrictions\".\n\n\"People are really struggling with their mental health and the gym massively helps,\" said Mr Todd, who has owned the gym for more than 30 years.\n\n\"This isn't about the money, because I'm not charging,\" added the 55-year-old.\n\n\"I could close and claim a business grant from the government but there is more to life than money.\"\n\nMr Todd said that while he shut the doors of his gym at Roman Way industrial estate during the first lockdown, he felt unable to do so again.\n\n\"Some of my members are desperate to train for their mental health. So I told them not to worry - they can still come free of charge.\n\n\"Lives are more important than money.\"\n\nPeter Moss, deputy leader of Preston City Council, said the local authority was aware of a \"small number of businesses who continue to break [restrictions] and put the health and safety of staff and customers at risk by remaining open\".\n\n\"Businesses that continue to disregard this and put the safety of others at risk will face formal regulatory action leading in more serious cases to prosecution,\" he added.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police in this respect and encourage members of the public who have information about businesses breaking restrictions to share this with us.\"\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.", "All Teslas have built-in screen displays, which in some models are now failing\n\nTesla is to recall large numbers of Model S and Model X cars in the US over failing touchscreens regulators warned could increase the risk of crashes.\n\nThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent Tesla a letter requesting the recall in January.\n\nTesla did not respond at the time.\n\nBut drivers of affected cars, Model S sedans built between 2012 and 2018 and Model X SUVs from 2016 to 2018, have now started receiving emails about what to do next.\n\nThe problem involved the memory chip in the media control unit (MCU), which could affect a range of safety issues including:\n\nAt the time, Tesla acknowledged the issue but said if the display was not working, \"the driver can perform a shoulder check and use the mirrors\".\n\n\"If the screen is not visible to control the climate control and defroster settings, the driver will be able to manually clear the windshield,\" it added.\n\nThe NHTSA began investigating the issue in June.\n\nAnd in November, it said it had it reviewed 12,523 claims and complaints about the issue.\n\nMany said Tesla had asked owners to pay to replace the MCU once the warranty had expired.\n\nBut the recall email from Tesla now being sent to customers offers to reimburse those who have already paid for repair.\n\nThe company indicated that affected customers in other countries will also receive an email later this week, suggesting the recall is global.\n\nTesla has \"voluntarily\" decided to recall the affected models, it says.\n\n\"There is no need at this time to contact us as we will notify you when the parts become available,\" the email says.\n\n\"We kindly ask that you do not schedule a service appointment unless you receive a vehicle alert signalling memory-storage-device degradation or are actively 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